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We can still talk about it; I love talking about it! In fact I keep pushing the DVDs on my heathen friends so that I have someone to talk about it with. (I am a bad friend).
I'm kinda tempted to do some sort of episode-by-episode analysis of LoA and LoK now that the whole thing is finished, looking at like, animation and narrative and score and such. I'm sure like a million similar things already exist but I think it would at least be fun for me.
I just binged season 4 over the weekend. Good season, though I wish it were about twice as long so things had some time to breathe. Basically echoing the sentiment that stuff felt kind of compressed.
Especially when they expect you to swallow that an experimental superweapon that has only just been tested on a firing range is now totally cool to mount and deploy on a different experimental superweapon that is also a giant bipedal robot that somehow nobody knew about.
Within the span of a week.
I know it's weird to nitpick the believability of a show about magical teenagers, but for some reason the timescale on that stuff just pushed the suspension of disbelief a bit too far for me.
Yeah, I'm really curious what this show would have been like if Nick had ordered 4 13-episode seasons from the get-go, then gave them plenty of time and money to make them. I bet it would have been amazing from the start.
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Yah, whilst I think the ending to LoK was pretty great and a strong final note for Avatar in general, I certainly wouldn't be averse to a little more side-material!
(Although kinda speaking of which nickelodeon just put a few expanded family trees on their website which includes a couple of extra names not mentioned in the show, like Asami's mother and Unalaq's wife get actual names. Kinda nice I guess.)
one thing that struck me about those family trees is how Suki doesn't appear at all and we're never told much of anything in LoK what happened to Sokka either
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It is a little odd that Suki is never mentioned at all. But I guess, unlike with the other characters, Sokka's relationship is not all that important to the plot of LoK. I guess they could have just broken up at some point between shows. I'd wager that they didn't want to put too much focus on fanservice to the old show when they still had to squeeze like two seasons worth of plot into 12 episodes.
As for Sokka, in the Korracast episode with the LoK production manager he does sort of say (uh, spoilers for entirely non-canon conjecture I guess?)
That Sokka might not have made it out of the fight when Zaheer and co. first tried to take Korra. Which makes some sense I suppose, although you'd imagine that'd be the sort of thing mentioned in the show proper to add some weight to the threat the Red Lotus represent.
I just binged season 4 over the weekend. Good season, though I wish it were about twice as long so things had some time to breathe. Basically echoing the sentiment that stuff felt kind of compressed.
Especially when they expect you to swallow that an experimental superweapon that has only just been tested on a firing range is now totally cool to mount and deploy on a different experimental superweapon that is also a giant bipedal robot that somehow nobody knew about.
Within the span of a week.
I know it's weird to nitpick the believability of a show about magical teenagers, but for some reason the timescale on that stuff just pushed the suspension of disbelief a bit too far for me.
I think there was a bit more hinting at that twist than you would get on first pass normally. A lot of characters kept referring to Kuvira using slave labor to build something. There was a notable lack of slave labor when we see Kuvira testing the WMD, and it is not nearly big enough to even require a huge work force. I sure as hell didn't see it coming, but i knew something was off. That and the destruction of the walls of ZaoFu left the viewer with plenty of room for suspicion.
I just binged season 4 over the weekend. Good season, though I wish it were about twice as long so things had some time to breathe. Basically echoing the sentiment that stuff felt kind of compressed.
Especially when they expect you to swallow that an experimental superweapon that has only just been tested on a firing range is now totally cool to mount and deploy on a different experimental superweapon that is also a giant bipedal robot that somehow nobody knew about.
Within the span of a week.
I know it's weird to nitpick the believability of a show about magical teenagers, but for some reason the timescale on that stuff just pushed the suspension of disbelief a bit too far for me.
I think there was a bit more hinting at that twist than you would get on first pass normally. A lot of characters kept referring to Kuvira using slave labor to build something. There was a notable lack of slave labor when we see Kuvira testing the WMD, and it is not nearly big enough to even require a huge work force. I sure as hell didn't see it coming, but i knew something was off. That and the destruction of the walls of ZaoFu left the viewer with plenty of room for suspicion.
Even so from an episode-to-episode context, it didn't really feel like a natural progression. There was no indication that enough time had passed for all of that to happen.
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Yeah, Korra is a Bisexual PoC, they wouldn't know what to do with her; just ask Mulan.
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I have more than a few Asian female friends from childhood who are still salty about how Mulan was the only "unattractive" Disney princess whose "exotic" features were over-emphasized. It wasn't even something I thought about until they brought it up years (decades?) later. Like, I'm not even sure I agree with them, but hey I'm not a woman so I just defer to how they felt about it growing up.
