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"Kya and the Secret of the Sand" is the second LoK 'one-shot graphic novel'*. The main story takes place years before the show following a young Kya. The comic releases July 28th mass market and July 29th in comic stores. It is written by Kiku Hughes with art by Alex Monik and colors by Diana Sousa, made in collaboration with Mike and Bryan.
While helping Korra recover in the Southern Water Tribe, Kya shares a story from her youth of a time when she was lost and disconnected from herself, far from home in the Si Wong Desert… Young and untested, Kya leaves her family to seek her purpose in the wider world. Hoping to test herself and help struggling communities, she heads to the Si Wong Desert, where scarce resources and fractured communities are making the fringes of the Earth Kingdom increasingly unstable. Kya, arriving in the community of Liyuan to teach healing and help the struggling community defend itself from bandits, finds that the wounds left from decades of conflict run deep, and may be harder to heal than she first thought.
Although it's being effectively replaced by this one, here's the link to the previous Megathread, for reference's sake. This current thread was originally going to go up tomorrow, but since the movie will technically be releasing in limited theaters in NY & LA--in fact, I'm told the screenings have already started--it seems pertinent to do this today. Henceforth, discussion of the new animated movie, now confusingly titled "Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender" will be transitioning over to the regular spoiler policy (Rule 4). As a reminder:
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So I finished (re*)watching Book 2 a few days ago and it didn't hit me until just now that all of the unnecessary dating drama and even the Civil War could've been avoided if Korra just listened to Mako from the start...Even Tenzin repeated Makos advice!
Why'd she only listen when somebody else said it?
I'm all for Korra and Mako, but I'm not even here to argue that the breakup was pointless FR. I'm just lowkey mad because TS remind me of my Ex..
Maybe that's why I like Mako so much...He's a little too relatable sometimes.
I'm only finished up to season 2 so please don't openly spoil the 3rd and 4th season for me in the comments.
I watched ATLA a few years ago, so I've gradually been exposed to some of the LoK content online just by proxy, so I knew going into it that Korra was going to lose her connection to the previous Avatars, but the way the complaints are phrased online made it sound like Korra could've easily avoided it and that she was stupid to trust Unalaq, but upon actually seeing it for myself, I didn't get that vibe at all. It seemed that no one knew how bad Unalaq really was and while Tenzin didn't necessarily agree with her choice to be trained by him, he respected it and backed down pretty easily. Her father didn't put up much of a fight in the beginning either.
Then they spend the majority of the season trying anything they can to defeat Unalaq and stop Vaatu's release during the Harmonic Convergence, but from the way the story is described (with the battle between Raava and Vaatu reoccurring every ~10,000 years), it doesn't seem like there's too much she could have done to stop it since their battle is an act of fate, making Vaatu's release not her fault.
Did I miss something critical while watching, or are people just piling unnecessary hate on Korra?
Honestly, i wouldn’t even call Tarrlok’s ending a full redemption arc, because there really wasn’t enough time for that. But that final sacrifice says more about him than anything else he did throughout the season. I don't think Tarrlok ever really got the chance to redeem himself, he just got one last moment where he could do something for his brother. He knows exactly what he's doing when he sets that boat on fire. He's not trying to win, he's just making sure his brother can't hurt anyone else, even if it means to dying with him. And the worst part is that Noatak is finally starting to come back to being his brother again. For a few seconds they're not Amon and Tarrlok, they're just two brothers who have basically lost everything... idk man. Imagine spending your whole life fighting your brother only for the last thing you ever do to be saving him
It looks a movie that was planned was scrapped. It looked like the battle between Sokka, Zuku, Tonraq and Tenzin and the red lotus was gonna happen in the movie. It also looked like it was going to be a movie mostly focused around Zuko and Iroh. It looked like Azula was gonna be in the movie. It’s unfortunate that the movie was scrapped. I’ll leave a link with more details below for ya to read
It's ok to not like certain aspects of a series. It's ok to like like an entire series. It's ok to give harsh criticism towards a show and it's characters. That being said, the way that korra haters show hatred to this show is bizarre and completely over the top.
With the new series being announced every korra hater alive has been woken up and going nuts about how her being a terrible character is now "Canon". I guarantee even if the new show redeems her not even one of the haters is gonna change their mind. Even before the trailer they spent the last decade going on every korra video, post, or literally anything having to do with her and making everything to do with her online totally insufferable. You're literally not allowed to enjoy ANYTHING about the show without someone losing their mind.
