The OOC Hangout Thread (New people introduce yourself here!)

[Tanakietsu]

I agree the Lion Turtle was a giant piece of deus ex, but at the same time it was nice to symbolize Aang's frustrating attempts to find a nonlethal solution. Sure Aang could have just as easily learned it through communing with more and more prior avatar lives. However, that would have taken far more time than they had allotted to them. I have both grievances and compliments to Aang's meeting with the Lion Turtle, but that was far, far better than Korra not only receiving all of her bending back (and I still don't think blood bending would permanently seal bending anyway), learning how to commune with the spirit world, and spirit bending all at the end of season one in a series predicted to last four seasons long. It would have been an epic moment at the culmination of season four, but no. Season one. Blah.

I can understand what you're saying about Mako, I just kinda grunted when it happened I guess. Suddenly it shows Mako is apparently more powerful than I gave him credit for, so why couldn't he have been more proficient in Pro-bending (I understand that what I just wrote is a bit short-sighted and there are far vaster more things going on in that kind of sport to pay attention to. Tana just wants to complain a widdle bit.

The Noatok and Tarlok ending was beautiful I thought. And Mr. Mustache too was great. It seems like the antagonists were everything I wanted them to be and the protagonists showcased only things I didn't want to see. In season two there had better be more Iroh and Bumi. That's for damn sure. [/pout]  

[Gale OverDrive]

Tanakietsu

That's pretty criminal of whoever charged an amount so exponential to an account with so little. : My sympathies fratellone. Good luck with the claim too.

I hate to admit this, but I just saw the Avatar Korra season finale. In my opinion it was a huge let-down especially with setting up romantic interest so early in the (4 season) series. Also, I am disappointed that blood bending became so hot and cold. At times it was all powerful, but then all of a sudden it's overshadowed by lightning and air bending. I think they could have improved bloodbending by including self-bending to produce super-human results. After all, every other element has a clear method of "flight". Air bending = obvious; fire bending = see the new General Iroh / Previous Fire Lord Ozai; earth bending = essentially a spider-man method of flight. We saw that using blood bending a bender could control a living thing to the point of levitating it, a blood bender (with practice) should be able to blood bend themselves without causing bodily harm. [/rant]

*sighs* Ideas, ideas, ideas. I suppose this is why I keep writing. *shrug*

I think it's not that bloodbending was "overpowered" by the other bending powers, I consider it to be the person's pure force of will. Amon wasn't able to take Korra's airbending away because he didn't know she could do it in the first place. Magni's right with Mako's little sneak attack but that too was force of will.

From what I know of Tai Chi (I've been practicing three years), you can't apply blood bending on yourself because the limbs you use couldn't be moved in the way you wanted them if you were using them to move yourself in the first place (it's kinda confusing, I know, it's basically a paradox). And before you say that they're not moving any limbs to do blood bending, if you knew how Tai Chi stances work, you'd understand.

I have to agree with the whole rushed ideas/plot however, but what I'm really incensed about is the movement of the forms of bending from "ancient forms" (tai chi, praying mantis, xing yi, ba gua) to more "modern" (and might I say, more popular) martial arts (muay thai, taekwondo, karate, and even boxing, to name a few), much like in the way Bolin tells Korra that she'd be a sitting duck if she earth bended like she normally does.  

[Tanakietsu]

I see what you mean about self blood-bending and attempting to move the limbs simultaneously. That'll teach me to rant needlessly without sleep for 30+ hours. Sowwyz. 3:  

[Alexander Magnus]

 

[Tanakietsu]

Very, very cool. I especially enjoy SuperBolin.

Edit: Well, if what happened truly occurred the way it looked, there are going to be a lot of really upset Bleach Byakuya fanboys / fangirls.  

[Magni Prime]

Tanakietsu

Very, very cool. I especially enjoy SuperBolin.

Edit: Well, if what happened truly occurred the way it looked, there are going to be a lot of really upset Bleach Byakuya fanboys / fangirls.

thanks, found it on 4chan.

What's this about Byakuya?  

[Tanakietsu]

I'll let you find out on your own if you read the weekly manga updates. I'm not a big fan of doing the spoiling, though I don't mind saying there are things to be spoiled. *shrug and hug*  

[Alexander Magnus]

I actually have lost a fair amount of interest in the manga. Kind of a shame, but still true.  

[Alexander Magnus]

Wow. Quiet in here.

 

[Disturbing Tale Teller]

Goosey's going to Canada on Friday!
Visiting the Grandparents...  

[Alexander Magnus]

Sweetness for Goosey!

I'm headed down to my old stomping grounds in Texas at the tail end of this month.  

[Alexander Magnus]

still quiet.

The opposite of my FB account where I have been debating over gun control like a madman.  

[Tanakietsu]

So busy, busy, busy. Sorry Talon. n_n;