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Author Topic: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]  (Read 30829 times)

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Ziiro

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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #220 on: August 29, 2012, 09:14:55 PM »

The Season 3 Beach episode is painful as fuck to watch.

Just. Painful.

It gives purpose towards the end, but most of it.. It feels like they were going to try to make a teen show out of avatar and this was the test episode.
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #221 on: August 29, 2012, 09:41:39 PM »

I like the Beach ep simply because Zuko doves and THE MOST POWERFUL COUPLE IN THE WORLD!!!!!
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #222 on: August 29, 2012, 10:29:31 PM »

I liked The Beach because



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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #223 on: August 29, 2012, 11:43:05 PM »

Season 3 has a lot of mood-lightening episodes.

I mean, tucked in between the stuff about bloodbending and genocide.

Just relax and enjoy it.
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #224 on: August 30, 2012, 04:52:22 AM »

Just about everything past mid-first season is gold. The Ba Sing Se episodes ARE great, but they're not the only high points in the entire series. And even their more narrative driven arc allowed for things like "Tales of Ba Sing Se", which didn't advance the plot but was still great.

I re-watched the series before Korra aired, and ended up liking the third season stuff a lot more than the first time I saw it. It keeps just the right amount of "strangers in foreign territory" feel with the lightheartedness of kids saving the world. Then again, it does have that Painted Lady episode.

Korra is it's own show, though, and intentionally sets out on a different path from Avatar. The characters are older, the animation tighter, the themes more mature, and the plotting is much more laser focused. The downside, though, is that Korra neglects a lot of character building in its side characters. Characters like Asami and Bolin are great, but still kind of shallow, and Mako isn't developed at all beyond his basic role in the plot. And by the end of the first season it kind of goes off the rails and forgets what it's doing.

I don't mean to rag on it, it's still pretty great, and with more seasons to come definitely has a chance to flesh out the series. It's just difficult to give it much of a pass when the first season was intended to be the complete series and doesn't develop very well.

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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #225 on: August 31, 2012, 08:09:11 PM »

Korra's problems with pacing and character development were probably due mainly to the show's creators only having twelve episodes to work with when they wrote it.  I bet the show originally just being a miniseries also got them a higher animation budget per episode.
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #226 on: September 02, 2012, 02:01:38 AM »

I'm working my way through Legend of Korra now. Current thoughts:

I know why it feels so rushed, but I still lament the loss of depth in side characters and world. That aside, it's incredibly solid - episodes are packed with action and general plot development.
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #227 on: September 02, 2012, 03:35:32 AM »

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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #228 on: September 03, 2012, 06:41:18 PM »

I relate to Ziiro. All the flaws people talk about regarding the pacing, or the problems with some of the character development or plotholes are all valid and I noticed all of them.

I just don't CARE.

It really is a condensation of what I loved about the original series. It deserves a little bit more room to breath in the following seasons, but I was soooo ready to forgive the flaws of Season 1.
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #229 on: September 03, 2012, 06:43:35 PM »

Yeah, pretty much. Could have been better, still pretty awesome over all, here's hoping the next couple of seasons are better written.
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #230 on: September 11, 2012, 04:33:43 AM »

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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #231 on: September 26, 2012, 06:33:11 PM »



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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #233 on: January 31, 2013, 05:29:05 AM »

Dat ending to Korra.

That is to say, dat ending to Amon. Everything after that fits the 'rushed but acceptable' description.
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #234 on: April 10, 2013, 03:46:46 AM »

The Season 3 Beach episode is painful as fuck to watch.

Just. Painful.

It gives purpose towards the end, but most of it.. It feels like they were going to try to make a teen show out of avatar and this was the test episode.

As I understand it, the beach episode was basically "Let's get all our crazy ideas out of the way so the censors will let us do the stuff we actually want to do". Then the censors said "Aaactually we don't give a fuck."
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #235 on: April 10, 2013, 11:27:58 AM »

I really loved the beach episode, for the same reason I loved the Footloose episode: it was very much filler, but they got to do a good send-up of John Hughes-style movies and develop the characters in exactly that way. If you're going to have filler, it's good to do something refreshing with it.
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #236 on: May 24, 2013, 02:13:26 AM »

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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #237 on: July 17, 2013, 06:15:47 PM »

Korra book 1 on sale now.
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Re: The Last Airbender [Legend of Korra SPOILERS]
« Reply #239 on: July 19, 2013, 03:04:47 PM »

Oh god, that totally Ghibli spirit world.
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