Avatar:TLA and LoK (WATCH OUT FOR SPOILERS)

Soo... totally spammed this in chat tonight, but I feel it should be shared with all.

http://io9.com/5890843/watch-a-new-scen ... -right-now

But might as well make this thread a general Avatar thread. Thoughts and feelings about the original The Last Airbender series and the new one of Legend of Korra are more than welcomed here.

My thoughts about everything I have seen, which includes the short teaser trailer that Nickelodeon has put out and this, is that the videos are making me super excited about this upcoming series. I'm so happy that the humor is still there, and little Korra had me fairly giggling like mad in my chair. I REALLY need to get me an official copy of the original series though (and for that matter rewatch it too).

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I can't wait to see the first full length episode of Legend of Korra. All of these trailers and episode snippets are turning into a tease. Does the show have an actual air date yet? D:

Anyways, I spammed Pheo in the chat about this already but anyone who's a fan of the Last Airbender series and its artwork owes it to themselves to pick up the Art of the Animated Series book. It's hardcover, the price isn't bad (currently under $20 on Amazon.com), and the content within is both informative and gorgeous. You won't be disappointed.

While I enjoyed the entire book, my favourite section is definitely the origins of the show and how Aang and Appa's character designs developed. The original show that the creators wanted to make was very, very different... XD

I don't know why it took me so long to watch this series, but it did. I finally got around to it when my friends in the dorm lobby heard that I hadn't seen the series, and insisted we marathon it over a period of weeks.

Best. Decision. Ever. It's probably one of my favorite series now c:

We've also watched a bunch of the LoK trailers, and we're looking forward to spamming it in the lobby as well c: If we could ever get a release date D:<

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We have a date!

There's been a lot of anticipation for The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra, the upcoming sequel series to Avatar: The Last Airbender. But in the midst of this, what we didn't know was when the show would actually be seen, except sometime in 2012.

At their Upfront presentation today, Nickelodeon finally revealed the premiere date, and it's actually quite soon, Saturday, April 14th at 11am.

Also one extra tidbit:

With the title having slightly altered a couple of times now, it looks like the series is now going simply by The Legend of Korra, with the "Airbender" portion taken out completely.

I actually don't receive any TV stations that will/may be airing this show, but I'll find some way to watch it. I must.

And to finish off, here's the latest Nick trailer:

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https://www.facebook.com/legendofkorra

Go the the website and like/share and we could unlock the premiere online next Saturday. Like a month before it airs on TV

Doit doit.

Let me just start off by saying that I absolutely loved Avatar; The Last Airbender as a series. I would vote for it as one of the best works of animation ever achieved by humanity, and possibly even one of the best works in general. Withing its own context, it's up to par with, let's say, Harry Potter and Game Of Thrones.

Today I saw the first episode of Avatar; The Legend Of Korra and I've got a few things to say about it. Without spoiling it for any one of you, my two main points are;

1. It was brilliant.
2. It could've been better.

Honestly, no matter how you look at it- This is by the studio that did Avatar TLA; It's set in the same universe, with the same artstyle, and combined with friggin' steampunk- It's an amazing work of art and animation so far, as expected. I was absolutely mesmerized troughout the whole thing. The martial arts scenes, the graphics; Everything was reminiscent of the original series' glory.

Yet, I can't help but feel the whole thing could have been executed better.

It had everything that made Avatar TLA as good as it was, but it was all kind of thrown in and everything seemed rather hurried. There was practically no introduction to the characters or their surroundings, and the whole thing seemed rather all over the place.

I guess what I'm trying to say it is; I'm going to be watching this series regardless of everything, because it's, y'know, Avatar. But nonetheless I hope that this series will improve and mellow out over time and become even more enjoyable to watch.

Here's the link to the Vimeo; http://vimeo.com/38705962

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I actually disagree with Dark Soul. I loved it - all of it. While the environments were very different from the Last Airbender, the music, action, and characterization that I love was all there. ^^

A lot happened in this first episode but all of it was laying the groundwork for future events. I personally wouldn't have wanted them to flesh things out anymore than they did because the plot is meant to revolve around the city. Getting Korra into the city and showing us her personality, particularly how she differs from Aang, were what this first episode needed to do - and that's exactly what it did.

This is just the beginning. We have a whole season ahead of us to flesh out all of the questions this single episode presented. Lots of foreshadowing for a 24 minute episode, eh?

Bottom line though? It's not easy being the second act. I'm fully aware that I'll be comparing LoK to TLA even though I don't want to, but I'll try my best to give Korra a clean slate and enjoy it for what it is.

In other news... Ugh. When I got into Avatar: the Last Airbender season 1 was already on DVD. I was a good girl and waited for each DVD release after that, but for Korra...? Not happening, even if watching week to week will make the cliffhangers that much more cruel. The show hasn't even officially aired yet and I'm already dying to see episode two!

See, I refused to watch the leak on principle. Someone posted it to our lobby Agni Kai group, but I just couldn't bring myself to click the link- I kind of want to turn on the TV on April 14th and see it new for the first time. Then again, I may not be able to resist if the official leak occurs c:

See, I came into the series super late, so I didn't have all of the waiting and gnashing of the teeth waiting for cliffhanger episodes - we just watched them straight off of Netflix. I kind of want to do this this time, because I feel like I should have to go through it sometime.

I am craaaaaaaaazy pumped for the third episode of Korra next weekend. Love the series and I love Korra. But I'm displeased that the shipping wars have already started. REALLY PEOPLE. REALLY. I ASK YOU.

