Citizens of /co/, you have been deceived.
Amon is a waterbender!
No I'm not.
>>79025572
. . .
Uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I don't get it.
this was four years ago
SHOW US YOUR BOOBS!
Fuck you guys, Season 1 was great
>>79025528
Was it ever explained how he used blood bending to take away their bending?
>>79026591
genetic lottery
>>79026591
With bending wending skills.
>>79026557
until the last few episodes happened and destroyed anything interesting.
>>79026591
It wasn't explained, but a fucking child could figure it out. He manipulates a section of their frontal lobe to cause a mini-anyeruism that cuts off their powers.
>>79026836
aneurysm kill people, they weren't aneurysms.
You think korra just un-aneurysmed people at the end? Unburstsed vessels and shit?
>>79026836
Nah bro, just nah. Thanks for playing.
>>79026836
So, was Korra born with three separate frontal lobes? Did she suddenly grow a fourth upon seeing Mako in danger?
>>79026591
Chi blocking+blood bending. It probably shreds a chi point or something.
>>79026981
Considering Energy Bending is tantamount to divine powers, yeah.
>>79025572
GIRLS KISSING GIRLS
NOT KISSING YOU
>>79025674
>*single cough emerges from crowd*
How about we talk about the cool things about Korra for once?
>>79027396
because there were maybe four cool things in Korra.
>>79027396
Like her awesome boobage?
>>79027396
Well, at least Korra didn't fuck up Sokka.
After that uh
um
?
Pre-backstory Amon was cool.
>>79026981
>aneurysm kill people, they weren't aneurysms.
That's a misconception; they're not always fatal. As medical imaging technology has improved, it has become apparent that aneurysm is a relatively common condition - but in most individuals is, at the time of medical imaging, not yet developed enough to warrant surgical or other intervention (which is important, because intervention actually has a relatively high mortality rate and level of impact on quality of life following - whereas you can live with aneurysm/s, or other problems in the brain and elsewhere in the body, for years and enjoy a far greater quality of life than you would likely have following medical intervention, so you can end up dying needlessly on an operating table, or becoming severely disabled by medical intervention when you would otherwise have been likely to enjoy many years of unchanged quality of life before medical intervention, and the associated risks, became worthwhile).
So to say "aneurysm" prevents mystic bullshit from working by damaging but not destroying the area of the brain that the mystic bullshit is generated/controlled by (which must be capable of dealing with some fairly heavy shit compared to what the rest of the pink mush that runs you is capable of) is relatively OK; it just means that, in this instance, we're talking about the least serious, asymptomatic aneurysms that you or I or anybody might walk around with unwittingly. I would also have accepted magic parasites from another dimension, as their cysts would likely have a similar effect, and Korra could wipe them out with magic bullshit or psychic leukocytes or some shit.
>>79027415
>Fight scenes
>Korra's hotness
>Art direction
>Lesbians
>>79027815
>Fight scenes
Fire boxing
>Korra's hotness
Korra's idiocy
>Art direction
Studio Pierrot
>Lesbians
Hamfisted
>>79027480
I really like the detail of the lightning diminishing then the final burst of fire. It gives some hint as to the process and mechanism behind the two kinds of bending.
>>79027480
Amon was the coolest fucking villain and they fucking wasted him. I hope Bryke is ashamed.
>>79027480
Amon could have been a dyslexic who merely learned all the styles backwards to he could counter them perfectly
>>79027415
Why must you always be a shitter?
>supposed to be dr.doom
>lolno I'm just a waterbender that dindu nuffin
Fuckers ruined the best villain they had and remember the time /co/ was existed that korra was going to get amnesia
>>79028027
seasons 1, 2, and 3 had the coolest villains of the show and they wasted all of that potential.
and yes, dark avatar if done correctly would have been cool.
>>79028317
Am I the only one who didn't really buy the hype right out the gate? I hear people saying he was going to be the GOAT but besides Blum voicing him I wasn't all that wowed at first.
>>79025528
Well, if Amon wants to identify as a non-bender who are you to mislabel him, H2Oscum?
