¶ Introduction to Legend of Korra
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My throat hurts now . I really went all out on that one . But , guys , my name is Dakota , I'm one , I'm one third of your hosts on Project Geekology . We will not let the equalist prevail this time around . We we're gonna stop whatever nonsense they got going there . The podcasting government is not being overthrown .
We will take it back um , I'm joined , as always , with anthony , and this week is episode 114 and I don't know if you you got that , but we are going to be covering the first season of Avatar , the Legend of Korra , and joining us now , as always , is Rich and I'm very excited to be here .
I'm really here to represent a man . The guy gets screwed over I mean Mako . I don't understand why he's got to be so terrible to his fun-loving brother . I associate with him so much and I'm here to defend him on today's episode . I am against love triangles and I'm very scared because there are three of us on this show .
So hopefully , unlike everybody in the Legend of Korra , we can stay out of a love triangle .
I think we can manage that . Yeah , actually it's of a love train . I think we can manage that . Uh , yeah , actually it's like a a love square for them . Yeah , yeah , yeah . And it only keeps going as the show goes on , like . I don't want to , like you know , start talking spoilers if you guys haven't seen the further seasons .
But , um , yeah , the , the , the love does not stop there .
But , yeah , we're gonna be covering the first season of legend of korra , which I'm super excited about , because , as we were deciding what we were going to be covering this this week , I was already , you know , like probably halfway through the first season of legend of korra because I've been doing my timeline notes on it .
So this gave me the extra push to just like , uh , do that , um , and yeah , so now I have , uh , my timeline notes finished for the first season of Legend of Korra , so I'm really excited to . I'm excited for that , yeah , and I'm excited to talk about it because this is such an incredible first season .
I know a lot of people dislike this show for random reasons , but honestly , this first season to me is nearly perfect in terms of the tone and everything , so I'm really excited to talk about it . But before we get into any of that , let's jump over to Anthony . Ask Anthony what he's been up to this past week .
He says he's fallen down the deep end on something I don't know what he has not told me yet .
Oh yeah . So , Dakota , you had talked to us about like you had started watching , or no , you hadn't
¶ Catching Up with the Hosts
started watching Like you've been watching the White Lotus , so like I finally started to hop into that , to that rabbit hole .
Okay , yeah , it's a crazy show , yeah it's just , it's interesting , but but like I mean I'm on the first season and I I can I mean like there's like several characters that are kind of like ridiculous , uh , but like I can already tell that like jennifer coolidge is gonna be like like she's kind of crazy a little bit like from what I've seen so far , but
what I what I like about white lotus is that , um , there are very few people in any of the seasons that are genuinely good people or like people that you're actually rooting for , and it really like digs into the hypocrisy that everybody has .
You know , like , everyone has some sort of hypocrisy that they add to the that they bring to the table , and sometimes that gets exacerbated when , on vacations , you know that those insecurities or those issues that you have , you bring them with you , or those issues that you have , you bring them with you .
And when you have , you know , a bunch of those crazy people , it leads to , you know , some really tense times and potentially dangerous times .
So , yeah , that's what I like about White Lotus is it's the most stressful hour of television every week , but it's so good , it's so fun , uh , and and you , you , anyway , I know , but what's what's also great about is that it's that if you , you know , jump into the second season , it's a completely different cast .
Um , there are some through lines , but yeah , it's a yeah yeah , yeah .
So I , I was like , you know , I had to share this with you . You and like a few other people I've been like telling me , like yeah , you need to get in on the show .
So it's the HBO show right now yeah , yeah .
So and then also something pretty big as of recording . It is Wednesday , march 26th . Today was my last day at my current job that's what I'm talking about , bro yeah , I have , um , I have a couple of pto days , like thankfully , like I still work for the same company , so like that pto all , like you know it's the same it maintains .
So like technically I'm still like you know , with my job , but not like really with them , like I did all of my like final life .
You know fine , I gave them my keys , I gave them you might as well , you might as well be like going to a different job because even though it's under the same company . You know you're working with entirely different people doing entirely different things exactly .
Yeah , I'm going to be working from home , I'm going to be doing IT instead of , like you know , kind of a customer facing job . So you know I'm pretty stoked about that . But , yeah , no , no , I'm going to , you know , take a few days off and kind of enjoy this like transition period . Happy for you , dude , that's awesome . Thank you , man . Thank you .
Yeah , this like transition period , happy for you , dude , that's awesome . Thank you , man . Thank you , yeah , I'm , I'm pretty , pretty stoked about it , man , um , oh , I also , I , I I haven't bought any of the you know from the series . I haven't bought day one from them for a long , long time .
But I ended up getting assassin's creed shadows and I kind of , you know , I kind of wanted to get it . Like you know , it's got that you know , the whole japanese and and like ninja thing going on and I really liked , uh , ghost of tsushima , although , like I know that that one's like more samurai . But you get a bit of both .
Like you get uh , samurai and yasuke and then um , and then you get a ninja and naoe , which is like the female character . I mean it's pretty cool . I mean , like it does , there's some stuff that that they added .
That's like they have this like base building mechanic , which isn't the first in the game , but like it's really like you can really like customize it and like kind of move the buildings around and change the looks of them and stuff . I've been enjoying it so far . It's really cool .
The one thing that I'll say that I don't like about this game , that these last handful of Assassin's Creed games have been doing , is they have this whole like rpg element to it .
Like you know , the the enemies have levels to them and then you have to have like a stronger sword and I just feel like for this type of game , it just doesn't really work well for me .
Yeah oh , that's interesting . So yeah , because the first , the first couple I haven't played in a while uh , assassin's creed games , but like at least the first five or six , everyone was kind of like the same level and it was all about your growing skill that you know . Right , I affected the game .
I think it was around assassin's creed odyssey that they started to like kind of do that . I don't remember if there was any games before then there might have been , but like I remember that one actually having it in it and it it's like it almost like kind of takes away the . It kind of takes away the whole , like you know , stealth aspect of it .
Because , like you know , there's enemies that like if they're like a higher level enemy and like I have to like get in a few more hits to like kill them and stuff , but it's like not because they're like heavily armored , like some of them are , but like some of them are just like higher level , you know , and it's just I don't know , it's weird , but I mean
, aside from that , like I've I've been enjoying it . I , I think it's , I think it's a pretty fun game . Um , I'm not super , so I'm not super super far into it , I think . Think I'm about 10 to 15 hours into it . So it's .
I want to get it . Yeah , no , I actually really want to get it , especially after today , because , like or it was yesterday actually the Assassin's Creed Twitter account ratioed the heck out of Elon Musk . It was brutal .
I didn't read it , but I heard that they did something .
Eviscerated . They eviscerated Musk , anyway .
Yeah , so someone was saying something about a Twitch streamer named Hasan playing Assassin's Creed the new one and Elon Musk goes he's a sellout Objectively , he is promoting a terrible game just for the money , and that tweet got 33,000 likes , but then the Assassin's Creed account posted is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you ?