I have more than a few Asian female friends from childhood who are still salty about how Mulan was the only "unattractive" Disney princess whose "exotic" features were over-emphasized. It wasn't even something I thought about until they brought it up years (decades?) later. Like, I'm not even sure I agree with them, but hey I'm not a woman so I just defer to how they felt about it growing up.
Mulan had to be tricky to design . She has to look like a young man and look chinese. They couldnt design her like a traditional Disney princess.
Saying shes unattractive is inaccurate imo. Shes probably closer to a realistic standard of beauty than say Jasmine
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It's still weird seeing Nickelodeon recognising Korra, in really any capacity, but with regards to the ending in particular, but here we are. Nice to see at the very least.
I haven't checked but as this is twitter I'm assuming you should probably avoid the comments for sanities sake.
Nickelodeon, in their confusion as to how to market or adapt Avatar properties will now commission popular young-adult authors to write romantic fiction about Korra and Asami's vacation in the spirit world. There will be no input from the creative team of the show.
That's just a little thing my brain cooked up right now when I asked myself "Okay, now how are they going to screw this all up?"
I think it got them a lot more attention (and positive attention) than they ever expected and someone in marketing woke up like "ohhhhhhhh shit let's do something with this"
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Not in the UK!
Although I guess that's not hugely surprising, I don't think book 4 has even aired properly over here yet, certainly the DVDs for book 3 aren't out here currently.
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Oh, also, I've been rewatching book 2, which obviously is a bit of a mess in places, but I spotted something I haven't really paid attention to before and wasn't sure if I'd missed some set up or something.
When Wan and Raava fuse during harmonic convergence Wan has to go and touch the spirit portal beam thingy before they actually become the avatar, and Unalaq does the same thing in the finale after fusing with Vaatu, there's a whole animation of them being engulfed in blue/purple light and everything. I'm just not sure, why? Clearly it's essential to the whole fusion process but I feel like I missed the actual significance of it. Does anyone happen to know anything about that?
Oh, also, I've been rewatching book 2, which obviously is a bit of a mess in places, but I spotted something I haven't really paid attention to before and wasn't sure if I'd missed some set up or something.
When Wan and Raava fuse during harmonic convergence Wan has to go and touch the spirit portal beam thingy before they actually become the avatar, and Unalaq does the same thing in the finale after fusing with Vaatu, there's a whole animation of them being engulfed in blue/purple light and everything. I'm just not sure, why? Clearly it's essential to the whole fusion process but I feel like I missed the actual significance of it. Does anyone happen to know anything about that?
If I recall, they were using the energy of Harmonic Convergence to make the fusion permanent/nonlethal. I could've sworn they explained it, but maybe I was wrong.
I think it basically gives a reason for why the big Vaatu battle has to happen now rather than some other point in the last 10,000 years (aside from him being at the height of his power then also). Also explains why people and spirits aren't fusing all the time and what was special about the creation of the Avatar in the first place.
If I recall, they were using the energy of Harmonic Convergence to make the fusion permanent/nonlethal. I could've sworn they explained it, but maybe I was wrong.
I think it basically gives a reason for why the big Vaatu battle has to happen now rather than some other point in the last 10,000 years (aside from him being at the height of his power then also). Also explains why people and spirits aren't fusing all the time and what was special about the creation of the Avatar in the first place.
That makes as much sense as anything, I forgot the spirit portals go all loopy and weird during harmonic convergence.
I don't remember it being explained, but that doesn't mean they don't. (Although then again there is a bunch of stuff which goes kinda unexplained in book 2, so maybe it's just another one of those).
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Also, not only does Nick have an official korrasami video, as aforementioned, but they just updated it to include the reunion scene in book 4 (from, uh, The Reunion).
Not sure what prompted that, fan feedback maybe? But it's vaguely interesting and relevant regardless.
man I hate all the comments on the youtube video about how "it wasn't built up" and stuff
it's somehow even more annoying than if they were simple moral crusader homophobes
There's a lot of that floating around on, like, tumblr and stuff, I think it's mostly just upset shippers coupled with an undercurrent of homophobia.
It's especially amusing when you consider that it's not like there aren't quickly built relationships in the show; on rewatching book 3 Opal and Bolin have like three scenes together and each one is devoted almost entirely to your standard straight romance cliches; they're flirting and blushing within seconds of meeting one another etc.
It's almost like the writers going: 'see how easily we can get these two together, compare and contrast with all the skirting around involved with Korra and Asami.'
To be fair, that might be part of WHY people complain about this one coming out of nowhere. It was a subtly developed relationship, on a show that's traditionally not been subtle about relationships at all. (Although in that case, Korra blushing when Asami complimented her hair should have tipped them off).
