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[Dovahzeymahlkey]

No, she grew up to be chief of police.

>What I think of your facts:

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

korrasami time!

 

 

NSFWish:

Spoiler

[TheClonesLegacy]

I don't see how that's NSFW.

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

I don't see how that's NSFW.

look at where Asami's left hand is on the panel where shes kissing Korra.

[TheClonesLegacy]

That is one sensual hand on the knee!

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

That is one sensual hand on the knee!

are you waiting for the entire gif to finish loading?

[TheClonesLegacy]

are you waiting for the entire gif to finish loading?

Do you know the difference between right and left?

 

Asamis left hand is on Korras knee.

Her right hand is doing...somethin else.

[Hellion Rex]

How Avatar Kyoshi would have defeated Amon

 

[TheChris92]

 

[The King of Dust]

So Bolin is Anakin Skywalker, the chosen one?

[RobRam10]

Meet the Nazis of Avatar!

[TheClonesLegacy]

Those aren't Fire Nation soldiers from Last Airbender.

 

I say this because Kuvira hasn't exactly come off as a racist crazy man only able to paint kinda okay landscapes yet.

[OdanUrr]

Episode 3 Review:

Spoiler

 
I am having a problem. What problem, you ask? Well, I’m not sure I have a lot to say about this episode. I don’t know whether that speaks badly about the episode or maybe about me. Let’s get this show on the road and perhaps you’ll see what I mean.

The day has arrived! Today’s the day Prince Wu will be crowned as King of the Earth Kingdom and the episode wastes no time showing us how perilously stupid that decision would be. While Prince Wu regales us with the dance of the badger moles, Mako discusses with President Raiko and Tenzin the wisdom of their choice. It is clear to them all that Prince Wu is unfit to rule the kingdom (at least in his present state) so that’s why President Raiko is sending advisors to rule the kingdom for him. The President briefly asks for the whereabouts of the Avatar (oh, now he cares!) before Tenzin brings up disturbing reports about Kuvira putting dissenters in prison camps (no worries, Ozai did it too). President Raiko dismisses his concerns and assures Tenzin that Kuvira will step down once the Prince is crowned. After all, she gave him her word.
 

Unfortunately, as much as I begrudge its absurdity, our own world history proves that such situations are not altogether uncommon. After all, a similar parallel comes to mind with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who, in 1938, waved around a document called the Munich Agreement that assured the world that Hitler’s campaign of conquering Europe would go no further than the Sudetenland. History would go on to prove this not to be the case when Germany invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939.

However, I would be remiss if I didn’t note the differences between the two situations. Europe had only recently come out of The Great War and England had lost around a million men, with many more wounded. If I may borrow a quote from the film, ‘The Gathering Storm,’ that describes the mood at the time, “And let us not forget that a child born on the day the Great War ended is now just old enough to die in the next Great War.”

No such devastating war occurred during the events of Book Three that would excuse the Fire and Water Nations, not to mention Republic City, from not coming to the aid of the people of the Earth Kingdom. Even the reborn, but feeble, Air Nation can be seen trying to help the people of the Earth Kingdom at the beginning of Book Four. What I aim to say is that this situation with Kuvira is a problem of their own creation, much like the roots to World War II can be found in the state of post-Great War Germany, who had had to pay a dear cost with the Treaty of Versailles.
 

But enough history. Meanwhile, back in Dagobah, Korra gets slapped in the face by the harsh truths from the original Beifong. Before we go into detail about said truths, can I just say how eerily close to Toph’s voice from ATLA she sounds? No, maybe not her voice but her tone is remarkably similar, the way she conveys her dialogue. While she does sound a tad young at times (younger than she has any right to be) I welcomed the connection.
Toph is a great choice for harsh-dealing truth. Back in ATLA she was more often than not the one who saw the clearest of them all, ironically enough. When the gAang was quick to dismiss Zuko’s help in ‘The Western Air Temple’ she was the one to point out they were turning their backs on someone who could teach Aang to firebend (not to mention Zuko and Aang eventually became best friends). In this week’s episode, she bluntly tells Korra that the world doesn’t need the Avatar. While I’m glad that the topic is brought up, unfortunately it’s not explored as thoroughly as I had hoped it would be. At some point the show needs to address the simple fact that the Avatar can’t and shouldn’t solve all of the world’s problems.
 