Because I don't know if you had heard , but he pays people to play games for him so that he shows up on like the top leaders leaderboards , like he's . He's done that for a couple games , like diablo and all that that's crazy and that was recently found out .
So assassin's creed said is that what the guy playing your path of exile 2 account told you and like that that tweet . So his elon's tweet got 33 000 . Uh , likes the assassin's creed one got 660 000 . So it's , it's by far the biggest ratio that elon musk has ever gotten that's crazy yeah , so I'm actually like just like I like .
Why like I don't like I mean grinding up to leaderboards . I mean it's a fun thing , but like it's no fun in it , like you're not enjoying the game .
No , I 100% agree , and basically I think that Elon Musk just wants to be liked , and I think that's his ultimate goal in life is to be liked . But a lot of people dislike him because of , you know , he's kind of weird anyway . So , yeah , I , I do want to play uh , shadows . I think that that um actually does look fun . So , yeah , I'm excited .
Yeah , definitely I would .
I would get into it , you should I don't have a whole lot that I've been doing this week . Uh , or did you , sorry , did you have .
Wow . Thank you , just so you know , for just completely taking over the second no no I I didn't have uh , I didn't have anything else that I wanted to cover anything , so okay , so I'm gonna abscond with your the rest of your time um , yeah no , I don't have .
I don't have much going on this week either . I feel kind of lame actually . I'm thinking about , like , what did I do ? And the answer is not much . Yeah , not much , but um , I did grab , uh , the . There's a new avatar , the last airbender comic , which is , you know , very timely because we're covering an avatar tv show .
Um , this is not a legend of korra comic , though it's . It's like a continuation of the avatar , the last airbender storyline called ashes of the academy , and it's basically um , in pre in previous avatar comics . Zuko has found his mother . After the show has concluded , he finds his mother .
And he show has concluded , he finds his mother and he also finds that she's had another daughter with someone else that she fell in love with . This daughter is now invited over to the Fire Nation , now that she's no longer on the run , zuko's mother , and she joins the Academy when she turns of age , like the fire academy .
So it's it kind of goes like into like all the like corruption that was like still in the fire academy and I haven't read it yet , but I'm excited to and it basically follows zuko and may , as they kind of like , sort of kind of like rekindle their their love there .
Um , and and shows more about you know , like zuko's younger sister , which is kind of cool , so I'm excited to read that .
Um , it's called ashes of the academy and , yeah , it just came out this past week yeah , we definitely need to get a little bit more of that information because , like , there's a character that shows up in this season from Zuko's lineage and it's like , how did he get to that point ?
I mean , we can kind of assume things , but there's not a definitive answer yet , correct ?
Yeah , even I think , after . Yeah , we still
¶ White Lotus and Career Changes
don't know , even going past into . Uh , you know , like the korra comics that come out after the series takes place , we don't know who zuko marries and you know how that lineage continues . But um , we can speculate , we certainly can . I am going to hand over the rest of my time to Rich .
I don't have a lot going on this week , but maybe Rich did at the same time .
So this week was a little heavy with a lot of , I guess , also self-imposed content . I so I'm not sure if you two are familiar with the star trek , the next generation episode darmak uh , I have watched it .
I don't remember off the top of my head which episode that is so essentially what happens is the federation comes into contact with a race of aliens that have never been able to communicate with the Federation before , and that's because they speak in meme or , essentially , metaphor , and the problem is is that the source material that they're referencing is unknown to
Picard .
I forgot about that All right , so OK .
I know , as an english teacher I love this . You know , one of my favorite comics to teach is actually rocket raccoon , number five , and it's because I think it's scotty young . The story is told from the point .
So basically there's a campfire and there's these scouts that are with rocket and and groot , and it's now it's groot's turn to tell the story and once he starts telling the story , there is no dialogue other than I am . All the city buildings say I am groot , the , the billboards in the back I am .
Everything says I am groot , but you still know what happens by the end and I just I love that so , oh , that's really brilliant , you know I love that . Eventually , you know , in the episode the communication does . Eventually , obviously you know , come you know it's . It's a start , it's a star trek next generation episode .
You know , the 45 minute run thing where generally you have a problem and it gets solved every week . So it gets solved . So I thought that , uh , it's kind of interesting how we we've kind of especially my- students are speaking in memes , you know , like you just respond with the dog sitting in the little room . You know this is fine .
Everything's burning you know , okay , yeah they . They're just constantly using memes to respond , so I actually decided to start using . I re-watched the episode and I start using chat gpt to help me start developing some sort of lesson , uh , that I can actually try in class .
So since , uh , we have some test prep going on now , but uh my plan is that when the testing is over , I'm gonna pilot this crazy episode , this crazy lesson plan of star trek the next generation and see if I can pull off a coup next year and get to teach revenge of the sith and star trek the next generation in one calendar year .
Uh , specifically that one episode of listen , star trek listen , or listen , sir , if , if I had my druthers , all right , I wouldn't teach anything else but these two franchises okay , sure I think that I can frame this in the , the , the analysis of language and how we communicate with others , and kind of make it a commentary on the way we're kind of devolved .
I like that .
No , actually , I think that that's a really cool way to introduce that , because it is that that episode , thinking back on it , is ahead of its time .
Ahead of its time , you know , and it's one of those classic sci-fi stories that , like , it's just based on the idea of like what if we just , you know , only communicate through like memes , you know , like they didn't have a word for it back then , but that's exactly what they were talking about .
Yeah , yeah , it's , that's cool and that just makes my week sound better than it really is when most of it was dedicated to playing , uh , major MLB , mlb , the show and just opining for by the time .
By the time everyone listens to this , I will have been happily watching the Mets start their season , hopefully , on a positive note , and dedicating the rest of my life , and really my happiness , to a roller coaster of inconsequential things that happen on a baseball field , you know , perpetrated by people who don't actually care about me and have no idea that I
exist .
I'm sure someday they'll know .
Go sports .
I will look . I will say that like I do understand like what it is to like to experience like a roller coaster of a team like the . The Miami heat has been playing like pretty , like terribly lately .
But the fact that like they've kind of seemed to like hit their stride a little bit and the the fact that they like destroyed um the warriors , with Jimmy Butler on it I know I know it's like really petty to say , but like you know , with the way in the fashion that he left , which partially I understand , but partially I'm like bro , like you kind of you
know I understand your beef with that dude . But what about the rest of the us ? We didn't do that to you , you know . Um , so you know the fact that like we held him at 11 points and blew his team out , that was nice , excellent I'm not even a basketball fan and I knew that was happening , so I'm not a basketball fan either , and I had no .
I still have no idea what's going on dakota's like I just know it's orange the bet ? Yeah , yeah , I was . It took me a while to figure out what you what was . What exactly was orange ? And I'm thinking about the miami heats color ? I mean , there is orange .
