Gowi

I'm on a classic movie marathon.

code gary said
two pages in and you get a bunch of people who vote their favorites as classics and copy paste their imdb list. wtf guys. feel like im on /r/film or something

Not my IMDB list, but okay. Would your lord, King of spam prefer I explain why I like and therefor reccomend each film? Would you like an analysis on what I feel are classics (as well as favorites?) Hell, you aren't the OP so why do I even care. :F

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Sloth said
I'd assume it'll still be hard for Bolin to generate lava even with three years of training? Unless of course he just spent 24 hours a day training, which doesn't quite seem his style.

“Hey Mako, I’ll be back I have to go risk my life and find a volcano to play with!”

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Gowi: Combustion bending is literally forming energy beams out of Chi.

Yeah, I understand how it works. But even in TLA I hated how they were written and designed. They make sense, but I think they are wonky and I don't like them conceptually.

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Sole said
I think it makes sense because the atoms of each controlled element can be excited with friction to change form.Inb4 the writers make a plasma bender out of the air benders.

Plasma would be the next step from lightning, if you ask me.

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I don't like the idea we are holed up in a supermarket, but that's probably just me. I think a mobile group is more interesting than a stationary one.

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K-97 said
It's likely that Ghazan was using friction to melt the rocks into lava, I imagine it would work like rubbing you legs to warm them up or rubbing two sticks together to produce a fire. Except instead of two sticks you are rubbing every individual ''rock particle'' in the targeted area together in order to generate massive amounts of heat; the result of which melts the rock into lava.

That's a point I hadn't really thought about, I actually like this theory a lot. Though, as Sloth said that doesn't explain Bolin, but that's a whole other mess of "why". As far as Larfleeze's concept of genetics goes: I've always liked the idea, but I haven't seen much of it made sense of in the continuity. I mean that would've made Kya have an entirely unique style of waterbending if 1+1=2 but then again maybe it's not always a 100% hybrid bending gene or whatever? I don't know, it's a mess.

I still don't like waterarms or combustion girl in any form.

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Hank said
Waterbenders can turn water into ice or heat it up into steam. There's no reason earthbenders shouldn't be able to do the same to their respective element. The fundamental mechanics behind it are , because that's what it is.

Magic and Martial Arts; but yeah, you're right on that point.

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Sloth said
Actually all Sozin did was redirect pure heat from a volcano via firebending, which makes sense since Firebenders have been shown to manipulate steam and so on. The only bender shown to actually manipulate lava before Ghazan and Bolin was an Avatar in a flashback who made a trio of volcanoes erupt. To me, it seemed to be a clear example of "Only the Avatar can do that." since lava came across as a mixture of both Earth and Fire. Granted, waterbenders have been able to control all phases of the element (ice, mist, etc.) so Earthbenders doing something similar isn't horrible (IE: Sandbenders, if that counts at all) I just didn't enjoy what I interpreted as "Avatar only bending" being given to a villain and thrown at a mediocre character because "Well apparently he can't metalbend."

Right, I was thinking about the Pre-Roku Avatar, though I could've sworn Sozin had some control over it but I'll have to rewatch Series 1 to see why I'm remembering it like that. But yeah, the problem I had with Ghazan's lavabending (which was more magmabending if you ask me) was how does an Earthbender heat up Earth to turn it into that? What are the fundamental mechanics behind it? Earthbenders don't deal with temperature but mineral content. Again I think it was poor hindsight on the writers part with them making characters powerful enough to fight the Avatar (and win) but without explanation of their ability.

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Larfleeze said
Wasn't she bending with her shoulders and spine? I don't see how a character overcoming their major disability and still be a formidable fighter is stupid.

Which given how waterbending form is shown mechanically to work made little sense to me. There's a lot of bending of the elbows and wrists to bend water in the martial form if you remember. It's not "overcoming a disability" that I dislike, it's changing the fundamental mechanics of how bending works to make a villain seem "badass and cool".