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Post by Painkiller on Jun 24, 2012 17:29:36 GMT -5
I was disappointed by the finale.
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Post by Power NeXus on Jun 24, 2012 18:03:47 GMT -5
I thought most of it was fantastic. It was just the finale with Amon that left me disappointed.
1) There are still some unanswered questions about him. How does advanced bloodbending give him the ability to take powers away? Did he even survive for that to ever be answered?
2) He was set up for the whole season to be this near-invincible opponent whom we knew nothing about. I was expecting him to be an evil being from the Spirit World, kinda like Ko, trying to throw the real world out of balance. He's still cool and all, but it was slightly disappointing to find out he's just a super-advanced prodigy bender.
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Post by Power NeXus on Jun 24, 2012 20:42:28 GMT -5
I'm sort of having trouble figuring out Amon and his motivation now. He's supposed to be obsessed with fairness and equality, nobody being more powerful than anybody else. But Tarrlok also said that Noatok reveled in his newfound power when he learned bloodbending. And when Tarrlok didn't want to leave with him and abandon their mother, Noatok looked down on him for being weak.
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Jun 24, 2012 22:16:17 GMT -5
I got a new theory though. We saw the Aang take away a power last time, I think this Avatar will be able to give their bending abilities back. Boom. |
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Jun 25, 2012 9:12:36 GMT -5
Maybe he is Amon and blood bending is away of stopping the bending? Boom! |
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Post by MikeTheKiller on Jun 26, 2012 22:09:45 GMT -5
Wonder what they will do next season
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Post by Lunacyde Prime on Jun 28, 2012 20:55:45 GMT -5
I'm sort of having trouble figuring out Amon and his motivation now. He's supposed to be obsessed with fairness and equality, nobody being more powerful than anybody else. But Tarrlok also said that Noatok reveled in his newfound power when he learned bloodbending. And when Tarrlok didn't want to leave with him and abandon their mother, Noatok looked down on him for being weak. I don't know. I think looking back Amon blames bending for his descent into depression. He was happier before he learned he was a bender, or at least that's how it looks to me. |
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Post by Painkiller on Jul 2, 2012 4:09:19 GMT -5
Anyone think that Mako is just a poor man's Zuko?
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Post by Power NeXus on Jul 2, 2012 10:44:46 GMT -5
Anyone think that Mako is just a poor man's Zuko? He's just a generic dark-brooding-guy-with-whom-the-female-protagonist-will-inevitably-fall-in-love. At least Zuko had some originality to him. "My father disfigured me and banished me from the kingdom. My only chance of getting back is to complete a mission that is basically impossible. While I'm out trying to complete it, I will learn more about who I really am and who the bad guy really is." Whereas Mako is all like "My parents are dead and stuff, so now I'm an angsty teenage pro-bender who can apparently get two girls simultaneously while my brother, who is actually cooler than I am, gets zero." |
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Post by Painkiller on Jul 2, 2012 17:10:50 GMT -5
Anyone think that Mako is just a poor man's Zuko? He's just a generic dark-brooding-guy-with-whom-the-female-protagonist-will-inevitably-fall-in-love. At least Zuko had some originality to him. "My father disfigured me and banished me from the kingdom. My only chance of getting back is to complete a mission that is basically impossible. While I'm out trying to complete it, I will learn more about who I really am and who the bad guy really is." Whereas Mako is all like "My parents are dead and stuff, so now I'm an angsty teenage pro-bender who can apparently get two girls simultaneously while my brother, who is actually cooler than I am, gets zero." I noticed that, too. The creators described him as "always having a lady on his arm" but he never did. |
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Post by Painkiller on Jul 2, 2012 17:25:24 GMT -5
Also, why are the benders in LOK so toned down?
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Post by Power NeXus on Jul 2, 2012 21:28:12 GMT -5
Also, why are the benders in LOK so toned down? I noticed that in Bolin and Mako in particular. I thought it was because they learned all of their fighting in the restrictive pro-bending arena. Comparing Bolin and Mako to people like Toph and Zuko would be like comparing professional boxers to real-life scrappy street fighters. They just don't compare because their usual style of fighting has so many restrictions and rules. Other benders from LoK, like Tenzin, Lin, and Iroh, seem to be basically on par with TLA benders. |
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Post by Painkiller on Jul 2, 2012 21:31:37 GMT -5
Also, why are the benders in LOK so toned down? I noticed that in Bolin and Mako in particular. I thought it was because they learned all of their fighting in the restrictive pro-bending arena. Comparing Bolin and Mako to people like Toph and Zuko would be like comparing professional boxers to real-life scrappy street fighters. They just don't compare because their usual style of fighting has so many restrictions and rules. Other benders from LoK, like Tenzin, Lin, and Iroh, seem to be basically on par with TLA benders. Do you think any one bender from LOK could take Iroh or Bumi? |
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Post by Power NeXus on Jul 2, 2012 21:49:35 GMT -5
I noticed that in Bolin and Mako in particular. I thought it was because they learned all of their fighting in the restrictive pro-bending arena. Comparing Bolin and Mako to people like Toph and Zuko would be like comparing professional boxers to real-life scrappy street fighters. They just don't compare because their usual style of fighting has so many restrictions and rules. Other benders from LoK, like Tenzin, Lin, and Iroh, seem to be basically on par with TLA benders. Do you think any one bender from LOK could take Iroh or Bumi? Amon, maybe. LoK hasn't really expanded enough to bring in any super-old megabenders like TLA had. I'd say that's largely due to the restrictions that staying in Republic City has put on the show. |
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Post by Painkiller on Jul 4, 2012 8:07:39 GMT -5
Do you think any one bender from LOK could take Iroh or Bumi? Amon, maybe. LoK hasn't really expanded enough to bring in any super-old megabenders like TLA had. I'd say that's largely due to the restrictions that staying in Republic City has put on the show. Maybe they'll have some next season? |
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Post by Power NeXus on Jul 4, 2012 10:10:05 GMT -5
I'm really curious about what Book 2 is going to be titled.
A:TLA followed the "Water, Earth, Fire" series because those were the season in which Aang learned water, earth, and fire bending. Book 1 of this series is called "Air" because Korra learned air bending.
But... she's mastered all of the four elements now, as well as the Avatar State. What's left?
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Post by Painkiller on Jul 8, 2012 1:52:35 GMT -5
Energy Bending!
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Sept 15, 2012 21:51:36 GMT -5
So yeah, just saw that it's now 4 books. 13 episodes for 3 and 4.
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Post by Painkiller on Sept 16, 2012 5:38:36 GMT -5
What could they possibly fill it all with?
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Sept 16, 2012 5:54:00 GMT -5
Well, now they can have the benefit of knowing they'll get them episodes showed allowing them to have a lot of foresight. So they can focus on Fire Nation for a bit while gradually brining another villain into the mix.
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