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[Milan92]

I do hope Zaheer won't end up too OP.

 

I could see Tenzin and Zuko providing a good match for him. The reason why I could see Zaheer beating Tenzin though, is because Tenzin isn't really someone who fights alot. Zaheer on the otherhand has focused his air bending mostly on fighting.

[spirosz]

But Tenzin is no stranger to fighting.  When he has, he tends to be quite a badass - anyway.  About these villians, I really don't think they're bad individuals at all, like the sense of genuineness towards their interactions, especially this scene - 

 

 

They're just fighting for what they believe is best for the world and it happens to be that they're no pushovers in their respected elements.  I hope the ending to the season leaves Korra on a high note because so far, every episode has been getting better and better, but I don't want to over hype myself, since endings can be quite difficult to execute.  

 

Holyshit editing is going nuts. 

Modifié par spirosz, 10 août 2014 - 01:40 .

[Cassandra Saturn]

I'm wondering, will any Korra related pictures are fine

[Iron Star]

When I first heard that TLoK was taken down from television and would only be shown online I thought it would mean that the show would slowly decay, but after watching the latest episode,

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with Zaheer finally using some vacuum bending on the Earth queen

it gives me hope that the show will not only survive, but maybe even prosper. Without the need to adhere to Nickelodeon's "no violence" rules, it just might improve the show. I'm not saying that it should become a 100% mature show, just that it can have some more mature themes and scenes, like the one I previously mentioned.

 

On another note, I just want to say how much I love this season! No unnecessary love drama, better character development, interesting new characters (I was worried Kai would mess this up, but his presence in the show, while bad to begin with, has been tolerable), awesome, relatable "enemies" with a morally grey objective, diverging storylines that are all interesting

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(new airbenders, Order of the red lotus, earth queen and Lin Beifong's family and history)

, even Korra is  likeable this time around. Yeah, this is the best Korra season yet, hands down, and I'd even go so far as to say it's better than much from TLA aswell.

[Dominus]

But Tenzin is no stranger to fighting. When he has, he tends to be quite a badass - anyway.

I agree. Remember when he tried showing off as a shirtless god of airbending? There's a badass hidden in there, just needs incentive to come out.
 

I'm wondering, will any Korra related pictures are fine

Yep, go for it. You can use a spoiler box if you like.

Without the need to adhere to Nickelodeon's "no violence" rules, it just might improve the show. I'm not saying that it should become a 100% mature show, just that it can have some more mature themes and scenes, like the one I previously mentioned.

I'm glad they gave LoK the creative room for that. It helped that the method of murder didn't show her last moment of passing directly on screen. This ain't the Red Lotus Wedding. XD

But yeah, I'm very pumped to see how this turns out. Given that he have an hour of episodes left for the book, I'm curious how this concludes. One of the episodes is called Enter The Void. Intriguing...

[spirosz]

To be fair, no violence is a broad term.  There was suicide at the end of Season 1, that can be seen as an act of violence, depending on how you view it.  Certain fight scenes can be seen as pretty intense too, but alas.. I'm liking what they did with

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the Queen scene

and I wouldn't mind more of that.

 

I'm currently re-watching ATLA as we speak (on season 2) and I have to agree with the sentiment above - if this season ends on a strong point, it will beat my love for ATLA (and I love, love, love that series so much.)  Everything about this season hasn't been overboard, there has been enough humour, great new characters without the need of them being forced... and wonderful bending fight scenes, etc.

 

Question - what the heck happened to 

 

 

Mr. Iroh over here? 

[SlottsMachine]

I just wasted like 10 minutes trying to find that "I am Iroh Man" spoof video, its gone I guess. *sadface*

[AresKeith]

Question - what the heck happened to 

 

 

Mr. Iroh over here? 

 

I'm assuming he's stuck protecting the President lol

[spirosz]

I just wasted like 10 minutes trying to find that "I am Iroh Man" spoof video, its gone I guess. *sadface*

 

Must of... swapped out.

 

"Ah-ha-ha-ha". 

[Dominus]

Ahem.

[OdanUrr]

This week's review:
 

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If last week's episode was Mako's moment to shine, "Long Live the Queen" was all about Asami. Okay, maybe not ALL about Asami, but she was certainly the most useful member of Team Avatar by far. The episode starts with Captain Hook and his men loading the Avatar into the Jolly Roger an airship as Korra makes one last desperate attempt to convince them this is a huge mistake. She used the words "terrorists," "crazy," and "spirit world," so it's no wonder the Captain felt even more relieved they had tied her up. Asami also gets chained but instead of the railing on the floor that will disappear in the next frames she chooses the one by the wall and quickly breaks out in her first useful moment of the episode (please, start counting). The second one comes when she frees Korra from her bindings after she uses their safe word. I'll leave you with that image. In the meantime, our last-stand heroes, Mako and Bolin, are being transported to Ba Sing Se so Bolin gets a chance to bond with the dream team much to Mako's disapproval.
 

