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Parable State of Mind from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
State of Mind
#73076: Dec 29th 2018 at 10:13:02 AM

"Darn, my phone's battery is running low."

-Sticks it in the nearest spirit vine on the street-

"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min Kim
Demetrios Lord of the Jungle from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
Lord of the Jungle
#73077: Dec 29th 2018 at 11:00:27 AM

[up]XD [tup]

Heaven is a tropical rainforest.
alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#73078: Dec 29th 2018 at 11:01:20 AM

"Oh god, my phone is charged, but for some reason, it also eats souls. Eh, still works."

Parable State of Mind from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
State of Mind
#73079: Dec 29th 2018 at 11:21:47 AM

So you're saying the spirits invented Twitter?

"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min Kim
alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#73080: Dec 29th 2018 at 11:44:41 AM

Now I want to see a futuristic Avatar show even more. They can include things like spirit-vine-powered technology and stuff like that and make more parables to modern day inventions, like social media.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#73081: Dec 29th 2018 at 11:55:26 AM

I don’t think the spirit wilds are expanding since Asami won a bid to urban plan around the spirit foliage and make it a park or something

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#73082: Dec 29th 2018 at 1:20:36 PM

Something odd about those spirit vines. When they were first unleashed upon the city, it was a major crisis, but a while later, things seem to have settled down between the humans and spirits, apparently without the assistance of Korra.

Optimism is a duty.
Kostya from Everywhere Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#73083: Dec 29th 2018 at 2:12:34 PM

I'm guessing the initial problem was people being displaced. Season three starts only two weeks after the end of season two. People are probably still trying to sort out where now homeless citizens will live and if there's a way to get them back into their houses.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#73084: Dec 29th 2018 at 2:51:07 PM

Forgot that the Equalists had planes.

Yeah, but there's a difference between "some spirit vines are now growing there" and "this place is now RUINED." Plus, aren't the spirit vines a source of energy? Can't people use them to power things?

It seemed to be such an overgrowth that Korra had to get involved, and its presence caused a rift between Korra and President what's-his-face. I don't think it was a single incident either.

I don’t think the spirit wilds are expanding since Asami won a bid to urban plan around the spirit foliage and make it a park or something

...comics or did that happen in the show?

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#73085: Dec 29th 2018 at 2:56:39 PM

The urban renewal building around the vines was what Asami was doing between book 3 and 4 I thiiink

Turning the place into a park was the comics though

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#73086: Dec 29th 2018 at 3:54:07 PM

I thought it was already a park near the end of season 4.

Optimism is a duty.
Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#73087: Feb 16th 2019 at 11:47:21 AM

-brought to you by Asami and Korra's VA's well actually somebody on tumblr who manipulated their voices to make the lesbian subtext not subtext at all, but still-

Also, I just learned that Asami's VA played Princess Yue in the film that will not be named.

Edited by Soble on Feb 16th 2019 at 11:56:33 AM

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Pichu-kun ... Since: Jan, 2001
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#73088: Feb 16th 2019 at 3:40:09 PM

[up] I've always found it funny that the first huge TLOK ship was Korra/Yue, Asami's VA played Yue, and Korra/Asami became the end-game couple.

Pichu-kun ... Since: Jan, 2001
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#73089: Feb 22nd 2019 at 9:56:07 AM

I haven't seen many mention this so maybe not many people thought this, but did anyone else think the series would do more with Yasuko and te brother's parents? They were all mentioned to be killed by firebenders in Book 1 and I swore they'd do something with that tidbit, but it just seems like backstory filler.

Like, were they killed by the same guy? Was it something more than just random murders, like a gang-related murders or a hit? At minimum I expected a confrontation with the killer or, even more minimally, some flashbacks to their parents. Not even Mako's supposedly-precious scarf went anywhere.

I wonder if firebenders are stereotyped and stigmatized much. A century long war does that. Asami's mother and both of Mako and Bolin's parents coincidentally being killed by firebenders makes it easy to wonder if firebenders are seen as dangerous.

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#73090: Feb 22nd 2019 at 10:48:31 AM

Way back when, someone pointed out that the reason there are so many murderous firebenders around is probably because the Fire Nation just came off a genocidal, racist war. It's doubtful that the soldiers all immediately turned around and accepted the new regime. A lot of them would have been angry, might have created small organizations to continue to teach racism and violence. And the boys' parents were a mixed race couple, which pisses off a certain type of person.

It wasn't my theory, though. I think it was in this very thread, so you might be able to find it if you dig back far enough.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#73091: Feb 22nd 2019 at 1:21:42 PM

And not just any old war, but one that raged on for a hundred years. Long enough for several generations to have grown up under wartime fire nation propaganda. It takes more than peace to deprogram that deeply ingrained mentality and behaviour.

Optimism is a duty.
Pichu-kun ... Since: Jan, 2001
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#73092: Feb 22nd 2019 at 4:55:48 PM

[up][up] There are so many things that have the potential to be explored surrounding what the war did to the world and its culture. But, sadly, not even fan-works tend to deal with them.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#73093: Feb 23rd 2019 at 1:48:31 AM

There's always more to explore that a writer does not have time or space or energy for. And if you DID include such details, you would quickly lose track of the actual story. The actual story is not really about what the war did to the world, it is about how Korra will deal with that world, and how the Air Nation will rebuild.

Optimism is a duty.
Pichu-kun ... Since: Jan, 2001
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#73094: Feb 24th 2019 at 2:48:52 PM

[up] There are many ways TLOK could have gone if you want to speculate enough. For example, they could have expanded upon Book 1 and continued with the plot points from that season. They instead opted to move onto a different villain. That was fine, but it left some less important threads dangling as a result.

Maybe the comics can deal with some of the plot points the cartoon never went with. I've seen a lot of people complain about the Triads never going anywhere important.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#73095: Feb 24th 2019 at 4:09:35 PM

That's exactly the route the comics are going, filling in a lot of story between the two series.

Optimism is a duty.
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#73096: Feb 24th 2019 at 4:11:20 PM

I still love the gag theory that there was one guy named A. Firebender who was going around killing people for the sake of dramatic backstory.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
TobiasDrake Queen of Good Things, Honest (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Queen of Good Things, Honest
#73097: Feb 24th 2019 at 4:33:50 PM

And he was a Waterbending serial killer.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#73098: Feb 24th 2019 at 4:34:54 PM

Curse your water, A. Firebender!

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32ndfreeze from Australia Since: Mar, 2012
#73099: Feb 24th 2019 at 4:38:17 PM

That was my favorite running gag in the thread.

I think it died off a little while the latter seasons were airing.

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TobiasDrake Queen of Good Things, Honest (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Queen of Good Things, Honest
#73100: Feb 24th 2019 at 6:35:19 PM

Wasn't he also, like, the archnemesis to Wang Fire?

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