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Apr. 16th, 2012 08:07 pmSo, there's a rumor going around about one of the upcoming eps of Glee, where the actors/actresses play different characters than they usually do. Perhaps as a weird Glee club assignment, or the show is just going out there and having a Freaky Friday thing going on. There are some filming pics already out there where Puck is dressed as Blaine (complete with sweater vest, bow tie, and shoes sans socks) and Tina with the head bands a la Rachel, and supposedly Finn dressed as Kurt. Anyways supposedly these is a list of who's playing who. Of course, the Faberry fans are freaking the geek out over the fact that Rachel is playing Santana and Quinn is playing Brittany. They're like hoping against hope that its true, because we'll have Rachel and Quinn being all flirty/lovey-dovey, kinda of like getting Faberry without actually getting Faberry because they're technically Brittana at the time.
TV commentary:
Legend of Korra- So I finally checked out the new Avatar series. Its pretty cool and interesting so far. Given this is I think 70 years in the future, the world has moved from kinda Ancient China (albeit with steam-power ships, tanks, and zeppelins) to kinda a early 20th century look and feel. Indeed, Republic City looks like a modern city, the streets filled with 1920s looking cars, and zeppelins floating in the sky. Metal bending has also become much more common, and indeed, the city is policed by metal benders, led by Toph's daughter, Lin.
Speaking of, we actually see Katara, she's an old maid now, though Aang has passed, and aKtara mentions Sokka is gone too. We don't hear about the others though. Heh, she's had a couple of kids with Aang, and I'll admit, when I saw this I was like "Ew!", as it the whole her being with Aang isntead of Zuko still stings me. But her son Tenzin is to be Korra's air bending teacher, as air bending is the last element she has to master.
In the first ep, he goes to see her, only to say he has no time to teach her as there's pressing matters in Republic City that prevent him from staying at the South Pole to teach her. Heh, its during this visit that we meet Tenzin's kids, who are all cute- there's the studious Jinora, his eldest daughter. His middle child is another daughter, the talkative Ikki, and his youngest son is Meelo, who is creepily the spitting image of Aang. I mean, it makes sense, since Aang is his grandfather, but I guess they purposely made him look just like a like 5-7 year old version of Aang.
Anyways, to no surprise, when Tenzin goes back, Korra (with Katara's blessing) secretly follows him to the city, where she makes a mess of things. She learns there's a brewing anti-bender movement. Which isn't too surprising, because I figured there'd be a lot of mundanes dissatisfied by this other set of people who have cool powers and are in positions of power. Triads are also rampant, which is how Korra first butts heads with Lin, when the metal benders go to arrest her after she beats up a few gangers trying to collect protection money.
Lin doesn't like Korra's vigilante justice (though its not like she went looking for trouble, she just stumbled into things), and Tenzin at first promises to send her back to the South pole, but has a changed of heart and takes her in, introducing her to the city as the new Avatar.
In the second ep, her airbending doesn't seem to be going well. The calm ways of airbending don't seem to mesh with her impulsive hot-headedness. Indeed, she wants to check out pro-bending, another new development in the Avatar world, a sport where teams of benders (one each of fire, earth, and water) try to knock each other off a platform. While sneaking off to see a match, she meets Bolin, the earth bender of the up and coming team, the fire ferrets, and his brother Mako, a fire bender. Weird, can a family have different bender kids? I mean, I guess that's possible if different benders got together and had kids. Though I'm trying to think if we saw any examples of that in Last Airbender.
Bolin does flirt with Korra a bit, but its obvious they're going to have her and Mako be screwing around in no time. Anyways, circumstances occur that have her join the team, and when its exposed she's the Avatar, that's fine. Even though that seems like allowing Jesus to play on some football or baseball team. I mean, yeah, she's only limited to doing water bending, but it always seemed like the Avatar not only could bend all 4 elements, but had the potential to bend each to a powerful degree.
Of course, her hot headedness leads her to get her ass kicked initially, but then Tenzin visits her, intending to bring her back to the temple. They argue, and when she's back in the match, the opposing team holds Mako and Bolin down while they focus all their attacks on Korra. Now, I don't like how they did this, since it seemed all so sudden, but somehow, that argument with Tenzin caused her to finally "get it", even though it didn't seem like there was anything in their conversation to make her realize the follies of her ways. She's able to do the smooth flowing dodges of the airbenders, and since the opposing team blew their wad trying to take her out and simultaneously pin the brothers down, they're easy pickings for the fresh Bolin and Mako, and the Fire Ferrets get the win.
