Avatar: The Last Airbender & Korra (SPOILERS)

[Zealkin]

Is Toph still alive? D:

Old lady Toph would be amazing!

We don't know yet!! When we get further in the game maybe we'll find out. Toph and Zuko both have statues and Zuko is still alive, plus Toph was the youngest so I'm betting that she is too. Keep your fingers crossed!!

 

[Carlie]

They've been crossed since I heard about the show. I'd die to see old lady Toph, so much awesomeness.

 

[Elisa Maza]

So, according to the third episode, Mako

Spoiler

has seen his parents getting killed in front of him, works his ass off in an electricity-production factory with lightning bending, takes care of his brother with the cutest of ways, has an undeniable talent is pro-bending, has brains AND brawl, can solve mysteries, aaaaand he's handsome to boot.


Guys...

MAKO IS BATMAN.

 

[Zealkin]

You beat me to the punch!!! XD I noticed the similarities right away!

But holy shit episode 3 was amazing! And extremely mature for a kids show(which is a nice change)!!! God this show is so good, and Bolin. Bolin. I love him so much, and Mako is such a bamf i can't even.

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SHOW.

 

[Elisa Maza]

But holy shit episode 3 was amazing! And extremely mature for a kids show(which is a nice change)!!!

Word.

And speaking of which, here's a nice list I found about

Spoiler: all the things in this episode that aren't for kids.

• Butakka (Bu Tahka? Butakah?) extolling the Ferrets’ winnings through the guise of things like rent and groceries, leaving them penniless.
• Bolin’s panic at having to raise 30,000 yuans.
• Basically anything involving finance. Since when do kids care about that?
• “I’ve always had people taking care of me.” “Then I wouldn’t say you have nothing.” Damn.
• Bolin’s past with the Triple Threat Triad and his obvious discomfort at remeeting Shady Shin.
• The fact that Shady Shin got Bolin to ignore his misgivings by giving him money. This is a goofy kid who loves his brother and did silly tricks with his pet while wearing a ridiculous moustache, and in an instant money turns him into a person willing to do gruntwork for criminals.
• Mako working hard labor to earn the entry money.
• (Off topic, but I have to laugh at the fact that we all assumed the lightningbending would be happening in a fight or something and instead Mako was using it for commonplace repetitive work at a power plant.)
• “I bet the little love bird is making a house call.” IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
• Seriously, Mako’s voice during that scene. You just KNOW he was thinking “Bolin wants to bang the Avatar so hard, the little scamp”.
• Street kids. Just. The street kids. And the way this twelve-year-old kid already knows how to coax money out of people in exchange for information.
• Money in general was just handled really maturely in this episode.
• TURF WARS. MOTHERFUCKING GANG TURF WARS. I CANNOT WITH THIS SHOW.
• “Pabu’s a friend, not a snack.” Subtle, but Naga hunts and kills things in front of Korra.
• “I did what I had to do to survive, and protect my little brother!” That was deep. This scene is telling little kids that sometimes you have to do morally wrong things to keep you and the people you love safe. You can’t always do the right thing and expect everything will work out okay - the world is too harsh for that. It’s a lesson we all have to learn someday, but the fact that this lesson is in an animated TV show aimed at twelve-year-olds is flooring.
• Oh, and then immediately afterwards we find out that MAKO’S PARENTS WERE BURNED TO DEATH IN FRONT OF HIM WHEN HE WAS EIGHT.
• Mako pulling his scarf up to hide his face. There was so much pain and vulnerability in that subtle little gesture that you know few members of the target demographic would ever catch. It was heartbreaking.
• Korra pumping the protestor for info by destroying his stuff and threatening him with bodily harm. That is not a heroic thing to do.
• Guess who else was burned to death (if he wasn’t lying)? Amon’s entire family.
• “Then, he took my face.” Wow okay so FACIAL BURNS ARE NOTHING NEW IN THIS FANDOM but that delivery was chilling. No wonder Steve Blum is revered as a voice acting god. I squeaked in terror- and you know the eight-year-olds watching did, too.
• Amon was kind of right. Not entirely, but the moral ambiguity in this show is something you almost never see in entertainment in general, much less kid’s cartoons!
• The Equalists bringing the Triad members and Bolin onstage to fight for their bending. Imagine if someone told you “I’m going to cut off your legs. You can have a head start.” and stepped back to let you run. And you start running and running and you think you’re going to get away but BAM - there he is in front of you. And you’re not doing any more running. Ever.
• Lightning Bolt Zolt’s eyes while Amon was, uh, debending him. (Fandom, we need a better snappy term than “taking his bending away.” GET TO IT.) And the way he just dropped when it was over, and his weak, terrified voice when he realized what Amon did.
• (Off topic, but did anyone else notice that Zolt had the same eyebrows as Mako?!)
• When the Equalists untie Shady Shin, you can see that the guy in orange to the left is sobbing.
• The look Bolin and the guy in green exchanged before they led him away.
• Those little whimpering noises Bolin makes when they untie him.
• Okay, let’s just say anything involving the rally at all was dark as shit.
• Bolin and Mako screaming and getting electrocuted.
• Tenzin’s tiny little eyeflick when Korra tells him what Amon can do. Blink and you’ll miss it, but it’s there. He knows something.
• “No bender is safe.” BOOM. Show over.

