Scenes that tragically fall just short of being absolute kino

I really like how Zaheer straddles the line between being an airbending novice while still being a threat. The Tenzin fight obviously shows that, Tenzin is clearly vastly outmatching him and only loses when he gets teamed on. And in the Korra fight, he has to flee the entire time until the poison finally kicks in.

Zaheer's power doesn't come simply from airbending but that he uses airbending in ways that "natural" airbenders do not because of their culture. He uses an asphyxiation technique that Aang/Tenzin/etc refuse to use because of their pacifism, and a flying technique that is only possible because of his sheer independence and detachment from others (at least once the love of his life dies) which for the vast majority of airbenders throughout history was unfathomable. It of course helped that he was already a massive airaboo. Zaheer managed to make the Harmonic Convergence asspull work, at least a little bit.

I'm just upset that Korra didn't have a more concise story - Season 1 could have ended with her having her bending gone, and her needing to start from scratch and really get into the spiritual side of being an Avatar

It was really a result of poor planning, Korra season 1 was originally just a mini-series so they had to hastily wrap everything up at the end.

All of Motorcity is so desperately close to kino, but it fell into really awkward corporate meddling with most episodes having to have been made as stand alone episodes, aired out of order, and ended right as you started to see the story open up and progress on a crazy finale.

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There was just so much potential

I hope one day we get the chance to start the series fresh, with the new Earthbending avatar - though maybe moving away from Republic City so we get more rural areas. Maybe an Earth nation avatar that can't really bend, so no one really finds him and he just needs to rely on spiritual bs

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Yes Nick meddled with production and also ordered 4 seasons upfront, but after viewership declined and it was decided the final season would be a nick.com only the damage had already been done.

>There was just so much potential
Ah, the old road to hell excuse.

Could Tenzin have beaten the entire Red Lotus minus P'li?

I always enjoyed the fan-theory that the Earth Bending avatar would come from a set of twins because of the whole 'dark avatar,' nonsense (Which was admittedly horrid,) - but the idea that both twins would have the power to bend all the elements but it's not sure who's the 'good or bad,' avatar would create some interesting story moments...at least I think.

Lava bending man would have caused a lot of problems...

Silly user, don't you know that rural areas are irrelevant? Cities are where all the action is.

I dunno.
It looked like he was sort of doing that before receiving the sniper shot in the back.

Watched TLA for the first time recently and now I'm going through LoK but fucking hell S2 is such a pile of shit. S3 better be really good or I'm not sure I can justify finishing this.

oh shut up its obvious you've already watched both series

That could be interesting as a concept:

But I like the idea more that because of various shenanigains, like Korra breaking the chain of the Spirits of the last avatars being automatically linked to the New Avatar, it makes finding the new Avatar through old methods much more difficult. And just for added bonus, the new Avatar doesn't even know he's supposed to be a Bender, so no one even thinks to look at him, leading to a huge amount of confusion and trouble when the newly freed Spirits are like 'hey? Your old shit avatar is dead, wheres the new one, so we can teach them how to be NOT SHIT at dealing with us like the previous Avatar was. Oh, they're gone gone? Fuck you' - This leads to a rift without a proper Avatar to be a bridge between the two sides

In comes some mousey, out of shape scholar kid with no ability to bend running into danger trying to break up some sort of confrontation in his shithole village trying to protect both a human and a spirit from hurting each other, and bumbling into the fact that he's the Avatar - and him trying to keep it a secret because of all the troubles that Avatar Korra had

Even ignoring the plot, most of S2 was animated by a totally different studio (Pierrot, mostly known for animating Naruto), the studio that did S1 (Mir) only did the Wan episodes and the finale. Luckily they realized that was a mistake and went back to Mir only afterwards.

season 2 represents a sheer drop in quality before season 3 picks back up at a decent level

I don't know why you need to convince yourself that's the case but it isn't.

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>The twins can only bend elements the other isn't currently bending.

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Shit ton of action cartoons that has to awkwardly write around the words "die" or "kill."

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Season 2 is pretty trash. A just as unsatisfying villain as season 1 only without even the illusion of something good being built up to, makes the love triangle even worse, Korra continues to be a complete idiot who makes things worse. To be honest, I think the only good thing to come out of season 2 was Varrick, and I don't remember if he was good in that season, I just know I really liked him in season 3 and even 4. Going from season 2 to 3 is night and day. 4 is better than 2, but not as good as 3. You're gonna watch it, but I agree with above poster that their antagonist keeps on telling rather than showing the evil and the ending is absurd.

that has always been so stupid to me. you can show violence or have a character that's obviously killed off, but you can't say the words?

i liked the civil war storyline, but after the vaatu shit started, it was never mentioned again

I love the idea that an Avatar after Korra essentially would be a fresh start for the series - most old faces would be dead and long gone, and most folks wouldn't introduce themselves by their great grandpa or anything, and I love the idea that after Korra, being an Avatar is really different (No longer having the automatic link to past lives, and needing to do shit like finding a magic statue at a Winter Solstice, or walking in the shoes of a previous Avatar to actually contact one) or even having the gimmicks of being an Avatar drastically changed

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>Spirit troubles

I like the idea of characters like Wan Shi Tong getting sick to death of humans being stupid and beligerent and begin kidnapping random bending kids to try to find the Avatar first so they can raise the kid themselves

it would have been great if the spirits actually did anything to influence the story. aside from the stupid avatar spirits and wan shi tong's one reappearance, the spirits were basically just background characters, mascots, and set dressing

actually here's how it all went

>Bryke pitched Korra as a one-season miniseries
>Nickelodeon likes it, picks it up
>A decent way into the production of Book 1, Bryke decides to pitch the story that became The Promise comics as a tv animated movie
>Nick, being Nick, aren't interested in doing TV movies at the time and decline their pitch
>Instead, they're given an order for another 14 episodes(Book 2)
>Book 1 airs in a great timeslot and gets mostly positive reception and great viewership
>Due to this success, Nick gives them episode orders for Books 3 and 4
>Book 2 takes a while to produce for a variety of reasons, including Studio Pierrot being an embarrassment to animation, forcing Studio Mir to come back and do the Wan episodes and the second half of Book 2 because they didn't want Pierrots "work" to be mistaken for their own. Bryke also had to take some ideas they'd been kicking around since ATLA(Avatar origin) and develop them into the plot for book 2.
>Book 2 airs, but Nick didn't advertise it as much and swapped the timeslots, plus it'd been over a year since Book 1 aired. all in all decreased viewership, Nick also started testing the waters for putting stuff on their website by having the two final eps go online early via a fan-interactive event
>Book 3 finishes production June 3, but episodes 3-6 leaked online 5 days later by Mexican Nickelodeon's website, forcing the creators to air the trailer for the season early and rush the show to air
>Book 3's episodes suffer another drop in viewership due to these circumstances, Nick pulls show off air and opts to continue the online airing thing from Book 2
>Nick pulls a dick move and cuts Book 4's budget by almost an entire episode, forcing Bryke to either fire most of their staff weeks before the end or do a clip show
>Book 4 starts airing online a little under two months after Book 3
>Books 3 and 4 air the online episodes on Nicktoons as Book 4 is releasing online in Fall 2014

If there is a third crack at the setting, would be nice to have an Avatar that was a complete opposite to Korra. All spirit, no bending, maybe even raised by spirits (Or first realizes he's the Avatar because of something spiritual)

Would be sort of interesting - Earthbending is a lot more physical, but you end up with a Earth Nation who's all spiritual but no physical training