There’s no way we could know that as the only time we ever saw it was during Sozin’s Comet and it just so happened to be Ozai, the one person we had not really seen fight.
I doubt Ozai was just “oh shit I can shoot fire from my feet to propel myself through the air” randomly during Sozin’s Comet. He probably knew how to do it before. Also Iroh uses continuous streams of fire from his hands. when he’s flying. If you watch Ozai and Aang’s fight, Ozai is the one that uses short bursts from his feet maybe 90% of the time when he’s chasing Aang in the air even though he can continuously fly.
Jump the shark? Really? If Korra achieved Avatar state earlier this season like say Episode 5 or something and reversed Amon’s bending sealing THEN it would’ve jumped the shark.
(Come back and the alerts are still screwing with me with regards to this thread. Ugh.)
About to multi-quote a bunch of crap, though I also remembered that I “have” to go back and multi-quote a bunch of crap between these episodes and last episode. That post will be a lot longer than this one.
Eh, maybe. I’d just rather not chance it considering where DBZ ended up going.
Cell Saga was partially rather shitty & needlessly drawn out too, but I’ll not get into that right now.
Starting out DBZ power levels would still potentially be a bit much considering Vegeta and Nappa were already destroying planets, unless we’re talking about Raditz, in which case that defeats the point of mentioning DBZ power levels at all.
Oh, I don’t think anyone who suggested DBZ is suggesting that Dragonball easily isn’t superior to Dragonball Z.
If they are, then they’re getting knee-capped.
Heh. I wonder what type of shark it would be given the weird chimera-esque animal almagams that inhabit the Avatar world.
Platypus shark? Tiger shark? Whale shark?
…Oh wait. Those last two already exist.
The bold part is what bothers me more than Asami getting fucked over since, even if she stayed with Mako, that doesn’t change the fact that her father actively tried to kill her this episode (for the first time). So she’s still be pretty fucked up just like Amon & Tarrlok with their terrible father.
It just really bugs me that Mako ended up being a colossal, cowardly ass about the whole affair when he didn’t have to…and then ends up getting rewarded for it. Yeah, that happens in real life too–way too often–and it’s not like I hate Mako now either, but that also doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Raditz is actually OP by most show’s standards, especially in something like avatar he would probably smack around the avatar state fairly easily…but yeah I do get what you mean about not making anyone on the show OP.
Also the tumblr for this show is insane, so many girls love amon now and hate mako lol.
(I’m not sure when I’ll get around to the aforementioned longer post though.)
Wait, what? Which of the writers didn’t come back for Legend of Korra? I know it’s been a while since Avatar first started–geez, 2006–and all, but this is the first time I’ve heard anything about this; not that I’ve been looking though.
Fixed.
DBZ generally tends to have a ridiculously powerful cast, which is why it’s equally absurd for most shows to bother competing. You can always make a more powerful show than DBZ, but that shit isn’t compelling. Gamebreakers and, furthermore, boring invincible heroes almost never are.
So basically that’s the point. I’d rather see someone who can reasonably stand up to the Avatar, but is a threat not because they’re almost as powerful, but because they’re far more cunning. That, to me, is far more interesting than “his power level is greater than mine!”
I am not surprised at all:
Amon ended up having a tragic backstory.
Amon ended up being good-looking underneath the mask.
The (female) fanbase was already basically divided in half over whether Mako “should” get with Korra or get/stay with Asami.
The resolution to that “shipping war” was really sudden and jarring even if you couldn’t really care less about it.
So basically the season finale was a perfect storm to fan the fires of fangirl idiocy in that respect.
The romance angle was the only thing I really hated of the finale. That hit that particular level far too neatly and far too cleanly save Mako dodging out on Asami instead of ending things like a man.
The Amon vs Korra fight did feel kind of a let down as did Aang spirit just activating the spirit bending via Avatar state in the last minutes but overall I liked it and I DVR’s last week episode so I watched everything in one go.
My hope is that next season Asami stays in the group, Mako gets a little more hardship thrown his way and Bolin learns metal bending. Also Tenzin’s kids have to show up, they were solid comedy relief.
