“I am currently wetting my pants!”
“And the Winner Is…” was a vast improvement over last week’s love-traingle-centric episode, and it seems like Korra and her companions finally have a mission to focus on. Even Tenzin understands that war has come to Republic City, as Amon and his miscreants attempt to destroy everything that Avatar Aang stood for. Speaking of the old Avatar troupe, how cool was it seeing older versions of Toph and Aang? These visions that Korra’s been receiving are still vague, yet it appears that Toph and Aang had some kind of disagreement in the past. There are several theories floating around the web about what the significance of her visions are, but I’d like to know what you all think? Why is Korra seeing these images now, and do they point to the origins of Amon and his hatred of benders?
One of the aspects of this episode that I enjoyed the most, was the final battle between Amon, Korra and Chief Lin Beifong. It was interesting to discover that her hatred of Amon is as strong as Korra’s. Chief Beifong never vocalizes her feelings directly, but you can tell by the way she fights and how after Korra nearly fell to her death, she considered pursing Amon alone. Fortunately, she chose to save Korra in one of the best action sequences I’ve seen in an animated television show. As some of you already know, I’m currently making my way through season two of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and I’ve been fascinated with the differences between Aang and Korra as the season progresses. When Aang first discovers how to fire bend, he is reluctant after hurting Katara, yet Korra is much different. Have you noticed how violently she uses fire, and with such reckless abandon? Part of Aang resides in Korra, but she is not as gentle hearted as he was. For those of you who’ve seen the original series, do you think that Korra’s visions are due to her ability to tap into the spirit world? I hope we learn sooner than later what these glimpses into the past signify. Let me know your thoughts and theories in the comments section below.
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I watched the entire series of the Last Airbender and believe me, this show is truly worthy of being its successor.
That final battle was incredible, I can't wait to see how the writers continue to amaze us in the upcoming episdoes
well i think the main difference between Avatar Aang and Avatar Korra is that Aang is more adapt to the spiritual side of being and Avatar where as Korra is more Adapt to the physical part , hence her natural ability to bend fire so recklessly and learn a new element (air) in just a few weeks, as far as we know Korra hasn't even been to the spirit world yet or even the Avatar state , now that also brings me to my next point every time Korra has those visions or when shes fighting Amon i keep thinking or rather hoping that she going to go into the Avatar state and reek some havoc on his ass , also i really love the back story we got to learn between , Tanzin and the Chief , i really really hope we have a flashback episode to when they were young and the old crew was still alive
you're absolutely right! Another major difference I spotted is how their generation, culture and background affect them.
For example, Aang was a man (kid) of peace during a time of war. His background and education as a airbender gave him a deeper understanding and appreciation of the spirits and their role in the world. But having a clear deadline to save the world really allowed him to make the most of his time!
Korra on the other hand is a warrior born during a time of peace. Unlike Aang, Korra had no one to teach her about the spirits and hasn't been under the kind physical or emotional stress that triggered the avatar mode in Aang. In a lot of ways Aang and Korra are complete opposites.
I love Tenzin and Beifong's relationship and I'm really starting to love her as a character on her own! This franchise is great for giving dept to every character, not just the main cast. I love this show!!!
Also David I was thinking it would be cool if they rebooted the movie franchise by doing Korra's story first. Then do prequels and move backwards like Star Wars until they reach Aang's origin. What do you think? Wouldn't that be a great way to start a fresh on the big screen?
if they do that i hope they go with a different i hope they go with a different director , like Joss Whedon , he did such a great job with Buffy i think he might be do a movie like this justice with Korra.
Also i really hope that the Amon and republic story-line end with the season , and they group leaves the city to go answer
some questions from the last series; who's ruling the kingdoms now ? what happened to Azula and her mother for that matter ? where are the rest of the air bender ? i personally believe that Aang and his descendant are not the last air benders in the world because if you think about it no air bending female(save for Avatar Yangchen) has been shown in the series , unless only boys get the air bending gene i think there living somewhere we haven't seen yet
i also have another theory , with ATLAB ending with Avatar Aang being able to to energy bend , i think if he is able to take bending he can also grant it , thus repopulating the air bending population . am i right or am i right
It would be interesting to see a live action adaptation of Korra since the whole series will consist of 26 episodes but the only way to do it justice would be to have the creators have more control and to have the right people who respects and understands the show and its rich mythology. I agree that Joss Whedon should write the film (he really understands humor and character development) while someone like the Wachowskis should direct because they have an amazing eye for filming action sequences.
