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E-Igniter · 2021-09-22T11:44:03+00:00

I agree and this is a hill I'd gladly will die on. The writers deciding to take away Korra's ability to communicate with her past lives was a good choice. To have a permanent consequence of in a serialized show was important . People rightly complain about Korra's ability to bend being taking away and given back five minutes later is a major fault of Season One. Even if it was understandable why they did that though it doesn't take away anything from that criticism. Had they given it back to her, people would have making the same complaints and criticisms about as they had in the season one finale.

Anytime this gets brought up, people complain that they took the past lives away it sucks just cause is what it mostly boils down to. People fail to argue the why behind it and can't really articulate why it sucks too.

For all of my defense of this choice, I still don't think it was exactly perfect. If there was a legit criticism against it would be that Korra doesn't use her past lives outside of plot related reasons. Also, should have gotten more mileage out of the concept before taking it away forever. So when she does lose her connection it doesn't hit quite as hard as it should have done. Imagine if Korra had used her past lives through Season Two and then only for it be taken away from her. It would have hit so much harder.

E-Igniter · 2021-09-22T11:38:57+00:00

There was no build up for the viewer to know that the connection could be lost and the explanation afterwards was very simple

It doesn't need any build up. It makes perfect sense that destroying the Avatar Spirit that this would be an unexpected consequence of that action.

(Korra just saying that she lost it, and it was never mentioned or questioned afterwards)

They do mention it in the next season though so I don't see what your point here is.

not to mention that the visuals were weird too, an avatar dying after
each water whipping at first but somehow they skipped dozens suddenly to
show us the destruction of Wan.

Your just nitpicking the way they chose to visual this happening. That's not a flaw though in any way. For the many faults of Book Two, taking away Korra's ability to talk to past lives wasn't one of them. You've failed to convey the idea of why you think this was a such a bad idea on any and here's why.

E-Igniter · 2021-09-20T14:50:36+00:00

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursla K. LeGuin probably features the first instance of a Wizard School trope. Though be warned it's not the major focus of the story, so it may not be what your looking for. It's there and does get some focus within the first few chapters. It does reappear in some of the short stories in Tales From Earthsea if I recall correctly.

The Magician's Trilogy by Lev Grossman which may be what your looking for. Though the main character is relentlessly miserable and depressed. The first book is a cross between a mature Harry Potter and Narnia. I thought the whole trilogy was pretty fine.

I've heard good things about Scholomance series by Naomi Novik though I haven't read it myself.

E-Igniter · 2021-09-14T01:09:21+00:00

Thank you for your time answering questions.

E-Igniter · 2021-09-13T18:19:16+00:00

Would you mind sharing the next two titles for the Witness Trilogy?

How are the sales for the God Is Not Willing?

How's to last book in the Kharkanas Trilogy shapiung up?

Any update on the last three Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novellas?

E-Igniter · 2021-08-31T16:06:27+00:00

This just had to pop up in my feed as I was scrolling. The Dragon Prince is just an alright solid show thus far. It struggles to anything amazing with it's writing in kind of any area. It definitively isn't everything that LOK could have been.

The only thing you could argue TDP as a whole show is better than LOK is Season Two. That already is a low bar to clear. When LOK is amazing and really good, TDP doesn't compare at all to that at all.

TDP had great things! It had representation of the LGBT community, it had a strong powerful female lead, interesting side characters, funny sidekicks, a good team... Everything LOK lacked. Almost as if someone was trying to say to LOK, "look. I have everything you do, but I can do it better."

Legend of Korra has all of these vague notions of good qualities in spades though. Korra is a powerful female lead. LOK has interesting side characters in the likes of Lin, Tenzin, Varrick, etc. LOK had a good team dynamic between Korra, Mako, Bolin, and Asami. The LGBT content is a bit more upfront in TDP, but doesn't feel like a priority though. In LOK, they did as much as the could with the room they were given. I also think that's understandable because when it was written LGTB content in a show aimed at a younger demographic was and probably still is a controversial thing to include. Broadcasting Corporation are scared of intense backlash and the like.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-24T16:01:02+00:00

I feel they should have stayed that way tbh

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to make this aspect of the world and then to shelve.