The Fire Nation did something similar by removing all the water benders from the Southern Water Tribe during TLA. The result? Almost no water benders. Then when Korra comes along, she has no master to learn from. Plus, it was easy for the Fire Nation to come in and attack their tribe when they found out there was another water bender (When Katara was little and they took her mom instead).
Basically, even if kids are born with abilities, there aren’t masters to learn from and anybody who isn’t a prodigy could be taken down with ease. Amon’s attempts wouldn’t be fruitless.
Not sure why Tarlock kamikazed himself like that. Adult tarlock was a selfish ass hole and young tarlock was anything but hard. Seemed kinda out of character for him to do that.
Bit confused on how the second season is going to go and am a bit worried it “jumped the shark”. I mean basically the next season has to be mostly detached from this one unless they bring back Amon which wouldn’t do much good. I mean I’m not interested in the mako/korra/asami shit which is the only part they’ll be sure to continue. Korra pretty much got get out of jail free shit because “I R AVATAR!”, which wasn’t unexpected but they really should have ended the episode pretty much after get Amon exposed and forced her to go on some awesome spirit stuff in the spirit world to finally at the end of season 2 get avatar state and become a fully realized avatar. Would of been interesting having her deal with spirit monsters and possibly doing a deal with the devil type thing.
Honestly without leaving republic city and having some adventures as a fully realized avatar I don’t see what would be that interesting to watch. I mean why make a 14 episode mini-series when you could have left shit open and created a full 26 episode series with more depth. I R CONFUSED!
Because it was written as a 12 episode miniseries and then Nick Ordered more episodes after the fact. This was supposed to be all there was going to be hence why everything wraps up so nicely. It was supposed to be the end.
The world they inhabit can’t possibly only have Amon as the only problem it faces. We know crimes a pretty big problem in Repub City, that’s one angle they could easily look to for season 2.
If the writers are smart we’ll actually get to see an Avatar being a proper Avatar instead of doing more training shit. It just blows me away you guys wanna see more of stuff we’ve already seen.
Waterbending continues to be the most hax of all bendings. Apparently it can sub for energybending in a pinch. Only the avatar can master all elements, even though you only need one.
And my ship of Korra/Asami gets another obstacle in the way.
After the flashback, it made total sense for him to do that. He told Korra and Mako to “End this sad story.” Tarlock obviously knew broseph was up to no good and he himself was probably scared of being his father’s soldier again.
Well they ordered the remaining 14 before the show started airing(I think it was sometime last year) but Im guessing at that point season 1 had pretty much been completed.
[details=Spoiler] I think Tarrlok killed himself mainly so the sins of their father can finally die. Even he admitted that the ghost of their dad shaped him and Amon into what they are. They couldn’t help it. What if they had kids and shaped them into evil blood benders as well? He did what he had to do.
It was cool to see that tear in Amon’s eyes as he was steering the boat. Even he knew it had to end.
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Everyone bitching about season finale were raised by this man.
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In all seriousness I’m too lazy to make an in depth post but understand there’s a huge difference between not liking something and just being stupid. Just about everything that happened in episode 11 and 12 had a logical reason to happen the way it did within the context of the show, and like it or not this has been a fast paced show from the start, so if you’re surprised at how quickly things ended you have no one to blame but yourself.
All the episodes were great but 12 stood out as one of the most GDLK episodes of anything I’ve ever seen. The way things concluded IMO felt very true to the show’s core and the twists were genuinely surprising without coming off as if they existed only to shock audiences. Also the emotional plateau and payoff from each character was incredible.
This is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen due in no small part to the creators writing every episode which is the first time I’ve ever heard of it happening. Mad props to them for putting themselves under so much stress to deliver us something so special.
I just hope the romantic plot is over in season 2, fan girls are ruining this series with the idiot love plot…like seriously who cares about romance we all rather see action and real interesting story arcs. I just hope the writers stop with the shipping nonsense and get back to telling good stories people care about.
