“Do you ssmmeeellllllll what The Boulder is cooking?!” :lol:
I agree. A new series would be cool and all, but there’s still stuff they can. Why not show Aang’s life before he went missing like his friend Kuzon or him chilling with King Bhumi. Then there’s the explained Uncle Iroh trip to the Spirit World and him invading Ba Sing Se.
I’m really disappointed that they’re going to jump ahead 100 years. I know they’ll probably make a quality show, but at the same time it’s probably going to be a big missed opportunity.
I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that it would’ve been nice to see Aang grow up, become a fully realized avatar, and face newer and greater threats. Further, I doubt this new series, that is set 100 years later, will give us truly satisfying answers on questions like: How did Aang rebuild the air temples and repopulate the air nomads (remember, they’re necessary for the reincarnation cycle to continue)? What happened to Zuko’s mother? What’s the resolution to various romantic subplots? etc. etc.
They’re taking a big risk, but I suppose I should commend them for that. In an age overrun with sequels and remakes, it probably would’ve been the safe route to continue the series with Aang, but it may not’ve been the best route.
Loved the avatar around the time this thread was posted. I’m young, so that and DBZ were the only shows of it’s kind I got into. My favorite was Zuko; I always loved the fire attribute, whether it be in Pokemon or anything else.
New avatar’s a water bender I suppose? IIRC, the cycle goes earth, fire, air, then water.
100 years in the future?? I really want to know what happened to Azula. The girl was the biggest bad ass in the series and deserves more.
“Don’t flatter yourself. You were never even a player.”
I just noticed, but the only different element between Japanese five element theory and Aristotelian five element theory is the final element. (Emptiness in jp version, and aether in geek–uh I mean greek version.)
The series did actually include the fifth element from Japanese five element theory (the old meditating guy with the Indian accent, I forget wasshisname) and even explained why the show didn’t include it as one of the canonical four elements (importance of love and all that good stuff.) But it would have been interesting to have a bender who had gravity and vacuum manipulating abilities. Problem would be that it would have just been too broken. And what would his or her personality motif have been in the troupe? So Aang is carefree and wild, Kitara is gentle and understanding, Toph is stubborn, and Zuko is a firebrand. New vacuum bending character would be… Goth? Anti-social Marxist? Non-conformist political ax-grinder? And what would his country be called? The Vacuum Nation?
The idea of aether bending has potential though–you could say that aether bending is what Aang and all the other avatars have–control over the other four elements. The combination of the four elements for things like lightning bending is something the new show can go into more depth about. And maybe the new hero won’t be an avatar but finds a way to bend more than one element anyway.
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I can definitely see why they decided to skip 100 years in the future - they don’t HAVE to explain how the air nomads came back. They don’t have to make stronger opponents for Aang to go up against. There’s new people, so powers get reverted back.
Well the movie is close to coming out. Hopefully everyone is over Toy Story 3 and watches this movie instead.
It’s obvious why the air nomads came back; Aang and Kitara must have done a whole lotta… ‘bending’ with each other. wink, wink, nudge
But seriously, I can’t see how the Fire Nation was able to exterminate them in the first place. Wind bending seems pretty broken to me so the only way I see the Wind benders losing out is if they were all just a bunch of pacifist hippie monks.
No, water bending is broken. Blood bending or did we forget? Granted it was only under a full moon but knowing Kitara…
And since they want to fuck with the etnicities Toph should be a little black girl.
I suspect that they’ll make Toph asian, in an attempt to appease the disgruntled asian fans. Shyamalan mentioned that the people in Earth Kingdom were mainly asians with some blacks.
toph should be a lil blasian girl. an actress with toph’s sass is hard to find…unless your in the hood.
I knew there was a reason that I never listened to orochizoolander.
wonders if the Cabbage Merchant will be black
No…mustn’t…think…about…movie versions…
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Epic Troll Post.
I dunno, I still say wind bending is little bit more broken; if Aang were more the ruthless type I’m sure he could do all sorts of scary things with wind bending like sucking the air out of people’s lungs, create a total vacuum, use some sort of cutting wind blade attacks or just make a giant tornado or hurricane, etc.
Again, judging by the way Aang constantly owned Zuko using mainly defensive moves, I still can’t see how the air benders got wiped out by the Fire Nation.
I think of it as air and fire should be better for the average bender. You create your weapon whereas water benders sometimes don’t have water or earth benders don’t have land. But for the elite benders, water is best…given the right conditions. Hell, you can suck out the water from plants around you. Oh, and let’s not forget healing too.
Sozen’s Comet is a helluva drug.
Supposedly surprise attack and Aang says the air nomads didn’t have any formal military. I think it was mentioned in season 3, “The Headband.”
Yeah, water’s probably the most powerful overall between healing, plant manipulation and even blood-bending under the right conditions. That said, I still want to say that earth is actually the most powerful unless you’re on a wooden boat or in a zepplin or something just because earth is pretty much everywhere.
But, really, you should be able to do nasty crap with any of the four elements, though I still say fire’s weakest unless you’re a prodigy like Azula.
I think you’re underestimating both the power of sneak attacks and the air nomads’ dedication to pacifism; also doesn’t really help that the temples were rather isolated from each other with the Fire Nation attacking en masse.
I agree that air bender is quite powerful, especially given that it was the only one of the four for which we never saw the secondary power. However, by the time they actually started fighting back, even with their power (since Aang’s teacher’s skeleton was surrounded by a lot of fire nation mooks’ skeletons), they probably just got overrun, especially since the Fire Nation had machines too.
There’s also the factor that in Aang is simply probably better than most Air benders since he’s the Avatar. Remember how none of the other kids wanted to play with him after they found just why he was beasting them at the air ball technique? They felt he had an unfair advantage; they were right.
And Sozin, along with his massive army used the power boost from the comet to destroy the airbenders and dragon-install their collective foot into the asses of the other nations. NEVER forget what an advantage that comet makes for firebenders. People here seem to be forgetting that.