Legend of Korra

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So is anyone else around here watching this?What do you think of it until now?

I like it so far,good animation and voice acting,the problems I have are with the pacing(I think it's moving a bit fast right now) and some problems with their own continuity(every second firebender can bend lightning now?wtf?)

The new setting is pretty nice. It's not too often that the early 20th century is used as inspiration.

I think the authors struck the right balance between continuity and innovation (something that many sequels fail to do).

On the downside, pro bending is horribly boring.

Yeah pro-bending was a huge compared to Toph's Earth Rumble

The setting is good,the only problem I have is that it feels they have evolved a bit too fast,going from mainly medieval societes with some next-gen tech(airships etc) to the 1920's looks like a large jump ahead for 70 years

They did have technology or rather the fire kingdom did have quite advanced tech so they where deep in what at our time would be the Industrial evolution. Mix that with control over the elements and you can make it to the 1920's.

Who is Amon?

Well there was a "leaked" image a few weeks ago I think

Aw, no, I won't spoil myself like that.

I certanly like Korra more than Katara and probably any other bender from previous series (exept Iroh, who was superbro). Always loved strong female leads, and if one also has believable character? You got me.
Bending itself looks just great. "When Extremes Meet" was spectacular.

I think on the whole I might prefer this to the original. I wasn't the biggest fan of the original mainly because far too many episodes were pointless time wasting side adventures that didn't really go anywhere. I mean it was good for a Saturday morning cartoon but that's about the most I could've said about it. It certainly wasn't the amazing show people played it up to be.

Korra's more interesting cause it has a lot more plot focus and realises it doesn't need to waste time on side adventures for the sake of world building- i.e. it can integrate said world building into the actual plot. I do still have issues with it. Korra can often be an annoying brat who won't stop whining if things don't go her way. Barging in on a goddamn council meeting discussing real problems because her precious pro bending tournament was cancelled because of a fucking TERRORIST THREAT has got to be the most petty tantrum I have ever seen and I'm surprised Tenzin didn't slapped her in the face and send her to her room to think about what she'd done. In general Korra could use a big slice of humble pie.

The other issue I have is that there's way too much annoying relationship stuff going on, love triangles are the worst and it really feels like they're pandering to their...more biowarian audiences especially with that stupid episode that was entirely dedicated to that stupid love triangle.

Even the recent episodes which have been really great in all other respects still feel the need to drop stupid love 'drama' once or twice, it's just plain frustrating to put up with these stupid annoying kids and their trivial problems when there's a far more interesting conflict going on with Amon and Tarrlok.

Again, in spite of all that venting, I do really like the show and on the whole it has more going for it thematically than TLA.

Well to be honest it's probably a fake

Hmm in that case I looked.

Tarrlok probably has more to do with all that than anyone else, probably just

I've been enjoying it as a more adult version of the Airbender, though in doing so, it has lost a lot of its charm especially with the characters. Maybe that's just my inner-manchild speaking. Either way, how this one is flowing so far, the episodes REALLY need 1 hour, not 30 minutes. With commercials, even less so. Seems like there's a lot more story that could be told within the city but there just isn't enough time.

Well

I haven't made up my mind about the series yet. I like the setting, but I wish it were better explored. The action's rather nice, but pro bending was awful. Some of the characters are nice, but I don't care much about the members of "Team Avatar". The plot is more mature than in the original series, but (so far) too many important subjects are neglected.

I like pro-bending. Shows the superiority of practical kickboxing over classical forms training

So this is like Naruto Shippuden?

A single fight doesn't take 100+ minutes, so no, it's not.

Granted Shippuden and Avatar have the some of the best fight animation in cartoons nowadays.

Naruto has better thought out fights, at least in the early chapters the fights were actually quite entertaining because there was a more...um...tactical element to it- to the point where it'd often need longass monologues just to explain what happened instead of leaving it up to the reader/viewer. Avatar tends to be more flashy and spammy by comparison and while you get the occasional bit of elemental tactics and mixing things up and what not it's mostly spamming powerful elemental attacks at each other.

But it does that a lot better, from memory Naruto frequently dipped into some pretty bad animations even for its flashy fights, whereas ATLA and Korra rarely, if ever, have crappy looking drawings and the flashy combat looks really fucking good.

...yes I used to watch/read Naruto.

I agree with all those points, Stinger.

I still read Naruto. :p

Hmm what other anime or cartoons have this level of animation and stylistic choreography?

So, some US stuff. Did US actually try to mimic anime?

Not really, except maybe some minor influences in art style.

I didn't mean art style, more like mimic story elements and general structure. It looks bit different from other US works, it looks like someone would get a wake up call.