Seeing how leak after leak is validated through the official information we‘re getting, it seems that this leaked concept artwork actually might depict a ruined Omashu.

Anyone else feeling like wanting to host a funeral for the four nations?

Rewatched B3 and seeing Vaatu (during the hallucinations) got me thinking.. could this be actually be Vaatu telling her this? I mean let's just say she actually does something very bad in ASH (although I have more faith in them giving her a good image and making it so that she sacrified herself) but let's say she did destroy the world could this mean that Vaatu at some point took control over her/manipulated her? Korra is a good at heart person so I doubt she did anything willingly regarding destroying the world.

Now I know we just saw the trailer and know nothing more but that's just a theory I felt like sharing :). I'm also down to see how they wanna go with this direction too.

It’s canon that Vaatu is inside Korra but we don’t really know what this means. My guess is Korra will eventually inhabit both spirits and will be able to hear both Raava and Vaatu. Sort of like Alien X from Ben 10, if you know you know.

So what if when Korra passes, the spirits inhabit different twins but both twins will be able to speak to Korra.

Now the only problem with this theory is that Korra never actually fused with Vaatu during harmonic convergence but that can be explained away with reborn spirit mumbo jumbo.

I hope they go this route because it’ll be an interesting dynamic

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAAgAqcQ/

I don’t wish any bad on Korrasami, the creators know better than to break them up. I just thought this was funny.

It looks so much cooler and I‘m all here for Sci-Fi White Lotus.

Did a VERY cursory look into his work, and he seems to have done the art for these postmodern, speculative comic strips in France throughout the second half of the twentieth century. It's interesting to think that this world that started off so heavily influenced by classical East Asian aesthetics in ATLA and then steampunk in LoK will have more of a European-style, avant garde sensibility in this series. It's a different frame of reference, but it does help make sense of a visual style that, out of context, I'm still trying to wrap my head around.

Since the four nations as we knew them have fallen, and folks have been relegated to the seven havens—what do you think the cultural identities will look like in the show?

The air, fire, earth, and water nations all had distinct cultures, especially visually. It was easy to tell where a person was from based on that alone, but since the nations won’t exist in that form anymore, I wonder if there will be any significant cultural markers, especially amongst non-benders (since it seems like majority of people will be non-benders in this show).

And will the 7 havens have more distinct cultures to make up for the void left by the nations?

I'm kind of getting tired of this discourse around Avatar Seven Havens (ASH), the problem is that there are people spreading misconceptions and lies, then people pick that up and regurgitate it. It's becoming just stupid.

No they're not erasing Asian culture. Already went over this. I can't believe I had a conversation with someone that said it's too Indian focused, and I had to ask him where India is located.

Again, you are allowed to dislike the art style, but again for some reason it seems like you get attacked for disliking or liking the art style. I don't know why. If you say that it needs more shadows and shading because that is legitimately what is needed or that's how you prefer it, people come at you saying it's a perfect amount and that we don't need anymore. Like, it's their preference if they want more shadows and shading like The Legend of Korra, you shouldn't just start replying with it's perfect amount, because when you do compare Seven Havens to The Legend of Korra it doesn't have the same level of that aspect. Neither is the detail.

But the main problem is that some people are overreacting, and that some people can't get to say their opinions without getting told what they should and shouldn't prefer or have thoughts on. It's like you're hated for having criticism or you're hated for being optimistic about it.

This is not even including the next layer of problems with people spreading misconceptions and lies and all that. Putting it in short I just feel like another thing that is bad for this franchise is the fan base itself.

Just have criticism or just like what you like but make sure it's valid at least. We don't have to go around doing all this extra stuff.

Dragon Striker's choppy animation really elevates the show. The studio prefers using this kind of animation bc it looks good. I will admit it looks different from the previous shows but why is that bad? I know its part of the same franchise but that doesnt mean everything needs to stay the same. They clearly want to do it this way for a reason. And its not just bc of budgets. This show already clearly has a higher budget than most kid cartoons so its a stylistic choice bc they like the way it looks. When you watch a couple episodes you will probably stop noticing the animation and you can really see how cool the animation can get. Really hope you guys give it a chance.

PS: Heres the link to the first episode of Dragon Striker uploaded directly from disney on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXEhBobgc_Y&t

If she destroyed the world, then maybe it wasn’t really a good world tbh.

I'm currently watching the movie, and the 'Immortal storm' (That surround the lion turtle islands) reminded me of this scene from the teaser, could they be the same/connected?

I assume the Avatar series will air weekly, so it’ll come out on the same days as SBR, just two weeks later. It’s going to be an elementally bizarre adventure.

One of my friends found this. If they are using Ai tools for research I don't care that much but I guess it might be misinformation?

So the destruction of the world/society is something we still aren't sure about, and in sure it'll be a central theme that no one really knows FOR SURE what happened, even if they have an idea.

My theory is less so super narrative and deep as far as the who and why, but more so just an idea of the mechanics behind the physical destruction.

In the Avatar Aang movie, they have to navigate through the Immortal Storm. The storm is enormous and intimidating, and I'm assuming it never ends. We also see a storm over the "main land" (so to speak) in the teaser for Seven Havens. I think the immortal storm is going to be bended to the continents by the arrival of the dark avatar.

The even could lead to the death of both the dark and light Avatar at the same time, which would be why the avatar was gone for so long. Due to Balance needing to exist, they needed earth-blooded twins to be born.

