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Legend of Korra: PANIC!!!! Episode 4 Is Uploaded!!!!
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you're not gonna get an unbiased opinion about bending from any of those places
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And he may have been a bender, we don't know, he just wasn't a metal bender apparently?
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Your position is basically "well average people do great and can become fantastically wealthy, look at steve jobs! There's no problem with social mobility"
If I can lift boulders and make buildings with my mind there's no way I'm doing general labor out in the fields.
Not the same labor, but did you see Mako in the power plant? Or the guys making Satomobile parts?
There's a lot of work that Benders can do that sucks. They can do it quicker and easier, sure, but that just means there's more demand.
And in management positions, there's not much benefit to the whole superpowers bit. System could be set up to give all the edges to benders, but it doesn't have to be.
What i'm saying is that if I can build a wall at several hundred times the rate of someone who can't bend, there's not going to be much of a masonry market left for non-benders. Same with being able to plough my fields in a few minutes rather than a few days, or building irrigation canals and bridges by waving my hands in the air. Benders would control almost all of the means of production since they would be the the means of production.
The show is just skirting over a lot of the issues that would loom large in any world where a subset of the population had a huge natural advantage over everyone else. It's being addressed in some ways in Korra, but the idea of benders and non-benders occupying the same roles in society doesn't mesh at all with basic economics.
It just looks kind of weird now because the benders we spend the most time with (aside from the avatar and last few airbenders, who are kinda special cases) are dirt poor, whereas the non-benders we've seen the most of, Sato and his daughter, are fantastically well-off.
You "nonbendies", get to digging with your hands when I give you a break from worshipping me like the god of earth that I am
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They have labor animals and now combustion engines. Nobody is using their hands to plow a field.
Really, this has been the case with almost everyone we have seen in the show. All of the most wealthy characters are normals, for the most part, exempting the fire-bending royalty.
You can really argue either side of this argument with what has been shown in the shows. There just isn't enough evidence to go on outside of what has been shown in Republic City over the week or two the Avatar has been there in the first three episodes.
I realize this is a way late, but this isn't true. A comet comes down, Sokka makes a sword out of it, and it can cut through solid steel beams in a single swipe.
No, no, that's meteors. Clearly different from comets. Comets:Benders::Meteors:Swordsmen
Well the council wasn't full of normies, the wealthy and powerful gang leaders were all benders, the chief of police is a bender, the major sport is professional bending which probably pays really really well if you're good at it, bumi was king of a city and also a bender, the secret police of ba sing sei were all benders, all the generals in the earth kingdom army were benders
Wait... it's meteorite when it lands, isn't it? Or is it when it enters our atmosphere? I can never keep the 3 of them straight.
That was working from the world that would actually come to pass with element-controlling magic superhumans and also was a joke and they'll dig with what I allow them to dig with
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All I'm saying is:
1) That the wealthy characters of the show, the ones specifically called wealthy (Northern Water Tribe princess and her boyfriend in contrast to Sokka, the Bei Fong family in comparison to everyone, The Earth King and most of the Upper Ring we were shown, Mei's family, all of the kids of major figures on Ember Island, etc.) were typically normals with the exception of the fire nation royalty. Other folks we could assume had wealth, but it wasn't specifically called out as important in the show.
2) There is not enough evidence one way or another from what we have seen in the series to vindicate or condemn Amon's platform on a global level, only in Republic City during the time of Korra's visit.
There never was a strong message in the previous shows that bending was bad or that benders overtly oppressed non-benders. It wasn't greatly a concern for the series before now while the message that anyone properly trained in anything can be powerful was something they touched on. There were episodes with similar problems, such as Zuko Alone, but it wasn't benders that was the focus, but the soldiers in general (only one of which was a bender).
This is a new thing thematically for the show. While you could argue for retroactive interpretations that benders have been oppressing the shit out of people forever, you could just as easily argue opposite from the first series.
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If this is an example of how powerful most benders are, then you aren't going to see an economy built on benders being able to control the crop and field industry because they're not capable of doing so. Benders and non-benders are certainly not going to be equal, but I don't think the split is as big as its been assumed to be. Truly gifted benders with more stamina to do crazy things are probably quite rare, even if we saw tons of them during TLA. There was a war on in TLA, so it makes sense for the best and brightest to be used as frontline soldiers.
But if what is considered in Korra's time to be an athletic bender can only move several relatively small earthen discs for 30 minutes to an hour at a time, they aren't going to be the sole source of agricultural development in the Earth Kingdom.
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I was shocked at how short the matches actually are
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-The Avatar, who was an airbending prodigy and picked up the other elements really quickly
-A waterbending prodigy who advanced to near-master level in maybe a month
-An earthbending prodigy who maybe really was the best earthbender in the world at the age of 12
-A firebending prodigy who had blue fire, something we saw from no one else
-An incredibly badass, incredibly powerful old firebending master
And Zuko, who's not the natural bender that his sister or the others are, but who had work ethic and willpower of Green Lantern levels and drove himself until he was a very powerful firebender.
TLA really showed the best of the best when it came to bending.
It can't be too hard, if they're expecting these matches to make and sort of realistic sense. You throw a stone disc hard at a person and it hits them in the chest, they're going to be lucky to have a few broken ribs, I don't care what kind of padding is used.
well it seems like a fairly "soft" kind of rock, since it explodes into dust as soon as it hits its target
Getting hit with one is probably not a fun experience in the least
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I would gladly watch a whole movie about Korra vs. an apartment building full of equalists.
A lot of Korra is shown to change the notions that were pretty much considered cannon from TLA. Lightning was a rare and very difficult to master art, now random street thugs can use it without the discipline and cold objectivity that was said to be required of it. The avatar could easily earth bend entire walls and rivers without thinking too much about it, but now Korra seems overpowered/overpowering with comparably small amounts of water and earth.
A lot of powers are getting toned down to fit the urban setting and to make the chi blockers a more credible enemy.
That would make more sense, yeah. A sandstone-y kind of rock, maybe? Anyway, it still doesn't seem like they're doing a whole lot compared to all the benders of the last show.
the world
oh man
just fire-elbowing everyone right in the throat
I suspect it's apples vs oranges and that the skill sets/physical demands are pretty different?
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well, it seems like more of a finesse sport than something like Earth Rumble VI from the Blind Bandit episode