-Spirit World shenanigans
-The history of the Avatar going back to the original will be explored
- Kya is a super spiritual hippy type and probably a catalyst for all this spirit shit Korra's getting herself wrapped up in
- Everyone has new threads for the colder climate
- The Heartless from Kingdom Hearts will appear at some point; no word on key wielding spiky haired kids showing up to help Korra



http://www.hollywood.com/news/Comic_Con_Legend_of_Korra_Book_2_Spirit_Details_New_Characters/33795088

-Korra still doesn't like sleeved shirts

Yay, new outfits!

Here's a compilation of all the info I've seen floating around:

* Book 2, "Spirits," will start out six months after Book 1.
* Book 2 will run for fourteen episodes total.
* Book 2 will begin with a festival at the Southern Water Tribe.
* Korra will be fighting shadowy spirit creatures of unknown origin. This book's main conflict will center on the Spirit World, and Korra will do battle with attacking spirits at the SWT festival.
* The main characters will get updated costumes to reflect their new situations and character development.
* New characters this season include: Kya, "Unolok", and Verick. We'll also be seeing a lot more of Bumi II and Korra's parents.
* "Unolok" is Korra's uncle via her father. He is a spiritual person, posh, and leader of the Northern Water Tribe. He has two children, twins, who are Korra's cousins. According to the creators, Korra's entire family is ripped.
* Verick is a Howard Huges type of Southern Water Tribe descent, on friendly terms with Bolin. His business is in shipping.
* Kya is a bit of hippie who's big into healing. She has a special bond with her niece Jinora.
* Bumi II will also reoccur, with the addition of a potbelly.
* Pro-bending will return, but the Fire Ferrets have a new line-up. Neither Mako nor Korra are members anymore. Bolin is team captain and struggling with his role in life now that...
* Mako has become a cop in Republic City.
* Asami has taken over Future Industries, but the company is in dire straits due to her father's crimes. She's committed to putting the company back on top.
* Korra has mastered the Avatar State, but abuses it for stupid stuff (like a race with the Pemzin spawn) that draws Tenzin's anger.
* We'll be visiting locations from the previous series: both the Southern Water Tribe and the Southern Air Temple (which has apparently gone to seed) will be toured. Korra will also be visiting the Spirit World for two episodes.

all i can say is thank god there was no Q&A

Wait, no trailer?

>>108018

They only had animatics, rough stills, basically.

>-Asami takes over Sato Industries
>* Asami has taken over Future Industries, but the company is in dire straits due to her father's crimes. She's committed to putting the company back on top.
Fuck yeah. I hope she's still a major part of the Krew, because there are so many good story possibilities here.
>* Mako has become a cop in Republic City.
There is potential for fun with this, too. Especially if Lin has reclaimed her position as chief.
>* Korra will be fighting shadowy spirit creatures of unknown origin. This book's main conflict will center on the Spirit World, and Korra will do battle with attacking spirits at the SWT festival.
I had a feeling we were going to have to start dealing with the Spirit world as a major thing at some point in this show.

Need pictures of Kya making her uncle Sokka's special cactus surprise brownies for the crew.

Koh is disappointed because Korra is turning into Kuruk 2.0. He steals Mako's face to punish her but she doesn't care because she likes him for his body.

>Mako becomes a cop

I can see nothing wrong with this development.

I have nothing to express other than what >>108013 has already said.

Woo, new outfits! It's implied that they're going to be putting on arctic wear early on, but I still wonder what Mako's cop uniform would look like (same as the non-metalbending cops?).

Some spirit-y location in the Southern Water Tribe. 1/3

Fuck, I love the background paintings in this show!

Korra (if I have my info straight) apparently fights a wicked and spindly-looking Miyazaki type spirit here. The creators likened the glowing iceberg to Aang's.

3/3: Trees growing through the magic ice. Clearly not normal.

>>108029
>>Fuck, I love the background paintings in this show!

Check out this one. The picture got taken between frame transitions, but it gives you a good panorama of the Southern Air Temple. It's really gone to seed in the past 70 years. Guess the common fanon of Aang rebuilding the four temples has now been nixed.

2/3: A mysterious trap door at the SAT.

3/3: Final shot of SAT.

And now... THE SPIRIT WORLD.

Korra will be spending two episodes there, and there's no way to use her bending there. She'll have to survive by her wits alone.

>>108035
>She'll have to survive by her wits alone.

Whelp, she's fucked!

Officer Mako's new outfit.

Bolin's parka from the season opener at the South Pole.

>>108038
TOOL OF THE OPPRESSION

>>108035
Looks amazing.

Kinda disappointed that theres only going to be two episodes actually in the spirit world when its the spirit season.

>>108040
>>TOOL OF THE OPPRESSION

Now, now. We're apparently introduced to him smacking down some waterbending triads. So he's oppressing the oppressors. Two wrongs make a right, yes? Or does that only apply to violence by the oppressed?

Ah well, here's the outfit of CEO Asami Sato.

>>108038
What the hell is that 1/4 coat thing

Asami Earhart: FLYING C.E.O.

Tenzin's new outfit.

Bumi II, now a reoccurring character

Various things, edited together. (Credit to pyue.)

>>108046

Bumi II expression sheet

>>108044
>>108042
I'm loving her new look

>>108028
>>108030
>>108031

That weird forest beneath the glowing ice is apparently discovered by Korra & Co. after they get trapped in a storm.

Korra's mother, Senna. 1/2

Korra's mother, Senna. 2/2

We'll be learning more about Korra's family in Book 2. Her uncle via her father is apparently the leader of the Northern Water Tribe. So she's a North/South baby and, perhaps, distantly related to Yue via a relative of Arnook that took over after his death. (Given his particular bloodline had ended with the ascension of his own begotten daughter into the heavens.)

Tonraq, Korra's father. 1/2.

Tonraq, Korra's father. 2/2

>>108051
>>108052
I still say shes cuter than Korra

More Tonraq

I've been getting these photos from Owldee's tumblr, located here:

http://owldee.tumblr.com/

However, s/he has taken a break to go to a signing, so that's the end of re-posting photos for now. If I come across anything new elsewhere, I'll post it.

Book 2: DILF
>>108056
Thank you.

>>108039
>They make winter gear in Earth kingdom colors

Hell yes.

I cannot wait to meet Kya.

>>108042
>>108044
... I'll be in my bunk.

>>108046
His pudge made me think he was pregnant for a moment. His top half is too skinny to have that amount of belly flab. Especially his face

brace yourself for damnlayoffthebleach

>>108059
>>Book 2: DILF

Shirtless Tonraq

>>108050
>trapped in a storm
Smutty fanfictions where the characters have to keep their bodies warm incoming.

>>108064
Now it's Senna's turn.

>>Mako becomes a cop

I wanted Bolin to learn metalbending and become a cop, not stupid Mako ;_;

Why are all Water Tribe people so attractive?

>>108068
They're the most beautiful people in the world and they went to hide in the remote polar regions to preserve their amazing looks.

The ugly ones were banished to a swamp

I can't decide who's hotter, Korra's mom or Korra's dad. Which is weird because I'm straight... or least I was.

DAMN YOU GAY AGENDA!

>>108039
>>108042
>>108044
>>108051
>>108052
>>108053
>>108054
>>108056
>>108064

So many fucking boners this season.


Everything about Asami's sounds great, I'm looking foward to see how Bolin will develop (crosses fingers) and who's going to be his love intrest (hoping for Asami), and YAY SPIRITS!!

Also, more on Tenzin and Korra's families.

Lots of potential.

Unsure how to feel about the plot of season 2.

1) Korra is going to be fighting a spiny spirit, who may be the main antagonist; Asami is running a company; Mako is a police officer; and Bolin is still Pro-bending. So there's 4 different stories going on, which may or may not merge into 1 story.

Though this isn't a bad thing it can make the overall plot convoluted if there are too many things that are irreverent to the main plot. It can also lead to characters that aren't part of the main plot having little screen time or doing nothing of any real importance.

2) Fleshing out Bumi and Kya can be good as a filler episode but may cause problems if they're part of the main plot as more characters = more difficult to have all the characters do something relevant.

3) Hopefully Bryke won't try to tell the whole story in 14 episodes and have nothing left over for books 3 and 4. They need the plot to flow from one book to the next, not seem like 4 books that feature the same characters.

>>108075
ok, nick didn't tell them they were getting a second season until they are almost done with book 1. going back and changing the ending would have cost MONEY which nick was not obviously intent on spending.

while bryke have said they prefer the shorter seasons IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT HOW MANY EPISODES ARE ORDERED. and guess what? writing and storyboarding is done for book 2. it will be another isolated story so deal with it.

No mention of Lin, I wonder if she's tied to Mako's plot.
Glad there's more Jinora.

Pardon me for assuming that we give two fucks about what Tumblr thinks, but I'm observing that the latest shitstorm can be neatly divided into "Makorra haters" and "Makorra supporters", with the former presumably bashing the second-season developments (though I have yet to see more than one post to this effect) and the latter going through (rather absurd) lengths on the defensive.

Ladies and gentlemen... we have some kind of bizarro Zutara: a canon fire-water pairing that makes its detractors batshit.

But me, personally? BRING ON THE PINK EARMUFFS.

>>108075
>>So there's 4 different stories going on, which may or may not merge into 1 story.

I think the Asami and Bolin ones will dovetail early. Future Industries is supposed to be facing hard times, so she might not be able to sponsor the Fire Ferrets anymore... good think Bolin makes a friend with a Howard Hughes type. So the Fire Ferrets could get new sponsorship, leaving Bolin between two industrial titans as they battle against each other for control of the ailing Future Industries.

1/2

Now that I think about it, 2/3 of Kataang children being hippies makes perfect sense.

2/2: Korra’s uncle (Tonraq’s brother) -- "Unolok" (real spelling unknown)

Apparently supposed to be the leader of the Northern Water Tribe. His purple robes could be a nod to that, as the only (?) Water Tribal in the original series to wear that color was Princess Yue.

I guess Korra is a North/South baby.

Close-up on Unolok's face.

