Avatar: The Legend of Korra - Book 4

Soldier_Zero · July 24, 2011, 11:33pm

Sweet. She looks like Katara.

Gasaraki · July 25, 2011, 1:27am

I don’t consider episodes that give you character insight to be filler. I mean the few stupid episodes like that theater episode near the end. I can’t recall many examples because it’s been a long time since I watched the show. I just remember the first season having some episodes I didn’t see much point on.

ViciousSLASH · July 25, 2011, 1:33am

The theater episode was the best one. So was the beach one. You peoples is DUMB.

savaii64 · July 25, 2011, 1:45am

Dont cut nothing out. This is one animated series where I actually enjoyed every episode.

kkslider · July 25, 2011, 1:47am

This show was excellent. The earth season was Godlike, one of the best arcs I’ve ever seen an American company put together. The last season turned into a dissapointing over-romanticized fan masturbating garbage. A lot of ends seemed too hastily tied as well, maybe because of Iroh’s voice actor passing away-but that’s no excuse to change the involvement of a central character.

Gasaraki · July 25, 2011, 1:55am

I didn’t say to cut anything out of the previous seasons. Just that I hope this next one is JUST content.

specs · July 25, 2011, 2:12am

I love Avatar, but more than just a few episodes needed to disappear. “The Painted Lady” comes to mind right away.

/sigh

Hawkingbird · July 25, 2011, 5:22am

Tales of Ba Sing Se episode was filler. It was just a collection of short character centric stories. It was still great though.

Hawkingbird · July 25, 2011, 6:39am

Here’s some info. Apparently I goofed. Bolin and Mako ain’t Zuko’s kids. I apologize for the misinformation

http://lytherus.com/2011/07/24/finally-the-last-airbender-the-legend-of-korra-comic-con-exclusives/

My ‘main event’ at Comic-Con was defintely the Legend of Korra panel which I waited four hours for. It seems Nickelodeon finally decided to throw us Last Airbender fans a bone this year at the San Diego Comic-Con. Not only did we get to see an amazing trailer, but detailed concept art and a lot of information regarding the upcoming series. First, well start with the key-points they unloaded on us:
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[]The new time period takes place 70 years after Aang and his allies restored peace to the world.
[]A core theme in the show is airbender spirituality.
[]The art direction and animation has been vastly improved [the trailer we saw looked phenomenal] with sophisticated style to character design and changes in proportions [they even made a comment about how the heads of the characters in the original show were pretty large].
[]They really wanted Korra to be different from Aang in personality such that “Aang never would have said this” and “never would have done this”.
[]Korra is from the water tribe, and they wanted her to look somewhat like a tomboy, a tough, rugged, snowboarder look [and she does, they even had their own live cosplayer for Korra at the beginning of the panel].
[]Korra already knows water, fire, and earth bending, and will be training to learn airbending from Tenzin, Aang and Katara’s son [who actually looks pretty old].
[]Korra is 17, and most of the new characters are older than the characters from the original show’s main cast.
[]Republic City [the main setting of the show] is a modern metropolis sort of city. There are benders of all elements living with non benders in a sort of ”melting pot of different cultures”. Aang and Zuko founded the city after the war.
[]Part of Team Avatar are two brothers from a multicultural family where one brother is a fire bender, and the other is an earth bender. Mako is the older, brooding (but not as much as Zuko) firebending brother while Bolin is the younger earthbending and goofier brother [I would imagine he’s probably going to be something like the new Sokka].
[]The show has a sort of 1920s jazz age, Shanghai concept. Kind of as if China had invented the jazz age.
[]There is a sleuth of new creatures, such as a bipedal polar bear dog [Korra’s has one of these as a companion, her name is Naga]. Naga is “awesome and kicks a lot of butt”.
[]Another creature is a tiny red panda headed, black footed ferret hybrid. Bolin has one of these fire-ferrets named Paboo.
[]There is a different species of flying bison similar to Appa. The horns, tail, and patterns differ from Appa. Apparently Aang “found a herd of them on an island after the war”.
[]A new species of flying lemurs also appear in the new series however you “don’t see too much of them in the first 12 [episodes".
[]They may have accidentally revealed that there is going to be another 14 episodes after the originally announced 12, totaling 26!!
[]As Korra is the new Avatar, she is Aang’s reincarnation; therefore she is not related to Aang.
[]Aang and Katara had three kids, one being Tenzin.
[]Tenzin is a serious guy but can be funny with his kids. He tries to be a zen master but sometimes loses his patience [personally, I think he might have a personality similar to The great swordsmaster Piando, who trained Sokka, but don’t quote me on that, its just my own speculation].
[]Pema, a non-bender and Tenzin’s wife, is currently pregnant with her fourth child. Her two girls and one boy are all airbenders and can be a handful.
[]Genora is Tenzin and Pema’s oldest bookworm daughter. Ikki is another daughter who “talks a mile a minute” and is “super funny and crazy”.
[]The Equalists are a group anti-benders. Their revolutionary leader, Oman, is a creepy masked guy who is dark and super sinister with a slight steampunk influence.
[]His henchmen are expert “chi-blockers” from an ancient order cloaked in secret. They are combating the forces of Republic City [they look really badass with a steampunk looking gas-mask-type headgear].
[]They introduced the police force of Republic City to be “metalbender cops”. They are an ELITE SWAT-type group of earthbenders upholding peace in the city. Toph, being the first ever metalbender, traveled the world after the war teaching earth benders how to harness this ultimate ability. [They also showed us this amazing concept art of Korra fighting three metalbender cops. The art was spectacular].
[]Toph’s daughter [!!!] Bei Fong is the chief of police of Republic City [they refused to name the father at the panel…].
[*]There is a crazy sport in the city known as “pro bending” [seems like a *UFC meets Avatar kind of sport]. There are teams of three benders in an elemental arena battling wherein the entire city comes to watch. [They made a note during the panel that they spent hours writing rules for the sport].
[]The fighting style of the show is going to be similar to the original, but they added “tricking” which they described to be similar to parkour. [In the video they showed, they had martial artists and mixed martial artists performing the various fighting styles, they look pretty awesome].[/LIST]