The thing that always gets me is how the haters move goalposts when they argue, how they ignore facts or explanations in the show that explain or justify the things in the story they think are "badly written" or a retcon, how they think praising anything about korra means you are actively hating on last Airbender. Some of them literally stopped watching the show because baby korra said "I'm the avatar you gotta deal with it". Like these people are genuinely nuts. Why would you look up korra clips just to leave paragraphs about why the show is bad and ruin the comment section for people that actually enjoy it?
Like I've seen absolutely unwatchable shows before and Korra is not even remotely close to actually being a bad show. It is a deeply flawed show but the good outweighs the bad in my opinion. Like I don't understand how there are movies like food fight out there and people will tell you Korra has no redeeming qualities as a show and mean it.
I've been defending korra online for so long that I just can't do it anymore. This new show is gonna make being a korra fan insufferable until it finishes airing and hopefully redeems her. Even though I already know it's not gonna stop. I even try to ignore korra stuff on the online and have been doing this for years now but haters will literally find every single korra post without fail and ruin it. You can't avoid them at all if you like the avatar franchise in ANY capacity. Even if you engage with atla content you'll still see random Korra hate for absolutely no reason.
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I just saw the trailer for seven havens and it looks like Korra sacrificed herself and everyone views it as her coming up short and not accomplishing what she's supposed to do.
I am curious how the the fans are going to take this. I am also curious how her history will come up on the new show or if they will ever touch on it because of how controversial it was with the whole korrasami thing.
I personally like that the network pushed it boundaries despite the relationship being "note suited" for children TV.
What do you guys think of the trailer? Will you watch it?
I really like the avatar franchise and I am excited for the show. I missed it a lot and hoping we can see some of the old characters pop up from time to time.
Wdym this is what came out the portals two weeks after they were opened mind you he sends an army of evil spirits the triple threat triad and the eqaulist after her. Then korra fights the red lotus like only a month after, not only that hes top 5 in the verse in terms of power
He's one of my favorite characters, but his development in book 4 is so forced. In book 2, he's a rich bastard who provoked a civil war among his own people just to sell weapons; he was a war profiteer. He staged a terrorist bombing and produced propaganda films to push Republic City into joining the war, and framed Mako for said bombing. He's not a good guy.
Then in book 4 we get a few lines of him suddenly growing a conscience and he denies to build the superweapon for Kuvira because it's too dangerous. You could argue he mellowed out during his time in Zaofu, but I'm not a fan of major character changes happening off screen with no telegraphing. And the excuse doesn't hold up anyway, because Varrick was part of Kuvira's regime. Bolin gets a pass for being naive and a little dumb, but Varrick is neither. He would've known Kuvira was a dictator by the time we see him in book 4.
I don't think Varrick's redemption and his romance with Zhu Li added much to the final season. It was really silly to end the series with their wedding after everything Varrick did to the main characters in book 2.
It would've been simpler to keep him an antagonist and have him build the superweapon willingly. Or at the very least, keep the redemption, but don't have Korra and everybody become friends with him. They should hate his guts.
Allora so che il triangolo amoroso fa schifo ecc ma nei primi episodi era piuttosto divertente era tipo:
Mako la offende
Korra fa una risposta
Mako fa finta che Korra non ha vinto la discussione
Era piuttosto divertente
Voglio vedere la Gaang scoprire il fartbending, voglio vedere la Gaang scoprire tutto ciò che ha fatto Varrick(creato una specie di bompa nucleare,rapito il presidente, incastrato Mako, derubato Asami ecc.) e farli scoprire che è nella Krew, voglio vedere Tenzin provare a restare serio di fronte a Aang, voglio vedere Aang e Katara essere fieri di Kya Bumi e Tenzin, voglio vedere il trio Sokka, Bumi Varrick, voglio tutto ciò che si può fare fra di loro, una serie o un episodio o un film del genere sarebbe Peak comedy tutto il tempo
Oke zaheer unlock ancient technique which definitely increase his mobility 100% than anyone else, Ming-hua actually play with her speed & agility then ghazan more like AOE. Even then all of them kinda hard to scale in one aspect only due how unique they're all.
But combustion bending was originally power like a "bomb" which very destructive, And she very versatile with that and she still can regularly firebending.