In the original series, the episode "Aapa's Lost Days" showed the female airbender Iio who introduced Aang to Appa. It was also established that the Eastern and Western Air Temples housed only female airbenders while the Northern and Southern Air Temples houses only males. It was also stated by the creators that the Air Nomads are the only race of people in the Avatar Universe that have a 100% population of benders due to their spiritual lifestyle.
As for whether or not Aang provided bending abilities to non-benders, I don't know if it's possible to endow a non-Air Nomad with airbending abilities. It might be, but that might come off as another deus ex machina like the energy bending was in the original series since Aang didn't want to kill Ozai. As it stand only Tenzin and his children are the only airbenders in the world, since Tenzin's siblings are non-benders. But like the new species of winged lemurs and sky bisons that now exists in this new world, it might be possible that there are airbenders other than Tenzin's family living in the world somewhere.
Wow and i thought i knew alot about the series , you'v mad me second guess everything i knew about avatar , not even my brother can do that Koodos ,
i must have missed the whole eastern western thing , well there's still the whole original bender thing if , sky bisons might be able to teach air bending , but i guess that would take a long time to do , which brings me to my next question , since you mention that 100 % of the air nomads are Air benders is it spirituality or genetics that determine if someones a bender and or which element they can bend because , if its spirituality then i guess within 100 years there could be a whole new air bending population but if its genes it would take a few generations , what do you think ?
Genetics vs. spirituality is an interesting concept as we see that Mako and Bolin have different bending abilities while sharing the same parents. We don't know yet if their parents were fire and earth benders, but given the fact each element bending conforms to its own unique principles (Air represents freedom, Fire represents power, Water represents change, and Earth represents the right opportunity) spirituality may not be the factor that determines if a person will be a bender or not for all the bending types.
Even though the creators stated that Air Nomads were all airbenders, it was never really explained why in great detail. I think the best way to think about it would be how humans receive their blood types from their parents. Each human has one dominant (A & B) and one recessive (O) blood type gene. The dominant one is type we have but we also carry the possibility of passing down the recessive type to our offspring. In the case of some bending abilities, two parents with bending abilities have a higher rate of having children that can bend. The opposite can be said for two non-bending parents to have a bending child, as that child's bending ability would come from the recessive gene of his/her parents. This of course does not necessarily hold true for all for all four bending abilities.
The fact is that out of the four nations the Air Nomads are the only race that we know less about when compared to others. For example, we know that Earth, Fire and Water bending have secondary functions as well (earthbenders can metal bend, firebenders can generate lightning and waterbenders can heal) but we've yet to see what secondary function air bending has. It could be that since the Air Nomads continually sought spiritual enlightenment that somehow the ability to air bend are infused with them from birth. If that is the case, then having new airbenders would be far more difficult as conforming to the life of Air Nomads would mean detaching oneself from worldly concerns and seeking a life of tranquility and freedom. And even if they did it would still take generations before anyone living that life would have children who are airbenders, and in the show it's only been 70 years since Aang defeated Ozai.
The difference between The legend of Korra and The last Airbender is that this season is for kids. It's stupid, the dialogues, the scenes, the music…in 70 years medieval China has evolved into a North American city from 1960. And the love shit makes me puke. The Among thing, the war between equalist and bender it's cool but the rest of the story it's pretty poor, the should be ashamed
I'm not sure it you're trolling, and I shouldn't even respond but — Republic city is not a North American city from the 1960, you just need to look up the Shanghai bund in the 1920s and it's clearly modeled after it. Just because a place has cars and radios doesn't neccessarily place it in America, that's Eurocentrisim.
Also Legend of Korra and The Last Airebender are BOTH series aimed at kids. The authors could probably write heavy dialogue about terrorism, fear-mongering, firearms escalation, and other stuff that are really apart of current social issues, but that's probably more than these kids, and most adults, can handle. Instead it's all being pretty subtle. What I love about this show is that kids would watch it and enjoy the humor and the action. They would grow up and then come back and watch this show again and find all these subtle themes and get so much more.
But hey, in the end, it's still just a cartoon. And if you just can't catch on, then go watch Adult swim or something with animation truly aimed at adults.
Joaquim Dos Santos has directed every episode so far!!! Just something to note.
He's done some Justice League episodes as well. Santos is great with action sequences
LOVE THIS SHOW!!!
You can tell I'm a girl!!! LOL!!!
Does anyone know if there is going to be a show where the heroes from the Last Airebender are seen as grown up? I know Korra gets flash backs of them because of her former life as Aang. But I would really like to see how they made that city. I mean who would have thought the blind earth bender would be in charge of the police department and have a kick ass daughter who was the former love interest of Aang's son!!!
Also, I thought Appa was the last of his kind!!! How did this happen?