>>108084
>>108085
Doesn't look very trustworthy.

>>108088
he's chief of the northern tribe, of course he isn't trustworthy

Here's Kya, Aang and Katara's oldest child. She's a hippie that's into healing and has a close relationship with her niece Jinora.

(And is a bit paler than I expected. I anticipate Mike and Bryan catching hell as people compare this to the leaked family tree photos, even those images were early concept art or mis-colored or whatever.)

>>108090

Forget whitewashing, I'm angry about dred-straightening!

But yeah, dreds are a nightmare to animate. So it's understandable.

One of Korra’s two twin cousins - Unolok’s son (1/2)

>>108090
Every water tribe character is paler in these pics. While Kyas' skin color is probably going to be closer to this, I bet they're all gona be a bit darker in the actual animation.

One of Korra’s two twin cousins - Unolok’s son (2/2)

>>108090
I think these preview things are just colored wrong or something. Even the characters we've already seen like Korra and Bumi >>108012 >>108046 are way paler than they were in-show.

>>108092
>>108094
This is some creepy shit.

One of Korra’s two twin cousins - Unolok’s daughter (1/2)

One of Korra’s two twin cousins - Unolok’s daughter (2/2)

Korra’s female cousin’s face

(Holy shit! Check out the upper right.)

>>108084
It’s spelled “Unalaq”.

http://babynames.merschat.com/index.cgi?function=View&bn_key=77880

>>108100
Avatar got its antichrist.

>>108101

Thanks!

Verick - described as a Howard Hughes kind of person. He also has a great relationship with Bolin. Glad to see he's dating again after Amon's death.

More Verick

Verick's expressions

The hell kind of name is Verick?

>>108103
Is Bolin gay?

>>108106
>>The hell kind of name is Verick?

Old German, apparently. It means "leader who defends."
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Varick

>>108095
Also brightness on a projected screen, and flat colors without shadowing.

Also, who gives a fuck?

>>108090
>>108098
>>108099
>>108100

SO FUCKING HOT!

>>108103
>>108104
>>108105

DAT SWAGGER.

Is Bolin gay? Will Verick be his wingman and teach him the ways of pimping?

So fucking hyped right now.

>>108107
>>108110
Well, his VA said he's going to get a new love interest.

>>108107
Its a joke from when Bolin was captured by the Equalists

I thought people were living in the southern air temple. Shouldn't be steam-punk by now or something?

>>108113
That was the northern air temple.

>>108113
That's the northern temple you're thinking about.

>>108040
Well, you got the first part right, at least.

>>108085
I'm getting Peter Cushing vibes off of him.

I'm starting to suspect that Amon was trying to orchestrate the world's most magnificent example of suicide-by-cop. He was going to spiritually mutilate Korra... who, in addition to being the Avatar, is the niece of the Chieftain of the Northern Water Tribe. The Water Tribe that is, incidentally, geographically close to Republic City.

Sokka and Zuko look as though they're about to go on some kind of dragon-fighting quest of sorts.

So it looks like more character development for Bolin is a go.

>>108117
>>108119
OMG OMG OMG

http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/
Janet is so cute.

Loving the poses.

>>108067
>>Implying there's anything that Bolin can potentially get/achieve that his brother won't just take instead
HA HA!

>>108123

Sweet Guns, Korra.

>>108119
>Sokka and Zuko look as though they're about to go on some kind of dragon-fighting quest of sorts.

I want this to be a real thing now. I never realized just how much I loved their camaraderie together in The Boiling Rock.

Also I always wish Suki was included in group Gaang pictures. I know she wasn't there for long but dang it, she contributed significantly to taking down Ozai's airship fleet during Sozin's Comet.

I really need to stay off the korra tag on tumblr. There are way too many people saying "Bawwww, why wasn't my favorite character X mentioned" and "Booo, I don't like Y that Bryke is doing". I just... LoK is certainly not above criticism, but I just want to wallow in excitement, not get bogged down by premature negativity.

http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/korra-book-1-sizzle.html

^ The Book 1 montage showed at SDCC 2012.

Okay, I'm starting to think they just kind of made up the ages as they went along, because if Tenzin is the youngest at 51 that means Kya would've have to have been born like...during the first series.

>>108126
I love Suki too, but I feel like the picture works better as it is: it gets to the heart of the show without feeling overcrowded. On the other hand, the LOK version could have used some Lin.

>>108128
What? Katara's 84 in Lok. She probably gave birth to Kya in her early twenties.

>>108128
Tenzin is 51. Bumi is at least nine months older than Tenzin, and Kya is at least nine months older than Bumi. Katara is 85.

85 minus 53 is 32, so it’s entirely possible that Aang and Katara copulated between the ages of 16 and 32.

>Aang taller than everyone else
>Dat sexy ass Katara
>Toph like a fucking BOSS
>Zuko looking badass with his buddy Sokka

Zuko's the only guy without facial hair, but he's compensating with a third sword.

>>108131
>>108133
Yeah, but how old was Aang (biologically) when he died? Did I forget to carry a one when I did the math on this?

The fanart cometh.

http://instagram.com/p/M3jD1TkfGc/

>>108128
Holy shit are you bad at math.

LoK takes place 70 years after the series ends. Tenzin is 51, meaning Katara had him 19 years after the end of the first series, when she was 33. Even if Bumi and Kaya are, respectively, each five years apart, she still would have had Bumi at 28 and Kya at 23.

>>108137
Aang is only two years younger than Katara... he died 17 years ago, so he was 66.

I don't understand why Mako would join the police, I mean if either of them were going to do that you'd think it would be Bolin.

Is this because Bolin's much less important and probending won't be important in the upcoming story?

They did it. Aang and Sokka in that pic finally turned me gay.

>>108145
Having your parents killed in front of you by a criminal as a child might maybe sorta kinda give you a slight inclination to be in a position to stop that kind of shit.

Just a thought.

>>108145
As much as I like the idea of Bolin taking up metalbending and being an all around badass Robin to Lin's Batman, I'm fine with Mako being the cop instead. Mako is, what, 18, 19? Time for a legit grownup job. I also think he has more emotional reasons to join law enforcement considering his past. Yes, Bolin has the same past but there is definitely the sense that Bolin was protected/sheltered from some of the strife and pain that came with losing their parents and living on the streets. In contrast Mako seems to know much more about the realities and dangers of crime in Republic City. Taking down elements of Triple Threats and cleaning up the streets seems exactly up his alley.

Bolin is indeed a manchild. He doesn't really have the mettle to dispense JUSTICE!

>>108120

YES!

>>108123

Oh, and every time I prepare myself to get ready and face the fact I will not get Bosami, something like this comes along.

>>108151
Still feels way too silver-medally, they aren't good enough to get with the "main male and female" so they might as well settle for each other.
Having them get together with other, newly introduced, characters is still a much more enjoyable idea.

>>108153

Fuck that siver-medal, pairing-spares bullshit argument.

ANY couple can work with the proper development.

They both share a love for Probending, they are good friends, they helped eachother during the Equalist conflict.

I see lots of way this relationship can happen and be engaging on its own.

Not saying it will, I'm ready to face that outcome, and I'll be totally ok with each having their own romantic intrests provided the writers don't half ass anything.

>>108154
Well the first season hasn't exactly filled me with confidence on thier ability to write a romance either way.

>>108155

TWO. MORE. WRITERS.

>>108117
Wait a second... DO I SEE SPACE SWORD!!@@?!?!@?

>>108154
> They both share a love for Probending, they are good friends, they helped eachother during the Equalist conflict.

I wouldn't say they were shown to be good friends since most of Asami's interactions were with Mako and she always seemed to exist on the periphery of the group, best friend of nobody.

But if over the next few seasons she and Bolin gradually became closer as friends and then as more than friends I would be ALL OVER THAT. I don't care if it's a "pair the squares" sort of deal, I think they would be legitimately good for each other, they seem to want the same kind of things out of a relationship and neither are drama-stirrers. Korra and Mako's relationship is obviously going to have a lot of bumps and cracks along the way so it'd be nice to have a sane, happy couple in the main group to balance it out.

Also I just want Asami and Bolin to be happy because they both got the short end of the romance stick in season 1.

>>108048
>>108046
hells yea

>>108095
>>108093
These are pictures of projected images, which are always desaturated to an extent.

>>108154
Any couple can work, and I have often seen situations where secondary couples are more believable and likeable together than the "A" couple in a story (for example, Xander/Anya and Willow/Tara in Buffy, compared to whoever Buffy was dating at the time), but the problem with Pairing the Spares is less that "it could never happen" and more that it all just feels too convenient and on the nose.

Don't get me wrong. Bosami could easily be made to work--if I were to do it, I would probably make it a very slow build up over the remaining three seasons, personally, and focus more on just having the two develop chemistry than on anyone actually having a crush on anyone else. And then maybe near the end (not the final episode because pairing off in the final episode has exactly the same "on the nose" badness that Pairing the Spares does--sometime near the end, but not at the end), have a Moment of Clarity when they non-chalantly decide to try dating and just have it work.

If I were to do it, I would want to use them as a counterpoint to the growing rockiness of the Koko relationship, potentially ending with Mako and Korra broken up but still friends, and Bolin and Asami genuinely falling in love.

But that's just how I'd do it. I'm not saying that's the only way it could be done right.

>Asami takes over Sato Industries
You sure the other people involved in the company would let her take over so easily? I always got the impression that she was kind of sheltered in some ways so maybe they would thinking she's naive and easy to manipulate.

>>108162

I always thought she was sheltered in some form and if FI has a board, they'll probably be giving her a lot of trouble.

But there are a lot of factors that could affect this one way or another, and we just don't have enough information to guess one way or the other.

Maybe Asami knows more about his father's business than we guess, or she knows the people in the board and they respect her as a person, or maybe they want to keep the image of their buisness alive and let Asami take over because of her involvement with the Avatar and the fact that she stopped Sato himself.

>>108162
For all the awful stuff Hiroshi did to her after she disagreed with him, I don't think he actually raised Asami in a restrained or calculated life. This is what backfired on him in the end...

Let the creepy as fuck twincest... begin!

