Legend of Korra Book 4.44: This is (Not) Anime

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Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Unfortunately, I was only able to find a single promotional image for this season, and it's kind of spoilery in a really minor way, so I went and made my own:

I feel I've put in at least as much effort as the people in charge of marketing this show.

It's been barely a month since Book 3 ended, and our gracious television benefactors at Nickelodeon, not seeing quite the profit they'd hoped for when they'd ordered four seasons of this, have seen fit to give us the fourth and final season just a week from today. However, they have once again decided it's not worth their hard-earned SpongeBob money to actually air or promote it, so they've sent it back where it belongs to the festering ghetto known colloquially as the "Internet." Now, they haven't left it totally abandoned. They've generously given us a new trailer today, just a week before the premiere, which you can watch here (or, if you don't live in the US, here). Remember to tag discussion of anything from the trailer.

In case you've somehow already forgotten what happened last season, here's a brief recap:

Korra defeated the Red Lotus, but was deeply hurt both physically and mentally from the experience. She was last seen crying in a wheelchair.
Bolin, after spending the entire season trying to learn how to metalbend, learned how to lavabend instead. Still couldn't resist breaking the mood in an otherwise really depressing scene, however.
Mako gave away his trademark red scarf to his grandmother. He didn't go through any major character growth though, because he's still Mako, and "boring" is probably the best we're going to get out of that character. He had some neat fights.
Asami helped drive, I guess? She still didn't have much to do though her scenes connecting with Korra were a definite highlight.
Tenzin, Bumi, and Kya totally jobbed in their fights, as was to be expected.
Lin made up with her half-sister who she'd been estranged from for years.
Jinora is an airbending master now, and she has a love interest in the somewhat-annoying airbending recruit Kai.
The Red Lotus were too cool to live, and so all of them except Zaheer are dead. P'Li's death was metal as gently caress though (heh).
Zaheer ~~murdered~~ defeated the hell out of the Earth Queen.

Book 3 was great in a lot of ways, and most of the thread seemed to love it, unlike the previous seasons, which had more than their fair share of detractors, including myself. It's still both hilarious and depressing to see how thoroughly Nick has written this show off though. While it's nice to shake our fists impotently at the mighty children's programming gods and blame them for our collective misfortune, we should probably just be thankful it got this far at all. I just hope it goes out well. I know it seems like I enjoy making fun of this show (and I do), but I don't hate it, and I just hope there's something we can all agree on:

Justice has been served.

Book 4 airs Friday, October 3rd on nick.com, usually around noon EST, but usually several hours earlier elsewhere.

Arist fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Sep 27, 2014

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 23:25

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 11:03

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

If only there was something in the trailer that would tell us whether or not this was the final season.

I didn't watch the trailer before I wrote that, full disclosure. I was just checking for the time it aired.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 23:37

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

I'm sorry you guys don't appreciate my dumb anime jokes.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2014 03:08

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

uncleKitchener posted:

Considering that this last season is going to be CodeGeaseEvagelion with bending, the chances of this not doing well in terms of ratings is zero.

I mean, I'm not sounding naive am I? Nick really can't poo poo this up any more, right?

It's airing exclusively on the internet, dude. The ratings war has been lost.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 04:47

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Postal Parcel posted:

You want to say that again bro

This guy came up with the thread title for the record, send all hate mail to him.

e: Seriously though, didn't mean to take credit.

Arist fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Sep 28, 2014

# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 05:57

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

That seems like the worst idea.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 00:51

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

This is why I don't let you guys name things.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 18:41

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Metropolis posted:

I have avoided the previews, but I am guessing Toph will train someone, Korra or Lin I guess, to "see" the way Toph can, through vibrations. Then when Kuvira uses her flying metal slap bracelets to blind them, they'll beat her through the power of unexpected feet-seeing.

I hope this time Bolin figures out for himself that the seemingly awesome person he's teamed up with is bad.

AmiYumi posted:

Christ, this thread. Once again I am very, very glad none of you are anywhere near this show's writing room.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 03:57

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

AmiYumi posted:

Christ, this thread. Once again I am very, very glad none of you are anywhere near this show's writing room.

gently caress, just pretend I emptyquoted this forever.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 04:08

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Oh great, we're taking about KLK now. Let me go shoot myself.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 14:04

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

codeorange posted:

This makes Mako and Korra's inevitable romance that much more funny.

