I agree, though less enthusiasticly. I nevr really like Makorra...
Lin: "You got out easy You should have seen Air Temple Island when Tenzin broke up with me..." LOL
I would really like to see what Beifong had done on Air Temple Island.
LIke what I said, Bolin's "calling" doesn't fit him. I think characters like Bolin should stay what they were "born to perform": Probending!
Also, after seeing the preview of Beginnings: Part 1, I could just say, welcome back Studio MIR!
We're probably meant to assume that Varrick is wrong about Bolin's "calling." BUT! It is pretty clear that Pro-Bending isn't it either. For starters, what were the 2 big drags on the plot in the last season? The love triangle & PRO-BENDING. It makes sense that it would be abandoned, it was just the group's backstory. It wasn't even something they'd aspired to do, it just served as a way to get them off of the street. Their first season was also plagued with problems, from a teammate dropping out, to being cheated out of their rightful victory, & only vindicated by a terrorist. Their first (legal) job wasn't their best job, in other words.
Yeah, I guess so.
Probending is just an opinionated thing. It's only a waste if you didn't like it. However, I don't think that a character's role should remain the same the entire series.
I did not say, "Waste," I said "drag on the plot." If you compare the screen time to the amount of plot it contributed, Pro-Bending is one of the most fillerrific parts of Book 1. It basically only served to make Mako, Korra, & Bolin a team, & then lead in to Amon's attack in on the Arena. "Spirit of Competition" was pretty blatantly "we have to get these matches out of the way so that we can move on."
And that was just last Book. What could Pro-Bending do from now on? It's confined to Republic City, so it makes it a problem if you want the characters to travel to other nations. As Bolin said, "the humiliating losing gets a little old." So what else do you have them do? Go through a season & win in typical sports movie fashion? I suppose Pro-Bending fans would like that, but it sounds like a shallow subplot. And without that win, Mako & Bolin clearly weren't getting paid enough to move out of the attic. And then their sponsorship money went down the drain when Hiroshi Sato was thrown in jail & Asami went nearly bankrupt. A lot of people also complained about the discrepancy of having this big threat & then breaking for SPORTS. In my opinion, this complaint is overstated, but it is nonetheless valid.
Remember how Doug kept comparing it to Quidditch? Well, I think he was wrong there, & the reason why Quidditch worked was because it was routinely used as a more interesting way to introduce something else than to just drop it in the reader's lap. For example, in "Goblet of Fire," it introduces the Portkey, the Death Eaters, & several supporting characters. There's nothing really "wrong" with Pro-Bending as a sport, Mike & Bryan just didn't make it in such a way that it could contribute to the plot beyond a few episodes. Quidditch has 7 players per team, most of them supporting, & thus easily replaced. Pro-Bending has 3, & in the case of the Fire Ferrets, they're all main characters. Most of the Harry Potter books are set in the same place, & even if they weren't, Quidditch exists elsewhere, & can even easily be played on an open field, provided that you can perform magic. Quidditch has equipment that can be tampered with by an antagonist. Pro-Bending, for the most part, does not. And so on.
I agree.
Immagine if You played soccer all the time for every fay in your life.
And if they make a show about you, soccer would be the plot. But if you were a detective who merely played soccer on the side, it would be competing for space.
I completely agree with the idea that probending is like Quidditch. It's how she met Bolin and Mako, it's how Asami became part of the team, and it showed how big of a threat the Equalists really were. Without it, the equalist plot could have never been carried out.