Swaqqin Wrote:Remember this?

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Swaqqin Wrote:continued

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Luxeraph Wrote:

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In other words, is he blocking people bending out of fear?
Well seeing Amon first works it does seem like it takes way longer than now and pretty much all of his victims are somewhat terrified.

Mute Wrote:I love examples of continuity / preservation of detail like this.



Think, it's a documented thing that people can convince themselves of anything being true.

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But something tells me that Korra loses her bending in the season finale, then her friends and that chick end up in seclusion, trying to train. Meanwhile, Korra goes on a journey of self discovery, with losing her beinding being the catalyst needed for her to get in touch with the spirit side. She finally gets to meet with spirit-Aang, and through him she goes out on a journey to recover/re-learn her bending, and it takes us through all sorts of loose threads left opened by the last series (such as what happened to Zuko and Mai, and what became of Suki/whatshisface/Tai-Lee, and of Ozai and Azula?) It'll also expose some more details of the politics of the world post-Aang.

Yay pointless speculation.
someone's gonna need to keep me in the loop as to what happens over the next few months. =x

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I found this in the interwebs. Real or not?

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I really do hope that the loss of bending is only temporary.

Razmos Wrote:

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Iroh's voice really really doesn't match the character. the actors voice worked with Zuko because he was a kid, it doesn't work with this new Iroh.

Razmos Wrote:On a related note, I had no idea Naga was a girl.

Kojo Wrote:The lieutenant guy is kind of useless. He was only cool in episode 3 when he electrocuted Mako and Bolin.

Luxeraph Wrote:Actually that might make sense, as in they haven't got their bending taken but blocked.


Because she wasn't barefoot, really agree with people with the silly ways of that police, not using earth bending and using shoes.

SolicShooter Wrote:But still, vibrations travel through metal too and should be able to be sensed too. Depending on the rate that vibrations travel through differnt materials, maybe even better sensing. I just find it weird that a senser gets surprised in an episode when she should have at least sensed someone was coming, while a non-senser (Tenzin) just turns around and owns the guy. I mean Toph could sense, although the view was fuzzy, through sand, but she could still sense something at least.

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I was instantly displeased that they reused the voice actor. It's okay when it's a different world made by the same people, but no one has exactly the same voice, and to use it again for this Iroh is stupid.

Razmos Wrote:A thought just occurred to me. So far we have only ever seen people lose their bending, but we have yet to hear or see a non-bender become a bender.

Just an interesting thought.

SolicShooter Wrote:But still, vibrations travel through metal too and should be able to be sensed too. Depending on the rate that vibrations travel through differnt materials, maybe even better sensing. I just find it weird that a senser gets surprised in an episode when she should have at least sensed someone was coming, while a non-senser (Tenzin) just turns around and owns the guy. I mean Toph could sense, although the view was fuzzy, through sand, but she could still sense something at least.

CrazyForDex Wrote:Am I the only person not that bothered by the fact that they reused the voice actor? I find it strange, but I am so excited that Iroh entered the show that I can move past it. I hope he inherited his family's power and technique, while also having Uncle Iroh's sense of humor (too much to ask, I know).

Solarboy Wrote:I guess they just don't care/don't even know that the first benders were taught/they are dumb.

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I found it odd that Lin thought roping the Lieutenant's Lightning Rods was a good idea on Air Temple Island. She should have known better.

Lin shows that, as I said earlier, having sole portions of their armor on their feet is stupid. She could have stopped that if she didn't use them.

Naga owning the Lieutenant was awesome. "MUSTACHE GUY! *BAM!*"

My only problem with the idea of the Insight blocking is that how did he create that fear in the first place? No one knew about it until he did it to that one guy...it wasn't even a thought of anyone's. I suppose it's possible, but I would figure there would have needed to be a thought of the possibility.

With so many major characters losing their bending combined with the different form that Amon uses...it wouldn't surprise me if it is indeed temporary.

Jamesie Wrote:There was an argument made that the ability to be able to bend is genetic; I would agree with that argument. Firstly, Aang's son Bumi is apparently a non-bender. Strange since his mother is a Waterbender and his father is an Airbender (it's noted that all Air Nomads could Airbend, however). There's also the fact that a Firebender can't become and Earthbender and so on. Sure you can learn the theory behind bending, but I imagine it requires a specific gene to actually execute bending.

