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On June 25 2012 02:24 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2012 20:16 Mordiford wrote:On June 24 2012 16:50 SkelA wrote:
I dont know why you guys are complaining about LOK. Yes it was rushed and little underwhelming and i hated the romance with Mako and Korra but in the end it all tied up nicely. They did preety good job with the limited time they had to work with and overall it was really good.
The visions of Korra make more sense because Amon was still somehow tied with them. I still beleive Amon is not dead and he will make a comeback in the next season. The thing is, there was no reason for them to have had so little time in the first place. The first show was widely successful and they could easily have asked for a larger episode order, they were given an order for a second season anyway. If Legend of Korra was anywhere between 16-20 episodes I think it could have been paced much better. Some scenes in the finale were absolutely atrocious, and I'm not sure if it was because of time constraints or just poor writing. Korra arriving to save the fleet and only saving one guy(who happens to be the general) and neither of them making any effort to save anyone else was absolutely retarded. It made Iroh seem like a horrible general and made no sense for Korra either. Amon suddenly giving up on everything and deciding he wanted to chill with his brother sort of came out of nowhere as well. Everything was wrapped up but it was wrapped up hastily and was really underwhelming. @Disappointing fight scenes in LoK All I have to say is... are you serious? xD They are much better animated, and more epic. There's more variety as well. There are both big bending battles as well as close combat fighting. Please don't tell me the early chi blocking fights didn't get you pumped up. You didn't see that level of animation in TLA.
It's not the animation that matters, you're missing the point of why fighting scenes are weaker in LoK. The strength of bending seems much weaker in LoK. There are several reasons for this:
- Technology has allowed non-benders to catch up with benders somewhat in terms of firepower and explosions. If an average person has grenades and electric rods and junk, how is being a fire bender special? In ALAB, no fancy guns / motorcycles meant bending was much more of a threat and a wow factor.
- Bending power level is weaker in LoK. I don't know if Toph / Aang / those old characters were just much more skilled than these modern day Korra characters, but the fact is the ALAB characters were much better and stronger at bending than LoK ones. It does make sense though. But as a result, the fighting scenes in LoK seem weaker.
Think about it, when Toph and Aang busted in to the fire nation and just created massive chaos and destruction, you could just be amazed at how epic the fighting was. Avatar Kiyoshi created a freaking division in a continent with her powers. Korra can barely knock off 2 chi benders.
In LoK, they have trouble doing 1v2 or 1v1 with chi blockers and acrobatic non-bending fighters with fancy weapons. In ALAB, it seemed like the characters could topple an entire army by themselves (and they did).
You remind me of a person who only looks for graphics in a game. It's the content that matters my friend. Korra fight scenes are much better animated but also much weaker at the same time.
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since the main antagonists in LoK were mostly non-benders, i liked that they toned down bending a bit. i mean it would be devoid of any excitement if benders were as powerful as in the first series, they'd just wipe the floor with the opposition.
would also love if we didnt get the avatar state in the first season, and let that be the major plot point for season 2, korra going on a spiritual journey to unlock it and restore her bending powers. shame they had to go mary sue at the end there and provide a super happy ending.
ps. boat scene at the end was to me the best scene ive ever seen in any avatar episode.
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On June 25 2012 02:44 GhostOwl wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2012 02:24 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:On June 24 2012 20:16 Mordiford wrote:On June 24 2012 16:50 SkelA wrote:
I dont know why you guys are complaining about LOK. Yes it was rushed and little underwhelming and i hated the romance with Mako and Korra but in the end it all tied up nicely. They did preety good job with the limited time they had to work with and overall it was really good.
