I seriously have no idea why Nickelodeon hates this show so much. It's incredibly popular, critically acclaimed (though not as much as Last Avatar), with great universe to play in. Why do they keep giving this show the shaft? If they hate it so much, why did it make it to a third season?
Legend of Korra
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And they've ordered a fourth too.
Nickelodeon has 6 animated shows on it's channel.
- Spongebob (which gets played ALL the time because it makes money)
- Fairly Odd Parents (which gets 1-2 new episodes a season max)
- Sanjey and Craig (which is shit)
- TMNT (which is great but got moved to Sundays. It has ONE showing on Nick, but daily ones on NickToons)
- The stupid duck show
- Korra
It had more shows (Monsters Vs. Aliens, Kung Fu Panda) but those are exclusively on NickToons now. I guess you can also consider Power Rangers too, which gets 22 episodes a year in two 11 episode blocks.
Do you know what their Saturday Morning line-up is? It's like Fairly Odd Parents, followed by 4 hours of Spongebob, with an episode of Sanjey and Craig and the duck show. Sunday gets TMNT, but it's mostly the same. Do you know what they other 90% of their shows are? Stupid, cheap tween shows. They fill the network because they are cheap to make, sort of like how Spongebob s cheap to show. If they could get away with only showing those two kinds of shows (Spongebob and tween hit), they would. This is because hardly anyone watches TV anymore and advertising is kind of paying shit these days. This means you ether need a monster hit (like Adventure Time on CN) to finance the riskier stuff or you just put out shit. Disney is having the same issues right now, but they at least have a media empire backing them.
Don't kid yourself. If this was on Cartoon Network, it would have already been cancelled and all we'd get would be Avatar Shorts because the current executives think everything needs to be like Adventure Time or Regular Show now.
Slightly alleviated but still conscious of the whole thing, but it is nice that he responded!
This is still the company that screwed up the last season of The Last Airbender.
AND HOW!
Korra Panel stuff. Won't list all of it because some of it is spoilery.
EDIT: Actually, looking at the dialog in this one, it's probably going full digital next year.
So no... it's just going digital to end the season. We're getting another season, but whether it's going digital too or will be broadcast in a different time slot is unknown right now.
EDIT: Actually, looking at the dialog in this one, it's probably going full digital next year.
Video of the Korra game. Wow. It looks AMAZING.
Exactly. It's a simplified Bayonetta for the kids, but with optional crazy difficulty for the Platinum fans. As far as a licensed game goes, this is pretty good.
Zahir basically showed why Airbenders are the most powerful of the benders and did what everyone one has hinted at them being able to do since the show started. Now imagine them doing that, but to an entire invading army, while they protect themselves.
If anything, it makes you wonder how the Air Nomads were ever defeated by the Fire Nation, unless their philosophical outlook prevented them from using the one technique that could have saved them.
If anything, it makes you wonder how the Air Nomads were ever defeated by the Fire Nation, unless their philosophical outlook prevented them from using the one technique that could have saved them.
I'd imagine their philosophical outlook is exactly why they didn't do that. I'm sure that has the same stigma (or moreso) that blood bending does to water benders.
Either that or they just weren't trained how to do it, as Aang said the Air Nomads didn't have a formal army and might not have developed high level bending martial arts. Either way agreed, they all ready had the advantage of not many benders being used to them NOW Airbenders have an instant kill move!
As opposed to being able to FLY when no one else could wouldn't have helped save them at all? The whole "we managed to kill all the air nomads" thing was always shaky imo.
Actually, the comics go into how they managed it. Basically, most of the Air Nomads were killed in the initial attacks, but more than a few of them were out doing stuff. So what they did was build fake outposts supposedly setup by Air Benders, but that actually had traps inside and were patrolled by soldiers often. This caught all of the stragglers. You also need to remember that there was a storm the night of the raid (at least in the Southern Air Temple) and it would have made flying almost impossible. Hell, it almost killed Aang.
So the Air Nomads were destroyed by their own beliefs, the weather, and their desire for community.
Season 3 episode 11- The Ultimatum
Liked a lot of things, funny looting humor, Bolin/Mako's grandma , Zuko being an awesome old man with awesome old man advice, Kai and Tenzin being TOTAL heroes, and a genuine awesome cliff-hanger.
Liked a lot of things, funny looting humor, Bolin/Mako's grandma , Zuko being an awesome old man with awesome old man advice, Kai and Tenzin being TOTAL heroes, and a genuine awesome cliff-hanger.
figmentPez
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I'm kinda mad that they brush off the lost of the Avatar's past lives so easily. "Hey, being able to go to Zuko for advice is just as good as being able to ask all of the past avatars about their knowledge and abilities right? LULZ!"
I didn't get that at all. She's generally in serious trouble because she can't go to past avatars, but it makes a ton of sense to talk to Zuko about what Aang would have done.
figmentPez
Staff member
Yes, it makes sense, but this is pretty much the first time this season they've brought up the lost connection to past Avatars. That's why it feels like they're dismissing it. They bring it up, and then find a solution to the specific problem right away. Kinda loses the impact when it doesn't actually create any tension or lasting worry for the characters.
We ether get one more stand alone episode and then the one hour finale or just the one hour finale.
As for the episode itself...
Tenzin and Zahir was fantastic, if only because it showed Zahir on the defensive the entire time. Zahir might be well schooled in the beliefs of the Air Nomads, but he wasn't taught to fight like them by the last living member. Tenzin is the a god damn Air Bending Master and he showed it by completely schooling Zahir the entire time it took for hi friends to show up.
I also like how Bumi only used his Air Bending to enhance his own tactical plans and was actually able to hurt the lavabending guy (can't remember his name) while his sister couldn't even touch her opponent. Also, the armless water bender did that 8 armed thing THE MOMENT I thought she would.
I also like how Bumi only used his Air Bending to enhance his own tactical plans and was actually able to hurt the lavabending guy (can't remember his name) while his sister couldn't even touch her opponent. Also, the armless water bender did that 8 armed thing THE MOMENT I thought she would.
Yeah, because when people come to burn you to death you wont risk trying to fly in a storm (the sky bisons seemed to have made it)... and none of them though to send just one guy in to see if it's safe etc.
I'm just saying that the real reason behind both things is "because the writers wanted it that way".
EDIT: Oh, and i forgot to mention that the storm you where talking about only affected one of the four air temples.
If only they had been warmongering pacifists...
All those skeletons around Monk Giatsu (sp?) kinda implies they where badly outnumbered (being the least populous and all), and even if they had used that technique it likely wouldn't have mattered, as a human can survive without air in the lungs (you still have some in your blood) for a long enough to throw a fireball or two...
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It's entirely likely and possible they could just suck the air out of a room or battlefield, if they REALLY wanted to. But then again it's kind of hard to judge the power of something only used once.
Sure, but even then, the fire nation attacked by surprise and they where already inside the temple when the fighting began, and they where supercharged by Sozin's Comet, meaning that they could have done plenty of fire damage in the 1-2 minutes they would survive without air.
Now if you really want to give air benders an invincible ability why no get inspiration from waterbenders being able to affect the state of water, and just have them be able to affect the composition of air... by changing the % of oxygen vs. everything else they could knock someone out for good way faster then just taking the air out of their lungs... CO2 anyone?
The idea of airbenders and firebenders fighting in two-bender teams starting with the airbender turning the oxygen in the air to a liquid is terrifying.