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[Airbender] The legend of Korra: I am the solution.
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There's two possibilities as I see it.
1. I think it's said by the creators that the Air Nomads aren't celibate. They don't participate heavily in the raising of their own children, clearly, but they do produce them.
2. An alternate hypothesis is that Air Nomads are basically recruited. Fellow Air Nomads who traveled the world found children capable of airbending and adopted them for the sake of teaching them to harness their gift. This would also match how, apparently, all Air Nomads are Airbenders.
Air Nomad temples are segregated along gender lines, which is why there's no ladies at the Southern Air Temple. As to the second, it's possible that, without anyone to teach airbending, the style essentially would need to be rediscovered by studying the Sky Bison, which were also wiped out. This also explains how there are more Airbenders that didn't descend from Aang in the new series. Bending isn't a dominant/recessive gene or anything.
So I dug the the Promise but felt the fight in the middle was a little forced.
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Plus it's entirely possible that Aang, being recognised as the Avatar when very young, was treated differently, skewing what was shown.
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It does look like Korra will be debuting soon as they're gearing up with the advertising.
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100% of air nomads are benders. As for the money and food, I dunno - how do real monks take care of that stuff?
I assume the Air Nomads grow their own food and don't use money.
The Water Tribes don't seem to use money either, only the Earth and Fire Nations seem to have economic systems advanced enough to support anything beyond barter.
The Kids are raise at the temples because bending requires training no matter what level of talent(its the centerpiece of the show) and the lifespan of a air nomad child that can't bend yet is very low.
It would make sense for the kids to be raise by their elders/grandparents while the parents are out in the world (earning a living?) or finding food. Its how nomad societies work in the real world after all. Using temples reflects the spiritual nature of bending and the fact that every air nomad needs to learn it in order to become part of the tribe.
No it doesn't because neither is an issue. Food is easily grown and sustainable. Money is only necessarily if you want something from someone else. Presumably the Air Temple makes sure everybody gets what they need and our brief glimpses of the Air Temple seem to show is that they are very minimalist.
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Well, we do know that at least a part of bending is the culture.
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That isn't the worst Avatar bio mistake they made, for a couple of moths they had a picture of play Iroh for Iroh's bio.
Also amazing background from Korra Nation.
Though somebody did point out it's not that far a leap if you compare 1920 to 1840. Still blows my fragile little mind though.
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Yeah I put up pictures of Hong Kong from both periods. It fits fairly well, we're just not really used to seeing the massive change brought by the industrial revolution.
Edit: And yeah as mentioned above being a monk does not require celibacy. It's entirely up to the belief system.
More importantly, it's a comparison of 1920 to 1840 when 1840 has tanks, blimps, jetskis, trains, and giant drill machines.
because 1860 had
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Man, I was already trying not to watch Avatar again. This doesn't help at all.
brb Netflix.
Also new profile pics of Bolin, Mako and Tenzin that I think are a lot better.
I might have to cosplay Bolin in the near future.
Uh that would be Agriculturist.
Also New non bender girl is gonna launch a thousand shippers.
Yea but magical fire, replace it with regular fire and it works for everyone. I absolutely adore that it's the fire nation that figures out the steam engine, etc. and rapidly industrializes because it makes so much sense for them. Earth and Water just live in stone and ice environments and rely on their telekinesis magic to make everything work, Fire had this step where they're like "Ok I have magical energy, how can I get work from it?" and bam, thermodynamics!
For non-benders of the A:TLA world, the Fire Nation's conquests were probably the best thing that could happen to them, in terms of advancing them out of medieval poverty.
While I think the Fire Nation would have been better off just using their massive industrial edge to dominate economically and then culturally, Sozen choosing the conquest victory condition doesn't change that fact that living in 1920's New York is better than living in medieval Asia.