>>108166
Honestly, paying for the training to teach her how to subdue a larger man in under three seconds is sort of what proved to be his downfall.

>>108165
Sounds like FI is hemorrhaging investors anyway, so it's possible the board's not going to be too much of a problem because they've jumped ship to Cabbage Corp.

>>108165
I doubt Sato had a board, otherwise it would have been remarkably difficult to supply a terrorist organization with enough equipment and resources to draw a significant portion of the companies profit and budget without several people, like the entire board, asking a whole bunch of dude-what-the-hell questions.

Since the entire company seems to exist within the confines of Republic City, and at that within a single main factory, Sato not employing most anyone beyond middle management to deal with the day to day humdrum isn't all that inconceivable.

Which pretty much goes hand in hand with how a lot of companies were run at the beginning of the 20th century. They were more personal empires than corporations.

>>108090
She's really pretty and young looking for 50/60. Guess it's the bending.

>>108173
I wonder if a waterbender could delay the effects of aging by frequently using the water healing technique on themselves

Fuck, the CC Info threads at /co/ are fucking TERRIBLE.

>>108179
Oh, do tell, for us masochists.

So, we are exploring the Spirit World in next season?
SOLD

And I'm interested to see how Karma is going to slap Korra's face for the misuse of the Avatar State.

From the sound of things, it seems like Korra's trivial use of the Avatar state is going to come into conflict with the spirit world in some way.

>>108181

Long story short, FireLo, Class Pressident and other tripfags are talking bullshit, everyone is buying it and making early judgement on the season from that.

Someone will always classify LOK of being shit, the defense brigade will jump at them, claims of newfags will be made, pointless argument will follow.

Anyone that makes even the slightest attempt at optimism will be met with some form of hate, specially if it involves Bolin, Pro-Bending or Asami.

Always expect someone to complain about why ProBending is still even a thing stealing screentime, and why the fuck is that useless thing Bolin still on the show (Asami, Iroh II and others can get the same shit ocationally, but Bolin always).

Oh, and Lin has been written out of the show, so a lot of outcry over this "fact".

Yeah any and all Korra threads on /co/ are clusterfucks with no actual discussion going on in them. Avoid at all costs if you are interested in actually talking about the new season. If you are interested in bitching arguing and Trololololol, then by all means go for it...

>>108184
I left the Korra threads a long, long, long time ago on /co/. They're talking shit about Asami? I can understand Bolin & probending because people bitch about them on this board too, but Asami? Why? Asami is great.

>>108015
>* Korra has mastered the Avatar State, but abuses it for stupid stuff (like a race with the Pemzin spawn) that draws Tenzin's anger.
I wonder if we're finally going to see any Kuruk/Korra scenes? it would be nice to see her actually talk with her past lives and learn to get in touch with her spiritual side for real this time

>>108187

Because flat character with no flaws, why did they waste screentime on her. Should've never been written into the show/merged with Mako and/or Bolin

>>108192

In order for the viewers to feel sorry for Asami and the shit sandwich the events of the show fed her (father is a closet terrorist Dr. Robotnik, loses her home, mother dies when she is a child, gets thrown in jail for violating a fascist bullshit curfew, her hawt brooding boyfriend falls for the spirit of the planet in front of her very eyes, evil Dr. Robotnik father tries to kill her and she smaks his shit) she has to be a genuinely likeable character with a gentle heart.

She's kinda like Butters from south park with a rockin' booty and L'oreal looks.

Book 2 will be about Asami getting control of her life back. I can't wait.

It's a fail video because of the shitty fucking bottom half green fuckup at the bottom but here's some animatic from the panel! I highly recommend clicking through to youtube

CC12 Korra Animation

>>108196
What are the chances Mako trying to be Horatio Kane will be the new Amon's terrible stand-up routine.

>>108197

YES PLEASE!

>>108145
Does this have to do with lingering 'Only Police Are Metalbenders' fanon?

>>108162
>You sure the other people involved in the company would let her take over so easily? I always got the impression that she was kind of sheltered in some ways so maybe they would thinking she's naive and easy to manipulate.
That sounds like a good reason for many to want her in charge.

>>108090
>>108046
Sister's a hippie-check, brother's a loon, I do not know whether to be surprised that Tenzien is so readily stressed or surprised that he has not had a stroke yet.

how old are the characters in S2 anyway? it seems a bit early for Mako to be a cop all things considered

>>108206

Six month timeskip. Depending on their birth dates, maybe a 'year' older.

>>108206
They're 6 months older than the last time we saw them. According to Mako's bio, he was 18 in book 1.

I was a little surprised to hear about Mako being a cop now. It just came somewhat out of the blue, and there was no previous indication that he'd be interested in pursuing a career as a policeman. Also, we kept seeing those metalbender cops, and it seemed Bolin might have a bigger chance of joining them than Mako. And most importantly, Bolin really needed a little more serious character growth, so I liked that often-mentioned fan idea of Bolin/Lin teaming up.

...but after thinking it through for a while, I actually do feel that Mako becoming a cop instead of his brother does make more sense. They tried to make Mako look like the responsible, serious and emotionally restrained guy, while Bolin was more sheltered, cheerful and naive/immature. Mako's personality seems to fit better in policeman work than Bolin's.

There was this fan idea thrown around that maybe part of Mako's motivation for being a cop is making up for his past running around with the triads, or even hunting down the guy who killed his parents. I hope this isn't yet another one of these fan speculations that seem like the obvious, logical and exciting scenario, but never ends up happening inside the series.

Also, after seeing that animatic clip, I'm upset about Bolin's contribution. People in the 4chan threads yesterday were like "yay Bolin's gonna learn to be responsible and a big boy now that he's the pro-bending captain". But after seeing the animatic, it turns out that his Fire Ferrets are a joke. I hope it's just the first episode and his lowest point, and he'll get to finally serious up later on.

>>108210

The trailer last SDCC was made up of clips from the premiere and the 3rd episode. The animatic is likely from the first episode showing Team Avatar split apart and having to come together to attend the SWT festival where all the bad/awesome spirit shit goes down.

Timeskips tend to split hero groups apart, just look at TTGL.

>>108210
>I was a little surprised to hear about Mako being a cop now.

Indeed, it took me completely off guard what with his whole BURN THE PARKING BILLS(obstructing justice) and his "interogation" definitely showing that he is pretty damn unstable when stressed.

Maybe i have a naive and idealistic view of how i see men of the city, but Mako isn't really someone i'd consider a candidate.

But it's Mako, i don't expect him or stuff related to him to make sense anymore.

>>108196
Korra fighting in the Avatar State looks glorious.

Storyboard Bolin (1/3)

http://psikick.tumblr.com/post/27173429344/animated-voiced-storyboard-scene-of-bolin-giving

Storyboard Bolin (2/3)

Storyboard Bolin (3/3)

>>108224
>storyboard-scene-of-bolin-giving

But everyone knows that Bolin is the taker, not the giver.

Bolin/failure is a good ship.
People are forgetting how atla's most beloved character got kicked around and humiliated in 40+ episodes before stepping up.

>>108076
1) Bryke's failure to write a 12 episode series is their own fault, no one else's. They were the ones who wanted to do a 12 episode series, not Nick.

2) Not linking anything from book 1 to book 2 is just bad storytelling. It's like saying none of the issues in book 1 ever mattered.

3) If Bryke made the ending for book 2 as closed as the ending for book 1 then this will make it even harder to write books 3 and 4. A good story should flow from one book to another, not be written as if the other books don't exist.

tl;dr don't blame me if book 2 is as bad as book 1.

>>108117
Don't forget that Amon was from the Northern Water Tribe and probably has family living there, so it's highly likely he'll be recognised by any Northern Water Tribe army sent to Republic City.

>>108231
Eh. Even from last year's SDCC panel, I've looked at LoK as two or more Books involving the same characters and world, but new plots each book. Lots of media does this. This is not inherently bad storytelling. There is nothing wrong with having seasons that are episodic in nature. Can Bryke pull it off? I don't know. Book 1 had serious pacing issues, but I still loved the overall plot.

I just don't think having plots that don't connect to a bigger picture makes a story automatically bad.

>>108231
>>They were the ones who wanted to do a 12 episode series, not Nick.

Proof please. It wouldn't make sense for Bryke to do a 524 episode series (say, One Piece) if the producers behind simply won't allow it.

>>108230
>>Bolin/failure is a good ship.

It is, but I personally prefer Asami/suffering.

>>108196
>>video preview

Given Asami's comment about pinning her hopes of saving Future Industries on someone she's meeting at the south pole, is she talking about Unalaq or Verick? Unalaq could provide a big military contract from the NWT, but there's the whole "doing business with a woman" thing. Plus, it's pretty ballsy to try selling airplanes to a foreign government who lost sailors in the multinational force your father sank. Verick could play the white knight to save her company, but use the opportunity to get his foot in the door for a takeover bid.

>>108234
Pretty sure she's going to talk to Verick seeing as he's been described as similar to Howard Hughes.

If we don't get a Spruce Goose moment I'll be disappointed.

>>108230
>3) If Bryke made the ending for book 2 as closed as the ending for book 1 then this will make it even harder to write books 3 and 4. A good story should flow from one book to another, not be written as if the other books don't exist.

For the last time, Mike and Bryan did not know they were getting a second season until the first one was nearly done. No, they couldn't go back and change the ending because that would cost money and time. It's most likely going to be the same thing with book 2 because they were already done with the storyboarding by the time books 3 and 4 were announced. If anything, those last two books might flow together because they now have a few years to work on them.

>no Lin anywhere to be seen

We're not gonna see a lot of her anymore.. are we ..

Also, the fact the book is called "Spirits" irks me. I know it MAY make sense, but now it's throwing me out of my groove cause it was always named after an element.

>>108238
Are there any other options?

>>108239
Nope!
That's another reason why making this just one season would have been neater. But here comes the lynch mob, so pretend you didn't see me.

did no one notice tophs exact pose is the scene where she had 6 fingers? that must of upset them so much they did this correctly to make themselves feel better also is that awesome space sword? (I hope) hell i would read a comic dedicated to the return of awesome space sword! or maybe they can piggyback it on to the search? i vote for stand alone comic who's with me?

