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Boxman posted:It's not a new one, but someone needs to repost the GIF of Korra and NewToph exchanging "Watching you" eyes followed by Is it me or is Korra way more GIF-able than ATLA was? EDIT: 
Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at Apr 10, 2012 around 02:54 |
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Didn't get a chance to say this last night, but the chi-blockers were awesome.
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Wildeyes posted:It's incredibly short and doesn't reveal much, but anything new about this show is like You can stop lying to yourself now; we're all in the same boat.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:
Angry Korra as the thread bouncer? I like it.
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ConfusedUs posted:I love Korra's attitude. That's exactly what I noticed too. She apparently does not give a drat, which is awesome.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Until she gets her rear end kicked. SeriousCrimesUnit posted:She was sheltered her whole life and turned out to be an incredibly talented bender and fierce fighter. What has she ever had to be afraid of? Her breakdown when she starts crying and says she's so scared and doesn't know what to do really seems legitimate now that I think of it. It hasn't been said yet, but it doesn't sound like she's experienced many hardships or many things at all. So what does she have to be arrogant about? Oh right, because I'm the mother fuckin' avatar! I'm beginning to think more and more that the scene with Korra breaking down and crying comes about as a result of being chi-blocked by Amon and basically forcing her to experience life without bending. This would be interesting considering her whole identity seems to be wrapped up in bending and being the Avatar and it all started from a rather early age.
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This is good news: Korra got 4.5 million viewers for the premiere!SeriousCrimesUnit posted:^^^Here ya go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIsy0-tdYc Well, between that and Amon's "Energybending" (which I'm only assuming right now is a direct result of 1:10-1:12 in that YouTube link). Now that I think about it, the above could be option one of what goes down. Option two is that Amon forces Korra into the Avatar state way before she's ready and she just utterly loses control, playing right into Amon's propaganda (this may or may not have been mentioned previously in this thread). Killer robot posted:The first series set the tone of a world that desperately needs the Avatar it always had in the past, and then Aang having to become that, with the question being how and with whom. The new series is one that opens by raising the question of what place the Avatar has in a new world, and so Korra's question is what she needs to become in the first place. For all that she's known she was the Avatar for a very long time, she doesn't have the clear answer of what this means she should do that Aang did. So far, Korra's answer to this is: 1) Hit things 2) Hit things a lot. Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at Apr 17, 2012 around 23:10 |
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^^^ Perhaps a little obvious but the line from the show is "You got it, Captain!"Solaris Knight posted:That certainly gives me hope for any Bryke projects beyond Korra getting greenlit, plus I heard 4.5 mil was more viewers then any Last Airbender episode beyond the finale. Wikipedia says the old series finale had 5.6 million viewers. Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at Apr 18, 2012 around 00:23 |
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Solaris Knight posted:That's why I said beyond. Sozin's Comet was a finale in four parts, 3 years in the making. Korra just premiered. Yeah, I missed that. 
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Korra Nation pointed to some kind of Korra podcast yesterday. Haven't listened to it yet but it reminded me that there's still some kind of podcast further back on KN with the Track Team that I need to listen to.Je suis fatigue posted:Korra's hair is a reference to the original idea for Katara's hair, right? I remember reading somewhere that originally Katara's hair loopies were going to just be straight strands, but they thought it would be more work than necessary for the animators so they connected them to the back of her head, and as it turned out was an authentic inuit hairstyle (and still got a lot of animation attention anyway).  ).EDIT: Wikipedia posted:In the commentary of the unaired pilot episode, co creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino state that Katara's "hair loopies" were intended to hang downward, but were thought too hard to animate and looped backward instead.[3] Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at Apr 19, 2012 around 00:09 |
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That whole scene with Amon was intense, although I can't help but feel that Amon's backstory is just a little too linear and blasé at the moment. So a Firebender killed his parents and burned him; couldn't that have just as easily happened with a non-Bender? For that matter, I want to hear more about this "The Avatar has failed the world" stuff. Between the Chi-blocking Motorcycle Gang chase and the Revelation scene, this went by way the hell too quickly. And we have to wait another whole week? This must be what it's like to be a drug addict.  Jock Mocken posted:I also liked Korra beating big dude without having to use bending cause she's so swole. I noticed that as well. It shows that she is at least thinking through things sometimes, maybe.
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So anyways, Bryan Konietzko has introduced us to Lin Beifong's real-life character model.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR J-WALKING DICKHEAD What's that, a date? Maybe that's what I've been doing wrong.
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Fellis posted:Wow that second of flashbacks went by way too fast. I think this whole episode went by way too fast.
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Welp, gotta keep the annoying Twilight fangirls somehow, I guess. Almost makes me want to unsubscribe from Korra Nation.  idonotlikepeas posted:The Avatar also has the ability to enter the spirit world and commune with nature, which is specifically about bringing balance between the spiritual and mundane. I'm really looking forward to the whole spirit world vs. technology conflict this time around, mainly because I was kind of expecting to play a bigger role in ATLA.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Ohh. I wonder if she would goes to the spirit world that is connected to Republic city, and finds it all shriveled up. That would be very Spirited Away; I like that.
