Legend of Korra - Friendship is Bending

[AramekYour MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue."So you're saying..."Your brain is about 20% tumor.]

I love Kung Fu so much.

Kung Fu makes any situation in any movie/show better. Gripping Somber Courtroom Drama? Bust out that Kung Fu Jack McCoy!

[Captain DinkyMusic brings wings to the mind,flight to the imagination,soul to the universe,and life to everything.]

Gripping Somber Courtroom Drama? Bust out that Kung Fu Jack McCoy!

[Doctor Wheeze]

How does one bend friendship?

A hyper-advanced form of bloodbending that involves manipulating the neurotransmitters in somebody's brain.

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[LiamA]

Finding out how to bend common minerals into gold would help a lot...

Or perhaps using metal bending to draw it up to the surface?

[Doctor Wheeze]

You wouldn't even need metalbending for that, normal earthbending would work. Just move all the rocks around the gold to push it up to the surface.

[LiamA]

Can an earth bender detect metals under the surface, or would you need metal bending to even know where the goods are at? I don't know how this works!

[AramekYour MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue."So you're saying..."Your brain is about 20% tumor.]

I don't know how this works!

Kung-Fu.

[Daionus The 23rd:3]

This is just a general Avatar question: I have been watching TLA on Netflix in order to prepare myself for this show, but it seems that they are missing several episodes. Where else can I go to watch TLA episodes?

[Doctor Wheeze]

Are you referring to "The Serprent's Pass", "The Drill", "Day of the Black Sun", "The Boiling Rock", and the season 2 and 3 finales? If so, those are multi-part episodes that Netflix rolls into one. I don't know why they're listed split too.

[Daionus The 23rd:3]

Ah, good to know. Hopefully I should finish watching the series by the end of my vacation.

[SlateSlabrock]

- I hope the bush vagabond comes back. Of course, these guys aren't afraid to come up with a cool and funny minor character and then never come back to him/her.

They came back to Jin, briefly.

It's us. We're the Foaming Mouth Guy.

NEW YORK–April 17, 2012–Nickelodeon’s highly anticipated premiere of The Legend of Korra (Saturday, April 14, 11a.m. ET/PT), scored a strong 4.5 million total viewers, ranking as basic cable’s number-one kids’ show and top animated program for the week with total viewers. The series, which continues the mythology of the beloved animated franchise Avatar: The Last Airbender, also posted double and triple-digit increases across all kid and tween demos, averaging a 5.7/1.2 million K6-11 (+36%), 6.3/1.3 million T9-14 (+125%) and 5.5/1.9 million K2-11 (+17%). The Legend of Korra also ranks as the network’s most-watched animated series premiere in three years.

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From elsewhere:

I bet the name of Zuko's daughter will be Zutara.

[The great MPinke Torte das Pony.---]

Remember the spoiler rules if you want to talk about the latest episode. Please use spoiler tags until tomorrow 1600 UTC+0.

[Wayoshi]

How the hell can Amon spiritbend.

[blonkAh, my ridiculously circuitous plan is two-four-six-eighths complete.]

New episode was fantastic. Can't believe we have to wait another week to get the sweet, sweet taste of Avatar-y goodness.

[ozonethe ride never ends]

In this episode: Mako confirmed for batman.

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I love Amon's henchies. I do not love sob stories. Oh well, the fight scenes were mindblowing, so whatever.

[SlateSlabrock]

How the hell can Amon spiritbend.

http://i.imgur.com/7aiIJ.jpg

[DiscordWhat have I done? Sweet Chaos, what have I done? Become a beast in the night, Become a God on the run, And have I fallen so far, And is the hour so late, That nothing remains but the cry of my hate, The cries in the dark that nobody hears, Here where I stand at the turning of years]

I spoiled myself a bit on episode 3 since quite a number of the big scenes from it were leaked in trailers preview clips, but oh well.

Great episode. As noted, the fight scenes are incredible, and backstory always nice- though Mako being Batman was pretty abrupt. I wonder if the firebender who cut down Mako's parents same as the one who cut down Amon's....

Amon is pretty darn cool; I do still like the mystery behind him.

I did not expect them to get this far this fast. It'll be interesting to see where they go from here.