>>108239
>>Are there any other options [for Lin]?

Well, it makes a certain amount of sense for Lin to be the police chief again in order to facilitate the "rookie Mako" plot line. But let's suppose that she's retired from the force. What now?

Thematically, Book 2 seems to be about two things: people moving on with their lives while struggling with new responsibilities, and discovering the world beyond the one they thought they knew (Korra with the Spirit World, Bolin in a Mako-less world, the viewers in a meta-context with Korra's extended family). So how can Lin embody those themes?

* Professor Lin: Lin decides to have an active retirement, passing on her knowledge to the next generation. Maybe she opens an earthbending dojo, or takes a job teaching at Republic City University where she can keep an eye on the hippies. As Korra seems to finally be addressing her spiritual deficiencies when it comes to the elements, Lin would be the logical gateway for Korra getting in touch with the deeper aspects of earthbending. (Kya II seems set-up to do the same for Korra in waterbending.) A teaching Lin could also tie into Bolin's plot line as he tries to grow as a bender. Maybe he tries to tag-along as a cop with Mako and attempts to learn metalbending from Lin.

* Councilwoman Lin: Lin gets pushed into taking the Earth Kingdom's seat on the council following the retirement of the former holder -- who can blame him, given the trauma he must have endured during his kidnapping at Equalist hands? A "law and order" type, she finds herself opposing Tenzin more often than not, and has to struggle with balancing what she thinks is right with her newly repaired friendship with Tenzin.

* Mama Lin: I wouldn't be surprised if we learn here that Lin has grown children, perhaps from a marriage prior to dating Tenzin, in light of Korra's blossoming family tree and Kya II & Bumi II adding a focus to extended families. Her child/children obviously don't live in Republic City, otherwise they should have been mentioned in Book 1, so perhaps they're estranged? Or otherwise not wanting to live in the long shadows of their mother and grandmother?

>-Mako becomes a cop
>-Bolin is the new head of the Fire Ferrets, but Mako's job and Korra's Avatar duties mean they are no longer part of the team

It should have been the other way around.

>>108248
Aside from Bolin being a potential metalbender, I don't see why.

>marriage prior to dating Tenzin
Don't you mean a marriage AFTER dating Tenzin?

>>108248
Why? There would be nothing appealing about the cop life besides learning how to metalbend.

>>108253
>>Don't you mean a marriage AFTER dating Tenzin?

Failed marriage, that is. Or a dead husband, maybe killed in the line of duty.

>>108255
No. I'm really not feeling that whole "Lin was partnered with someone else then later went for Tenzin".
They way Tenzin described it made it sound like, to me anyway, that there growing apart because they were growing up. Which means that they probably dated in their teens or twenties but as they headed into their late twenties and thirties that's when things fell apart.

If Lin had any children, we would have probably heard of them while she was off duty.

dat chin

>>108264

She's so fucking beautiful.

Book one highlights showed at the cc
The Legend of Korra Book One Highlights
So pretty.

>>108262
.. That gross one with the glasses is Bolin, isn't he? Ugh.

>>108279

STFU.

>>108279
He's not gross...

>>108279
Look, anyone's gross when they're forced to peek in from behind that wall of gorgeous people.

>>108262

>everyone crouching down to make Bud Bundy seem the tallest

>>108283
>>108286
>>108287
He looks like your typical blob-faced, hipster Jew. Why must the hot characters always be voiced by the ugliest people?

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>>108290
He is not ugly, jfc. He may not completely fit society's standard of attractive but he's hardly a quasimodo.

>>108290
You almost had me.

Note to self, get into voice acting, piss off all the fans.

>>108292
You think you're hot, do you? We'll I'm a supermodel too!

>Season 1 Hayoda
>awesome forearm bands

>Book 1 Korra
>awesome forearm bands

>"Season 2" Hayoda
>awesome full arm sleeve-wrap-thingies

>Book 2 Korra
>awesome full arm sleeve-wrap-thingies

I welcome this hilariously awesome coincidence with Gaang Jr.

>>108246
Point Of Order, I was talking about Season Titles.

Still, I have a hard time seeing Lin not retaking her spot on the force save for a career in politics. Walking away led to the idiocy with Tarralok, as I recall.

>>108248
Why? It is not as if non-metalbenders are banned from policework....

>>108289
Just checked and he's like 1.60.
Lol.

In other news, Asami's now confirmed to be 18, so you can ship her with anything.

>>108304
Like the shippers needed permission for that.

http://isaia.tumblr.com/post/27245199105/the-avatar-fan-panel-lksdjfdfjjjfjf-33333
Is that Mae and Dante?

So sassy.

>>108233
They requested a 12 episode series rather than a 20 episode series because they didn't want to do a long series.

>>108236
For the last time everyone already knows that Bryke didn't know about the second season. That doesn't make the ending any less terrible, nor does it change the fact that it's difficult to continue the series from the end of book 1.

If they also end book 2 in a similar manner this will make books 3 and 4 very difficult to write. Hopefully they learned something from book 1.

>>108317

That seems to contradict their actual words, though. They said Nick ordered 12 episodes and they were okay with it because they wanted to try their hand at a short, contained series. It honestly sounds like it wasn't their idea, they just were willing to try it.

>>108317
I didn't say the ending wasn't handled badly in terms of pacing and characterization, but as far as Bryke knew that was going to be it. They had no reason to leave some mysterious trail leading to season 2 because at the time they didn't know it was happening.

>>108304
>you can ship her with anything
>anything
>thing

Asami/That mecha she piloted

>>108320
She deserves better than that Privileged mech...

>>108320
too easy

>>108328
She's already been inside him.

>>108117
I wonder if people are going to Tumbitch about Korra being privileged now that we know her uncle is the NWT chief

>>108331
The Water Tribe has always seemed so laissez faire when we've seen it that I find it hard to imagine being a relative of a Chief, or even being Chief yourself, as being all that high on a Water Tribe member's self-image. Sokka and Katara certainly never referred to their father's rank, and it wasn't treated like they were rebelling against it or anything. It was more like they just didn't even think it was that worthy of note--even when Sokka was falling for the daughter of the chief of the other Water tribe.

So maybe that's just the Southern tribe--they were so small at the time that Chief was probably just sort of "The guy who we expect to make the tough decisions" or "The guy who leads the warriors into battle." Northern Tribe seemed to treat it with a little more gravity.

Hello, anons. Is there a video upload of the fan panel anywhere?

>>108332
yeah, that's how I always saw it too
the Southern Water Tribe seems to play a lot looser with the hierarchy so being related to a Chief probably doesn't amount for as much as it would in the other places, but that doesn't mean people won't still find excuses to be offended

>>108331
They already are...

>>108336
GODDAMNIT

>>108335
>but that doesn't mean people won't still find excuses to be offended

The thing you have to understand about these kind of people, they're watching the show, specifically looking for shit to be offended by. There is literally not a single thing that could be done with this show that they won't do their damnedest to misconstrue it as racism/privilege/oppression/ an affront on whatever their particular crusade is.

It's just how their brains work. It's a mental fucking illness. They're not happy unless they're outraged. Which was so completely fucking obvious in how quickly they screamed "WHITEWASHING!!!" even while established characters (like Korra and her parents) were shown to have the same off tone skin color. A normal person goes, oh ok, maybe the color in the slides was a little off or it's because of the cameras... The SJ Tumblr crowd however were hunched over their keyboards in almost orgasmic anticipation just hoping for something to get outraged about. It's why the fucking second those pictures hit the net, they were all over it like flies on shit. No second thought, no benefit of the doubt. Nope, just instant immediate outraged victim hood.

>>108338
The last episode of Korra could show Mako apologizing to Asami and Korra by chopping off his own dick and eating it, half of the cast suddenly turning into women, Korra giving the viewers a twenty minute speech on privilege, Bolin revealing he's a ftm transexual and Asami and Korra realizing they're lesbians and doing a combination of a crabwalk and scissoring through downtown Republic City while leading a gigantic parade where the first float says 'Fuck white people' and tumblr would still find a reason to complain.

Illustration of difference between Social Justice and Social Justice (Warriors/Wankers)

SJ
> That's weird. Why does Bumi and Kya look lighter?
> Noticed that, too. Maybe it's cause the room is so dark and the screen is so bright.
> Should be hopefully nothing to be worried about. Bumi looked fine in the finale.

SJW
> RACISM! I WILL NOT WATCH BOOK 2!!!
> The hell! They made all the Kataang kids white!
> What do you guys expect? Look what they did with Amon-Noatak.

SJ
> Casting white actors for Asian characters is offensive.

SJW
> White people cosplaying as Asian characters is offensive.

SJ
> Yo Bryke, if you want your story to be about a revolution - it would be a good idea to at least resolve it cause dang - you're kinda like telling kids revolutions are always bad or that they only happen cause a bad guy brainwashed the masses.

SJW
(insert whining about Korra being privileged and Mako being an abusive bastard)

>>108340
>you're kinda like telling kids revolutions are always bad or that they only happen cause a bad guy brainwashed the masses.
well to be fair, if the Equalists are supposed to be based on the Socialist/Communist revolutions of the mid-1900's that would actually be pretty accurate, considering how many of them were led by absolute maniacs and hypocrites
looking at China in particular, Amon would be like Mao, except Mao never actually had a shred of genuine goodwill in him to begin with, but that's neither here nor there

>>108339
Pitch that episode to Nick, please.

>>108341
Wow, you REALLY don't know the least bit of anything that you are talking about.

The governments in China and Russia before their respective Communist revolutions were awful and incredibly corrupt.

I'm not saying that Mao or Stalin are saints or anything, but for all intents and purposes the revolution itself was more than justified.

Seriously, please actually go through some history textbooks and you'll see that nearly every Communist revolution occurred because of the awful governments that were already in place.

>>108343
I'm not saying the revolutions themselves weren't justified or that they wouldn't have happened eventually, I'm talking about why they happened the way they did
people like Mao saw this as their chance and took advantage of the people's sentiment to get where they did

>>108345

Some historians actually say the same thing about the French Revolution. That the masses were all brainwashed.

