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I'm really loving this show, almost as much as the original, but I kinda wish they would slow down the pace a bit. Give it some room to breathe and flesh out the world and characters and shit. I just feel like it's going so fast that I don't have time to get attached to the characters and setting as much as I was to the original Avatar cast.

Still, the last several episodes have been fantastic. Lin is my favorite.
 
I like this season more than the last airbender because I like amon as a villain a lot more than the one sided villains of Aangs days.

I do miss jeong jeong, paku, iroh, and boomi though the old school badasses were the best.
 
Well the fun thing about The Last Airbender was the conflict wasn't about the bad guys but more to do with Aang dealing with being an Avatar in a world that needed one/he left behind and also eventually trying to avoid killing the Fire Lord. So the villains being more "one-dimensional" really didn't matter. Maybe Zhao was a little one-dimensional but he's a great villain to hate and he was just as bad as Sozin as he wanted to get rid of Waterbending.

And anyway outside of The Fire Lord and Combustion Man, the villains were pretty much fleshed out. Ty Lee and Mai were afraid of Azula, Jet became a fanatic due to his experiences, Long Feng was basically a more successful Tarrlok, Azula was what a prodigy (like the rest of the Gaang) could become from a militaristic family, and etc.
 
The one thing I really liked about this past episode is how Tarrlok was taken down. Honestly, when he captured Korra, I was thinking that perhaps Tarrlok may be the real villain of the series (or season), even over Amon. I was wondering how it was possible to even beat a blood bender who could do it at will and I definitely didn't think Amon would be a challenge to a person who had that ability. Luckily, this episode just cemented how much more dangerous Amon actually is. He took down Tarrlok like it was nothing and it was kinda scary to see that. This episode was a very good way to show how powerful Amon really is.

As far as the discussion about the pace of the series - I do like the pace. I just definitely think the downside is that we won't get the character development that this Team Avatar needs over the original Team Avatar. I agree with whoever said earlier in this thread that this series could potentially be even better than this series just because, as those flashbacks did indeed show, there was an instant connection between Toph, Aang, and Sokka. As previously mentioned, they definitely nailed down their personalities and they also got perfect voices for each of them.
 
Didn't the writers say that Fire Lord Zuko was going to make an appearance in LOK? I swear I remember reading that, and if that's the case then everyone saying the Fire Nation is coming to fight Amon is most likely right.

Geez, just thinking about Zuko leading the entire Fire Nation army to the aid of republic city makes me so excited.
 
I like the pace of the show. They will have plenty more seasons to flesh out the characters, it's nice to get a fast paced, tight-knit, movie-esque story every once in awhile.
 
Isn't it possible that instead of taking away bending Amon is actually forming blood clots or hemorrhages in his victims brains, hence stoping their bending.
 
Avixph said:
Isn't it possible that instead of taking away bending Amon is actually forming blood clots or hemorrhages in his victims brains, hence stoping their bending.
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Bending seems less physical and more spiritual. If anything it would be chakras which is something this thread's talked about a lot.
 
Liked this episode a lot.and today's surprise that Amon can resist blood bending was actually shocking.Just dont ruin this thing by giving some crazy stupid undercooked reason.

Also its showed the relationship between Kora and mako developing was one of the finer moments.Similarly It was nice to see that Aang was still called twinkle toes.
 
Avixph said:
Isn't it possible that instead of taking away bending Amon is actually forming blood clots or hemorrhages in his victims brains, hence stoping their bending.
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I wouldn't be surprised if you could lightning bend brain synapses or metal bend the iron out of red blood cells. It went from magical to silly science.
 
Hartt951 said:
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Zuko & Iroh bring backup

I want to see Amon try to energy bend a dragon/creators of fire bending
 
Anbokr said:
I like the pace of the show. They will have plenty more seasons to flesh out the characters, it's nice to get a fast paced, tight-knit, movie-esque story every once in awhile.
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Yeah, while I agree that can be nice, the show hasn't developed the characters as much as it should have and the world still could do with some building. It needs some "filler" episodes to flesh out the group dynamic, give supporting characters more room to shine (Asami still doesn't have much of a personality), these kind of things make later twists and plots more emotionally engaging because we have an investment in the world and the characters.

Many of the episodes felt like they should've been two parters, if they had been the weight of some actions (e.g. Asami's father) would've had more emotional impact.
What bugged me about the newest episode is that Mako, Bolin and Asami were pretty useless when searching for Korra, Lin and Tenzin (mostly Lin) did all the work. So it would've been nice to better establish the core team than that one episode we got.

I'm really enjoying the show, but it would be even more engaging if it slowed the hell down. Oh and dear god please no more romance love quadrangle bullshit. Was a terrible way to end such a solid episode.
 
question: How does blood bending not cause anneurisms or death by way of circulation blockage, and why cant water benders just do it regardless of a full moon considering the percentage of the human body that is water? dont tell me because its not pure h20 because they have no problems bending ocean water.
 
my current theory of Amon is a spirit who's close to Aang and couldn't accept Aang's death, and maybe Aang's death is related to bender so he want to erase all bender, he also didn't accept Korra as avatar since he's not Aang.

and in the preview you got Aang statue with Amon mask, probably mean he's a bit obsessed with Aang.
 
