Since the days of that one Sentinel who managed to successfully kill off an X-Man, we’ve been wanting more foot soldiers who pose a real threat to the protagonists. Since that Sentinel went off to star in Marvel 2, we haven’t had many in our action-packed cartoons. Why complain about them? Besides, they could have been thoroughly trained. Not every soldier we have in the Middle-East is Captain America but it doesn’t mean they can’t fend for themselves even against Captain Ali-Babba.
And those benders in The Last Airbender managed to change the world of bending forever. Ang became the full-out Avatar by the end of the series and Toph developed a way to actually bend metal, something thought to be impossible at the time. Zuko learned how to redirect lightning which was hard as FUCK to do. And let’s not forget about blood-bending, still deemed rare as fuck. So yeah, that’s like putting Thanos, Galactus and Jesus against a normal platoon of soldiers and hoping for the best.
The reason why this generation can’t fight is because they one probably receive watered down teachings.Two no real threats Ang had to deal with folks who were trying to outright kill him at all times.Fighting back then took actual skill because mistakes and errors could get you killed.Korra is not as strong as she looks chances are she would get bodied by katara or toph hell even sokka back in the day.Toph would have stomped her and never looked back.Folks were still learning and figuring out how to fight then so you had more folks truly trying to master bending and protect themselves because it was absolutely necessary in some cases.
What? That sounds retarded. I’d wager they don’t know how to fight as much because it’s a time of peace. During Ang’s time the Fire Nation was pillaging like a motherfucker. This is the first real conflict in decades or a century or whatever.
Not to mention that the chi-blockers tactically take down their foes unlike the villains from the first show. We only got that out of Azula and her crew. Amon’s guys always come prepared and naturalize a target before they can get anything going.
The original Team Avatar was hunted down CONSTANTLY compared to what the new gang was used to. If it wasn’t for “Pro-Bending” I think these guys would be really out of shape. Also people saying that Lin should have fought back when she was getting her bending taken away, she got captured in a ship FULL of Chi-Blockers which I’m pretty sure have Anti-Bending holding cells even to house someone as bad ass like Lin. She was freaking surrounded by Equalists and Amon. She took a good route in that Amon only took her bending away, because maybe she can lead an escape of other bending prisoners later down the line. Shit if I was Amon I would go scorched earth and flat out kill any bender. But that might be a bit too serious for a kid show so they would have to go with the neutralize their bending route.
I would like to see more bending prowess from Bolin since essentially he just chucks rocks and calls it a day. I mean it was nice that he did do a cave-in when they were getting chased in the underground prison, his earth-bending is rather tame. But I guess it does make it harder to impress when you got Lin who has Seismic Sense AND Metal Bending.
Speaking of Amon… I truly believe he may be at the very least an crazy as hell blood bender. In the preview clips for the season finale you can see him doing puppeteer like motions and seeing Mako/Korra writhe in pain like they were getting blood bent like no tomorrow. Also he did some sort of hand sway motion when he finished up with Tarrloc that made Amon’s minions finally come too. From what I noticed when you get blood bent as bad as Tarrloc, Yakone, Hama did… you were fucking out unless you were 1) The Avatar 2) Bad ass Water Bender [Katara]. So unless Amon’s minions are the epitome of human conditioning and can take a beating of getting blood bent… I really want to say that Amon is a blood bender and that he essentially “turned off” the blood bending pain that Tarrloc induced.
…ONE more thing! What happened to Pabu?! His cute little furry butt has being getting ignored for almost 2 episodes straight! He is much more likeable than fucking Momo. Although the Momo/Appa interaction was always nice. Kinda wish Pabu and Naga hit it off like they did. So we can get some silly shit like this
So about the Tarlock business. Is it truly over? Because episode 10 made it seem like it’s filler since the shit happening to Republic City on the outside with Amon and co. obviously seems bigger than the shady plans Tarlock had.
And speaking of fillers. I think the creators could’ve easily done an extra season with Korra and co. dealing with the RC’s gangs.
Probably, although such a flaw as dumb as it is wouldn’t completely ruin the show because everything else so far is on point. I’m just saying it would be like a food stain on the mona lisa.
No you didn’t. You took a long-winded approach to say they got less then stellar teachings which is bullshit. Do you think your teacher will give you basic algebra if they know differential calculus? It’s a flawed logic. Own up to your stupidity and move on.
gah you are both stupid. The general bending skill/overall talent in LOK >>>>>>> LAB(last air bender).