>>79028631
I think a lot of it came from the fact that really, aside from Azula and maybe long feng, Amon was the first cool, menacing major villain in avatar. Zhao was ok, but felt like an upgraded grunt, Ozai ended up just feeling kind of lame
>>79026836
Looks like you need to pay attention
Korra Stats
Str: 18
Dex: 17
Con: 14
Int: 6
Wis: 10
Cha: 16
Freakishly strong, breathtakingly stupid, oddly compelling.
Citizens of /co/, you have been deceived.
Wang fire is a waterbender!
>>79027480
>>79028134
It's a shame that everything was crammed into one season like that. Zolt and Tarrlok each could have supported extended storylines on their own before being sacrificed to build Amon up.
Even with the short shrift they were given, those takedowns were still pretty amazing moments.
>>79027007
Shut the fuck up Boco.
>>79030107
>Zolt and Tarrlok each could have supported extended storylines on their own before being sacrificed to build Amon up.
>street gang war
>corrupt Tarrlok in city hall
>fixed pro-bending matches
>hardboiled Lin detective story
>build up Amon for season 2
Could have been God-tier.
>>79027396
Was it ever explained how Amon and dozens of Equalists got on and off of that island undetected?
Citizens of /co/, you have been deceived.
Amon's not the Law.
I am the Law.
>>79028317
Nobody thinks that. The whole idea of every villain in the show is that their good intentions were soured and all became monsters
>>79029625
Epic simply epic
>>79030730
One if its strong points conceptually. But another thing failed in execution.
>>79030778
Beg to differ. Zahir was written pretty amazingly. I wanted to sympathize with him, but he was just too extreme and hypocritical. But to each their own I guess.
>>79030730
Unalaq ended up about a million miles from his good intentions.
>>79030823
I felt the fact that he was an anarchist wasn't justified well enough. He lacked any good motivation or philosophical besides a few bits of proverbs. And his plan was so haphazard and 'make it up as we go along' it was hard to tell what his in goal actually was and how these things he's doing would achieve it in a way that would make me buy it and say "this guy might be able to do what he says he will" but fundamentally we know he won't.
>>79031048
I dunno, it never bothered me that he didn't have an intricate backstory to his anarchism. Sometimes people just believe what they believe, man.
>>79031129
It bothers me. I can't see him as anything more than a rouge dumbass.
>>79030180
This also would've forced them to spend some more time fleshing out Republic City, showing us a multicultural, post industrial Avatar world, instead of giving us a glimpse of it then fucking off to the featureless South Pole
>>79028631
I really liked the idea of a post-industrial society that has machines that can do a bender's job suddenly deciding benders are fucking scary. I liked the idea of Amon's revolution gaining speed in Republic City, a place that doesn't necessarily have strong cultural ties to bending (his anti-bending rhetoric probably would've gone no place in the Fire Nation, Earth Kingdom, or in one of the Water Tribe settlements). And despite the repeated assertion I see here that everyone lost interest in Amon after learning his backstory, I really liked the idea of a bender who genuinely wanted to get rid of bending, someone who understands exactly what sort of shit a bender is capable of when they're strong enough and doesn't want to see that shit happening.
>>79031377
Republic City was just "industrial".
>>79031377
While the idea behind post-reveal Amon is interesting, the execution remains terrible.
Having a good idea is easy as fuck. Ideas are the simplest part of the writing process. Executing that idea in an entertaining and skillful way is where things fall flat, and Amon falls so flat he barely qualifies as 2-dimensional.
>>79027021
Yes.
>Korra a shit
>>79028631
>mary sue
Stopped reading right there. Glad it was the first line.
>>79027247
This. It's not actualy taking away the bending like Aang could do, just blocking it way too hard to get it back under normal circunstances.
>>79031693
>Stopped reading right there. Glad it was the first line.
Can't handle the truth? After all it appears you can't even quote the correct post.
>>79031793
Mako was a complete waste of that VA.
>>79031740
But then why was Korra still able to airbend? If he did the same thing to take out earh, fire and water bending with everyone why did airbending stick around?
>>79032285
Bad writing.
>>79027021
Fuck off
>>79031646
Im not reading that retarded shit
>>79032285
>>79033549
Good job not paying attention
>>79033957
Afraid of the truth?
>>79033957
Then let me sum it up for you:
>Korra sucks, plot hands her a victory way too much, too many logical inconsistencies
You can thank me later baka desu sempai.