The visions of Korra make more sense because Amon was still somehow tied with them. I still beleive Amon is not dead and he will make a comeback in the next season. The thing is, there was no reason for them to have had so little time in the first place. The first show was widely successful and they could easily have asked for a larger episode order, they were given an order for a second season anyway. If Legend of Korra was anywhere between 16-20 episodes I think it could have been paced much better. Some scenes in the finale were absolutely atrocious, and I'm not sure if it was because of time constraints or just poor writing. Korra arriving to save the fleet and only saving one guy(who happens to be the general) and neither of them making any effort to save anyone else was absolutely retarded. It made Iroh seem like a horrible general and made no sense for Korra either. Amon suddenly giving up on everything and deciding he wanted to chill with his brother sort of came out of nowhere as well. Everything was wrapped up but it was wrapped up hastily and was really underwhelming. @Disappointing fight scenes in LoK All I have to say is... are you serious? xD They are much better animated, and more epic. There's more variety as well. There are both big bending battles as well as close combat fighting. Please don't tell me the early chi blocking fights didn't get you pumped up. You didn't see that level of animation in TLA. It's not the animation that matters, you're missing the point of why fighting scenes are weaker in LoK. The strength of bending seems much weaker in LoK. There are several reasons for this: - Technology has allowed non-benders to catch up with benders somewhat in terms of firepower and explosions. If an average person has grenades and electric rods and junk, how is being a fire bender special? In ALAB, no fancy guns / motorcycles meant bending was much more of a threat and a wow factor. - Bending power level is weaker in LoK. I don't know if Toph / Aang / those old characters were just much more skilled than these modern day Korra characters, but the fact is the ALAB characters were much better and stronger at bending than LoK ones. It does make sense though. But as a result, the fighting scenes in LoK seem weaker. Think about it, when Toph and Aang busted in to the fire nation and just created massive chaos and destruction, you could just be amazed at how epic the fighting was. In LoK, they have trouble doing 1v2 or 1v1 with chi blockers and acrobatic non-bending fighters with fancy weapons. In ALAB, it seemed like the characters could topple an entire army by themselves (and they did). You remind me of a person who only looks for graphics in a game. It's the content that matters my friend. Korra fight scenes are much better animated but also much weaker at the same time.
Keep in mind nearly every member of the original gang was a bending prodigy, with Toph being the best earthbender in the world, and the inventor of metalbending, Katara being a master-level waterbender and a bloodbender, and Aang having mastered all four elements in less then a year (it took Roku more then ten years).
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Also remember, in TLA, most of the benders we saw do amazing things were full-blown masters, or the Avatar. In LOK, the only experts we see are Iroh, Tenzin, and Lin, and we don't see them fight very often. Plus, none of them are very experienced at fighting non-benders. Chi-blocking and stun batons are a new style of fighting designed specifically to beat benders.
Its like in Starcraft, one build might be on top for awhile, until someone designs another build specifically designed to beat it. The old build didn't get weaker, its just the new one is a hard counter.
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@Funguu
Yes, I know that. And that is exactly why bending is weaker in LoK and why fighting scenes are weaker.
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On June 25 2012 02:44 GhostOwl wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2012 02:24 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:On June 24 2012 20:16 Mordiford wrote:On June 24 2012 16:50 SkelA wrote:
I dont know why you guys are complaining about LOK. Yes it was rushed and little underwhelming and i hated the romance with Mako and Korra but in the end it all tied up nicely. They did preety good job with the limited time they had to work with and overall it was really good.
The visions of Korra make more sense because Amon was still somehow tied with them. I still beleive Amon is not dead and he will make a comeback in the next season. The thing is, there was no reason for them to have had so little time in the first place. The first show was widely successful and they could easily have asked for a larger episode order, they were given an order for a second season anyway. If Legend of Korra was anywhere between 16-20 episodes I think it could have been paced much better. Some scenes in the finale were absolutely atrocious, and I'm not sure if it was because of time constraints or just poor writing. Korra arriving to save the fleet and only saving one guy(who happens to be the general) and neither of them making any effort to save anyone else was absolutely retarded. It made Iroh seem like a horrible general and made no sense for Korra either. Amon suddenly giving up on everything and deciding he wanted to chill with his brother sort of came out of nowhere as well. Everything was wrapped up but it was wrapped up hastily and was really underwhelming. @Disappointing fight scenes in LoK All I have to say is... are you serious? xD They are much better animated, and more epic. There's more variety as well. There are both big bending battles as well as close combat fighting. Please don't tell me the early chi blocking fights didn't get you pumped up. You didn't see that level of animation in TLA. It's not the animation that matters, you're missing the point of why fighting scenes are weaker in LoK. The strength of bending seems much weaker in LoK. There are several reasons for this: - Technology has allowed non-benders to catch up with benders somewhat in terms of firepower and explosions. If an average person has grenades and electric rods and junk, how is being a fire bender special? In ALAB, no fancy guns / motorcycles meant bending was much more of a threat and a wow factor. - Bending power level is weaker in LoK. I don't know if Toph / Aang / those old characters were just much more skilled than these modern day Korra characters, but the fact is the ALAB characters were much better and stronger at bending than LoK ones. It does make sense though. But as a result, the fighting scenes in LoK seem weaker. Think about it, when Toph and Aang busted in to the fire nation and just created massive chaos and destruction, you could just be amazed at how epic the fighting was. Avatar Kiyoshi created a freaking division in a continent with her powers. Korra can barely knock off 2 chi benders. In LoK, they have trouble doing 1v2 or 1v1 with chi blockers and acrobatic non-bending fighters with fancy weapons. In ALAB, it seemed like the characters could topple an entire army by themselves (and they did).
