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[Airbender] The legend of Korra: I am the solution.
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Question to maybe help my point. After air, what was Aangs second most used element - when he used them, was it water?
I wasn't clear on how the winner was determined. seemed like a team won rounds 1 + 2 and then the other team won the whole match by winning the 3rd round and getting both lanterns to light up
everything else about the sport was fully realized and awesome, that one little bit tripped me up
From what I've heard, the challenges Korra will face won't all be solved by just by hucking random elements at it.
Water yeah, but then again that's the second element he learned so he had more time to use it.
Water's certainly fluid, but it didn't seem to have the same strong spiritual ties as air. After all, that Triad guy could use it, and he doesn't seem like the spiritual type.
Then again, every element seems to have a spiritual side to it... think of Zuko re-learning how to bend fire. Though the impression I get is that air is the most spiritual.
They don't really spell out how the victory conditions work in the first two episodes, but there is a video out there about the actual rules that does a decent job of explaining things. Basically, if at any point you knock the entire other team off the platform, you win immediately. That is why they played the third round at all. Think of it like a boxer getting a KO. You can lose every round on the judges scorecard, but if you knock your opponent out before the end of the fight, you win.
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It was certainly water but he also had far less time mastering any of the other elements.
Also yes it's very much based on tai chi.
a giant robot doesn't seem like it'd be very effective against people who can manipulate metal
Buuut. Thinking about it; have we ever seen a metalbender do it without physical contact? I thought it had much stricter 'rules' due to it being such a specialty; need to touch to find all the little grains of dirt within the metal.
Apparently the Fire Ferrets won due to a knockout (stated in the Rules of Play, third picture). Rather meh in my opinion, at least save it for later on in the series.
I think you're conflating 'spiritual' with 'flexible' and that's not correct. It's just as correct to say that firebending is spiritual - but it takes a different sort of outlook. I don't think her firebending is all that mature, tbh - it comes naturally because she's got the temperment for it, but I think lightning would stump her.
Iroh made a comment that Lightning Bending required precision and a kind of cold (by fire nation standards) attitude. Azula being a literally insane perfectionist is why she was well suited to it but Zuko wasn't.
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The new show seems to be restoring that status quo -- there don't seem to be any airbenders outside of the Republic City temple island, and the culture doesn't seem to have incorporated airbending much at all (no air element in Pro Bending, for instance). Granted, airbenders are still recovering from the Fire Nation's scourge, but still.
I could be wrong about this, but I think we've already seen all the living airbenders: Korra's teacher and his three kids.
We only saw like half a dozen airbenders, and most of them were children. The fact that they were monks was a result of how their nomadism worked, not their airbending.
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I'm not sure how that would be possible, since there are only four airbenders currently alive.
It's strongly implied. For example: in the argument between Korra and Tenzin at the bending match, she doesn't threaten to go find another teacher.
It's only been one generation, after all. No matter how good Tenzin is, he can't have trained more than a handful of students in airbending - if any at all.
-edit- Also I would speculate that Aang was too busy as the Avatar to really train up a bunch of students, so he focused on his son in order to enable him to lead the revival of airbending.
Odd that after 80 or so years Tenzin's the only master... and that no other airbenders popped up in the 100 years of Aang's disappearance. Maybe with airbenders gone, no one was left to recognize the signs of airbending? Or that families frantically tried to keep latent airbending quiet and unused, so their kids wouldn't be killed?
Maybe they did, but they'd keep quiet about it. If it's common knowledge that airbenders were massacred, you wouldn't go bragging about your newfound airbending, would ya?
Tenzin could definitely still be the only master; airbending was a dead culture. Where before there might be schools and plenty of teachers to train up potential airbenders, now there's one guy. He'll probably be able to train up a couple to become masters, they'll train a few more and it'll go from there.
I kinda figured Aang himself would do a lot of that... then again, he might have been a little busy with all the other stuff. Establishing a city, representing balance in the world and all that.
I get the feeling we might find out what he's been up to firsthand, considering most of an entire episode of the last series was devoted to the avatar before Aang.
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Those guys are not airbenders, they are just people who are attracted to the airbender way of life.
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Man. 80 years. One master. Aang really shirked his responsibilities as the progenitor of a race.
EDIT: Dat mech. It's got tubes coming out of its back unit and serving its arm claw things. That could be generic robo-hydrolic-fluid-steampunk-whatever, OR it could be a key component of its design (like the sidekick with the cattle prods). I'm thinking lightning guns.
There.
Mystery solved.
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One is a water bender, and one is a non-bender. Odd that one of the kids got left out of the bending, but thats the story we led to believe so far.