It reminds me of one of the few good things to come out of ‘The New Jedi Order’ series. While Anakin is training with Mara on Dantooine, she asks him about an exercise he took as part of his training where a village was in danger of being flooded. Long story short, Anakin proposed to save the village using the Force. Mara made him realize that not only did his solution not address the underlying problem (the villagers were being forced to build in a floodplain because they had been driven off their homes by off-world land speculators) but Anakin was also denying them the opportunity to learn from their mistakes. Allow me to quote a short sample of their exchange:
“But if you have access to the Force, and you can save them, don’t you have a responsibility to do so?”

“Good question. Follow it, though, to its logical conclusion. These are sentient beings. They know they’ve built their homes in a floodplain. They know they will be flooded out. Are you responsible for protecting them from their own decisions?”

“I can’t just let them die.”

“So you know what is better for them than they do?”

“In this case, yes.” He stared off at the distant ocean. The dying sun stained it the color of blood. “Don’t I?”

“If you start thinking that you know the best for people and denying them the chance to make their own errors…”

Breath hissed in between Anakin’s teeth. “Using the Force becomes easy, and if you are confident you know what is right, you’re making yourself the center of reality. That’s just selfish, and selfishness is the core of evil, of the dark side.”

Korra faces a similar dilema, unbeknownst to her. Unlike Mara, however, Toph’s explanation as to why Korra shouldn’t take on the world’s problems is that, ultimately, it won’t matter. As Toph puts it, “the names change but the street stays the same.” It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I disagree with that view. Like Mara, I believe the world needs to learn from its mistakes. The duty of the Avatar is to bring balance (whatever that means) not to fix the mistakes of the current (or previous) political leadership. At this point, however, let me suggest that perhaps Toph isn’t being entirely sincere with Korra. We’ll come back to that later.
 

Meanwhile, back in Republic City, the train is set on its inevitable collision course. Kuvira’s party arrives for Prince Wu’s coronation what prompts a number of awkward reunions, such as Bolin meeting Eska and Baatar Jr. meeting Suyin. This is also the first time Prince Wu meets Kuvira and their encounter does not go well. Over the course of a few exchanged words Kuvira lets the Prince know she’s bumped him off the Presidential Suite but not before adding that “I always get what I want.” Evil grin included too. Oh, well, I guess it’s time for power-hungry dictator 101 so expect to see more clichés in future episodes. The hits keep on coming though as Prince Wu learns his upcoming coronation will be a lot more frugal than he expected.

On Dagobah, Toph is having a good time kicking Korra’s butt. She mentions, almost in passing, that the reason for Korra’s abysmal performance is that she thinks too much. Exactly what she thinks about is anybody’s guess. It could be a reference to Toph’s training of Aang during ATLA. Having been raised as an airbender, Aang was taught to find multiple solutions aimed at defusing conflict. This eventually comes at odds with his earthbending training where he is taught to be like a rock (sorry, Meelo, not the leaf) and face conflict head-on (much like Toph does when she fights Korra). However, Korra’s solutions have always been much more aggressive than Aang’s and she has never had any qualms about facing conflict head-on, certainly more times than it would have been advisable.

Toph also claims she’s more connected to the world in this swamp than Korra will ever be (just call it the Foggy Swamp already!). There are strokes of Luke and Yoda’s interactions here but they’re broad and unfocused. Every scene where Yoda and Luke interact in Episode V tells us something about the nature of the Force and about Luke’s relationship with it. Toph’s link with the rest of the world is a nice detail that will surely come in handy setting up future plots but I fail to realize how it will help Korra connect with her Avatar spirit. Who knows? Maybe this scene will come to torment me later but for now we got this Aang moment:
 

Oh, yeah, and Toph informs Korra she still has metal in her body.

In Republic City, the train has finally collided. Prince Wu has his coronation, certainly, but when Kuvira takes the stand she quickly disillusions President Raiko about stepping down. On the contrary, Kuvira makes it clear she’s creating an empire with her at its head and anybody that dares cross paths with this new Earth Empire will be crushed.