FUCK OFF DYKE. NO ONE FUCKING CARES
>>79033982
No im not reading some stupid essay about some stupid shit
>>79027480
Post backstory Amon was fine too, they just fucked up by making it a bait and switch.
>>79033987
So you wanted the main character the lose
>>79029625
>Cha that high
Close anon pretty close.
>>79030823
>Zahir was written pretty amazingly
>I wanted to sympathize with him
The guy is a tool, his ideas were stupid and his motivations entirely unclear.
>>79027415
>Firebending
>Waterbending
>Left boob
>Right boob
>>79035284
Replace "waterbending" with Asami's hair.
>>79035080
Not that anon but I have no idea why you think that's a bad thing. The main character losing is great because then we can get an arc of them coming BACK from that defeat.
A phoenix that doesn't rise from the ashes is just a chicken.
>>79035352
Ozai please go
>>79029625
>Cha: 16
More like 5
>>79029625
You're breddy gud.
I would swap int and wis, though. Her actions are a typical example of low wisdom for me.
>>79035428
Actually I was thinking of Final Fantasy X, but thanks for playing.
>>79035530
I just beat 7 is that one any good
>>79030107
>you are now imagining a Season 1 of LoK where Zolt loses all his influence and power
>season ends with him debent by Amon as the big shocking moment
>TO BE CONTINUED
>>79033966
Good job giving the explanation.
>>79025528
>Citizens of /co/, you have been deceived.
>Katara is a shit character from a series that never should have been created, based off of the masterpiece that was the last airbender, minus Katara. Can not stress this last part enough.
ftfy
>>79025528
I honestly kinda love how stupid Korra is
Amon could've been so FUCKING cool. Just imagine for a second that Amon's backstory was actually what we were originally told: a nonbender whose family was slaughtered and his face immeasurably scarred. Someone who has legitimate grievances with bending. A man whose life was defined by this hate, and yet he was chosen by the spirits to bring balance.
Can you even imagine the development Amon and Korra would have to go through in order to end the series as two halves of the same coin, working together towards balance? That could've been FUCKING. AWESOME. It'd even explain why she couldn't connect with the spirits- Amon was given that gift.
Or at the very least don't undermine his threat and the rising movement that follows him. "Oh this one guy was a liar I guess that means I no longer have a problem with benders lol". I mean look at how goddamn terrifying this son of a bitch was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqs44zr4rMo
Even with the simple shut down of "no I'm not" mind I don't see how it would have massively changed his mission or his followers views on him if he agreed with her.
>AMON IS A WATER BENDER
>It's true I was born a water bender but after seeing the extreme injustice benders put upon our society I was given a special gift to make our society equal
>AMON'S POWERS AREN'T DIVINE WILL HE WAS JUST BORN WITH A VERY SPECIAL GIFT ONLY A SELECT FEW THROUGHOUT THE AGES COULD MASTER
>I don't know sounds pretty god given to me
>>79036026
Literally this. I have to assume they originally had more episodes before Nick cut the budget down to just S1, so they had to resolve everything way quicker than it was supposed to be. I refuse to believe the people that wrote Zuko pulled this horseshit.
Or maybe Brkye really is animation's George Lucas, and various writers like Aaron Ehasz are the real genius of the original series.
>>79036063
They didn't write Zuko on their own though, there was a whole team helping them out. I'm even pretty sure that a lot of what they initially wanted to do with the show was changed by the other writers.
>>79025528
YOU FOOL! HE'S CLEARLY LUPIN!
>>79036026
Well he was kinda in a corner by that point, you can't build a whole movement demonizing benders and then just talk your way around being one.
>>79035566
sometimes the voice acting gets real awful but overall it's a pretty fun game
>>79035816
the thing is.. that was Never a bad thing! it's okay for her to make stupid decisions. The show making those choices look good is the problem.
>>79027396
>cool things about Korra
She's a fucking horrible Avatar.
>shifts into avatar state almost everytime she fights in S3 and S4
>destroyed link to past lives
>fucking wants to bash everyone's head in
>which never works and manages to fuck shit up more
>waah i'm a horrible avatar waah
>almost died in avatar state nearly ridding the world of avatars
>>79025528
Does that make is message any less relevant?
>>79026726
Yeah, and fuck non benders, they deserve the ghetto.
