Korra Vs Aang as characters

[SushiDipped]

How did you let this become a dumb disucssion on Anime? Really lame.

Okay 9 posts, tell me more.

Thread title says "Korra vs Aang as Characters" and you're trying to teach people about anime.


I think Korra has potential to surpass Aang. Mostly because of those curves though

[BlackInk]

How did you let this become a dumb disucssion on Anime? Really lame.

Liking how you comment on this when it's over and people is back on topic again.

Oh my.. now I did it..

I think Aang was slighty more interesting after the first two episodes because you had no idea who he was. I mean of course you knew he was the Avatar even though he didn't say but you didn't know any backstory, nothing about family, why the hell he was glowing in an ice-berg and how he could have been there a hundred years. But there is really nothing you're asking yourself about in Korra's past.

Those things add a little mystery to Aang as a character.

[Mindbender]

How did you let this become a dumb disucssion on Anime? Really lame.

Shh! They just moved on from talking about it! Your going to re-derail this whole thread all over again!

Aang vs. Korra. Hm...if only Aang was around in Republic City. He'd save anything.

I think that's the point. Republic City has fallen into imbalance and political and socioeconomic disarray BECAUSE Aang hasn't been around for 17 years to keep the city together.

[QiBreezy]

Yuh, so Anime right? See, IMHO... lol.

OK, so here's the thing, according to tradition, Avatars are informed of their abilities at the age of 16. They broke this tradition with Aang which is why he freaked and fled. Is this just Air Nomad tradition or is it for all Avatars? If so, how come Korra was aware of her anointment way before her coming of age? Do you think this lead to her hard-headed cockiness and hence the reason she finds it difficult to connect to the spiritual side of bending?

[BlackInk]

Yuh, so Anime right? See, IMHO... lol.

OK, so here's the thing, according to tradition, Avatars are informed of their abilities at the age of 16. They broke this tradition with Aang which is why he freaked and fled. Is this just Air Nomad tradition or is it for all Avatars?

That's how it works in all the nations, Avatar Roku was told on his 16th birthdayparty for example.

I think she discovered it for herself by actually bending all the elements as a child. And you might on to something there, knowing she is the Avatar might have over-boosted her confidence as a child giving her her attitude.

[QiBreezy]

Yuh, so Anime right? See, IMHO... lol.

OK, so here's the thing, according to tradition, Avatars are informed of their abilities at the age of 16. They broke this tradition with Aang which is why he freaked and fled. Is this just Air Nomad tradition or is it for all Avatars?

That's how it works in all the nations, Avatar Roku was told on his 16th birthdayparty for example.

I think she discovered it for herself by actually bending all the elements as a child. And you might on to something there, knowing she is the Avatar might have over-boosted her confidence as a child giving her her attitude.

So i suppose what we can get out of this is that she's a natural with the physical aspect of bending, but because she started so early, she wasn't able to grasp the spiritual side, being that her mental capacity at such a tender age was fairly limited thus disabling her from grasping intangible concepts of the elements - 17 years of pure physical training and no spiritual guidance is going to make it difficult for her to reach the avatar state (by will, at least) - nice lil spin there, Konietzko/DiMartino. I feel we will find more depth with Korra in the coming episodes.

[BlackInk]

I feel we will find more depth with Korra in the coming episodes.

Indeed.

And everything else you said is pretty much my theory too, except I hadn't thought it through that thoroughly before.

[EcoBending]

Well, while we're talking about the general lack of angstiness in the series so far, there is something in one of the trailers that seems to be the first big turning point as far as an inner conflict goes (Of course, this is mostly speculation, and a lot of it could be wrong). In one clip, it shows four captured benders on some sort of trial by the anti-benders. I dont know if anyone else here noticed, but Bolin is one of the prisoners (The one to the far right, I think). In another part, it shows Bolin being electrocuted by one of the anti-bender soldiers.

Obviously, this means that something terrible is going to happen to him, or at the very least make the anti-benders directly associated with just about the only thing that has caused her to really fear losing someone, or having any real cause for worry at all. This could cause her to have a very different struggle from Aang, who always had something to worry about, and therefore be a little more used to having to deal with such large amounts of stress.

[klassickasey]

Does anyone else see a parallel between Korra and Siddhartha Gautama?

While Aang was a survivor of a entire holocaust against the Air Nomads, Korra grew up in complete peaceful isolation.

While Aang was already aware of the horrors that humanity can unleash and the suffering people go through since he himself was a victim of ethnic cleansing, Korra by comparison is naive and seems completely unaware of such things.

I have a feeling she's going to go through a spiritual journey mirroring the first Buddha, a sheltered well-raised person being exposed to the suffering of others.

I actually think she's very similar to Aang because she's so energetic and hungry for adventure and exploration.

The way I think of it is that the Avatar Spirit incarnates into a human form and has a set personality and emotional characteristics, but the way it is raised alters it's personality while still retaining some core traits.

Plus the Avatar Spirit is probably growing and maturing with every Avatar and so develops as a singular person with one life history, just through many different people. It doesn't reset with every incarnation, but rather carries the developments to it's personality from previous lives. It would then make sense that every incarnation is different because they're each an individual stage of the Spirit's life.

Overall, I'd say I actually like her a lot more than I did Aang initially. Just within the first two episodes I found myself loving and relating to her perfectly, while with Aang's series I related more to Katara's perspective and took some episodes to really warm to Aang. Another thing is that ATLA was more of an assemble cast while LoK seems more focused on Korra as a protagonist with her sidekicks. We'll see though as more characters are introduced.

[johnpmadrigal]

I still think its too early to compare. We have only seen 2 eps. I'm trying not to completely compare this to the ordinal. But so far so good!