Well, at least that cat’s out of the bag. No surprises here, really, it was only a matter of time. Naturally, Kuvira’s very public statement moments after the Republic had chosen its puppet king will generate some sort of (armed?) response. This is exactly what worries Bolin but Varrick promptly assuages his fears by arguing Kuvira practically controls the Earth Nation and the Republic is dependent on the oil metal they provide.

And if that isn’t enough, as Varrick leaves the room with some spirit vine, Kuvira enters and plays the “we’re doing good work” card. Unfortunately, since this is power-hungry dictator 101, I’m far more inclined to believe Kuvira is keeping Bolin around because he’s one of two people in the entire world who can lavabend, a mind-bogglingly powerful ability that was already directly responsible for the downfall of one kingdom. How does the saying go? “Keep your friends close and those with ridiculously overpowered abilities that can destroy your newly-founded empire even closer”? Oh, and there’s also this scene…
 

In which Kuvira informs Suyin of Zaofu’s imminent fate should they choose to fight rather than yield. A most delightful young lady this Kuvira.

Anyway, let’s fast forward a bit. There’s the inevitable fight between brothers (at least it’s not over Korra) as Bolin informs Mako of his decision to stand by Kuvira and Mako obviously disapproves. I half wish Bolin’s actually undercover on President Raiko’s orders but it’s much more likely that he’ll discover Kuvira’s true agenda at some point and bug out.

While Bolin’s returning to his awesome train and bringing freedom to the Earth Empire Mako delivers some harsh truths of his own to a downbeat ex-King Wu who may have finally realized he played more the fool than the king. I truly hope they go somewhere with this and turn Wu into someone his people can look up to. It won’t be easy given his track record...
 

So Korra still has metal in her body. Naturally, she quickly grabs hold of this revelation as the source of her weak bending and asks Toph to remove it. To Toph’s annoyance Korra writhes in pain every time she tries to remove the metal until eventually Toph gives up and berates Korra for fighting her. It is at this point that Toph tells Korra she clearly wants to keep the metal in her body. Toph’s reasoning very much echoes Katara’s earlier assessment of Korra’s reticence to heal but expands on it by suggesting she wants an excuse not to be the Avatar. In Toph’s own words, “If you don’t get better, you can’t do your job, so you don’t have to worry about getting hurt again.”

You honestly have no idea how glad I was that the writers chose not to explain away Korra’s issues by the fact that “she’s still poisoned” and instead used that to suggest that maybe Korra doesn’t want to get better, maybe she doesn’t want to be the Avatar anymore, maybe she’s tired of getting hurt. They could take it even further and reveal Toph had lied about the metal so as to expose Korra’s fears (but I doubt it).

This is why I said earlier that perhaps Toph isn’t being entirely on the level with Korra when she said that nothing she’ll do will ever matter in the grand scheme of things. I think Toph may have taken a page out of Aang’s book and is trying to tear Korra down so that she can build herself back up again. Remember what Aang said at the end of Book One?
 

This is a recurring theme that also came into play at the end of Book Two when Korra lost Raava (thought it’d be more accurate to say Vaatu beat the living **** out of her and vacuumed her out of Korra). In Book Two, Korra had to deal with the issue of her identity without Raava, albeit over the span of a couple of minutes. In Book Four, however, while there are certainly identity issues present they are not the heart of the problem. It is Korra’s fear for her own survival that has (most likely at this point) led to the blockage of her Earth Chakra and her stubborn refusal to accept the help of both people and spirits alike that is truly at the root of the issue. Korra doesn’t want to be healed and she’s afraid to admit the reason why. As long as she continues to deny the truth, she’ll never open her Earth Chakra and enter the Avatar State again.

While the episode could perfectly end with this note, we’re instead given a brief preview of what Varrick’s job entails now that he’s working for Kuvira. In this particular case, he’s researching the spirit vine he got from Republic City earlier to create some unspecified technology. What little we know of Kuvira’s character would suggest said technology is to be used as a weapon and, if her aim is to create an independent Earth Empire, perhaps this technology is defensive in nature? Could it be that Kuvira aims to use these vines as a massive (self-regenerating) wall cutting off her empire from the rest of the world? After all, they’re pretty resilient as Korra’s efforts at the beginning of Book Three showed.