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>Yeah... that one was just a pure /facepalm.

>Firstly, I would imagine that not all of the Metalbending Police can use seismic sense. Secondly, I also am certain that while Lin is a talented Earth/Metalbender, she didn't inherit all of her mother's prowess. The two occasions she has been shown using seismic sense she had to lift her foot and strike the ground. That is never shown for Toph. So she probably cannot sense as well as Toph, and that makes sense. Lin can see, Toph could not. Toph had to use seismic sense.

>So many major characters? As of right now only two: Tarrlok and Lin. The rest have been shoved aside/are not major. Nonetheless I do agree that it is probably temporary.

Polantaris Wrote:For the Air Bending part: If I remember correctly, it was mentioned that you are taken away from your parents to become an Air Nomad. So by that information we can assume that they determine who is an Air Bender before making them an Air Nomad.

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As for the Metalbending Police....maybe not all of them are that good, however they also don't even Earthbend at all. They throw away half of their abilities. Toph was so great because she combined the two. Lin even kicked some major ass when combining the two in the last episode, and the only reason she lost was because she made that stupid blunder with the Lightning Rods. She was winning before then.

The reason she lifts her foot to do Sensing is because she has to open the metal casing first. It's probably a ton easier to do it when the foot is in the air rather than when your foot is already plastered into the ground.

Characters like the opposite Pro-Bending team likely would have been important characters had they not lost their bending so quickly. Even though that guy was a jackass (The leader of the winners), he was still a skilled bender and would likely have been a powerful ally should he have kept his bending. There's other people like that. Most characters who lost their bending never had time to develop into major characters.

iAmFear Wrote:Hmm, I would think they took them away from their already Air Nomad parents, as in they only take people who are already in their tribe to begin with.

Anyway, did Toph learn Earthbending completely from the Badgermoles, or did she just get better at it through her interaction with them?

Polantaris Wrote:For the Air Bending part: If I remember correctly, it was mentioned that you are taken away from your parents to become an Air Nomad. So by that information we can assume that they determine who is an Air Bender before making them an Air Nomad.

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As for the Metalbending Police....maybe not all of them are that good, however they also don't even Earthbend at all. They throw away half of their abilities. Toph was so great because she combined the two. Lin even kicked some major ass when combining the two in the last episode, and the only reason she lost was because she made that stupid blunder with the Lightning Rods. She was winning before then.

The reason she lifts her foot to do Sensing is because she has to open the metal casing first. It's probably a ton easier to do it when the foot is in the air rather than when your foot is already plastered into the ground.

Characters like the opposite Pro-Bending team likely would have been important characters had they not lost their bending so quickly. Even though that guy was a jackass (The leader of the winners), he was still a skilled bender and would likely have been a powerful ally should he have kept his bending. There's other people like that. Most characters who lost their bending never had time to develop into major characters.

Jamesie Wrote:On Airbending: "The "Avatar Extras" stated that all Air Nomads are airbenders. This would make the Nomads the only group with every individual being a bender. The creators also explain this is due to bending coming from spirituality."

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>Obviously.

>I'm fairly certain there's no need to raise her foot in preparation for some sort of death strike to just remove her "shoes." If anything, she does it to hit the ground for more vibrations. That is the opposite of what Toph did as she just felt all other vibrations rather than creating her own (except that one time she was in a metal box).

>Does that not apply to all minor characters in movies/books/shows? "They could've been a major player if only ________."
To be honest, I didn't even think whats-his-face of the opposing Pro-Bending team was that great. Because he cheated so much, it gave him the illusion of being superior. But really, I'm certain in a pure waterbending duel, Korra would've won.

On Toph: I'm sure there's all sorts of exceptions. Because Toph is blind, she has similar conditions to Badgermoles so that may have given her some sort of boost (?) to just learn it naturally. Again, Aang's family is probably the biggest "evidence" that bending is genetic since one of his children is a Waterbender, the other an Airbender, and the third a non-bender.