There is .
Yeah , no , I do know the logo , that's definitely . No . I'm kidding . I do love a good basketball game . I just don't follow it in the slightest . I actually do follow baseball . That's pretty much it , but only New . York teams , basically that's the subconscious move of , you know , get the cover . Yeah , you know .
Yankees , dodgers and Mets the classic trio of New York teams .
Everyone's a big fan , but yeah , I think I steer us off the ship every week with the baseball talk Once the season starts . Guys , listen , all right , I will tell you Next week's episode . You'll hear me talk about my excitement of going to the first game at home and then after that it'll be old hat . All right , it'll be every weekend . I won't even .
It won't even be a new thing , I won't even mention it . But right now it's just just , it's the excitement that's building . Oh , I'm sorry once they start losing again and I realize that they're actually the Mets and I deluded myself I'll fall back . But this is what it is to be a Mets fan your excitement is the highest before the season starts .
And if you've watched Family Guy because damn that show there's a clip that I hate and for no reason they had to come at the mets and it's like all right , it's the first game this season open a day for the met season and oh run , and there goes the season . And I was sitting there like why you gotta do that man , why do you have to come at ?
us for , like I'm just sitting here watching your show , but that's yeah that's what it is to be a met fan .
So yeah , wow , it's like you , you and baseball's like me and persona man this guy with persona . Look man and and then like , but like , I kind of feel your pain with the whole like mets thing . You know you're trying to whole Mets thing . You're trying to get Dakota into Mets . I'm trying to get Dakota into Persona . He's just very resistant .
We'll wear him down , guy .
One of these days .
I actually do attend more Mets games than Yankee games , just because one of my brother-in-law's friends has season tickets and just he's rich , so he always not his name is not rich , he has wealth , so he's always buying us tickets . But yeah , so I do have a good time with that .
I mean , if you're going to really be a baseball fan , you can't have such a narrow-minded view , you know sure baseball you have to kind of accept all sides and that's exactly what I do .
Um , so even if I'm going to a yankees game and I'm a yankees fan , if the other team performs a play that is incredible , I'm 100 on board for that game gotcha yeah , I'm 100 if . If the other team is playing better , good on them .
They deserve to win you are , that is I . I would say that's commendable , sir . I , uh , I would say that I I devolved slurs uh and uh . Epithets uh .
No , not really , but I know , but like I I actually do , I I actually like get , actually get excited when I see a really good play . It's great when it's my team , but if it's not my team , I'm just like I like that guy . That was pretty cool .
You'll see that more often at Citi Field this year , I think , than you will at your stadium Reeling him in Dang .
All right , let's jump into our topic of discussion for this evening . Richard is just
¶ Assassin's Creed and Avatar Comics
cracking up over there . Uh , he's so excited to like . Uh , make me a mess fan anyway . Legend of korra guys . Uh , have you guys seen the show previously ?
dakota , dakota , you're asking me the person who was .
I was the person I was asking the the room I was asking the room dude .
You know how long I was trying to get Dakota to watch the avatar .
I was like actually , yeah , no , you're right , I I did slack on the avatar , just like I'm slacking on persona and the mats , whatever you know one of what one of these days , um , no , no , but , um , but yeah , yeah , no , I I watched Korra only so I had seen the other seasons , like eventually .
But I I watched the whole first season , like in its original run .
Okay all right , so you , you had seen it before me then , because at that , at that point I point I wasn't an Avatar fan until around 2014 . And this came out the year before that . What were your thoughts initially like when you were seeing it on syndication ?
So I was just happy to see more Avatar stuff . Happy to see like more avatar stuff . You know , just being like a really . You know just being a like a made like a big fan of of the series .
It didn't really give me the same vibes and feelings of the original series , but there's a lot that is brought on that I really like about this , like about legend of korra , the animation is a lot more crisp . It looks a lot better . Uh , the movements are really fluid , especially with the the bending . Not that the original wasn't , but it looks a lot better .
And I like some of their artistic choices , like the way that they they like lay out the landscaping or the like the landscape .
It it's almost like a painting . Right , it's like a painting , it kind of like makes me think of like .
Oh , they have a bob ross backdrop right there yeah , I was enjoying that yeah , yeah . So I I like that , that decision . But you know I've seen it . I've seen this first season more than I've seen the other two seasons . Like I've seen this first season like maybe three , four times , and then the other seasons I've seen maybe like twice , you know .
But you know like , the more that I've seen it like , the more I've come to like appreciate it a bit more and to like like appreciate it , like what it's trying to do and like you know , even though it's different from Avatar , the last airbender , I appreciate like what it's presenting and what it's trying to do .
Yeah , what I would . What I would say for me is that while I think Avatar the last airbender has the overall better story in terms of like this is the beginning of the arc . He's in an iceberg . This is the end of the arc . The 100 year war ends . That's the story of Avatar the Last Airbender in like 15 words . With Legend of Korra .
It's seasonal arcs , so there isn't a real through line from beginning to end with the four seasons . But really I think the individual seasons are better than the individual seasons of avatar the last airbender better , but the individual season by season comparisons I think korra comes out stronger most times .
Um , I don't know man , book two was good and I'm not saying it wasn't .
I'm not saying it wasn't I , obviously I , I , I love avatar , but I just , I think the the concepts that they were going for are unique enough with each season .
You know , like having a unique villain and , honestly , like Korra throughout the show has way more difficulty than Aang did you know , in terms of , like , the people that she had to combat than Aang did you know in terms of , like , the people that she had to combat ?
So I think that they weren't doing anything , they weren't going easy , like they didn't choose the easy path , like it wasn't a clear successor to Avatar . They wanted to shake things up and they did it every single season .
And this this season's like a crazy one , because we have a guy who's , uh , you know , aman , who is the , the leader of this equalist movement , who has the ability somehow to take people's bending away permanently . You know this been able to manage , and this is terrifying . And like he can take on groups of benders at the same time .
You know , like we've never really seen that , maybe outside of Azula , but , yeah , aman was a terrifying foe for , like you know , korra , who's 16 , 17 years old .
Right for , like a you know , cora , who's 16 , 17 years old .
right , there's definitely some like world war ii , world war ii parallels going on , which is crazy , because there's also that during like , uh , you know , the the first , the first series as well , but like go , go ahead and like where are you . What do you mean by like what ? What exactly is a world war War II parallel ?
So there's a lot of With the whole equalist movement . It kind of goes from being equalist to like complete eradication , you know in a , in a way that is similar to what like Hitler kind of wanted , you know , oh , okay , yeah , yeah , yeah .
And also and also like a lot of like the , some of like the grander battles like the , the , the whole fight between the ships and the airplanes kind of remind me of pearl harbor okay , yeah , actually I ,
¶ Teaching Through Star Trek and Memes
I like that .
