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Funkz posted:Does this work? http://www.nick.com/games/legend-of...l?navid=showNav No it doesn't work for me either. Stupid Nickelodeon, they aren't even putting the show on until November apparently.
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Quackenbush posted:So if Tenzin is 51 and the new series takes place 70 years after the old, Katara had him when she was 33? That seems a bit old for a first kid in this universe Isn't he the youngest?
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Charlz Guybon posted:Isn't he the youngest? Oops, yeah, you're right
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Quackenbush posted:So if Tenzin is 51 and the new series takes place 70 years after the old, Katara had him when she was 33? That seems a bit old for a first kid in this universe Nope, other way around: Tenzin is the youngest of Aang and Katara's three kids. Also, for all the posts regarding 
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Those years between learning their first kid wasn't an Airbender and Tenzin's bending being discovered must have been a really difficult time for Aang and Katara, with the whole Air Nomad culture and the future of the Avatar cycle hanging on a thread, depending entirely on chance.
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Triskelli posted:Also, for all the posts regarding Pakled posted:Those years between learning his first kid wasn't an Airbender and Tenzin's bending being discovered must have been a really difficult time for Aang, with his whole culture and the future of the Avatar cycle hanging on a thread, depending entirely on chance.
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I feel a bit bad for Bumi, the non-bending kid. What do you think that would be like, growing up in a family like that and being unable to bend? It would be like growing up with a math disability in a family of PhD mathematicians.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Okay please shut up. Sorry.  In more speculative news, the interview with Korra's VA says this: quote:As with the original series, there are some really interesting philosophical questions that are being raised about "Us versus Them" and bullying and "How important is it being special?" and "Do you set yourself apart too much?" -- things like that. The bit about bullying is an interesting addition, since it's rarely called that outside of a school environment/relationship. Could Tezin's kids be sent to elementary school? I know this is epililectic tree territory here, but I could totally see that happening.
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LadySage posted:I feel a bit bad for Bumi, the non-bending kid. What do you think that would be like, growing up in a family like that and being unable to bend? It would be like growing up with a math disability in a family of PhD mathematicians. Not when you have an aunt and uncle like Aang's kids would have (I'm just assuming Sokka and Suki stuck together). You'd probably have them hanging around along with the Kyoshi warriors, Mai and Ty Lee showing you don't have to be able to bend to be a badass.
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thebardyspoon posted:Not when you have an aunt and uncle like Aang's kids would have (I'm just assuming Sokka and Suki stuck together). You'd probably have them hanging around along with the Kyoshi warriors, Mai and Ty Lee showing you don't have to be able to bend to be a badass. I have some bad news for you. The Promise Part 2 spoilers http://maiko-love.deviantart.com/jo...dness-295452354
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I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread, but what's going to be the best way to get this? I don't have cable, so that's obviously out. It looks like it's up on iTunes, Amazon, and Xbox Live. 30 bucks for the season on iTunes, no idea for Amazon, and 2400 points (~$24?) on Live. Obviously then Live seems like the best for cost, but which of those three is most likely to get new episodes the quickest? Anybody know? If anyone has any ideas on how much Amazon might charge too, that'd be great. I could toss Korra on my Fire for on-the-go bending.
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Quackenbush posted:So if Tenzin is 51 and the new series takes place 70 years after the old, Katara had him when she was 33? That seems a bit old for a first kid in this universe
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Funkz posted:I have some bad news for you. The Promise Part 2 spoilers http://maiko-love.deviantart.com/jo...dness-295452354 Even still you know if it was ever an issue this conversation happened: Bumi: Uncle Sokka, how do you deal with it? My mother is perhaps the greatest water bender alive. My dad's the friggin' Avatar. Kya's bending is getting stronger every day and even my stupid little brother is showing signs of airbending. They have all these amazing gifts that make them special and I'm just kind of the normal guy, you know? Sokka: Did I ever tell you about the time I destroyed five zeppelins full of Fire Nation invaders?
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Are there any really good extras on the US DVDs of Avatar? Might import if they're good enough to be worth it, the UK ones are just the barebones book collections but they're pretty cheap right now it seems.
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Why wouldn't Aang just spirit-bend up some new airbenders or something.
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While driving home from work I was listening to the radio and NPR's All Things Considered did a clip about Korra and Avatar:TLA in general. e: Audio will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET if you're interested. Alpha Kenny Juan fucked around with this message at Apr 13, 2012 around 22:22 |
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indigi posted:Why wouldn't Aang just spirit-bend up some new airbenders or something. I legit thought that if all the Airbenders died the elements would balance themselves out and random Airbenders would start popping up. I think it was something Iroh said
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If that was the case then the Avatar wouldn't be necessary (or at least not so critical). I think it was made pretty clear at several points in the original cartoon that if Aang didn't triumph the world would be irrevocably damaged.
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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:While driving home from work I was listening to the radio and NPR's All Things Considered did a clip about Korra and Avatar:TLA in general.
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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:While driving home from work I was listening to the radio and NPR's All Things Considered did a clip about Korra and Avatar:TLA in general. Some Nickelodeon executives were worried, says Konietzko, about backing an animated action show with a female lead character. Conventional TV wisdom has it that girls will watch shows about boys, but boys won't watch shows about girls. During test screenings, though, boys said they didn't care that Korra was a girl. They just said she was awesome. The lead character may be female, but the show is very masculine in design. It's all about conflict and fulfilling ambition. Even the lead character herself has macho tendencies. She's so aggressive that her male mentors actually struggle to teach her indirection and restraint.
