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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: blanktoe on Mar 17, 2012, 12:24:41 PM
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http://nickyleaks.tumblr.com/
GO NOW!!!
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Boo, I didn't see this 'til late so when I got there, they appeared to have taken it down or something. However, I was still able to see it elsewhere (http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/67438269.html). Thanks for the heads up about this tho. The episode had some real cute moments. Most of the previews and trailer content appeared to come from this single episode (with the rest from what's most likely episode 2), so watching it just made all of those pieces come together. I really liked the interaction between Korra and Bei Fong. And omg at one of the airbender kids asking about Zuko's mom. lol That was great.
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Now you can watch it good and legal w/ episode 2.
http://www.korranation.com/
It was awesome. I loved the probending. And there's something you gotta respect about a show that lets its heroine take a second out of her meditation to reach back and scratch her ass. So many chuckle-worthy moments. Mako and Bolin were pretty cool, too. Any other show would've played it all wrong and made them annoying but Bolin was chipper and outgoing without being obnoxious and Mako was quiet and taciturn without being emo. I like these guys.
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Legal? Well that kinda takes the fun out of it.
What channel is this gonna be on? And would one have to have watched The Last Airbender to know what is going on?
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It's going to premiere on tv on April 14th on Nick. The short answer to your second question is no. It's kinda like not needing to watch Dragon Ball before you watch Dragon Ball Z. It's good to know some of things that happened since it's tied to the history of the first series but the second series appears to be made in a way that gives a nod to the old fans and stands alone for the new ones.
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Or at least that's the impression I've picked up from the first two episodes so far. :)
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I might give it a shot. Just hope if I like it they don't up and move it to Nicktoons. So of course they will.
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The previous series stayed on Nick for the duration of its run (although I think Nicktoons got reruns) so I'm inclined to think it's going to be the same deal here.
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http://nickyleaks.tumblr.com/
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I clicked on the link and all I see is something about Korra taking animal penis in her vag.
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http://nickyleaks.tumblr.com/
GO NOW!!!
I clicked on the link and all I see is something about Korra taking animal penis in her vag.
wat
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For those who wanna get it, Korra eps #1 and #2 free on iTunes U.S.
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I saw the first two episodes of this today. It wasn't bad, but it didn't blow me away either. I'll give it another chance, after all I am still watching Thudercats, but this one might have to grow on me.
A question. How many years does this take place after The Last Airbender?
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About 70.
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Snagged from tumblr:
Korra episode titles leaked. Nick will probably take this down soon so read this while you can.
Chapter 1 Welcome to Republic City
Chapter 2 A Leaf in the Wind
Chapter 3 The Revelation
Chapter 4 The Voice in the Night
Chapter 5 The Spirit of the Competition
Chapter 6 And The Winner Is…
Chapter 7 Skeletons in the Closet
Chapter 8 The Will of the Firelord
Chapter 9 Tahno’s Love Triad
Chapter 10 Festival of White Lotus Bloom
Chapter 11 The Avatar’s Promised
Chapter 12 Rebirth
These titles intrigue me.
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You know what is pissing me off...(they've been replaying this thing like crazy on Nick) is that you know Korra gonna end up with the Mako (I think that was his name. I could look it up...but too lazy), but his bother is the nice one that actually helped her out. The lesson. You want a girl to like you, treat her like shit.
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The "nice" one clearly helped her out to get his mack on. And context makes it clear that bringing groupies along is a habit of his. Given that, I wouldn't say one brother's more deserving than the other.
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See that's the thing. That was his intent, but he quickly changed his tune and then championed her to join the team. I just think it is little cliche that the guy that treats the girl like crap always ends up with her. It has been done to death and you know it is coming as soon it starts to happen. I think it would be refreshing for her to not end up with either one of them to be honest, and maybe not end up with anyone.
And I doubt it will be, but I'm just gonna go out a limb now in case I turn out to be right, and say that our bad guy is in fact Aang, who isn't really dead, and has gone all "street preacher" ala Paul Atredies.
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1. Aang has to be dead or Korra wouldn't be the Avatar. Since she can bend more than one element, she has to be the Avatar, thus Aang is definetely dead.
2. The girl ending up with the nice guy's what happened in the first series. The fandom wanted her to end up with the eventually-reformed villain but the nice hero got the nice heroine. So I can forgive the second series for going a little cliche this time.
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Well I didn't watch the first series, so...=P
And there can only be one Avatar at a time? That's the rule? Not that they can't write their way around anything like that. I just like to call these thing early and see if I'm right. I have a really good good track record with this kinda thing...especially with Doctor Who.
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Yes, it's the rule. The Avatar is a single soul being continually reincarnated. Korra IS Aang.
