Hey korra nation it's Charlie and Nick just posted an official trailer for the Legend
of Korra so I'm going to do a full breakdown of that.
A lot of you sent me links for the leaked episodes.
I'm not going to repost them so please don't post any pirate links in the comments.
I will explain why the leak happened and do some non-spoilery commentary on the episodes.
I'm not going to review them, just because it wouldn't be fair given the video quality
was bad and they were Chilean dubs with english subs re-translated, so a lot of the dialogue
was wrong.
It was a whole big thing but I'll explain after the trailer breakdown.
If you're finding me for the first time I do a ton of Korra videos, mostly when episodes
are airing.
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I'm going to be doing bonus videos on a weekly basis now that we have our first trailer and
they'll be airing episodes soon.
Those videos will probably be on Fridays or Saturdays.
Here we go, this breakdown will just be shot for shot through the trailer.
There's no dialogue in it, but it's enough to gage what some of the character relationships
and locations are.
First off, the new title sequence looks beautiful.
We see korra staring at Ba Sing Se, confirming that the Earth Kingdom is a big part of the
story.
Then we see what looks like a city made of metal, which makes some sense given that metal
bending has evolved to a much more sophisticated art form since Toph started training people.
We see Korra training with one of the new characters, we don't know her name but she's
dressed in Earth Kingdom clothing so she's might be one of a couple new core members
of Team Avatar.
Shout out for the Sky Bison we saw during Book 2.
Airbending is a much bigger part of Book 3, so it's only natural that we'd see a giant
herd of sky bison.
Speaking of which, here's a better shot at some of the new airbender disciples which
moves directly to Tenzin surveying an airbender temple in the distance.
We see someone sitting in prison implying that that long shot was actually tenzin staring
at an airbender jail.
Or a temple being used as a jail.
I think this next shot is just a follow up on the metal bending city we saw earlier with
the airships.
Everyone is wearing metal plating and that tower looks like it's also made of metal.
Here is where things get interesting, this is back in republic city as we can see from
Lin's Police Force.
That looks like Mako they're trying to arrest.
But why is he on top of a bridge?
Maybe he jumped off one of Asami's airships.
Otherwise he would have had to climb up there.
So this next shot is a pretty big deal, this is Bumi stopping a ball of air using airbending.
Which yes, doesn't make sense, but what I've heard is that Harmonic Convergence in Book
2 and the new spiritual balance between realms make all benders more powerful and turn some
non-benders from bending families into benders.
Like Bumi for instance, normally being the son of an avatar you'd expect him to be a
very powerful bender, but because the world was out of spiritual alignment during Aang's
time, bending in general was much less prevalent.
It's an example of how things from Book 2 will have consequences in Book 3 and 4.
I really like the idea of them paying off things like that.
Moving along, it looks like where at another prison in the Water Tribe.
This person looks like she has the same abilities as Combustion Man.
She might be related to him or just have randomly developed the ability from birth.
She definitely looks like she's being held in prison too.
This looks like another villain being kept in a prison, we can't see his face so there
isn't much context yet.
This looks like the female water bender villain everyone was talking about earlier this year.
We're seeing different types of benders in prison, so it looks like the main villains
will be a group of different benders being held separately based on their abilities.
Everybody cheer, because the water bending twins are back and it looks like they're helping
Tonraq and Zuko, one more cheer.
We saw Zuko in that leaked trailer a couple of months ago, so it's not a huge surprise
that he's in this trailer.
This is one of the other new recurring characters that will work with Team Avatar, it looks
like they'll be meeting him when they travel to Ba Sing Se.
Here we actually get a better look at the tattooed man doing those pullups.
It looks like he's chasing down Mako and Bolin.
It looks like the place there in is directly on top of a lava flow.
Here's a shot of Zuko riding his dragon.
This was actually part of the footage in that old leaked trailer but this is nice and shiny
HD footage.
More white lotus members chasing one of the villains down.
This person has a lot of similar features to Lin Beifong, so it might be a relative.
Were supposed to meet a lot of Beifong's family in Book 3.
This is a much better shot of the earth kingdom person korra was practicing airbending with.
It looks like she's part of Lin's police force in republic city.
Here's Kya looking like a badass taking down this airbender in the distance.
