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The Legend of Korra

Kal

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One guy made a bet with me about the Brawl's roster after it had already released in Japan. I know it wasn't terribly ethical to take that bet, but I was in college and I needed that $10.

****, I still need $10. Who wants to make a bet on Brawl's roster? >_>
 

Alacion

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Honestly the show gets spoiled immediately in this thread. Not sure why it should be an exception today.
 

Kal

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This episode was a little disappointing for me.

[COLLAPSE="Spoilers"]I was expecting Amon to be able to bend water, and I had a suspicion he was related to Yakone. But I was really hopeful that he truly could bend energy. Instead, they turned him into kind of a *****. They took the show's greatest villain and gave him a terrible sendoff.

I also didn't like that Amon could take away bending by bloodbending. That kind of took my suspension of disbelief too far. Also, Korra giving everyone back their bending was really lame.

And the profession of Mako's love for Korra, and Korra's love for Mako, was terrible and made very little sense. **** Mako. Bolin is a thousand times better.[/COLLAPSE]
 

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Season 2 orginally wasn't planned iirc and so i guess they decided not to change season 1 too greatly just to make a cliffhanger into season 2. Now we can just sit in anticipation on what it will be about instead of making 17374929272628 speculations on what will happen in season 2
 

Kal

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[Collapse="Spoilers"]I was also just really disappointed that they trivialized Amon with his backstory. A gimmick to remove bending like this would be perfectly fine for a three-episode arc. But for the season finale, having built up this ability for an entire season? Lame.

They also failed to explain how Korra became "spiritual" after Amon took her bending away. What exactly happened? She saw Mako about to lose his bending and decided "now might be a good time to become religious?" But, with the way the episode was paced, this is more fridge logic than a serious problem.

I did really enjoy Iroh's scene. That was some badassery.

But seriously, Amon is the show's greatest villain, save for maybe Azula, and they really trivialized him. His actual death at the end was nice and poetic, but the way they explained his backstory, trivialized his ability to take bending away, and then gave him a silly berserk button, all really just left a bad taste in my mouth. [/collapse]
 

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Religious != Spiritual

Sorry, I just had to say that since I consider myself spiritual, but by no means religious.
 

Kal

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I was just making a joke. I know that there's a sort of difference.

Though Daniel Tosh sums it up nicely:

You ever hear girls say that? "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply with "I'm not honest, but you're interesting!"

Again, just making a joke. Sort of.
 

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Kind of how Katara was able to resist Hama, I'm sure Amon, being the better bloodbender, was able to resist Tarrlok.
 

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Hiroshi for father of the year.

Btw, speaking of him. Remember when he called Mako a street rat? Wasn't Hiroshi himself one or close to it? If I remember, he said he started off as a low level employee and moved his way up. You figure he would be able to relate somewhat lol.
 

Spelt

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That finale was just fantastic.

I'm really excited to see what season 2 will have in store. It'll be nice to have a story developed around a fully realized avatar.
 
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