Yeah, because just what this shows need is a Naruto style power level scaling... I personally like that not every single character is a Toph style ultra genius who can just kick ass non stop. That cheapens the story and breaks inmersion.
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anyone know when next season starts?
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I agree that the ending seemed kinda forced but I liked the series anyway.
Now to think of it, I feel like there is an almost unlimited potential in the past of that airbending world to make some epic story. Just imagine some medieval time when benders only start to develop their bendings, when everything is new and unbelievable. Could make a good book for sure... Or a fanfic, hahaha. But those fanfiction writers usually can't write anything worthy at all cuz of young age. Eh...
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I'm making sure I do not look at ANY posts in this thread but I have to ask.
Does this show live up to the original Avatar? Is it worth the watch if you were a fan of the original shit years ago?
*avoiding reading any other post hardcore*
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Yes, I thought so. People are complaining because they dind't like the sesoan finale,w hich I think didn't live up to the rest of the season... but I wouldnt say it was bad. I think it was overall pretty great and as an Avatar fan I'm really happy they created it. I cannot wait until the next season.
On June 25 2012 03:01 Funguuuuu wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2012 02:44 GhostOwl wrote:On June 25 2012 02:24 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:On June 24 2012 20:16 Mordiford wrote:On June 24 2012 16:50 SkelA wrote:
I dont know why you guys are complaining about LOK. Yes it was rushed and little underwhelming and i hated the romance with Mako and Korra but in the end it all tied up nicely. They did preety good job with the limited time they had to work with and overall it was really good.
The visions of Korra make more sense because Amon was still somehow tied with them. I still beleive Amon is not dead and he will make a comeback in the next season. The thing is, there was no reason for them to have had so little time in the first place. The first show was widely successful and they could easily have asked for a larger episode order, they were given an order for a second season anyway. If Legend of Korra was anywhere between 16-20 episodes I think it could have been paced much better. Some scenes in the finale were absolutely atrocious, and I'm not sure if it was because of time constraints or just poor writing. Korra arriving to save the fleet and only saving one guy(who happens to be the general) and neither of them making any effort to save anyone else was absolutely retarded. It made Iroh seem like a horrible general and made no sense for Korra either. Amon suddenly giving up on everything and deciding he wanted to chill with his brother sort of came out of nowhere as well. Everything was wrapped up but it was wrapped up hastily and was really underwhelming. @Disappointing fight scenes in LoK All I have to say is... are you serious? xD They are much better animated, and more epic. There's more variety as well. There are both big bending battles as well as close combat fighting. Please don't tell me the early chi blocking fights didn't get you pumped up. You didn't see that level of animation in TLA. It's not the animation that matters, you're missing the point of why fighting scenes are weaker in LoK. The strength of bending seems much weaker in LoK. There are several reasons for this: - Technology has allowed non-benders to catch up with benders somewhat in terms of firepower and explosions. If an average person has grenades and electric rods and junk, how is being a fire bender special? In ALAB, no fancy guns / motorcycles meant bending was much more of a threat and a wow factor. - Bending power level is weaker in LoK. I don't know if Toph / Aang / those old characters were just much more skilled than these modern day Korra characters, but the fact is the ALAB characters were much better and stronger at bending than LoK ones. It does make sense though. But as a result, the fighting scenes in LoK seem weaker. Think about it, when Toph and Aang busted in to the fire nation and just created massive chaos and destruction, you could just be amazed at how epic the fighting was. In LoK, they have trouble doing 1v2 or 1v1 with chi blockers and acrobatic non-bending fighters with fancy weapons. In ALAB, it seemed like the characters could topple an entire army by themselves (and they did). You remind me of a person who only looks for graphics in a game. It's the content that matters my friend. Korra fight scenes are much better animated but also much weaker at the same time. Keep in mind nearly every member of the original gang was a bending prodigy, with Toph being the best earthbender in the world, and the inventor of metalbending, Katara being a master-level waterbender and a bloodbender, and Aang having mastered all four elements in less then a year (it took Roku more then ten years).
