EPTAnd ofcourse when korra loses her bending, cries and immediately gets it back. You can't really get away with that no matter how convincing you make it appear.
[TV] The Legend of Korra - Page 153
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solidbebe
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And ofcourse when korra loses her bending, cries and immediately gets it back. You can't really get away with that no matter how convincing you make it appear. | ||
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Maand
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
On August 29 2012 07:42 Maand wrote: Meelo Style! + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KBEE0NhyEE LoL! That is awesome. Meelo is the man. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
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ZerO_0
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SwizzY
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I think it's because of how much attached I was emotionally to the first series that really made me miss the old characters. Tenzin and Korra are pretty great but everyone else is pretty forgettable. I think the fact that they planned the Amond arc to be such a short miniseries really hurt them in the end, because it kind of took alot of creative liberties out of the hands of the storyboard designers.. but now it's back in their hands with the extra ~39 ep. to follow so fingers crossed to them being able to redeem some fairly bad character development! :D And woah. Serious Spoiler: + Show Spoiler + I was wondering what the point of that scene was and it's freaking mindblowing (maybe I'm just not deep enough.. D  . Seriously looking forward to the next book! | ||
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Zergneedsfood
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On September 04 2012 15:30 SwizzY wrote: Just finished the first book of Korra and I gotta say the flashbacks were the most interesting things in the new series. I loved seeing old Toph and old Sokka. Old Aang as was just badass as well. I think it's because of how much attached I was emotionally to the first series that really made me miss the old characters. Tenzin and Korra are pretty great but everyone else is pretty forgettable. I think the fact that they planned the Amond arc to be such a short miniseries really hurt them in the end, because it kind of took alot of creative liberties out of the hands of the storyboard designers.. but now it's back in their hands with the extra ~39 ep. to follow so fingers crossed to them being able to redeem some fairly bad character development! :D And woah. Serious Spoiler: + Show Spoiler + I was wondering what the point of that scene was and it's freaking mindblowing (maybe I'm just not deep enough.. D . Seriously looking forward to the next book!Well if you think about it for a moment, you realize it just shows how shallow of a person Korra is because she apparently thinks she's only a person if she had bending. I don't think that was a show of depth as much as it was a show of how much I couldn't take that girl seriously. | ||
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Escuche
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On September 07 2012 01:47 Zergneedsfood wrote: Well if you think about it for a moment, you realize it just shows how shallow of a person Korra is because she apparently thinks she's only a person if she had bending. I don't think that was a show of depth as much as it was a show of how much I couldn't take that girl seriously. Dude, she lost her bending THAT DAY. It was an incredibly recent trauma and she didn't know how to take it yet. Not to mention she's 17. And she's the avatar, which to her was entirely based in bending because she wasn't in any way spiritual. Bending was her livelihood - it's like if a committee stripped you of 5 medals from a sport you dominated with no evidence or something equally unjust. Her reaction is pretty justifiable. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
On September 07 2012 02:04 Escuche wrote: Dude, she lost her bending THAT DAY. It was an incredibly recent trauma and she didn't know how to take it yet. Not to mention she's 17. And she's the avatar, which to her was entirely based in bending because she wasn't in any way spiritual. Bending was her livelihood - it's like if a committee stripped you of 5 medals from a sport you dominated with no evidence or something equally unjust. Her reaction is pretty justifiable. Uhh...this isn't about getting medals from a sport taken away unjustifiably. It's about Korra thinking she's no longer an Avatar/human being without her bending. This entire show could have made a very really clear point about what it means to be an Avatar, and from the experiences of at least four/five generation of Avatar, not a single one of them was defined by their bending, but by their actions and personalities that helped shape peaceful times in their respective eras. Korra just doesn't get what it means to be an Avatar and therefore, her shallow understanding of what it means to be an Avatar coupled with never ever learning anything in the entirety of the show is just a testament to how badly her character turned out. | ||
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obesechicken13
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Gahlo
