Water benders have the inherit weakness of needing water though. Earth Benders have their earth and metal easier since most fights are on land, and fire and air don’t need anything to do their bending. Yeah, water benders have blood bending, but only a few people actually know how to do it.
I don’t think they would need to see it but feel it, kinda like Toph discovered metalbending. Earthbenders also have sandbending.
Bloodbending is still not a common occurrence.
We don’t know yet if taming spirits is exclusive to watebenders.
I always wondered what kind of “secondary” abilities airbenders can learn, that will be up to the writers. I mean, I never expected to see lighting created from fire.
For those who want more of Aang, there’s some comics published by Dark Horse, currently dealing with searching Zuko’s mom
How it must have sucked for her to lay with Oozai and have his child.
At first I was trying to pinpoint where I’ve heard Eska’s voice…then at the end of the episode I just realized it’s Aubrey Plaza! lol. now the character makes more sense
i just forgot that waterbenders
I was thinking fire was op until that one episode when the kids met Hama. Waterbenders can condensation bend.
I don’t think Airbending will ever be that crazy because the airbenders are too peaceful to ever do some shit like that.
Oh sweet, the videos are up on Nick pretty quickly. The only drawback though is I don’t think it’s in the super sharp HD they put it on for the first run. I’ll just keep leaving work a little early to make Korra I guess every week. At some point when the season is over I’ll have to download everything in HD and add it to my Avatar collection. I have all of the first series of course.
The quality of animation is really nice for this series. I think it’s worth watching it and then looking for an HD torrent afterwards and then watching the entire series through. The music is very nice at times as well.
Korra herself kind of sucks as a character. Mako is pretty bad too. Honestly so far the series is not very good overall. I am hoping they step it up going forward, as the first series didn’t really take off until we got Azulah, Toph and the other more interesting characters. Zuuko started off as a crappy character, and although he never truly became great he was a good contrast to Iroh and allowed the rest of the cast to play off of him, moving the plot forward nicely.
I doubt they’ll do this, but Korra needs to be de-emphasized at some point. I would much rather Tenzen’s daughter turn out to be the real avatar, and Korra herself just winds up being a fake, a sort of glitch in the system, and that’s why she can’t connect with the spirit world well and can’t master all four elements. In fact it seems what “mastery” she does have is superficial. I would prefer Korra die at some point for storyline purposes, possibly turning Mako into an evil character and making things more interesting. Or Mako and her can both die, that’d probably actually be a better use of both of them.
I also really wanted to see someone else show up once that actually mastered all four elements but wasn’t the avatar, as I don’t really know why everyone else is restricted to just one element. It should just be extremely difficult to do and be a once in a millennium type talent, but there should be people with so much skill that they can use a few elements. Anyway I hope interesting things start happening, they can do a lot of things.
Finally got around to watching the episode and it was great. I like creepy twin girl and Brolin more as a couple than Korra and Mako. They are great together. I like that the new Bumi inherited the insanity of his namesake. I hope to see more of him as he seems like a fun character.
[spoiler=]Fucking Korra’s uncle bring the crusade with him. I had a feeling he’ll turn out to be zealot.[/spoiler]
You are asking for a lot of things that are not gonna happen. Anyway, a new avatar can’t be of the same element as the one before him/her.
I would have liked for Korra to have lost her powers and be more humble out of depression. Would have been much more interesting.
Its obvious Tenzin’s daughter has the highest connection to the Spirit World than anybody else. Since the uncle is shitty I suspect they’ll learn how to tame the spirits on their own.
I still thought the idea of Korra not being the “real” avatar is totally out of the realm. Look at the situation. Its inevitable she would be disconnected spiritually compared to the other Avatars.
Not to mention Korra not being the “real” avatar will completely fuck up the cycle. This isn’t a series that plays it’s mythos fast and loose.
She’s supposed to be the opposite of aang, so having her be more brash and direct makes sense. It follows the cycle of all the past avatar’s personalities. Though I agree she’s to full of herself at times.
I’d go Waterbenders>Airbenders>Firebenders>Earthbenders.
Even with the inherent weakness of needing Water, Katara alone has shown a decent amount of ways to work around that limitation as have others. And the insane amount of abilities, including the most broken ability in the show so far in Bloodbending makes Waterbenders hard to deal with.
