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I'm chill with that. Find out why Lin is such a yonce to her sister and her niece.

If the theories that Sokka is Suyin's dad are true I'll actually be really disappointed. I don't think Sokka's character flaws are that severe that Toph should feel the need to refuse to let him be a father to his own child. Seems like a real dick move. And if I have the timeline right he doesn't the excuse of dying before Suyin was born.

>>117505
It could've been like Conrad Roth and Reyes from the 2013 Tomb Raider game. I should hope not though because aside from the Lara and Sam parts that game was atrociously written.

>>117505
We'll probably never know.

>>117505
Some people think it could've been because he was already married to someone (Suki?) and cheated on his wife with Toph to have Suyin, so her not letting him know he was the father would've been for the sake of his marriage/reputation. Which would still be a extremely shitty twist that throws Sokka's character down the well. Sure that stuff happens in real life because relationships are complicated but this isn't Game of Thrones, here it would just make Sokka (and indirectly Toph) a pair of scumbags.

Plus it would send a pretty bad message that adultery is OK in a kid's show that goes out of its way to come up with excuses so mooks don't have to die unless necessary.

>>117509
The Boss, is that you?

>>117509
I think overall Toph isn't disappointed in her children, just in the rift that exists between them.

I'm curious how Lin's backstory is going to tie in with the main plot. I mean developing Aang's kids back in season 2 was pretty interesting, but at the same time it felt pointless because none of it really contributed to the main plot aside from giving them an excuse to hang together while Jinora did actual relevant things.

>>117509
Damn she looks almost the same aside from having a smaller nose.

What happened to the animation.
Looks kinda low budget.

Aaand you fet the female writer.
She also wrote a season 3 episode if I'm not mistaken.

>>117514

Huh? I don't see that at all. You must have a bad rip.

BEARGATE 2014

EARTH QUEEN CONFIRMED FOR WORSE THAN FIRE LORD.

>>117517
Azula tried to murder her own brother, nearly killed the Avatar for good, and threw her "friends" in prison.

Sozin left his former best friend to die in volcanic ash and attempted to wipe out the Air Nomads.

Ozai also attempted genocide on the Earth Kingdom and scarred his own son just for speaking out of turn.

Vaatu attempted to begin a ten thousand-year reign of chaos, destruction, and misery.

The Earth Queen is worse than all of these villains combined.

>>117517

EARTH QUEEN MORE LIKE SHITLORDQUEEN.

I like how Jinora dropped the tidbit that the newly discovered strain of Bison are in fact endangered. It isn't all "The Gaang found some new Airbison and now everything is hunky dory." Protecting the bison will be the new Air Nation's first official priority once they get the kung fu part down.

Damn I thought Suyin's twins were voiced by Mako or Bolin's VAs at first.

>>117515
Which ones were those?

I this pair, I could see some basis of another show in this either going with Jinorah or going back to Aang and his years building republic city and gathering Air Nomad relics.

Am I the only one who was disappointed by how easily Lin and Suyin's sister issues were resolved? From the fact that she was giving her such a hard time and how troubled she was by it I would've figured it was a much more serious problem than that unless they're going to get more into it later on.

>>117524

The beef between Lin and Su isn't completely resolved. Even Lin said they're just at the point where Lin won't attack Su when she comes over to her place. The fight between them was clearly a cathartic moment for Lin, but their issues are far from fully resolved. Only now they can hash them out like adults instead of tearing up courtyards. Opal's decision was the underlying string to this subplot.

>>117525
I don't think the conflict between them is over but I think their plot is.

>tfw when you have the same IRL hair and similar facial features to Opal but will never be as much of a brown QT

How many episodes is this book? If it's 12 then we're more than half way through and the villains still haven't started their master plan. If the villains can't get to Metal City by episode 8 Korra will probably leave and the villains will have to wait for her to land somewhere else.

>>117528
13 episodes I think.

>>117528
Well, this is the first "season" where they knew they would have time to resolve it in more episodes than what they got for Books 1 and 2 which had to be self-enclosed. So it's possible that the 13th episode is going to be a cliffhanger. then they'll pick it up around season 4 or so (which I've heard was going to air this fall).