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maxx · July 25, 2011, 6:57am

PAUSE…HOLD UP?! TRICKING IS IN AVATAR?! I DO THIS SPORT.

my friends just threw one of the biggest gatherings for tricking in the world. this is hella dope to hear its involved with the show.

maxx · July 25, 2011, 7:15am

this is a battle between two tricker friends of mine…the taller one was the actor who played rinzler in tron legacy. its crazy that this sport has been underground for so long and now we’re kinda taking off alot.
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Stuart_Hayden · July 25, 2011, 7:18am

Avatar had no filler. Which was awesome. All the “filler” from the Tunnel of Lovers, the Library. Saka becoming a sword master and the previously mentioned Beach (also one of my favorite episodes.) and the Play episodes mattered by end of the series. Which is what makes the series so great.

The_Damned · July 25, 2011, 12:15pm

(Must not get hype. Must not get hype. Must not get hype…)

Excellent. Information is actually coming out on this now. I was somewhat afraid something that had happened to this. [/not jinxing shit]

Thanks, Hawkingbird.

…I can’t believe specs didn’t call you on this BS either.

There were only 3 seasons, so what in the nine Hells are you blathering about here?

kkslider · July 25, 2011, 12:17pm

oops. I was thinking of the four elements, and forgot there wasn’t an “air” season, my bad. The point still stands.

specs · July 25, 2011, 7:42pm

I read it, I just didn’t figure it was worth it. Trying to embrace my inner peace.
EDIT - Which totally failed when I saw his post in another thread. kkslider is an idiot; don’t waste your time replying to him.

Also, you MUST get hype. Korra is hype-worthy.

SWBeta · July 28, 2011, 2:41am

Subscribing to thread, even though the Alerts system is fucked up for me.

Legend of Korra trailer looked siznick. Like her much more than any character from the first series. Except Uncle Iroh.

MrQuotes · July 28, 2011, 2:57am

I’m damned hype about this too. Korra looks not to fuck around.

Grimmjow316 · July 28, 2011, 3:01am

Ooh I’m hype for this series also The duke is toph’s husband I bet.

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The_Damned · July 28, 2011, 4:27am

(Lol. The Duke. I’m…trying to remember which kid that was again. I wonder how many people think it’s Sokka…)

With regards to the setting, I must say that for some reason I’m really liking the idea of sharply dressed, 1920s-esque firebenders. Then again, I guess the firebenders were always “sharply dressed” considering how pointy Ozai and the Fire Lords before him made their military uniforms.

Yes, I gathered as much. Still.

Then again, you are a busy person and even someone with my free time at present can’t spend all day correcting ignorant, especially since something will always be wrong on the Internet and some (read: most) people will always be stupid.

Oh, it’s that I don’t want to “get hype”. It’s just that I view hype as pretty much always a bad thing because it either leads to disappointment or people act like entitled idiots, like all the people cursing out that poor person who gained no benefit from putting up the video personally just because the camera was a little fuzzy. Sometimes both since “fan” is short for “fanatic” after all.

Don’t get me wrong. I expect good things from the series, especially after that preview, but I want to take things as they come.

The Alerts system is fucked up for everyone. I’m still trying to figure out what’s the key aspect that makes it fuck up, but given that I’m not into most types of programming…

El_Maiz · July 28, 2011, 4:32am

One of my favorite shows. Apparently the movie was really bad though. Hope that doesn’t turn anyone away from watching the show.