i think you guys are looking into it too much. the equalists are trained to take out benders. they have schools. they work in secrecy. benders are researched and probably documented. they take out benders easily because for the most part that is what they are living for.
doesn’t matter if you’re stronger if the other person/faction does their homework. its why fart boy a teen girl squad won… came in with an x-factor…
and the much more obvious answer is that is just how script writing goes. TLA crew didn’t fight every episode, and most of their threats weren’t all that crazy. the fight scenes weren’t choreographed by the crew they have now, but since now you have people like desean working on the animation and probably better screen writers directing how the scenes go, they realize that there needs to be a flow to a fight scene and to the story. a equalist will get the upperhand on korra or mako not necessarily because they are weaker benders than the TLA crew, but because a good fight scene needs to make your enemies a threat in order to keep up suspense. there needs to be some back and forth in fights, not just a quick resolution because their animation team was limited. they don’t just take the easy way out and they give their fights some value.
this crew is much more visually appealing because they have been able to pull more top tier talent than their first work had. but what that means is that you aren’t going to get some solve all answer to fights or just beast mode to take out crews of bad guys in one cost effective low budget blow. fights go through processes, drama is elevated, action is more intense. these are things that the first team wasn’t great at, but now they have the talent to do all these elaborate fights scenes and enhance your experience. instead of hiding their shortcomings and limitations, they are making it a focus and delivering a feast for your eyes and heart.
has nothing to do with who is stronger or why someone is better or war or whatever… they now have a godlike budget and godlike talent to give you a product that is much more entertaining visually now than they did in the first series.
And this is why Stephen Seagal’s, and to a lesser degree, that famous dead guy (yeah, I fuckin’ implied it) movies are boring…I don’t want to watch some invincible fucker steamroll everybody in his way like it was Tuesday for him. Give me a Jackie Chan flick any time. I want a hero who takes his lumps, but still manages to win, not some shit where with a few high-pitched cries, and nary a hair out of place until the last boss, the hero destroys all before him, and can’t be touched. Vulnerable heroes are the shit.
lol, and here I thought I was critical. Seriously why not just sit back and enjoy the show? Must everything be over analyzed? As if ty-lee didn’t beat benders on a consistent basis in TLA, I mean she single handedly defeated a group of highly trained benders designed to defend ba-sing sei, heck even sokka beat up some fire nation dudes during the course of the show.
bruce lee movies were displays of talent that hollywood wanted to cash in on. nothing more. i actually enjoy his invulnerability in movies and TV and wished it were real hahaha
Each to his own I guess, but I rather watch Donnie Yen and Jet Li movies than Jackie Chan. Jackie usually(sometime he does) never fights another top-level opponent and beats up goons 90% of the time. In Donnie Yen/Jet Li movies, although they’re invulnerable to goons, there’s usually a few people on their level that’ll give them a good fight.
Naga was like “WELCOME TO EARF!” to the moustachioed guy.
WIN! :tup:
The fact that Lin just lost her bending means that it isn’t permanent. A tweenage show like this isn’t going to have The Wire’s level of conviction when it comes to tragedy.
Lin at least went out awesomely.
I found the Air Bender kids owning Amon’s chi blocker goons to make sense. Seriously, none of them have Air Bender experience and Air Benders are extremely fluid in combat… like chi blockers.
Speaking of which, Tenzin’s use of Airbending is quite dope. I enjoyed his scenes a lot, esp. the sleep gas redirect with an air aura.
Mako rechanneling lightning whilst being shocked was also cool, every other scene with lightning rechanneled has always been without getting hit. It looked like it took extra focus to do that.
To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if Lin losing her bending was permanent. Looking passed what’s been shown on the show it seems as though she lost her opportunity of building a family of her own in pursuit of her career. Ultimately I think losing her bending will allow her to focus on the aspects of her life she put on hold due to feeling honor bound to carry on her mother’s legacy.
I finally got around to seeing the episode today. Mako forgetting he has a girlfriend in pretty funny. Im sure there will be a moment when Asami turns on them and hates benders because Mako a bender broke her heart for another bender. I hope Korra goes into the avatar state during the season finale because I have been waiting on it. I hope Zuko’s kid is as good of a firebender as his father was. Tenzin was pretty cool this episode.
you’re obviously not seeing what i’m talking about.
not every fight needs to be a miniboss, but when we just start expecting our heroes to be infallible until they come up to a mini-boss or main boss is about as anti-climatic as you can get. every fight needs the hero to feel some pressure to win, and a great fight needs a good back and forth. punching bags don’t make for compelling watching… there is no real explanation for why benders are getting owned by non-benders except that it keeps you believing that the equalists are a legitimate threat. if all the non benders just got mollywopped every time the showed up, when they tried to take over the world, you’d scoff at them and claim it was retarded of them to even try.
it isn’t about the level of competition, its about understanding that these enemies, no matter how minor, pose some sort of a threat. its why i got mad at the guy talking about how dumb korra was because she punched ice when fighting tarlok instead of building a rock wall instantly. no matter how it happened, korra was going to have to take a hit, whether it was by her own stupidity or by tarlok pulling off a good move. if korra just beat on tarlok mercilessly until he pulled a trump card, it would be cheapened if tarlok didn’t show that he at least posed a threat to korra on a somewhat equal level. not only would you have a stupid ending, you’d also have a horribly boring fight scene.
jackie chan doesn’t always fight people you believe can beat him, but in every fight scene they hit him. they usually hit him alot. you, as a viewer, know he isn’t going to lose, but you know that it isn’t going to be easy, which makes it compelling. the struggle is compelling. the idea of not being completely invincible is compelling. you know the star is going to win based on some 4th wall shit, but you don’t want that win to be a cake walk, no matter how small the fight is.
like if every fight moustache guy just got polar bear dog slapped around, you wouldn’t think he was shit… even the single instance of him getting dispatched with ease and dude is catching shit from it. when he was holding his own or even owning up EVERYONE, no one thought that dude was a joke… as soon as he gets rejected like it was nba jam, dude feels like a scrub and its hard to take him seriously.
haha I actually agree with you in regards to the show. Korra is always at risk of losing to an equalist, which is awesome.
I was just commenting about martial arts movies in general, I just like top-tier martial artist movies instead of jackie chan flicks.
i have no idea what the convo is about…im just throwin that out there hahah. he has had a couple questionable hong kong stuff but thats super late in life. ugh…the medallion doesnt exist.
Man, the threads for these shows always follow the same pattern. A couple days after the show airs we get useful discussion and funny posts. Then it devolves into arguing and walls of text until the next week.
