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I wish the creators the best of luck. I'm not sure how they can top the first series.
Nickelodeon sets Avatar: Last Airbender sequel for 2011
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I wish the creators the best of luck. I'm not sure how they can top the first series.
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Oh, good, you mean an animated sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender. I thought you meant a sequel to the movie, because the thread title only said "Last Airbender."
A teenage girl Avatar, eh? That should be cool, because the female characters of A:TLA were consistently the most awesome ones (though Iroh was right up there). I wonder if this will be in the past or the future of A:TLA. And I wonder what nation Korra will be from.
Interesting that they're calling it The Legend of Korra, because the UK title for the original series is Avatar: The Legend of Aang (since "bender" has unfortunate slang connotations over there, I gather).
Oh, good, you mean an animated sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender. I thought you meant a sequel to the movie, because the thread title only said "Last Airbender."
A teenage girl Avatar, eh? That should be cool, because the female characters of A:TLA were consistently the most awesome ones (though Iroh was right up there). I wonder if this will be in the past or the future of A:TLA. And I wonder what nation Korra will be from.
Interesting that they're calling it The Legend of Korra, because the UK title for the original series is Avatar: The Legend of Aang (since "bender" has unfortunate slang connotations over there, I gather).
Re: Nickelodeon sets Last Airbender sequel for 2011
Pffft. Everyone knows Appa was the most awesome character.
I hope this is set in the future and is relatively free of callbacks to A:TLA; perhaps establish that all four nations are back and in harmony. i like the idea of Aang as a spirit guide.
I would wager it's safe to say Korra won't be an Air Nomad since Aang was and also based on the character description. Water Tribe would be interesting since the Waterbender avatar played such a minor role in TLA. The problem with that is that Katara was such a dominant presence in TLA; but that was true for Zuko and the Fire Nation as well. And really, we saw so much of the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom. Korra's character description sounds a lot like Toph, too.
So... I dunno, I guess it could be any of them. I do hope we spend a good amount of time with the Air Nomads and Water Tribe this time around though.
Pffft. Everyone knows Appa was the most awesome character.
I hope this is set in the future and is relatively free of callbacks to A:TLA; perhaps establish that all four nations are back and in harmony. i like the idea of Aang as a spirit guide.
I would wager it's safe to say Korra won't be an Air Nomad since Aang was and also based on the character description. Water Tribe would be interesting since the Waterbender avatar played such a minor role in TLA. The problem with that is that Katara was such a dominant presence in TLA; but that was true for Zuko and the Fire Nation as well. And really, we saw so much of the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom. Korra's character description sounds a lot like Toph, too.
So... I dunno, I guess it could be any of them. I do hope we spend a good amount of time with the Air Nomads and Water Tribe this time around though.
Re: Nickelodeon sets Last Airbender sequel for 2011
I'm interested to see the future of the Air Nomads and how that little problem gets solved.
I'm interested to see the future of the Air Nomads and how that little problem gets solved.
Further info from the full press release:
So Korra is the next Avatar after Aang, i.e. his direct reincarnation. The Water Tribe is next in the cycle of reincarnations after the Air Nomads (the cycle is Air, Water, Earth, Fire). And it makes sense that airbending would be the hardest one to master in the post-A:TLA world, given the dearth of airbenders. It's cool that the new series will be answering some of our questions about how the Bender world copes with that situation in the next generation.
I wonder if there will be any followup on the career of Fire Lord Zuko, or any answers about the fate of his mother. Heck, given how long people apparently live in the Bender world, Zuko could easily still be alive 70 years after A:TLA. And I wonder if maybe we could see an elderly Azula still making trouble...
The press release says Korra will be co-executive produced by Joaquim Dos Santos. I hope he still contributes as a director, since he does fantastic work (including the final episode of A:TLA).
So Korra is the next Avatar after Aang, i.e. his direct reincarnation. The Water Tribe is next in the cycle of reincarnations after the Air Nomads (the cycle is Air, Water, Earth, Fire). And it makes sense that airbending would be the hardest one to master in the post-A:TLA world, given the dearth of airbenders. It's cool that the new series will be answering some of our questions about how the Bender world copes with that situation in the next generation.
I wonder if there will be any followup on the career of Fire Lord Zuko, or any answers about the fate of his mother. Heck, given how long people apparently live in the Bender world, Zuko could easily still be alive 70 years after A:TLA. And I wonder if maybe we could see an elderly Azula still making trouble...