I'm really liking the new series, even just two episodes in. I think the fact that the characters are older is more appealing to me. It's still a children's show, but they seem to taking themselves a bit more seriously while still having kooky fun with it.

I also really like this intro as opposed to the first episodes of TLA, as I was really rather turned off by them even when I first saw them. I promos and intro are what made enticed me and made me put up with the first bit to progress to things far more exciting and interesting.

As for the shipping that Keleri mentioned, Korra will pretty obviously be with the brooding brother. The end of Episode 2 indicates that much pretty obviously. The flirty brother will be comic relief/haplessly lovelorn after many girls throughout the series. Or so that's what the second episodes seems to indicate.

Can't believe I haven't posted in this before now.

I honestly love the series so far! Episode two is where I officially got hooked; pro-bending looks amazing, Bolin and Mako are great, and we got the hilarious one-liners we're so used to <3 I particularly like how Korra's 'challenge element' is air instead of fire because of her combative personality. LoA placed fire/water and earth/air as opposites, so LoK turns that around.

Honestly I can't wait to see more of the characters and actually FIND OUT what happened to Zuko's mother.

One of the things that I'm really looking forward to is when Korra goes into her spirit form thingy and talks with Old-man Aang. Partly because I'm interested in seeing him as a proper adult, but also because of the vagueness of things leading into LoK.

I mean, Aang clearly put some planning into the training and upbringing of his successor, so I'm wondering why he did so. Just general niceness/precaution, or was he fearful of something on the horizon that he knew he wouldn't live to stop.

So many questions as a result of this time skip! Also, who's running the Fire Nation now? Are we going to meet Zuko's children? Or is he still alive? I'm fairly certain it was stated Sokka is dead, so that ties up him. Toph is still technically unconfirmed one way or the other too.

It's weird to be so uncertain about all of these beloved characters fates. I just really hope that they touch on them in some capacity throughout the run of the series, even just for the sake of the hardcore fans.

...Holy crap, I am reading way too much into this series when we only have two episodes. XD But alas, they gave us a lot of plot threads to work with already so I'm drawing up connections as I feel fit. =P

Digging this up since we have four episodes now...

SPOILERS ABOUND READ NO FURTHER IF YOU'RE NOT CAUGHT UP!


Two words: Oh snap! As Tailon said last night, Amon is now a much more credible threat with his (possible) energybending. I can definitely say that I didn't see this coming. I'm quite loving the character development so far and the darker elements involved. However, I'd like to see more non-benders against Amon just to see if it is indeed benders versus non-benders. So far it's all a bit vague. Either way, the series has been excellent so far!

And on a random note: I though there might be a Mako and Korra ship brewing, but then Bolin also seems to have a crush on her. After Twilight and The Hunger Games I reeeeeeally don't want another love triangle. Not that I'll enjoy the show any less or anything <3

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I must say, Amon already feels like an antagonist who's on the level of Fire Lord Ozai and his character has so much presence that it's almost unnerving. They've just done such a damn good job at making him feel genuinely threatening. The climax of episode 4 was bloody brilliant, although it's made me start to question if things with Amon aren't quite as they appear to be~

Y'know... how could you guys be missing the most important thing from episode 4? SEEING TOPH ALL GROW'D UP <3 Seriously though, Aang as an old dude with a beard was slightly amusing with his srsfaceImmagonnabeatudown flashback scene. I'll be more interested to hear about how Amon probably got beat down by the previous Avatar and now just holds a severe grudge against all benders. Neat seeing several of the old gaang in there if even only for a split second.

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I meet your comment, Pheo, with this:

The climax of episode 4 was bloody brilliant

I was just avoiding specifics as much as possible.

It was a very cool episode, but the flashback was definitely my favorite part. I'm just a sucker for seeing characters that I've come to know and love be older and badass. :x

I'm thinking that Amon, the dude Aang stopped before and the Water Council guy are all connected in some evil way. The Water guy just seems too...smarmy to not be evil.

I was actually a little disappointed by episode 5 this week. I'm really annoyed by the developing love triangle (a literal triangle at one point)/square especially since it's pitting two girls against each other for one dude (the inferior dude, too-- Bolin for ever). I was also really annoyed because Korra and Bolin have an awesome, fun evening and I thought for a moment that it was leading up to showing a good example of what healthy dating looks like, but instead it was to emphasize that they're "just friends" and to play into the idea that "real" romance involves drama, confusion, backbiting, cheating, etc. and worst of all, making heartfelt FEELINGSDECLARATIONS to people who are already in relationships.

The conclusion of the episode seemed to indicate that the triangle was semi-resolved, so I'm hoping that we won't revisit this thread for a few episodes and can get back to the good stuff: Amon, airbending, what exactly was going down in the Aang flashback, etc.

Totally got that love triangle/square I didn't want. But unlike Keleri, I loved the episode and found myself loling from almost the start. Bolin is absolutely adorable and hilarious. After the last uber intense episodes, this was a nice break.

"I told you dating a teammate was a bad idea!"
"You're a bad ideaaaaaa!"

Although I do like Bolin more than most comic relief characters in animated action shows (usually anime, but Avatar falls into this category too =P), he is still in the show for comic relief purposes. From the moment Bolin and Mako were introduced it was pretty obvious which of them Korra would be with, in my opinion at least.

Bolin will get a love interest or two down the road, much like Sokka did in TLA, but Korra and Mako are going to end up together. And I feel like to save face for Mako his girlfriend will turn out to be either evil, or just a mean person. Something to make the audience neglect the fact that he will be leaving her for Korra other than that he simply chooses Korra over her.

I agree with Keleri, I want to know about that damned flashback!