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Well then that raises other questions. The mask implies one of two thing. Either he is someone we know, or he is disfigured in some way. All I know is we have barely seen him and this Amon is already the most interesting person on the show for me. Korra is all laid out there pretty much from the start, but this guy you don't know why he is doing what he is doing. Who he is. What his plans are and how they will affect everyone else.
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There's a ton of theories floating around. One being that Amon is Aang's other son Bumi. Just because Bumi can't bend. I hope it's not though. That'd be kinda dumb honestly.
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Ok...new theory. It is Tenzin. This actually fits even better now that I really put some thought into it. I really think he is in fact a bender of some kind.
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Doesn't Amon show his hands though? Tenzin's blue Air Nomad arrows are on his hands. So if Amon doesn't wear gloves and those are his hands, it's not Tenzin. No, wait, I looked and that part of his hands is covered. So then how does he change his voice from JK Simmons to Steve Blum?
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Airbending.
Yep.
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:lol:
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They might actually have different builds though. But I mean Tenzin does wear a lot of robes. Hmmm...guess I'll keep watching.
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Well I was watching this AGAIN (was hoping for a new episode tonight rather then tomorrow morning. I can never get up on Sat.) but it was the same old, same old. But, Tenzin was at Korra's press conference which Amon was listening to on the radio. Assuming it was live, which I'm sure it was..then that puts an end to that theory.
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Re: newest episode. If the firebender who burnt Amon and killed his family and Mako/Bolin's parents turns out to be the same dude, I'll eyeroll so hard I'll flop into the wall.
Also, for a second, just a second, I was like "Wah? Mako's Batman?"
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I missed it...but if I know Nick they will replay it a million times in the next week. At least I hope...might even do it tomorrow.
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Yeah, I think that's their game plan.
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Is it wrong to like the bad guy better? And I don't know if I totally believe Amon's story about why he wears the mask. I still just got this feeling he is a bender himself. There is also the comment "Only the Avatar could do that" about being able to take away someone's bending abilities permanently. Hmmm...curiouser and curiouser.
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Nah, it's not wrong to like the bad guy better. I want him to be lying though.
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I just get the feeling he is. It seems like a sympathy ploy to me to gain support for his cause. Or he could be telling the truth, but that would be disappointing.
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Especially since--and not really a spoiler here--we've already had a character in the old series who went kinda batshit cause firebenders killed his famblee. AND they did it when he was eight years old. And a firebender killed Tenzin's grandmother. "They was killed bai teh firebendaz" is actually already tired by now for the people who saw the old show.
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Sadly I think it could be that Amon IS the firebender that killed Mako's family or something like that.
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I had a theory early on when Nick gave us some information* on Councilman Tarlokk (who will be introduced in next week's ep). He's the classic fishy-looking dude and a waterbender but I don't really want him to be Amon either. I hope some great twists are pulled here because he looks so obviously bad that it's too, well, uh, obvious.
*Source: Nick's Korra website has an interactive feature where you can learn more about Republic City.
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Yeah I don't know if they are gonna pull an obvious one on us, or try to sneak one under the radar while giving us a bunch of red herrings to throw us off the trail.
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Anyone seen episode four yet?
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Yep. I liked it. I was spoiled by the pacing of the first series because I feel like we're blazing on through. It would've been cooler if this could've just been about the Fire Ferrets interacting w/ the Satos because that was the best part of the ep. But on the plus side, I don't know if I'd have patience for having the Amon thing dragged out for a full ATLA-like season. So perhaps getting down to business is best.
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Just had a weird thought. What if Korra has to bring balance between benders and non benders by giving up her bending. Thus, ending the line of avatars and benders. 80 or so years later new benders are being born in a world the fears and hates them.
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I like the idea that she'd have to give up her bending. Considering how proud she is of being the avatar and a bender, it would be a growth of the character for her to have to choose to give something up like that for the larger good. I like that. It is different from the first Avatar too, or at least what I've heard about it.
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I really hope that doesn't happen. If she gives it up and gets it back, that'd be okay. But I like the whole fantastical 4-elements action. We get an action series with a female hero and they de-empower her at the end like they did the villain in the first one? Don't want.
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I'm afraid it might happen now that Toe mentions it. Mainly cause they have introduced Amon's ability to take the powers away. I'd be surprised if she didn't lose her powers at some point, and maybe the story will move to her having to get her powers back somehow. I mean we didn't get to see her mastering her fire, water, and earth bending. So maybe she symbolically have to learn to walk again.