Can I just say how adult and dark this show has become and how maturely it deals with its themes? Social inequality is not a subject you meet regularly in cartoons.

Long live the creators.

 

[Zealkin]

Yep Bryke taking a dive with this one. Worship them!!!!

Lol saw that and reblogged it on tumblr too!

Can we please discuss how innocent Bolin is? He's lived on the streets almost all his life yet he can still believe that a fire ferret show will get him 30000 yuans by the end of the week. Mako really did protect him form everything..

 

[Shademp]

I am struggling to find the proper words. So well-written and so dark. The main heroes make you smile while the main villain (and his henchmen) REALLY freak you out. It is seldom a villain in a show catches my attention this much (in a positive way).
The social inequality subject really strikes a cord with me. Makes me think which side I would be on if we lived in a world where some people had supernatural powers that could cause great destruction. Chances are I'd be drawn to the equalists, but not being completely on their side.

 

[Zealkin]

I am struggling to find the proper words. So well-written and so dark. The main heroes make you smile while the main villain (and his henchmen) REALLY freak you out. It is seldom a villain in a show catches my attention this much (in a positive way).
The social inequality subject really strikes a cord with me. Makes me think which side I would be on if we lived in a world where some people had supernatural powers that could cause great destruction. Chances are I'd be drawn to the equalists, but not being completely on their side.

I know. It's on a completely different level compared to the main series. There's so much you can analyze, and the characters are already really deep.

 

[Tifaeria]

So, according to the third episode, Mako

Spoiler

has seen his parents getting killed in front of him, works his ass off in an electricity-production factory with lightning bending, takes care of his brother with the cutest of ways, has an undeniable talent is pro-bending, has brains AND brawl, can solve mysteries, aaaaand he's handsome to boot.


Guys...

MAKO IS BATMAN.

OMG, YOU'RE INCREDIBLE!! <333 You totally made my day with this! XD

And I'm loving this series already. They're all cuties and badasses, and they are making me love waking up in the morning to watch cartoons again. I can't wait to see what happens next Saturday.

 

[Shademp]

Just a vague speculation, but perhaps Korra's detachment from the spiritual world/side-of-things and

Spoiler

Aman getting the power to remove people's bending

is somehow connected. Even if the latter is not a cause from the former, story-wise these details may be important. In whatever shape or form, I have a feeling that Korra in the end connecting with the spirit world will be very important for restoring balance and ultimately

Spoiler

removing Aman's ability. YO DAWG I HERD U LIEK REMOVING ABILITIES, SO I MADE YOU ABLE TO REMOVE THE ABILITY THAT REMOVES ABILITIES.

 

[Theozilla]

Finally saw the episode this afternoon, can't say much more than what has already been said. Such a great show. And Mako is totally Batman.

 

[Cloud_S]

Ah they updated the flash game!!!!!!! ZUKO'S STILL ALIVEEEE NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!!!!!!!!

I'll have to do some digging then. I've been swamped with work lately... so, no time to look into the flash game contents. Maybe I can take a crack at it on and off this week.

Also, LoK is awesome... saw all three episodes and wow.

 

[Zee]

when is asami coming in i just want to see sexy not!lust kicking everyone's ass and racing like a pro

 

[Theozilla]

http://masterarrowhead.tumblr.com/post/21546778935/hawkfeather-atla-annotated-energybending-a

Interesting little summary comparing the different pressure points that Aang and Amon may use for energybending.