As far as the potential origins of Amon's spirit bending:

Apparently Kon the face-stealer is supposed to make a re-appearance, though I haven't seen an official note on it. Regardless, evil spirits seems to be the most logical explanation. Next episode HAS to be Korra going to the spirit world, I think, or something to do with Korra dealing with spirirts. They're going to want to know if there's any truth to Amon's preaching on powers.

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Maybe Koh stole Amon's face.

[kefkafloyd]

edit: yes, we make mistakes

[Wayoshi]

http://i.imgur.com/7aiIJ.jpg

Har har

E: So kefka you are overriding the OP's rules?

[kefkafloyd]

Hmm, I didn't see those there. No, I shouldn't do that.

I just don't want the thread to turn into a CIA document.

[Momar]

Since I don't particularly relish this thread ending up looking like a declassified pentagon memo

I just don't want the thread to turn into a CIA document.

Get your own material, bubleh

[numsOic]

There should be a feature to disable spoiler tags from a page.

[The great MPinke Torte das Pony.---]

Hmm, I didn't see those there. No, I shouldn't do that.

I just don't want the thread to turn into a CIA document.

I don't mind different spoiler rules, we should just clearly define one set and go with that

Should we change to Kefka's TVIV style? I guess all those tags would get annoying.

[Contra Calculus]

Holy shit, that episode was great! Damn, I mean I honestly think just these last two episodes alone have been better than the majority of season 1 of ATLA. That Amon guy is pretty fucking badass.

[Momar]

Unless he's some sort of supernatural non-human, he's a spirit bender and therefore a gigantic fucking hypocrite.

[numsOic]

He's totally a bender, of course.

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Click here to view video.

Fantastic.

[SlateSlabrock]

Unless he's some sort of supernatural non-human, he's a spirit bender and therefore a gigantic fucking hypocrite.

Definitely, but here's a post about how he might just be doing what was done to Aang in the original show, not spirit-bending as was taught to Aang by the lion-turtle.

[weedgoku]

I don't think that Amon's an spiritbender, it seems like an upgrade of the chi-blocking thing. That comparison linked above corroborates this imo. Bending is the main magic/spiritual 'thing' of the setting, but definitely not the only one.

Mako's backstory and mannerisms seem quite cliche to me and I hope the cheesey romance thing doesn't go too far. The whole stoic badboy type with a tragic past, who eventually warms up to the plucky peppy girl etc. is just so anime

[AramekYour MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue."So you're saying..."Your brain is about 20% tumor.]

So, I'm a bad fan and still haven't seen any of this show or Book 3 of Avatar, but, I caught the last half of the newest episode this weekend. Holy shit I'm in love with the setting. Way better than Avatar, I just love it when technology crashes with magic, and the whole "We don't need your kind anymore" thing is just my favourite thing.

I was cooking supper:

Roomie - "This guy sound really familiar."
Me - "Which guy?"
Roomie - "The one in the mask."
Me - "Blum. Or a guy doing a REALLY convincing Blum impression."

[kefkafloyd]

Well, you'd be right, because it is Mr. Blum.

[AramekYour MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue."So you're saying..."Your brain is about 20% tumor.]

I'd like to claim I have a good ear for hearing VA's, but, Blum is in so much stuff, one could just guess him and get lucky.

[numsOic]

I was just saying, he may not be a spirit bender but he has to be a bender of some kind, not based on any evidence at all but the fact that he's a political leader.

[AramekYour MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue."So you're saying..."Your brain is about 20% tumor.]

If he is a bender, will that make his "we need to get rid of all the benders" thing hypocritical? I mean, what if he's going to just save himself for last?
"All the evil is vanquished except that which is inside me. Time for the last battle!"

[numsOic]

It's your typical "last one with power remaining" domination plan. It would be if he were a bender. We don't really know, unfortunately, but my conspiracy theory will hold until proven otherwise.

[Contra Calculus]

All this talk of benders is getting really weird. I mean just saying it in my head or it being said on the show or on a forum and I still think of this guy:

[Momar]

All this talk of benders is getting really weird. I mean just saying it in my head or it being said on the show or on a forum and I still think of this guy:

Never mind the fact that 'bender' is also British slang for male homosexual.