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On May 12 2012 14:57 Crazyeyes wrote:
Anyways, Gahlo's not really saying anything useful and arguing it seems pointless. :D
I'm merely debating a topic, far from arguing about it. If it "seems pointless" than just let it be and not issue a cheapshot. =\
On May 13 2012 00:40 Munk-E wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Oh and why did korra's waterbending fail? She wasn't chiblocked, and was able to bend just fine 30 seconds later.
I think it has to do with the distance from the source. While nowhere near canon, I have seen an Avatar D20 system where part of waterbending's restrictions is the amount of water available and distance from the source. From stage to pool seems to be a decent distance, stage to near-roof even farther. It probably takes a lot of effort to pull the water up that far and still propel forward.
On May 13 2012 01:09 Munk-E wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2012 17:19 TheAmazombie wrote:On May 10 2012 17:15 Shock710 wrote:On May 10 2012 16:59 TheAmazombie wrote:On May 10 2012 16:51 Crazyeyes wrote:On May 10 2012 12:42 Mordiford wrote:On May 10 2012 12:36 TheAmazombie wrote:On May 10 2012 12:33 unit wrote:On May 10 2012 12:28 TheAmazombie wrote:On May 10 2012 12:26 Cyanocyst wrote:
Hey guys, ...why are Makos eyes golden? I though only people from the fire nations royal family could have golden eyes. At least from my memory it seemed that way in TLA.
Though if this were the case and Mako and Bolin were really related to the royal family some how, it seems unlikely they would have wondered the streets as nobody's though out child hood.
I hand't noticed this...but Bolin's eyes are green. Maybe not really brothers if that is the case, or half? i think the bending difference is a bigger tell of that irl siblings have different colored eyes all the time This is true, but if there was a royal family connection, then it is a bit weird...also, isn't bending somehow genetic? How did they end up as different benders if they are related? I guess if the father was one type and the mother another...possible history plot point there. It is probably not worth thinking too much about yet, but maybe something someday. Yes, they had parents from different elements. I'm pretty sure that's been established in the show already. As for Mako's eyes being golden, I don't see why a trait such as that would be entirely limited to the royal family. It could be a prevalent characteristic among the royal family but that doesn't mean nobody outside of that group possesses it. I don't recall any specific mention that "only people from the royal family could have golden eyes". They havn't ever actually mentioned it, but it's common knowledge that Tenzin's sister is a waterbender. So yeah, your parents can pass bending down. I wonder, though. I'm sure there are, for example, waterbenders with two parents that aren't benders. So what happens when you really start mixing things up? Eventually you'll have randoms getting maried and they'll have a random chance of having children of any bending ability. Quadrouplets: one of each. That'd be cool. Anyways, I just rewatched all the episodes since someone wanted to watch them, and honestly that last episode wasn't that bad at all. I've also been rewatching the origional series, and season 1 is faaaaaaarrr more cheesy than anything we've seen so far. You know though...as far as I know they never mentioned a bender being born of two non-benders. They have shown some parents of benders who they never said could bend, but never said they couldn't either. It seems to be a pretty genetic thing... If they could have other benders born, not from genetics, then you would think that there would be more airbenders around, not just the ones passed down from Aang, the last airbender, but they did specifically say that Tenzin was the only airbending master... my friend said that one of their kids is tenzin, another a water bender, and the last a non-bender(poor him) Yeah, so that would mean that bending can be like a dominate gene. If the non-bending gene is mixed in there, then two benders can have a non-bender, but we are still not sure if two non-benders can produce a bender. If that be so, then the rules would be different... Sorry, I am just trying to figure out what we actually know about the specifics of the bending "gene" or the rules or what have you. Oh, and yeah, I heard that too...there was some talk and speculation that the non-bender could be or could be related to Amon on some level. I think the non bending parents having bending children might only work for the avatar. Do we know if any of Korra's parents bend? Also, what distinguishes a bender from a non-bender? If there's a physical characteristic, the genetics could be able to be figuredd out. Also, how is it decided whic element the child gets? Is it like a punnent square where for example the father's dominant earth, recessive fire or something and the mother is dominant water recessive non-bending? If this were true, it would be possible to rank elements in terms of genetic strength. Although we know katara's mother or father weren't water benders, but that means at least two of her grandparents were, and waterbending would actually be a recessive trait. if you look at aang and katara, they had 1 of each child, which means aang must've been half non-bender I think. EDIT: It's been a while since I took biology, do I make any sense?
At the same time, the badgermoles taught the first earth benders, dragons the first fire benders, and sky bison air benders. It could easily enough be tossed to "they were capable but didn't have anybody to teach them" but Korra started earth and fire bending before she was even affirmed by the White Lotus as the Avatar. Are benders capable of picking up the element without a teacher or not? Toph herself said she was taught earth bending by the badgermoles. Neither of her parents showed any signs of being capable of bending.
Is an Avatars ability to self-realize bending different than a normal benders? I think bending being more of a bestowed blessing works better with the, pardon the pun, spirit of the show.