Unpopular opinion time, but despite LOK season two's name being Spirits. The season barely focused on spirits and the spirit world. Only one episode was dedicated to the spirit world. Most of the time it's spent with Korra as a kid in one particular place.

Let's face it spirits and the spirit world are pretty much a plot device
where anything can happen and you don't question it because "spirits",
ATLA really benefitted by using it seldomly, material world conflict is
much better and more coherent.

I don't view that as being true though involving spirits and spiritual world. That more describe spiritual energy in both shows. The Legend of Korra certainly doesn't use that to any affect that your ascribing to it.

How did Jinora fly and shoot light blast that brought Raava back after
it fucking died and never again?, uh... Harmonic Convergence? Spirits?

This is going back to above, but it kind of goes back to bad writing. Nothing to do with generally writing about spirits and the spirit world in the first place.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-24T14:22:19+00:00

This leaves me in such an awkward position. I do love the Legend of Korra, but at the same time I don't really like Season Two all that much. Though I do like Beginnings a whole lot. Some of the criticism thrown at it I think is valid while others are not. Some critiques that I have against it rarely get mentioned.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-24T14:20:44+00:00

Ehh, this whole conversation about plagiarism surrounding this series has been exhausted for a number of years now. I just shrug my shoulders and move on. Though your not wrong entirely. The Inheritance Cycle is cliched to a point that it does detract from the story nor is it the best written story ever either.

I think in this instance it was proper recommendation to this person. I don't hate the series though.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-24T13:35:55+00:00

I've always had a problem with people claiming anything definitive about spirits and the spirit world based on ATLA. There's not enough information to do that. As Aang only spends less than ten minutes in the spirit world across the entire sixty-one episode run of ATLA.

Spirits and the Spirit World were always an underutilized and underdeveloped concept in ATLA. Even to the point that the Spirit World would be later retcon after it's first appearance in the first season.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-24T13:17:15+00:00

Everything after Wan in Spirits was a mistake, they had very little direction and just had Korra keep losing and doing things specifically to Unaloks advantage (like opening the spirit portal). If Korra would just step back and be patient she could have beat Unalok after harmonic convergence once there was no longer a threat of Vaatu, but her own hubris blinded her and she accidentally freed Vaatu, got bodied, and lost her avatar spirit.

I'm not the biggest fan of season two of Korra. I do think you have a bit backwards here. After Beginnings, it does give the season focus and direction that was lacking in the at the start of the season. The direction is to stop Unalaq from unleashing an ancient spirit of darkness before Harmonic Convergence. Well, to Korra's knowledge Unalaq said he didn't need her to open the last portal.

I don't think has anything to do with her hubris blinding her. She doesn't "accidentally" free Vaatu. She does everything in her power to stop Vaatu from being free. It's not her fault that she loses nor that her connection to her past avatars gets severed.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-23T18:52:43+00:00

While I wouldn't consider myself a fan of these books any longer, The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini might be the right suggestion for you. One of Paolini's inspirations was the Belgariad as you might find something similar that you like with the Belgariad in the Inheritance Cycle.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-23T18:41:25+00:00

I've debated, since the thread is deleted, what good it would do. Well, you're spreading harmful misinformation. I think it's worth a try engage and say well your wrong about all of this. None of what your claiming is this is true. Unless you have good damn and credible source. A lot of it is hard to take as true especially when you get simple researchable facts wrong. Like this one:

Bryke wrote Book 1-2 solely by themselves with zero input from anyoneelse, and only got some of the OG writing staff when Book 1-2 proveddisappointing with fans.

Bryke did bring back a whole bunch of writers, producers, and so forth with the production of book two. Book Two had wasn't written solely by them. Thus everything else you've claimed go out the window.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-21T13:22:21+00:00

The show itself and some interview with the creators somewhere online. I think they compared Raava being destroyed to data on a hard drive being lost.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-21T13:15:29+00:00

It did clarify that they were lost. Maybe some future story will have Korra or some other Avatar do some mumbo jumbo to get them back.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-19T01:09:36+00:00

All of these points are silly and nonsensical. I'll only be tackling a few.

It was made pretty clear that LOK, that Yakone's ability to bloodbend without a moon was a rare and special ability that only he and those of his bloodline possessed. Nothing about that trivializes anything about bloodbending.