 

[Zealkin]

when is asami coming in i just want to see sexy not!lust kicking everyone's ass and racing like a pro

God this so much, and I hope she and Korra really hit it off and become best buds`~~I really don't want a stupid love triangle to interfere with that(because Bryke said there would be one >.>)

http://masterarrowhead.tumblr.com/po...nergybending-a

Interesting little summary comparing the different pressure points that Aang and Amon may use for energybending.

Yeah i saw that. Just bs speculation here but i feel like the spirit world is going to be really closely involved with series(even more so than ATLA) and I feel like Amon might actually be a spirit personified..I mean Spirits CAN enter the mortal world at the risk of losing their lives for good, so maybe this spirit is trying to send a message to show how mechanical and un-spiritual the world has become and wants to take away bending for good. Another alternative is that Amon is possessed by one, but idk just thinking too much about Korra.

 

[Zee]

God this so much, and I hope she and Korra really hit it off and become best buds`~~I really don't want a stupid love triangle to interfere with that(because Bryke said there would be one >.>)

ugh i hope it wouldn't be asami/mako/korra
i love the show so far but this would turn me off so much, can we not do the whole, "two kickass females reduced to catfighting over typical bishie boy"

if anything i could see it being bolin/korra/mako (esp since mako already assumes there's something going on between them) but aaauuugh, the avatar series is so good with female characters pleaaaaase hope they do this right

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

ugh i hope it wouldn't be asami/mako/korra
i love the show so far but this would turn me off so much, can we not do the whole, "two kickass females reduced to catfighting over typical bishie boy"

if anything i could see it being bolin/korra/mako (esp since mako already assumes there's something going on between them) but aaauuugh, the avatar series is so good with female characters pleaaaaase hope they do this right

i thought this show as bolin/korra/mako threesome with asami being korra's best friend with threesome relationship advice

 

[Tennyo]

Just watched the third episode.

Oh man is this going to be a good show. I got chills running down my spine...

 

[Cloud_S]

Good news! I think I've managed to grab all there is on the site (there are entries for the last three areas, but they're just 1kb placeholder files).

Should have time to upload it all soon.

 

[Zealkin]

I fall asleep for 2 hours and this is what happens on tumblr!?!?!??!!

and:

God damned love triangle WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
ASAMI LOOKS SO AMAZING IN THIS THOUGH <3

 

[Theozilla]

I fall asleep for 2 hours and this is what happens on tumblr!?!?!??!!

and:

God damned love triangle WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
ASAMI LOOKS SO AMAZING IN THIS THOUGH <3

Well hello not-Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist. Seriously Asami looks awesome. Looks like Bryke is following through on their promise of there being love-triangles in the show. And of course the (shipping) fandom is likely going nuts.

Also can anyone confirm if this is a fake image or not? (if it is not I am guessing this is a shot out of a dream/nightmare sequence, the last series did a lot of those).

 

[Zealkin]

That's definitely fake

1. It doesn't make sense, as in Aang and Tenzin were/are the only fully realized air nomads
2. If it were Aang/Tenzin they would never do what Amon has done
3. Many sources have stated they were the last air-benders and only master air-benders get those tattoos
4. It has Arabic subtitles when the normal English hasn't even come out yet
5. It's traceover of Tenzins face
6. It's just stupid and doesn't make sense, and Bryke wouldn't do that

 

[Theozilla]

That's definitely fake

1. It doesn't make sense, as in Aang and Tenzin were/are the only fully realized air nomads
2. If it were Aang/Tenzin they would never do what Amon has done
3. Many sources have stated they were the last air-benders and only master air-benders get those tattoos
4. It has Arabic subtitles when the normal English hasn't even come out yet
5. It's traceover of Tenzins face
6. It's just stupid and doesn't make sense, and Bryke wouldn't do that

So you don't even think it is an out-of-context dream/nightmare sequence image?

 

[Zealkin]

So you don't even think it is an out-of-context dream/nightmare sequence image?

I doubt it but that is a possibility, it's just that it makes so little sense. But then again not many things are what they seem in shows like this so maybe. Korra does have a nightmare in a trailer coming up, but I dunno, we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[Zee]

gay homosexual lesbian feelings for asami

im mako he's me our feelings are one