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I wouldn't mind that. If she has to relearn the elements, so be it. I don't see that happening though since (1) this was originally a 12 ep mini-series so I don't think there's room to do all of that; and (2) learning the other three elements she's already mastered was the focus of the first series and it's my understanding that the creators didn't want to repeat themselves. I think her focus will be mastering Air and gaining spirituality, the latter of which she will need if a spirit is in fact aiding Amon. What I meant by my post above was that I don't want to see her have to give up her bending forever and the line of Avatars end.
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Gah! Now that I've actually missed an episode Nick decides to cut back on the replays. >=(
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Okay, so probably only Toe will get the joke here but I loled:
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hgy3UMcr1r84s9so1_400.gif)
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^
A Ronny James Dio tribute?
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Dude! Look at how Korra disintegrates as soon as she reaches the door frame while the other kid seemingly backs away into the horizon.
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Ha ha, wow, I'm kinda conflicted. I want to like this series as much as the last one but so far that's not happening. Some of that last episode was kinda funny but in the awkward kinda way. I hope Korra doesn't end up with either brother after this. (She probably will but I can hope.)
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I haven't actually watched this show yet, but from the imagery I've seen, Korra looks pretty butch. If not for those chest bumps, I'd probably assume she was a guy.
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Yeah but she's actually a cute butch, not a scary butch.
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It's too bad they apparently stopped rerunning the latest Korra episode. This last episode was TIGHT. Fucking TIGHT. Loved it. A huge step up from the previous episode. Shit's gettin' real.
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This week's episode was really good, too, although it doesn't beat last week's. Unfortunately, it'll take a break for at least Memorial Day weekend. I can't believe they aren't doing reruns. Catch people up so they can tune in! Not everybody can or wants to watch online.
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I think I'm gonna have to wait for a Marathon or something at this point. I'm so far behind I wouldn't know what was going on if I did catch it.
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1. It doesn't really need to be said, but holy crap, Bei Fong + Korra is one kick-ass team.
2. I know it's kind of derivitive of the original series, but I like the fire ferret/polar beardog (Ugh, I hate that species creation/naming convention) pair. The shot of them drinking at the same time with the former perched on the latter's nose was especially cute.
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I ♥ Bei Fong. They actually managed to out-Toph Toph.
I lol'ed at the Cabbage Man but people who missed ATLA or didn't watch it all are NOT gonna get the gag there.
I really liked Mako and Bolin from the start but unfortunately Mako became more jerk-ass and Bolin acts kinda Downs sometimes. I was hoping Bolin would be the "ladies man" his description promised him to be and he's not. He tries too hard to be funny like Robin Williams, which is annoying. We need to see Mako loosen up a bit more because he's kinda tight-assed. I find myself wanting them to leave when they appear, which is funny since they're supposed to be a part of Korra's group. I'd rather see Korra's group consist of Asami and Tahno than Mako and Bolin.
Momo >>>>>>>>> Pabu
Zuko >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mako
Sokka >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bolin
I still really like this show but just sayin'. :)
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This show man. I have no idea where they're going now. Just WOW!
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OMG, yes. Too bad Rama isn't watching. I'd love to hear his theory on what's going on. Especially with those flashbacks. Or how he views a certain bending art that re-appeared this weekend that took two episodes last series to explain. Because I've been wondering what a non-ATLA watcher would make of those things.
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I want to watch. It's just Nick isn't being very helpful. Hell I've missed most of the shows I usually watch the last couple of weeks. This, Avengers, Thundercats...BAH!
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It's retarded because there's a wealth of channels that rerun their crap into the dirt. Yet Nick has a show that has repeatedly cracked the top ten in total viewership and can't manage to do a couple of encore viewings. I wonder if they'll rerun it at all because their track record w/ ATLA wasn't exactly stellar either. I was hopeful when the show started that they weren't gonna do this this time. On the "up" side, Korra only has about four eps to go before the season's over. If Nick is smart, they'll do a shitload of reruns between now and whenever the hell season two will start (probably Spring of next year. bah). Of course, if they were really smart, they would have reran the entire ATLA before Korra started to snag in some new viewership, then proceed with Korra and proper encore viewings.
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I'm kinda hoping for an all day marathon leading up to a prime time season finale for the show. That way I can just sit down and watch them all in a row. Or worse comes to worst, maybe rent them when they hit DVD. (which is what I had to do with the last fourth of Avengers season 1, although I bought it cause I knew I loved the show already. In that case they were doing a repeat on Disney XD, but playing a different episode then they played in the morning. Wasn't really a repeat.)
