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RareAcumen posted:Who says this? I've seen tweets to this effect, but, y'know, Twitter. Also, I don't think it's necessarily the best animated show ever, but that would delve into poo poo like "anime doesn't count" and so on and so forth.
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Now let's see you guys put this much effort into defending say, Amon's character arc.
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The Sharmat posted:Now let's see you guys put this much effort into defending say, Amon's character arc. There's no arc to defend in the first place.
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Dec 31, 2014 05:35
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TheKingofSprings posted:There's no arc to defend in the first place. There is if you really work for it.
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Dec 31, 2014 05:41
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Lady Gagazula posted:Azula's relationship with Mai and Ty Lee was never about trust. It was about using fear to control people. The line that sells it is when Mai betrays her and says "You miscalculated, I love him more than I fear you"
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Dec 31, 2014 05:42
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The Sharmat posted:Now let's see you guys put this much effort into defending say, Amon's character arc. You'll have to read the comic, man. 
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I don't know, guys, I just don't see it. You guys need to outline context clues and character moments using video, audio, transcripts and still images to maybe convince me. It just seemed rushed to me, is all. Nothing was ever connected or really made sense. It was just really bad writing. You know, no hard feelings that you're imagining things. Maybe you could convince me.  We'll see.
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I never said it was really bad writing.
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Yeah, I don't know. Maybe. Just... a little rushed. Sort of sudden? I guess I can see what they were trying to do but... Whatever, it was fine. The show was fine.
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Big Anime Fan Here posted:There are some legit good moments in last airbender like when Aang goes into the Avatar State in anger to kill the guys who stole his bison and Kitarra has to calm him down and he's crying in the Avatar State I don't know how to deal with you seriousposting I need an adult
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Big Anime Fan Here posted:There are some legit good moments in last airbender like when Aang goes into the Avatar State in anger to kill the guys who stole his bison and Kitarra has to calm him down and he's crying in the Avatar State  Way to slip up Big Anime Sham. 
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Well as we wrap up this thread and did favorite villains, let's do favorite team avatar members! Zuko Toph Sokka Asami Katara Bolin Mako Also the animal companions: Appa Momo Naga Pabu Hawky
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Ambivalent posted:I don't know, guys, I just don't see it. You guys need to outline context clues and character moments using video, audio, transcripts and still images to maybe convince me. It just seemed rushed to me, is all. Nothing was ever connected or really made sense. It was just really bad writing. You know, no hard feelings that you're imagining things. Maybe you could convince me. During the wiki edit war between the airing of the finale and Bryko's actual tumblr post admitting it the most often said thing was "until its explicitly stated by the creators Korrasami is not canon there's no way to conclusively prove from the episode ending that Korra and Asami end up together" despite that fact that it ends almost identical to the first Avatar except Korra and Asami don't kiss like Aang and Katarra did.
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The Sharmat posted:Now let's see you guys put this much effort into defending say, Amon's character arc. Amon is Tenzin if he never found closure with his father.
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computer parts posted:Amon is Tenzin if he never found closure with his father. Wow. That's...actually not bad.
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The Sharmat posted:Wow. That's...actually not bad. Except Tenzin didn't find closure with his dad until well after Amon died???
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And he doesn't stop trying to be a reflection of his dad until after Amon dies too. Yeah it's a big stretch I was just impressed at the creativity.
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TheKingofSprings posted:Except Tenzin didn't find closure with his dad until well after Amon died??? I mean there are other differences too but there is a specific parallel in Book 1 between Yakone and Aang both trying to pass on their bloodline.
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"Whatever, everyone knows Amon got half of Aang's Avatar powers when Aang half-died from that lightning strike and that's how he could take away bending" -virtually everyone on this forum when the show started
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BrianWilly posted:"Whatever, everyone knows Amon got half of Aang's Avatar powers when Aang half-died from that lightning strike and that's how he could take away bending" -virtually everyone on this forum when the show started Remember that photoshopped fake screencap of a decrepit old-rear end Aang under Amon's mask?
