I hope you're both right.
Except that Jinora would still have to shave her head to get her scalp tattoos in the first place, and then it'd take a while for her hair to grow back.
The Legend of Korra: Book 3
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I hope you're both right.
Except that Jinora would still have to shave her head to get her scalp tattoos in the first place, and then it'd take a while for her hair to grow back.
Adobe bought out Flash, so yeah that's fine.
What kind of processor do you have?
How much memory do you have?
How fast is your internet connection?
It's possible there's a bottleneck there.
If you right-click on the video when playing and select settings you can increase the amount of local storage the player can use. Increasing it might allow it to cache more data and play smoother.
I'm assuming you are running Windows and aren't using a solid state drive, you could try running Disk Defragmenter in system tools. That assures the contents of your hard drive is well grouped so you don't have data spread across your drive which might cause choppiness.
^I usually don't have a problem with videos, except for some HD things, which are often slow to load and make my fan whir alarmingly. I don't have problems with Netflix, YouTube, or Hulu formats. That leads me to think it's something specific to the Nick.com player's software or format, rather than an intrinsic problem with my computer. But yeah, my drive does look pretty fragmented, so maybe I'll try fixing that just on general principles.
But the point is, if you want to get Airbender tattoos, as we know Jinora does, then it's necessary to shave your head temporarily in order to get it done. So unless Jinora gets her tattoos between seasons and several months pass in the interim, we'd surely see her with little or no hair for a while after she got them.
But the point is, if you want to get Airbender tattoos, as we know Jinora does, then it's necessary to shave your head temporarily in order to get it done. So unless Jinora gets her tattoos between seasons and several months pass in the interim, we'd surely see her with little or no hair for a while after she got them.
I doubt it works that way. Given that Aang's tattoo glowed when he entered the Avatar State, the tattoo probably has something to do with channeling chi through the body, and thus it's necessary for it to be continuous.
Compared to Vaatu and the Red Lotus they're small potatoes. I wouldn't worry about 'em.
3X11 The Ultimatum: another great episode! I really loved the air bender battle (have you noticed how few of the fights this season actually involve Korra?!) and I greatly appreciated the fact that Zaheer could NOT beat Tenzin in a fair fight. I was worried they would cheat there.
There's no way in hell they killed him. They're just there for bait to lure in Korra.
I forget, do we know WHY they want her yet? They're obviously not going to brain-wash her into fighting on their side. And they don't want to kill her or chi-block her because they've had ample opportunities to do so.
There's no way in hell they killed him. They're just there for bait to lure in Korra.
I forget, do we know WHY they want her yet? They're obviously not going to brain-wash her into fighting on their side. And they don't want to kill her or chi-block her because they've had ample opportunities to do so.
Wasn't really worried. Just curious what happened to them.
We do not know why they want her. We know they want to take out world leaders in order to "help" the people, but we don't know what their plan is for the Avatar.
That or they use some kind of special ink, perhaps akin to the spirit water from the oasis at the North Pole....or both.
Incidentally, maybe I'm misunderstanding something but how is Jinora having to shave her head to get her tattoos a problem? So she'd be (at least partially) bald....so what?
I wonder if this storyline is going to continue into Book 4. Two episodes don't seem like enough time to wrap everything up at the pace we're seeing.
3x12 & 3x13 - The Big Finale
- Zaheer's ultimate plan for Korra wasn't as grandiose as I expected but he was a formidable and loathsome villain, the likes of which I've not seen in a long time on any show.
- He never wanted peace, he just didn't want humanity to lose its passion.
- He reminded me of Superman when he flew past the airship.
- When I saw the green crystals in the Red Lotus cave, my immediate thought was... Kryptonite!
- We never did find out how our Red Lotus water bender lost her arms. I figured that they were cut off in an attempt to make her waterbending more difficult.
- So, Korra was poisoned with mercury?
- If their plan was to simply get Korra into the avatar state and kill her, then what were they planning with Vaatu? Maybe the plan there was simply to unleash 'chaos' into the world and rid Korra of the avatar spirit?
So, what now for Book 4? Book 1 took place in and around Republic City's air temple, Book 2, the water tribes and Book 3, the Earth Kingdom. I guess it's time for a trip to the Fire Nation.
- Zaheer's ultimate plan for Korra wasn't as grandiose as I expected but he was a formidable and loathsome villain, the likes of which I've not seen in a long time on any show.
- He never wanted peace, he just didn't want humanity to lose its passion.
- He reminded me of Superman when he flew past the airship.
- When I saw the green crystals in the Red Lotus cave, my immediate thought was... Kryptonite!
- We never did find out how our Red Lotus water bender lost her arms. I figured that they were cut off in an attempt to make her waterbending more difficult.
- So, Korra was poisoned with mercury?
- If their plan was to simply get Korra into the avatar state and kill her, then what were they planning with Vaatu? Maybe the plan there was simply to unleash 'chaos' into the world and rid Korra of the avatar spirit?
So, what now for Book 4? Book 1 took place in and around Republic City's air temple, Book 2, the water tribes and Book 3, the Earth Kingdom. I guess it's time for a trip to the Fire Nation.