The Storyteller said:
Yeah, while I agree that can be nice, the show hasn't developed the characters as much as it should have and the world still could do with some building. It needs some "filler" episodes to flesh out the group dynamic, give supporting characters more room to shine (Asami still doesn't have much of a personality), these kind of things make later twists and plots more emotionally engaging because we have an investment in the world and the characters.

Many of the episodes felt like they should've been two parters, if they had been the weight of some actions (e.g. Asami's father) would've had more emotional impact.
What bugged me about the newest episode is that Mako, Bolin and Asami were pretty useless when searching for Korra, Lin and Tenzin (mostly Lin) did all the work. So it would've been nice to better establish the core team than that one episode we got.

I'm really enjoying the show, but it would be even more engaging if it slowed the hell down. Oh and dear god please no more romance love quadrangle bullshit. Was a terrible way to end such a solid episode.
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They only have a contract for 2 half seasons. So they are on warp seed.

Read The Promise graphic novel. Otherwise yeah, topnotch animation is expensive and takes 6-8 months to do.

Uchip said:
question: How does blood bending not cause anneurisms or death by way of circulation blockage, and why cant water benders just do it regardless of a full moon considering the percentage of the human body that is water? dont tell me because its not pure h20 because they have no problems bending ocean water.
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It's pure magic. Any science is coincidence

I think the longer answer is that you can control your body/water so that a stronger water bender like Hama/katara can resist he effects. The theory all goes to pieces because there are so many organic processes going on and regulatory systems in place. If someone did take over your body and had to manually regulate blood flow their brain would fry.
 
Callibretto said:
and in the preview you got Aang statue with Amon mask, probably mean he's a bit obsessed with Aang.
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It's more likely he's sending a message to the people living in the city and anyone who tries to come in.

Defacing the monument of Avatar Aang with his mask is probably there to show that he's in control and there's no Avatar here to save the day.
 
Keyouta said:
It's already been speculated that Amon could be one of Aang's sons, right? Tenzin's brother?
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That's what I'm putting my bets on but since Amon's story is supposed to conclude at the end of this season it might be hard if he has close connections to both Aang and Tenzin.
 
Pkaz01 said:
Theres no way Katara doesn't get involved in this somehow. Where the hell has she been?
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Interesting that she probably doesn't know about the whole Yakone incident. Otherwise I would imagine Korra would know that bloodbending would be possible without the full moon.

I hope it's an actual plot point the show addresses and not an oversight.
 
This dialogue can be terribad at times. "He fooled us all" lol

Anyway a fairly decent episode except for the Mako love triangle. The romance aspect is easily the worst part of the show.

I also don't like Aang's adult voice. Sounds way too young.
 
BorkBork said:
Interesting that she probably doesn't know about the whole Yakone incident. Otherwise I would imagine Korra would know that bloodbending would be possible without the full moon.

I hope it's an actual plot point the show addresses and not an oversight.
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I don't really remember who actually found out that she knew how to blood bend? I know Zuko saw her or something but did she ever tell Aang and the gang? If they knew and asked her about it you'd think shed be the first person at that trial trying to see what was going on.
 
Pkaz01 said:
I don't really remember who actually found out that she knew how to blood bend? I know Zuko saw her or something but did she ever tell Aang and the gang? If they knew and asked her about it you'd think shed be the first person at that trial trying to see what was going on.
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Hama tried to run Aang through with Sokka's sword in the Puppetmaster, and Katara stopped her by bloodbending. They all knew about it and how much it messed her up, so I have speculated before that was the reason they wanted to keep Katara out of the Yakone case.
 
BorkBork said:
Hama tried to run Aang through with Sokka's sword in the Puppetmaster, and Katara stopped her by bloodbending. They all knew about it and how much it messed her up, so I have speculated before that was the reason they wanted to keep Katara out of the Yakone case.
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ah yea all i remember from that episode is that scene where hama first blood bends her when its raining. Thats a good point I could see them not wanting to make her feel uncomfortable.

am i the only one who thought Yakone was going to kill Sokka during that trial? For some reason I expected that trial to be a much more devastating event it was kind of like oh this guy can blood bend without the moon and then he gets his powers taken away and everyone moves on.

Youd think after all the flashbacks itd be more game changing and I thought it would somehow involve Amon who is the real villain.


and I really don't like all the unmarked spoilers being thrown around in this thread even if it is just speculation or rumors from what the creators said.
 