I thought this episode was amazing and I hope they work metal bending into Korra's repertoire.
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i hate this.. when things get so epic. i wish the whole season was done so i can watch this for a whole day like i did with the first avatar.
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Since the series was originally set for 12 episodes this puts us in midswing, only gonna get better from here. =]
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I wass re-watching episode 3 when I noticed this.
+ Show Spoiler +
mako is lightning bending along with a bunch of other people. At this point, lightning bending has become so common, lightning benders are used as simple factory workers. Did everyone learn to do this easily? I think the only two lightning benders in the previous show were ozai and azula, which made me think it was a firelord lineage thing.
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On May 13 2012 04:06 Munk-E wrote:I wass re-watching episode 3 when I noticed this. + Show Spoiler +mako is lightning bending along with a bunch of other people. At this point, lightning bending has become so common, lightning benders are used as simple factory workers. Did everyone learn to do this easily? I think the only two lightning benders in the previous show were ozai and azula, which made me think it was a firelord lineage thing.
Yeah, that made lightning bending lose a bit of it's novelty. Iroh was also able to bend lightning.
Btw Ep 6 was amazing. Though I would've loved to see Tenzin fly up to the dome and kick some butt too.
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Think about how many people had a car 70 years ago, or how many had a computer 30 years ago. As time proceeds, so does progress. Both worlds aren't as they once were.
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I have been hearing very positive things about this show.
I will be sure to take a look.
And yes, I LOVED the original series.
Don't judge.
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Best episode of the season by far, and I was pretty shocked but not surprised at the relationship between Lin and Tenzin. I think the show has also reached a point where all the preview trailers have exhausted any new footage. I'm stoked to see what comes next.
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On May 13 2012 04:06 Munk-E wrote:I wass re-watching episode 3 when I noticed this. + Show Spoiler +mako is lightning bending along with a bunch of other people. At this point, lightning bending has become so common, lightning benders are used as simple factory workers. Did everyone learn to do this easily? I think the only two lightning benders in the previous show were ozai and azula, which made me think it was a firelord lineage thing.
I assume it's similar to how Metalbending became a common thing with earth benders. Lightning bending, I assume, didn't require you to be part of the lineage, but required inner peace to perform it well. Iroh used a lot of aspects from other benders, and that's when he probably was able to do this.
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Pretty cool ep.
A bit weird, that Korra, who was getting her ass kicked by those chi-blockers just a little while ago, was now wiping the floor with them. Been eating some steroids, she has.
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On May 13 2012 04:19 Xayoz wrote:
Pretty cool ep.
A bit weird, that Korra, who was getting her ass kicked by those chi-blockers just a little while ago, was now wiping the floor with them. Been eating some steroids, she has.
Yeah, but i actually think this has to do with her air bending training. While she can't air bend yet, she can now move much more like an air bender. Obviously being more evasive would help anyone fighting skills, though especially when the opponent is required to hit a series of quick jabs, in order to stand a chance.
This is why Aang was so good in TLA, because he could just keep avoiding everything.
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Oh yeah btw do we know, who Toph's husband was? (Lin's father) I mean she must have had somebody. I refuse to believe it was the Duke.
+ Show Spoiler +I have a feeling it actually might have been Sokka.
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On May 13 2012 04:41 Cyanocyst wrote:Oh yeah btw do we know, who Toph's husband was? (Lin's father) I mean she must have had somebody. I refuse to believe it was the Duke. + Show Spoiler +I have a feeling it actually might have been Sokka.
So Lin had a thing with her cousin? I don't think so...
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On May 13 2012 04:48 darkmetal505 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 13 2012 04:41 Cyanocyst wrote:Oh yeah btw do we know, who Toph's husband was? (Lin's father) I mean she must have had somebody. I refuse to believe it was the Duke. + Show Spoiler +I have a feeling it actually might have been Sokka. So Lin had a thing with her cousin? I don't think so...
Well that pops a hole in that, but Sokka and Toph had a lot of little moments together.
The Serpents pass Ep, Book 3 ch 4 ( Sokka gets the sword), in One Ep Sokka and Toph were holding hands while riding back to Ba Sing Se. Sokka always seemed the most impressed with her metal bending.
Also there was the final part where Toph was hanging by a thread off the Zeppelin.
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On May 13 2012 04:18 SoraLimit wrote:Show nested quote +On May 13 2012 04:06 Munk-E wrote:I wass re-watching episode 3 when I noticed this. + Show Spoiler +mako is lightning bending along with a bunch of other people. At this point, lightning bending has become so common, lightning benders are used as simple factory workers. Did everyone learn to do this easily? I think the only two lightning benders in the previous show were ozai and azula, which made me think it was a firelord lineage thing. I assume it's similar to how Metalbending became a common thing with earth benders. Lightning bending, I assume, didn't require you to be part of the lineage, but required inner peace to perform it well. Iroh used a lot of aspects from other benders, and that's when he probability was able to do this.
