Oh-ho... So the prototype concept for the first Avatar series became the sequel's premise instead. Doesn't look like there's anything else being revealed here, so let's see how well it'll do, come the first episode.

I sort of wished they'd done this MANY Avatar cycles beyond the original.

I had a theory about what could happen with bending due the effects of globalization and the blurring of country borders. Bending supposedly comes from elements of genetics and cultures, so perhaps with some cultures being superseded by a more dominant international culture, as well as the relationships between members of all the various nations, perhaps we could see situations in which bending takes on a different form, or perhaps dualbenders could emerge.

Hell, there's your story involving the Avatar right there, perhaps the spirit world is pissed at all of this change, and the Avatar is stuck with being both a member of a brand new world as well as being a symbol of the old ways, and has to choose between them.

Of course, since this isn't very far in the future, I don't really see that happening.

Do Want eighty-year-old extreme badass Grandma Toph.

>>3231

Now I want that, too.

>>3231
I wonder how the group handled Aang's death...

>>3233

>Aang's death...

You know Age, some of us hadn't seen the end of the first one..

>>3234

The Avatar role is only passed on with death and thus reincarnation.

Thus, if there's a new Avatar, Aang died at SOME point. That's what he's saying.

>>3235

Oh.

>>3228

Fuck yes!

Aang may be back in a way. Aang did meet and get help from his past life, so the same could happen to Korra.

>>3237

Well, if we go from the first series, it's pretty common for an Avatar to get a lot of guidance from their most recent incarnation, thus why Aang talked to Roku a lot. (Of course that may have been special circumstances, but who knows.)

It makes sense, though, that the Avatar's connection to the spirit world would give them a kind of Avatar Mentor who gives them guidance and nudges them along certain paths, at least until they come into their own power fully.

>>3240

I'm hoping they will explain the fates of the rest of the main cast.

Plus judging from the pic, she looks older than Aang. At least in her teens and if it's exactly 70 years later with the pic being at 70, then Aang probably died in late 60s to 70s. How old was he when the show ended?

>>3244

Eleven or twelve.

So it may not have been old age, but it may not have been malicious or anything either. He could have just been trying to stop an earthquake or something and didn't notice when a big rock fell on him.

Even Avatars have accidents, I imagine.

>>3245

We know at the very least that Roku did not die of natural causes, and if we're to assume Korra wasn't told she was the Avatar until she was 16, as Aang was originally meant to, then we can assume Aang died when he was somewhere in his mid-50s.

>>3253
Not about go back through every episode to find it, but I vaguely recall one of the previous avatars (I think) telling Aang that avatars rarely had the luxury of dying of old age.

>>3260
Didn't Avatar Kyoshi die at age 230? I'd think she would be an exception, no?

>>3271
He did say Rarely.

Sort of wanting an older Iroh to show up.

>>3278
I'm sure that you mean FUCKING ANCIENT Iroh. He was old when the show started.

http://www.ugo.com/tv/comic-con-2010-legend-of-korra-interview

>As mentioned, the cabbage merchant will not appear, but "his legacy will be present in some form."

:awesome:

>>3316
It will be revealed his name is in fact Murphy Law.

If I could, I'd hug you for that comment.

>>3343