Leaf
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Post by Leaf on Jun 2, 2012 21:31:43 GMT -5
Is anyone else the least bit curious as to what the spirit world has become? What with such villains like Tarrlok having the power to bloodbend without the full moon and Amon with possible energybending to take away other people's bending. What kind of place allows this to happen? If I am not mistaking, bending, in canon, is attached to the spirit world. Is the spirit world in Korra's time the definition of Hell? In before people stop praying to the spirits and the spirits begin to die. lol Wrath of the Titans. And I may have been playing too much Minecraft, but can The Spirit World be considered a dimension?
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dirtyyasuki
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Jun 4, 2012 23:49:46 GMT -5
It can be considered a dimension. Not an "alternate facsimile" because it would be similar to earth just in different dimensions of time and space. (i.e. alternate histories, sliders, etc.) It could be a "adjacent dimension" of being a completely different world yet having co-terminus locations acting as a bridge or doorway to both worlds.
Case in point, Hei-Bei and his forest, Yu and the Banyan Tree, and Guru Pathik. It can be argued that the base spirits of the elements themselves are actually the one's that respond and allow bender's to manipulate said elements as they were taught by other more sentient spirits like the Dragons, Badger moles, or flying bison etc.
That said I wonder too how the spirit world has changed in the last 75 years; though it was implied that it had changed during the hundred year war with the Fire nation, it wasn't really covered that well.
My guess is Tarrlok and Amon won't really be defeated by the end of this season. My guess is if one has to fall it's gonna be Tarrlok. He seems to be the minor throw-away bad guy that Korra's gonna beat as a foreshadowing to her showdown with Amon and by the end of the series Korra will finally gain her connection to the spirit world, airbending and her Avatar form as her character development for this series towards becoming a full-fledged avatar.
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Leaf
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Post by Leaf on Jun 5, 2012 1:36:58 GMT -5
Why would Tarrlok fall so easily when they seem to be building him up as a dictator by taking the textbook rise to power route? Couldn't this season end on a melancholy note much like the end of Book 2: Earth? It can be considered a dimension. Not an "alternate facsimile" because it would be similar to earth just in different dimensions of time and space. (i.e. alternate histories, sliders, etc.) It could be a "adjacent dimension" of being a completely different world yet having co-terminus locations acting as a bridge or doorway to both worlds. So pretty much just like the Nether and The End?
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Post by Nashk Tategami on Jun 5, 2012 21:12:28 GMT -5
Why would Tarrlok fall so easily when they seem to be building him up as a dictator by taking the textbook rise to power route? Couldn't this season end on a melancholy note much like the end of Book 2: Earth? Not really. A second season wasn't in the cards until some time after the first was in development. While they could alter the storyline, the original story was already in place. We do not know what direction they were wanting to go, but the series was meant to be over after the first 13 episodes. So one way or another, we were going to get a resolution.
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Leaf
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Post by Leaf on Jun 7, 2012 6:22:04 GMT -5
Didn't the show get it's second season around when the first one was only finishing development?
Maybe it was modified to reflect that?
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Post by Musogato on Jun 9, 2012 16:47:07 GMT -5
^Yes. According to a March 2011 WSJ interview the second season was picked up around when the first 12 episodes were being animated. Apparently all of the episodes were written and the scripts had been recorded at the time of the interview, but it's possible they could have tweaked the ending a bit. However the intent from Nickelodeon was: So Amon probably won't return for season 2 if that quote is still accurate, but that doesn't mean his actions won't have repercussions for the next storyline. As for the Spirit World, I am totally interested in it and would love to see if it has changed any from the old series. I kind of see it as timeless though, so I'm not sure how it would change landscape-wise, unless we see areas other than that swamp from the Book 1 finale. It definitely seems to have some levels to it though, or at least some shades, because there's the swamp world itself where Aang meditated into and saw all those big Spirits, but also the plane where Spirit Aang and Roku's dragon were in the physical world. I'm not sure if it has been really explained how bending is connected to the Spirit World though, since bending can only be done in the physical world. Although killing the moon spirit did stop waterbending (or was it the lunar eclipse, and was that even related to the koifish's death or just dramatic coincidence?), it's not really known if there are Spirits for bending itself or just the elements that use it, like the Moon and Ocean spirits. It's also not known if the Spirit World is just for the big spirits/spiritual representation of things, or if people's souls are allowed to go there too. All of the past Avatars are there or somewhere, but we've never seen any regular people there, and the only ghost in the physical world we've seen was Roku's dragon. I'd be curious to know where Sokka and the villagers went to in the Hei Bai episode, but if the show was going to pick up a Spirit World storyline from ATLA, it would most likely be Iroh's adventure and the Koh/Luten connection that I am convinced exists. I feel like there was a Creator interview that mentioned the Spirit World and how it might react to the world's new technology or something like that, but I can't find it now. Since Amon mentioned his power was granted by a spirit though, if it's true, I guess it will be addressed in the finale.
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