World of Avatar never went through a Global Jungle/Dinosaur phase, which is the only reason WE have it.It is probably pretty easy to mine anything you want if half the population can use their minds to burrow through the ground, keep caves from collapsing, and sense the location of rare earths and precious metals. The bigger question to me is wondering why don't they have oil?Also, bloodbending, metalbending, shouldn't the avatar be taught that stuff? If she could metalbend cages and cuffs off of herself, she wouldn't have so many problems.Bloodbending is forbidden, so there aren't any teachers for that.
Metalbending doesn't work on platinum, which is seems the single most abundant metal in the Avatar universe. Cages, cuffs, walls, and armies of mecha are all made of the stuff.
Also they do have oil, or at least something similar to it, since the Satomobiles are using combustion engines rather than steam.
Oil is not made solely from dead dinosaurs. There's quite a lot of organic matter that can be found in the world that can be turned into a hydrocarbon sludge. Coal, as well, is sedimentary rock that is formed by way of the compression and time from plant matter such as peat.
Dead dinos need not apply. :)
Welp, I just spent the past half hour making squeaky noises of surprise and alarm at the TV. Anyone else?
Twas an awesome ep. Wife was slightly disappointed by the voice choices at the ending.
Twas an awesome ep. Wife was slightly disappointed by the voice choices at the ending.
Glad I wasn't alone. They're gonna have to do a LOT to distance him from his pappy character wise, and even then it's a pretty jarring choice (especially considering he definately doesn't look 16).
I thought the finale was this week so I was a little dissapointed that the episode ended so early. (But not really, this was such a great episode)
Welp, final episode.
From that point though, at least on the Korra-Mako-Amon side of the battle, it was all downhill. Hope Lieutenant isn't dead. I actually felt sorry for him at the end. Alas poor villain.
Everything was awesome on the Bolin-Asami-Iroh side, absolutely zero complaints there.
Did NOT see Tarrlok nuking the boat coming. Equally approve of the heel-face-turn sacrifice and annoyed that Amon's out of the picture so quickly.
Ending was bluh, very disappointing. At the very least they should have had Aang go "I've restored your ability, but you'll need to relearn everything from scratch again" or something. Nnnngh.
And Mako is still a douche.
Here's hoping Season 2 is at least as interesting, hopefully with a better ending.
Great season, can't wait to see the next one. I hope it is true that we will finally see them leave the city and explore the world.
DOOD.
DOOOOOOD!
Eps were good, few things I'd have personally done differently, but it makes sense from the standpoint that renewing for another season isn't always a sure thing that you don't want to leave too much open. That said...
I think the first episode of next season should begin:
Korra restores someone's bending. "Next." Pan to a very very very long line of people. "Next." "Next." "Next." "Next." "Next." "Next." "Next." Fill the entire episode thus. Or...
Fix one person, pan to the line, jump cut to the intro, have the line "Oh wow that was a long week," then begin the season proper.
This may be why I don't have a career in TV.
it was a very good set of eps, epic, though not sure how series 2 will start... Id go with Amon and see what he is up to...
I'm pretty sure Amon is up to
Welp, final episode.
** spoiler omitted **
Here's hoping Season 2 is at least as interesting, hopefully with a better ending.
I seem to remember Nickelodeon not picking up the second season option until after the show started airing. If so, season was likely written to be self contained in case there was no season 2.
Yeah that's what I heard as well. Which makes no sense to be given the success of the first ATLA but meh, what can you do.
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Yeah that's what I heard as well. Which makes no sense to be given the success of the first ATLA but meh, what can you do.
These are television producers. The word "sense" has nothing to do with their decisions.
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This is the same network whose bread and butter is entirely reliant on a talking sponge. You really think taste and sense come into play at any part in this equation?
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Allow me my delusions, they're all I have -_-
This is the same network whose bread and butter is entirely reliant on a talking sponge. You really think taste and sense come into play at any part in this equation?
Did you just mock Spongebob Squarepants?
Those are fighting words.
This is the same network whose bread and butter is entirely reliant on a talking sponge. You really think taste and sense come into play at any part in this equation?Did you just mock Spongebob Squarepants?
Every chance we get.
No, that's not true. That would require more caring than my disdain would allow.
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Spongebob is proof that evil and necromancy run rampant. In a good and just universe, it would have died long ago. What we have now is a withered husk of a show, shambling along powered by recycled jokes, the lowest gross humor, and the money of tired middle class parents who will buy their children anything to have them stop screaming for five minutes.
Also mocking implies a playful enjoyment of the subject matter. No, I didn't mock it.
Also mocking implies a playful enjoyment of the subject matter. No, I didn't mock it.
Good point, I'd like to change my last answer.
I've actually found it to be tolerable and occasionally clever, but admittedly most of what I've seen is the older stuff -- my kids have outgrown it.
Still, I'm a bit surprised by the hate...there is far worse out there.
There's always worse out there.
This just happens to be the bad stuff that's both A.) relevant to the conversation and B.) that we are familiar with.
Oh, don't get me started on half of the CN's stuff. Spongebob at least started out halfway amusing.
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Legend of Korra, as a whole, was great. I LOVED the pro-bending. I could stand to see more of that. The setting was solid. The advancement in tech was also solid. It would be nice to travel around a bit more like the the first books. See some other regions and they're take on newer technology. There was far less spiritual stuff going on in this series.
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All I have is this
There was far less spiritual stuff going on in this series.
Add on the whole "Korra gets the physical part of being the Avatar but sucks at the spiritualist stuff", it was almost as if Amon was her opposite in every way, spiritualist anti-bender versus her all-bending but lack of spiritual grounding. I just got the impression that going with "Nope he was a charlatan bender this whole time" was leaving hanging a lot of plot hooks that would have been amazing fun to watch being followed.
Oh well. Maybe next season.
I saw somewhere that season 2 is going to take place both in Republic City and the surrounding area, so it looks like some traveling may occur.
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In that case, I really hope they get another car and take an epic road trip. Ba Sing Se or bust!
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Meh.
Oh, don't get me started on half of the CN's stuff. Spongebob at least started out halfway amusing.
wow. That's an impressive level of hate.