Legend of Korra thread 2: Would you do it for a Bosco Snack?

Not really. Look at Ba Sing Se in the first series, their poor people were walled off from the richer ones. Republic City just have them all together.

I agree with Luke. Based on the turnout to Amon's rally in episode 3, I suspect things ARE really shitty in Republic City, with bending gangs terrorizing the citizenry and corruption everywhere. Besides the size of the crowd, the composition of it was very much "average citizen" or even "middle class citizen", not "desperate and/or crazy citizen".

yes, but these poor seem a lot more... "on the verge of death"

We know how bending got started, they learned from the moon/air bison/ dragons/badger moles. The interesting part is that bending came before the Avatar. Which gets us to the interesting part how was the Avatar created? Which leads to an even more interesting point, whats stopping someone else from creating another Avatar?

Well a lot of people in Ba Sing Se seemed to have to resort to crime to get by. Remember that one guy who confronted Iroh with a knife? Besides the poor section the main characters visited/lived might not have been the worst of what the city had to offer.

Ba Sing Se was so bad because it was the sole place left for war refugees to flee too.

I kind of have trouble believing that it was that way before the war started making refugees if it was separated that way before Aang was sealed in the iceberg. He does comment on it being the same way as to why he didn't go there in the past.

EDIT: I'm just saying you're looking at 1 city and making a statement that there's a lot more poor people then in the past. That simply isn't true we're just seeing it in a more focused area.

I know who amon is

[spoiler]the son of the melon cart dude[/spoiler]


come at me bro

Nope. Cabbage cart guy went on to found the world's largest multinational heavy industries corporation, Cabbage co.

True story.

wanna bet the firebender who killed mako & bolin's parents and the one who maimed amon are one and the same?

I'm glad you clarified your opinion so that I can dismiss it more easily.

A sucker punch is not a fight, especially if the person being surprise attacked doesn't even know he's in a fight. If I sneak into a Navy Seal's house and cut his throat while he's asleep I'm not a better fighter than he is.

Your definition of a good fighter is so entirely situational that it actually tells us nothing about the skill or competence of a fighter, only that the fighter will take a free shot when he/she gets it. Does Korra? yes. Do Mako and Bolin? Unknown, they don't get the opportunity.

Yes. But once you're in a fight, repeatedly attacking in a straightforward fashion, over and over, with little variation or attempt at improving your position, does not make you a good fighter.

This is not the creative, flexible, dangerous bending we saw throughout A:TLA, and it isn't what Korra knows.

Korra wasn't doing any better than Mako in the earlier fight-she's not some sort of super-sneaky uber-bender-ninja. The guy weakened the guys with his thunder-sticks, since nobody likes being painfully electrocuted and then thrust into a fight, and was then sucker-punched while he was gloating by a third opponent.

Mako and Bolin were street kids, they used to be in with the gangs. You don't think they know how to fight dirty?

...What earli-

Oh, against the fucking ninjas?

Yes, yes I would say that Korra is a slightly less effective ninja... than ninjas.


If they know how to fight dirty, they should have. That whole problem with that guy should have been solved by burying him up to his neck in the street and leaving.

I'm hestitant to say Amon has a leg to stand on just because he got a large crowd of people to listen to him. Its still entirely possible that while criminals are benders and so are police Amon is just using this as an exuse. His logic is certainly flawed, people started wars, bending didn't.

It seems we are dealing with the FoH all over again. Interesting that Amon seems to have energy bending though.

In Ba Sing Se the real troublemakers were probably executed or brainwashed if they could be useful. It was basically a police state.

Yes it was....

Is this in referenced to what I said?

Edit: Oh lifelink. Yes it was a police state and there is no telling how the city was before, the it a underseiged police state.

But remember, this isn't a world in wartime. When Aang woke up? That world and its people was the product of a century long Darwinian battle for survival. Korra's world has had decades of prosperous peace, its benders focusing on non-combat uses, and the old masters have died off and the bite of their hard learned lessons isn't carried by their successors.

Just look at the White Lotus.

Aang's time? A collection of the world's great badasses, old soldiers and warrior-philosophers who had survived a lifetime of endless warfare, gathered together in secret by the credo that there was a better way, that the struggles between their nations needn't define them and their friendships.

Korra's time? A public order, matured in peacetime, in a world beset by radical technological and ideological changes, caring more for the letter of Aang's last request than the spirit of it.

So I can't get it, I have the local version of Nick, not the one that gets it...

Yeah, it's a shame the Order of the White Lotus suffered badass decay.

There's one of two explanations:

1: These are red shirts hired to fill in more around-the-clock duty as all the old badasses are in their home towns

2: the Order filled in as a neutral faction to help mediate in the post-war, and as such had to broaden their membership which resulted in decay of the organization overall.

Or at least, those are my two explanations.

Here's a thought, Tenzin's wife Pema is explicitly stated to love spiritual endeavors. What are the odds that she'll be the one to help Korra out when it comes time for her to get in touch with the spirits?

They were accountants, it doesn't really matter if it was for a gang.

http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-103-the-revelation-full-episode.html

The nick website has the episodes available, I can get it here in Canada at least.

Running numbers is like being a courier for lottery participants.

Thanks for sharing, I didn't know that. It doesn't make my point invalid though.