In the end, Tenzin realizes despite his initial disdain for it, pro-bending seems to be a good thing in regards to her training. Which is good, since she joined the Fire Ferrets permanently and will be competing with them (which still seems like people would be up in arms over that to me!)
TV commentary:
Legend of Korra- So I finally checked out the new Avatar series. Its pretty cool and interesting so far. Given this is I think 70 years in the future, the world has moved from kinda Ancient China (albeit with steam-power ships, tanks, and zeppelins) to kinda a early 20th century look and feel. Indeed, Republic City looks like a modern city, the streets filled with 1920s looking cars, and zeppelins floating in the sky. Metal bending has also become much more common, and indeed, the city is policed by metal benders, led by Toph's daughter, Lin.
Speaking of, we actually see Katara, she's an old maid now, though Aang has passed, and aKtara mentions Sokka is gone too. We don't hear about the others though. Heh, she's had a couple of kids with Aang, and I'll admit, when I saw this I was like "Ew!", as it the whole her being with Aang isntead of Zuko still stings me. But her son Tenzin is to be Korra's air bending teacher, as air bending is the last element she has to master.
In the first ep, he goes to see her, only to say he has no time to teach her as there's pressing matters in Republic City that prevent him from staying at the South Pole to teach her. Heh, its during this visit that we meet Tenzin's kids, who are all cute- there's the studious Jinora, his eldest daughter. His middle child is another daughter, the talkative Ikki, and his youngest son is Meelo, who is creepily the spitting image of Aang. I mean, it makes sense, since Aang is his grandfather, but I guess they purposely made him look just like a like 5-7 year old version of Aang.
Anyways, to no surprise, when Tenzin goes back, Korra (with Katara's blessing) secretly follows him to the city, where she makes a mess of things. She learns there's a brewing anti-bender movement. Which isn't too surprising, because I figured there'd be a lot of mundanes dissatisfied by this other set of people who have cool powers and are in positions of power. Triads are also rampant, which is how Korra first butts heads with Lin, when the metal benders go to arrest her after she beats up a few gangers trying to collect protection money.
Lin doesn't like Korra's vigilante justice (though its not like she went looking for trouble, she just stumbled into things), and Tenzin at first promises to send her back to the South pole, but has a changed of heart and takes her in, introducing her to the city as the new Avatar.
In the second ep, her airbending doesn't seem to be going well. The calm ways of airbending don't seem to mesh with her impulsive hot-headedness. Indeed, she wants to check out pro-bending, another new development in the Avatar world, a sport where teams of benders (one each of fire, earth, and water) try to knock each other off a platform. While sneaking off to see a match, she meets Bolin, the earth bender of the up and coming team, the fire ferrets, and his brother Mako, a fire bender. Weird, can a family have different bender kids? I mean, I guess that's possible if different benders got together and had kids. Though I'm trying to think if we saw any examples of that in Last Airbender.
Bolin does flirt with Korra a bit, but its obvious they're going to have her and Mako be screwing around in no time. Anyways, circumstances occur that have her join the team, and when its exposed she's the Avatar, that's fine. Even though that seems like allowing Jesus to play on some football or baseball team. I mean, yeah, she's only limited to doing water bending, but it always seemed like the Avatar not only could bend all 4 elements, but had the potential to bend each to a powerful degree.
Of course, her hot headedness leads her to get her ass kicked initially, but then Tenzin visits her, intending to bring her back to the temple. They argue, and when she's back in the match, the opposing team holds Mako and Bolin down while they focus all their attacks on Korra. Now, I don't like how they did this, since it seemed all so sudden, but somehow, that argument with Tenzin caused her to finally "get it", even though it didn't seem like there was anything in their conversation to make her realize the follies of her ways. She's able to do the smooth flowing dodges of the airbenders, and since the opposing team blew their wad trying to take her out and simultaneously pin the brothers down, they're easy pickings for the fresh Bolin and Mako, and the Fire Ferrets get the win.
In the end, Tenzin realizes despite his initial disdain for it, pro-bending seems to be a good thing in regards to her training. Which is good, since she joined the Fire Ferrets permanently and will be competing with them (which still seems like people would be up in arms over that to me!)
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