There’s like 100s of people who can metal bend in LOK to 1 in LAB.
People who work in energy factories can redirect/create lighting(in the 100s also) to maybe 5 in LAB.
There’s probably more people who can bloodbend now compared to 2 people in LAB.
Then there’s pro-bending which allows benders to be agile while bending.
Also there are 100s of chi-blockers now compared to 1 (Ty Lee) as far as we knew in LAB.
The only thing is, KORRA haven’t gone AVATAR STATE and do some epic bending. Aang went avatar state pretty frequently in LAB. But in general, bending is definitely in a higher level than before. It’s been about 80 years since LAB, it woould be just damn silly to say that the bending in LOK would be worse.
I think bending for society uses is better but I don’t know about for combat (excluding chi blockers). Metal benders are fairly whip-reliant, we haven’t seen lightning extensively in combat, N/A on blood benders, and pro-bending’s a sport with rules where LAB it was all out brawls.
Bending’s become more widespread for other uses and not just fighting dominant anymore. I’m surprised we haven’t seen any great water bending from Korra like Katara did.
Tigerclaw you’re retarded, everyone from TLK except Amon are much weaker than anyone in TLA, just look at how easily cops get placed put with their gay whips compared to what Toph or Bumi did. Look at Zuko or Azula then look at Mako’s gayass little spouts of flames and he’s supposedly a pro bender lol, look at Korra compared to Aang, and Ty Lee could probably take out every henchman on both sides by herself she wasn’t a regular chi blocker.
The whole conservation of ninjustu trope (you can look it up on tvtropes). Basically the more of one thing there are, the more they job but if it’s something like 1 ninja left, Ryu Hayabusa-like mofo, then he’s gonna take out that whole clan of spider ninjas. Sort of how the jedis in the prequels were way more likely to get owned rather than just Luke and Vader going through goons.
Though TigerClaw might be saying something about the average talent of the average person is higher. Sort of like if you can equate Toph to be the Einstein of earthbending, with many years down the road they have many scientist learning using his work in the modern era but not all of them are gonna be on his level. Toph, and crew are still the best at what they do, but at least more of the general populace of access to their knowledge (well except Aang’s stuff). They seem to apply their bending to other fields too (like just powering a power plant) other than just beat the crap out of someone, but honestly most only care if they beat the crap out of someone.
There is more variety because the era of peace has made the flow of information very fluid. Skills and abilities that were rare and perhaps exclusive to certain goups or people are now common practice. This is actually what we saw occur in real life with skilled trades and particular lines of work being very elusive and"focused"when it came to who was able to learn them. Another example is the FGC, we have a bigger pool of talent compared to the days in SF2 since the flow of information is more spread out but it doesnt mean the top guys back in the day are any less then the top guys presently playing.
We also have to look at the application for bending back in TLA to TLK, in the past the bending was almost entirely for war time while in TLK it is for work and sporting events. Considering how korra and her entire group have been easily KO’ed by glorified foot soilders for nearly the entire season I’d feel inclined to say TLA had far superior bending. Besides I have yet to see any bending feats on TLK to really give me a sense that anyone on this show is either above or on par with the old cast.
I think Korra’s shown enough waterbending to be compared to Katara, sans the blood bending. I’ve never seen katara shootout of the water via a whirlpool like Korra did. Aang did…while in Avatar state.
They did nerf the lightning though, when it was first introduced in TLA, I thought it would be a 1 shot kill kinda skill, but it’s not that strong anymore.
Well in TLA, they never quite faced this many chi-blockers before. Anytime they faced Ty Lee, they always lost. Good thing Ty Lee wasn’t there to really hurt them like these chi-blockers. This is why I think the talent of Korra’s group is better than the talent of Aang’s group. Aang never really showed any awesome bending skills outside of his avatar state. Even in the Ozai fight, Aang was doing basic stuff, until he went Dark Phoenix on Ozai.
I do agree that they don’t show as much EPIC and creative bending like in TLA, then again Aang’s crew had 3 seasons to show off. Also the fact that they are in a city most of the time, they had to be a bit more cautious.
I think bolin can definitely go nuts and just keep throwing boulders like Toph did, but that would destroy the city. Or Mako can do some Zuko fire ship shit and some breakdance firebending, but that would burn the city. or Katara can just take all the water from the rivers and keep hosing opponents out, but that would drown the city.