NICKELODEON'S THE LEGEND OF KORRA TO PREMIERE ON SATURDAY, APRIL 14, AT 11:00 AM (ET/PT)
http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/42235/pr-nickelodeons-the-legend-of-korra-to-premiere-on-saturday-april-14-at-1100am-etpt/
OMG OMG OMG YES
Yaaaaay! :D We're re-watching the first show in preparation :yes:
Episode 1 was leaked online... it is all of the amazing things! :yes:
EDIT: "leaked" is somewhat inaccurate--Nick put it up on a press site with a password protection and somewhat leaked or guessed the password. ::)
I had no idea what this was, and found out it was a sequel of sorts to Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Why can't Nickelodeon produce a sequel series to something good, like "Mysterious Cities of Gold"?!?!
Bt
You didn't like Avatar? The series, of course, not the movie. That was shite.
Nah, I liked the film Avatar, but think the animated series is gloop.
Now Mysterious Cities of Gold.... that was awesome.
http://youtu.be/kq5Y_ogiyi0
Bt
Quote from: Blackthorne on March 21, 2012, 01:08:28 PM
Nah, I liked the film Avatar, but think the animated series is gloop.
I..buh...wha? Does not compute!
I vaguely recall cities of gold...I recognize some of those characters, but can't really remember anything about the show.
Heh, yeah, it was on Nickelodeon when I was a kid. It's about a boy, Esteban, who travels from Spain to South America and ends up looking for the Mysterious Seven Cities of Gold. He and his friends find a flying vehicle the Incas made, shaped like a bird.... it was just a crazy adventure show for kids, and a co-production between a Japanese Animation Studio and a French Company. As a child, it was my first exposure to Japanese Animation.
I think there's some episodes on YouTube. Worth a glance at, from a historical standpoint if you enjoy Japanese Animation.
Bt
I liked David the Gnome. Anyone remember that show?
YES! I used to watch that one all the time.
Quote from: KatieHal on March 21, 2012, 01:20:10 PM
Quote from: Blackthorne on March 21, 2012, 01:08:28 PM
Nah, I liked the film Avatar, but think the animated series is gloop.
I..buh...wha? Does not compute!
The giant blue people movie, Katie; not that thing they made out of the animated series.
At least, that's my interpretation.
Correct Delling. I'm talking James Cameron's flick, not the Last Airbender M. Night Shamalyan debacle.
Also, the end of David the Gnome is one of the most powerful finales I have ever seen in a children's animated series.
Bt
Phew! You really had me worried, Bt.
I can't recall the finale of David the Gnome. I'm not entirely sure I saw it. My memories of that show are more general--I know I watched it, but specifics of it elude me now.
If anyone is interested, the first two episodes are now up on Korra Nation (http://www.korranation.com), courtesy of nickelodeon themselves. I am in love with this series. IN LOVE I SAY!!!!!
I came into this thread to remove a spam post, but also, man, Legend of Korra is getting good! Lin Bei Fong is a total badass. It took a week or so at first for me to get into the groove of the show--it's not the same lighthearted fun and humor that Last Airbender was, but the characters are older and facing a different sort of threat, so that really does make sense. It's different, and the characters are getting more interesting, I'm really enjoying it!
*saw Katie had posted here* GAH! I'm at least one episode if not two behind! :( :(
I stayed spoiler-free!
Oh, I know. It just reminded me that I should watch that.
(Posted on: June 12, 2012, 04:26:08 PM)
*gets caught up* So, yeah... Lin Bei Fong is her mother's daughter. :bow:
Right?!?
*just saw yesterday's ep* :o :o >:(
I just did as well!
[spoiler]Tenzin, also a total badass! And good to know his kids take after their grandfather, hehe. And Lin, noooo!!! But OMG, Iroh, who is clearly Zuko's son, and who is voiced by Dante Brasco, awesome! Also, I wonder if Korra can potentially learn how to give people their bending back?
I really wish the previews hadn't been showing us that shot of Korra supposedly at Iman's mercy for weeks now. It takes away some of the tension and surprise for that possible scene, plus I'm guessing I already know how she may get out of it. [/spoiler]
My guess?
[spoiler]Avatar state. [/spoiler]
Also, though I don't HOW, my guess for Iman's identity....
[spoiler]The former blood bender...the one Aang took away the bending from. I forget his name.[/spoiler]
Quote from: KatieHal on June 17, 2012, 09:59:05 AM
I just did as well!
[spoiler]Tenzin, also a total badass! And good to know his kids take after their grandfather, hehe. And Lin, noooo!!! But OMG, Iroh, who is clearly Zuko's son, and who is voiced by Dante Brasco, awesome! Also, I wonder if Korra can potentially learn how to give people their bending back?
