I AM SO GLAD I CLOSED OUT OF THIS THREAD BEFORE I SAW THE EPISODE TODAY B/C THAT SPOILER but yeah, good episode
Yeah, a pin is pretty lame. :C I wonder if they'll add some more incentives for preordering later on. I know with 1.5 this was just that PS3 skin, but I'm hoping that they do eventually add something even a little bit more worthwhile.
That forum is for code threads about games not specific to the Kingdom Hearts series. It was added a while ago, probably with the intention to restructure the Code Vault. I'll bring it up to the Coders to discuss it and what they would like to do with it. LOCKED
hell yes i actually started playing again right before i saw this thread, lol
It's better for accessibility, that I can agree with, but as Haya said it is a cause of concern for the future. Nick has never released or made mention of how many viewers they've attracted for the show online. All view counts they have released and been concerned over, for both Korra and Avatar, have been of their televised premieres, despite additionally hosting the episodes online soon after. Why would they suddenly shift solely to online hosting if that is the case? While the move makes sense now given the televised viewer count is currently terrible, it is the fault of the network. Book 1 had a steady average of about 3.5 million at its initial timeslot for the series. There's no reason for then to have changed the timeslot three times just for Book 2 -- even when they saw it pulling in less views, why didn't they just move it back to the slot they knew would be more successful instead of seemingly throwing it wherever? I'm not disappointed about the move, but I am disappointed in the network for continually screwing around with the show when they knew they already had a successful slot for it, and somewhat worried about how they're going to be accounting for the online viewer count they've ignored up until now.
Posted, Nick can suck a peen at this point, lol. I:
To be honest, I think it's more because of the televised viewings that Book 2 & 3 have been pulling in rather than the quality of the show itself ( even though I agree Book 2 was poop :b ). The first Book of Korra averaged around 3.6ish million people; the first two episodes had the most draw (understandably) at 4.458 million viwers, but the viewers were still at a decent count and were pretty stable throughout the rest of the Book. The timeslot for the entire season was 11AM EST on Saturdays. Book 2 had a hit to the ratings from the get go; only 2.6 million viewers in the first two episodes. This was not only after a very lengthy hiatus, but Nick also pushed Korra into a new timeslot at 7PM on Fridays, which is usually around the time other channels to premiere their new episodes as well (and to a lesser extent, people go out on Friday nights) Then after about episodes 4 or 5, the slot was changed to 8:30 PM instead. Then after episode 8, it got changed again to 8PM. This isn't even to mention the disaster that was showing the LAST FOUR EPISODES online, a week before the two finale episodes were even supposed to air; the final episode was even finished barely three days before Nick put it up online. Book 3 was officially announced a week before it aired, and received hardly any kind of promotion. As a result, it received only 1.5 million viewers, and has been straggling below that ever since. I've seen and heard of people who had no idea Korra was back until last week's episodes aired. My brother has to ask me when Korra is on, and he watches Nickelodeon regularly! It's important to note that Nick, for whatever reason, also does not count online viewings as part of the total for Korra. They have it, they just don't report it. Which is incredibly odd, and has been leading even more credence to the prevalent thought that Nick just does not give a **** about the show anymore. Even though Books 1 and 2 were pretty poor, there is absolutely no way that over two million people just up and dropped the show because they didn't like the first two seasons. I could imagine 500,000, maybe even closer to 1 million dropping it because it isn't what they wanted, but to explain a discrepancy of that many people, there is something bigger happening behind the scenes, and it is definitely Nick's doing. Nick has been running an absolute ****show with Korra, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was the last of the Avatar world that they end up producing on the network.