There were similar caves in A:TLA when Zuko and Katara are imprisoned together (the end of Season 2, I believe)
OKAY, this season was truly awesome! Not a single bad episode in the bunch, and these last few were very intense.
Combustion Girl's demise. SHOCKING! She blew up her own head!
Oh, and I want to blame Christopher for making me suspicious of Su this whole time. Even though it didn't make sense to me, I kept expecting her to betray everyone and be revealed as a member of the Red Lotus...and it's all your fault!
Glad Tenzin made it out alive after last week's episode. Alive...but beaten to a pulp. Poor guy.
I can't tell what's going on with Korra at the end of the finale, though. I'm really interested to see how she behaves during Book 4. I'm not sure if it's just because she's healing and in pain, but she almost looked like she had given up.
Also, I find it hilarious how we talk about things here that get answered in the show...like Jinora's head! I guess they shaved it after all, though I suspect some time will pass between this episode and Book 4 that some of it will have grown back (otherwise she looks too much like Aang).
Speaking of Aang, his story was very much focused on the war with the Fire Nation, while Korra's story deals more generally with the Avatar itself. Since we likely won't be getting any further Avatar installments after Book 4, and since books 1-3 have all dealt with "the end of the Avatar" and restoring the original balance to the world, I wonder if Book 4 will truly see the Avatar cycle come to a conclusion.
And I'm just gonna throw this out there...but I'm guessing Book 4 will be titled "Balance."
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. This season has totally made up for the last one's weakness, and this finale was just on a whole other level above that. Just amazing, powerful stuff.
Whew, Tenzin's alive. Really had me scared there. I do wonder why Zaheer bothered to let him live, though. It does feel like plot armor, given that he was so determined to kill the other world leaders. Okay, the plan was evidently to use him as bait and then kill him later, but they could've used any of the others as bait.
But wow, this did get pretty hardcore, and I have to admit I can see how Nickelodeon might've been uncomfortable about showing some of this on TV. P'Li blowing up her own head? That's some hardcore stuff right there, and they had to cut it so discreetly that it took me a moment to realize what had happened. And Ghazan evidently brought about his own demise... and probably Ming-Hua's as well, assuming Mako's electrocution hadn't already done that job. I prefer it when heroes find nonlethal ways to defeat villains, of course, but it says something about how mature the show is getting.
I kinda wish Ghazan had decided to switch sides, or at least break with Zaheer and abandon the fight. He seemed like the least fanatical one, so if anyone was going to turn, it would've been him. And I could've seen him becoming Bolin's lavabending teacher.
I guess I really was wrong about Suyin. She really came through here, not only defeating P'Li but saving Korra from the poison.
The biggest "Wow" here was Angry Avatar State Korra. Zaheer didn't really think through that whole "kill her in the Avatar State" thing, did he? She was just so powerful, to the point of being genuinely scary. That was some Hulk-level rage and power there. Aang in the Avatar State was a force to be reckoned with, but Korra is so much more about strength and aggression, and seeing that amped up to nigh-godlike levels was kind of frightening in an "I'm glad she's on our side" kind of way. It's not the way most cartoons -- or most entertainment in general -- would think to portray a female character, and it underlines what's so remarkable (and hopefully precedent-setting) about this series. Not to mention that the storyboarding and animation and camera work and music were all top-notch and set a new high for the franchise. (Well, my favorite musical sequence remains the climactic fight of "And the Winner Is...," but this score came close to the same level.) The animation before the big fight, when Korra was struggling with the poison and hallucinating, went to some pretty striking places too.
Meanwhile, I think we need to coin a new airbending term, the Jinora-nado. Really cool to see her earn her tattoo. I knew what we would see when that hood came off, but that just made me cheer louder (well, figuratively) when it did. And awesome that Tenzin's turning the Air Nomads into Batman Incorporated, traveling the world to fight crime and injustice. Doesn't quite fit their historic pacifism, but I'd trust that kind of power to people with pacifism in their background better than I'd trust, say, the Earth Kingdom's armies.
And that was such a totally shippy moment when Asami took Korra's hand and said she'd be there "if you ever want to talk or... anything." There is no doubt in my mind that a sexual subtext was completely intended there (heck, the scene began with a close-up on Asami's lips). I really hope they build on that in Book 4. They've pushed the envelope in a lot of ways; it would be great if they pushed it further.
But Korra's state at this point puts kind of a damper on things, doesn't it? She's been through hell, come close not only to the end of her life but the end of all her future lives, and she seems pretty much broken by it. Objectively, she doesn't have much reason for despair: All the good guys are safe, they broke the Red Lotus and saved the Air Nation, said nation is now a global peacekeeping brigade, Tenzin is no longer the one and only guy with an arrow pointing to his nose, Republic City likes Korra again, Bolin unlocked a new achievement, Lin and her not-evil-after-all sister made up, and the hottest girl in town is totally into Korra. But unfortunately that's not how depression works. It can make you unhappy and hopeless even when everything's going well. It's very smart of them to acknowledge the emotional cost of all she's been through rather than just wrapping things up with a neat bow. Still, it's sad to see the heroine of the show unable to enjoy everyone else's moment of triumph.
