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[Airbending Avatar] Info on the new series, at last!
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Personaly Sokka's my pick, Toph would be cool but would be too much of a scene stealer. But imagine old man Sokka in the Iroh role... perfect fit. Especially with all the potential white lotus ties he has/had.
Have I mentioned that I like Azula? Because I do.
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THat isn't a mech suit. That's a suit of armor.
I'm curious how this new show will play out. New setting is awesome- the potential is endless! With a teenage hothead as avatar, the whole show might take a different turn: what if the avatar KNOWS she's all powerful, and always tries to smash her enemies with full power- which, of course, won't ever solve her real problems? An avatar learning humility could prove to be very entertaining, especially with an airbender as, well, co-star. Something tells me Aang's son will fall into the "wimpy badass" category... because who doesn't love those?
As for the scenes in which hundreds of mooks are decimated- they always bothered me. Although the action was awesome as hell, I couldn't really enjoy the episode where they outright flatten countless earthbenders. Most battles in the series actually avoid that; the characters never have it easy- except for these mass battles. I don't WANT overly powerful characters...
As for the new series. . .can't wait!
The second scene you mentioned gave birth to a million shippers.
Also, it was never explored properly, but it seems that Katara was some sort of water-bending genius in her own right. I'm pretty sure that Master of the North Tribe never expected her to put up that much of a fight, or even close.
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Also remember that Katara was entirely self-taught before the end of season 1, which is why she wasn't that good at first. And they showed her strong potential all the way back in the first episode when she lost her temper with Sokka.
One thing I hope to see in Korra is an Airbender vs Airbender fight. We seen the previous Monobender fights in Aang's time - Waterbending looking the most cool, IMO - so I'd be interested how Airbenders handle internal disputes. Or even if it's just a sparring match.
Water v Water
Water v Earth
Water v Fire
Earth v Earth
Earth v Fire
Earth v Air
Fire v Fire
Fire v Air
So only Earth and Fire has got to fight everyone else.
like
Fire-bending + Air-bending = Lightning-bending
Fire-bending + Earth-bending = Metal-bending
Water-bending + Earth-bending = Plant-bending
Water-bending + Air-bending = ??
but then they didnt
so...
I think it's unfair that the waterbenders not only get magic healing but also get freezing powers.
Or maybe sucking all the water out of a person
Possibly it was the air-scooter because he was essentially making air solid, or maybe those air-blades he occasionally whipped out.
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Nah, you're talking about something that transcends the elements. That's the Avatar-only power.
Dunno what Airbending could get. Maybe changing the density of atmosphere for some hax soundbending?
Also having air's super-move be a superviolent attack seems against the very nature of airbending
and be the ultimate spies.
And then stab people all over the place
Koh absolutely needs to be in the next series.
I think they can be dangerous in terms of having rubber banding levels of power or be silly, but they can work well and while rare, are not unprecedented in real life.
Berserk, while the complete opposite from Avatar is pretty much every way, had a couple excellent ones.
Heck, she didn't self-teach, she reinvented it from scratch. She had no teachers, no peers, and one could probably assume no books.
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Also, the look on his face when that ice-blade came close enough to cut off his hair; I no longer think he was amazed that she'd learned that move and am now open to the possibility that his thoughts were more along the lines of "holy shit she's actually trying to kill me! All I did was goink her Gram-Grams!"
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Well, TV-Y7 and all that.
There were a great many 80's A-Team-style "Grenade flies into vehicle, show badguys leaping clear, vehicle explodes" type shots. Luckily I grew up on 80's A-Team so this was nostalgic rather than stupid.
That rating is pretty much what neutered Sokka's spacesword. He could never use it because aside from his duel with Piandao, there was really no way for him to get into a non-lethal fight with it. Any mooks with swords or spears would get owned by the benders before they could even draw their weapons.
Combustion Man had FMA-style prosthetic limbs. A full prosthetic suite would only be a progression of that.
It'd be a piece of piss for a Waterbender to drown someone.
Just put some water in the lungs and bam. The legend of Korra, the last waterboarder.
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I am not done yet with the series, but Azula is looking more and more like a push-over power wise. Although I enjoyed seeing her zap Aang. Reminded me of Voltron and Captain Planet and how noone would just fucking kill these people while they "power/form up".