That isn't really accurate about Aang. He didn't master four in a year. Air was already mastered, and he merely learned the other three... he did not achieve mastery at all.
Also Katara was probably #1 waterbender. So yeah the rest was accurate.
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On June 25 2012 03:17 CrimsonLotus wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2012 02:44 GhostOwl wrote:On June 25 2012 02:24 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:On June 24 2012 20:16 Mordiford wrote:On June 24 2012 16:50 SkelA wrote:
I dont know why you guys are complaining about LOK. Yes it was rushed and little underwhelming and i hated the romance with Mako and Korra but in the end it all tied up nicely. They did preety good job with the limited time they had to work with and overall it was really good.
The visions of Korra make more sense because Amon was still somehow tied with them. I still beleive Amon is not dead and he will make a comeback in the next season. The thing is, there was no reason for them to have had so little time in the first place. The first show was widely successful and they could easily have asked for a larger episode order, they were given an order for a second season anyway. If Legend of Korra was anywhere between 16-20 episodes I think it could have been paced much better. Some scenes in the finale were absolutely atrocious, and I'm not sure if it was because of time constraints or just poor writing. Korra arriving to save the fleet and only saving one guy(who happens to be the general) and neither of them making any effort to save anyone else was absolutely retarded. It made Iroh seem like a horrible general and made no sense for Korra either. Amon suddenly giving up on everything and deciding he wanted to chill with his brother sort of came out of nowhere as well. Everything was wrapped up but it was wrapped up hastily and was really underwhelming. @Disappointing fight scenes in LoK All I have to say is... are you serious? xD They are much better animated, and more epic. There's more variety as well. There are both big bending battles as well as close combat fighting. Please don't tell me the early chi blocking fights didn't get you pumped up. You didn't see that level of animation in TLA. It's not the animation that matters, you're missing the point of why fighting scenes are weaker in LoK. The strength of bending seems much weaker in LoK. There are several reasons for this: - Technology has allowed non-benders to catch up with benders somewhat in terms of firepower and explosions. If an average person has grenades and electric rods and junk, how is being a fire bender special? In ALAB, no fancy guns / motorcycles meant bending was much more of a threat and a wow factor. - Bending power level is weaker in LoK. I don't know if Toph / Aang / those old characters were just much more skilled than these modern day Korra characters, but the fact is the ALAB characters were much better and stronger at bending than LoK ones. It does make sense though. But as a result, the fighting scenes in LoK seem weaker. Think about it, when Toph and Aang busted in to the fire nation and just created massive chaos and destruction, you could just be amazed at how epic the fighting was. Avatar Kiyoshi created a freaking division in a continent with her powers. Korra can barely knock off 2 chi benders. In LoK, they have trouble doing 1v2 or 1v1 with chi blockers and acrobatic non-bending fighters with fancy weapons. In ALAB, it seemed like the characters could topple an entire army by themselves (and they did). Yeah, because just what this shows need is a Naruto style power level scaling... I personally like that not every single character is a Toph style ultra genius who can just kick ass non stop. That cheapens the story and breaks inmersion.
I really liked the fighting/powerlevels in the new one... But i'm not that big a fan of the original and honsetly just like the new one better alltogether.
What constantly annoyed me about ALAB is exactly what some here seem to like, people which weren't benders were next to useless... That made it just boring and really stopped me from "buying" the universe created...
And well, there is still a next season to develop the characters powers and stuff... I really hope they don't go into the DBZ/Naruta/Bleach stupidity of everyone just getting mindboggingly strong and owning basically everyone anyway.