The press release says Korra will be co-executive produced by Joaquim Dos Santos. I hope he still contributes as a director, since he does fantastic work (including the final episode of A:TLA).
I only hope it's half as good as the original. 
Sucks that all the previous characters would be dead, though. Who's the baddie though? And will it be as storyline driven and continuity heavy with a set beginning middle and end?
Not necessarily. If this is 70 years ahead, then theoretically Zuko would be 86, Sokka, Suki, and Mai would be 85, Katara, Azula, and Ty Lee 84, and Toph 82. Any of them could still be alive. And as I said, people can live a long time in the Avatar-verse. King Bumi lived to at least 112, Guru Pathik to at least 150. Avatar Kyoshi reached 230.
Indeed, if Korra, Aang's reincarnation, is a teenager only 70 years after A:TLA, that means Aang died fairly young. If we assume she's, say, 15, and was born immediately after Aang died, that would mean Aang only lived to age 67 (subjective). That's actually kind of sad, and it makes me wonder how he died.
Fantastic news. Three wonderful seasons was still too short of a time in that wonderful world they created.
Wow... Christopher's theorycrafting has gotten me excited about this series even more than I already was.
Great idea!
I'd love to see the kind of White Lotus Swordmaster Sokka eventually became.
And the best part about this series...
Flashback potential.
So many new ways for information to come to light.
Great idea!
I'd love to see the kind of White Lotus Swordmaster Sokka eventually became.
And the best part about this series...
Flashback potential.
So many new ways for information to come to light.
Good news everybody!
i can't wait for this! though, i may be in the minority, i dont really want to see the old characters. i want the show to stand on it's own and not have to keep making nods to the characters from the last series (kinda like Batman Beyond).
today is full of win!
i can't wait for this! though, i may be in the minority, i dont really want to see the old characters. i want the show to stand on it's own and not have to keep making nods to the characters from the last series (kinda like Batman Beyond).
today is full of win!
I guess it's the new main character in the picture. I'm glad Korra will look very different from Katara. Since Korra is older than Aang was when he started out, I'm hoping the show will be a little more mature in it's first season. The first season of the original series is still very good, but the second season really stepped up in terms of quality.
Fantastic. If it turns out to be even half as good as its predecessor, it'll be...well...fantastic! 
It makes sense to make the next protagonist a girl after a male hero in TLA. It also makes sense for her to be a waterbender, since Water is next in the Avatar cycle. However...
But with Konietzko, DiMartino, dos Santos, and presumably much of the rest of the original team behind this, I'm sure we're in for another great series. And this time I'll actually be able to watch it as it airs! 
It makes sense to make the next protagonist a girl after a male hero in TLA. It also makes sense for her to be a waterbender, since Water is next in the Avatar cycle. However...
I hope Korra doesn't turn out to be the granddaughter of Aang and Katara. That would be extremely cheesy.
Not to mention obnoxious for this Zutara supporter.
Not to mention obnoxious for this Zutara supporter.
Awesome reference, but wrong elemental magic.
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If Korra is the immediate reincarnation of the Avatar after Aang, I can only assume there will be some references to the old characters. Maybe it will open on Aang's funeral. Maybe Katara will be Korra's Waterbending Master. I'd love to see Sokka as an old man. I bet he'd be hilarious.
Well, they say the city has steampunk technology. We've seen that the Bender world has steampunk tech driven by firebenders, but if they have that tech, they could adapt it to be driven by coal easily enough.
And I'm sure there will be a range of different antagonists over the course of the series. But I commend them for trying something different.
True, it shouldn't be dominated by the old characters, but it would be nice to have a certain amount of followup now and again, particularly on dangling threads like Ursa's fate.
What I wonder is how long the series is going to be. TLA was the perfect length to tell its story, and each book had a definite purpose. Will Korra's tale be several seasons long? Do they have a beginning, middle, and end plotted out already?
I don't know how much planning went in to TLA, but it felt like they intended it to be 3 seasons from the start.
I don't know how much planning went in to TLA, but it felt like they intended it to be 3 seasons from the start.
When I first saw the thread title, I was excited. I thought the second movie had been greenlit. A new series sounds good though. And yes, poor Aang. He lived long enough, but not as long as he could have.
Dad's a young girl now. My first thought was... Awk-ward! How will that affect any potential relationship two young people in their position could have? But then again, that's assuming Aang's son is a young lad around her age. He could very well be an older mentor-like figure. I guess I'm just used to everyone being kids like in the first series.
