Aggressive pricing posted:

Is there anything leading up to the wing suits or did the creators see How to train your Dragon 2 and rip them off become inspired?

ufarn posted:

The animation looked really, really wonky in that clip. The episode was done by Studio MIR, right?

I think the show never really found its groove. The characters were never great, and it made it more or less irrelevant whether they grew or not - which they haven't, really.

They tried to make the show without tying it too much to ATLA, and yet they created f'ing Bolin.

One reason for the lack of romance plots - finally - is that there simply aren't any interesting character dynamics going on.

Season 2 was really bad and the low point of the show, but it doesn't make sense to blame it specifically.

Harold Cooplowski posted:

Korra better be in the entire drat episode next week

hiddenriverninja posted:

I hope Korra finds Toph and is all "OMG Toph! You were on Team Avatar, I've lost my way, what should I do with my life?" and Toph is all "Do what I did: join Earth Rumble"

TheKingofSprings posted:

Well, at least the quality of the thread will match the quality of the show again, if the opener is anything to go by.

That sucked, the 3 year time-skip just feels weak. I like how Kuvira's shaping up as an antagonist (with a neat fight scene that showed off some cool stuff), and that exchange between Mako and Lin was great, but some of the dialog this episode and the loving squirrel suits made me cringe a little. The redesigns of the main characters are all really lame (Korra's is the worst of all), and I love how Korra just up and abandoned everyone around her, as if she hadn't backpedaled on the developments her character had had enough already.

E: This just feels like fanfiction at this point, break out the Varrick Iron-Man suit I know you guys are wanting to do Bryke, let's bring this on home.

Rosalind posted:

Jesus Christ I have no idea what any of you are talking about but it's super gross and kinda creepy.

Neo_Crimson posted:

The Korra video game is up on Steam now. No price listed though, weird.

PaulDirac posted:

Is it just me, or is Toph kinda like Yoda? (Old person/alien living in a swamp with great powers teaching a young student important life lessons)

Baron Bifford posted:

"Long-term exposure to mercury vapors can ravage the nervous system and cause symptoms that may begin with loss of appetite, poor mental focus or “brain fog”, fatigue, insomnia, and changes in behavior or personality, such as becoming more nervous, excitable or shy." (Source)

I think it's precisely the mercury poisoning that is causing Korra's psychological troubles, not some personal failure.

If you have mercury in your body, IT IS YOUR BIGGEST PROBLEM. If Toph doesn't remove it quickly it will cause irreparable damage, if it hasn't already.

I don't know what sort of changes she has to make. All of her psychological issues are rooted in her physical infirmity, which is entirely caused by the mercury.

She is a jerk. She is also 1) not a physician and 2) a crazy swamp-dwelling hermit.

ImpAtom posted:

It's honestly a bit weird to see in the game where Korra just goes crazy physical. Without spoiling (I hope), the combat animations are all pure Platinum and so she really goes to town on even regular mooks.

Rosalind posted:

A brave but foolish person actually admits they watched the film. I wonder what crazy turn-of-events resulted in a prop ending up in an expensive home decor store.

Do people think Korra is going to regain her Avatar mojo in the next episode or do we think she's going to mope a bit longer?

blurry! posted:

Hell, add bending and an early 20th century aesthetic to Sleeping Dogs, and you'd have GTA Republic City. Easy.

Hauldren Collider posted:

Bottom line: the show is not the loving West Wing or Battlestar Galactica and it was never supposed to be, get over yourselves and just enjoy it for what it is. Or don't, I'm not the fun police.

sitchelin posted:

I think Zhu Lee is sincere about serving Kuvira. Throughout the entire series she's been treated like a glorified pack mule. She does all sorts of harsh, demeaning work for Varrick and never once got so much as a thank you. His incompetence during the mech fight didn't help his case when they were eventually defeated. I think she finally reached her breaking point last episode and realized that being a thankless slave is getting her nowhere.

enraged_camel posted:

I've been binging on this over the past week or so and I'm caught up to the current episode.

