I didn't realise it on my first watch of the series, but watching the first few episodes of this season in close proximity to season 2 makes the little humanising moments between the villains unintentionally funny. The villains manage to come off as genuine friends. They enjoy each other's company, they playfully rib each other and they work seamlessly as a team. The contrast between them and Team Avatar last season, where none of them seemed to _like_ each other and they were almost always at cross purposes, is pretty hilarious.
Something I've just realized, the Dai Li are being particular savage in training the new air benders, likely because that's how they learned earth bending. And also, they don't know how to teach another bending style. No-one does, except likely the avatar, or Zaheer, who probably got to read some air nomad scrolls at some point.
Just goes to show why Iroh was so awesome. The man took time to actually learn about other bending styles and even managed to make new skills using what he learned. Maybe Zuko or Toph could at least give a basic idea, but the bending styles would probably have "accents" of some form.
@@mikegates8993as it is it seems like the new Air Nation seems to develop a different style from the Air Nomads. Whereas Aang's style was very individualistic and expressive, the Air Nation's style derives far more power from collective action and their community bond, at least after Bumi cracks the code to training them properly. Aang was agile and precise, and his family all share that trait. But while a few of the new airbenders manage to pick up this skill, the one thing they all manage to master is coming together to generate these huge windstorms and tornadoes. Many of them have so much raw power they struggle with precision, but can grasp this concept with ease. And perhaps it's because so many of them are Earth Kingdom, they are used to relying on their families and communities for help, and also are used to seeing earthbenders stand their ground, which airbenders struggle at on their own; while it's Kai, an outcast within the Earth Kingdom, who masters the agility of airbending right away because he already knew sleight of hand and evading the authorities. He is individualistic by necessity, many of them are the opposite.
Conscription and mandatory service is basically indentured servitude to me and desertion shouldn't only be allowed but encouraged. Live free or die is what I say.
Not related to the scenario in the episode specifically, but it depends on the context of the war. After all, if your country is being invaded and they have to resort to conscription to try and hold the line, desertion becomes you abandoning your homeland when it's being attacked.
One of the Yangchen books has a contemplation on the impact of the Avatar across the millennia of before and centuries to come, existential horror that their actions today could massively impact the future, and embittered feelings that one Avatar often has to clean up their predecessors messes, with only a small comfort and hope that when their time comes to an end, they can enter the Avatar pantheon and face their predecessors in the eye with dignity and a salvageable legacy. From this recontextualization, it really does seem while Korra’s hotheaded and blunt attitude was already a massive citation against her, that she had to deal with tons of problems that were the culmination of centuries of mistakes on her predecessors parts definitely did not help. From the continued corruption of the Dai Li as established by Kyoshi, to the negative relationships towards the spirits as established by Yangchen & Kuruk, to the difficulties of air bender reestablishment because of the inadvertent actions of Roku & Aang. And with what Korra brought to the table in her first three seasons and what’s to come in her fourth, it’s likely her legacy would not be any better and she would indeed go down in AvatarVerse history as a lesser Avatar. Does make me think how her successor would fare or even how future material would handle this matter.
I'm excited for the new series and there's gonna be a Korra film at some point. I'd love to see them do a film set around Sozin's comet 100 years after the original show. Korra would only be in her late 40's probably. Tenzin might still be alive, but nearly 100. I bet the OG cast would be dead. I also wonder when the Zuko film is gonna be set. Is after The Last Airbender or after Korra? I wonder how far into the future the third show will be. Like modern day. Cyberpunk perhaps?
@@RAINBOWNIGTHMAREPRODUCTIONS Personally I'd rather Avatar went back in time to show an earlier Avatar's life than further into the future. The somewhat modern look of Korra was so, so ugly and I dread seeing what a further future one would look like.
@@RAINBOWNIGTHMAREPRODUCTIONS Why? Like I said, Korra's world looked ugly and a lot of stupid things like transitioning the Earth Kingdom into a republic happened during it.
I said this in a previous video, but why didn't Tenzin and Korra's family just tell her about the attempt to kidnap her in Season 2 to explain why she was kept from the outside world. She'd still be upset she was lied to, but she might understand why. Probably because this season wasn't written yet. The whole thing feels a bit sketchy. I have to wonder what the White Lotus' will be going into the next avatar series. Like how far into the future is it going to be? Modern Day or even furthur? Maybe Asami's company will play in a role in it. Like the one in charge is a descendent of her and Korra's. And I wonder if they'll keep up a theme they've been maybe by accident doing of a descendent of the previous Avatar helping the new (Zuko and in this Tenzin). I like this because they aren't the main character, they're a supporting role for the new Avatar who is the main character.
A descendant of Korra and Asami? How is that going to work? Introducing some avatar reproductive magicks? Or are you ruining years of shipping and not only splitting them but marrying them to guys? Or, one supposes, getting creative with one's definition of 'descendant.'
Maybe i am misremembering but it seemed clear to me tenzin meant the accepting things to be for korra to stop questioning the past and accept the situation she has and to move forward from that,
Do they actually address their bad recruitment policy of asking nicely or kidnapping? The problem solved itself by wandering into bunch of airbenders who effectively have no other choice.
That's fair of the first half of the show, but not the back half. Seasons 3 and 4 are very connected. It actually feels like those two were planned out in advance as two parts of the same story, as opposed to hastily converted from a standalone miniseries like the first, or made up as they went along, like the second... probably wasn't, but certainly _feels_ like it was.