Btw: Agree, the last episode seems a bit rushed and some before that also but well... This made the pacing fast and i never felt bored.
Btw2: The one thing I really did not like was that she got her bending sealed/stolen and just then, out of nowhere, develops air-bending... Did that honestly surpise anyone? I had this as the most likely way the final battle will go since like Episode 3 ^^.
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The ending was pretty forced.. but I still very much enjoyed it. I would say that overall this season was superior to the first season of the last airbender.. but it's gonna have to kick it up a notch if it wants to keep up in season 2.
Man I do feel like they should have made 2 episodes out of that final episode though. I also don't like how much unexplained stuff there was like randomly mako and korra can overcome his bloodbending while no one else can. I mean that makes 0 sense at all considering aang couldn't overcome the dude's father's bloodbending without going avatar state and the father was supposed to be weaker than him at it.
On June 25 2012 04:47 Crazyeyes wrote:
Also Katara was probably #1 waterbender. So yeah the rest was accurate.
yeah geeze personally i think katara was the most impressive bender in the show other than the firelord
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On June 25 2012 05:06 Velr wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2012 03:17 CrimsonLotus wrote:On June 25 2012 02:44 GhostOwl wrote:On June 25 2012 02:24 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:On June 24 2012 20:16 Mordiford wrote:On June 24 2012 16:50 SkelA wrote:
I dont know why you guys are complaining about LOK. Yes it was rushed and little underwhelming and i hated the romance with Mako and Korra but in the end it all tied up nicely. They did preety good job with the limited time they had to work with and overall it was really good.
The visions of Korra make more sense because Amon was still somehow tied with them. I still beleive Amon is not dead and he will make a comeback in the next season. The thing is, there was no reason for them to have had so little time in the first place. The first show was widely successful and they could easily have asked for a larger episode order, they were given an order for a second season anyway. If Legend of Korra was anywhere between 16-20 episodes I think it could have been paced much better. Some scenes in the finale were absolutely atrocious, and I'm not sure if it was because of time constraints or just poor writing. Korra arriving to save the fleet and only saving one guy(who happens to be the general) and neither of them making any effort to save anyone else was absolutely retarded. It made Iroh seem like a horrible general and made no sense for Korra either. Amon suddenly giving up on everything and deciding he wanted to chill with his brother sort of came out of nowhere as well. Everything was wrapped up but it was wrapped up hastily and was really underwhelming. @Disappointing fight scenes in LoK All I have to say is... are you serious? xD They are much better animated, and more epic. There's more variety as well. There are both big bending battles as well as close combat fighting. Please don't tell me the early chi blocking fights didn't get you pumped up. You didn't see that level of animation in TLA. It's not the animation that matters, you're missing the point of why fighting scenes are weaker in LoK. The strength of bending seems much weaker in LoK. There are several reasons for this: - Technology has allowed non-benders to catch up with benders somewhat in terms of firepower and explosions. If an average person has grenades and electric rods and junk, how is being a fire bender special? In ALAB, no fancy guns / motorcycles meant bending was much more of a threat and a wow factor. - Bending power level is weaker in LoK. I don't know if Toph / Aang / those old characters were just much more skilled than these modern day Korra characters, but the fact is the ALAB characters were much better and stronger at bending than LoK ones. It does make sense though. But as a result, the fighting scenes in LoK seem weaker. Think about it, when Toph and Aang busted in to the fire nation and just created massive chaos and destruction, you could just be amazed at how epic the fighting was. Avatar Kiyoshi created a freaking division in a continent with her powers. Korra can barely knock off 2 chi benders. In LoK, they have trouble doing 1v2 or 1v1 with chi blockers and acrobatic non-bending fighters with fancy weapons. In ALAB, it seemed like the characters could topple an entire army by themselves (and they did). Yeah, because just what this shows need is a Naruto style power level scaling... I personally like that not every single character is a Toph style ultra genius who can just kick ass non stop. That cheapens the story and breaks inmersion. I really liked the fighting/powerlevels in the new one... But i'm not that big a fan of the original and honsetly just like the new one better alltogether. What constantly annoyed me about ALAB is exactly what some here seem to like, people which weren't benders were next to useless... That made it just boring and really stopped me from "buying" the universe created... .
