korra

I feel like this is somewhat similar to hypnotoad. I only thumbed because it to-ALL GLORY TO HYPNOTOAD

i like where this is going

Fuck yes Asura.
Sorry I just love Soul Eater.

as do i, in case you cant tell, Asura is my favorite character of all time

Too bad Maka punched his face in.

Worst. Death. Ever.

i know, i hated how he died, i mean he was stronger than that, he could just so easily rip her head off, but no, he ended up going crazy, shit fucking sucked

I like how he went crazy, it worked with the whole "madness isn't such a good thing" plot. Just the fact that he got punched in the face... by a little girl... and then his head blew up...

Yea, but i wish they gave him a better death, a more epic death
oh and heres that in gif form

His final line and the exploding was cool though.

And thanks for that.

yea it was, i just dont like how he started to loose his cool when he was fighting those kids, but was perfectly calm when fighting Lord Death

yeah... that was pretty stupid

that it was

You sir! You deserve this!

Maybe you just have trouble understanding how romance works in real life.

They were still kids, the thing is that they didn't understand what love is, and stumbled through it just as any other teenager with raging hormones would. I've seen situations like the one in Avatar in real life all happen all the time around me, people at that age don't know whats important to look for in a partner, and often mistake physical attraction for deep intimate love, and sometimes you can love someone, but not in the same way they love you (look up the 6 love styles). While two people can feel love for each other, if it's not the same style of love, it can easily collapse when someone with a similar style of love meets you.

The love Bolin had for Korra was based on Storge, while Korras style falls more under Eros (which don't mix), the love Mako had for Korra was based on Ludus, while the love he had for Asami was based on his secondary style of love Pragma while Asami's love for Mako is based also based on Eros (which doesn't mix with Pragma). Mako's style of love being Ludus, attracts people Eros style lovers, and hence we have the love triangle, toppling over and ending up the way it did.


But whatever, thumb me down to oblivion for stating my view of it all, not like I can get red thumb banned at this point anyway.

Way to misconstrue what I'm saying. I am well aware how romance works, having gone through a few lengthy but unfulfilled relationships myself, and having explored the love types in my own time. I completely disagree with the scientific approach to love ie. categorising and analysing, because it's far too complex, and what happens happens. The problem is not the relationship itself, like I have already explained. My problem is the length of time in which it happens. It can happen in its own time, but it happens WAY too fast in the current script. Even for someone at that age (the same age as me, I should point out), there is no justification in just 12 episodes for such a huge escalation. It's too rushed.

(that's psychology for you, people get masters degrees in that field, I'm getting my minor in it)

In all honesty, I've seen faster paced teenage relationships than the one in the show. You may not have, but I have, quite often, relationships that last no longer than a week where both sides claim to of felt extremely strong emotions, but immediately broke apart after the slightest falter in the relationship

That's the trouble. The amount of closure the finale presented gave the impression that everything is fine and dandy and all the drama is over. I have seen these immensely failed relationships like you describe quite a few times, but this one is written off to be perfect and happy and sunshine and rainbows, when it clearly shouldn't be in such a short space of time.

It was open ended in my opinion, what Mako and Korra have is nothing more than an extremely weak relationship based on not much more than physical attraction, thick of it as one of the failed 1 week relationships you see all the time, but they're barely hanging together by a thread. It might seem all fine and dandy on the outside when they're smiling and sucking face, but underneath it, there's really nothing there, and once they start realizing it, the relationships going to collapse. They ended it right before that moment though, so if they didn't get green lit for more chapters, they at least gave the fans a facade of closure, while leaving more for them to play with between the characters if they were green lit for more seasons.

This fucking guy.

They were kind of in a bind though, basically, if they didn't end it with Korra and Mako together they would have had legions of sweaty facebook landwhale bitches coming to burn their company to the ground screaming "OMG!!! WTF!!! MAKO X KORRA 4EVA!!!!!"

pardon my grammar, its very late...

