What the fuck… How is it 15 years of avatar
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next yr is the 15th anniversary.
It ran from 2005-2008.
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Point still stands. I was barely out of hs when it premiered. I didn’t realize it til now
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I might need to cop this. Let’s hope its better then the previous release and has a digital copy too.
I own it digitally on iTunes. I might get this for collectors and sentimental value though.
My deep hatred of steel books for media and the irony of me wanting this does most escape me.
It wasn’t bad by any means. But for me there were way more missed than hits. Shit felt constantly rushed, ex machina’s everywhere, interesting characters or relationships didn’t get fleshed out enough, characters that seemed they’d be important just being one offs etc.
The Equalists from Season 1 and the Red Lotus society from SE3 were phenomal antagonists but they just rushed everything and left you more confused that satisfied. Zaheer was an amazingly well written villain though. He is the biggest highlight of Korra for me. Henry Rollins absolutely owned that character and made it his own.
The Season 2 Arc should have been awesome but everything just felt…boring. Also The story of how bending was discovered and how the first avatar came to be could have been an entire series on its own but it was rushed and explained in 2 episodes. That pissed me off so much.
Season 4’s arc just felt uneventful when it came to the all the previous arcs. They did what they could to make it feel like it mattered but it just didn’t, imo.
It was just too much too fast. Nickelodeon nor the creators and writers gave it time to breath and stretch its arms when it came to lore and world building like TLAB. Which was desperately needed because despite it being the same universe it may as well had been an entirely different one since it was what? 50 years after Aang and the original team avatar?
They just told you and moved on.
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Ohhhhh I see. Man, people take shipping way too far. It becomes more about the ship than the show.
Started watching Adventrues of the Gummi Bears on Disney+. It is so good to hear the vocies of Lorenzo Music and June Foray again. I’ve always loved the medieval setting of this show. I wondered if Gummi Bears had any influence on Gargoyles and Greg Weisman confirmed during one of the commentaries of the five part Awakening that it did.
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Shipping ruined adventure time.
How so?
Around season 4 is when things changed. At work but I will come back to this.
Yeah cuz the shipping that did happen from what I remember didnt overtake the show. The lesbian shipping was random, Finn and the princess never got together which was the only shipping I knew people wanted. But I never followed the Fandom like that
Flame Princess was where things started to change. They pushed her but it didn’t work out. (There’s was a good amount of episodes around their relationship) He had a few other love interests later into the show but I somewhat fell of until the finale. The lesbian Bubblegum/Marceline felt forced and more swayed by fans than a natural progression within the story.
in hindsight, I suppose it’s what you could expect from a kid that is going through his awkward teen growth. Having said that, I jsut wanted to show to focus on fun adventuring. I got it but…near the end, it felt like it was less about Finn becoming a cool hero. Maybe I am nitpicking but some characters got to much focus and some should have gotten more.
Avatar fandom was the same way. It showed in the writing on Korra. I swear half that show was for the shippers.
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@hawkingbird That was one of my main issue with Season 4 because the main ship came out of fucking no where. It made absolutely no sense but we were just supposed to accept it for what it is and be happy we got it.
The people involved didn’t bother me. I thought that was awesome and great to show kids and young adults. Just how it happened was done very poorly cause they blind side you with it.
As for Adventure Time shipping—it honestly never bothered me. How they introduced them was random but then they built upon them and expanded them so they actually made sense.
I’m all for LGBT relationships and unconventional relationships being in programming. Especially cartoons for kids and young adults.
I actually didn’t think that ship came put of no where at all.
Maybe I need to watch Korra again. Cause it definitely felt like it was out of no where.
It didn’t seem out of no where to me because it was the culmination of her strongest and most supportive relationship in the show. That character was always there for her every time. The romantic feelings may have been a sudden development to the viewer, but they seemed a fairly logical conclusion to me.
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that’s why I like the graphic novel continuations because the first or second book (I can’t remember. Been awhile) deep dives that shit
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Korra wasn’t random. They waited til the finale to do it too. So I dunno why people had issue with it
Adventure time shipping didn’t distract from the show for me. Everything else did, bad placement of new episodes… Weird ass pacing. Alot of extra shit I had issues with. They weren’t being consistent with it production for W. E reason.
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The biggest issue I had with it they didn’t commit to it when the trigger was pulled. Those two staring at each other eyes didn’t scream hook up to me. I know the comic fixes that but I ain’t reading those.
Are you not alone. I thought it came out of nowhere too.
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I thought they commited to it as best they could for a childrens show by a big network that doesn’t want to piss off parents. The Comic simply did what the show probably couldnt.
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