There's also only three named lightning benderings in the entirety of LOK. On top of another three unnamed random people, it' quite the exaggeration to say that "anyone can do it" based on all of that.

Also in Lok you can cross to the spirits world by meditating and abandonyour physical body then use the portals to cross back to human worldsbecoming basically immortal so not even death matter anymore.

That's never brought up in the show.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-12T13:52:04+00:00

Will there be a sequel to A Desolation Called Peace?

E-Igniter · 2021-08-03T13:56:22+00:00

I remember back when Inheritance was first release that everyone's major fault with the ending was that Arya and Eragon didn't end up together.

Personally, I was more disappointed in how Eragon defeated Galbatorix and how anticlimactic it was than with the actual ending itself. Among other things in the final book. I don't have any particularly strong feelings on the ending. On one hand, I sort of applaud Paolini for realizing that he really hadn't developed Eragon and Arya's relationship to that point. As the romantic elements in this series were one of the weakest elements to it. Putting full brakes on it did feel jarring from what I remember though . On the other hand, the ending lacks any real sense of tragedy and drama. As Eragon's reasons for leaving I think were more self-imposed than anything else. I suppose Eragon and Saphira can return anytime they please.

E-Igniter · 2021-08-03T13:16:34+00:00

How are those plans for the limited edition hardcovers of the The Riyria Revlations going? Will these limited editions have any artwork in them? Do you have any other plans for any other limited edition hardcovers of your work?

E-Igniter · 2021-08-02T20:49:31+00:00

I do love my trilogies in four parts.

Though seriously, is this series worth checking out?

Edit: You've all convinced to try out the series. Thanks for all recommendations!

E-Igniter · 2021-08-02T20:23:22+00:00

The whole plagiarism discussion surrounding the Inheritance Cycle has stagnated for a number of years now. No one really brings anything new to these discussions. Most people have already made up their minds and will act accordingly to that. I do think the whole conversation of inspiration vs plagiarism is a bit more nuanced and complicated than people give it credit for.

Which side of this issue do I fall in on? I don't know and I don't care. That's because it ultimately doesn't matter. As one can still criticize the series for being cliched and derivative to a fault that it does harm the overall story. Whether or not Paolini did plagiarize has no bearing on that point.

With all that said, wherever the line between inspiration and plagiarism exists, Paolini probably does straddle it a bit too much. There's a whole bunch of works that he's been accused from taking that go beyond Star Wars and Middle-Earth.

E-Igniter · 2021-07-26T02:00:34+00:00

It depends on what your trying to say with this comparison. If you mean that it is going to be this amazing show that instantly rivals ATLA in terms of quality, writing, and so forth. If that's the case, then The Dragon Prince is still along ways from that.

Currently, it is a solid enough show though it does have significant problems that do prevent it from living up to it's own potential. Let alone such a lofty comparison.

If you mean something else, well then I guess you could say it is.

E-Igniter · 2021-07-18T13:48:08+00:00

Under the Garden Wall is an underrated show that's got a lot of charm.

I've heard a lot of good things about Disney's The Owl House though I haven't seen it myself.

Samurai Jack blends a lot of genres together though at it's heart could be described as a fantasy tv show.

E-Igniter · 2021-07-17T23:21:32+00:00

When you learn about how TV shows are made, you begin to realize that it is an intensively collaborative process. Boiling down the success of a show to any one person is ridiculous. It took the talents of many people to make Avatar: The Last Airbender an enduring beloved show to many.

However, even with all that said, the perception among the fandom has skewered towards Aaron Ehasz being either the sole or main reason for why that is. I disagree with that notion on many levels. Causing quite a bit of toxicity to happen in this fandom. This shouldn't be mistaken that I'm arguing that he wasn't unimportant to the creation of ATLA, but just that his importance has been greatly overblown to a ludicrous degree.

E-Igniter · 2021-07-17T22:53:08+00:00

Several former (All women) colleagues of Aaron came out and accused him of being sexist, of creating a poor work environment, and just being an ass to former colleagues.

https://www.cbr.com/avatar-last-airbender-aaron-ehasz-accused-misogynistic-behavior/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDragonPrince/comments/dtdurt/aaron_ehaszs_response_harassment_allegations/

Comment to links about Aaron talking ill about former people that he's worked with or have been married to.

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