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We've truly come full circle.
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It's rather fitting for a show with reincarnation as a central theme for this thread to come full circle as well. It almost brings a tear to my eye.
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While I'll admit that Korra's relatively huge cast meant that none of the supporting characters got the sort of arc and growth that Zuko or even Sokka did, there were still an impressive number of characters with some neat development and stories. But mostly what stands out to me with Korra vs. AtLA is Korra herself. I can enjoy the show just for watching her own challenges and development outside of all the other color, and that's something I can't really say about Aang. His story plays the archetype well enough, but doesn't really excel: the world and his supporting cast are what carries the show. I'm really torn as to which show I think has a better whole, but Korra has a stronger protagonist with a more meaningful personal story.
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computer parts posted:I mean there are other differences too but there is a specific parallel in Book 1 between Yakone and Aang both trying to pass on their bloodline. That's right, every airbender from season 3 is some descendant of Aang. Even Opal.
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I hope Bryke and the rest of the Avatar staff go on to make other beautifully animated things.
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Level Slide posted:I hope Bryke and the rest of the Avatar staff go on to make other beautifully animated things. Netflix might hire them for some original series. If they're going to drop $90 mill on an Asian GoT then they clearly have money to burn.
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pentyne posted:Netflix might hire them for some original series. If they're going to drop $90 mill on an Asian GoT then they clearly have money to burn. Woah what? Level Slide posted:I hope Bryke and the rest of the Avatar staff go on to make other beautifully animated things.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:
The perfect representation of platonic friendship. The best way to end this thread of great posts and posters.
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Oracle posted:That's right, every airbender from season 3 is some descendant of Aang. Even Opal. "Even Opal", the daughter of Suyin who in turn is obviously the daughter of Toph and Aang. Yeah, what a stretch.
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SirKibbles posted:Woah what? Netflix spent $90 million on Marco Polo, it's Asian themed medieval drama, and in the last 3 years have been going all in on producing original series to stand out now that Amazon and Hulu are shaping up to be serious competition. Orange is the New Black has been great, House of Cards squandered a mindblowing season 1 with a completely bonkers season 2, Bojack Horseman was one of the best, darkest comedies in years, they've got a contract to produce 4 Marvel series which will almost certainly be tied into the MCU, and nowadays when a cable show gets cancelled its "Well, Netflix could pick it up" like they did with Longmire. I could see the Avatar creative team getting hired to produce an animated series based on Eastern myth/philosophy to appeal to kids/teens and give Netflix a toy franchise to add to their revenue stream. The management has been really good at seeking new ways of securing profits and how to encourage media companies to keep giving them film/TV licenses.
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You'll always be alive in the Spirit World, thread. Thanks for the fun times and Eva references.
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Barlow posted:Not that the comics have been great but do we know if Korra is going to get continued in them like ATLA did? As far as I can tell that's in the realm of speculation or fervent hope. Personally I'd like to see another game, but this time with a bit more of a budget (haha). The one that came out was decent enough, adequately conveying the experience of beating up dudes with magical kung-fu, and a villain that was pretty uncomplicated but visually memorable. I mean holy poo poo, that guy. On the other hand, gently caress that last match in Ace pro-bending. gently caress it forever. Either way maybe we'll see Red Lotus remnants pop up their heads finally. They interrupt the girls' spirit world picnic and they're forced to wreck poo poo.