The first couple shows got plenty of reruns up till like episode 4 or 5...the one where Amon was taking benders prisoners and then taking their powers away. That was the last one that saw repeats I think. And I was about to say in my first post, but didn't since this seems to be turning into me bitching about it like I do having slow internet and I can only beat one dead horse around here, that it just seems to be the shows I want to see that don't get repeats. I can see almost any episode of "Keeping up with the Karadashins" or "House Hunters" I want if I just watch all the damn repeats (not that I want to see either.). And I can see no less then 6 different Family Guy episodes nightly, but I only get one chance at this show, and it is murder on a night owl like myself on one of the two days I can sleep in as late as I want.
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Yeah, hopefully they'll do a non-Nicktoons Marathon. It's kinda strange tho' for a cable channel to depend on online viewership to catch people up on the show as opposed to showing a rerun on their bread-and-butter channel. I wonder what their reasoning was for pulling the reruns.
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Don't they rerun it on Nicktoons?
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I don't think so but I don't think Rama gets Nicktoons so he couldn't see it even if they did. I dunno. I don't know anything about satellite/dish packages anymore.
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I don't have Nicktoons. It is in the highest package. Same reason I can't watch the Hub.
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No hub? How can Rama get his pony fix now?
Yes, it's the rule. The Avatar is a single soul being continually reincarnated. Korra IS Aang.
"Awesome, I've been reincarnated into a hot female body... I have my own boobs to play... oh wait, this is my daughter's body!! GAH!"
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Korra's not his daughter.
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I'm not all a fan with how easily what's his face was tossing lightning around in episode 8.
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Neither am I.
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I mean, I was a little leery of all the metalbending, but I could understand how it's now a thing. Before Toph, no one even thought about doing it. I can accept that Toph was good enough to open peoples' eyes (heh heh, puns) to the idea and trained a bunch of new students who were open to the idea.
But dudes know how to bend lightning -- it's just that it's friggin hard and only a few of the most powerful firebenders know how to do it without killing themselves. And Mr. Angsty just ain't that good.
Maybe it all has to do with how the rules of bending seem to be going out the window: blood-bending at any time of the month, non-bendable Mr. Mask, etc. I'unno.
Sidenote: adult Toph was awesome as expected. I'd hit it.
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blood-bending at any time of the month
But I do that all the time. Har har. Noooooooo... :joe:
Anyway, I came to the conclusion today that this series would be vastly improved if Mako and Bolin were not in it. I challenge anyone to imagine what that would've been like. The first ep would be the same and then in ep two, Korra sneaks off to the probending games and meets confident, street-smart rich-girl Asami--whose daddy owns one of the teams--and her pet ferret Pabu. Korra would join Asami's team when their waterbender flakes out. Then she and Asami would have all kinds of sexy adventures uncomplicated by dull, cardboard Mako and woefully-unfunny manchild Bolin. Tahno could've joined them later to make them a trio. Meanwhile, with all of that lovey-dovey nonsense out of the way, we would have more room for actual plot as well as learning more about Republic City and have Korra gain some spiritual growth. We all win.
And poor Toza. We saw him once and never heard from him again. WTF.
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I certainly agree that Korra/Asami would make a much more interesting group than Korra/Mako/Bolin. However, I don't really see Tahno as a much better replacement. Perhaps an older person to top off the trio. One of Lin's lieutenants, perhaps. I'd say Lin herself, but that's too much estrogen for Team Avatar. It needs a dude.
Could be nice to get out of the city for at least an episode or two.
On another topic, I just rewatched the first season of Last Airbender and, damn, Katara sure does progress with her water-bending lightning quick. In the first episode, we see her struggling to perform a relatively simple move. By the end of the season, after just finding a single water-bending scroll and practicing with Aang, another novice bender, she's able to pull off some pretty advanced shit when fighting Master Pakku. Oh, she also randomly discovered how to use bending to heal. (That said, I really liked her fight with Pakku, especially when she "dug in" and froze her feet to the ground after flipping over him.
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Re: Katara, I think it was just a matter of her already being gifted and just needing to pick up some moves. Back home in the Southern Water Tribe, she didn't have a single other bender to even bounce ideas off of. I could see how traveling with the avatar and getting that scroll could fuel a quick progression.
As for what I said on Korra, I was trying to see it using the characters we have now and not adding anyone we haven't already met in some capacity. I think Lin and Tenzin have good chemistry with Korra, but Team Avatar should be around the same age imo. I like the idea of Tahno because here was someone knocked completely off of his high horse. It would've given us a chance to view a drastic change for him. Zolt or Shady Shin could've worked as well if they had been younger. A bender without bending, if that ability could be returned, and how they cope with life after bending has the potential for a story with a lot of meat on its bones. Kind of a Zuko-like progression from one side to the other. And he would be interacting with (potentially) the world's most powerful bender and a strong natural non-bender. That balance of characters and such a story line would've meshed perfectly with the threat of Amon since the love square we got stuck with instead sorta pulls us away from the main plot.
