The Legend of Korra Discussion Thread

[Cherrim]

As for the shipping, I think the romances are a bit forced and introduced too soon. But, in comparison to Avatar, I think the situation then was more dire, so romance could afford to be put off a bit longer than it is in Korra. That's not to say the situation isn't dire in Korra, though. I'm actually more afraid of the Equalists, Chi Blockers, and Amon than I was afraid of the Fire Nation. So, it's kind of a balance for me. The situation was dire and needed more immediate reaction in Avatar imo, but the situation in Korra is much scarier to me. It keeps me on edge.

The characters in Avatar were a lot younger than they are in Korra, at least it seems that way. I actually have no idea how old they are but the main characters now seem to be 16-18 whereas Aang was only 12 and Katara was 14 in Avatar? Seems more appropriate for hormones to be running high as teenagers than children. :P Also, in Korra, they aren't travelling together or anything so they aren't spending every waking moment together. The group in Avatar always seemed more like a family than peers so ships weirded me out unless they were with an outside person. But Korra isn't spending all her time with either of the guys in this and I'm also under the impression that she hasn't had aaaall that many friends her age (much less male friends) throughout her life, so I can easily see her mistaking friends for crushes and whatever. I dunno. I'm so okay with all of it in this. XD;

 

[Sydian]

Yeah, I know how teenage romance is. Been there, done that. I guess I'm just tired of shippy stuff and I'm ready for the show to progress with the plot. :( I'm not into ships that much, so it's just BLAH to me. i'm so unromantic eeek </3

 

[Golurks Were Meant to Fly]

I agree with the "let's get the romance out of the way" ideology. It always interested me more in the original series when they were learning bending or helping someone, while still keeping it relative and important. As much as I like LoK with all the non-filler episodes... I still want some filler. I will agree that Amon is scarier than Ozai ever was. And I have an awesome theory as to who he is.

Spoiler:

14 year old Ty-Lee! Omg, I would just die from laughter if I was right.

 

[TwilightBlade]

Best episode yet! Although I knew what would likely happen in this episode, I was blown away.

Spoiler:

Amon ambushes probending arena! It's what I suspected since the final clips I've seen were Amon in the arena and Lin saving Korra via metalbending. This episode exceeded my expectations!

Lin and Tenzin were once a couple, oh my! Lin has AWESOME moments in this episode. The last 5-10 minutes blew my mind.

I get the bad feeling that Sato is allied with the Equalists. Maybe he paid the referees to overlook the Wolfbats' illegal moves too. How else does Amon get so many resources and technological toys?! /all aboard the Asami and Sato are bad guys train

 

[Sydian]

lol conceal spoilers and such

Spoiler:

In a way though, I think Sato or Asami knew the Equalists were going to show up at the Championship Match and they paid the refs to make the bad calls and allow the Wolf Bats to win. When I first saw Asami, I did assume that she was with Equalists, since she's obviously not a bender herself. She probably will end up being bad though. You just know they are gonna have Mako and Korra together in the end. It's predictable lol. So Asami will have to do or be something bad to mess up Masami...that's the ship name right?

Tahno is ugly.

 

[Cherrim]

Spoiler:

I dunno, I don't really get and bad vibes from Asami. :/ I can be a horrible judge of character, yeah, but I think a lot of suspicion on her just comes from the fact that she's a love rival to the fandom OTP, haha.

It definitely seems possible that her father is working with Amon, but I think it would be a lot more interesting if it's just him rather than Asami too. Or if she is, hopefully her ~love for Mako~ will set her straight and make her join the good guys? :D I do like the idea of her (or her father) paying off the refs to make sure that Korra + co. didn't end up as the winners, though. Playing both sides, maybe?

Also, does anyone else want the Benders to stop being entitled pricks and acknowledge that yeah, maybe they should let non-Benders have more say in society? No wonder they're all being pushed to extreme measures like following the Equalists. <_<

 

[Sydian]

Spoiler:

I'm not mad at Asami for anything shipping related. XD I could honestly care less about that. If she's not involved though, I at least think Sato is, like you said.

I also agree about the bender thing omg. I thought I was the only one haha. There wouldn't need to be this big Equalist rally if benders weren't dicks to everyone. :/ But, like it's been said in the show, it didn't really get bad till after Aang died. So that leads me to believe benders grew some strange belief after his passing. idk.

 

[Cherrim]

Spoiler:

I was riiiight. \o/ Asami was awesome in that episode. I really like her.

I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking most of the benders are being dumb about all this. I guess it makes sense that things would slowly be getting worse after Aang was gone but... still... the fact that NO ONE has given any sympathy to non-benders about all this still really bothers me. I mean, yeah, the Equalists are extremists but their beliefs obviously came out of a genuine interest to give non-benders more rights/say in society. The entire council for this huge city is made up of benders. It's silly that they run the whole city despite such an obviously large non-bending community. Everything needs an overhaul and it just seems silly that no on in the show is recognizing this.

 

[Sydian]

Spoiler:

IKR. Me and Blade were all like OMG WE KNEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!!!!!!!!!