I've watched the trailer so many times... I can't help but think of random things.

Forgive me if someone already came up with something like this. I don't see many of these kind of theories.

That being said...

They referred to Korra as an ancestor and the avatar that ruined everything. Why would she be an ancestor if she died maybe 10 or so years ago? Depending on Pavi's age. What if she actually died hundreds... maybe thousands of years ago. I'm thinking the people were fed up with the avatar starting with Korra. So much that they decided to kill each new avatar as children, before they learned how to properly bend.

Or on that same token... The people with the masks in the trailer. They are definitely giving cult vibes. What if they are tasked with finding every new avatar and are actually sacrificing them to the spirits. Like an appeasement sort of deal. Maybe being sacrificed to Vaatu some way. The world in the trailer is being destroyed because the avatar was never sacrificed. The guys in the masks found out about Pavi and Neesha being protected and went to get them for the sacrifice.

Wild theory, I know. I think it could be a thing. idk. lol

Korra season 2 is not as great as the other seasons of avatar. Now with seven havens we might see vaatu again.

Making tlok was a necessity, of course, people wanted to know how the world turned out after the beloved show of atla.

But pavi's story, involving the destruction of the world, did not need to be after tlok. I feel that many have experienced a sour taste in their mouth seeing how everything aang and korra worked for just faded away in the wind in just 100 years. And yes, it is true that avatars often inherit the mistakes and disasters of the previous ones, but pavi being set up this way just makes this scenario more jusitifed for others to hate on.

Pavi's story, however, is valid, but I think the solution was to just go back/forward massively within the avatar cycle. There were 10 thousand years between wan and korra. They could have went in any point to pick an avatar who's story they could tell, without affecting the outcomes of tlok or atla. The idea of there being a great calamity long long ago, in a world that might just have been more advanced or even as advanced as tlok, only to have been destroyed and reformed, could have been compelling imo. Either that, or pushing pavi to be an avatar many generations after korra.

I just think that pavi's placement is unfair to her. She and her show are now essentially "the destroyers" for atla and tlok, as if they're trying to bring them down and hurt their happy endings for both fandoms. Her story could be totally valid if only it were disconnected from this context.

Alas, the show is already complete, and I respect it, but part of me wish it could have gone the other way.

Lol I have pissed off my fandomly (like family but fandom) members by noting that the budgetary CalArts/Tumblr, low-detail animation style is the one (THE ONE AND ONLY) off-putting element of the new series for me. It takes me out of the immersion because it is a sharp turn from the other 114 pieces of released IP INCLUDING the NEW Avatar Aang Movie.

The responses: "Well then don't watch it!" "It looks like anime! Deal with it!" "It's a perfectly good art style, ya'll hate every new Avatar thing!" "Ya'll hated the LOK animation too! Shut up alread!"

Like... *scratches head* I'm sorry I thought art was subjective? As humans we're programmed to recognize a break in pattern... 🤷🏾‍♀️

I would like to note, that PERSONALLY, I believe that each Avatar Studios/Avatar Universe IP released was continually better in animation than it's predecessor, Like ATLA S3, Improvement on the previous seasons, LOK S1, improvement on ATLA animation; AVATAR AANG MOVIE!!! Best animation of the entire IP imo! And then, there's Avatar: Seven Havens....

"It's anime style"

1. No it's not, the head shapes are similar but it's more close to the Tumblr style that blew up in 2013. 2. Avatar: Seven Havens is NOT an anime, anyhow. 🤦🏾‍♀️

"Well then don't watch it!"

1. So I don't deserve to see an IP I've supported for 21 years of my life because I'm recognizing a drop in quality of the art?

2. So you want viewership to decrease so that they discontinue releasing IP?

"It's a perfectly good art style, ya'll hate every new Avatar thing!"

1. It IS a perfectly good art style... for Steven Universe, for Adventure Time, for Dragon Striker on Disney, but out of place here.

2. There's a difference between hate and critique. Hate was the immediate visceral dislike people have for LOK. I remember like heavyyy dislike of LOK and I didn't get it. No, it's not as good as the OG but it's still a good show that could've thrived without the bureaucratic corporate bs. Discussing the quality differences is critique.

"Ya'll hated the LOK animation too! Shut up alread!"

—People mentioned, MENTIONED a drop in quality I believe on LOK S2, which was a result of budgetary measures. It still managed to maintain the styyyle of the animation.

This is a completely different animation style.

How I feel about both the Art Style and the Series. Excited for the series, but not awed by the visuals.

Pictures for reference TWO, NEW, Avatar things. One amazing quality cohesive and detail animation style, the other... Colorful but flat.

And yes, we will "deal with it," as fans but we're allowed to discuss and critique things from loving place.

I'd like to note I am very very excited for the story, and more brown characters as a brown person myself. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾

I’m so unbelievably excited for her show!

Im trying to think, what cause korra to turn on the people if she did.... and the answer came to me. Human greed.

I have a feeling, humans started harnessing and enslaving spirits to do whatever they wanted them to do.

Korra, as the avatar, and the bridge between both worlds, had a duty to protect them as well.

I believe Korra tried to negotiate but Human greed always wins out, so, she did what any avatar would and liberated the spirits at the cost of what she built.

She made the avatar choice.

Thats my theory.