both korra and mako have a certain problem , which is that they really don't like to show that much emotion on the outside. mako tries to be a though guy whose looking out for his lil' brother, so showing weakness on the streets isn't good. for korra, hiding her emotions just seem to be part of her personality, probably because she feels that as an avatar, she's obliged to be strong and determined.
what this problem causes is that its hard to fall in love with a person like that, because the truth is that you get a crush on some ones looks, but whether or not you fall in love with some one, is completely up to that some ones personality. this is basically what happened with asami and mako; physcial attraction, but nothing more

i think looking at the scenario in a chronological order will help:
mako & korra meet, both like each other (note: this is clearly implied from first episode onward) but neither say anything about it (remember the "problem")
korra joins bending team, team needs money, wat do?
mako meets asami and feels physical attraction towards her. her father funds the team. now there's a sense of obligation for mako to stay in this relationship, even when they've only been together for what, couple days?
korra tells mako how she feels, mako panics and says that he doesn't like her and is with asami, but he's obviously lying, which can be noted from the way he looks at bolin and korra, when korra decides to go out on a "date" with bolin.
after mako and korra kiss the whole love triangle thing slows down, but I think you get the point. korra likes mako, mako likes korra and asami, but not for the same reasons he likes korra. the reason why korra's and mako's conversations felt "forced" is because they both were in an awkward position and didn't know wat do

besides the things bolin said to mako, the only thing bolin and korra have in common is that they both like (water tribe) food.

TLDR; bolin and korra don't have as much in common as people claim they do .
mako was in a relationship with asami mostly because he felt obliged to.
mako and korra hide their feelings, which makes it hard for both of them to really show how they feel

I'm not questioning the validity of the relationship. I'm pointing out the elements present to support my point. When I say forced, I don't mean from a canon standpoint. I mean it feels forced from a writing standpoint. It took 3 massive seasons for any relationship to properly bloom in ATLA, and the progression from one stage to the next is a lot more natural.

With LoK, a 12 episode season has closed with everything resolved and perfect, when it really shouldn't be. It takes literally 1 or 2 episodes in length for an element in a character-to-character relationship to be fixed, shelved and forgotten about. Each progression is "here's a problem, oops, problem solved, next step". There's no sense of natural character growth because it's just so bare, so mechanic. It's so quick and unquestioning that it feels incredibly sub-par in comparison to the dynamic strength in ATLA's character development.

Basically, it was obvious that Makorra was going to happen, but the way it was handled in LoK was absolutely atrocious, and considering that there were only 12 episodes to begin with, it shouldn't have existed at all. Perhaps the action and character depth may have increased slightly without it. The one-layered romanticism present in LoK is NOT good character development.

ah, that's what you mean. everything in LoK: book 1 felt kinda rushed, but I can also forgive the writers because there weren't meant to be any more books after book 1. maybe they shouldn't have started the whole relationship problem, maybe, but without it, the book would have felt very empty.

had the writers known that they actually have 50-something episodes to work with, they would have approached everything differently, and probably more gradually.

YES! THANK YOU!

> and their personalities just seemed to match

Probably why they broke up.

Ano Hana did a wonnderful love story with more complications in 12 episodes.

Ano Hana isn't an action-adventure, however.

Yeah, but there was a lot from the first Avatar series with love and stuff, so they must have felt some kind of pressure to continue it :/

Idk

I don't have a problem with the relationship itself, I have a problem with its execution by the writers. If there was another season to flesh out the situation, it would develop much more naturally. Instead, it's an awkward jump from nothing to everything that makes no sense.

Good job with posting anon, by the way haha.

I know, but I deleted the comment the second I uploaded it... how the fuck did you read it?
>YFW

Because I'm currently a very lonely individual who has nothing better to do than to stare at the screen and wait for notifications.

I have had better years in my lifetime.

That may be all well and good, but it doesn't work. Not in 12 episodes. The development is FAR too fast and FAR too last-minute. I can understand what you're saying and that was my original idea, but it needed at least another season to play out. Right now, it makes absolutely no sense.

The stupid love triangle bullshit is going to really hurt the series

But the action sequences and the story are still pretty awesome

i think they've pretty much handled the love triangle thing now, judging from the book 2 preview thing they showed at comic con

...Why can't we have a lesbian Avatar? I mean, the show's kind of intended for at least teenagers, and it could be interesting to see an Avatar that, um..."bends" a different way.

its still being aired on a channel aimed for children


there would be many angry soccer moms if that happened
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Well, we could always shift it to later at night...I don't think most Avatar fans would mind it being in, say, the 10 pm slot.

That's a total shift in the style of the show that I really don't think is going to happen anytime soon.

There was a preview?!

Time to search Youtube!

funnyjunk.com/channel/bendingtime/Book+2+preview+animatics/flrbGsy/

Thank you so much!

Yes, I agree. I definitely don't like Mako, Korra's alright, and I pretty much like everyone else.

I really think Mako could have been an awesome character in the series but now there is pretty much no hope for him

More than 3/4ths of the LoK fan base hates him and the 1/4 that does like him just wants in his fictional pants

Yeah, he had a lot of potential but he threw it down the drain when he completely fucked over Asami for Korra.