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Ha ha, Lin is awesome.
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;D
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Also leaving this here:
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LINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
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I actually saw this episode today and I was loooooooooooooooost. I didn't know who half the people were. Like I don't know who this new girl is running around with Korra and gang, but I like her. I also didn't know Lin, so it was hard to care when she was debended. I was so happy to actually see a new episode, but quickly saw how bad missing those episodes were.
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Yeah, you got cut off before the episodes that show Lin's BAMFness. Plus you also don't have the attachment to her mother Toph from the previous series. I could see how only viewing the first three or so episodes of Korra wouldn't leave much of an impression of Lin. In those, she only appeared in the first one. I think Lin and Asami Sato (aka "new girl") are my favorites in this show. Poor Lin... :'(
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from avatarspirit.net:
After the TLOK finale, Nicktoons will be airing a special called Korra: Making a Legend, from July 9 to July 20. During that time, all twelve episodes of the first season of The Legend of Korra will air every weeknight at 9pm (ET/PT) along with commentary from series creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko.
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Saw the finale. Thoughts: All in all, not a terrible series. Better than a lot of the stuff on TV. But there was SERIOUS room for improvement. Mako and Bolin just hindered the entire show. Mako with his two-timing jerkness and needless romantic subplot and Bolin with his uselessness and inhilarity. (I made that last word up just for Bolin.) The damn polarbear dog was more useful than dumb Bolin. I agree with this one assessment where everything just comes to Korra without much work or consequence. Poor Amon. Not only was his life sad, but in the end he was neutered. Poor Tarrlok, too.
Iroh was cool. Asami was cool. Bumi in his 1-second appearance was cooler than Mako the whole season. What the fuck happened to the Hiroshi that loved his daughter? He just went nuts. Where was old Zuko, Kya, and the female firelord? We got nada on them. No more Tahno or Toza or the council members? Where was Zuko's mother and who was Bei Fong's father? How was Tenzin's family's captured after Lin's sacrifice that seemed to be for nothing? :( Questions, questions!
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Team Avatar in my head: Korra, Asami, Tahno, and General Iroh. That would've been fuckin' sweet.
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Legend of Korra was good but I think I'd rather see the further adventures of 40 year old Aang the series.
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The romantic subplot was utterly useless. It feels like the only reason it was there was to appease teenage girls who are only interested in imagining what it would be like if various combinations of people in a show bang.
I feel I would have enjoyed Bolin more if he had retained more of the suave ladies' man thing the character was originally conceived as. Instead, he turned into Sokka-lite.
The finale was pretty good but I thought the exposition dump at the beginning of the penultimate episode was pretty jarring. It was like the writer's realized, "Oh shit, we forgot to flesh out our main villain and we only have 40 minutes left to tell this story!". I like the revelation and the partial explanation of how the bending was taken away (though we still don't know how that actually works), but, come on, let Korra and the audience figure that shit out over the course of a few episodes, at least.
And I still don't like how effortlessly Mako can shoot lightning. The more I think about it, the more I dislike most of what we saw of lightning bending in this series. It was, at first, a cute little touch. Oh, ha ha, electricity in the city is from from lightning bending. It's like how they used water bending for raising and lowering ships with lock technology and the trains in the Earth Kingdom were powered by earthbending. I get it. But it severely undermines the powet and specialness of lightning bending. And more importantly, it's not even necessary! There are internal combustion engines everywhere and we can see from the Equalist technology that they have dynamos or something similar to generate en electrical current. Slap the two together and there's your powet producing equipment.
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You know, I thought when Bolin, Iroh, and Asami were behind bars, that was gonna be Bolin's metal-bending moment. Especially considering, going back to what you said, how easily Mako shoots lightning, then Bolin should be capable of a massive powet-up. But, no, the damn dog somehow apparated beyond the electric fence and saves the day. Ugh.
Legend of Korra was good but I think I'd rather see the further adventures of 40 year old Aang the series.
QFT.
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I'll leave this here.
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This is long but brilliant:
LoK, Being on Team Human, and Stories About Nothing
http://overlithe.livejournal.com/185772.html
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I really don't agree at all with his base postulation, that Legend of Korra is fundementally about how cool it is having cool powers and having cool fights. Boiling it down to that ignores the various obvious parallels that can be drawn between the situation in Republic City and the powder keg that was places like 18th century France and 19th century Russia. The only way that could have been more overt is just calling Amon Robespierre or having one of the council members saying the non-benders can eat cake. May as well just have the bending removal take place with a guillotine-like device. If the first series was about the dangers of unrestrained nationalism, this one just as effectively portrays how fucked up it is if we try to force the whole world to be equal.