Yeah , you're , you're , you're onto something and like especially , especially the equalist . Uh , you know , like using fear-mongering against benders to start this panic which culminates in , you know , not necessarily genocide , but like bending genocide . You know like they , they want to end bending right , right , it's almost .
Yeah , it's like , uh , you know , since , like you know , bending is it's , it's like you know , it's a connection between like the physical plane and like the spiritual plane within that universe . It's like kind of like a like a genocide of like the spirit in a way , and it's , yeah , it's .
It's definitely interesting and , and I'm on , you know , I remember like when I first had seen it , I was like man , like how is this guy , like you know , how is this guy , using an ability that only ang can do , you know , and and and , goes to find out that like this man was , was an imposter the whole time , I mean he was and and , but he also was
just like an incredibly powerful bender , you know , yeah well , well imposter , in a sense that like he was trying to play off not being a bender and like right right , he was a bender , the whole time . And you know , yeah , also an imposter in a sense , that it made it seem like he had this ability that only the avatar had , I mean .
But he , which is , I mean , he does , like he uses this incredibly rare way of bloodbending to sever the connection between , like the person , like he kind of like blocks off , like the chi paths , and so like that's what kind of makes it hard , or like that's what makes it like him able to actually like stop them from bending , that's what makes it like him
able to actually like stop them from bending , and the fact that , like he can do it at any time and not in a full moon .
Yes , yeah , all right . So we're talking a lot . We're going deep into , like , the lore and plot of the show . We have someone here who has not seen the Legend of Korra prior to this .
Yes , rich , jumping over to you yeah , so I entered , unlike last week when we entered into uh , dungeons , dragons I had no idea what was in for I I knew more of what I was in for . Uh , I'd never seen korra , but I've seen enough avatar .
Like it was difficult because I think every time that it's been happening , it's like my family starts like marathon binge watching so it's like if I didn't want to sit and watch five or four episodes in a row , then I kind of got left behind . So I know all the characters , uh , I know the broad story beats .
I uh did cosplay as ih once and learned a little bit more about him . So I went into it knowing that this was the kind of spin-off series of Avatar . I did have kind of I didn't look around the tomatoes or anything , but I know that my son , charlie , does not like Korra as much as Avatar , so I just knew that going into it .
Now he's 10 , and he probably first watched Avatar when he was 5 , and then , I think , re-watched it again in its entirety when he was 8 . So I don't know if age range has to do with it .
So that's kind of going into it , what I kind of had with me , my baggage or whatever I so overall , from the beginning to the , by the end I will say that I started this first episode of the second season right , so I wanted to know more . So I there are parts that I'm enjoying .
I did briefly mention it as a teaser at the beginning , the love triangle stuff right now is . So this is . You know it may be correct me if I'm wrong . That doesn't happen in avatar , right , there's no uh , there is hints .
There's hints that zuko and katara might have something going on and they they kind of play with that idea a little bit near the end of the series . But there's no love triangle .
Right , right . It's not like full force in the way that it is in Korra .
I think for me , you know , just just briefly , I'll let you finish for me with the love triangle stuff . I don't even pay any attention to it because I know it doesn't matter . Nobody , nobody that is .
I don't want to spoil it , but like it's just , like it changes so much over the course of four seasons that I don't even pay attention to like the interpersonal relationships of those four characters , as much I enjoy , you know , their one-off lines , especially Bolin . I love Bolin .
Oh yeah .
But yeah , it's , yeah , yeah , all right go ahead .
Yeah , I guess I so for me , since I'm only taking in the first entire season and I don't remember really any romantic stuff from what I had seen from avatar . I was a little surprised and at first I was like , okay , and you're watching the tournament and I'm like , oh no , their , their love spot's gonna cause problems . It felt this isn't .
It sounds so weird and I'm older than you guys , but the show Frasier right , yeah , I would physically feel so like awkward , I don't know what that there's a word for that . I just felt so like the show .
Cringe yes .
Yes , like the show , I would just be cringing . I just no like a cringe watching and I just couldn't . And sometimes with the love stuff it just feels like I'm watching . And look , to be fair , I was talking to jen at work and she mentioned that it was more a like .
It's more kind of aimed for like a teenage audience , where avatar was maybe a younger audience so that the love themes would be more prevalent , and then that makes sense . But it's what ? Not what I was expecting . I was kind of like , uh , I don't know , I I don't know how I saw it going .
Maybe I just didn't see that the b plot , because it's , it is the b plot , right , or maybe even the c plot , but it's , it just comes up . So uh many you know it's just the first season that I'm just like . You know I don't like telegraphing .
I guess feelings of discomfort right Of being uncomfortable , and I went to an old boys' Catholic high school so the anxiety of dating and seeing people in the hallways and the interaction was not a thing in my life . So in my entertainment sometimes I'm like really I got to deal with this right now .
That's okay , yeah , that's interesting . So I will say , like , just thinking
¶ The Legend of Korra Overview
about how teenagers are , and you put two females and two males , you know , together , there will be something there . It's always going to happen . So I get it and that doesn't mean I like it or anything or that I'm like , you know , but it's a normal thing for a teenager to do .
And I think the whole thing with cora is that um like not not cora her , but like cora the show . Um is that the , the creators , did something interesting where they aged with their fans , you know .
so that that like , that's what I was gonna say , the thing that that's exactly what I was going to say to coda . Um , okay , well , well , they so . So the thing with cora is that cora is for the fans of the original series , but set up in a way that anybody can watch it , you know .
And so where , like you know , avatar , the last airbender was very , you know , it was more targeted to the preteen or early teen audience . This is more engaged to the late teens audience .
You know , like , and and you know there's the awkwardness of , like those earlier years and then the awkwardness of those later years and you know , it's very much so like prevalent , like you can , you can see , like how very different it is . But the thing is , is that the thing that both shows does is that it doesn't talk down to its audience ?
Yeah , yeah , that's a good that's . That's a good way to put it . And , yeah , the kids growing up watching the original Last Airbender would be in the perfect age bracket to watch the new Legend of Korra show five or six years later . So I give the show a pass on certain things the love triangle stuff and some of the humor .
You know , because a lot of the themes in this are heavier than the average theme in , uh , like , generally speaking , um , there there are huge , you know , like powerful themes within the the last airbender , um , that they touch on . But they don't . They do it in a way where it's it's more cartoony , you know .
So they're able to get away with a bunch of stuff in the last airbender because , uh , and aimed towards children , because it's in a cartoony way and I think that that's part of the genius of avatar the last airbender you can incorporate real life themes or , like you know , like war themes or terrorist themes or doing the right thing against your family's wishes
themes , stuff like that that you don't normally see in a kid's cartoon . But they can get away with it because it's cartoony , it's funny , it's it's got a lot of humor with the Legend of Korra .