And I bet the British (back in the day) liked to say that America's founding fathers brainwashed the people.

Anyway, the problem is that revolutions are typically seen as a good thing. Which is why some folks think it's unfortunate how it was just swept aside in the finale.

>>108341
shit, realized the confusion was because I only meant to quote the second part of the statement about the leaders being people who brainwash the masses, not the part about all revolutions being bad
because that one I definitely side with the SJers on

>>108348
Yeah, but are demagogues seen as a good thing? Anyway, this conversation has already been run in the Aanger thread.
>>108205
>>108229

>>108349

There's another problem.

We can argue that Mao or Stalin were greedy bastards, just looking out for themselves.

We can't say the same thing about Amon who became convinced that bending was a bad thing cause of his dad. We can't even accuse him of nepotism or cronyism cause he also debended his own little brother.

Then, there's the whole have vs have-not debacle. Like it or not, benders have special powers which non-benders will never have. That shit's just too easily equated with privilege, especially since even Bryke says that the non-benders were feeling underrepresented and the Council's all benders with more than half being Tarrlok's bitches.

Also, does not help that Tarrlok tried to have non-benders rounded up. Well, shit - people's going to think Hitler.

>>108331

Wouldn't it be nuts if it turns out Korra's distantly related to Princess Yue? Like Arnook had new kids, and Korra's father and uncle are Arnook's grandkids? People would start bitching about "Mary Sue" this and "they should never reference the old show, even for a few seconds!" that.

It'd make the Yue/Korra porn kinda awkward, though.

"Whoooo's my favorite great-niece?"
"We're naked, stop that."

>>108355
>Wouldn't it be nuts if it turns out Korra's distantly related to Princess Yue?

That was one of my first thoughts, that he remarried or maybe he and Yue's mother had more kids we just didn't see, but I assumed her mom maybe died during childbirth or... something. It was just kind of weird we didn't see her at all.

>>108356
>>I assumed her mom maybe died during childbirth or... something. It was just kind of weird we didn't see her at all.

Nah, she was alive in the flashback to Yue's troubled birth, and she was later shown cradling Yue after the Moon Spirit saved her life. She apparently died in the intervening years.

(In the attached pic, she's the woman embracing the young!Arnook on the far left.)

>>108332
>>differences between NWT and SWT chieftainships

Ditto this. Heck, Katara sasses Sokka when he tries to portray himself to Yue as having special rank at the South Pole.

From what little the original series showed of them, the SWT and NWT seem fairly divergent in terms of culture. The South isn't a hereditary chieftainship, has no particular reverence for the Moon and Ocean Spirits (Yue even has to tell Katara the origin of waterbending), and, according to what we saw in Hama's flashback, at least its women could be warriors if they were waterbenders.

Admittedly, a lot of the modern cultural differences might be due to the South's quasi-genocide and long isolation from the North, but they seemed somewhat different before then and I can't imagine their societies will completely converge post-war.

>>108378
Are we sure the spirit world is an after life for normal people too? I was under the impression only past Avatars hang around there.

(The above post refers to this post, deleted to correct a typo)

With Korra being in the spirit world for wo episodes, I wonder if we'll get a cameo from Tarllok or Noatok. Speaking of which, does Korra even know they're dead? That would make it even more interesting, for Korra to find out their fate that way.

>>108351
>We can argue that Mao or Stalin were greedy bastards, just looking out for themselves.

>We can't say the same thing about Amon who became convinced that bending was a bad thing cause of his dad. We can't even accuse him of nepotism or cronyism cause he also debended his own little brother.
Is "Emotionally disturbed and taking out his rage against his father on a large swath of the planet" an actual improvement? I doubt it.

>Then, there's the whole have vs have-not debacle. Like it or not, benders have special powers which non-benders will never have. That shit's just too easily equated with privilege,

Speaking so of innate powers, rather than what is granted by society, makes a mockery of the term. Take a good look at what positions non-benders are in fact barred from

>especially since even Bryke says that the non-benders were feeling underrepresented and the Council's all benders with more than half being Tarrlok's bitches.

Biggest problem with the council is that they are five Governor Generals rather than anything actually elected. Tarrlok's existence is a close second though.

>>108355
>It'd make the Yue/Korra porn kinda awkward, though.

This is the fandom that thought up Zucest. Your claim is invalid.

>>108319
I never said it was wrong to produce a definite ending if Bryke thought they were only making 1 season; I said that it makes it more difficult to do another season because they resolved everything. If you're constantly introducing new character and enemies you have to spend a lot of time explaining who they are and why they're important to the plot. This leaves less time for the actual plot.

It's also more difficult because Korra can bend all 4 elements and use the Avatar state. So this makes it harder to create an antagonist who can threaten her. I'm guessing they're using spirits in book 2 because they can't make a more powerful bender.

>>108332
Given that the Southern Water Tribe was reduced from a large city to a small band of of people it's not surprising that being the Chief doesn't mean that much. It's even possible that the Souther Water Tribe is made up of several tribes, each with their own chiefs.

>>108385

>So this makes it harder to create an antagonist who can threaten her.

Except this isn't Dragon Ball Z. A new antogonist doesn't have to be physicly stronger or have a greater "power level" than the previous antagonist to be a threat. Just look at Azula from the first series. Sure, she was a strong bender, but that was never her biggest strength. What made her such a threat was her intelligence.

In fact, a bad guy that's more brains than brawn would be a perfect counter to Korra's "Hulk Smash!" approach and give her room to grow as a character.

>>108393
Do you remember how people were theorizing that Amon was going to be exactly that kind of villain? It was pretty much the perfect setup for a more intellectual villain since Amon had the people's support and beating up/threatening protesters would probably make Korra look bad.

And then Bryke made the conflict completely about brute force.

>>108407 Well, keep in mind that they've taken a backseat to the writing duties and have handed that off to actual writers this tme.

>>108409
>actual writers
I'm getting tired of this crap. The atla episodes they wrote were just fine. A lot of Korra episodes were fine ("I will make no such promises"). The Blue Spirit, The Waterbending Master, The Blind Bandit, all were beautifully written.
They screwed up a bit with the big picture this time and planned season 1 poorly, that's hardly a huge fuck up.

>>108393
That isn't correct for a few reason.

1) In any series involving fighting the main characters almost always get stronger over time as they train and learns new moves. Therefore each new antagonists need to be stronger (Zuko, Azula, Ozai) or have a special ability that makes up for their lack of strength (Combustion man). The former is much easier to do than the latter.

If the enemies don't get stronger but the protagonist does people will complain about the protagonist not being able to defeat these enemies despite being so powerful. Also stronger villains means bigger and better fights, which are usually popular with the audience.

If the protagonist doesn't get stronger or learn new moves then people complain about lack of character development, and get bored because the protagonist keeps using the same attacks over and over. The protagonist getting stronger means newer and cooler abilities, which are always popular with the audience.

There's a reason why every shonen series uses the same formula of enemy, stronger enemy, even stronger enemy; it's because its an easy way to tell a good story while maintaining the tension (will protagonist be able to defeat the new stronger enemy). If the protagonist always win quickly because they're very powerful then people get bored and if the protagonist doesn't use their powers to make the fight more challenging people call the protagonist an idiot. Stronger enemies, stronger protagonist is a formula that is used because it works.


2) In the first series Aang couldn't control the Avatar state until the end of season 2 and because of an injury couldn't use it in most of season 3. This meant that he couldn't use it against Azula or Ozai to become much stronger than them. Thus Azula and Ozai could fight equally with Aang while only being strong benders.

If Aang could have entered the Avatar state at any time and then fought against Azula or Ozai he would have quickly beaten them (even if they had the comet's power). Notice I said enter the Avatar state, then fight them so that neither Azula or Ozai could attack Aang while he was entering the Avatar state.

So if Korra can use the Avatar state whenever she wants the audience will ask why she doesn't use it to crush her enemies. Bryke will need a good reason to ensure that Korra doesn't become too overpowered or an idiot.


3) With an intelligent villain the audience will always be asking why Korra doesn't just crush them and you need a good answer. If the person is leading a terrorist organisation and is hiding then this would explain why Korra can't just attack them; she doesn't know who or where they are.

However the main problem with an intelligent villain is that once you find them they're easily beaten without a cool battle. Many people will consider this a pathetic end, which is why every shonen series has strong villains who can fight in a huge battle when they mean the protagonist.


tl;dr if Korra has an intelligent villain there won't be any cool fights. It will mostly be short fights that Korra wins as soon as she uses the Avatar state.

>>108414
Hey, 70 years ago lightning bending was a thing only a few people were capable of pulling off, same thing with bloodbending? Who's to say we won't get a bender who can hold their own against the Avatar state? Not beat it, maybe, but at least be strong enough to give us a good fight.

>>108417
Yeah, right, let's just keep raising the power levels until this is DBZ. That's a great idea. Fuck the entire 100,000 year history of the planet where nothing like this happened; all that matters is that lousy writers are free to make things as mindlessly violent as possible.

>>108417
They'd have to be very powerful to compete with Korra in the Avatar state. There's a reason why they prevented Aang using the Avatar state for nearly all the series.

>>108418
Well that's what Bryke have been doing all throughout Korra. Why do you think they had super powerful blood benders, chi blockers, and metal bending cops. Not to mention all the new technology.

To be fair they did this in Avatar with Combustion Man, the comet, and all the Fire Nation war machines. I guess when power levels get too high it's time to reset and bring out a new Avatar.

>>108417
>Hey, 70 years ago lightning bending was a thing only a few people were capable of pulling off,

Is it THAT common now?

Known Lightning Benders -
Lightning Bolt Zolt, leader of the Triple Threat Triads
Mako, who is one of the "celebrities" of the Bending World (presumably other pro-Benders can do it)
Dudes that work at the power plant and do it for a living.

It's definitely no longer a thing just for the Fire Nation royalty, but it seems like if you can do it you're either someone that's trained hard to do that as your job, someone that a high ranking pro-Bending player, or someone high up in the mobs (and presumably there are others high up in the military).

