The Legend of Korra

The way I saw it, they pretty much laid it out, and switched things up to prevent stagnation.

TLA Book 1: Water-focused, Aang fuses with the Moon Spirit and becomes a watery giant, which he never does again.

TLA Book 2: Earth-focused. The Dai Li, Ba Sing Se, Aang's crystal armor.

TLA Book 3: Fire-focused.. Fire Lord revealed, Phoenix King, Sozin's comet, firebending mastered, dragons.

LOK Book 1: Air-focused. Korra needs to learn airbending, and it's ultimately what saves her and Mako.

Then they ditch that model.

LOK Book 2: Spirits, the spirit world. Spirits become a major threat, Korra becomes more spiritual, massive exposition about the Avatar Cycle and Raava, the light spirit.

LOK Book 3: Change, the real world, and the spirit world. Government. Order.

edited 23rd Aug '14 1:20:25 PM by FOFD

Oh, no it would not. Outside the Red Lotus, who even knows he exists? He didn't even take credit for the Earth Kingdom debacle, refusing to name himself. He is not a public figure, he does not have a legion of followers who would rally around his sacrifice, he would die an unknown terrorist in a shallow grave, remembered by none. He would be no more of a martyr than P'li, Ming-Hua, and Ghazan are. Or Hou-Ting.

Not everyone who dies becomes the rallying cry of a global revolution; some ideas die with the rebels who founded them; you just don't hear about those attempts in the news and on the internet because they failed.

No one ever talks about the many cult leaders on crosses right next to Jesus Christ who founded no religions and were forgotten by history.

They don't ditch the model, it just takes a backseat. Book 2 still took place predominately in the Water Tribes, and Book 3 still took place predominately in the Earth Kingdom. Book 4 will almost certainly take place predominately in the Fire Nation.

edited 23rd Aug '14 1:30:28 PM by TobiasDrake

They couldn't continue the cycle with the names because it would have gotten confusing.

By the way... -throws a hat onto the table- Who has names to put into the hat for the last book?

I vote for Surprise. ;p As in "The Element of", because something really big and world changing will happen...again...

But even BIGGER.

We still haven't met Zuko's daughter.

Book 4: Honor

I'm thinking it will be called Harmony or Balance.

Is going to go with what you said, since I can't think of anything that is good.

They work. "Peace" is also a possibility.

I wonder if Book 4 will introduce a new subset of firebending. All the others have gotten new skills since Korra started.

They already introduced fire healing in the previous book.

I don;t think so. Waterbending didn;t introduced any subsets, bloodbending wasin the original series and I'm certain that telekinitic waterbending might be a rare case (then again it coudl count as a subset like airbenign and flight)

also the one thing I can think of that was associated with fire became an earthbending subset instead.

edited 23rd Aug '14 3:16:50 PM by MorningStar1337

What about Unalaq and Korra's spiritual waterbending? Would that count as a subset?

There is a plus side to Korra being crippled.

Disabled cosplayers can now cosplay Korra!

(sorry)

What Unalaq and Korra did to the Dark Spirits is actually just specialized healing from the water tribe.

Ehhh...

Book 4: Handicapable.

So I posted that gif◊ on tumblr last night. Lots of tears and people calling me a monster followed.

@ Tobias Drake: The way I see it, there are two potential explanations for why the Red Lotus never tried to spring Zaheer and his gang. The one you're advocating is that the Red Lotus is so vast and powerful that Zaheer is just one, relatively unimportant cog in their machine that's not worth freeing. The one I'm saying is just as valid based on what we know is that the Red Lotus is a relatively small society that is too scattered and disconnected to do much of anything when they don't have Zaheer's zealous vision to pave the way for them.

THAT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE.

Okay firstly,the model was ditched when "Air" was decidedly more about the change in Republic City,only Episode 2 had much of any focus on Airbending itself

This book is the one that should've been called air,since most of it took place in air areas (Air Temple Island or the Northern Temple),narrowly beating out the Earth Kingdom. The main antagonist is an airbender and takes on the darker bits, and everything actually in the Earth Kingdom ends up just being a vehicle for Zaheer to come in and shake things up.

The Earth Queen was regrettably less important than Tarrlok or Verrick and ultimately hastily put back in to die it seems.

The scales may have been even,but Zaheer learning flight tips this Book into being more about Air than literally anything in either verse. (And it's about damn time, ATLA glossed it over justifiably, ad Book 1 was nearly In Name Only....with only Episode 2 and where she saves Mako having anything to do with art)

edited 23rd Aug '14 5:18:55 PM by terlwyth

Book 4 should be called Balance if it is the last season of the series (especially if Bryke stop doing anything related to the avatarverse).

That's what the Avatar is supposed to bring to the world after all.

Book 4: Apocalypse would sound cool though.

Book 4: Korrasami.

I saw that art, and it killed me. ;_;

edited 23rd Aug '14 5:49:41 PM by higherbrainpattern

Yes.

Also, more depressing things on Tumblr!

That's...

You know, I really don't see this whole wheelchair situation as depressing. Certainly not enough to warrant all the memes surrounding it.