One thing that seems really different from ATLA is the avatar state. If I remember correctly, Aang used it (or rather, it came out on its own, usually when Aang was unconscious) as the very last resort and it made him nearly invulnerable. Whereas with Korra, she seems to be able to use it at will most of the time, it seems to merely triple her strength, and she's still quite vulnerable while in it (getting hit can cause her to fall out of it). But maybe that's because Korra is nowhere as powerful as Aang, since Aang was already a hundred years old when they discovered him encased in ice at the beginning of ATLA.

Also, Aang's avatar state had a whole 30-second sequence where he was levitating into the air and stuff. With Korra it just seems to require a blink.

achillesforever6 posted:

Basically Nick did to Korra what Cartoon Network did to Young Justice and Green Lantern TAS where they got pissed that they didn't get the demo they wanted, and toys weren't selling like they wanted (though to be fair Green Lantern suffered from no toy company wanting to make toys for the franchise since they got burned by that lovely movie)

And like Nick, its easier to shovel out cheap Canadian cartoons that kids will watch instead of shows with an overarcing plot and character development... maybe Jeph Loeb was right

dj_clawson posted:

I'm not really buying Brian's argument that they did it so people could get paid. "We wanted to make more money so we compromised our artistic integrity." Look, the show is not a charity. I don't care about a couple weeks of pay for animators. They'll find other jobs, especially if they have a track record of working on a show that's known to not be lovely.

MacBook Air Gamer posted:

Even if they did avoid doing a clipshow and sacrifice the wellbeing of their hardworking staff, you probably would have hated whatever episode they would have put out in its place because Korra didn't just go into the Avatar state and kill everyone or something.

Jorghnassen posted:

Touché. The one exception. (someone will find a dozen more...)

Probably Magic posted:

Here, let me redirect the conversation here...

What if Kuvira, get this... is right?

Misandrist Wytch posted:

Season Three was good. Everything else has been mediocre at the very best.

The Sharmat posted:

Are there any surviving ones in the same genre as Legend of Korra?

The Sharmat posted:

That's kind of depressing. I don't want it to just be remembered as "that one cartoon that ended with lesbians".

The Sharmat posted:

Irish Joe actually seems to be engaging with people now.

And honestly this one question seems valid. I maintain Asami shows more sustained, non-platonic interest in Korra than Korra does in Asami. When exactly did Korra start thinking about things differently? Can anyone pinpoint it?

ImpAtom posted:

The Sharmat posted:

Really? Right there? Seems a bit odd but I can't really think of anything earlier. Unless she started feeling that way before and just had no opportunity to show it during her exile, I guess. Still think most of the stuff that is very explicitly romantic on Korra's end is actually in the finale. Which is ok. Like I said, she's been busy.

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

Postmortem is kinda depressing. What are the odds that there will be a new cartoon?

I think 30%.

TheKingofSprings posted:

A remake of the original will happen 20 years from now.

Armagnac posted:

Two Questions:

1) When did Mako learn to lightning bend?

2) What are the Chinese Characters that appear on screen after Korra and Asami head into the spirit world?

TheBalor posted:

I don't know who they'd sell it to, other than Cartoon Network. And do they really want to hand a big hitter IP to their competition, who would probably monetize it more effectively than they can?

Toshimo posted:

Like duh, Megan, catchphrase catchphrase Young Justice sucked.

T-man posted:

1. Literally has been used literally in this sense for years.
2. It's literally in the dictionary
3. The Week is literally the Hitler of the English language.

Non-bullshit content:

I still want to know: where did the giant blue monster thing come from? Is there some cultural thing I'm ignorant of that sets it as a thing that exists?

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Yeah, no.

Rincewind posted:

I think the problem with a Cold War-themed Avatar is that Korra would almost certainly be still alive, since she hasn't spent 100 years stuck in an iceberg sucking up all her Avatar juice or whatever.