Still rare-ish.

>>108424
>> That unnamed fire nation avatar was shown controlling four or five volcanoes while Roku died fighting one

I always figured that is was easier to make a volcano explode than to stop one from exploding. (Then again, Roku has already shown how much he sucked at being the Avatar.)

Wait, wasn't everyone complaining about bending being nerfed in Korra? Make up your mind, or just figure out a way to keep whining about both without contradicting yourselves I guess.

>>108420
Kyoshi was able to create and move continents before Aang was ever born. That unnamed fire nation avatar was shown controlling four or five volcanoes while Roku died fighting one.

>>108426
I still don't think bending was nerfed.

pretty sure Fire avatar is simply there to look cool.

>>108413

Have to second.

A lot of their ATLA episodes were great on their own.

And a lot of LOK's episodes are also great, it's just the pacing that is terrible.

>>108429
If the fact that this bending right here had no effect on Amon at all doesn't tell you bending got nerfed, I don't know what you think nerfed means.

>>108426
>Wait, wasn't everyone complaining about bending being nerfed in Korra? Make up your mind, or just figure out a way to keep whining about both without contradicting yourselves I guess.

The problems has two parts: first; bending techniques that were the peak of effectiveness in Avatar practiced only by the elite get handed out like halloween candy. second: the enemy becomes able to resist these formerly elite techniques making it necessary to turn bending into an arms race of flash over substance and power levels and mindless violence over conflicts that take place because they make logical sense for their place in the plot; that's not how Avatar: The Last Airbender worked. Whoever was keeping a lid of things was smarter than that.

So you see, what used to be the hottest shit in the world now has even less effect than it should because of how much plot armor is being applied to the enemy. It's not entertaining; it does nothing for the story; and it doesn't need to be done at all in this series because it's so short compared to 500 episode action animes that need this shit to keep the teens tuning in.

https://twitter.com/GreyDeLisle/status/225033218586456065

YES YES YES

>>108444
>>Grey DeLisle as "The Dark Spirit"

Might as well voice the obvious crack theory: due to the powerful combination of Sozin and Roku's bloodlines, Azula's madness manifested as its own living entity -- the Dark Spirit.

>>108444
Oh, my.

>>108444

>Grey DeLisle as "The Dark Spirit"

>>108446
My own crack theory is that "The Dark Spirit" is somehow related to "The Blue Spirit," and is therefore a secret identity of some Fire Nation person (most likely the offspring of either Zuko or Azula) trying to do something that they don't want to be associated with.

>>108449
I think it's a Jungian shadow of the Avatar Spirit.

>>108450
Isn't that what everyone thought Amon was?

>>108451
This time it's probably not complete bullshit. I think of this as them restarting the clock with actual writers who know how to organize and execute a story working on the script.

>>108452
>actual writers

So, now that the season has ended, has /a/ just gone completely cockmongler? It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between posts made here and on tumblr.

>>108453
It's been that way for a while. I think half the community only watches the show so they have something to bitch about.

>>108453

I know that feel bro.

>>108455
No I watched it because I believed I would enjoy it. I really can't be held accountable for the results of two art designers with minimal writing experience taking the entire creative workload on themselves; nor do I appreciate being accused of "whining" because I'm describing WHAT ACTUALLY FUCKING HAPPENED.

>>108457

Whoa.

>>108457
>No I watched it because I believed I would enjoy it.

Okay. And apparently you didn't. And there's not going to be more eps for a good long while, if you even want to keep watching. So........

>>108459
I'm not going to stop talking about hopes for the second season.

>>108460
I am sure the next season will be good as long as the writers avoid giving Korra easy victories via Deus Ex Machina.

>>108444
She got an actual account. I hope tumblr never discovers her first one which had plenty of rape jokes and stuff.

>>108471
If they can come up with a way that prevents Korra entering the avatar state this will prevent Korra becoming overpowered. Perhaps someone will injure her in the same way Aang was injured, so she temporarily loses access to the Avatar state.

>>108471
If they can come up with a way that prevents Korra entering the avatar state this will prevent Korra becoming overpowered. Perhaps someone will injure her in the same way Aang was injured, so she temporarily loses access to the Avatar state.

>>108477
Judging from the cc previews, it looks like the AS is useless against spirits.

Bending also doesn't work in the Spirit World, unless that's been retconned.

>>108471
If they can come up with a way that prevents Korra entering the avatar state this will prevent Korra becoming overpowered. Perhaps someone will injure her in the same way Aang was injured, so she temporarily loses access to the Avatar state.

>>108480
Maybe Mako accidently lightning bends her in the back as he climaxes during doggy style.

>>108476
I think that will be done without any contrivances of the story.

And next: woodbending.

You know it'll happen sooner or later.

>>108487
couldn't they hypothetically already do that if the wood is wet?

>>108488
Try "alive".
Foggy Swamp STYLE.

The Southern Water Tribe is more developed than I expected. That's a pretty respectable city in the background.

The Comic Con panel video is now online. See it here:

http://michaeldantedimartino.tumblr.com/post/27350058485/the-video-of-our-comic-con-panel-is-ready-to

>>108505
Construction is probably the easy part what with the waterbenders and all. All the SWT really needed was people.

any high res scans of the posters yet?

>>108505
A read once that the SWT used to have a city, but were driven from it by the start of AtlA. Of maybe that was an old fanfic. It gets confusing sometimes.

>>108550
Hama and presumably Gran-Gran lived in a fortified, walled structure that could be part of a larger city.

>>108550
If I remember correctly the city was mostly melted down by the firebenders and all thats left is what you see at the beginning of the series

Korra meets Japan.

>>108573
Why I can't stop to think of Ripley and the Xenomorph in Alien 3?
Now this thing only needs to open her mouth to reveal another one and that would be officially the most epic shot-out in Avatar history!

"It's been confirmed that the name for Korra's female cousin is Palartok (Inuit for quiet) and that she has a crush on Mako."

bolin will never win will he

>>108488
Bending water in plants is how kids get into bloodbeding.

>>108596
Isn't she 13-14?

>>108598
If shes 14 and Mako is 18 then its the same age difference between Toph and Sokka when she had a crush on him.

>>108596

>[citation needed]

>>108596

If that fucking rumor is true, FUCK EVERYTHING.

>>108603

The tumblr user that originated the 'confirmed' shit just posted that they made it up as a joke. False alarm.

Though the cockblock joke potential would be neat if either Mako or Korra has a Meng-esque crusher/stalker in the SWT that gets in the way when they want to have an intimate moment.

>>108606

I didn't really believed it. Google linked back the same place every time.

But the posibility... Fuck, I'm still feeling the effects...

>>108607
I haven't hated fictional characters this much since Twilight.

>>108609
>>108607
>>108606
Guys Guys Guys. Something has to happen to cause tension between Mako and Korra. And by Jove, it sure won't be plot related.
It's gonna go the road of all romantic dramedies where a simple conversation could solve all misunderstandings but the shmucks never listen to each other.
And then at the end they get back together. Rinse and repeat in Season 3 and 4.

I want to kill myself already.

>>108617

(gags)

How I wish I could (still) say that Bryke wouldn't do something so cringe-worthy.

Book 1 Ep. 2: Not my thing, but it isn't bad. Just there.
Book 1 Ep. 3: Boy, they sure are trying to sell us this ship.
Book 1 Ep. 4: And here's the love triangle or square.
Book 1 Ep. 5: Ugh. UGH. Okay, Bryke you've proven your point.

Book 1 Ep. 7: Korra, that was very noble of you.

Book 1 Ep. 9: Oh no.

Book 1 Ep. 10: Mako, dude. You should know that you don't even deserve either.
Book 1 Ep. 11: WTF, Mako.
Book 1 Ep. 12: (GAGS)

Apparently a third Anon came back and posted this.

"I'm the real Anon who sent you the information about Palartok. This information comes from an interview between Bryke and MTV Geek that will be published this weekend."

Apparently a third Anon came back and posted this.

"I'm the real Anon who sent you the information about Palartok. This information comes from an interview between Bryke and MTV Geek that will be published this weekend."

What the fuck kind of name is "Palartok"? That's not kawaii at all!

>>108607
>>108617
>>108618
am I the only person who doesn't see this as necessarily being a big deal as long as this stays a minor thing?

>>108626
Yes.

>>108606
>Though the cockblock joke potential would be neat if either Mako or Korra has a Meng-esque crusher/stalker in the SWT that gets in the way when they want to have an intimate moment.
Could be; however, consider that we only have 14 episodes to get through all of this shit; again.
Dont waste my motherfucking time!

>>108626

It depends. Apparently, Borra was a "minor" thing.

Anyway, if this rumor is true - it will not endear Mako to the fandom, cause it means not only did he have the Avatar and the most eligible heiress in Republic City wanting to get into his pants - a "princess" also wants him?

People are still sore at him for becoming a cop instead of Bolin.

Oh... and if Bolin has a crush on the princess...

>>108630
He's the Suest!

>>108632
>mfw when Mary Sues are henceforth referred to as "Makos"

>mfw the dramatic tension is resolved when the Delisle-voiced Dark Spirit gets a crush on Mako and NTR's Korra right in front of her.

>>108635
>but then Mako's handsomeness starts another global war, because Princesses from all nations demand his hand in marriage. (Mako blames Bolin for running his mouth again.)

>>108633

Mako is our very own Bella.

Nowadays, I just shake my head at the Mako, Makorra-fans who still insist Asami is a Mary Sue.

>Korra tries to ask Kyoshi for spiritual guidance but she keeps getting distracted by Mako's good looks because he's hovering over Korra while she meditates and keeps trying to slap her awake.

Is this Korra and one of the twins?

>>108618

I have to say I LIKED the shipping and teasing in the first four episodes.

I was very open to the idea of Makorra, I could see easily how it would work from their interaction in the first four episodes.

But then Asami came into the picture and things got needlessly complicated (back then I supposed Asami would become Bolin's love intrest, what with her being a pro-bending fan, Bolin's status in the earlier episodes as charming ladies man, the balant Makorra teasing).

