LOS ANGELES – A sequel to Nickelodeon's "Avatar: The Last Airbender" is in the works.
The channel said Wednesday the new animated TV series will premiere in 2011. It has the working title, "The Legend of Korra."
Nickelodeon says the series will build on the "mythology" of the original "The Last Airbender" series, which inspired this summer's live-action movie from filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan (SHAH-muh-lahn).
The "Legend of Korra" is from the creator-producers of "Avatar: The Last Airbender."
Nickelodeon executive Brown Johnson says the new series will focus on a teenage girl avatar named Korra. Brown describes her as hotheaded, independent and "ready to take on the world."
"Avatar: The Last Airbender" has ranked among the highest-rate series on the Nickelodeon and Nicktoons channels.
Nickelodeon said in a release that “The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the events of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ and follows the adventures of the Avatar after Aang – a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra.”
Korra’s quest eventually leads her to Republic City–the epicenter of the world of “Avatar.” A metropolis powered by steampunk-type technology, the city is inhabited by people from all nations. Korra finds that Republic City suffers from rampant crime and is also dealing with an anti-bender revolt. Korra is tutored by Aang’s son, Tenzin, is the ways of airbending.
Korra is tutored by Aang’s son, Tenzin, is the ways of airbending.
Aang did his job.
good work soldier.
is that pic supposed to be a girl? ???
Spoke too soon Cohen!
I hope they don't make this teen angsty too much. The setup sort of has me worried. Rebel + Steampunk. They handled character and story telling so well before that I am not too doubting.
I'm actually shocked they've brought back airbending. Didn't they say before that it was called The Last Airbender for a reason? Aang's people and his culture are dead.
It says she knows 3 of the 4 elements already so Air will be the last one.
I wonder if she knows the advanced moves for those 3 elements also.
So better than Anime?
It says she knows 3 of the 4 elements already so Air will be the last one.
I wonder if she knows the advanced moves for those 3 elements also.
More interesting will be seeing if blood bending and metal bending has advanced. The blood bending issue and Zuko knowing about it was never resolved.
Faint praise. Pass.So better than Anime?
Better than a gigantic bulk of a lot of renown anime tv series of the past decade, yes.
It seemed to me in the original that metal bending was an advanced technique. It'd be great if it's more common in this one.
It seemed to me in the original that metal bending was an advanced technique. It'd be great if it's more common in this one.That was obvious seeing as how only Toph knew how to do it.
It's animated by Koreans and written by Americans.
No.
So better than Anime?
I tried to do the same thing with Gurran Laggan, another beloved recent animation, and couldn't stand it.
So did the boreo watch this? Started this weekend.
I watched the first two episodes. I didn't like the first peisode because of all the fanservice and references. I did enjoy kid Korra though. I thought the second episode was much better, but it followed more of the normal style of Avatar. Korra didn't end up the bratty bad teen cliche people had feared. The naivety and general will to help people save her from that.
I still have some questions about the mixing of the past and present. So far the only previous character still around is Katara. Curious to see how the airbenders now reappear and all that. Curious if Katara is around for the purpose of her blood bending knowledge.
Hah, I assumed this would be a TV series based on Cameron's film, a la Starship Troopers' CG series.
Is the airbender stuff entertaining? I have heard it mentioned by a few people in the last week, which seems odd for an old series.
swimming is the best thing ever ???But I can't swim.
I hated that character that was a distinguished mentally-challenged version of Ang.He's the best. :lol
First episode: It was okay. The references made the world feel small. I thought bringing up Toph was weird and forced. I also think that it's weird metal bending is so common now but I guess it's understandable Toph would revolutionize that form of bending, but in the original series metal bending was a huge fucking deal, and now we have like an armada of metal benders just 100 years later. Feels forced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlF18VoerCE
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is this the main character from the first Avatar cartoon?
Shutup and watch the latest episode.
So are Jake and Neytiri in this, or is it a completely separate spin-off?
"Water tribe!"
It's definitely a kids show, but just like the first series it's way better than the comparable stuff from my youth, nostalgia or no. The Last Airbender was basically what I thought Pirates of Dark Water was when I was nine. Plus I can get my fix of awesome unrealistic hand-to-hand combat without the pitfalls of wrassling (when it gets too dumb to tolerate) and animu (uguu~).
The animation is better, the characters are less hammy, the story is more involving. Overall, I'd say Korra is better than the bulk of Airbender already.
Did you have investment in all of TLA's characters after season 1? I sure didn't. But I think for the most part, what it's going for is better than TLA if I were to compare to season 1. For one thing, I like that there's actual tension. Despite constantly being hounded by Zuko, TLA rarely had tension, and it certainly didn't have this much tension during season 1. Korra hasn't mastered air, and the air temple is out of the way AND she's lost her air bending instructor as well without having mastered it. She lacks spirituality, and for this reason, seeing her grow is more interesting than seeing Aang grow so far. Also, I thought season 1 of TLA was full of bad filler episodes. Korra does not have filler episodes yet.
I'd say LoK has similar character development. Characters like Tenzin, the blood bender councilman, and Beifong particularly. It also features Asami's resolve to separate herself from her father. Korra's struggle to find spirituality and learn airbending. Not to mention the entire Equalist movement. The only weak links so far are Bolin and Mako.
show is great. just dont visit the korra thread on gaf. jesus, i can't believe a show aimed for 12 year olds gets dissected that much.
:lol distinguished mentally-challenged fellows
The season did have a lot of pacing issues and the resolutions to some stuff was sorta =/
Still enjoyable though
show is great. just dont visit the korra thread on gaf. jesus, i can't believe a show aimed for 12 year olds gets dissected that much.
:lol distinguished mentally-challenged fellows
haven't watched korra since season 1. :yeshrug
I'll catch up before the season 4 finale.
We'll see if that changes as the shows go on.
Thanks for the spoiler, oblivion
Get into Zaheer daddy :-*
Season 3 is just :noah
Stoney, TLA becomes a much better show after s1.
Lin Beifong suddenly turned into a moron, Esna and Deska were incredibly annoying and Korra herself sort of turned into a parody of her old character. While before she had a believable teenage anger thing, in season 2 she just went overboard. There were no consequences to her stupidity and she just brute forced her way into conclusions that worked out for her.
I get that. But TLA does the "good story and good adventure" part so much better than Korra imo. Especially adventure. Just try to get back into it some day.Stoney, TLA becomes a much better show after s1.
I'm sure it does and I don't like to prejudge this kind of things but I just have a feeling the Korra one will appeal to me more and my personal tastes. I'm pretty meat and potatoes on these things. I just like good villains and good story and good adventure. I don't think I watch this material for instance for the same reasons that Himuro does, not that either approach is wrong. I also just kinda feel like 20 episodes is a lot of time (too much?) to spin material versus the 14 or so of Korra seasons.
They're pretty much just amazon combustion bender, armless queen water bender, lava bender.fixed
Voltron is good. season 3 came out today.Oh wow, I had no idea. Time for a short binge.