Concerning Varrick’s research, I wonder if Kuvira will have him look into genetics and how to make a person capable of bending all the elements at some point, if she hasn’t already. It could provide another reason for keeping Bolin around. Food for thought.

Well, it looks like I wrote far more than I thought I would. In the end, however, not a whole lot goes on in this episode that we didn’t already expect: Kuvira shows her true self and Korra gets beat up again by the original Beifong. As Palpatine puts it…
 

 

 

PS: I really need to keep these things shorter or they'll be the death of me.

[OdanUrr]

From tumblr:
 

 

• The Legend of Korra: A New Era Begins, originally scheduled for release on December 31st, 2014, had its release date pushed up to October 28th, 2014.
• You can pre-order it off Amazon here. It costs $29.96 and is playable on the Nintendo 3DS.
• GameStop has the official Legend of Korra videogame (made by Actvision and Platinum Games) available for pre-order. You can find a list of all of the available pre-order options here.
• The game will be available for download at 9:00 AM CST (10:00 EST/7:00 AM PST) but it will NOT be playable until 5:01 PST/8:01 EST (7:01 CST). (This is applicable to the Xbox One console only. I’m not sure about the other consoles.) (x)
• It costs $14.99-$15.00 depending on which console you choose.

[Patchwork]

Past avatars don't seem to have been all that involved in world politics but Aang felt too guilty about his 100 year nap to stand back and that sense of duty has carried over to Korra. 

 

I hate to say but the logical conclusion to Korra's (and the Avatar's) story appears to be breaking the bond with Raava and ending the cycle for good. It's doesn't even have to be a sad ending- Korra keeps her waterbending, lives to see her own grandchildren and the true balance between choas and light is restored. 

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

I dont know, I think the logical conclusion for the Avatar and Korra's journey is to actually bond with both spirits of good and evil where the human element provides BALANCE between the two forces.

[OdanUrr]

First review for The Legend of Korra game. Not very in-depth to be honest, but here it is:

The Legend of Korra Review: Why You HAVE to Buy it for Xbox One & PS4!!

[Dominus]

Well, it echoes what the previews were pointing at. Not a bad thing, I suppose. 

[OdanUrr]

Gamespot's review. This one falls on the other end of the spectrum (3/10):

Spiritual unenlightenment

The Good:

+ Bending looks cool
+ Pro-bending matches are reasonably fun

The Bad:

- Throwaway story fails the source material in every way
- Repetitive boss fights
- Lots of careless details sully the combat encounters
- Uninspired runner segments

[OdanUrr]

And another one from IGN (4.2/10):

Bent out of shape

I'm probably still buying it so I can review it.

I have no idea who The Legend of Korra: The Game is for. It’s definitely not for young fans of Korra, as the combat is too unforgiving, the boss battles too tedious, the economy ridiculously punishing, and the story too weak and lacking any of the show’s charm. It’s not for older people who enjoy a good action game, because next to contemporaries like Batman: Arkham City, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, and even Platinum’s own Bayonetta 2, Korra looks terrible with its simple two-button combos and poor combat scenario design. I can’t recommend it to anyone.

[TheChris92]

Disappointing -- Oh well, still got Dreamfall and my kickstarter key I suppose.

[OdanUrr]

The Destructoid review (7/10):
 
A nice but brief romp with Korra and Naga
 

At the end of the day, I wish The Legend of Korra was a fully-featured retail release. While Platinum has done a great job in terms of delivering a solid action romp, the jarring cutscenes and open-and-shut story leave little in terms of replay value. Avatar and Korra fans will likely rejoice at the fact that they're finally getting a decent game.

[animedreamer]

So far im loving the game and how they approached it.

 

I'm not going to go indepth as its still early but one thing I absolutely love is that Korra without her bending is still a warrior, she can still use the martial arts forms for each element as normal melee fighting skills and it looks freaking cool to see her switch stances and fighting styles completely by shifting between each elemental form.