Even then I was open to Masami AND Makorra, just as I was open to Bosami or Borra.

And then Episode 5 happened, and I was like "Oh, boy, this isn't good".

And then episodes 7-12 ruined EVERYTHING.


Anyway, I hope they don't pull drama in Makorra from third parties.

Character giving Mako shit for his callous ways? Totally fine.

Charactes giving Makorra shit by comming between the characters when they so desperately need development as a couple? FUCK NO.

>>108626

The problem is the idea of yet ANOTHER character having a crush on Mako, after the Korra/Mako/Asami thing was so badly handled in the first season.

>>108647
Like I've mentioned before, one little tweak that would fixed oh so many issues would have been to have Asami run down Bolin instead of Mako.

>>108647
>>108648
>>108630
The entirety of the way Mako was handled post episode 7 gave me migraines . I'm not calling him a Gary Stu, but he does look to be one of Bryke's "pet" characters. Some writers have those. It's very annoying.
It seemed like reality itself was warped to put him at the center of everything. He's the only one that cares when Korra goes missing. He's suddenly bending like a young god, with abilities that seemed strangely absent before, and Amon of all people compliments his bending. And I'm not even getting directly into the lovetriangle, culminating in the softest break-up and easiest hook-up ever.
Everyone else seemed to get their shit sandwich and they had to take a few bites before they could move on. (Maybe not Bolin, I have no idea. He merged with the scenery.) But Mako got a birthday cake with sparklers on top.

So my primary hope for this season is that Mako has to go through some downs (and not just informed downs. Isn't he supposed to be an underdog? I saw precious little of that.) Have him fuck up. Have people question his decisions. Just have him handled more critically.

Another potential loveinterest and a sweet ride? Well, we're off to a flying start...

>>but he does look to be one of Bryke's "pet" characters.
Is this something to do with him being named for Iroh's original voice actor?

In hindsight... did not turn out to be the greatest of tributes to a passed-on friend....

>>108448
I hope you all see the irony in Daphne Blake voicing an evil spirit.

The real question is: Will she be voicing Old man Jenkins too.

>>108617
Maybe Korra's cousins will conspire to break up Korra and Mako (either the female cousin will hit on Mako or they'll try to find another guy for Korra).

>>108648
I guess most of the girls liking Sokka worked because he was likeable. No one complained that Suki, Yue, Toph, and Ty Lee all liked Sokka but he did stick to one girl at a time and didn't switch from Yue to Suki until Yue became the moon.

>>108649
Have Asami hit Korra with the bike and write the two now irrelevant brothers out of the story they no longer have any reason to be in.

>>108653
>I guess most of the girls liking Sokka worked because he was likeable. No one complained that Suki, Yue, Toph, and Ty Lee all liked Sokka but he did stick to one girl at a time and didn't switch from Yue to Suki until Yue became the moon.
That's the biggest part, certainly--when it happened to Sokka he made it funny. But another part of it, and this is crucial, is that ATLA fans didn't start second-guessing everything that happened in the series until Season Three.

>>108653
HA! I used to work at a Captain D's!

>>108655
Zutara started back in season 1, as did most of the shipping. Though it wasn't until season 3 that it became clear who was likely to be paired with who.

Most people don't question a series until the end in case the creators suddenly do something epic. However once its ended it easier to judge whether it made sense or not. So this is why people started questioning ALTA during season 3 and Korra after 12 episodes.

>>108650
You seriously got the impression the writers liked Mako? I felt like it was the opposite, no matter how powerful he got. He's a walking "you want your douchey firebender husbando? here, take it". He's the jerk zutarians wanted Zuko to be.
If anything, characters have it easier when writers don't really care about them. You can safely say they loved Zuko and Aang, yet they had to go through constant failure and humiliation (the former) and death (the latter).

tl;dr: Mako isn't really the writers' pet, more like misplaced and not very hearfelt fanservice.

I'm fine with him becoming a cop btw, maybe because Bolin struggling to find his own path sounds more interesting than the metalbending route.

>>108653

>and didn't switch from Yue to Suki until Yue became the moon.

And even then he hesitated.

>>108653
>I guess most of the girls liking Sokka worked because he was likeable. No one complained that Suki, Yue, Toph, and Ty Lee all liked Sokka but he did stick to one girl at a time and didn't switch from Yue to Suki until Yue became the moon.

I think another part was that the attention Sokka got from the ladies never reached the obnoxious point because there just wasn't as much focus on it. Toph had her crush, Ty Lee was flirty and so on, but it was mostly background noise to fill in character detail.

Makorra on the other hand was fucking blaring on the screen "LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL ROMANCE" and was just aggravating. Then when the series uses Mako and Korra kissing as one of their final notes a la Aang and Katara, we're supposed to start clapping and cheering?

It just feels wrong.

Mako is Bryan Konietzko's self-insert in Korra just as Zuko was Bryan Konietzko's self-insert in ATLA.

Come on. Everybody knows this already.

>>108661
>I think another part was that the attention Sokka got from the ladies never reached the obnoxious point because there just wasn't as much focus on it.

No. He's right, you're wrong. The problem wasn't the focus, the problem was that Sokka was a one-woman-at-a-time guy, and Mako wasn't.

Honestly, if Mako had ultimately stayed with Asami, perhaps going "I'm flattered, and if I wasn't with someone maybe we could have had a relationship, but it wasn't meant to be" I'd have been down with it. If Mako and Asami's first date ended so badly they decided to just be friends, with her being a fan/supporter, leaving Mako and Korra both free to date, I'd have been cool with it.

Him making goo-goo eyes with Korra, on front of the woman he's in a relationship with?

THAT'S what made him a shitheel.

The problem wasn't that "oh so much time" had been spent on their relationship (and it really hadn't, especially compared to other shows) the problem was that he was doing something we disapprove of.

The Internet "Romance Hate-Boner" that appeared in the last year or two isn't helping matters. These days even the inclusion of a romantic plot in any story makes the internet angry. I haven't yet decided if it's FOREVER ALONE at work or exaggerated manliness or the assumption that romance even existing means you're watching Twilight, but it definitely seems to be irrational and indiscriminate as to how well the characters are written or how believable the romance is these days. These days I see people complain about romantic subplots even in stories where the romance is actually quite sweet.

>>108665
That doesn't detract from the fact Makorra was awful.

>>108659
>>Mako isn't really the writers' pet, more like misplaced and not very heartfelt fanservice.

I agree. The show never approves of him straying from Asami, and he even gets pointedly presented on several occasions as hurting Asami with his actions.

That said, personally? Him and Korra actually getting together felt unearned. Some sort of "thing" was being built towards, but going into the finale I thought we'd close out with a hopeful note for the future after Mako and Asami broke up. Not... what we got.

>>108666
Yes, but the way Korra fans talk about it it's like it was a major part of the story, when really it got only a little more focus than the romances did in ATLA. There are far more important things to talk about than the romance, but you wouldn't believe that by talking to the fans. The Anti-shippers are the new Zutara, in that you can't even talk about the show without them making you talk about their opinion on the romances of the show, and you really just want to talk about other stuff.

>>108665
If you want to make this specific to Korra the fact is that the characters involved do not hold enough of my interest for me to care about their romantic lives when the script eschews every other possible interaction of the cast. Let's make up a little anagloue of the Bechdel test. How many conversations do Mako and anyone else have which involve something other than his incredibly boring woman troubles?

You realize that over 12 episodes the chances of anyone not passing the test are zero-to-none?

>>108668
No, by the numbers it doesn't take up a huge amount of time. The problem is that they REFUSED to deal with it before the last fifteen seconds of the series. It was more annoying than the Madagascar ads for them to keep coming back to Makorra again and again and again just to keep reminding us that Asami had to watch her boyfriend be in love with someone else; Korra was super in love; and that Mako couldn't make up his mind. At a certain point we fucking get it. We don't need it to be re-established multiple times in every 20 minute episode, no matter how briefly it happens. They just would not let that asshole make a decision any more than Korra was allowed to win a fight and the ultimate outcome was so obviously telegraphed in episode 2 it was a huge waste of time to have to watch it happen at all.

>>108659
seriously, I don't like how Mako was handled and I think he's a total cunt but people are going way overboard with the Gary Stu accusations.
considering he's supposed to be good-looking in universe, if the new character's crush on him is just for superficial reasons like thinking he's hot, then it doesn't mean jack about favoritism unless you plan on pointing fingers at Tahno's posse making him a Stu too.
if the show does choose to go the "omg I love him because he's so wonderful and amazing" love triangle route then I'll gladly join you in the tomato throwing but for Christ's sake I thought /a/ was supposed to be the place to get away from people overrreacting prematurely.

>>108668

Yeah, there's a lot of that going on, but even then, most of the critique Makorra has doesn't come from an anti-shipping mentality.

It comes from a this-romance-was-handled-badly mentality.

This critique is shared by non-Makorra and even Makorra fans alike (not that Makorra doesn't have a LOT of supporters on it's own, and I dare say managed to win non-supporters in the finale, people have different tastes after all).

It's not the amount of time the show decided to waste focusing or not on the romance, it's what it chose to use that time for:

Korra and Mako falling hard for eachother because reasons (I get why it happens, but I don't think the show makes a good point in showcasing it), while Mako remains in a relationship with Asami, neglecting her emotionally, and the show reminding us just how much Asami is being hurt watching this happen before here eyes.

>>108672
Someday this shit needs to end or get more interesting. We know Mako and Korra are both their respective forever girls and nothing is actually getting in the way of that because of the incredibly formulaic writing that disallows logical suprises that don't arise from a deus ex machina. If somehow one of those either solidifies or fuck up Makorra for good, horray. Until that day any amount of strife these two go through is going to be as hollow and meaningless as Superman getting into a fight for his life.

>>108672

As far as I can see, we're having a pretty level headed discussion on opposing views and not jumping at each others throats at the drop of a hat.

>>108675
Oh you think so? WELL SCREW YOU! People like you are the new Zutarra!