OH MY GOD STOP

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 14:30

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

icantfindaname posted:

don't worry, it will be on toonami soon enough, then we can talk about it some more

i hate you

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 15:55

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Why the hell would you name the thread what you did if you actually cared about it?

This is a much deeper issue than Korra. You have no idea.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 16:56

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Just post it, you can't possibly make it any worse.

I say this, knowing many of you will interpret it as a challenge.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 20:53

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

MrAristocrates posted:

Don't argue with Sithsaber, guys. This is what he does.

Don't report him, either. This is the Korra thread, the Mods have forsaken us.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2014 23:50

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

thexerox123 posted:

gently caress, I need to rewatch Brotherhood

# ¿ Oct 5, 2014 05:28

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

what have i done

# ¿ Oct 5, 2014 06:36

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Poison Mushroom posted:

I just watched the first episode of Season 4 today, and in general, I feel like this season is competent but less... textured. There's not as much attention to detail, not nearly as many little things that you might miss on the first go-through that hint as to the bigger picture. Not showing the Squirrelbenders as tired and ragged is just one example. This feels like they're repeating some of the mistakes of AtLA Season 1 all over again. There's nothing to pay attention to aside from the direct plot on the screen, and that bothers me, because it gives me the impression that they don't know where they're going with the season. I really hope I'm wrong, but I'm just getting the impression that the producers simply haven't grokked their own story.

TL;DR ATLA Season 2 and 3 were really good at least partially because of the Iceberg Theory. It feels like they've forgotten that.

This seems like a totally fair and reasonable judgment to make after one episode.

I don't really give a gently caress about this show but I think it's really funny how some of you can't wait more than one episode before diagnosing flaws with the entire season.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2014 16:06

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Holy poo poo you idiots, do not engage Sithsaber.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2014 16:27

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Why are you all letting the poo poo thread title win?

GIVE IN TO THE MADNESS

# ¿ Oct 7, 2014 16:52

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

I'm at NYCC and there's a Korra panel tonight, I'll see the new episode a whole eight hours before the rest of you, suck it

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 17:15

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

I have become my most hated foe. I have become... the Korra fan

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 17:17

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Starts in a few minutes. Some guy just handed me this:

Somebody fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Oct 9, 2014

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 22:11

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

I hate the audience so much you guys

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 22:26

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

This is amazingly dumb.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 22:47

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Jackard posted:

is this

I'm starting to think you guys aren't reading my posts.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2014 01:10

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

You earned this title. Don't forget it.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2014 05:38

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Jackard posted:

So when do we get a better title?

The fact that you guys keep asking this makes the answer never.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 20:18

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Reviews of the game are coming in, opinions are decidedly mixed.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 17:47

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Neo_Crimson posted:

Sounds like every Platinum game ever so far.

Except like, all of them.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 17:55

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Spergatory posted:

The Bayonetta titles are pretty much the only Platinum games that have gotten consistently good reviews. Wonderful 101, Revengeance, and Vanquish all got decidedly mixed receptions from review outlets.

What's "mixed?" I'm looking at these scores and they're overwhelmingly positive for each.

gently caress it, whatever.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 20:10

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Toshimo posted:

MrAristocrates, I hope you are considering this as a thread title.

Jesus loving christ I hate you all so much.

Honestly, I'll consider it.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 21:18

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

I wish I could ban puns from this thread.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2014 00:02

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

In his defense, the game's plot is like, nothing.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2014 22:25

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

The Rifftrax is really good.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2014 17:23

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

I'm about four minutes into this and I want to stop.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2014 14:37

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

I just caught up, but please keep complaining about the thread title, it's really funny.

This is a good thread, keep on posting.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2014 19:06

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Ahahahaha jesus christ

# ¿ Nov 21, 2014 06:03

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

Golden Goat posted:

I'm constantly afraid that they'll run out of money and the finale of Korra will end like the Evangelion series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDajqW561KM

# ¿ Nov 21, 2014 18:05

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 11:03

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

God, everything about this is just so funny to me.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2014 18:44

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