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Farewell, Korra thread! Once everyone calmed down from the finale, you were actually readable. This thread should've been in ADTRW from the very beginning.  I don't know what will happen to the Avatar franchise; but now that I'm considering that there might never be another Avatar series, I'm actually cool with that. I remember seeing Avatar for the very first time when my cousins were watching Nickelodeon; it was the German version, and it looked/sounded like utterly generic Wuxia garbage for kids. I especially thought the whole premise of a world being perfectly divided into four elementaly aligned countries was supremely stupid, and I wrote it off as just another lame attempt at drawing in the hatching weeabo crowd. And that was that for three years or so. Until I read somewhere about people being incredibly excited for Season 3, so I gave it a go, and what do you know - besides some stupid episodes in S1, it was actually really good. I remember being especially impressed by the Blue Spirit episode - you know, the one where Zuko kicks rear end with a mask and two blades -, because it was just such a good action scene. I never really warmed up to Aang and Katara, but the magical kungfu won me over. Legend of Korra was pretty nice at the start, but the botched romance plot, the lack of magical kungfu and the lame finale (WHICH HAD NOT NEARLY ENOUGH MAGICAL KUNGFU! WHO THE gently caress THOUGHT THAT FORCECHOKES MADE FOR A GOOD FINAL FIGHT?!) didn't bode well. But believe it or not, I really liked S2 in parts, especially some of the fight scenes (Tonraq vs. Unalaq, BOLIN SAVES THE PRESIDENT, dubstep kaiju battle). From then on, it was pretty much a smooth ride to the S4 finale. S4 had a little less magical kungfu than I'd preferred, but the extremely strong final few episodes totally made up for it. Overall, I prefer Korra over ATLA because of the much, much better main character, more impressive magical kungfu, much, much better final fights aaaaaand genuinely good characters like Tenzin, Lin and Su. If there's ever another Avatar series, it will most certainly deal with the next generation. There will be magical kungfu. If there ISN'T another Avatar series ever again... there will be another series with magical kungfu. That's the hard truth, folks. Ultimately, the main draw for me were always very well done action scenes and the occasional great character, none of which is Avatar-specific. At this point, I'd rather have a completely new universe, one which is aimed at an older audience right from the start. And let's be honest - that's more likely anyway.
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Torquemadras posted:BOLIN SAVES THE PRESIDENT This part doesn't get enough love. As much of a poo poo storm as season 2 was, it had the best Bolin writing save a couple parts in season 4. NUKTUK! HERO OF THE WORLD!
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Torquemadras posted:If there ISN'T another Avatar series ever again... there will be another series with magical kungfu.
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AlternateNu posted:This part doesn't get enough love. As much of a poo poo storm as season 2 was, it had the best Bolin writing save a couple parts in season 4. The whole mover plotline was hilarious and great, and nobody can tell me otherwise. It had Varrick being Varrick, Bolin being a goofy moviestar without any clue what's happening around him, Pabu being a talking friendship laser animal, an actually entertaining version of Unalaq and BOLIN SAVING THE PRESIDENT. Actually, hear me out just why that is such an incredible action scene. Not only does it do a bang-up job at synchronizing the ultra-cheesy Nuktuk mover in the background with the actual action (at some points projecting parts of it on the combatants, even). No, it also uses the cheesy movie soundtrack as well, and it's the very first scene in the entire series of Bolin being super-badass on his own! And it's also somewhat of a payoff: we're in a Probending arena, and everyone was getting annoyed with the restrictive rules as opposed to crazy magical kungfu - but here's Bolin, fighting evil kidnappers, and ALL THE RULES ARE OFF THE TABLE. Bolin fires dozens of those stone disks. The scene works even better, since it's Varrick's men Bolin is going up against. It's one action scene that's just stupidly fun, and I feel like Korra didn't have enough of those. Of course, the overall plot is rather frustrating - mostly thanks to Mako, out-of-character Lin and Bolin's blockheadedness -, but it was all worth it once Varrick turned out to be the villain of that plot. It was the absolute best thing to happen. Combined with the early lack of animation quality in S2, it's no surprise many people hate that part, but I really loved all the movie nonsense, Varrick, and its resolution. Jackard posted:New season of Jojo starts Jan 9th (?) That's not magical kungfu, that's ridiculously badass punchghost mindgames. Also, everybody knows they just have to get Part 3 out of the way before we get to the best JoJo, Diamond is Unbreakable
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