There was a poll: http://kh-vids.net/threads/question-time-poll.147280/
For the next year yes also we should TOTALLY have a special staff's parents/guardians questions podcast with lexi's mom and jayn's grandpa, my life won't be complete without it
I woke up the minute the podcast started so I was pretty out of it when it came for me to speak when I had, lmao. However, I totally didn't say as much on Avatar as I meant to convey, so for your reading pleasure: The period of time in the 2000s were kind of a weird slump in cartoons as said in the podcast, although I think this was the perfect time for Avatar to come when it did. I've been watching it since it had premiered in early 2005, and while I wasn't all that captivated by the first couple of episodes, as time went on and I stuck with it, it has probably become my favorite animated series, up there with stuff like Batman Beyond, Teen Titans, and so on. Just like Adventure Time has important cultural, social, and personal anecdotes for both children and adults, Avatar: the Last Airbender had the same magnanimous presence within children's cartoons during the mid 2000s. As a series, it dove into so many heavy and dark topics. Within the first three episodes, it brings up the reality of the systematic genocide of the Air Nomads and explores the ramifications that it has not only on the rest of the world, dealing with the disruption in the balance of the Four Nations, but also Aang, who must deal with his survivor's guilt, his loneliness at being the last of his people, and the sheer weight upon Aang's shoulders to hold onto the entirety of his lost culture so he can live to one day, hopefully, revitalize it. There's also the exploration of family dynamics, and showing that the nuclear family doesn't have to be restricted to blood, that it can allow and embrace people whom you love and cherish and truly see as familial members. Exploration of systematic abuse and discrimination of various groups of people, from both the oppressors and the oppressed who seek vengeance upon the initial oppressors. Exploration of the entirety of its world, and how there are despicable people no matter where you go. Exploration of dealing with the cards you're dealt in life, that you don't have to be any one thing and how you have the freedom to choose the person you want to become. There's a lot of stuff I can talk about, but that is good enough for an overview, lol. On the characters, Avatar handles women so well. They show their flaws and their strengths, show a wide variety of emotions, their ambitions, their fears, triumph and make mistakes, and so on -- whether the women are heroes or villains. ****, a girl single-handedly destroyed the patriarchal notions of her entire nation! Legend of Korra itself, despite its shortcomings in Books 1 and 2, explore Korra's internal struggles to define for herself what it means to be the Avatar rather than allow the title to define her, to find self acceptance and self love within herself, an important message especially for disenfranchised women. Likewise, and something I also consider very important for children, is that Aang isn't the typical overconfident, brooding male protagonist that we as media consumers have become accustomed to seeing. Aang is pacifistic, he is against committing senseless violence, he laughs, he dances, he cries -- he is shown to shirk away from his powers and duty out of fear, displays his emotions frequently. He cries when a baby is born before his eyes and is never made to feel 'emasculated' or treated as lesser than more masculine male characters. It's important to let young boys & men know that they are able, can, and should, express themselves and not keep everything holed up inside out of fear, and Aang is such a good example and role model of this. Lastly, and of importance again, Avatar & Korra never baby their audience or talks down to them in any way. Even with these concepts and themes explored, it presents them (and even the cultural differences due to the heavy Asian influence) in a way both children and adults can understand and have an active conversation about. When A:TLA still aired and I was 12, I would always talk to my aunt about it, and even now when rewatching episodes, I still find or feel new things that I hadn't even considered or looked at before. So yeah. I consider Avatar: the Last Airbender as rightfully one of the best Western animations produced. Legend of Korra, even though its first two Books did flounder a bit with regards to a number of things, still features exploration of these topics, good role models, and with Book 3 currently airing, is returning to a similar feeling & thoughtfulness of its predecessor. He meant that weekly releases for anime series are usually produced on a weekly basis. Each new episode is made weekly; in Kill la Kill, for example, the animation for the final episode was finished 12 hours before the finale was broadcast on television. With Westerm animation, the episodes are usually finished weeks or months in advance. Bryan Konietzko, one of the creators of Avatar and of Korra, frequently talks on his Tumblr about the process of making the episodes, and how they were working simultaneously on the animation and everything for Books 3 and 4 while Book 2 was in its later stages. Although, the final episodes of Book 2 are a pretty rare example of cutting it close like Kill la Kill in that they were broadcast on Nick's site the day the animation and everything was finished (although this is mostly Nick's fault since the online thing was a last minute thing the studio came up with).
AMELIE WAS SO GOOD
Toooootally against Kairi being killed for the reasons stated. If I had to wager on one of the good guys permanently losing themselves to make a sacrifice, it'd definitely be Terra. With Xehanorts running amok, the BBS trio/Roxas/Xion (?) in line to be saved, and the entire KHverse at stake, this could easily be the pinnacle moment of Terra's redemption, a way to right his mistakes from the past and give Sora, Aqua, and everyone else a chance to finish Xehanort off for good.
goddammit why did I not fill out nominations for the general categories ;~;
nice avatar, meme
have you SEEN @basilissa's muscles she can crush 20 elephants between her fingers
Nova made it but after nominations were all said & done. also JAYN because she would be a cool guest and also her grandpa can too
Anything. It's less about what you're a fan of and more about how much of a fan in general you are.
how am i even on this poll, I'm a turkey kinda guy
nobody touches dindin w/o her consent or you deal with me
where the **** is RvR in this JanJam.