>>117537

I'm not nearly that hard on the first two seasons but it's definitely nice to be able to just enjoy it without having to apologize for the shoddy pacing or dumb romance or whatever the FUCK they were trying to do with Bolin in season two.

It's nice to be legitimately excited again.

yeah nice for the plot to have gotten legs again, shame it took half the show to get to this point

>>117538
What exactly has changed for Bolin? He's still pretty useless even compared to Mako, even if he's not doing anything full-on stupid anymore.

>>117540

Bolin has made positive contributions during Book 3 so far. If not for his idea to have an airbending street performance they wouldn't have found Kai. He and Mako finding their extended family in Ba Sing Se helped confirm that the Queen was doing some nefarious shit with the new Airbenders and he held his own against the Dai Li in the ensuing jailbreak. And he might get to bang Opal. Lucky fucker.

>>117503
So the Beifong family become the most important family in the entire world and now just extended their influence to the new Air Nation.

>>117543
>If not for his idea to have an airbending street performance they wouldn't have found Kai
I was amazed that even worked. Glad Bolin's showmanship ended up being a Chekhov's Skill instead of him just being the Krew's buttmonkey. Too bad Asami is still mostly a non-entity.

>>117546
Really hope she gets back into it, This was supposed to be her and Lins season. Maybe now that Lin is done Asami will be back in.

>>117547

There was that scene in the Book 3 trailer with Asami rescuing an unconscious Korra on Naga

>>117548
I know people are excited for that and are drawing parallels to Katara and Aang fleeing Ba Sing Se but I have a feeling it's going to be really anticlimactic. Wouldn't be the first time they've used a trailer to mislead people.

>>117540

You must not remember season two very well. However useful or not-useful you think he is in this season, at least he isn't acting thick as a goddamn post.

>>117550
How is Bolin useless exactly? Is not being involved in the main story of Korra or even Tenzin what deems a character as useless?

Book 2 seems like he had his own thing going on as he took his first few steps toward being a mover star.

>>117551

Hey, that's that guy's words, not mine.

>>117560

You mean of the series in general, or just for the forseeable future?

What I can see happening is them waiting a couple of months, and then they suddenly show the rest of the season in one block of episodes wthout any warning.

That, or they just randomly move it to Toonami at 4 in the morning.

>>117560
A shame since this season seemed to be such an improvement on the last two. Too much squandered good will, I guess.

>>117561
Right now I think they're gonna move it to Nicktoons. On any other network it'd be cancelled by now, but we're already halfway through book 3 and book 4 is nearly done, I can't see Nick being so stupid as to just pulling the show and leaving it at that.

>>117563
Dunno, they've dragged some shows out for years.

I really hope just for a rescheduling to actually pair it with something at a time that makes sense like with Ninja Turtles. Instead of this fucking nonsense they keep doing of putting late at night between fucking Spongebob and Nick at Nite.

>>117568
They are in post production wrap up now. Really this was a massive scheduling clusterfuck. They panicked and did a really stupid thing.

>>117570
>>117571
Bryan's probably getting drunk right about now.

I really wish I could be surprised at Nick screwing the pooch.

What's frustrating about this is we'll never know if it happened because LOK is just THAT bad of a show (like /co/ thinks) or if it's because Nick screwed things up so badly.

>>117573
Really hope this bites them in the ass, the whole way this was handled was utterly unacceptable. Danm I hope the games survive.

Time to take Alternate Universe Tenzin advice on this one Cave Johnson Lemons Because fuck this. Nick fucks around too many damn times and is such a shambling shitloaf to get away with this stuff anymore.

Yea I mad, this whole thing since Book 2 has been fucking unprofessional on the part of Nick. I hope all their investors leave them to their own sponge sucking demise.

>>117575

Look at how Korra was marketed in early 2012 in the run up to the Book 1 premiere. TV commercials out the ass, incredible season trailer online, interactive flash game unveiling the settings and characters in Republic City, massive Korranation tumblr campaign in which crowdclicks unlocked concept art and a video of Bryan explaining how probending worked. The premiere was unlocked online 3 weeks before the premiere and even then the premiere on that SATURDAY MORNING drew ratings at ATLA's level.