>>79028027
They dropped the whole triad angle.
those three thugs Korra beat up?
She solved all gang problems with that one fight.
>>79038124
>>shifts into avatar state almost everytime she fights in S3 and S4
>>destroyed link to past lives
What's even the point of the former given the latter
Lets just start the abs thread already.
>>79038369
IIRC it was justified that there would be a new cycle of past lives and she would be the first that would link the next generation of avatars.
>>79038124
She didn't destroy them you fucking fool and sang almost died in the avatar state
I remember season 1 ended with Korra kissing that Edward Cullen looking motherfucker. Do we see their children at the end?
>>79039192
Fuck off
>>79026323
Loss
>>79039192
Not quite.
>>79038664
--the problem being, this is treated as a good thing in the show.
>>79038860
she did
>>79025528
Why would that revelation prove him wrong, or convince any of his followers? They're not robots.
>Citizens of Germany, you have been deceived. Hitler has dark hair!
>Must obey leader... Must destroy impure genes... ERROR. DOES NOT COMPUTE. FATAL OVERHEATING IMMINENT.
>>79039444
Unalaq destroyed them you idiot.
>>79039523
Your logic is very flawed. The leader of an anti-bending terror group being outed as a bender himself would absolutely cause that group to implode. There would be holdouts, but all the momentum would be gone.
>>79039444
I think you need to watch the show and not pay attention to idiots jackass
>>79039632
>Unalaq destroyed them you idiot.
And the reason being Korra fucked up while she was in the avatar state.
Why are you even defending her? She's a very horrible avatar. I mean, yes she has her moments, but most of the time she's dumb as fuck even Jinora, who is by the way a 14 year old, is way smarter than her.
>>79039785
Aang almost got killed in the avatar state so then that makes him a bad avatar too
>>79039785
Son, it sounds to me like you have a serious vendetta against a fictional character. And besides, she was doing well in the fight. Unalaq just whipped out that tentacle move that she clearly wasn't prepared for.
>>79031195
it also would have been more opportunities to show the non bending populace getting the short end of the stick, rather then a few incidents and then completely forgetting about it
>>79039632
>>79039684
>Unalaq destroyed them you idiot.
1. he got Vaatu because of Korra
2. she lost because of her incompetence, against a guy that have one bending and no past lives.
>>79040326
Did you even watch the show
>>79040556
Did you?
>>79039849
The main difference being that Korra lost a straight up fight against someone who by all accounts were at a disadvantage against her, while Aang was out numbered, Katara was also in trouble and he got ambushed by someone intending to kill him.
I just marathoned Book 2
I think that was the dumbest thing I've ever watched in my life
How do we go from ATLA to that?
Also Mako got into a love triangle with Asami and Korra AGAIN, what the fuck were the writers thinking?
>>79040863
>How do we go from ATLA to that?
Imo it's probably by giving all creative control over to Bryke, whereas in Atla they were forced to work with other people.
>>79040803
I did looks like you didn't
>>79040995
What was wrong with what he said? Vaatu got freed because of Korra. And the past lives were lost due to her incompetence.
>>79040904
Season 2 was when they brought other writers in who worked on ATLA. Just not the guy they actually needed to make it good.
Remember all those amon speculation threads and how fun they were
I can still feel them, like a cut off limb
>>79041091
It was, but they were the ones in charge of the entire project. In Atla, they were more equals with the others, and atleast on paper, worked under someone else. Essentially others had the power to say no to them.
This didn't seem to be the case with LoK.
>>79040803
Probably because Korra wasn't expecting Unalaq to fucking breath out evil spirit energy? Not exactly something any bender would expect to deal with in a fight.
>>79041042
Korra defense force is just hard at work. It's useless trying to keep a rational discussion going.
>>79041091
Remember when they tried to replicate Zuko Alone but didn't have Elizabeth Welch Ehasz write it?
>>79041136
She had lost before that point. More specificly when she trapped his arms with water and he wrested control of it from her, then dragged her over and pulled Raava out.
She also lost once before that and had to rely on Raava to save her from Unalaq.
Had Korra been more competent as a fighter, Unalaq would never had been in a position to use that trick on her. Even the fact that they were fairly even during the fight shows that she was pretty incompetent during book 2.