Airrbenders are insanely tough to hit and have nearly as much freedom of attack as Waterbenders do. And Gyatso was the only Airbender so far to show (offscreen and assumed at least) the absolute danger of Vacuums. Plus needing air isn’t exactly a limitation.
Firebenders, no limitation of needing the element (technically same limitation as Airbending, both need Air, Fire would die with no Oxygen). Also has the extremely deadly Lightningbending. However Lightningbending has a built in counter courtesy of Iroh that anyone can do (maybe, we’ve only seen Firebenders do it and we’ve only really seen it USED against Firebenders) and it’s an extremely straightforward style. They aren’t going to win from versatility but from sheer power.
Earthbenders are last, but they’re not scrubs. They do essentially have the biggest limitation if one hasn’t learned Metalbending. Attacks are for the most part even more straightforward and they’re slow. Relies on brute strength.
Of course this is all opinion, plus none of it is taking into account things like the arena of battle. Earthbenders are fearsome in an enclosed arena. Good luck fighting a Waterbender in its element. Airbenders in an open field are nigh impossible to hit.
Oh shit, Monk Gyatso was that dude. To date, he’s the baddest non-Avatar Airbender we’ve ever seen. It took a whole platoon of trained Firebenders to take him down and none of them got to tell the tale.
Waterbenders have some broken powers, but judging off of Gyatso’s implied strength*(even Fire Lord Azulon had concerns about invading his temple)*, an Airbender that decides to fight back is a deadly force to be reckoned with…
Nah, not asking for anything, just stating random ideas to make things interesting. The show right now really needs to do something, and with this being confirmed to be the end of the Avatar series, there is no need to keep the cycle going either.
There’s also the difficulty in pinning down the mythos and rules of a series to begin with. Generally we are only given that information piece meal from a third wall/third person perspective. The characters that give us that information don’t necessarily know the rules set out in their universe, they are frequently using speculation and have gaps in their own knowledge. That’s why it’s very difficult to actually argue what canon is supposed to be. I’m somewhat of a writer myself, I always throw in misinformation and gaps because I think that’s effective writing. I want my reader to piece together things themselves and not take the characters thoughts as gospel, I want active readers not passive ones. Part of that is probably because I used to read detective stories as a kid and a lot of similarly themed short stories (it’s common in crime themed stories), and probably an even bigger part is from my trial lawyer experience, where it became very obvious to me very quickly that witnesses and actors in any situation remember things very differently, even though they aren’t intentionally trying to. I did study up on the psychology for that, but the conclusion I wound up coming to is it just happens.
When you’re putting together a case you have to understand this, and generally you’re going to have to piece together things from different perspectives and available information. Then it’s really just a theory on your part, a few theories, and you push what you think is the most favorable and believable, and not necessarily what you think really happened.
So when I see a show or a work of fiction, I like to usually see some build up, a few different perspectives, and then I want to see what actually does happen when rubber meets the road. So what happens if Korra dies? Does the cycle really end? Does the Avatar go to someone else? Do the elements get thrown out of balance? I don’t know, but I know there are possibilities and it can be anything. And after we find out what does happen, we can go back and figure out who is right, who is wrong, what the actual theory was and now is, and then wonder how it can further branch and build off of it.
But if nothing happens I just get bored 
The season opener felt empty and lackluster. Korra is on dumb PMS bitch status now. Spiritbending seems meh, but the fact that a waterbender can use it adds to the fact that waterbending’s derivatives (bloodbending, thermodynamic control) makes it OP as fuck.
on top of it being possible to take away bending i forgot they could make you fry or freeze to death just by changing the temperature of the blood.
Notice Korra’s uncle wasn’t shown using actual waterbending… Maybe he can only Spiritbend?
They could bend the water within plant life. The waterbenders in the swamp were able to control the vines there. Hama taught Katara how to drain the water out of plants and convert the hydrogen in the air into water. If Waterbenders started the 100 year war the world would have been fucked.
I think that would fall under Bloodbending.
I wanna be a fan of Mako, I really do; purely because I think he has that much potential to be such a cool character but he sucks.
EDIT: I fucking love me some Aubrey Plaza.