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On September 07 2012 02:16 Zergneedsfood wrote: Uhh...this isn't about getting medals from a sport taken away unjustifiably. It's about Korra thinking she's no longer an Avatar/human being without her bending. This entire show could have made a very really clear point about what it means to be an Avatar, and from the experiences of at least four/five generation of Avatar, not a single one of them was defined by their bending, but by their actions and personalities that helped shape peaceful times in their respective eras. Korra just doesn't get what it means to be an Avatar and therefore, her shallow understanding of what it means to be an Avatar coupled with never ever learning anything in the entirety of the show is just a testament to how badly her character turned out. She had also known she was the avatar since she was VERY young. Her life since a child was been "you are the avatar, you need to learn bending. She didn't get the standard 16 years of personal development, let alone the slightly abbreviated time Aang did. Her life and personal identity has been molded around the fact that she was the avatar, the all bending being. Then she got reduced to just being an airbender, that's a lot to go through. | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
On September 07 2012 03:36 Gahlo wrote: She had also known she was the avatar since she was VERY young. Her life since a child was been "you are the avatar, you need to learn bending. She didn't get the standard 16 years of personal development, let alone the slightly abbreviated time Aang did. Her life and personal identity has been molded around the fact that she was the avatar, the all bending being. Then she got reduced to just being an airbender, that's a lot to go through. Eh! Eh!... This guy... just copied me! Gahlo what's your summoner ID? Play some games with me on the weekend? | ||
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Gahlo
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Zergneedsfood
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On September 07 2012 03:36 Gahlo wrote: She had also known she was the avatar since she was VERY young. Her life since a child was been "you are the avatar, you need to learn bending. She didn't get the standard 16 years of personal development, let alone the slightly abbreviated time Aang did. Her life and personal identity has been molded around the fact that she was the avatar, the all bending being. Then she got reduced to just being an airbender, that's a lot to go through. At that point you're just justifying how shallow she is, not defending that she isn't. And the fact that the show doesn't even remotely explain why she's so brain dead to the fact that the Avatar's job is more than just bending is testament to how little I buy the argument. People have been trying to teach Korra that she can't ignore her spiritual side, but she just doesn't listen. That's not getting a standard 16 years of development, that's just not listening to your elders like every other 16 year old out there. In other words, all of her training was centered around "Yes, you bend well, but that's not what the Avatar is all about you know. There's a spiritual side that you're ignoring." Korra goes "Yeah whatever." Then, when she actually loses that bending, she suddenly feels like the world owes her something because she's been ignoring the spiritual side all along and without even taking a single iota of effort to try to learn about the spiritual side, she's given instant gratification by Aang, who gives her back her Avatar powers even though she's barely done anything to deserve it. | ||
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Gahlo
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On September 07 2012 07:19 Zergneedsfood wrote: At that point you're just justifying how shallow she is, not defending that she isn't. And the fact that the show doesn't even remotely explain why she's so brain dead to the fact that the Avatar's job is more than just bending is testament to how little I buy the argument. People have been trying to teach Korra that she can't ignore her spiritual side, but she just doesn't listen. That's not getting a standard 16 years of development, that's just not listening to your elders like every other 16 year old out there. In other words, all of her training was centered around "Yes, you bend well, but that's not what the Avatar is all about you know. There's a spiritual side that you're ignoring." Korra goes "Yeah whatever." Then, when she actually loses that bending, she suddenly feels like the world owes her something because she's been ignoring the spiritual side all along and without even taking a single iota of effort to try to learn about the spiritual side, she's given instant gratification by Aang, who gives her back her Avatar powers even though she's barely done anything to deserve it. Last I check, growing up on what amounts to a military compound that focuses on teaching you how to fight isn't a solid upbringing. Despite the WL's intentions, they did a horrible job of giving Korra a balanced upbringing. Korra doesn't have a lot of patience, she expects herself to be perfect at everything avatar because that is what she is. That's why she was so blocked in air and spirit. She had difficulty and got frustrated and doubted herself. She avoids it because it gives her difficulty because she can force of will her way through it. Its no surprise she was able to accomplish both things after she had ZERO expectations that SHE puts on HERSELF. Tell me, what 16 year old girl listens to what her elders tell her? And to be fair, who are other people to actually TEACH her about how to be a proper avatar? The avatars themselves. What she had was a bunch of benders teaching her how to bend. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