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Serella posted:Eh, all you can do is I suppose.  I just can't figure out which I'm more pissed at: the fact that they are pandering to those people or the fact that it'll bring in known, perhaps quantifiable money. Tae posted:That reminded that the director made the staff watch every single episode of FLCL. Interesting that you should mention that. A few days old but oh well.
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and click away. Every food chain needs something to eat up the scum at the bottom. If rabid shipper fangirls are helping to keep this show afloat, I say it's a good thing that the official channels feed them once in a while. Keep 'em hungry so they'll buy every insignificant piece of merch with <3Zuko<3 or ~*~MAKO~*~ on it so Nick will give Korra more seasons. v
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^^^^^ And being the Avatar doesn't hurt either. Pretty good episode of "As Republic City Turns" so far.
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Wow. That's way too .
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Wow, nice cutaway there Announcer.
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Interesting about Korra being a healer. Perhaps we'll see her Metalbending at some point?OnimaruXLR posted:Also helping: the fact that they're getting on with it. Some folks might find it rushed, but I like to think of teen romance being like a band aid; rip that poo poo off and get it over with. My sense is telling me that the writers intended that to be the whole point of this episode. Get all the Shippers riled up and all simultaneously let down so we can concentrate on the actual conflicts in the show (the tournament, that guy named Amon). Just a collective "shut the gently caress up, already!" to the shippers.
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I can't wait for the episode to go up online because I want to watch it again and see if I get the same impression I did this morning. I did catch some good things (Korra and Bolin facial expressions, Mr. Anime) so it wasn't without merit but it was all severely overshadowed by the love triangle or quadrilateral or whatever and because it felt so shotgunned in, I was rolling my eyes at a good chunk (perhaps most of) the episode. Compound that with an overall pace that feels like the show's turbo button had been pressed since the beginning and it doesn't leave a well-off first impression for me. So, I look forward to when I can see this next. Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at May 6, 2012 around 00:13 |
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What do you know? Nick put up episode 5 on its website, finally. Now to make good on my last post here and watch it again.Dylan McKay posted:Everyone keeps talking about the latest ep like it needs defending, but it seems like the reaction to it has been pretty positive. Well, personally, the worst Avatar episode is still better than the best of most everything else on TV and I imagine a lot of people might agree with that sentiment. Ultimately, I'm hoping this is going to turn into another episode, for me, like that-one-from-Book-3-that-we-aren't-supposed-to-talk-about-per-the-OP. Subsequent re-watches of said episode have mellowed out the bad I saw in it and made it into "OK, I get what's going on and I can appreciate it, despite any amount of groan-inducing." With any luck, I can watch The Spirit of Competition again and laugh considerably more this time around.
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Sergeant Hobo posted:Ultimately, I'm hoping this is going to turn into another episode, for me, like that-one-from-Book-3-that-we-aren't-supposed-to-talk-about-per-the-OP. Subsequent re-watches of said episode have mellowed out the bad I saw in it and made it into "OK, I get what's going on and I can appreciate it, despite any amount of groan-inducing." Well, this pretty much came to fruition. I wasn't entirely sure how to think about this episode Saturday, aside from the paranoid conspiracy of Bryan and Mike underwriting some kind of "Chill out" message to the fangirls (still get some kind of weird vibe about that but I digress). I think perhaps some of my initial discomfort came about because I was comparing it to The Boiling Rock. I still maintain that The Boiling Rock could have just as well been one episode but it was a whole two episodes in a 20 episode season that was running down the clock at that point, which forced a bunch of other things into an even smaller set of episodes. I think the same thing happened with The Spirit of Competition but even more so because this is only a 12 episode season and we're approaching the halfway point. This is assuming that the Amon/Equalist conflict is going to be resolved in the 12 episode first season but if that's not the case, then scratch the above. In a similar vein, I think I initially felt that some of the teen romance drama could have been done previously somewhere before this episode. It had felt totally pushed into this episode in a kind of "We have to have this somewhere so let's just put as much as possible over there" way. After seeing this episode again, I think it's alright after all. I can handle the teen romance and whatnot but it would help if it can be spread out as much as possible (and for Nick to cut out the Twilight shenanigans on Korra Nation). blurry! posted:So what's to draw them in? Asami is a Perfect Girlfriend who just appears, solves their problems and stays out of the way, hardly providing even a foil to Korra. Its the simplest explanation, as far as we've seen. Narritively speaking, Asami has a significantly less than zero chance of being involved with the Equalists. Makes sense, but the question then becomes did Mako have any kind of influence on Asami to make her go from full Amon loyalist to something less? As in, will she betray the cause at some point perhaps because she sees what Amon's endgame is? This reminds me: wasn't Asami supposed to be some kind of streetcar racer? Whatever happened to that?
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DarklyDreaming posted:Ok that whole scene was awesome. Any time Tenzin and Korra are alone is awesome. Seconded. Motion carried.
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The entire third act was spectacular.