What about the themes of racial cleansing? I mean, the air nomad genocide prior to Last Airbender while evil, wasn't even about trying to wipe out their culture. It was a means to an end of combatting the Avatar. But in Legend of Korra, it's all about wiping them out as a people. Amon hates them and everything they stand for. You can hear the glee in his voice when he has Tenzin and his family up on the stage and he's about to wipe out the airbenders once and for all. With Sozin, it was buisiness. With Amon it was pleasure, which I found much more frightening.
More than anything, Legend of Korra was a story about accepting responsibilities and learning to serve people that may not even like you. People hated Aang, but it was either because of what he did, abandoming everyone for 100 years, or because he was seen as an enemy of their nation. But Korra? People hated Korra simply because of who she was, because she was born with the equivelent of a genetic abnormality.
Any failings of Legend of Korra lay with the individual characterizations, not with the base themes or lack thereof.
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EYAAAAAHHH!!
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39354
ZUKO'S MOOOOOOOOOM. :nuriyes:
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I'll leave this here.
Kuzco?
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I may have to pick up those graphic novels. Zuko's post-100 Year War story is definitely the thing I'm most interested in.
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:lmao:
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(http://i49.tinypic.com/f1m9ac.jpg)
I don't know what this means but I wanted to be a part of this thread.
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Ha! That's brilliant, mate.
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Like most Penny Arcade strips, it's almost funny!
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On another forum they can't stop talking about LOK and how awesome Amon is....
I don't even know, I haven't watched either series.
I find it funny that link on the first page still goes to the article about Korra taking dog knot in her vag.
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I find it funny that you're the only person still paying attention to the fact it does.
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The Legend of Korra got a second episode order. (It already had an additional 14 ordered.) That brings up the total for Korra to 52 episodes once the series finishes. I wish Nick just bit the bullet and gave a higher episode count to begin with so the story we got already had more room to breathe. Oh well, moar Tahno/Lin/Asami/Iroh + Old Zuko and I'll be happy.
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*Bump*
New Korra episodes are taking forever but think we're likely to get a release date and some juicy tidbits from Comic Con soon. Anyway, saw this on tumbler about one of the co-creators on the LOK commentary:
Bryan Konietzko during the "Endgame" commentary on why Korra can Airbend despite having her bending taken away
Bryan: “The chi flowing through her body…you can use waterbending where they make it glow and they’re clearing out those pathways, they can open it up so the chi flows better. What Amon did is that he took that technique and he used it to hurt people, he used it to block those pathways…That’s a philosophy Mike and I believe in, anything can be used for good or bad. Any philosophy or any ideology, it’s really in the person’s intentions in how it manifests. These things aren’t good or bad, it’s just there…So she hadn’t opened up that particular chi path, being the avatar she has crazy chi energy flowing, so he was able to close the ones he could detect, not the one she hadn’t opened up yet. He couldn’t feel it.
It would've been nice, dude, if you explained this in the fuckin' story. Because. It was kinda important. Just sayin'.
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Season 2 Ep 1 screened at Comic Con. Nick won't share it with the rest of us. Believes dedicated fans should've been in San Diego. Whatever. Share the damn episode. I hope someone recorded it on super spy cam like all James Bond or Cheaters or shit. Damn.
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OMG DAVID DUCHOVNY AND GILLIAN ANDERSON WERE AT THE COMIC CON AND I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT IT. If i would havek mown i would have done ANYTHING to go there. And I mean anything
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Season 2 Ep 1 screened at Comic Con. Nick won't share it with the rest of us. Believes dedicated fans should've been in San Diego. Whatever. Share the damn episode. I hope someone recorded it on super spy cam like all James Bond or Cheaters or shit. Damn.
Yeah a lot of companies are under that impression for some reason. It's why I don't have have Jinx or Zarana figure.
I wish they'd put Korra in the red box...now that the DVD is out I'd like to see the whole thing since I was only able to catch the first couple of episodes.
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New eps start in Sept. And with the first season out to own, now would be a good time for reruns to build up interest again. But why would Nick do something smart like that?
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They stopped airing repeats when I could actual catch them...so I don't expect them to start making it easy for me now.
Seen a lot of TMNT though.
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4 episodes in and I think I'm already liking this season better than the last. I think getting out of the city helped. It took a while to get straightened out which tribe was the southern one and which was the north and how that related to what we saw in Avatar, but once I did, everything began to fall into place. I like that we're spending so much time with the water tribes since, in the previous series, we only had three episodes set aside for them (well, plus the one for the bloodbender chick). Chief Unalaq should make for a good antagonist.
Loved the focus on Aang's kids and grandkids in the B story.