They try to do that a little bit with characters like bolin and stuff , and I love bolin , but a lot of times it just it's just comedic irony , you know like , for for the sake of it it's , it's just thrown in there . So um , and the the themes are more mature overall in in kra , so it it feels a little off in that respect , if that makes sense so .
I don't know yeah , um , but that's , that's a fair , fair critique . And and yeah that , because it really starts with uh Bolin falling , you know , falling for Cora , uh , and Cora is falling for Mako . So that that's the first love triangle . And then Mako hits or gets hit by uh Asami on her Sato mobile , and then they fall in love .
So now and then it's back and forth with Cora and you know Bolin gets hurt along the way and it's just it's , it is a mess , yeah , it's , it's , it's just like it's a , it's a soap opera for , you know , teenage love .
Bolin is the fourth wheel .
Bolin . He was the first and the last .
Yeah , here's the thing I could totally accept that right . I could deal with just that , that romance storyline , all right , even though it's convoluted and annoying and cringing , all right , I can deal with it . If then you didn't have tenzin being like oh well he doesn't reveal it . I'm sorry , but Tenzin's wife does .
Back in the day , Tenzin was actually in a similar situation where he loved two women and that ends up being the , you know , the Lin Beifong .
And then he has to have the awkward moment where he's basically like I , actually that though I , I , I love tenzin , but tenzin is probably my favorite character I don't love that .
They like in the first season . I need to find out about two , two similar love triangles . Like you got 12 episodes . People like you could have put that one in season two like I don't know .
And then even the moment where he has to turn to her , uh , and he says , I think to lynn , he's like you know , can you stay and watch over my family , you know , and it's just like such a messed up moment in my mind . It's like , hey , you know , could you hang out here and watch the family that I have ?
That I could have had with you , but you know you ended up being single and a career woman because I turned you down . Oh yeah , I have that I could have had with you , but you know you ended up being single and a career woman because I turned you down oh yeah , I mean that it it was just . It is rough because it seems like that so many of them .
See , this is my problem . I don't like to see that so many of these characters motivations are so just tied to , to romantic , their romantic uh , I want to say something .
They're they're just like flippantly going back and forth and it's just the by the whims of their , of their ever-changing love , and I think that too many characters seem to be impacted by that during the first season I don't disagree with you .
I I to play devil's advocate . Avatar as a show , as a , as a series , you know , as a franchise , is all about , um , generational trauma . There's a lot of multi-generational storytelling , um , throughout the entire franchise . You know like they they'll , they'll have books about avatars before ang .
You know like they have books on roku and kiyoshi and yang chen and it go , and you know like that story goes back and back .
But , um , when it comes to , you know like , just the intergenerational stories between like kora and tenzin and like Tenzin is a generation above Cora in terms of like , where she is , um , you know , in in that group of like that age , age group . So I I see it just as a parallel storytelling .
You know where every generation kind of goes through this and that's what they're showing you know , like just because in ten , sorry , what tenzin is the ang I knows grandson or son son son , yeah , all right , so it's , it's ang tenzin and then tenzin's kids but the but . Kora is the avatar , kora is the Avatar .
Korra is the Avatar , so do you know how the Avatar is passed down to different people ?
I'm going to pretend that I'm the listener who doesn't know , and maybe you could tell us , dakota .
Okay , I'm sorry .
So
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the Avatar is randomly chosen oh , okay yeah , so I wasn't sure if it was like the force where , like they're strong , like the tenzin , the , the ang dynasty is strong in the force .
Uh well , at least I would say the the ang dynasty is strong because he's carrying on the airbender lineage . Tenzin and his three kids are the only airbenders in the world at that point , so that's significantly more than one . So when an avatar dies , the avatar cycle begins again . So it always follows the cycle of the season .
So airbenders are like the fall , waterbenders are like the winter , earthbenders are like the spring and firebenders are like the summer . So it'll always follow that order when it comes to where , like which nation , the avatar is born into .
So if ang was born into the air nomad nation , the next avatar , once ang ends uh is is basically reincarnated into the water tribes . So um kora , while not directly related to ang , follows that lineage . Um , it's a spiritual lineage , not not , not a physical , um , you know , genetic one which is you sure it's not accidentally like your grandson ?
uh , somehow , like revealed at the end , she's not a palpatine . Are you sure she's ?
she's . She's not a palpatine , I promise you that's weird uh , what do you guys think about ? Like the , the , the main uh team avatar . Like um , divorce yourself from the idea of their individual . You know relationships , but like what do you think of Korra , bolin , mako and Asami ? Let's start with Anthony .
They have good intentions , but they get stopped a lot . They get stopped a lot .
They don't get very far . I will say like as a team they are not as productive as ang's team avatar . Like they never are , like they will never . They will never be the original team avatar , but I do love each and every one of them for different reasons .
My favorite part was like they're like going onto a base and like asami's , like why are there posts , but no , but , but no fence and they walk like right through it and they get electrocuted that's good . It's like like you know , in a way it's like asami , this is your father's base , like , try to think like him a little bit , you know yeah , yeah .
Um , who's your favorite character of the four , or how would you rank them ?
oh , that's tough , and likeability or , like you know , power it's I mean power .
It would go avatar and then probably mako and boleyn . But yeah what likeability , like what , what , what grab what ? Sorry , I keep saying what , um ? What do you gravitate towards in each character like ? What are the pros and cons of of them ?
I like I , I like bo lynn a lot , um , as far as like his likeability , you know he's he's funny and he's like , very , he's very loyal and , you know , will help out if need be . But like you know , he know he's a proficient bender but he's not a great one , if that makes sense , like at least in this first season .
He gets there , he gets there , you know . Well , I'm saying like , as far as like in this first season , like you know , he's proficient enough to , like you know , do pro bending , but it's not until , like Cora joins that like him and or her and Mako , kind of like carry the team a little bit .
I mean he , he , he does his thing , but like you know , they weren't , they weren't really winning much before Cora , you know , and right and so . But , like you know , likability , and you know I love his pet man yeah , the fire ferret .
I like that , rich . What do you think about Bolin ?
my favorite hands down favorite hands down I think there were actually points . Let's see first couple episodes where I kind of disliked a number of characters , and I think that bullen was kind of what kept me , kept me , kept me in this you know like I actually went when they went out on the date .
When he went , I was like , man , score one for the good guy , I know . And then they had a good time . I was like , oh man , good for him , for the good guy . And then they had a good time . I was like , oh man , good for him . So I was super crushed when it turned out that he was just the rebound guy .
It's not like I had some PTSD coming up , nothing like that , nothing at all .
I agree with you guys . I think bolin is a fantastic character , um , and he's lovable like throughout the entire series , um , and just this first season . Yeah , he's a fantastic character . Uh , I have always like really related to bolin , not that I'm like the goofy character per se , but , um , just his , his joviality I really , I really uh enjoy .
