dirtyyasuki
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Mar 24, 2012 0:28:11 GMT -5
Does anyone know why Katara appears much lighter in this series compared to her tone in the first series? Probably from a life lived in peace and contentment. Age does bring a certain perspective on life and death that youth doesn't give. That's just my opinion.
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Post by paku on Mar 25, 2012 1:40:37 GMT -5
Thoughts on the 2 released episodes? They can be found here: www.korranation.com/I must say I love the characters. Korra is awesome. Chief Bei Fong is great. Meelo is hilarious. My only complaint is with the way they capture the pro-bending. I don't like that it captures the beginning and ending of each move and the facial expressions of the characters; this is a lot more like traditional anime, but I really enjoyed the way they captured bending in the old series with more zoomed out views. EDIT: I just realized I should post this in the episode discussion section... transferring.
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Post by TML on Mar 25, 2012 1:59:09 GMT -5
2 episodes have been leaked!!!! I'm dying from happiness!!! I can't believe it!!!! ♥ About to watch it!!!!
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Post by paku on Mar 25, 2012 2:40:03 GMT -5
2 episodes have been leaked!!!! I'm dying from happiness!!! I can't believe it!!!! ♥ About to watch it!!!! XD yes! I guess it's a good thing I posted here after all lol! do share your reactions when youve finished.
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Post by TML on Mar 25, 2012 17:08:58 GMT -5
2 episodes have been leaked!!!! I'm dying from happiness!!! I can't believe it!!!! ♥ About to watch it!!!! XD yes! I guess it's a good thing I posted here after all lol! do share your reactions when youve finished. Yeah, you sure as hell did a great job.
My reaction to the first two episodes. I'll try not to spoil.
Once the intro began to the first episode, I felt a wave of happiness hit me. It's crazy to think that we've waited for this for around . . . 3 or 4 years? I love how they kept the intro similar to the last one. Except this time, I like that it's more . . .how should I put this? I'm glad that Bryke put more effort and, for the lack of a better word, serious. What I mean by serious is that it's not as . . . kid-ish. You can tell that they're trying to appeal not only to kids but to a bigger audience.
OMG THE FIRST EPISODE. I LOVE KORRA. Her personality is completely opposite to Aang!!! She's so vicious!! I love it!!! But there are a couple of things that I'm just like: " -_____- Aang would never do that." Like the whole thing with probenders, where she used earthbending when she was strictly told to just use waterbending. I hate the fact that the world knows that she's the avatar. It's like she's asking to get attacked.
Another thing that bugged me was when the protestor was yelling out his beliefs and she just let her ego get in her way. It's great that she's confident but she's needs to learn how to understand people like Aang did. SHE DOES MAKE EVERYTHING INTERESTING THOUGH .
Seeing Katara, I got watery eyed. It was just crazy to think about seeing Aang and the gang go through all of it and now. . . it's just insane. I don't know how to explain it. OMFG I WAS SO P1SSED OFF WHEN THEY DIDN'T SAY WHAT HAPPENED TO URSULA KJSFKLAJDFKLAJFKLJDAKL. I wanted to punch that little girl in the throat
The second episode, I was so happy it was available!!! idfhakfjkdajfklj XD
Now this one, it made me looooove Tenzin. how he tries to keep his composure with Korra
my new ship. . . MAKO + KORRA. OMG OMG OMG THE ENDING WAS ♥ ♥
lol Well yeah that was my reaction ^^;; I'd say more buuuut. . . another time. lol It's funny how much things have changed since then. I'm glad Bryke did this though.
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Post by Kohana on Mar 31, 2012 17:59:45 GMT -5
So a new trailer has been released. It contains some new (and shocking) footage:
They're doing major shipteasing in their commercials again. Seriously, Nick? Again?
EDIT: Found another newly released trailer:
Is that Amon energybending??? Whaaaat?
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Post by night on Mar 31, 2012 18:30:04 GMT -5
Shipteasing again, Bryke? I'm still mad about the Zutara CoD trailer.
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Post by KrystalFruit22 on Mar 31, 2012 18:52:07 GMT -5
Wait, when they say a whole week...does that mean the whole week is gonna be a giant avatar marathon with new Korra/ATLA stuff? or is it all on April 9?
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Post by Musogato on Apr 1, 2012 3:32:11 GMT -5
Wow, it really does look like Amon is energybending. How could he have learned about that, though? I thought only Avatars could do that. If that is what he's doing, doesn't that make him a Bender? Kind of weird to start a revolution against bending when he himself is one too. ......... Actually, that plus the hand-on-face thing really reminds me of Scar from FullMetal Alchemist. Which isn't a bad thing; he was a terrifying villain too. His Lieutenant is pretty dang scary as well. I thought it was only Bolin he put the sparky hurt on, but apparently he's spreading it around. D: I'm afraid I don't see where the shiptease is, though. Could someone point it out for me? .....Unless you guys are talking about the 'true love' line, which may have been included because Tenzin plays a prominent role in the sequel? I'm not sure how that's a tease though, but then I'm kind of oblivious when it comes to ship wars. ;; krystal, yeah, it sounds like it'll be an all week marathon with the new sneak peeks. I'm sure the Korra stuff will be added to Youtube as the week goes, though. Maybe Korra Nation will post some of it as well? Or some of the sneak peeks might be stuff that's already been seen on there, just like how many of the (KorraNation.com) Pai Sho secret pictures were character sheets/sketches shown at SDCC.
