Divine

Toph. Just Toph Beifong

[Divine @VC_Divine]

Not really when bending got ruined.

[Dave @adewale_ad30628]

If Katara is considered great for being self taught
So what does that make Mako and Bolin since we don't know if they had masters and they both mastered their sub elements?
At least they're amongst the top tiers in the verse right?

[Divine @VC_Divine]

Man I miss when bending used to be cool as fuck.

[Divine @VC_Divine]

Given that TLoK ruined Bending in general, especially after Beginnings - Bolin just needed the motivation to tap into the magic power of lavabending.

Katara meanwhile spent a majority of the episode being taught by Hama to lead her into being a Bloodbender. Not the same thing.

[Dave @adewale_ad30628]

If you ever feel crazy just remember there are some avatar fans out there that thinks Katara learning blood bending one night is peak writing while Bolin learning lava bending is bad writing.

[Divine @VC_Divine]

Bolin doesn't even try to practice lavabending beforehand, or is indirectly taught more about earthbending to naturally lead into lavabending.

It's just a poor payoff to Bolin's arc of the season.

[SluYio @SluYiou7012]

九层之台起于累土
#atla #toph

[Divine @VC_Divine]

@Leo____Nard Has been a thing since the ToP.

[Divine @VC_Divine]

It would literally be redundant and stupid.

The Ultra Instinct forms have a limitless multiplier. It automatically causes the user to build up more and more ki to adapt and surpass their opponent.

[WALLPAPER SECRET VAULT 8K @kings7823]

Goku should get ssj4 stacked with ultra instinct for a ssj5 reference

[Divine @VC_Divine]

@YZY__chris @Demeros27 1/10 at absolute best.

[Huyen | Csm open @huyendan04]

I'm learning perspective, but it seems I'm not very good at applying it to people. Perspective is so difficult AAAAAAAAAA!

[Divine @VC_Divine]

of the previous. Some more than others, sure, but that's the inherent part of the job.

[Divine @VC_Divine]

So are we conveniently ignoring that Seven Havens is literally the next Avatar having to deal with the consequences of whatever Korra did to save and stabilize the world after saving it from a cataclysm?

The next Avatar will always have to deal with the unforeseen consequences-

[Keni Presh @leo_ukeni]

The entire narrative treats the severing of the past lives as Korra's ultimate failure, but the brutal truth is that the Avatar cycle had to be reset because the old system was structurally broken. 💀

For 10,000 years, the world was stuck in a stagnant, repetitive loop where every Avatar just spent their life fixing the direct macro-failures of their predecessor (Roku failed with Sozin, so Aang inherited a genocide; Aang left an unbalanced political vacuum, so Korra inherited a global revolution).

Keeping the past lives was just keeping a library of historic fumbles. The world evolved past them.

[Blaze Binges @BlazeBinges]

Supergirl in My Adventures with Superman Season 3

[Divine @VC_Divine]

I'm convinced if you hypothetically DB Minus or Chapter 1 Goku were in GT Goku's place and had the power to be relevant, they'd do an infinitely better job than this dumbnuts.

[Freeza @Freeza123456789]

悟空史上最悪の戦い。

超17号の気を感知できないのに、悟空は瞬間移動を使おうとした。

さらに、気弾を吸収すると分かっていながら撃ち続け、超17号を強化してしまった。

悟空らしくない愚かな戦闘描写。本来は戦闘の天才なのに、なぜ『GT』でこうなったのだろう。

[The Saiyan, Tyz @TyzTheSaiyan]

“Muh goku was sooooo smurt! Dbs gooko is stewpid cuzbeetus wuz monikka”

[Daniel-S @DanielS22R]

the slander is starting to get repetitive and also most of it isnt even true anymore. hop off my goat

[LEO_COMIC @orisha1808]

Beifong’s

[griffin_station @grifin_station]

What's most frustrating is how the show abandons the fundamental martial arts and Asian philosophy that the original series understood so deeply. Furthermore, the narrative introduces forced, unnatural romance, and the humor consistently lacks comedic timing. Korra's characterization remains immature throughout the series, and her mastery of bending, including accessing the Avatar State, feels unearned and nonsensical. By Season 2, the newly introduced Avatar backstory feels like a dismissal of the established lore, directly contradicting the grounded martial arts elements by treating bending like magical powers separated from martial arts. I would be fine if the Lion Turtles purely granted the ability to bend by opening their chakras or something like that, but their ability to use the element should need require learning of techniques, stances, and philosophical mindset, the benders just wield it instantly like magic. I don't care that Avatar Wan learns from a dragon because he already had the ability to firebend.

​Ultimately, the series comes across as disconnected from or heavily reductive towards the respect of the gravity of the Asian mythological roots by having everything be so heavily themed around the West among other symbolism being made horrifyingly blatant to the point of losing nuance. The idea that the light spirit Raava is the source of the Avatar State's power, rather than purely from the accumulated knowledge of generations of past Avatars, is a terrible choice that reduces the raw power and collective knowledge of multiple lives to just being about a light spirit. To then have the gall to basically erase those past lives from the Avatar State is completely useless to the narrative they were telling. Korra doesn't lose much in that moment because she has hardly connected with that side of herself. It's trying to escalate the drama without earning it. The fact that the original creators worked on Korra heavily suggests that the collective of other people on the original show were the actual talent behind it's brilliance, which would also explain why the new movie is so abysmal. The original series was lightning in a bottle and those two can't redirect the lightning into another one. While there is a plethora of issues to list, this lack of narrative consistency makes the series arguably worse than Dragon Ball GT. There's a reason those two left the Netflix series due to "creative differences". Their view of the series and desires for where to push it are abysmal and lacking proper critique internally and I wish the live action the best without their influence to ruin it.

[Garlick @sameramen22]

#atla #toph
Hold on im finding the ref

[Garlick @sameramen22]

#atla

[Huyen | Csm open @huyendan04]

#toph #atla 💪