I'm the avatar and you gotta deal with itFollow

Yeah, they did a great job of keeping Sokka relevant up until this point (meaning, the episode I'm at).

Oh, hello there leaked first episode.

Now, I didn't watch that because spoilers for the first series, I assume, and I'm only a dozen or so episodes in. But there it is, and enjoy it before it's taken down.

Very happy that Katara mellowed with age. She was especially annoying at the end of the last series.

Also, that polar bear dog thing is awesome. Not nearly as cool as Momo and Appa, but still.

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It's like Avatar meets Baccano, and that's all kinds of awesome.

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Toph's daughter isn't nearly as cool as Toph was. Srsly.

Edited, Mar 18th 2012 5:07pm by idiggory

I kind of expected a "everyone is the opposite of their proxy" thing going. Aang was pretty reserved and full of self doubt while Korra is boisterous and self assured to a fault. He didn't really care for the Avatar title, whereas Korra is all over it like white suburban teenagers on ricer cars. Toph was what Korra is, where as her daughter is no nonsense and serious about her duties. Hell, Tenzen is the opposite of Sokka, even with the trademark Beard Strokeâ„¢. They're both intelligent, but Tenzen is serious whereas Sokka is a clown. I don't doubt there will be more examples as the series goes on.

As an aside, all the rumors I had read seem to be entirely true, and being confirmed in the first episode makes it pretty awesome. My favorite part, so far, is the music. I thought, when I first saw it, that Republic City would be my favorite aspect of the new show (Spoilerlike I said earlier, it is New York, complete with the Statue of Liberty/Aang and the Brooklyn Bridge), but I found myself really enjoying the swing music.

Long After Edit: I have no idea why I wrote Sorra instead of Sokka. Twice in fact.

Edited, Mar 20th 2012 5:10pm by lolgaxe

I can't remember, did Aang ever actually learn about using lightning?

But honestly, when I think about Iroh explaining how incredibly different controlling lightning is to normal fire bending, and then Toph's explanation of metal bending, it would not shock me at all if there are some people hiding around in this series that have taken lightning control and turned it into a full form of bending, distinct from firebending, the way metalbending is distinct from earthbending. Lightningbending sounds wonky, though... Thunderbending? Stormbending? And now I'm remembering something else, bloodbending isn't really waterbending's analogue to lightning/metal, I think the plantbending that those swamp waterbenders did would fit much better, especially given the noticeable differences between the way they did their waterbending compared to Katara and Aang's waterbending. I'd love to see some plantbenders make a come back in the new series, too...

But this series definitely looks even more promising now that I've seen the first episode... Like, it met all my already high expectations, and then exceeded them, in a single episode...

Water's analogue was healing.