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Post by nandireya on Apr 1, 2012 6:41:05 GMT -5
I doubt Amon's using any form of bending. Besides, don't the Equalists chi block? And given that the Korraverse appears to have electricity, couldn't it have been weaponised into some kind of super taser chi blocker?
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Post by KrystalFruit22 on Apr 1, 2012 9:42:20 GMT -5
Idk about energy bending either, I thought it was sort of a power only the avatar could harness, I don't see it as being something any dude (not that Amon is just any dude, but still) can use casually to harm people. Maybe it's some combination of taser/Dai Li style brain washing thing. @muso: I missed the shipteasing at first too, but just pause the vid @0:21, it's only there for a split second, but Makko and Korra kiss. & that's weird, cuz when I looked at my TV's schedule for the 9th, they had some other show scheduled for 2 and onwards O.o. Maybe it's wrong and they haven't fixed it yet.
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Post by Kohana on Apr 1, 2012 10:52:37 GMT -5
caipirinha: Rofl. <3 @jade: re: shiptease: The shiptease is the Makorra kiss. I personally think it's way too wtf to be shown in a simple commercial this soon already. The first two episodes haven't even aired officially yet. Here it is in case others have missed it as well: Makorra is pretty popular in the fandom already. Especially given the fact that their dynamic was interesting in the first two episodes. And possible future romantic development was subtle. I haven't actually watched them yet but saw enough gifs and read enough posts about it already. But to show a kiss scene like that in a mere teaser feels like their Zutara shipteasing all over again. It's really lame tbqh. re: energybending: The guy being energybended apparently looks a lot like Tahno, who is a member of the Wolfbats, a pro-bending team who witnessed and fought the Fire Ferrets, a team consisting of Mako, Korra, and Bolin. Not only the Avatar can energybend, though. I looked it up and it says this: "Before the arrival of the Avatar into the world and the separation of the four elements, people bent the energy within themselves. At some point, they discovered the other four bending arts, and, over time, the knowledge to perform energybending was almost completely lost. The last known keeper of the art was the ancient lion turtle, who later passed it down to Avatar Aang, who used the ability to remove Fire Lord Ozai's firebending forever." And if I remember correctly, the lion turtle told Aang that to be able to energybend one must be completely pure. So maybe Amon's hatred is so pure that he can perform the art as well. Perhaps it goes both ways: either pure good or pure evil?
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Post by Musogato on Apr 2, 2012 3:16:13 GMT -5
Oh my gosh! Definitely wasn't expecting that to be in the clip montage! Thanks for the screenshots Kohana and for where the clip is located Krystal -- even on multiples re-plays of the trailer I can only barely catch it now. @_@ But yeah, I agree it's too soon to be including clips like that in these teasers. Though I thought the Lieutenant electrocuting the brothers in some of the other teasers was a bit soon as well. Too many of these shocking blips isn't going to leave much for the actual episode, surprise-factor wise.
Oh, Tahno is the guy with the flower. Well that'll be curious. It seems like Amon hit quite a few people with whatever it is he's doing; is he going to wipe out half of the Pro-bending teams when he invades the place? That'd be a bummer. I kind of want to say, 'maybe the effects won't be permanent,' but then that would make him/the situation a lot less threatening, plus give an easy cop-out should someone major get hit.
For the energybending, Amon's hand position is definitely similar to how Aang's was. That's an interesting theory about the pure will as well, Amon definitely seems like the kind of guy to fit that bill. And yeah, the Equalists use chi-blocking to attack. .....I wonder if it's possible Amon happened across energybending as an advanced form of chi-blocking? But chi-blocking is physical though, so maybe not. I suppose rumours of what happened to Ozai after his battle with Aang would have traveled around, maybe Amon eventually heard about it and did research from there.
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dirtyyasuki
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Apr 4, 2012 12:24:13 GMT -5
While in the trailer it looked like Amon was Energybending, I don't believe he actually knows how to bend or is capable of true bending in any sense since openly bending (even energy) in demonstration to his followers could be seen as a power akin to actual "bending". Amon even "implying" to his followers that he can "bend" at all might undermine his authority and conviction among the Equalists. He could be seen as a hypocrite by some of the more hardcore members of the Equalists and while as supreme leader Amon can spin his ability to "energybend" as something of a plus for the Revolution, I doubt that Amon (even in his power) can totally persuade all the members of his organization to see things his way. I don't see Amon as a person who is capable of leading a revolution against the status quo and at the same time visibly dividing it by becoming a walking contradiction to his movements beliefs.
I think that Amon maybe using some of the current era's science using a combination of electricity, technology and knowledge of the chi arts to permanently block/"faux-energybend" a bender's abilities. It's possible given the science of the setting, but I could be wrong about my theory so I'll have to wait and see.
Besides, as far as the relation to chi-blocking and energybending is concerned, Chi-blocking in the real world is simply considered as physically manipulating a person's 'chi' or 'energy'. In essence, 'Energybending' could be otherwise called 'Chibending'. It could be possible that if Amon really knew how to physically manipulate chi via chi-blocking, then he could also have learned to actually manipulate chi itself directly both in himself and others through energybending. Real world masters of manipulating chi can supposedly not only perceive it in others but in its actual form to create remarkable supernatural effects. Like this for example:
Chibending? Or Energybending?
I say they may be one and the same in LoK.
Either with the power of science or actual energybending Amon is one scary mofo for any bender to face.
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Post by kaangluv on Apr 9, 2012 22:04:17 GMT -5
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