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Re: Curious
All of them, from the "Lost Adventures" issues, to the non-canon and chibi ones, to the proper graphic novel trilogies. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 03:12, July 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * Probably The Search. It finally revealed what happened to Ursa. It didn't do wonders for her character though. The copious amounts of Crazula, flashback Ozai, the fact they remembered Koh exists, and one of the most conceptually interesting spirits in the franchise pushed it to the top. Something I wish the graphic novels did a bit more is flesh out characters that didn't get much time on the show. I would love a White Lotus focused comic. Jeong-Jeong was way too interesting for the minuscule amount of screentime he had. When the Korra comics start being a thing, I would also appreciate more Red Lotus material. The four had cool abilities, but other than Zaheer, none of them had much character. Seeing them all coming together and developing their camaraderie would be interesting. They could finish that prequel with them being incarcerated, since they did want flashback of their kidnap attempt of child Korra in Book Three. Maybe even revisit the still at large Red Lotus agents. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 04:15, July 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * Smoke and Shadow had an interesting set up, but had quite some faults in execution. My tolerance to shipping is proportional to its quality, and the Zuko/Mai/Kei Lo triangle took up more space it had any right. The reveal of Azula being behind the Kemurikage also fell flat to me. Who were her henchwomen? Where did they come from? How did they meet? How does Azula suddenly know how to redirect lightning? How can Zuko bend dragon multi-colored fire? What is special about that fire? There was too little to no explanation for any that. What Ukano did and did not know also was confusing. The trilogy opened with him thinking the Kemurikage were actually spirits, but when we learn it was Azula, he already seemed to know that. I also strongly disliked what that trilogy did to the timeline. It takes quite a bit of interpretation for what was shown there not to completely mess up the established timeline and Fire Nation history. In Smoke and Shadow, the first Fire Lord was established as the one who united the Fire Islands after defeating war lords, and when Aang wonders why the Avatar of that time didn't do anything against the war lords, Zuko figures this happened before the Avatar came to me. None of that makes sense. The four nations only came to be after Wan became Raava's Avatar, after people stopped living in the lion turtle cities and spread through the world again as the spirits no longer roamed the world. Also, the Fire Lord first branched off the Fire Sages. Long in the past, the Fire Nation was a theocracy similar to the Air Nomads, and they were led by the Fire Sages, they themselves originating from a branch of the Bhanti Tribe, the Fire Sage-like people who appeared in the Beginnings episodes in Book Two Spirits in the island Korra washed up on. Their leader was the called the Fire Lord because of his deep spiritual connection to fire. The Fire Nation royal family began when a Fire Lord split from the sages, starting a monarchy. The only way any of Smoke and Shadow makes sense is if you assume the first monarchy collapsed before the rise of the Sun Warriors, whose culture is known to have influenced the Fire Sages, and from the Fire Sages, the Fire Lord title resurfaced and eventually led to a monarchy again. The Avatar's absence during the unification era of the Fire Nation can be explained by him or her simply having yet to learn they're the Avatar, depending on how long the unification wars, or simply being occupied with other conflicts in other parts of the world. Zuko's assumption could simply be wrong. The lack of firebending during the Kemurikage era makes no sense, as life outside the lion turtles only happened Wan, and people used bending to fight wars in his time. Fire Nation history from Smoke and Shadow can work, but I shouldn't have to go through so many hoops and assumptions to make it work. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 19:26, July 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * You see, despite the lack of an explicit explanation for Azula's blue fire, that looks like a natural and logical progression. Fire burning blue is an indication of higher temperature, so Azula's "I have to be the perfect, I have to be the best" mentality would push her enough for her fire to reflect that. The fact other master firebenders don't display that, like Ozai, Iroh, or Jeong-Jeong, also leads me to believe it's a personality thing. Iroh is powerful, but from all we've seen to him, the focus of his firebending is something like "use only as much power as necessary". He and Azula have focus on skill, but his doesn't go into intensity. Ozai on the other hand, thinks so highly of himself that he would not see himself as having to be better, thus pushing himself to the point of blue flames. Jeong-Jeong's entire restraint philosophy goes completely against the idea of burning hotter. I'd go as far as saying they blue fire is something that firebenders of a certain mastery can achieve, but don't practice because it's generally not worth it for usual firebending applications. For dragon fire, I have no idea. I can't think of any reason why dragon fire would be so colorful. It's also worth noting that not all dragon fire looks like a rainbow, so it's definitely something they deliberately do on purpose. What different effect rainbow fire could have and why Zuko can do it escapes me. My guess would be something related to spirituality, as all possible reasons I can think for differently colored fire involve science, but that wouldn't explain the lack of rainbow fire from other spiritually inclined firebenders, like Iroh, or past Avatars.
