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Topic	Avatar: Seven Havens announced (new animated series)
KamikazePotato 02/23/25 3:36:50 PM #109:	foolm0r0n posted... If they invent a bending grenade, that would kinda suck. I think that's what people don't like about tech in fantasy magic. ATLA magic required you to learn a beautiful IRL-inspired martial arts form in order to do the water whip or lightning bend. They spent multiple episodes on learning and exploring those techniques and it had real weight in the story. While in the sci-fi setting any ol shmuck can just throw the water whip grenade or lightning grenade. Korra already had that with pro bending, it was reduced to fire punch, water punch, earth punch. Lightning was reduced to a dayjob chore. That's a big reason people didn't like it as much, even though it did have strong thematic and narrative reasoning. S3 with the red lotus and the metalbenders brought back the beautiful bending and it was awesome. 100% correct Also all the examples prople are coming up with of 'neat' ways to make bending relevant in space are boring as sin. Ship maintenance? Grenades? None of that is inherently interesting. --- It's Reyn Time. <cite>KamikazePotato posted [p:984143382] in Avatar: Se... [t:80938279]...</cite> <quote>foolm0r0n posted... </cite><quote>If they invent a bending grenade, that would kinda suck. I think that's what people don't like about tech in fantasy magic. ATLA magic required you to learn a beautiful IRL-inspired martial arts form in order to do the water whip or lightning bend. They spent multiple episodes on learning and exploring those techniques and it had real weight in the story. While in the sci-fi setting any ol shmuck can just throw the water whip grenade or lightning grenade.Korra already had that with pro bending, it was reduced to fire punch, water punch, earth punch. Lightning was reduced to a dayjob chore. That's a big reason people didn't like it as much, even though it did have strong thematic and narrative reasoning. S3 with the red lotus and the metalbenders brought back the beautiful bending and it was awesome.</quote>100% correctAlso all the examples prople are coming up with of 'neat' ways to make bending relevant in space are boring as sin. Ship maintenance? Grenades? None of that is inherently interesting. --- It's Reyn Time.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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