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On September 07 2012 08:44 Gahlo wrote: Last I check, growing up on what amounts to a military compound that focuses on teaching you how to fight isn't a solid upbringing. Despite the WL's intentions, they did a horrible job of giving Korra a balanced upbringing. Korra doesn't have a lot of patience, she expects herself to be perfect at everything avatar because that is what she is. That's why she was so blocked in air and spirit. She had difficulty and got frustrated and doubted herself. She avoids it because it gives her difficulty because she can force of will her way through it. Its no surprise she was able to accomplish both things after she had ZERO expectations that SHE puts on HERSELF. Tell me, what 16 year old girl listens to what her elders tell her? And to be fair, who are other people to actually TEACH her about how to be a proper avatar? The avatars themselves. What she had was a bunch of benders teaching her how to bend. What are you talking about? The WL never was trying to train her specifically to be a bender. The old men were like "she lacks restraint", clearly telling us that they never intended to stress bending so much. 1. It wasn't a military compound. 2. She often received visits from the outside world. 3. Nothing suggests the WL did anything The very first episode, the White Lotus told her that she's always been avoiding her spiritual side. Tenzin tried to implement that knowledge. Lin kicked her in the face with it when she arrested Korra for the first time. The entire series Korra was placed in positions where she realized that bending wasn't all there was to being an Avatar. She just ignored all of them. | ||
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Escuche
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On September 07 2012 09:34 Zergneedsfood wrote: What are you talking about? The WL never was trying to train her specifically to be a bender. The old men were like "she lacks restraint", clearly telling us that they never intended to stress bending so much. 1. It wasn't a military compound. 2. She often received visits from the outside world. 3. Nothing suggests the WL did anything The very first episode, the White Lotus told her that she's always been avoiding her spiritual side. Tenzin tried to implement that knowledge. Lin kicked her in the face with it when she arrested Korra for the first time. The entire series Korra was placed in positions where she realized that bending wasn't all there was to being an Avatar. She just ignored all of them. Maybe that would be enough for an experienced avatar like the Aang we saw in the flashbacks. Having been a fully-realized avatar for decades and a seasoned world leader, he would undoubtedly be able to accept that he could continue to function as a symbol of hope for the world without his bending. Korra, on the other hand, is 17. And like you said, she's always avoided her spiritual side. During that scene, she had just lost an innate ability that she had honed for her entire life and that happens to be completely fucking awesome (hence my comparison to Lance Armstrong that went completely over your head). Who can blame her for her extreme reaction? And I don't mean to simply justify it; that reaction doesn't make her a shallow person. It's a single moment in her life in the wake of a severe trauma during her adolescence. | ||
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Gahlo
United States35172 Posts
On September 07 2012 09:34 Zergneedsfood wrote: What are you talking about? The WL never was trying to train her specifically to be a bender. The old men were like "she lacks restraint", clearly telling us that they never intended to stress bending so much. 1. It wasn't a military compound. 2. She often received visits from the outside world. 3. Nothing suggests the WL did anything The very first episode, the White Lotus told her that she's always been avoiding her spiritual side. Tenzin tried to implement that knowledge. Lin kicked her in the face with it when she arrested Korra for the first time. The entire series Korra was placed in positions where she realized that bending wasn't all there was to being an Avatar. She just ignored all of them. I don't know, a compound made and staffed by the WL that check with her when she comes and goes seems pretty restrictive, which was the connection I tried to make. "What amounts to" =/= is. How did the WL not try and teach her bending when they had earth, water, and fire bending MASTERS tutor her and have her go through bending tests? The water and earth masters wanted Korra's air training to be delayed while they tried to force her to work on her spiritual side. Tenzin was not the first one to talk to her about her spiritual side, Lin had NOTHING to do with the topic either. Although, as far as Lin goes, I assume you meant about restraint but worded your response poorly. Tell me, who taught her how to be the avatar? Who knows how an avatar is supposed to act except an avatar? How is an avatar supposed to talk to its past lives if it can't make contact with them? She was somebody trained in bending, not avatarness, put into situations that she wasn't trained for. What did you expect her to do? They were all pressure filled situations where she has two option: go with what she knows(bending), or run away. Korra don't run away, and you gotta deal with it. | ||
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Saurabhinator
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TheAmazombie
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On September 07 2012 20:50 Saurabhinator wrote: this fan art was just too cute. Had to share. That is nice, but check out this awesome video as well... | ||
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