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    Series is officially premiering next year. Here is the summary.

    The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender and follows the adventures of the Avatar after Aang – a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra. With three of the four elements under her belt (Earth, Water, and Fire), Korra seeks to master the final element, Air. Her quest leads her to the epicenter of the modern "Avatar" world, Republic City – a metropolis that is fueled by steampunk technology. It is a virtual melting pot where benders and non-benders from all nations live and thrive. However, Korra discovers that Republic City is plagued by crime as well as a growing anti-bending revolution that threatens to rip it apart. Under the tutelage of Aang's son, Tenzin, Korra begins her airbending training while dealing with the dangers at large.
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    https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...n-hit-avatar-the-last-airbender-98925659.html

    https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100721/ap_en_ot/us_tv_legend_of_korra
     
    I'm pretty excited for this, after all, I have followed the series since Day 1, I rememeber when the first episode aired, and I loved the series since

    Did you know that one of the early plans for Avatar was that Aang was originally going to be frozen for a thousand years, and Momo was a robot, explains all the steampunk elements used by the Fire Nation, as well as this
     
    Do want!
    I was worried they had ended the series, despite how successful it seemed. Can't wait for Korra!
    Now, how awkward would it be to hang around the girl reincarnation of your dad, Aang? Teaching her about airbending, no less?
     
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    Oh and the interview as well.

    Interview said:
    The Wall Street Journal: How did you come up with the idea for the spinoff?

    Bryan Konietzko: When Mike and I first created "Avatar: The Last Airbender" we always knew it would have an ending to it, that particular story. But as the show really took off, and found an audience all over the world, we knew that despite our intentions of ending that story there would probably be a time when Nickelodeon would come calling and want some more episodes….When that time came we had this idea for jumping ahead and telling a story about the next Avatar, this girl Korra.

    If there's a new Avatar, that means Aang has passed on. If he died around age 70, isn't that pretty young for an Avatar?

    Konietzko: You gotta keep in mind that he was frozen in a state of suspended animation for 100 years, so he kind of burned up some of his extra Avatar time.

    The new "Avatar" is a woman. What inspired you to change the sex of the protagonist of the series?

    Michael DiMartino: It's not so much about changing because we had Avatar Kyoshi before Aang. We'd established that the Avatar can be male or female and we just thought let's explore one of those more in depth, because Kyoshi was a popular character with a lot of fans and it seemed like a great opportunity to not retread what we'd done with Aang, who was a great hero, we all loved him, but we really wanted to try something different. And we have so many great female fans out there, who really responded to Katara in the first series, we thought we have the fan base who are really going to enjoy seeing the Avatar be a female.

    Konietzko: Mike and I, we love those characters too, and we've encountered countless fans who are male who really like those characters too. We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda nonsense to us.

    The one image that you released is Korra looking out on Republic City, where a lot of the new show take place. Tell me about that city.

    Konietzko: That's kind of a piece of concept art so when the show premieres next year it won't look exactly like that but that's the direction we're headed. The first series was sort of a road show where every episode they were going to some new location. That was another new thing we wanted to do is root it in one big complex location but mainly one place. We were drawing inspiration from Shanghai in the 1920s and 30s and Hong Kong and even Western cities like Manhattan and even location-wise cities like Vancouver, a city that juts out on a peninsula or an island and has these big mountains around it.

    Will we see characters from the previous series pop up?

    DiMartino: I don't want to give anything away, but rest assured there's a definite link between the old series and this one.

    Republic City is a city plagued by crime. There's an anti-bender revolt. Does this new series deal with more mature themes?

    Konietzko: Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show. We like dealing with all those things. It's fair to say we're dealing with some sophisticated things and the show is growing up a bit. But that said, we're not in a calculated way trying to target another demographic. Even in the first series, it was about a world war and some pretty serious issues.

    If Tenzin is Aang's son, who is his mother?

    DiMartino: [To Konietzko] We can say that, right? [To Speakeasy] It's Katara. It's not a huge surprise.

    What did you guys think of the live-action version of "The Last Airbender"?

    Konietzko: We're just really focused on this new show right now, and kind of taking this off in its own direction and not concerning ourselves with that right now.

    So you didn't follow the casting controversy about the movie version of "The Last Airbender"?

    Konietzko: We didn't head up that film. We're just happy to be back generating the original content in this mythology, which is what we do.

    Would you like to bring a cartoon version of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" to the big screen?

    Konietzko: We would love to. I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the "Avatar" world. We would be really excited.
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    Would you like to bring a cartoon version of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" to the big screen?

    Konietzko: We would love to. I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the "Avatar" world. We would be really excited    .
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    Wow. I really hope they do just that, so that we can forget about M. Night's tragedy.

    I am extremely excited for this. I just finished watching the whole series through for the first time about a month ago, and I absolutely loved it. I think Avatar is definitely my second favorite franchise after Pokemon. I hope in this new series they stick with the same formula when it comes to the mix of humor and drama. It was perfect, and that needs to stay the same.
     
    Oh my god this is going to be epic. Something to look forward to.
     
    Åzurε said:
    Now, how awkward would it be to hang around the girl reincarnation of your dad, Aang? Teaching her about airbending, no less?
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    The Avatar isn't reincarnated, the Avatar Spirit is. Aang does not become Korra, just like Aang is not Roku. They're simply imbued with the ability to bend all four elements by the Avatar Spirit, which also connects the lives of the individual benders.
     
    Aww that sucks. I was hoping for another full blown series, it seemed like they could do a lot with the story they had set up this time. I do hope we eventually get ourselves another full series, Avatar is one of those things that can easily keep refreshing itself with a new cast of characters and setting every so often and still feel unique. Ah well, hopefully this will end up being a great series, I've always been interesting in the future of their world and...it just sucks that Aang died so young. O_<
     
    I was kind of hoping for another full-blown series. However, this is always subjected to change. I'm curious on how they are going to work with it though. O_o Is Korra going to be by herself mostly or is she going to have a group similar to Aang?
     
    A MINI-series?! D: Crap... that sucks. Oh well, I just hope they do a good job on these twelve episodes.
     
    THAT WONDERFUL PIXY GUY! said:
    Avatar: The Last Airbender was one of the greatest cartoons of the century so far. n_n

    I'm sure this is going to be awesome. n_n
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    I totally agree with you dude, Avatar The Last Airbender is one of the greatest cartoons of the century so far. I watched all Avatar The Last Airbender episodes. Now I'm waiting for its season 4 but don't know when will they make it. do you know?
     
    Woah! I love Avatar, Ive watched every episode! Ive been watching it since it first aired!
    Too bad this is only a mini series though :\
    momsen123 said:
    I totally agree with you dude, Avatar The Last Airbender is one of the greatest cartoons of the century so far. I watched all Avatar The Last Airbender episodes. Now I'm waiting for its season 4 but don't know when will they make it. do you know?
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    Well you just said you've watched all episodes so you should know theres no reason to make a new season since the whole thing sorta finnished at season 3 since he beat the firelord etc... I guess they are still in production for Korra now anyways so I wouldn't get my hopes up!
     
    This is awesome! I love the series and this. So can't wait! ^_^ Weird thing is I was brainstorming about this idea like after the Original series ended. ^_^
     
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