Eeeyup

I don't want in his pants, but I think they could have really fleshed him out as a much better character. He had a lot of potential, so I'm kind of saddened by the lack of character development of Mako and Bolin both.

Definitely not. I love Sokka, I hate Mako.

FUCK I MEANT BOLIN >.>

I feel like a retard now.

Aha, it's okay. I like Bolin, he's really cool. It's a shame he's just the comedy relief though, he really needs to be a deeper character.

Sokka was just comedy relief at first in my opinion. Give him time. :)

Yeah in the beginning I guess. Nobody will ever compare to Sokka, though. :3

I hope we get to see more flashbacks of him.

I want to see flashbacks of everyone.

but more sokka. admit it.

Oh yes, definitely. Sokka is a beautiful creature, I would always love to see more of him.

God he is so fucking hilarious XD I hope they reveal that him and toph actually ended up together or something nice like that... :(

I'm assuming they didn't, because Lin and Tenzin's relationship would have been... Incest. I've always loved them together, it's really a shame they never got together. :/ I haven't read the comics or anything but there's this kid I'm assuming Toph got with 'in the end', i can't remember his name though. Something like Ohen.

I never said him being Lin's father or anything. But a little incest never hurt anyone.

i hope you're joking about the incest thing...
but yeah, i know. i'm assuming toph just moved on though.

Probably, or perhaps lin is from her first relationship and sokka and her ended up together afterwards... HAPPY ENDINGS ALWAYS MAKE ME CRY!!!

ugh, i know. i've cried so many times in the last airbender... you don't even know.

Too many purple lines. Can't reply LOL

But yeah, i personally enjoyed her, not as much as sokkas other girlies but she was nice. :)

Yeah, I don't see how she was annoying or anything, she gave up her life to bring back a fish, that takes some balls. And Sokka really liked her too. I really like Suki as well, she's awesome.

Sokka finally gets a girlfriend. She turns into the fucking moon. T.T

I know. Fucking made me cry my eyes out. Also, do you know why everyone seems to hate Yue? Everyone says she's annoying but I liked her....

Yeah, thats how I feel.

Suki fits sokka's personality more though.

Yeah, she does. And she's so pretty. :3

The Duke is cool. :3
And I haven't read them but this is in the comic books, his name is Ohev.

Yo bro could you explain why it is incest, I haven't been around the story in a while.

Well Aang and Katara had Tenzin, who would be Sokka's nephew. And if Sokka was Lin's dad, that would make them cousins since Sokka and Katara are brother and sister.

gotcha gotcha, thanks bro.

if toph and sokka banged, lin would be tenzin's cousin

SOKKA IS AWESOME YOU TAKE THAT BACK

Read further to understand sir. I meant nothing mean about sokka. I love sokka.

I see. You are forgiven dear fellow, have a good day.

And the same to you.

And isnt water tribe. /sadface

does any one realize how long this thread is

wanna make it longer? ;3

sure

Yeah because no matter how cheesy it gets i always get pulled into the next episode.

Still her plan worked perfectly

Borra for life.

the part that doesn't make sence to me is how korra and bolin had in common and she still went for mako

Opposite poles attract one another?


Bolin deserves better then Korra, she's a bitch...

i wouldn't say she's a bitch
i just think she made a very bad mistake by choosing mako over bolin

Still think she's a heartless bitch for breaking both Asami and Bolin's hearts

Hope they get together...

agree on the heartless part
i never really got the dynamics between korra and mako
i mean when korra and bolin went on a date, they had a great time together. mako and korra never had that much in common other than looking at each other in a guilty wanting kind of way

bolin even said straight to her face that he liked her very much, and she went with mako anyways
and it was very clear he wanted korra way more than mako did

still, i think she's a good character in other aspects

Well when they wrote it they only had a small number of episodes so it was rushed, I think now that they have more to work with it will be a lot better.

They did it to compensate for Zutara not happening.

Or Asami...

i disagree. i'm all for lesbian action, but they're not each other's types.

Does Mako and Korra share the same type?

no, but bolin and korra do.

Precisely, I was merely giving an alternative if the whole Bolin thing doesn't work out.

God yes.

I don't care about the romantic elements at all. I feel like Bryke just throw it in there for the sake of the crazy fangirls that make up a pretty scary portion of the fanbase (do NOT search any Avatar tags on Tumblr for your sanity). I just want hardcore action and character development that isn't focused on lovey-dovey bullshit.

Duh.

Is there any other way?

I think that was the funniest scene in Book 3.

Me neither man
I think i should watch this show just so that i can understand anything anymore

he totally has a chance

Me too.

I miss your comics Arnold.