What about mako anthony ?
mako mako's almost like he in a sense like he's kind of like a typical firebender . In a sense like he's kind of like a typical firebender . In a sense he's kind of . There's this certain distance that reminds me of early Zuko , without like yeah , very stoic , almost Right right , without the anger behind it .
I mean maybe a little bit , but like you know that there is like some similarities . I mean I , I like as far as like bending elements , like I like him , I just I like fire bending . I think that fire bending is the coolest looking element to me , um , and it I like the fact that they can bend lightning .
I just thought that that was like one of the coolest like kind of like sub abilities that that , uh , you know , you know how like each element has like its ability to kind of like you know it can evolve into something else .
Sure , yeah , um , you know like that , that's like one of my favorites and and so , but yeah , with with mako , like he he's , he's cool , like his character , um , it I guess helps drive some of the the like interpersonal , like conflicts and stuff . But I mean he , I I mean he's , he's strong , like he's , he's a good fighter .
Uh Rich . What are your thoughts on Mako ?
This guy's like uh , I get real Romeo , romeo and Juliet vibes . This guy falls in love so he starts off Rosalyn and Juliet and he can't decide which one . Uh , so you know , he , I . I wouldn't have characterized him as Fire Nation-like just because of my lack of knowledge .
I wouldn't have made that assertion .
But now that you brought it up , Anthony , it does make sense to me . Like he was kind of like needlessly dismissive of cora you know especially like , I mean , would he have known that as the avatar she could wield , you know , yeah , he had to know that she could , you know , wield , uh , different .
Uh , you know she could bend , you know , water and and fire and earth , right . So it's like it's so weird that he seems to be so dismissive of her , like I'm a pro and it's like she's the avatar and I don't know .
But I was like I know I'm not that informed , but I'm sitting here , I'm going , I'm pretty sure in this world , if , like , the avatar showed up , you know , and was like I'm gonna join your team of , like , basically , avatar skills , but you guys only have one each and I have like all of them , you like you would ask you , beg for her to be on the team
like I don't understand it's not like they were and , like anthony said earlier , they weren't like you know . They weren't going gangbusters when , uh , when she wasn't there .
So I'm just like why we only wanted a winning streak as soon as she showed up .
You know that I just that didn't . That was a little .
Would you say ? Would you say that , like they were playing , like you know the Mets before their prior acquisition ?
In my head I said this would be like , you know , if Lindorindor goes , wait , juan soto . Why do we need that guy , like I was the mvp last year .
We don't need another guy yeah , you know , and it was like what ?
are you talking about ?
No , so you know that was a little bit overstated , but I I was able to , you know , kind of deal with that and it kind of ties into how I felt about korra because , you know , I I did watch what I did watch a lot of naruto with my son and I did see that you know this , an idea of like the chosen , one kind of you know , and we've seen it's a
trope right . The chosen one's a bit cocky and kind of needs to get knocked down a couple of pegs and uh is you know , refusing to listen yeah , I did think it was a little .
I mean , she goes , like you know , full like rebellious teen , like really quickly when she gets to tenzin's house you know like she starts breaking all the rules off the bat and it was just like I . That's what I said about . I can't put my finger on it . Maybe episode four is where I started to feel different .
It was towards the maybe end of the tournament , but there was a while where both of them and it's kind of intertwined , both of them- kind of when you didn't care for Mako or Korra Because they were so tropey to me . What's weird is Bolin is just as tropey , but I think I like that .
You know the goofy like yeah sidekick guy like I just love that so much , that archetype , so much that I could ignore the patterns I was seeing develop . But I will say that by the end all I'd say almost all of the characters redeemed themselves , with the exception of Misami .
Dakota . What are your thoughts on ? Because you've seen Avatar , the Last Airbender and we understand that that's a major arc right and part of that major arcing story is ang learning to bend uh , the different elements you know , outside of of airbending .
But cora has like an affinity , like pretty early on , with the exception of of airbending , you know what were your thoughts like kind of coming into that , like , oh , you know we have . You know she's very young and she can . You know she can waterbend , firebend and earthbends , like at a very young age , younger than even ang .
Did you know , even even younger than like ang , when he was first told that he was going to be the avatar ? You know ?
yeah , so her , her path towards avatar hood is unusual , like we . We don't know of another avatar that learned that they were , uh , the avatar as early as she did . She was probably like three or four at the time when the white lotus showed up at her doorstep and she was able to bend three up , three elements . Uh , it's an interesting thing .
I don't , I don't mind it . Um , because she is cocky
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enough that if she wanted to , you know , start moving stuff around , you know like , and she's , she's , um , confident enough , and that's the thing . She has a lot of confidence , at least in the beginning of the season , um , where she can just kind of do whatever she wants to do , and even at a young age , I have no issues with that .
Obviously she wasn't a master at those ages . It took her way later than it should have normally taken her to master those three elements . Because she's 17 by the time . She's ready to start her airbending training , right ? You ?
know right , like like she she had , she had like the very like kind of base foundation there and then like the training kind of you in her mastery . Of the other ones , I'm not too sure . I know that there's publications out there , but were there attempts prior to that ? Because she probably what do you mean ? Attempts prior to that ? At airbending ?
Yeah , oh , I don't know . Yeah , I'm not sure . So airbending is highly connected to spirituality . Yeah , and throughout the entire first season . She doesn't have any affinity for that , she has no desire for it . Right , it's really not until the end .
Yeah , right , like she had to learn how to be like selfless . You know , you know you talk about how she has this cockiness , this , this confidence , and you know I think that's .
That's partially why a lot of people dislike the show , um , and cora specifically , is because she's overconfident , she's cocky , she stumbles , she's her own biggest stumbling block a lot of the times and throughout the show .
You know I'm not going to get into it , but like , she gets knocked down a lot , much more than any avatar we've ever known in terms of , you know , like , just being . You think she's at her lowest when she gets her bending taken away . No , it goes way lower than that . You know , like , this show like beats her to a pulp .
The , the , the writers literally did not hold back . They , they give you the greatest stakes that you will ever , you can even conceive of , throughout , like , throughout the show , um , and and they will like , actually like , use those stakes to make , uh , you know , definitive changes to the overall series .
It's it's an incredibly bold choice of them to do that , because a lot of people dislike that choice , you know I don , I don't personally dislike it . I think it's really fascinating writing and the more I have watched the series , the more I have appreciated like , wow , they really went for this and I give them a lot of credit for that .
Um , but you know , overall I I think um with cora , even though she's cocky and she what some there's a line that ang says at the end of the episode or the end of the season , when she finally gets to commune with her past lives , and , um , she basically , or he , he basically , tells her when you're at your lowest , that's when the greatest change happens .
You know , and we see that throughout not only this season but , uh , the rest of the show , and I think that that's a really like . I think it's a powerful message because a lot of times , like you know , we get beaten down , we get fired from our jobs .