 
Hey, at least now we know there's something going on between Ghazan and Ming-Hua. The trip's cut short and so is Bolin's interrogation as Zaheer presents the pair to the Queen and makes her an offer: trade the air benders for Korra. The Queen accepts and sends our heroes to the dungeons.
 
Back to Korra, Asami, and Captain Hook. Once Korra's free she kicks some butt and crashes the ship in the process.
 

 
She wouldn't be Korra otherwise. What surprised me somewhat is that Korra is still less confrontative than I had imagined she would be. She apologizes to the Captain and his crew, insists she's not going back with them, but suggests they should try and repair the ship, particularly with that sand demon roaming about. And by "they," we're talking about none other than Asami and reason #3:
 

 
So while Asami's doing something useful, Mako and Bolin are stuck in jail, with the former encouraging the latter to metal-bend them out of there. It's "Bolin time" again and we all know what that means... he's gonna fail. At this point, it's inevitable that the writers are setting us up with Bolin so that when he does do something incredible it'll take us by surprise (only it won't), and that something is bound to be Bolin learning to lava-bend somehow. I mean, we all know he's not metalbending any time soon...
 

 
If only, Bolin, if only. We're then introduced to our third side-story of the day and that's Lin's tracking of Korra. It's a pity Lin didn't have a lot to do in this episode, however, besides giving treats to Naga and Pabu.
 

 
At least she also confirmed Tonraq's back in the game (as is Zuko). Unfortunately, after all of Asami's hard work, the airship gets torn in half by our sand demon who promptly returns to patrol the sands leaving our merry gang to show off again by building a sand sled. Do I really need to say who came up with that idea? Of course not, I know that you know that I know that you know that it was Asami, and the fans were ecstatic because now they had the ultimate shipping proof:
 

 
Back in Ba Sing Se, Zaheer learns that the Queen has lost Korra what prompts our dream team to change tracks. Just as well because the Queen's also fed up with them and orders the stormtroopers Dai Li to follow in the footstep of their White Lotus and metal-bending counterparts. In other words, the fearless foursome make short work of the guards in a display of power that was bound to take even the Queen's breath away.
 

 
Oh, right, that was Zaheer. Personally, I didn't find it surprising and it was very much in character with Zaheer's personality. After all, if benders can alter the phase of matter such as water to ice or rock to lava, taking the air from a person's lungs shouldn't be that difficult at all, it's just something no air nomad would ever consider doing given their pacifistic views and training. Zaheer has no such constraints and has openly admitted his dislike of authority figures like President Raiko and the Earth Queen. What I continue to find slightly perturbing is that the writers may be backing themselves into a corner by making the dream team so overpowered that they'll have to pull an Aang or Jinora in order to recapture them (if this season doesn't outright end with a cliffhanger, which isn't such a stretch to imagine).
 
The episode ends with Zaheer announcing ala Bane that Ba Sing Se has been returned to the people, while Ghazan tears down the wall to the innermost district with lava, and Korra learning the news as she meets up with Tonraq, Lin, and Zuko. We could not have asked for a better team to storm Ba Sing Se and face Zaheer and his cohort, except maybe Toph.
 
What did I think of the episode then? Well, it's not bad but I was hoping for more. I think the setup was great to feature Asami and Korra having a chat to ponder the meaning of Zaheer's words while they were stranded in the desert. Is there truth to what he said? What is his ultimate goal? How can we stop him? Team Avatar has been on the go from day one but they haven't stopped to consider what they're up against and it's high time that they did. In fact, I expect them to do so even more now that they have direct access to the people who captured them in the first place: Tonraq, Zuko, and maybe even Lin. Zaheer's bound to be setting up a trap in Ba Sing Se so, for once, I'd like Korra to be prepared.
 
The clock's ticking down on Book Three and I fear (and hope) we're no closer to knowing the Red Lotus' agenda, even after Zaheer's chat with Korra, not to mention we've completely ditched the storyline about the spirits back in Republic City (and it's been a while since we last saw Tenzin and his army-in-training). Can the writers tie it all together in three episodes or will Book Three end in a cliffhanger?
 
Random thoughts
 

 
To be fair, you weren't much of one in Book Two and the writers seem to be painfully aware of that.
 