>>108667
I loved this scene from beginning to end, especially the way Pema left with that "Oh crap I'm outta here!" look on her face!
I don't think Mako is ANYONE'S self insert period. I also feel like his and Korra's relationship won't be permanent. It's already been demonstrated that people can get together and break up with Lin and Tenzin. Plus they're trying to distinguish this show from its predecessor, so why not throw in the break-up of the alpha couple? Besides, with Mako's tendency to make excuses for his bad behaviour and Korra's low tolerance for BS, they won't last long at all.

>>108677
If they were trying to subvert any of the storytelling conventions of Avatar they would've done best by not giving the Avatar a crackerjack prize love interest.

>>108677
Agreed. I see the Makorra relationship not lasting long at all precisely because it's so superficial and based on hormones. But I know it's out of vogue to give the creators the benefit of a doubt these days.

>>108678
>crackerjack prize love interest
What the hell does that even mean?
>>108679
Right, they are teenagers after all. I'm also willing to give the writers the benefit of the doubt because I'm not a raving lunatic. Not most of the time, anyway.

>>108677
See before the finale came, I was certain that Korra would at least show a little regret or hesitation over finally getting together with Mako because of his already established relationship with Asami.

I was seriously just as mad with Korra for not even considering her so called friend as I was with Mako for being such a jerk.

It seriously would have taken all of two lines to show that Korra wasn't completely selfish, but they didn't even do that much.

So while I hope you're right, I'm honestly not very confident in it happening. Bryke have too much of an "endgame" mentality.

>>108681
Well, Korra is kind of flawed that way. Just like Aang was irresponsible for running away from his Avatar duties, Korra is irresponsible for not thinking about Asami's feelings. She's a headstrong, impatient teenager and this is exactly the kind of thing they do. If this series is going to show us anything, it's probably going to be Korra dealing with the consequences of being irresponsible and learning how to be not to be.
By the way, for me it's these kind of things that make characters interesting. They're flawed and it makes them all the more believable.

>>108681
This. The romance in ATLA and LOK is never complicated. In fact it's insultingly simple. It's just the characters that act like it's all so very hard (even though no one really struggles to achieve anything here.)
Remember what Pema said? Tenzin and Lin weren't meant to be. They're not soulmates. Of course they wouldn't end up together and this message is delivered with a completely straight face in the end.

And look at Korra she falls in love at first sight. There's never a doubt in her heart that Mako is her forevergirl from the moment that they meet. Then we replay the whole letting go mumbo-jumbo from The Guru. But true love always finds a way. Isn't that precious.

It's so saccharine and childish that you're expecting a twist or it to jump into the realm of self-parody. But that doesn't happen. Because they're completely serious in what they serve up here.
Personally, I don not think that there was any intention behind making Mako look like an ass here. Weren't they taken aback at the fan backlash? Wouldn't they have shown him in a different light if they had intended such? Nope. In the eyes of the writers he did nothing wrong. Since when is following your heart wrong?

So yes, the romance is garbage. Didn't need me to point this out to anyone. And I can totally understand the anti-romance angle on the internet... What's the last great romance that you saw or read in popular fiction? Apart from small indy films I've got nothing. People need to relearn how to do good romance.

>>108683
But if there was ever a time to develop a character and have them actually grow it would be right then, at the end of your season.

It would have been really fucking powerful note to end on.

>>108685
>But true love always finds a way. Isn't that precious.

Mike and Bryan are aware of how cheesy and ridiculous their romance is. They do it on purpose because they're a fan of romantic cliches. It was basically the same with Kataang, only they had a good number of episodes to space their development out.

Eh but point is, Bryke know their romance isn't entirely realistic. Romance in the media rarely is.

>>108683

Yeah, but there are flaws, and there are flaws.

I was ok with Katara not getting flak from Sokka over the mom thing because of the circumstances, and both Sokka and Katara's respective personalities (and having two sisters that can get very mean when enraged, and me being a laid back dude to the point of apathy).

It was a lot more harder for me to sympathise with both Mako and Korra as far as their treatment of Asami in regards to the love triangle is concerned.

I'm easier to forgive Korra, because I saw what I felt was reluctance after Hiroshi betrayed Asami, and because Asami herself (with whom I related the most) was also more forgiving and understanding of Korra's actions.

Mako's actions after episode 7, on the other hand, get absolutely no sympathy from me, even if Asami could find enough fucks to give in her heart and forgive him and reach an understanding in the finale.

I just want more bro moments. It's when they're both most likeable.

>>108685

I don't apprecaite you dropping ATLA into the same bag as LOK.

I liked the more simpler approach in ATLA, and it still had enough drama derived from the circumstances the characters were into.

But LOK did not try to be as simple in it's approach to the romance, and as such, shouldn't have been allowed to give such a simple resolution to the issues it presented.

With all due respect can we shut the hell up regarding bitching about Korra and Mako? Do we really need to hear this in every god-damn Korra thread?

Chrissakes guys, keep it to the shipping thread.

>>108696

Latest Mako/Korra discussion spawned because of the rumor, which better not be true.

>>108699
It's not. The "source" on tumblr admitted to making it up for kicks.
>>108606

>>108685
>Remember what Pema said? Tenzin and Lin weren't meant to be. They're not soulmates. Of course they wouldn't end up together and this message is delivered with a completely straight face in the end.

Pema has been married to Tenzin for a decade and has four kids with the guy. She has every reason to consider him a soul mate at this point in their relationship. So yes, she can assign that in hindsight as well. I mean what do you think she should think at this point "Eh, I guess Tenzin's an okay guy." Seriously.

>There's never a doubt in her heart that Mako is her forevergirl from the moment that they meet.

Yes, that's why immediately after that episode aired the internet was rife with image macros that had Mako swooning for Korra and Korra swooning for Pro Bending. She was also convinced Mako was an ass, in case you forgot that bit.
I'm ready to stop bitching about Mako and Korra now, thank you very much.
So how about that Verick, eh?

>>108703
If you seriously thought that Disney-as-fuck shot of them looking at each other across the bay wasn't as significant an event in the history of telegraphy as Zimmerman's was, you're giving these guys ways too much credit and outright ignoring everything they do.

>>108705

Show me a Disney flick wherein after the main guy and main gal stared at each other all romantic-wise, the main guy ends up spewing heart bubbles for another girl (without having a love spell cast on him).

>>108708
Show me a series by Mike and Bryan where the Avatar doesn't get a free love interest for being who they are.

>>108710
Uh, Aang and Katara? She didn't start going gaga over him when she found out he was the Avatar, and they had their ~dreamy stare~ moment when they first met.

>>108708
I don't think Disney's every done a love triangle.

>>108711
I've got a hunch you're wrong.

>>108711
>and they had their ~dreamy stare~ moment when they first met.
Exactly. While they attempted to put roadblocks in the way of that in the first season and later in the third season with their torturous Zutara-trolling nonsense, it was an inescapable conclusion. Then they did the exact same thing with Korra and Mako except they made both of the characters total assholes who never talk to each other about anything else.

>>108715
There was never any Zutara trolling except in The Ember Island Players, and that was more about just calling the Zutarans delusional.

>>108703

>So how about that Verick, eh?

There has been a lot of comparison to Lando.

I like the guy, I'm hoping he doesn't turn out to have a hidden agenda and be a bad guy (unless he goes full Lando).

>>108717
Remember, man, these are internet nerds. Everything is about them, so any time there's a development in a story, it's been done specifically to get a reaction from them.

>>108719
Have you listened to the DVD commentarii? I'm not making this up.
But someone said the rumors about female cousin and Mako were false? Thank god for that. Do we still have to worry about them making feints at Bolin hooking up with her?

>>108717

And then there was the followup smackdown in Sozin's Comet with June:

>looks of pure disgust
>"I'M NOT HIS GIRLFRIEND! / SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!"

>>108720

I really can't say having some slight zutara TEASING, while using the actual episode to give development to Katara (and even build more basis for Kataang) counts as trolling.

Now please, we get it, some of you hate Bryke, and think they are awful at romace.

And some of us don't, and think they did well in ATLA.

Can we please move on to something else?

Verick, Unarok, the Spirits, antyhing not immediately related to the discussion above?

>>108722
I hope the twins don't have names with a K in them.

>>108722

Ya know... you could just ignore discussions you don't like instead of insisting that they die (cause you can't stand them).

Best way to end a discussion is just to wait for them to die.

In any case, I don't like Zutara or Makorra, but I'd rather have Zutara than Makorra. At least, there's no canon evidence that either Katara or Zuko would be as insensitive as Mako and Korra.

Bryke amazingly actually came up with a canon ship which I loathe more than Zutara.

Unfortunately, of course, this means I cannot expect them to make Makorra even more horrible in the future books.

>>108724
No, I'm with Seyker on this one: every goddamned thread on this board is about shipping or whining about season one. Go talk about it in one of those--that's what they're for. This thread is supposed to be about season two, the info we've been given and the speculations we've got. Your hateboner for Makorra is not really relevant in this thread.

>>108726
I speculate that as they did not have adequate time to gauge the response to Makorra it will devolve further into an absolutely detestable misuse of time and energy which pleases no one; not even the most insane of shippers.

>>108726

And as noted, the current shipping discussion spawned because of a stupid rumor which was thankfully debunked.

It's not that hard to talk about something else while shipping talk is taking place.

If you want a discussion about something to die, just do not contribute to the discussion about it. Complaining about other people talking about something just adds attention to it.

>>108727

I'm partial to the theory that Bryke doesn't really care about Makorra.

Anyway, Azula's VA - I'm very interested in whom she's voicing. Just a spirit or something like a character with alter ago?

If it's the latter, would it be too much to hope that her character will be Bolin's potential love interest?

I do want to see how the BolinXIroh shippers would react to Bolin crushing on the character voiced by Grey DeLisle.

>>108729
What in the hell is it with the non-4chan internet and Bolin shipping? I don't remember Zutarans being so obsessed that something happen.

>>108729
She has dropped hints that the "Dark Spirit" won't be the only character she's voicing, and that female cousin sure looks like the kind of character she usually plays...

They wouldn't really bring back an 84 year old Azula would they?