thats not true they just had to be exceptional. ty lee for example and even sokka made himself very useful in the show
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On June 25 2012 05:06 travis wrote:The ending was pretty forced.. but I still very much enjoyed it. I would say that overall this season was superior to the first season of the last airbender.. but it's gonna have to kick it up a notch if it wants to keep up in season 2. Man I do feel like they should have made 2 episodes out of that final episode though. I also don't like how much unexplained stuff there was like randomly mako and korra can overcome his bloodbending while no one else can. I mean that makes 0 sense at all considering aang couldn't overcome the dude's father's bloodbending without going avatar state and the father was supposed to be weaker than him at it. Show nested quote +On June 25 2012 04:47 Crazyeyes wrote:
Also Katara was probably #1 waterbender. So yeah the rest was accurate. yeah geeze personally i think katara was the most impressive bender in the show other than the firelord
they never really overcame bloodbending at all during the episode
mako managed to connect some lightening once but all lightening bending is is managing the flow of your energy according to iroh so he should be able to do it easily at that close of a range against amon regardless of whether or not he can control his limbs
korra couldn't resist it at all
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well if korra couldn't resist it why didn't he just bloodbend her when she started using airbending. i dunno it was all pretty weird it seemed like amon just gave up pretty easily considering how determined and focused he seemed about the whole thing all the way up to that point
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even Aang got his shit wrecked by bloodbending, and had to pull out Avatar mode in order to win
not sure if you guys are nitpicking just for the sake of it
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On June 25 2012 02:44 GhostOwl wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2012 02:24 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:On June 24 2012 20:16 Mordiford wrote:On June 24 2012 16:50 SkelA wrote:
I dont know why you guys are complaining about LOK. Yes it was rushed and little underwhelming and i hated the romance with Mako and Korra but in the end it all tied up nicely. They did preety good job with the limited time they had to work with and overall it was really good.
The visions of Korra make more sense because Amon was still somehow tied with them. I still beleive Amon is not dead and he will make a comeback in the next season. The thing is, there was no reason for them to have had so little time in the first place. The first show was widely successful and they could easily have asked for a larger episode order, they were given an order for a second season anyway. If Legend of Korra was anywhere between 16-20 episodes I think it could have been paced much better. Some scenes in the finale were absolutely atrocious, and I'm not sure if it was because of time constraints or just poor writing. Korra arriving to save the fleet and only saving one guy(who happens to be the general) and neither of them making any effort to save anyone else was absolutely retarded. It made Iroh seem like a horrible general and made no sense for Korra either. Amon suddenly giving up on everything and deciding he wanted to chill with his brother sort of came out of nowhere as well. Everything was wrapped up but it was wrapped up hastily and was really underwhelming. @Disappointing fight scenes in LoK All I have to say is... are you serious? xD They are much better animated, and more epic. There's more variety as well. There are both big bending battles as well as close combat fighting. Please don't tell me the early chi blocking fights didn't get you pumped up. You didn't see that level of animation in TLA. It's not the animation that matters, you're missing the point of why fighting scenes are weaker in LoK. The strength of bending seems much weaker in LoK. There are several reasons for this: - Technology has allowed non-benders to catch up with benders somewhat in terms of firepower and explosions. If an average person has grenades and electric rods and junk, how is being a fire bender special? In ALAB, no fancy guns / motorcycles meant bending was much more of a threat and a wow factor. - Bending power level is weaker in LoK. I don't know if Toph / Aang / those old characters were just much more skilled than these modern day Korra characters, but the fact is the ALAB characters were much better and stronger at bending than LoK ones. It does make sense though. But as a result, the fighting scenes in LoK seem weaker. Think about it, when Toph and Aang busted in to the fire nation and just created massive chaos and destruction, you could just be amazed at how epic the fighting was. Avatar Kiyoshi created a freaking division in a continent with her powers. Korra can barely knock off 2 chi benders. In LoK, they have trouble doing 1v2 or 1v1 with chi blockers and acrobatic non-bending fighters with fancy weapons. In ALAB, it seemed like the characters could topple an entire army by themselves (and they did). You remind me of a person who only looks for graphics in a game. It's the content that matters my friend. Korra fight scenes are much better animated but also much weaker at the same time.
