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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Blissful » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:53 pm

Crunchums wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:46 pm
Blissful wrote:i wish the s3 villains had had any reason for doing any of the stuff they did, because that would have upped things from 'really good' to 'insanely good'
I can accept Zahir's buddies not having enough motivation. i mean their motivation is that that's who they roll with / i guess they're mad at the world for being imprisoned (he busts them out, iirc?) / the romantic relationship with sparky sparky boom boom girl. there's not a lot of characterization for those 3 in general.
zahir's buddies are there because they're family and they love each other, which is one of the best and most enjoyable to watch motivations around
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Blissful » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:53 pm

Faceless wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:52 pm
Blissful wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:51 pm
Faceless wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:50 pmalso korra has canonically gay women so that's nice
after people talked this up online i expected way more than was actually in the show lol
oh it's actually in the manga rather than the anime
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Re: a:tla / korra

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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Faceless » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:54 pm

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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Blissful » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:55 pm

Crunchums wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:46 pmbut I think part of what makes Zahir such a great villain for me is that he's absolutely doing what he does because of his idealism. and his ideals are obviously dumb and bad and lead to bad outcomes, but come on, you're gonna tell me that that's implausible? how many unironic Marxists do you see these days?
this is a neat take on it, i kinda dig it

i guess my problem is that it just felt hard to buy that he'd actually believe some of the stuff he was saying
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Faceless » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:55 pm

so it's uh expanded universe?
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Blissful » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:55 pm

huh cool, did not know that existed
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Blissful » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:56 pm

the presentation of the S3 villains, zahir included was immaculate though, they were just a joy to watch every time they were onscreen
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Faceless » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:57 pm

which was the season with the phonecall scene? that was fun
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Faceless » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:59 pm

Blissful wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:51 pm
Faceless wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:50 pmalso korra has canonically gay women so that's nice
after people talked this up online i expected way more than was actually in the show lol
if you want some good queer representation in kids shows though you gotta watch KIPO

though tbh you should watch KIPO anyway it's a total blast
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Crunchums » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:06 pm

Faceless wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:50 pm korra has better animation and action than ATLA
agree! also the music, like oh my god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFF26LlHFVU (that's a loop of 23 second thing, i wish it was part of an entire song instead)
and (incredibly subjectively) I think the setting is way more interesting too.
i can respect that opinion. personally i can't stand some of the decisions they made, specifically "oh actually bending metal and lightning isn't hard at all" - ugh, awful. Mako just clocking in at his day job fueling a power station with lightning like it's nothing
it's literally impossible to listen to Mako singing *Leaves on the Vine* without crying
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Crunchums » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:10 pm

Faceless wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:51 pm like i'm a sucker for aesthetics and stuff like amon's populist movement is way more compelling to me than the evil firelord
korra definitely has better villains! imo Azula is atla's best villain, and if you're ranking villains from both shows i think i'd have her third after Zahir and Amon

the thing about Amon is that he completely has a point. too bad they very much did not stick the landing there
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Crunchums » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:12 pm

Faceless wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:55 pm so it's uh expanded universe?
iirc one of the showmakers answered a question on twitter about the end of s4, and they said that it was korra and asami starting a romantic relationship
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Crunchums » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:15 pm

Blissful wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:56 pm the presentation of the S3 villains, zahir included was immaculate though, they were just a joy to watch every time they were onscreen
when he airbend-asphyxiated the earth queen person it was like oh shit
also when they're meeting in the spirit world or w/e and then he's able to speak to his homies in the real world and take advantage of the situation
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Blissful » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:20 pm

Crunchums wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:15 pmwhen he airbend-asphyxiated the earth queen person it was like oh shit
i cant believe they did this in something that's even nominally any kind of kids show, god damn
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Crunchums » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:22 pm

yeah that was definitely part of it
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Blissful » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:27 pm

Crunchums wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:12 pm
Faceless wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:55 pm so it's uh expanded universe?
iirc one of the showmakers answered a question on twitter about the end of s4, and they said that it was korra and asami starting a romantic relationship
i knew that korra and asami were a thing going into the show, but i knew it like third hand from reading shitposts on /co/ when the show was airing and had no other sources on the matter so i was expecting it to be a thing that happened onscreen and not like, just a bunch of subtext

some of the subtext is pretty cute if you're primed to be looking for it like i was, but i dont know that i'd have picked up on any/much of it without extracanonical knowledge
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Khaos » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:29 pm

i don't remember this villian at or that scene at all :lol:

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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Crunchums » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:44 pm

Blissful wrote:i knew that korra and asami were a thing going into the show, but i knew it like third hand from reading shitposts on /co/ when the show was airing and had no other sources on the matter so i was expecting it to be a thing that happened onscreen and not like, just a bunch of subtext

some of the subtext is pretty cute if you're primed to be looking for it like i was, but i dont know that i'd have picked up on any/much of it without extracanonical knowledge
i just remember the part where she's writing to asami in season 4 and she's like i only feel comfortable talking with you and not mako or bo lin and i was like i feel like the only reason you put in that dialogue is if it's a love interest thing, and they hey

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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Khaos » Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:55 pm

ty lee was the one who was afraid of azula right

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Re: a:tla / korra

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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Crunchums » Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:26 pm

I am curious for y'all's opinions on season 4
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by the_zoomies » Mon Jul 26, 2021 3:41 am

Crunchums wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:26 pm I am curious for y'all's opinions on season 4
The fourth season has a lot of good episodes and tackles subjects you don't normally see in a cartoon

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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Blissful » Mon Jul 26, 2021 3:54 pm

Crunchums wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:26 pm I am curious for y'all's opinions on season 4
i dont remember it that well
i remember a bunch of stuff to do with varrick happened in it
him & ju-li are a good couple :3 i liked her 'betrayal'

the giant mech felt kind of emblematic of the parts of korra that are silly, but the control scheme was cute at least

uhh, some other stuff happened probably? i dont remember
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Crunchums » Sun Oct 03, 2021 1:41 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelode ... characters
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Sun Oct 03, 2021 3:48 am

Crunchums wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:26 pm I am curious for y'all's opinions on season 4
I found kuvira's arc very disappointing. they have all these beats that work if she's, like, metal napoleon but the writers didn't have any self-control so they made her metal hitler instead

also the attempt to redeem the annoying earth prince was [giant jacking off motion] (I did like the bit about bolin's grandmother being a fanatical monarchist though). and doing a whole thing about the secret weapon and then being like "lol actually there was an entirely different, more important, secret weapon that never got mentioned" felt hacky

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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Crunchums » Sun Oct 03, 2021 8:23 pm

more like metal stalin imo
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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:34 am

"stalin" approximately means "steel man" so that checks out

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Re: a:tla / korra

Post by Luna » Mon Oct 04, 2021 4:40 am

Crunchums wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelode ... characters
might have to think about playing this game and then ultimately not play it

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Re: a:tla / korra

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