I know a lot of you were asking me if she was going to be in book 3 and now it's confirmed.
And she does way more than just heal people.
Asami is looking pretty badass, taking down someone from the earth kingdom.
Here's some much better context for that airbender jail I was talking about earlier.
It looks like this guy is one of the villains that the white lotus is holding.
All of you Korsami shippers will go nuts this season, it looks like Korra and Asami are
going to be spending some quality time together.
Here's the first shot of Lin in the trailer, she's staring at that Metal Bending city.
That might be the academy created by toph or just a fortress.
Lin is a huge part of book 3 and I'm super excited to learn more about her past.
Spirit form Jinora.
It looks like she's using the spirit world as a way to investigate an underground cave.
This is the first shot we've seen of Opal, the Earth Queen, she is the daughter of the
earth king from last airbender and it looks like she might not be super best friends with
team avatar even if she's not part of the villains.
Bad things always seem to happen to avatars who go to Ba Sing Se.
This actually looks like people training in the metal bending academy.
Here's Bolin running from that earlier explosion.
A lot of these trailer scenes are just taken from the same moments and spread out in this
trailer.
Here's that airbender villain that Kya was yanking out of the air with her waterbending.
Zuko looks like he's working with the white lotus and it's probably something to do with
all these villains in the different jails.
Metal Bending Korra for the win.
I can't remember the last time I saw her metalbend.
Here we see that the Dai Li are back and capturing Jinora, despite the fact the Earth King disbanded
them during Last Airbender.
Here's that new airbender character again.
He looks like he might have a fun time with team avatar when they first meet.
Kind of like when we first met toph as a child and she was't the friendliest person.
This is one of my favorite shots in the trailer, Korra is using her airbending to sail a desert
ship away from the Jaws of Sand Sharks.
Beifong in training, there isn't a lot of context, but there's got to be something happening
in the earth kingdom that's going to bring her back.
I'm guessing that will be part of the Dai Li plot and the white lotus villain plot will
be a totally different story.
This is mako fighting that evil waterbender, there's some scenes from later in the trailer
too.
Here's the first real shot of a spirit whale floating around in the physical realm.
Remember at the end of last season, spirits started to come back into the physical realm,
but this is the first shot of one in the trailer.
So here the action just builds into a series of different fight scenes all with that group
of villains the white lotus and zuko were trying to deal with.
This final shot is just a callback to all the spirit vines growing in republic city
last year.
And that's it, just for reference about 50% of that footage was what was in those leaked
episodes.
So it was really cool of them to release more new stuff.
Not just recycle the leaked footage.
The picture it generally paints is that there will be a team of villains made up of different
types of benders that the white lotus and Zuko will be dealing with.
That will probably be the main threat, then there's the earth kingdom plot, the earth
queen and the Dai Li.
That will probably be the B story, the one that will feature Beifong, Jinora and the
other side characters.
The didn't add a release date for the episodes in the trailer, but the first book 2 trailer
came about two months before the book 2 premiere.
So this could mean Nick is going to start airing episodes in august.
The other possibility is that because of the leak, they'll air them starting in July.
We'll have to wait and see.
Until episodes start airing, I'll just be doing weekly bonus videos.
But when episodes get here I'll do review videos and Q&As.
So about the leak, here's what happened.
You probably heard that the episodes were posted by Mundo Nick on their website.
That's the mexico office for nickelodeon.
Because most people think of tv shows in terms of seasons, they got confused because Nick
uses Books to denote different seasons of Korra.
So they were posting book 2 episodes on their website and mistakenly posted 4 episodes of
Book 3.
They were up for almost an entire day before they got taken down.
They were actually chilean dubs, not spanish.
Which is kind of weird, but whatever.
The quality of the animation this season looks amazing compared to Book 2, Studio Miir did
all the episodes, but the story plotting and character development is much much better
than book 2, so I think overall.
these new episodes will be the best Korra you guys have ever seen.
Now it's your turn though, let me know what you thought of the trailer and what your theories
are about the new villains.
The cool thing is that because book 3 and book 4 were ordered at the same time, there's
a good chance that the main villains will be part of both.
So the story will just carry over.
My next Korra video will just be a Q&A, I'll post that tomorrow.
So add all your questions in the comments.
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Thanks for watching, see you guys tomorrow.
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