I even enjoyed the C story, with Bolin helping Asami with her business deal with Varrick. Everything about hiding in the stuffed platypus bear was amazing. The thing with him and Korra's weird cousin, however, came about way too suddenly and felt really forced. The dynamic could have worked, but it should have built up more over the course of the season.
That said, I want Lin back in the cast.
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I feel like you except completely opposite. Primary on my list is that the show's one giant sausage-fest. Warning tl;dr, but this is accurate imo: http://inbetweenthelineart.tumblr.com/post/63161182185/the-ridiculous-treatment-of-women-in-loks
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Book 2's over. Apparently, Korra has broken the line of avatars and no longer has access to her past lives. Yeeeeeah, that sorta blows hard. But this show entered Star Wars prequel territory a long time back. I don't consider it or the comics canon.
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My niece loves this damn show. She wants me to bend something every time I see her. I have to tell her that I'm old now and don't bend as well as I used to, but that doesn't seem to shut her up.
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Throw a cup of water in her face and tell her you're waterbending. That sounds mean until you remember there's earth and fire you could've used instead.
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Needed more Lin, but otherwise I enjoyed this season quite a bit.
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Throw a cup of water in her face and tell her you're waterbending. That sounds mean until you remember there's earth and fire you could've used instead.
I farted on her this weekend and told her that was all the air bending I was capable of. So maybe she'll leave it alone.
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:lol:
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I saw some of Book 3. Yes, we're there now.
No, I didn't actually sit and watch all that because I can't do that with this show anymore. But Asami and Korra seem to be girl bonding. It's all I ever wanted for them. And it only took three %&$&#n' three seasons to get there. Bah. (Plus, they made Mako feel awkward as fuck. Ha ha.) Mako and Bolin even get to meet family so that was nice, too. Unfortunately, we have bumbling uncle, street-rat urchin, and a bunch of other annoying numbnuts. I wish they would just ditch these other people. Villains sorta show promise. Book 3 does appear to be more narratively tight at least. PISSED though, PISSED that Zuko's gonna get a fight scene soon and Katara never got one. I wanna see badass old lady waterbending. Fuck.
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I still want to see this show...but I think I might wait and bing watch them at some point. Catching them on Nick is just too much hassle at this point. I can barely keep up with turtles and that is on all the time.
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I read a glowing review about the last two eps so I sat and watched them in whole. A real step up from most of the previous stuff. Still wish Mako and Bolin would go away and take Bumi and new street rat with them.
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Episode 6 was fantastic. Lin Beifong and her sister. Great with a capital G. Episode 7 was a fuckin' yawner about the n00b airbenders and Tenzin's boring yawny-ass family.
Overall, this season somes to be a remarkable improvement. But I guess the proof will be in how they resolve this season's plot lines and the villain's endgame.
PISSED that Tahno came back. BOO. He was hilariously douchey. He needed to return.
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Not airing the remaining episodes, just putting them up digitally?
WTF?
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Episode 8 was mostly awesome. Bolin still tears my last nerve. His "jokes" all fell flat per usual. But the rest was cool. I love these villains. They're really making the season.
The digital thing is ass. In the end, Nick was already screwing this show anyway.
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Screw with a show's time slot....keep it out of the public eye for months on end...wonders why it fails. That does sounds like Nick.
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Screw with a show's time slot....keep it out of the public eye for months on end...wonders why it fails. That does sounds like Nick.
I'm surprised that they aren't owned by Fox.
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Context: Zaheer, one of Season 3's villains, is voiced by Henry fuckin' Rollins.
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/f16b632910a7b3f90f4ab48b79e8e286/tumblr_n9cp4rHIwn1so3jdgo1_500.jpg)
- Also, the group of villains have a camaraderie as opposed to other villain groups who tend to always have a villain and a butt-monkey.
- The group has two women and two men for an even gender balance unlike other groups where there always have to be more dudes.
- <a href=">Zaheer is a fucking poet.[/url]
- The two women on the team are not conventionally attractive and wear fuckin' pants. (Still washing Attack on Arkham out of my eyes.) I want more animated villainesses that wear fuckin' pants.
- Zaheer and one of the women, P'li, have a relationship that isn't thrown in our faces every two seconds. (They kissed, like, once so far and it was kinda made into a cute joke.)
(http://33.media.tumblr.com/571e652ee8cdde1f0c5a419cda6762aa/tumblr_n8kp4khYYo1ruu897o2_400.gif)
- Zaheer's gf P'li is fucking taller than him with a badass haircut and is a firebending combustion woman.
- The other woman is disabled. She has no fucking arms and makes her own out of water tentacles.
- I don't know how the fourth person in their group is managing to make lava when he's an earthbender but whatever. Just thought I'd say something about him.