 

 
Tumblr's been hard at work drawing parallels between Korra and Shingeki no Kyojin (more here). I don't see it but I like the art work.

 

Ba Sing Se is conveniently left with no authority figure. If Suyin steps in, I'll be highly suspicious.

[Cassandra Saturn]

Yep, go for it. You can use a spoiler box if you like.

cool. I thought it'd be nice to share a bit of Modern Day version of Makorra from IMVU.



if you're wondering.. yes, that's me and my boyfriend Rane.

[TheClonesLegacy]

Ahem.

This makes me realize how good of a villain Amon was compared to Guy Pierce with Dragon Tattoos.

Also that I do really hate Iron Man 3.

[SlottsMachine]

I'm caught up now, and I'm really enjoying Book 3. Though I have my doubts that the next few episodes wont feel rushed. As for Zaheer I'm reminded of Alfred's quote from the Dark Knight I believe, "some men just want to watch the world burn."

[addiction21]

I do hope Zaheer won't end up too OP.

 

I could see Tenzin and Zuko providing a good match for him. The reason why I could see Zaheer beating Tenzin though, is because Tenzin isn't really someone who fights alot. Zaheer on the otherhand has focused his air bending mostly on fighting.

 

While Tenzin has shown he is very proficient at fighting with air bending but I agree that Zaheer being focused on fighting would give him a opening. It is all what I prefer but just one a air bending match Zaheer should not win but him using his more brutal mentality it would give a opening to close in and use a more physical hand to hand technique I can see that. Given his history of being a white/red lotus with no bending I am assuming he would of been more focused on the martial side of things.

 

All and all I have just went thru the whole season over the past few days and its good.

[SlottsMachine]

Ahem.
 

 

That one is good as well. The one I remember was Iroh's scene from Book One when he attacks the bomber planes while Black Sabath's Iron Man plays.  

[SlottsMachine]

As for Zaheer's end goal and I'm sure this has been mentioned here already, but it seems pretty obvious that he intends to remove Raava from Korra. Adios Avatar. 

[addiction21]

As for Zaheer's end goal and I'm sure this has been mentioned here already, but it seems pretty obvious that he intends to remove Raava from Korra. Adios Avatar. 

 

I really did not get that impression. That they wanted her as a child and clearly have a political agenda (along with Zaheer's goading about the Earth Queen) seems more likely he was interested in that political agenda.

[SlottsMachine]

I really did not get that impression. That they wanted her as a child and clearly have a political agenda (along with Zaheer's goading about the Earth Queen) seems more likely he was interested in that political agenda.

 

They wanted her for the harmonic convergence that much is known, I guess its possible they wanted her for something more than that. Zaheer being all about (Turian air quote) "balance" I figure eventually he wants the Avatar gone for good, and he has already stated that he never wanted a dark Avatar though that could be a lie. 

[Dominus]

I think it could go either way. He's clearly not telling her the full truth, but who's to say how much is fact or fiction? I'm leaning towards political agenda...but the possibility of something even larger is still a card in play, from my viewpoint.
 

Nostalgia Critic decided to branch out and do critiques on Legend of Korra:
In Harms Way & The Metal Clan

[addiction21]

They wanted her for the harmonic convergence that much is known, I guess its possible they wanted her for something more than that. Zaheer being all about (Turian air quote) "balance" I figure eventually he wants the Avatar gone for good, and he has already stated that he never wanted a dark Avatar though that could be a lie. 

 

What I took away from them wanting to kidnap her as a child is they wanted her for that but to also brainwash her into their idea of thinking. What they say sort of screams Anarchists and part of that being connecting the two realms again and doing away with the goverments.

 

There could be lies/half-truths being spoken there and more bigger things to come. We just have to wait for the next episode

[TheOneTrueBioticGod]

What I took away from them wanting to kidnap her as a child is they wanted her for that but to also brainwash her into their idea of thinking. What they say sort of screams Anarchists and part of that being connecting the two realms again and doing away with the goverments.

 

There could be lies/half-truths being spoken there and more bigger things to come. We just have to wait for the next episode

Do we have to?
Can't someone find a copy online now? Cause that would be great.

[Dominus]

Do we have to? Can't someone find a copy online now? Cause that would be great.

Here's an appetizer.

[Inprea]

It's a bit out there but I'm hoping they're going to revive the dark spirit inside Korra so that she'll have the dark and light spirit within her. Thus forcing her to bring about a sort of inner balance if possible. After all right now she only has the light spirit. This shift in influence could also bring her more over to the Red Lotus way of thinking.

 

Has anyone else wondered what Korra would have been like if she'd actually been trained by the Red Lotus elemental masters?