But it does make me eager to see the show return and see how she recovers emotionally from this. And I just hope I'll be able to see it in some forum that has better image quality than I've been able to manage for this season, like Netflix, say.
Whew, Tenzin's alive. Really had me scared there. I do wonder why Zaheer bothered to let him live, though. It does feel like plot armor, given that he was so determined to kill the other world leaders. Okay, the plan was evidently to use him as bait and then kill him later, but they could've used any of the others as bait.
But wow, this did get pretty hardcore, and I have to admit I can see how Nickelodeon might've been uncomfortable about showing some of this on TV. P'Li blowing up her own head? That's some hardcore stuff right there, and they had to cut it so discreetly that it took me a moment to realize what had happened. And Ghazan evidently brought about his own demise... and probably Ming-Hua's as well, assuming Mako's electrocution hadn't already done that job. I prefer it when heroes find nonlethal ways to defeat villains, of course, but it says something about how mature the show is getting.
I kinda wish Ghazan had decided to switch sides, or at least break with Zaheer and abandon the fight. He seemed like the least fanatical one, so if anyone was going to turn, it would've been him. And I could've seen him becoming Bolin's lavabending teacher.
I guess I really was wrong about Suyin. She really came through here, not only defeating P'Li but saving Korra from the poison.
The biggest "Wow" here was Angry Avatar State Korra. Zaheer didn't really think through that whole "kill her in the Avatar State" thing, did he? She was just so powerful, to the point of being genuinely scary. That was some Hulk-level rage and power there. Aang in the Avatar State was a force to be reckoned with, but Korra is so much more about strength and aggression, and seeing that amped up to nigh-godlike levels was kind of frightening in an "I'm glad she's on our side" kind of way. It's not the way most cartoons -- or most entertainment in general -- would think to portray a female character, and it underlines what's so remarkable (and hopefully precedent-setting) about this series. Not to mention that the storyboarding and animation and camera work and music were all top-notch and set a new high for the franchise. (Well, my favorite musical sequence remains the climactic fight of "And the Winner Is...," but this score came close to the same level.) The animation before the big fight, when Korra was struggling with the poison and hallucinating, went to some pretty striking places too.
Meanwhile, I think we need to coin a new airbending term, the Jinora-nado. Really cool to see her earn her tattoo. I knew what we would see when that hood came off, but that just made me cheer louder (well, figuratively) when it did. And awesome that Tenzin's turning the Air Nomads into Batman Incorporated, traveling the world to fight crime and injustice. Doesn't quite fit their historic pacifism, but I'd trust that kind of power to people with pacifism in their background better than I'd trust, say, the Earth Kingdom's armies.
And that was such a totally shippy moment when Asami took Korra's hand and said she'd be there "if you ever want to talk or... anything." There is no doubt in my mind that a sexual subtext was completely intended there (heck, the scene began with a close-up on Asami's lips). I really hope they build on that in Book 4. They've pushed the envelope in a lot of ways; it would be great if they pushed it further.
But Korra's state at this point puts kind of a damper on things, doesn't it? She's been through hell, come close not only to the end of her life but the end of all her future lives, and she seems pretty much broken by it. Objectively, she doesn't have much reason for despair: All the good guys are safe, they broke the Red Lotus and saved the Air Nation, said nation is now a global peacekeeping brigade, Tenzin is no longer the one and only guy with an arrow pointing to his nose, Republic City likes Korra again, Bolin unlocked a new achievement, Lin and her not-evil-after-all sister made up, and the hottest girl in town is totally into Korra. But unfortunately that's not how depression works. It can make you unhappy and hopeless even when everything's going well. It's very smart of them to acknowledge the emotional cost of all she's been through rather than just wrapping things up with a neat bow. Still, it's sad to see the heroine of the show unable to enjoy everyone else's moment of triumph.
But it does make me eager to see the show return and see how she recovers emotionally from this. And I just hope I'll be able to see it in some forum that has better image quality than I've been able to manage for this season, like Netflix, say.
I thought they were going to do more with Zaheer's interest in Laghima but they didn't. It was just a set-up for him learning to fly.
I'm kidding.
A lot of fighting though. It was great stuff and well choreographed but there was a lot of it at the expense of story sometimes.
I didn't catch what had happened, it was so quick. It looked like a sheet of metal hit her in the back of the head and wrapped itself around her.Combustion Girl's demise. SHOCKING! She blew up her own head!
Clearly she was jealous of all the attention Jinora was getting. Hopefully she'll mature out of this in Book 4.
I'm kidding.
I've been thinking the same thing for a while now. They've had a chance each season but didn't take it. Maybe something will finally happen in Book 4.
I like it.
The plan was sound. If I wanted to end the avatar cycle, that's what I would have done. Problem is in underestimating the avatar state.
Yeah, I'm glad we didn't get a retcon involving all the airbenders returning to non-bender status.
I'm only re-watching to catch Combustion Girl's head blow up. Honest.
On the surface, this seems like par for the course for any avatar. Thinking about it further though, it looks like they're going to play this out some more. Will we see her retire?
I'm all for Netflix. I could watch the whole season in one sitting.
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