 * I liked The Promise. It showed some of the growing pains of what would be Republic City, though I wish we would still get some more mentions of that in the other trilogies. We do see mentions, but all we see is the progress, like one conflict was all it took to make a well-oiled machine. I also enjoyed Ozai. Most of his characterization in the comic was indirect, made by how other characters related to him. In this trilogy and in the other trilogies he appears, we get to see him. At the start of The Promise, even with no bending and behind bars, he still held some sway over Zuko. I didn't like or dislike the Toph plot or the Air Acolyte plot in The Promise. To me, though they did tie into the main plot in the end, there were most just there. The Rift was mostly neutral to me. What I liked and what I didn't liked sort of evened out. I liked that the plot had an anchor in Yangchen. Of the four Avatars that preceded Aang, she was the one that picked my interest the most, and the fact there was no side story about her life in that Escape the Spirit World game that bridged Books Two and Three only made me appreciate her more. Stuff like this is why I hated that Bryke had Korra lose her connection to past Avatars, with the flimsiest of excuses: she didn't use it much. Having the ability to do so is still important, and maybe future Avatars will not be so bone-headed as Korra and want to make use of the connection. This was equivalent of burning Wan Shi Tong's library in terms of wasting valuable resources. The only thing that kept me going was being able to develop a head-canon in which that connection can be restored, based only on stuff from canon. On the other hand, the Aang and Toph conflict about the factory was boring to me. The majority of it felt very forced to me, and most of it could have been avoided if they had bothered talking it out. Other than Toph reconnecting with her father, everything about the factory was boring. Satoru irritated me. Something that started in The Rift also feels unnecessarily vague and complex is timeline placement. The new spirit focused festival happened three months later. Then Smoke and Shadow came along, and a significant portion of part one happened between the group coming back from Hira'a to mainland Fire Nation after the end of The Search and the beginning of The Rift. Now, North and South will begin sometime in the middle of Smoke and Shadow part two after Katara and Sokka leave Aang, and later on he will join them. And somewhere in the middle of all that, there's still the spirit festival from the end of The Rift. At the Avatar wiki, trying to piece this all together chronologically is not fun. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 01:54, July 26, 2016 (UTC)
 * Asking which series is better to me is like comparing oranges and apples. They're different things. Too many differences in how they were developed for there being any way to make a proper comparison. The most prudent thing is to compare parts of them. For example, being a sequel, LoK had the better animation (Pierrot animated episodes aside). AtLA was better written, having an overarching plot through all the books, unlike LoK, which had mostly self-contained seasons. This is something which I blame development for. If Nick had had faith in LoK from day one, Book One would not have had so much disconnect with the following three books, and Korra's character development would not have been essentially erased between books one and two. That said, I think LoK had better ideas in general, they were simply not allowed to be explored as well as they should have because of development. The shortened seasons also meant things always had to be rushed. AtLA had more room to breathe, spread out, and build things up, so progression there felt more natural. I'd go as far as saying the only reason why LoK wasn't better than AtLA in every way is because Nick screwed them over constantly from beginning to end, from being greenlit, to the format, to the budget cuts. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 16:51, July 28, 2016 (UTC)