>>79041148
Are you fucking stupid
If you could rewrite the Korra Asami relationship(but you still have to make them gay), how would you do it?
>>79041223
I don't agree with that assertion at all. He created a stalemate. There's no advantage to that in terms of bending combat. She was destroying him before that, and she was about to break the stalemate with firebending from her mouth when she got a mouth full of spirit gunk. When he pulled Raava out, he severely weakened her. That's why she couldn't fight back, not because she was injured from before.
Did you even watch the show?
>>79041461
So you agree that he was able to fight her to a stalemate from a disadvantaged position and win the stalemate with a move she didn't know he had, but she could have fought back against.
It's not a problem that she didn't fight back after Raava had been removed. It's a problem what she ended up in that position because she had every advantage over him and he still fought better than her. She had all elements, full control of her Avatar state and had more friends to help her out, but she wasn't able to use any of it, that seems like incompetence to me.
And that's regarding the fight alone. Nevermind that all of it could have been avoided if she and her friends had thought the situation through before attempting to fix an issue that didn't exist.
>>79041424
I wouldn't, i'd rather keep them in character.
>>79031646
Does anyone have the post that the pic responds to?
>>79025528
So? He still has a good point.
>>79027480
Bending in LoK is just a sad sight.
>>79041600
He didn't fight her to a stalemate. That would be if the fight ended and neither combatant won. He created a temporary stalemate that restricted both their movement. From that position, he was able to surprise and overwhelm her with something she could not have predicted.
With you faggots, it's either a character is being a Mary Sue or they're incompetent. Nevermind that Korra is weak from being imprisoned and having fallen from the fucking sky as well as being demoralized from everything or that Unalaq is well-rested and supremely confident in his victory. Or that she's only eighteen fucking years old and her brain hasn't fully matured yet. You're looking at it from a viewer's perspective, instead of actually thinking about what a character is going through.
>>79035980
Jesus Christ
To this day I'm still pissed Nick dicked LoK around pre-production with that "it's a miniseries! no wait we'll give you two seasons! no wait just one so make it count!!!! actually have four." garbage. all it did was lead up to season after season of cool ideas but poor and rushed execution.
Never watched Avatar.
>We are ~65-75% water
>Waterbenders not the most op-class
Can someone explain this to me other than
>it's just a cartoon Anon
>>79042095
It's the water equivalent of an Earthbender trying to use metal. Not impossible, but bullshit hard, so not everyone can do it.
>>79041937
That's still fighting her to a stalemate and then overwhelming her with his power. She had the advantage and lost.
You're forgetting that Korra is supposed to be a master of 3 elements and have serious training in the 4th. That she has the full experience of 10k years of avatars. That Unalaq is only a master waterbender and has never before used the Avatar State. By all accounts a figh should be Korras preferred scenario because that's what she excels at, while Unalaq is portrayed as a person who is more about manipulation.
Some things are viewed from an outside perspective, but especially during book 2 Korra makes decisions that doesn't make sense, and this fight in particular is a problem because of the actions thats happen, not because of viewer perspecive.
You're also the first one to bring up mary-sue in this discussion. And i think it's quite clear that Korra was incompetent throughout book 2 from the looks of everything.
>>79042176
I stopped reading before the first "and." You're hopelessly deluded. I regret taking the time to bother with you.
>>79025528
The equalists were such a cool idea, I wish they weren't disposed of so quickly.
>>79042254
Impressive argument. You even said yourself it was a stalemate, so good job on you.
>>79040556
both of my statements are true. Korra is the one that liberated Vaatu, and she lost due to incompetence, against a guy that doesn't have past lives experiences and only have one bending.
>>79041809
This is fucking hilarious
>>79042270
They could have lasted longer for sure. I also think the Red Lotus could have used more screentime, especially after the reveal that they had minions.
>>79032285
Air Bending uses a different Chi flow.
All of the bending types do. Thats why the combat styles work differently, and the moves flow differently between bending.
That said, World Building is fucking awful in Korra, at the least from a extension standpoint.
There is toy anime that does that job better.
>>79042335
OK that did it you and this thread is fucking stupid you know nothing about the show and I'm pretty sure you didn't watch it and just eating what other people tell you
>>79043094
will you even make an argument against my statements?