We , you know , lose a loved one , we , you know , x , y and z , but sometimes we need those events to pick ourselves up and grow . You know , and I think that that is the , the humbling thing about the legend of korai is that , um , this character is someone who needs to be knocked down before she realizes .
Oh , oh , I'm not like , I'm not the biggest and baddest in the room . You know like she thinks she is , but she isn't .
So like apparently it doesn't get any better for her because because , like isn't the next avatar ? Like right after her ?
We we don't know timeline , okay , okay , I was going to say because isn't it like a post-apocalyptic world ?
It is .
And it's an earth-bending avatar .
That is correct . So if this avatar is after Korra , it's like what happened ? What happened to the world ?
I have more information on that .
I'm interested to see how that story plays out and supposedly Korra destroys the world .
She is the one who did it , so we don't know what that story is or how they're going to do that . But anyway , rich , you had something to say . I was talking about Korra .
I'm sorry , guys , this is what I bring to the show . I was was just trying to say so what you're saying is that she gets knocked down but she gets up again .
She does .
I'm sorry .
No , I appreciate that .
Yeah , but you know , I just let her down .
We got ourselves a 90s boy over here I mean , it's just St Paddy's Day , we just passed . I like to have my whiskey drink .
I like a vodka drink . I like a lager drink . You know , I like the songs that remind me of the good times that's , that's fair .
I love it . Love it um really quick . Let's talk about amman , the equalis and tarlock .
You know like they swerved me so good . I was so angry , but then so happy at the end . Wait why ?
all right , what happened so right away ? I mean and I know everyone must have thought I was so angry , but then so happy at the end , wait why ? What happened so ?
right away . I mean , and I know everyone must have thought something right , but is it Tuckman ?
Tarlok , Tarlok right .
So right . Like you , meet Tarlok and he's all about the task force or whatever , and he's trying to get court . He's underhanded and he's sleazy . He's a politician and I'm sitting there and then uh iman comes out and I'm like , oh , that's the same guy , right , that's the guy right , nobody's ever seen them in the same .
Yes , that's what I kept . I was like until I see them in the same room .
And then you know , episode upon episode upon episode passes , you know , and then there's that whole sequence where , uh , tarlak is totally like , yeah , let's shut down the finals , we can't do this , it's not safe . But then , like , he's convinced to open it up again and I was like that's when I was like oh no , what a conniver that's iman .
I'm like that's gotta be interesting .
I never . I never made that connection like my first time around . I I probably might have you know if I had watched it like now . But that's interesting , I , that's I like .
I like where your head was at , because that's clearly what they were , at least trying , and then they put up the same room and I'm like no , but then it's like wait , you were kind of right , because it's his brother , you know .
Like uh I , I , and that's another part of the whole generational storytelling . They go back 42 years in the flashbacks to Tarlok and Aman , or Noatak's father Yakon , and how he was this great bloodbender and how that story devolved into them , and I love that . He basically put them on the path to do exactly what both of them did .
You know , he told them uh , you're gonna avenge me , you're gonna go back to republic city and you're gonna like , rule the city . And they each and , and he also said , um , and you're gonna destroy the avatar . And they both did that to some degree , but they were doing it in like opposite ways .
You know , like fascinating , I , I , I love , I love that like the way that storyline ended was beautiful , like it was just like I . It gives me chills every time . I even think about it , just because , like , how did they do that ? How did nickelodeon say yes , go ahead and uh , show like a suicide murder on on screen ?
oh , yeah , yeah , and it's , it's crazy because , like um you could tell that ?
it was tasteful you , it , I .
I don't disagree . No , it wasn't . It wasn't like a malicious thing , it was like this is a , this is a pity . You know like we don't deserve to continue .
Right , right , and like you could tell that no Talk , like he sensed that that was coming .
Yeah , yeah , and that's a really good point actually . And what's ? You're right , he did sense it , because he's such a good bloodbender that they said that he was able to like feel like what other people were doing , like
¶ Amon's Identity and Motivations
the he . That's why he was so good against other benders he was able to feel their movements and then uh that , that , that tear that , uh , yeah , you know that he shed , yeah , so ah , such a good scene , such a good scene . I it's our , our . You know our podcast is coming to a close , but I feel like there's so much I want to say still .
Um Tenzin uh Aang Sun has such a fantastic and cool grasp on um airbending . Like I love the animations of . Tenzin , yes , the way , the way that he moves , the way that he uses airbending . He has like an airbending wheel that , like he like , spins around on and it's so sick .
Yeah , His like movements are very like kind of Shaolin monk , like you know . Yeah . And you know it , it just it looks so good and that , and that that's what I was saying about . Like you know the animation and like how it looked a lot more crisp and , like the movements of the bending looks really good .
Like you know , for a lot of them and I love that you know metal bending is now like a wide thing now it's a widespread thing .
yeah , and , like you know , we witnessed the , you know the , the initial use of it with tough , yeah , the birth of metal bending and you know it's cool that she was like the , the , the one that you know kind of just established all of this and I love the flashback with um , with ang and toff , and she and she calls him twinkle toes and he's like toff .
I'm 42 years old . Can we stop with the ? Can we stop with the nicknames that ? He's just like not likely or something like that . But uh , you know she goes afraid not , yeah , yeah uh , it's so funny though , because tenzin I can .
I can imagine , uh , tenzin being very much so like his father in the sense of like the airbending , like he's just like super crazy , super proficient , in a way that , like you know , ang was even as like , even as a kid , but like personality wise , like very different yeah , I , uh , I 100 agree with that , I guess .
last question , before we , you know , close out , like what was your guys favorite fight scene , specifically like bender on bender fight scene ? Or or it could be a bender on , like , uh , non-bender fight scene if you want to include some of the mechanical suits and stuff .
There's a lot of really beautiful animation when it comes to the fight scenes and it'd be kind of sad not to talk about it . Some really juicy fight scenes .
well , you know , when I first saw the uh , the bloodbending . It was like they were just like manipulating , like juicy slim jims , which was creepy oh , yeah , yeah , it was uh , yeah , but all , jokes aside , I think my favorite , at least I .
I guess I'll boil it down to a moment because , as you said , tenzin's family is the last airbending family , they're told . You know like get the heck away from here . You guys need to be safe , and then , of course , as always happens , they're immediately captured .
Uh so that they're on .
You know they're about to be , uh , they're about to have their chi blocked .
And when tenzin gets free , I'm not to lie to you in that moment I'm like wait a minute , but Iman can just like whisper bloodbend , and you know , because he did it earlier right where he just I think he kind of almost like silently , was able to bloodbend in some way , like he didn't even need to use well , I mean , it's always silent like nobody like uses
their mouth to .
It's always silent Like nobody like uses their mouth to . It's not like a wizard where they like have to like make an incantation , it was just that , he .