And yeah. For a second, I was about to say "like any minority group that sees injustice in our world..." but stopped myself. I think that, or it at least seems like, the majority of Republic City are non-benders. Which to my knowledge, is like an opposite of things in our world (at least in America...I can't speak for other countries because I didn't study their history in school all these years!). Normally the minority groups (African Americans, women, homosexuals, etc) are the ones to protest, speak out, and rally against their injustices. So to see a majority group go against it is very weird, but totally interesting. This is just assuming though! Cause like I said, it seems like there are more non-benders than benders in Republic City. I don't have much else to add to that, really, but for me, it's interesting to see the opposite of what I'm used to seeing. I hope it teaches us something, or at least the kids that watch it, whether they fully understand it or not. Does any of this make sense? XD

Though, since the minority benders hold that higher physical power in their bending, I guess that's what puts them ahead in society despite being lesser in numbers. I'm just talking to myself at this point... :(

 

[Cherrim]

Spoiler:

No, I think you're entirely right. :/ It's the innate power of the bending community that keeps the non-benders "in their place". It would be really intimidating to stand up to a group that can burn you with a flick of their wrist, drown you if you look at them the wrong way, pull the earth from right under you, etc. Obviously not every bender in a state of power would abuse their power, but I imagine it happens often enough to get tensions rising. And since there's obviously no outlet for non-benders to make their interests known and no representative for them aside from Amon, they're going to flock to him. Especially now that the people in charge are probably looking at all non-benders with at least some degree of suspicion whether they're extremists or not.

WHY DOES NO ONE ON THE COUNCIL SEEM TO SEE THIS? :/

 

[Livewire]

Ahhhh I just got into it and I love it. I think it's better than the original, tbqh. I might go rewatch the first series until the new episode.

 

[Lord Varion]

I'm yet to see this on nickolodeon. :l
I'm looking forward to it muchly (trying to avoid all spoilers)

I hope this isn't just an american thing, that would suck.

 

[The Fallen]

I just recently got into the series, seeing as how I adored The Last Airbrnder so much I thought I'd give it a go. So far I am pleased with what they've done with it thus far. The comedic relief still exists in The form of Bolin, which is fantastic. The artwork and animation is amazing. Needless to say the storyline, as I've already stated. Hopefully it continues on the path that it is on now and furthers itself!

I'm yet to see this on nickolodeon. :l
I'm looking forward to it muchly (trying to avoid all spoilers)

I hope this isn't just an american thing, that would suck.

You can catch up on episodes here.

 

[mikey]

I love Korra so far. Really well done storyline and graphics wise. It's a huge success so far. I still love the original series more though, but Korra is still great!

 

[-Grayscale-]

I've watched a lot of the episodes and they seem pretty nice. I like the new bad guys, and how the plot is developing. Personally though I miss the old group of kids, which sounds a little odd but yeah. Die hard Aang fan here~ <3

The best new thing has to be the animations. That artist really grew since the last airbender.

What I really want now is to see Korra in the avatar state.

 

[Golurks Were Meant to Fly]

^^I agree with this so much.

Come on korra, AVATAR STATE, YIP YIP!

I loved that episode. :)

 

[TwilightBlade]

Lots of good stuff in this episode. You cannot do this to us!

Spoiler:

The car! They listen out for Equalists by using the police communicator installed in every car... That's like Spiderman. Yay Team Avatar!

UH OH Mako and Korra sitting in the back seat! Asami adjusts the mirror to see what they're doing in the back seat. :( Earlier at the Air Temple Island when Ikki blured out that Korra likes Mako, LOL.

Good moment when non-benders said Korra is their Avatar too. Bad moment when she can't do anything about the arrests. :(

Tenzin saying the police chief is the worst. XD Korra makes Tenzin more aggressive and Tenzin makes Korra more patient. Their interactions and co-development are awesome.

Tarlok makes me sooo mad. I get the feeling he is working against Korra. :/ He arrests her friends. Also, unless I am wrong, he wanted to shut down the pro-bending arena and come to terms with Amon. He wants Amon to win? -.-

Uh oh, he wants to manipulate Korra. ><

woahhhh fight! Fighting is not the answer. O_O

BLOOD. BENDING????

 

[mikey]

Todays episode was awesome!

Spoiler:

I freaked out when the blood bending happened. I love that. Also the whole fighting scene in the car was awesome. Asami got some driving skills. And omg, TEAM AVATAR 2!

 

[-Grayscale-]

Great episode ;o;

Spoiler:

Omg I despise Tarlock. What the hell mannn, what the hell
I seriously wonder where he's taking Korra, and how that's gunna work in the first place. Everyone will notice she's missing. Aghhh QUESTIONS

 

[Sydian]

Spoiler:

Is it bad I found the blood bending quite predictable? I mean, me and my sister used to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of certain bending, and we decided water had the most resources, because blood is a liquid, and that's pretty damn scary too. So as soon as Korra said, "where's your water now?" or whatever, I thought "...Girl you're made of it...he's gonna blood bend y-- THERE HE GOES!!!!!!!!!!" so lol :( Still scary stuff!!