Good to see a lack of shipping talk, especially after this episode
Damn, after Tarrlok was going to hightail it I was envisioning some crazy arc spanning another few episodes. Funny how fast that got wrapped up.
 
jediyoshi said:
Good to see a lack of shipping talk, especially after this episode
Damn, after Tarrlok was going to hightail it I was envisioning some crazy arc spanning another few episodes. Funny how fast that got wrapped up.
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The criminal way didn't work for Yakone and Tarrlok failed the political way, the next plan must have been overthrowing Cabbage Corp.
 
Could easily see season 1 ending with Korra taking off Amon's mask for the revelation with Season 2 exploring how Amon came to be (especially if it's related to the spirit world or Aang).
 
so many 'oh shit' moments that happen right in a row:

1. tarrlok going upstairs to be greeted by not korra's gang, but amon and the equalists
2. amon shaking off fucking bloodbending
3. amon noticing korra as she leaves the shack
 
Hartt951 said:
I don't know how I missed that, but holy crap that's crazy! There has to be a relation between Tarrlok/Yakone/Amon. Why introduce this whole plot of Aang having to take away someone else's bending and Tarrlok going on a power trip bloodbending Korra if it wasn't important.

Also if Amon is bloodbending, then pretty hypocritical of him I would dare to say haha.
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Maybe he doesn't just remove powers, but steals them?
 
Uchip said:
question: How does blood bending not cause anneurisms or death by way of circulation blockage, and why cant water benders just do it regardless of a full moon considering the percentage of the human body that is water? dont tell me because its not pure h20 because they have no problems bending ocean water.
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I chalk it up to the person being bent's chi. They have their own natural flow of energy within them, regardless of whether or not they are a bender (see Sokka getting all chi-blocked in A:TLA), and that natural flow is going to be a big impediment to manipulating another. Thus, the waterbender has to not only bend water they can't see (stated to be more difficult), but also fight against the natural flow and rhythms of the bend-ee's biological processes and chi, which seems counter to a waterbender's philosophy. That's my theory, anyway.

[I've also heard it said that they aren't actually bending blood, but "lymphbending" just doesn't have the same ring to it.]

EDIT: also, my theory for lol OP bloodbending is that Yakone could see the water in people a similar way to Toph's seismic sense. He found a way to channel other's chi/natural processes, rather than try to force a result through it.
 
Man I want to love this show. But all they have done is try to take the AMAZING parts of The Last Airbender and ratchet it up to 11.

There is way too much metalbending, and it is way to strong. "I've scanned the building and Korra is nowhere to be found." It was so cool that Toph was able to "see" with earthbending because she developed that sense. But when everyone can do it it seems pretty boring.

And they make it seem way too easy to lightning bend. For example in the car chase, Mako is firing off bolts left and right. Why ever firebend if you can bend lightning that easily. And now super- bloodbending!? All of this just cheapens the original series to me rather than build off it.
 
tch said:
Man I want to love this show. But all they have done is try to take the AMAZING parts of The Last Airbender and ratchet it up to 11.

There is way too much metalbending, and it is way to strong. "I've scanned the building and Korra is nowhere to be found." It was so cool that Toph was able to "see" with earthbending because she developed that sense. But when everyone can do it it seems pretty boring.

And they make it seem way too easy to lightning bend. For example in the car chase, Mako is firing off bolts left and right. Why ever firebend if you can bend lightning that easily. And now super- bloodbending!? All of this just cheapens the original series to me rather than build off it.
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Maybe advanced bending is too tiring. Who knows.

I hated it at first, hoped that Azula would play in the series to teach lightning bending to a villian somehow but meh. The series has been pretty good so far, so for now it's a minor problem.
 
There is way too much metalbending
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Toph sought to spread the technique as much as possible.

and it is way to strong.
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Aside from the first episode, they've been getting their asses handed.

And they make it seem way too easy to lightning bend. For example in the car chase, Mako is firing off bolts left and right. Why ever firebend if you can bend lightning that easily.
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Mako isn't "firing off bolts left and right" when he only shot a single one during the entire chase. He also took his time to perform the maneuver before he even shot it.

I really don't get the complaints about the fast pace. What happened to all the whiners when we heard that Nick ordered them to increase the number of episodes? Everyone went apeshit and said it was just an attempt to milk money by padding/stretching the series.
 
Wolf Akela said:
Toph sought to spread the technique as much as possible.
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The disconnect is that the more something happens, the less special it is. The fact that they're pretty much using it as a crutch at this point starts to take away from the fact that it's the bees knees. It's like if Korra were to enter the avatar state every episode or something.
 
Not to dip into potential shipping talk, but Mako is just coming across as an asshole in recent episodes. The protagonist doesn't HAVE to have a love interest at all times you know, it's just a distraction in a series this fast paced.
 
Ithil said:
Not to dip into potential shipping talk, but Mako is just coming across as an asshole in recent episodes.
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Actually my problem with Mako so far is just that he's coming out as a boring, uninteresting character, but all these talks about "OMG, he's with Asami and he smiles at Korra too, what an unfaithful douchebag!!" are annoying as hell to me, if I must be completely honest.
 
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