I fully expect this show to fuck these four over somehow (or neuter them like what happened with Amon) but I really enjoy seeing them on my screen.
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Today's episode was freakin' good. If they keep this up... well, I better not jinx them. But if they keep this up, we can call this one the best season yet. Oh hell, it already is even
ifwhen they fuck up the ending.
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Latest episode leaked and Jesus Christ. Dat episode. Could it be that after a season and a half of tripe, this show has finally found its footing? Aside from the dull Airbender ep, the season's been spectacular and I love these fucking villains. Still concerned they'll Amon these badguys somehow and ruin them, but so far it's been damn swell.
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S4 eps already out. I think I might wait and binge when a few more have come out. Unless something that really interests me happens and I can't contain my curiosity. But I gotta admit, the "3 years later" thing kinda lost me from the start. Most of the time skip stuff I've seen doesn't handle that kinda thing well. A year later... 10 years later... those types of jumps have some significance. Everything in between, especially when kids are involved, means you were just trying to make the kids older. Korra was in a bad state at the end of S3. And it's like someone said, 'that healing shit's boring. Get her ass outta the chair.' Like, no. Seeing her raw and healing in the final season would've been good shit.
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This show got a S4? I thought with the way Nick was treating it was done like Thundercats.
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After season 1 did decent numbers, Nick bought three subsequent seasons. Outright. So even though the ratings had been progressively in the tank--S2 especially was a fucking mess--the show practically finished production. It was getting four seasons no matter what at that point. The show's been an online exclusive now since a few eps into Season 3. They aren't showing it on TV anymore. I haven't started S4 yet. I've been waiting for something exciting to happen to draw me back in like with Season 3 but we're already four episodes in and I'm not interested. S3 was actually a good end for the show now that I think about it. Depressing, but good.
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Didn't know that. Bet Nick wishes they hadn't signed that deal.
Since Dish and Turner are fighting and they took away Cartoon Network (and truTV and my mother fucking Impractical Jokers. Assholes.) they gave us Nicktoons instead and I've got to watch some Avatar the Last Airbender. Lost as fuck since I haven't seen it from the start, but I've been able to watch it.
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What episodes were they? I'm just curious about where in the story you are.
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Let's see....Ang was capture by the fire nation and was being put into a cell on their boat. He was going on about how he bet they never fought a airbender before and then he like beat up the two guys with air and escaped onto the deck of the ship. Not much to go on I know, but it is what I remember seeing.
At work we have some of the DVDs and I've been tempted to chell them out. Problem is I don't think we have anywhere close to the entire show. :-\
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So I started watching Avatar. We had book 1 vol 1. I had to order vol 2 from a library in Wy, but it is on the way.
Anyway the episode I saw on Nicktoons was episode 2.
Also Legend of Korra Book 4 is going to be on Nicktoons.
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So I'm up to episode 12 and I am still confused on why earth benders can't really bend metal. Also don't know why Zuko's uncle could bend lighting...which is a different state of matter then fire is. Oh well...
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Metal bending isn't a thing in the ATLA universe at that stage.
I read somewhere that Korra was coming back to TV. I don't know who gives a shit anymore. I still haven't seen any S4 eps yet. I think I'll just consider S3 to be the end. It was a fitting end. If S4 appears on Netflix or somewhere convenient for me to watch it on, I'll chell it out then.
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I was just mentioning it because they had a bunch of Earth Benders on a floating base and they mentioned they couldn't bend the metal. I was like "Why not...it is earth."
Anyway I finished book 1....waiting on book 2 to come in.
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Apparently, Korra and Asami became lesbians at the end of the series. Literally, the fucking end. I view it being similar to how Rowling was all "P.S. Dumbledore's Gay." As in I roll my eyes and think how we could've had a Korra/Asami relationship all along because that would've been so much better than two seasons of Mako shit.
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And the creators made it canon. Good thing we wasted so much time on Mako. Hurrrrderp.
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So, anyway, posting for only being slightly related.
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Somehow I missed Fifi's post. This isn't the first time I've seen her or anything, but Janet Varney is kinda weird-looking... and weird-acting. But in a totally cute way. Which in itself is weird. She's like a strange doll that creeps you out in the dark but you'd still play with it during the daylight.
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[foreign gibberish trying to sell something i guess but he didn't even include a link to buy it and besides this is an english speaking board so why couldn't you spam in english and anyway we have at most five people who come here on any sort of regular basis so i quite frankly don't understand the mentality here.gif]
[my bad the link was in his signature but i edited it out anyway so you couldn't buy it even if you happened to have seen the message earlier and understood what he was selling.png]
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Sassy!
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Just call me Miss Sassy Pants. It's what the vet called my cat.
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Miss Sassy Pants.