I really wish the previews hadn't been showing us that shot of Korra supposedly at Iman's mercy for weeks now. It takes away some of the tension and surprise for that possible scene, plus I'm guessing I already know how she may get out of it. [/spoiler]
My guess?
[spoiler]Avatar state. [/spoiler]
That's my guess as well... and the problem really seems to me to be that they are telegraphing it ...
[spoiler]she winces and closes her eyes... which is pretty standard transition for avatar state[/spoiler]
Quote from: KatieHal on June 17, 2012, 09:59:05 AM
Also, though I don't HOW, my guess for Iman's identity....
[spoiler]The former blood bender...the one Aang took away the bending from. I forget his name.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Jakone or Yakone... not sure of spelling, but I highly doubt it... remember: he was Tarrlok's father... I would have expected the encounter in the cabin to have gone down differently if it were a father-son encounter.[/spoiler]
Hmm...
[spoiler]Good point regarding the father-son dynamic, if that had been the case. But there could still be reasons for it--or hell, maybe it was even faked and one big set-up if that is the case. I'm really just also not sure who the heck else it COULD be, though. [/spoiler]
I have GOT to stop reading this topic! I keep spoiling myself, because I haven't gotten around to watching Korra yet. What's wrong with me?! :(
All I will say about the season finale is YES!! YES! ALL OF MY YES!
Our DVR decided it didn't need to record yesterday for reasons unknown, so we missed the first 15 minutes. But I did love everything else :)
One thing though...
[spoiler]Um...getting her bending back..that wrapped up awfully quickly. I figured Korra would get in touch with her spiritual side at last and learn how to give people their bending back, but...I kind of expected that to be a huge lot and arc for Season 2 rather than getting resolved in a few minutes at the end of the episode. That was a little disappointing. And while the end of Tarrok and Iman was an OMG shocker of a moment...well, I guess just overall I didn't expect the season's uberplots to be completely wrapped up but rather extend over the run of the show, like they did in The Last Airbender.[/spoiler]
RE: Katie's spoilers
[spoiler]
So, this is one of my main gripes with the show at the moment: Tarrlok+Iman+Yakone all being one thing feels very forced and convenient. Putting all of your antagonists into one nicely tied up family unit when there was very, VERY little to suggest their interconnection beforehand (the only arguable foreshadowing is the vision when Korra first goes to duel Iman) feels forced. One possible way to read that vision is that Aang was telling Korra: "hey, Yakone ultimately got away, I may have kind of ... sort of... screwed this one up... Clean it up for me, please" and that when he managed to breakthrough with the message is especially significant because it was when Korra was faced with Iman who seems to have Yakone's eyes.
Ultimately, what we're being shown are the consequences of such failures. That could be an interesting story arch to take Korra on in learning to be the Avatar: her learning from past lives about mistakes they made and going around the world seeing the consequences and doing what she can to allay them.
Anyway, the reason the ending feels a little rushed or forced in places is that they went into this season thinking that all they got was... this season. So, the argument goes that it feels forced because it was because they're long-form writers and one season was too little to get everything they wanted in.
The problem with this argument is that they already knew they were getting a season 2 by the middle of season 1... so, depending on production rates, etc., why not put in more episodes and push the plot of Season 1 over into Season 2?? Who knows?
At the end of the day, Lin Bei Fong can bend again, so I'm happy with having everything tied up. :D
(I'm not so happy with this new implication that side-disciplines in bending might be special heritable talents. ::) THAT is just silly and not in my opinion really supported by the first series (because, yes, we saw Sparky-sparky Boom Man, Hama, and others, but who says Sparky didn't spend ten or more years perfecting his technique?? That could be all it is--highly specialized mastery of a specific technique. That I would be fine with... and that even seems to be supported by the episode in which Yakone trains his sons. \rant :P))
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[spoiler]Bending being an inherited talent is already established--while not always the case, it happens frequently enough that genetics are some kind of factor. So it follows that how strong a bender one is could also be related to genetics. And yeah, a whole lot of training has to happen, too--Yakone was around to train his sons into being able to blood bend like that. Likewise, Katara had to be taught how to blood bend by that creepy water bender back in the original show. Overall, really, I don't think they've discounted that training is a huge factor in specialty bending.[/spoiler]
I still can't believe I just read this today:
http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:PSUAvatar14/We_interrupt_this_broadcast_and_various_American_political_bickering_for_this_special_report...
And I'm not even done watching Book 1!