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I'm kinda tempted to do some sort of episode-by-episode analysis of LoA and LoK now that the whole thing is finished, looking at like, animation and narrative and score and such. I'm sure like a million similar things already exist but I think it would at least be fun for me.
Should be a fun watch.
I just binged season 4 over the weekend. Good season, though I wish it were about twice as long so things had some time to breathe. Basically echoing the sentiment that stuff felt kind of compressed.
Within the span of a week.
I know it's weird to nitpick the believability of a show about magical teenagers, but for some reason the timescale on that stuff just pushed the suspension of disbelief a bit too far for me.
edit: If Nick had actually given them enough of a budget in the first place, that is.
Personally, I'm totally okay letting the Avatar thing fade away so the creators can work on something new.
We've had two shows, we don't need more and more avatar forever.
Korra itself only barely managed to avoid being run into the ground, I'm pretty happy with what we have.
(Although kinda speaking of which nickelodeon just put a few expanded family trees on their website which includes a couple of extra names not mentioned in the show, like Asami's mother and Unalaq's wife get actual names. Kinda nice I guess.)
Also here's a fun little video which montages all the episodes of LoA and LoK together which is pretty cute:
As for Sokka, in the Korracast episode with the LoK production manager he does sort of say (uh, spoilers for entirely non-canon conjecture I guess?)
I think there was a bit more hinting at that twist than you would get on first pass normally. A lot of characters kept referring to Kuvira using slave labor to build something. There was a notable lack of slave labor when we see Kuvira testing the WMD, and it is not nearly big enough to even require a huge work force. I sure as hell didn't see it coming, but i knew something was off. That and the destruction of the walls of ZaoFu left the viewer with plenty of room for suspicion.
Even so from an episode-to-episode context, it didn't really feel like a natural progression. There was no indication that enough time had passed for all of that to happen.
Korra in KH3.
Please gimme.
Instead of Infinity, or KH, we get...
Once Upon a Time Korra.
okay yeah but she's not a scruffy dude, so I'm not sure they'd be interested
Mulan had to be tricky to design . She has to look like a young man and look chinese. They couldnt design her like a traditional Disney princess.
Saying shes unattractive is inaccurate imo. Shes probably closer to a realistic standard of beauty than say Jasmine
It's still weird seeing Nickelodeon recognising Korra, in really any capacity, but with regards to the ending in particular, but here we are. Nice to see at the very least.
I haven't checked but as this is twitter I'm assuming you should probably avoid the comments for sanities sake.
I don't know why I'm so much more impatient to see more of Korra than I was to see more of Aang.
That's just a little thing my brain cooked up right now when I asked myself "Okay, now how are they going to screw this all up?"
He actually found the writing in Korra to be more consistent, which is not something I agree with, but is interesting
http://www.nick.com/legend-of-korra/episodes/
Although I guess that's not hugely surprising, I don't think book 4 has even aired properly over here yet, certainly the DVDs for book 3 aren't out here currently.
When Wan and Raava fuse during harmonic convergence Wan has to go and touch the spirit portal beam thingy before they actually become the avatar, and Unalaq does the same thing in the finale after fusing with Vaatu, there's a whole animation of them being engulfed in blue/purple light and everything. I'm just not sure, why? Clearly it's essential to the whole fusion process but I feel like I missed the actual significance of it. Does anyone happen to know anything about that?
nothing about korra's spirit energy makes sense
If I recall, they were using the energy of Harmonic Convergence to make the fusion permanent/nonlethal. I could've sworn they explained it, but maybe I was wrong.
I think it basically gives a reason for why the big Vaatu battle has to happen now rather than some other point in the last 10,000 years (aside from him being at the height of his power then also). Also explains why people and spirits aren't fusing all the time and what was special about the creation of the Avatar in the first place.
That makes as much sense as anything, I forgot the spirit portals go all loopy and weird during harmonic convergence.
I don't remember it being explained, but that doesn't mean they don't. (Although then again there is a bunch of stuff which goes kinda unexplained in book 2, so maybe it's just another one of those).
Not sure what prompted that, fan feedback maybe? But it's vaguely interesting and relevant regardless.
it's somehow even more annoying than if they were simple moral crusader homophobes
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There's a lot of that floating around on, like, tumblr and stuff, I think it's mostly just upset shippers coupled with an undercurrent of homophobia.
It's especially amusing when you consider that it's not like there aren't quickly built relationships in the show; on rewatching book 3 Opal and Bolin have like three scenes together and each one is devoted almost entirely to your standard straight romance cliches; they're flirting and blushing within seconds of meeting one another etc.
It's almost like the writers going: 'see how easily we can get these two together, compare and contrast with all the skirting around involved with Korra and Asami.'