Now look at how Book 2 was marketed. Nick announced zilch, nothing, nada about it. Zero communication with the fanbase. They could have broke the news of the production delay with the switch between Perriot and Mir. Nope. Book 2 in the can, put up a trailer online and slap it on FRIDAY NIGHT and then proceed to jerk it around several timeslots.

The run up to Book 1 was an ubered-up Heavy from TF2. The run up to Book 2 was a Scout with a scattergun with a spy camping his respawn constantly backstabbing him.

>http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/92687921267/flameo-ferret-i-dont-think-this-has-been-done

Oh Bryan...

>>117570
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>>117580
You know I don't really get why people are happy over this except that LOK failed to draw in viewers. The show is still going to finish airing in some way and Bryke are still likely going to make money off of it.

It's like Schrodinger's cancelled or something.

>>117581
bunch of people hate it for a variety of disturbingly personal reasons.

It's just best to ignore them because overall its the network that failed rather than the show itself.

>>117585
Send that to the men upstairs however you can. They need a smile like the Cartoon Network alumni that got screwed back in '10.

Hell I'd put some dosh in a campaign to show Hasbro this shit can be a Generational seller and they can trade one of their Kenner scraps to Nick to get the rights and give this franchise the spotlight it deserved. Really Avatar Bay movie, shits money in the bank.

>>117588
Yeah when I first heard about this happening that sprung to mind.

>>117588
Wait seriously sabotaging a production that could've potentially earned over a lot of revenue just because its protag was a female? It's one thing to have no faith, but to willfully sabotage a show because you were offended that it was too progressive? Not even TheRedPill would try to pull something off that stupid.

>>117588
Sounds like some Capcom-on-Megaman BS.

Part of it, they will complain the fans didn't do enough to support the show. Course they could only do that when they knew it was on. But can't do that if the network doesn't ever show any care about the show in the first place.

Seriously, fuck Nickelodeon.

#SaveKorra

>immediately follow this season's episodes with a teaser for next week saying "A BRAND NEW EPISODE YOU CAN'T SEE ONLINE OR ANYWHERE ELSE!"
>switch the episodes to online release half way through the season

>>117595
I really hope there is one Executive among them to get the shit and explain themselves for their incompetence.

The official Korra tumblr's just updated, saying that the rest of the episodes will air weekly online from August 1st onwards,
http://korranation.tumblr.com/post/92735712934/book-3-moving-to-digital-release

So, yay, not going to have to wait months between the last few episodes now! Also they're trying to spin it by saying that "this is what fans were asking for"... which isn't really the same thing as not airing it on regular tv, but ok.

>>117598
Yea, its kinda is as younger generations don't like being tied to a television schedule (increasing amounts of studies show this) and given how crap Nick has been in the past. Part of me thinks its better (more people have consoles in the living room than have cable nowadays or its getting close) but that also Nick has been a massive hot mess in handling all of this.

I wanna see some of what Titmouse is doing with the scenes they are animating for the Korra game. I could see them doing a digital book 5 if this actually goes really well. Or another Avatar show if Book 4 ties everything off well enough for Korra.

>>117600

All of this could have been handled better.

>>117599

As much as I genuinely like Korra, I am kind of psyched for what comes afterwards, if they decide to franchise it Star Trek style (so Airbender is to TOS, Korra is to TNG etc.). Will they go to the next Avatar in the cycle, and move their anime-influence from Miyazaki to stuff like Akira and Ghost in the Shell? Or will they go to one of the Avatars prior to Aang got go for the more old school fantasy stuff, like Wan's adventures?

I'd kind of like to see the adventures of the older Gaang, like Toph's time as a policewoman, Aang's time as Ghandi-Lincoln etc.

>>117602
Indeed a Series with Aang as he grows into a statesmen and leader or the next series with an Earthbender working to bring peace and maybe bring his people into the republic

Episodes 1 through 5 are up on google play.