Yeah, the whole point of bending lightning was that he was integrating techniques from different nations (specifically the Water-tribe), and of course with all the nations coming together in Republic City it's hardly unlikely that this became more common.
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Dammit why didn't I see that JTV link earlier haha, the video hosting site I watched was slow, had bad framerate, some delay/lag.
The music is fucking awesome as usual. Seriously it's so fucking fitting. Anyone notice? xD
The animation quality is so fucking good as usual.
The fighting was good but I wouldn't say they are significantly better than past ones like some seem to be suggesting, but not stale neither.
It's so awesome that these show's writers are so young as well. Unless they retire for some reason, we'll be seeing many many more awesome shows (and EVEN BETTER ONES TOO!!!).
On May 13 2012 00:35 Funguuuuu wrote:That was actually the greatest episode ever. + Show Spoiler +It was great seeing Amon just demolish Tahno, and the fight on the roof was fucking amazing.
Darn, I was reading TL comments briefly so as to avoid being totally spoiled before I watch episode 6, so I thought that Tahno was gonna fight Amon (even after I saw him lose his bending I thought he was still gonna fight hand to hand combat). Part of what made me believe that is that the writers might have decided to make Tahno a redeemable character and it's always interesting having different fights between different people.
Anyways, the fighting was pretty epic as usual, though I couldn't see it in its full glory cus the streaming site (or perhaps it's just cus so many people are watching) is pretty bad lol. The audio/video sync was off 1 second, the frame rate was low, and pausing didn't work well (would lag, the audio kept going for a few seconds, then lag again, then finally it regroups). And it took like 10 minutes to buffer the first 2 minutes before it stopped buffering (idk why it's like that, but after a couple minutes it loads at the "normal" speed).
On May 13 2012 00:40 Munk-E wrote:Holy shit that was some amazing fight scenes in that one. I was kind of hoping the pro-bending thing would be an underlying subplot throughout the series, but it ended 5 episodes in. Now I'm guessing mako and bolin will accompany korra on her avatar adventures, like sokka and katara, and pro-bending was just used to establish their character. I hope they end up doing another pro-bending series though, it was pretty neat. + Show Spoiler +Oh and why did korra's waterbending fail? She wasn't chiblocked, and was able to bend just fine 30 seconds later.
Like someone else said, it's simply because she didn't lift enough water. Remember it's not like they can just control the elements without moving; she was either too weak or misjudged how much water to bend beforehand.
On May 13 2012 04:06 Munk-E wrote:I wass re-watching episode 3 when I noticed this. + Show Spoiler +mako is lightning bending along with a bunch of other people. At this point, lightning bending has become so common, lightning benders are used as simple factory workers. Did everyone learn to do this easily? I think the only two lightning benders in the previous show were ozai and azula, which made me think it was a firelord lineage thing.
Hm I guess it was pretty neat in the first series, but by now it should be no surprise/disappointment with the bending/technology advancing so much... remember back then, Iroh said something about lightning bending being unknown? IIRC he explained the reason why you don't see it much is not because it's difficulty or a secret, but rather because people didn't think to combine firebending techniques with waterbending techniques (allowing the chi to flow or whatnot in new ways). So it should be understandable that people know how to do it now.
On May 13 2012 04:53 Cyanocyst wrote:Show nested quote +On May 13 2012 04:48 darkmetal505 wrote:On May 13 2012 04:41 Cyanocyst wrote:Oh yeah btw do we know, who Toph's husband was? (Lin's father) I mean she must have had somebody. I refuse to believe it was the Duke. + Show Spoiler +I have a feeling it actually might have been Sokka. So Lin had a thing with her cousin? I don't think so... Well that pops a hole in that, but Sokka and Toph had a lot of little moments together. The Serpents pass Ep, Book 3 ch 4 ( Sokka gets the sword), in One Ep Sokka and Toph were holding hands while riding back to Ba Sing Se. Sokka always seemed the most impressed with her metal bending. Also there was the final part where Toph was hanging by a thread off the Zeppelin.
Cousin? do you mean brother in law? That may be technically a cousin (?) but they're not blood related, so I don't think it is out of the question. Though I don't think it's Sokka, but maybe xD
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Another sick episode, lot of good fights, more cryptic flashbacks at adult Aang (he looks so badass). Luvit luvit luvit luvit, can't wait till next week to see what happens.
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Oh yeah I think that Amon is likely Aang's son; Aang probably loved his son too much to "finish the job". I think Aang's other son might be mentioned as well... ( I have a feeling they gave these details because they are actually important to the story, not just to satisfy fan's curiosity =D these are great writers after all).
Also it sounds like Mako's parents' death may be related to Amon's face being scarred. Both happened due to firebenders. That's probably going to be an important story development later on... (perhaps even somehow related to Zuko)
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Great episode. Anyone else notice the little shout out to Cabbage Corps. for all your latest news and in the original Avatar there was always someone losing all his cabbages.
It really made me smile.
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