I don’t disagree. My opinion on the matter is the same as Po Pimpus. I feel those fans are over thinking the matter.
Seems like the dragon teaching Wan how to fire bend just flew over some people’s heads.
Although I liked that episode, I was kinda distracted by the art style…I get that they are going for like an ancient scroll art style, but they coulda animated it for real instead of like that.
Hopefully this episode finally “fixed” Korra once and for all
So when the avatar dies does Ravaa pick the next avatar?
Wow, that was the best thing that they’ve put out since ATLA ended.
Beginning part 1 and 2 might be my favorite episodes of either series. I also loved the different art style they used for them, the mix of heavy comic book style outlining with the asian water color style was easy on the eyes.
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So I’m convinced the show will culminate in Korra warning Unalaq about releasing the dark spirit, and he ignores her doing exactly that and Korra will have to fight Vatu. That or Unalaq will somehow try to merge with the dark spirit.
There is still the issue of how exactly the animals learned to bend in the first place.
Now that I see the true depth of douchebaggery in Korra’s uncle, The events in the story seem much more dire.
Great episode, no doubt hints towards what this season is heading toward although, even just on its own it told a great bittersweet story about the first Avatar and how he and the cycle came to be.
Not really, how does a bear know to rub a tree to scratch itself or a dog know to bite? Some stuff is just natural, not to mention a bunch of the animals seemed so related to spirits they were difficult to tell which was which without them transforming into dark ones or talking.
The morale of the story. Lion Turtles are badass. They can make benders out of anybody. Maybe even someone who has other elements. I wonder what the one that Aang encountered did to him.
I see the Lion Turtles more like Prometheus essentially. Even though they were the first ones to give out the power of the elements, it was the rest of humanity that began to learn to to use the powers of the elements themselves after the gift was given. Then this can be further explained by the spirit animals of their respective elements as ways of improving their bending. Remember that one of the Lion Turtles was like “yeah we are going to stop giving you hand outs.” so I am pretty sure the few people that still had their bending had to adapt by learning other methods from spirit animals.
Overall I was quite pleased with a double-whammy of episodes explaining the origin of the Avatar.
Dang this episode was hella sexy, a brilliant change of pace, Wan made for a very likable main character.
With his orange & blue clothes while riding on a cloud I couldn’t help but be reminded of Goku :lol:
Now I’m kinda sad we have to go back to Korra and co…
Avatar Wan too badass.
This episode is the best of the series. The artwork and the characters and even the way they told the origins of Wan was all superb. I forgot how OP the lion turtles are and how cool it is to travel by flying bison.
But I was a bit confused when one of the past avatars told korra the lineage would end if she died now. I thought it would just transfer to another person.
They have shown before with Aang that you can sever your connection to the Avatar state either through massive damage on the body [Azula hitting Aang in the back] or apparently in Korra’s case losing one’s memories. Since Korra didn’t have a strong connection to the spirit world, getting forgetting how she was the Avatar was probably enough to trigger the power loss.
Not your connection to the avatar state, but dying in the avatar state because that is when your avatar spirit is out and when you are at your most vulnerable. That dark spirit was infecting her avatar spirit which in turn would destroy the cycle.
It was a cool origins story but I have some mixed feelings about it. Since ATLA, I was under the impression that the Avatar was the incarnation of the spirit of the planet itself. But it turns that some guy just bonded with the spirit of light and peace, and just took it upon himself to “bring balance to the world”. I thought that mission came from something deeper like divine providence or something.
It was cool to see how bending elements originated, and makes full circle with how the Avatar can take bending away.
I wonder if there is some way to separate Raava from an avatar, like touching the purple ray that appears in the harmonic convergence.
Hey guys? You ever wonder if the characters knew how to fight if they were in a situation where they couldn’t bend? Like with the chi blockers in season 1 and Ty Lee in the first series in their faces, they should have been SOMEWHAT able to handle themselves, but what did they do? They tried easily disrupted/deflected point-blank bending instead of just physical attacks like simple jabs and elbows. I think all they know are the forms, with no knowledge that the moves are used in hand to hand combat. Kinda like how you can easily body a tai chi user unless they were also taught that it’s more than just an exercise. I know, kinda late, but watching Wan try to fight the lesser spirits in the Air village made me thing about it.
Well, all of their styles for simple bending are derived from existing martial arts, and a lot of their attacks do involve actual punches and kicks, so they likely know how, even if they’re up close game won’t be as good as the chi blockers.
I wonder if the dark spirit is released, could he merge with someone to create a Dark Avatar?
Wan’s story started off to be a bit boring, but overall it got better and ended very well in Part 2. Now going by the screencap of Bolin and Asami sulking together, the next episode will most likely focus on them while Mako’s working on exposing Varrick (hopefully).
Back to Wan though, he was an interesting character. Very likable and gave us a nice break from Korra.