How many episodes have you watched?
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On June 25 2012 05:09 travis wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2012 05:06 Velr wrote:On June 25 2012 03:17 CrimsonLotus wrote:On June 25 2012 02:44 GhostOwl wrote:On June 25 2012 02:24 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:On June 24 2012 20:16 Mordiford wrote:On June 24 2012 16:50 SkelA wrote:
I dont know why you guys are complaining about LOK. Yes it was rushed and little underwhelming and i hated the romance with Mako and Korra but in the end it all tied up nicely. They did preety good job with the limited time they had to work with and overall it was really good.
The visions of Korra make more sense because Amon was still somehow tied with them. I still beleive Amon is not dead and he will make a comeback in the next season. The thing is, there was no reason for them to have had so little time in the first place. The first show was widely successful and they could easily have asked for a larger episode order, they were given an order for a second season anyway. If Legend of Korra was anywhere between 16-20 episodes I think it could have been paced much better. Some scenes in the finale were absolutely atrocious, and I'm not sure if it was because of time constraints or just poor writing. Korra arriving to save the fleet and only saving one guy(who happens to be the general) and neither of them making any effort to save anyone else was absolutely retarded. It made Iroh seem like a horrible general and made no sense for Korra either. Amon suddenly giving up on everything and deciding he wanted to chill with his brother sort of came out of nowhere as well. Everything was wrapped up but it was wrapped up hastily and was really underwhelming. @Disappointing fight scenes in LoK All I have to say is... are you serious? xD They are much better animated, and more epic. There's more variety as well. There are both big bending battles as well as close combat fighting. Please don't tell me the early chi blocking fights didn't get you pumped up. You didn't see that level of animation in TLA. It's not the animation that matters, you're missing the point of why fighting scenes are weaker in LoK. The strength of bending seems much weaker in LoK. There are several reasons for this: - Technology has allowed non-benders to catch up with benders somewhat in terms of firepower and explosions. If an average person has grenades and electric rods and junk, how is being a fire bender special? In ALAB, no fancy guns / motorcycles meant bending was much more of a threat and a wow factor. - Bending power level is weaker in LoK. I don't know if Toph / Aang / those old characters were just much more skilled than these modern day Korra characters, but the fact is the ALAB characters were much better and stronger at bending than LoK ones. It does make sense though. But as a result, the fighting scenes in LoK seem weaker. Think about it, when Toph and Aang busted in to the fire nation and just created massive chaos and destruction, you could just be amazed at how epic the fighting was. Avatar Kiyoshi created a freaking division in a continent with her powers. Korra can barely knock off 2 chi benders. In LoK, they have trouble doing 1v2 or 1v1 with chi blockers and acrobatic non-bending fighters with fancy weapons. In ALAB, it seemed like the characters could topple an entire army by themselves (and they did). Yeah, because just what this shows need is a Naruto style power level scaling... I personally like that not every single character is a Toph style ultra genius who can just kick ass non stop. That cheapens the story and breaks inmersion. I really liked the fighting/powerlevels in the new one... But i'm not that big a fan of the original and honsetly just like the new one better alltogether. What constantly annoyed me about ALAB is exactly what some here seem to like, people which weren't benders were next to useless... That made it just boring and really stopped me from "buying" the universe created... . thats not true they just had to be exceptional. ty lee for example and even sokka made himself very useful in the show
I know, i know... But i'm just rewatching some from the original series and.. honestly.. The powerlevels are beyond ridiculous (just watching the assault on the wather city)... If you can't bend you better not try to fight anything.. Tanks and stuff? Why bother...
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Fucking nickelodean got its greasy hands all over avatar. Now the fight scenes look like they're on really tight budget. Not to mention they love to take a single animation and digitally replicate it 50,000 times to make everything look "Grand". The ending is a joke when you look at book 1 finale..
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Man, I really enjoyed this series but the ending felt so weak to me.
Overall it was well written, the characters were compelling, and the story was fun, but that last episode really cheapened the whole experience for me.
Everything from Amon turning out to be a water bender, to him being brothers with Tarrlok, to Korra losing her bending, and then getting it back in the same episode just felt like a cop-out.
le sigh.
Still enjoyed watching, but the ending took the show from being great to just okay. 
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