It was something about him like that earlier in the show that Tenzin had . It was like no match for him and it was knocked out the first time they squared off against each other . Yeah . That , like they didn't have Like something about him being able to bend faster than tenzin is able to gather the air .
so when I don't know when he squared off .
I was nervous . I'm like tenzin , what are you doing , bro ? Like get your family get out and yeah then , when he kind of whipped him up and threw him off the platform , I kind of like let out like a yelp being like yeah I know , yeah , that doesn't happen a lot , like when I'm watching fight sequences . You know I'm .
I'm usually like yeah , I know , yeah , that doesn't happen a lot like when I'm watching fight sequences . You know I'm . I'm usually like oh , I know who's gonna win and everything but in that moment I was like wait a minute . This show's been crazy . Like what if tenzin like dies in front of his family ?
and that's that's what I love about the show . Like you don't know what , what is gonna happen , yeah , and it always keeps you on your toes . It's not like the good guys win every fight . They don't . They actually probably win the least fights . Yeah , yeah , yeah , that's what I'm going to say , I think they lost most of them .
Anthony , what about you ? What's your favorite fight scene ? I would say probably . I really like so . I do like a lot of the bender-on-bender fighting . But like so I , I do like a lot of like you know , the bender on bender like fighting , but I feel like the best bender on bender fighting happens like in other seasons ?
um , not so not necessarily like in this one , but I do like the one where , um , you know you have them like fighting a lot of the like uh , the mechs , um , because that's where you get a lot of uh like . You know how you were talking about , how you like the way that tenzin fought .
You saw a lot of that in in those fights and so like yeah , kind of seeing everybody like going all out in , like full form in their fights . It was just like it .
It was like a beautiful sight to me the animation and and the fluidity of how they looked , and something that you brought up about the fact that they don't have to use their abilities , kind of like using it like an incantation . I like that Avatar like Korra and the Last Airbender . Don't use that trope .
That's used a lot in anime , like you know you have like One Piece where he's like gum gum or like Naruto where they say you know fireball jutsu or something like that . I like that . It's all in the movements you know .
Yeah , 100% yeah . I think that that's fantastic Because it mimics real-world fight scenes .
Right , right exactly .
Yeah . So my personal favorite fight scene is when Korra leaves her home late at night to visit Tarloch to release her friends from prison . That fight scene always like gives me chills , like , because they , they slow down how you know . Like he's throwing ice shards at her , he she's like rotating the wall behind him , it's .
It's such a visually appealing fight , yeah , that whenever it's like one of those scenes that I always have to like lean forward when I'm watching you know , like it just it grabs my attention . 100 and there's so many great fight scenes throughout this show .
I , I , I love it , but yeah , this , this one always like stands out to me as like a very strong animated fight .
Dakota has to like stand up while watching that one yeah , I'm like , I'm like , I'm like the dad who , like , walks into the room and has to watch like 20 minutes of tv standing up , yeah and like , and then like the , the kids like sit down .
He's like just doesn't sit down just stands next to the tv .
Yeah , that's good , guys . Any final thoughts ?
good , solid season season . And come on , man , it's Avatar . You know that you're going to have some really good action in it . Hell yeah , brother .
I really enjoyed it . I don't know , I have to kind of extrapolate a little bit . I mean again a little bit of a novice to the world , but the fact that , like they lost , like bending was taken like I see , okay , so I , I I had a bending as being akin to being a force user , right ?
So correct yeah you know , I'm thinking of you know you're not wrong thinking of remembering , like reading you know so many . What did I recently that you know just kind of being disconnected from the force and how that like really just changes the person so much .
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So I thought this was going to be like a huge thing . That was going to be like you know something they have to search for for you know they're going to kind of keep going . And so then I was a little shocked when they kind of were able to basically fix everyone by the end of season one . I was like , oh , I thought that was a pretty big thing .
You guys took away the you know , it's like when , when , when ? not at my first , when scarlet witch said no more mutants . It's not . Like you know , four months later in the comics they're back . You know it .
You had to give it a while , so I'm guessing something much bigger must happen , but in my view of things like taking bending away from someone is ginormous , like how can you get worse than that ? But I guess I'd have to find out right , yeah , right .
So so the the , the way that amman , and it's a little bit of like . What I was saying was that aman was using blood bending to to like sever , um , like chi connections , but like the avatar , when they do it it's on a deeper level , it's like it's like a on a spiritual level . You know , um , and it's almost like when that happens , he's like drawn .
It's like the essence of like bending is being like kind of drawn out of them , whereas , like when what was what was happening with amman was like a block so it was like he snipped their capillaries that led to their bending power .
Sure .
Yeah , you know , I was at a they . Oh my gosh , what is it called ? When you said snip , it made me think of the other snip .
Oh , vasectomies . Yeah , it was like a bending vasectomy .
Speaking of vasectomies .
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No , they didn't sponsor us this week .
They actually sent a cease and desist . Actually , they don't want anything to do with this .
We moved on to Big Boy's Beef Stick . Big Boy's Beef Stick , the number one beef stick of Project Ecology .
So we have to go back to uh , the fajitas and chili yeah , I was actually at shake shack the other day , um , and I had a really juicy burger , and it kind of did remind me that I would like you , the listener , to give us a really juicy review , like specifically um , anthony , how many stars do we need ?
we need five stars , you know just like at shake shack .
It needs to be a juicy five star sandwich I mean , I mean review , not sandwich and and yeah , uh , please , please , be sure to send us your thoughts about , uh , our show , and you know where we can go from here . Do we have any idea what we're doing next ?
week . We do not , do you guys like Brendan Fraser ?
I think , yeah , I do .
Have you guys ever done the Mummy movies ?
Let's do the Mummy .
Yeah , we haven't done the Mummy . That's crazy . Yeah , we haven't done the Mummy . Those are fun movies . I love it , at least the first two .
I will watch the first two . I will not watch you know what . I will watch the third , just for you guys . But next week we are covering the Mummy . I'm actually really stoked about this . I love that movie . I can't wait .
I have tricked you guys down a path to Dwayne the Rock , johnson johnson baby , it'll take a little while he's not even .
He's not even in the first one , all right we're stopping at the first one , and that's it . We're not . We're not doing it because the week after that we're covering persona and then after that we're covering the yankees oh , rich is like I'm not , I'm not gonna be there that week no , we're just messing here .
We don't know what we're doing after next week , but uh , we are excited to cover the mummy . Uh , next week . Yes , uh , guys , thank you so much for listening to us here for our 114th or maybe 115th episode I actually don't know , you're right you did check it . Okay , cool , cool episode 114 . Um , actually really quick , let me double check that .
Okay , yeah , it's definitely episode 114 , guys . Thank you so much . Uh , please , if you want to check out any of our socials , you can check us out in our show notes down below and we will hear , or you will hear us rather next week hear that sizzle goodbye don't snap into a slim jim
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dig it . Bye guys .