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Baron Bifford posted:Some Nickelodeon executives were worried, says Konietzko, about backing an animated action show with a female lead character. Conventional TV wisdom has it that girls will watch shows about boys, but boys won't watch shows about girls.  Also, I doubt boys are gonna care about Korra being  A GURL even when she starts swooning over Mako.gently caress conventional wisdom. The reason boys don't like girl characters isn't because they don't like girls, it's because 99% of girl characters in kids shows have absolutely no personality beyond "IS A GIRL".
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:The reason boys don't like girl characters isn't because they don't like girls, it's because 99% of girl characters in kids shows have absolutely no personality beyond "IS A GIRL". Word. There's this weird idea among writers and executives that FEMALE CHARACTERS are completely different than 'regular characters.'
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Charlz Guybon posted:Pretty sure she'll only have water bender kids, unless she ends up with a bender of a different element. QueerPope posted:Not the Lion-Turtle, although he's more of a living island than a spirit. He's also a little too omniscient to show up until another finale. (I know we're done with the Spirit/Energy bending topic but I think it's not that only the avatar can do it but rather that it's an ability lost to the world except to the Lion-Turtle, who was so old that he could give it to Aang for the purpose of saving the world.) What would be the best way (in this universe) to deal with a bunch of anti-benders? Make them benders.
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Small White Dragon posted:Was the water bender the oldest, and the non-bender the middle one?
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Small White Dragon posted:What would be the best way (in this universe) to deal with a bunch of anti-benders? Or you could just talk to them. Which has the advantage of being easier and not setting a precedent where the answer to a tough issue is to magically solve it by making it no longer an issue. Edit: It took me rereading that to realise that the original show already set that precedent, so I'm going to eat those words and instead just hope that the creators set the bar higher this time and don't set up a tough situation just so that they can spend most of the show ignoring it and then magically solving it. tsob fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 00:49 |
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Razorwired posted:Sokka: Did I ever tell you about the time I destroyed five zeppelins full of Fire Nation invaders? "Wow uncle how did you do it!?" "Well, my friend Toph earthbended(bent?) us up into the air onto one of the zeppelins. She then used metal bending to single handedly take out the entire cockpit so we could commandeer the zeppelin. After crashing our zeppelin into a bunch of others Toph used metal bending to destroy another zeppelin. After breaking my leg and losing my sword and boomerang Suki saved us." "Oh."
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canned_fruit posted:"Oh." "But the whole thing was my idea, so I get the credit for it!"
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Funkz posted:I have some bad news for you. The Promise Part 2 spoilers http://maiko-love.deviantart.com/jo...dness-295452354 Is that a comic tie-in or something?
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Aphrodite posted:Is that a comic tie-in or something?
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CapnAndy posted:Yeah. The writers are either playing an elaborate practical joke or have no idea whatsoever how to write a human romantic relationship, but other than that it's pretty good. ...I'm still going to buy it, because at least the Zuko part is pretty interesting, and it's only 12 bucks.
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The relationship isnt bad when you remember the ages of the participants. Of course the real problem is that Aang and Katara weren't made a year older at least from the beginning if they were going to do a romance subplot, but what're you gonna do.
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Oh man, why did I have to spoil myself and watch the first two episodes on Nick.com, now I'm not going to be able to wait two whole weeks for a new episode to come out.
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Dr.Oblivious posted:Oh man, why did I have to spoil myself and watch the first two episodes on Nick.com, now I'm not going to be able to wait two whole weeks for a new episode to come out. One week, actually. They're airing the first two episodes tomorrow.
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Funkz posted:I have some bad news for you. The Promise Part 2 spoilers http://maiko-love.deviantart.com/jo...dness-295452354 Non-Korra-related: You know, I really always wanted to like Mai. Like Ty Lee and Suki, she's a non-bender who manages to hold her own (and then some) against benders. She just never has any really poignant or meaningful moments until the Boiling Rock, when the show is really almost over. You get these little hints, like when Azula denied the trade of King Bumi to get her baby brother back and Mai gave her an evil side-eye, but overall she was mostly just "the sullen teenage girl who doesn't want to do anything" so she didn't get much character, which was kind of pitifully explained away by my parents' expectations. By the time she throws herself under the bus to save Zuko, you don't even really care. She's basically just a plot device at that point, same as the Yu Yan archers were, and they promptly disappeared in Season 1 after the single episode in which they were needed. I really hope they'll actually do something interesting with her in The Promise.
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Razorwired posted:Even still you know if it was ever an issue this conversation happened: I like to imagine Sokka tells that story whenever anyone else tells a story about their bending. "Well, I had to blow the hot air of the volcano away..." "That's great, Aang, but did I ever tell you guys how I destroyed an entire fleet of Fire Nation war zeppelins without bending?"
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Classtoise posted:I like to imagine Sokka tells that story whenever anyone else tells a story about their bending.
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I think it'd be a pretty awesome troll if Sokka, Space Sword, and Boomerang weren't mentioned once in Korra. Imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Funkz posted:I have some bad news for you. The Promise Part 2 spoilers http://maiko-love.deviantart.com/jo...dness-295452354
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blurry! posted:I think it'd be a pretty awesome troll if Sokka, Space Sword, and Boomerang weren't mentioned once in Korra. Imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth. It would be on par with old Katara getting cut off after saying the story of Ursa and Zuko was epic and full of surprising twists.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:The reason boys don't like girl characters isn't because they don't like girls, it's because 99% of girl characters in kids shows have absolutely no personality beyond "IS A GIRL".
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