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ImpAtom posted:But... but this means Spider-Fong was dating JJJ. I'm not sure how to feel about that. Not to mention that her mother is Iron Toph.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:The full episode is up on Nick's website. Just rewatched it and paid attention to the music for the third act rooftop fight and I...I need a CD soundtrack of this show, period. What do you want to make a soundtrack of Korra, Nickelodeon? Do you want me to buy that Victorious soundtrack you kept advertising to me at every commercial break, is that it? Cause I'll buy it if I can get the Korra soundtrack at the same time, Goddamn it!  I remember seeing a quote from an orchestra conductor that said (hugely paraphrased) "Soundtrack music does its job if you don't even notice it's there because its helping to elevate your emotional state." Given that, it makes perfect sense why I missed that whole musical sequence the first time through. Captain Foxy posted:I screamed 'gently caress 'EM UP KORRA' at my laptop during the third act. Several times. I...I really did that. That is a perfectly healthy, rational response and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 
Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at May 15, 2012 around 01:52 |
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Mixoux posted:I'm going with Tarrlok using the attack to have her removed, given his little quip about her taking full responsibility if anything happened at the match. That and/or Lin and Tarrlok disagree about putting Metalbenders on every street corner and raiding suspected Equalist hide-outs. Then again, perhaps it's too early for Tarrlok to play power games with Lin and the Metalbenders; it might be better just to have her be in place and, if nothing changes, Tarrlok would put her on probation for "failing to do her civic duty" or whatever. Zeeman posted:Well, they actually got me to feel sorry for Tahno, didn't see that coming I know. I actually forgot for the length of that clip that he is/was a complete slimeball. On a side note, with the airing of this last episode, have we seen everything that has been in all the trailers and released clips (minus the episode 7 preview, obviously)? I'm sure someone's done a very  analysis to that end and I haven't found it yet.
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Definitely a solid episode. The mechs certainly present an interesting development, although not entirely unsurprising given the rate of industrialization with the help of bending. At this rate, we'll see a giant robot swatting the police zeppelins out of the sky; don't know how I quite feel about that prospect.  Oh Snapple! posted:Was that Amon's second in command that Asami casually took down? 'cause drat if so. I did a double-take but I'm sure that's who that was. Or, if not the original, then a brand new one. Poke posted:It was pretty sweet how Lin used her feet to see the underground tunnel. I wonder if Toph taught that to just Lin or everyone at her metal bending academy. Anyone know why Sato said Toph wouldn't be able to bend platinum? As I recall, Metalbending isn't so much Metalbending in and of itself but is really more just bending the Earth-based impurities of the metal. Toph developed it because it was a natural use of her blind-based Earthbending and, in a way, a requirement of Metalbending. So, it would make sense that anyone Toph trained would have to learn Toph-vision first and then bend metal. Furthermore, if platinum is really that pure (I'm not sure myself; this is the first I've heard of that), then Toph wouldn't be able to Metalbend it if she's bending the (non-existant) impurities. EDIT: Fried Chicken posted:well, we saw mech sketches on the wall in the first episode, so nice foreshadowing there.  Must've missed that.
Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at May 19, 2012 around 15:55 |
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VanSandman posted:A giant robot - vs - Avatar first season finale? I think any uncertainty I had about giant robots in this show has just disappeared. 
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It would seem that Korra has a bigger enemy to fight than Equalist mechs: Powder. 
Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at May 20, 2012 around 01:05 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:If it's anything but a full broadway style production, I will be disappointed. Crap, now I'm expecting this too.
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Kibibit posted:I just realized, was Meelo fartbending? That must be his contribution to Airbending to get his arrows. Fake edit: beaten.
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DarklyDreaming posted:Well, I don't really have anything to say about what I just witnessed except to use this emoticon Seriously, this. It's the only coherent thought I have right now.
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Belmont Geoffrion posted:So there's a new preview for the next episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2s7Uj1ROsk I love the little details, especially Korra's face cut still being there. I'm pumped. In a sort of related thing, someone was doing their homework. (speculation based on spoiler video) Rob Paulsen could very well be voicing a character in the next episode. Since he mentioned being in a session with Eva Marie Saint (older Katara's VA), Paulsen could be adult Aang or perhaps adult Sokka. Or maybe Yakone, if we're not supposed to take the statement as a literal one. The Legend of Korra: Goddamn it, is it Saturday yet? Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at Jun 5, 2012 around 03:59 |
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MadRhetoric posted:"This is my Tesla glove. There are many like it but this one is mine." "I am an Equalist. This is my Tesla glove." "Welcome, fellow Equalist! Shall we equalize the world?" "My Tesla glove allows me to be equal." Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at Jun 8, 2012 around 21:57 |
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Really liked this episode. All the action moments felt right, the Airbending family just flat out rocked and Meelo is just self-explanatory at this point. Glad we got some of the relationship triangle nonsense out of the way early in this episode, and even then it didn't really irk me surprisingly. It seemed that everyone had a chance to shine, save the Lieutenant who probably needs a new line of work by now. Poor Lin went down in an epic fight, just like a true BeiFong. Toph would be proud.
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dj_clawson posted:New clip at IMDB. The bait is set. Time to reel 'em in.
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blurry! posted:Mako interpretation Wow, I might have to go back and re-watch the series with this in mind. I've had almost no idea of what to make of Mako up to this point.
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