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[shadow_Uzumaki]

No, there's a cycle corresponding with the elements and seasons, Avatar Roku, the one before Aang was a Firebender: the cycle is Air/Autumn, Water/Winter, Spring/Earth, Summer/Fire, and then back to Air/Autumn. The next Avatar (if there is one) will be born in the Water Tribe as a waterbender. It's not genetics or anything that determines the next Avatar, simply the will of the planet.

[Nee-sama]

I only meant that there would be no air benders to train the next avatar in air bending. And just because the nomads were wiped out of the towers doesn't mean that the genetics for air bending were completely eliminated from the world.

[jim1982]

No, there's a cycle corresponding with the elements and seasons, Avatar Roku, the one before Aang was a Firebender: the cycle is Air/Autumn, Water/Winter, Spring/Earth, Summer/Fire, and then back to Air/Autumn. The next Avatar (if there is one) will be born in the Water Tribe as a waterbender. It's not genetics or anything that determines the next Avatar, simply the will of the planet.

Yea but the cycle will eventually return to being an Air Bender. So Aang's decendents, if he has any, would stand a better chance of being Avatar if they are Air Benders. Of course if he has children with Katara, they have a chance of being Water Benders also.

And of course, If Aang's decendents aren't Air Benders or he doesn't have any, then the cycle would be broken.

[krisk]

Well If Aang has any children, they have the potential to be airbenders... and since his decendents would be the only airbenders, their chances of being Avatar is greatly improved.

LOL but his role as a monk will play as a deciding factor in ... future breeding plans between him and his ladies. *BRR* Also, I'd rather not make Katara into a airbender baby making machine, but that's just my feminist/humanistic/ethical side talkin' *shrug*

oh hai:

...at least the bending looks cool. ;_;

[jim1982]

LOL but his role as a monk will play as a deciding factor in ... future breeding plans between him and his ladies. *BRR* Also, I'd rather not make Katara into a airbender baby making machine, but that's just my feminist/humanistic/ethical side talkin' *shrug*

...at least the bending looks cool. ;_;

Well it is all theoretical, Most likely the Avatar cycle will be broken after the next Fire Nation Avatar dies. Unles of course, the Earth will's more Air benders to exist and such.

And your Right, the bending does look cool. Wonder if the Earth Bender is supposed to be Haru (he was the earther bender from season 1 right? been a while since I saw the episode)

[Dark]

LOL but his role as a monk will play as a deciding factor in ... future breeding plans between him and his ladies. *BRR* Also, I'd rather not make Katara into a airbender baby making machine, but that's just my feminist/humanistic/ethical side talkin' *shrug*

oh hai:

...at least the bending looks cool. ;_;

I like everyone but Zuko. WEAR IS THE ZEEKSINEZZ?!!1!!

x_x
anyway,

a moar srsrzzz sokka? rly. XD well, at least that shows Shamy isn't scared of changing things around. kataang 8]

there is hope!

ooh and sokka is sexai. like rly sexai. raep.

Edited by Dark, 17 July 2009 - 05:47 PM.

[Nee-sama]

Amagad I was just looking for pics like those, thanks for posting them Krisk!
I think they cast sokka and zuko backwards though, cuz zuko is supposed to be moar smexy than sokka imHo. And his burn is like.. barely thare.... and there's no funny looking topknot either! Aang still looks all serious and aangsty too. Wonder if Toph will be in this movie or if she has to wait for the sequel...

Edited by Nee-sama, 17 July 2009 - 07:44 PM.

[Cupcake-chan]

I have to agree, and Aang looks too cheeky (he looks like an effin' chipmunk!)

[Onionhead Attacks]

Amagad I was just looking for pics like those, thanks for posting them Krisk!
I think they cast sokka and zuko backwards though, cuz zuko is supposed to be moar smexy than sokka imHo. And his burn is like.. barely thare.... and there's no funny looking topknot either! Aang still looks all serious and aangsty too. Wonder if Toph will be in this movie or if she has to wait for the sequel...

I still grieve the loss of the prominently visible burn mark, but most of all, the PONYTAIL! The symbolism if they make a sequel for when both Iroh and Zuko cut off their topknots (to cut off their ties with the Fire Nation) will definitely be lost.

As for Toph... it seems that we'll have to see how well this movie goes to see if there will be a sequel =\

[Mik3]

I have to agree, and Aang looks too cheeky (he looks like an effin' chipmunk!)

[Lid]

Yeah I really don't like the look of Aang that much...

[Sir Whirly]

Actually, I feel Aang is pretty close to it. He is still really young and has a lot of that childhood chubbiness. Zuko though is kinda fail.

[Cupcake-chan]

Yeah. I always kinda pictured Zuko as this hot chinese guy.
plus, in the show he's like, vampire-pale and by the way you can't even tell he has a scar.
Oh, and sokka looks like a girl (I honestly thought he was katara :'( )

[shadow_Uzumaki]

AH! Sokka has too serious a face....bleh, gonna wait until movie I guess ....
Hmm....I guess the siblings are pale for a reason, they do live in an icy environment right? Which may result in pale skin color? Maybe I'm getting my Science wrong..... Feel free to correct me.

Edited by shadow_Uzumaki, 18 July 2009 - 05:58 AM.

[jim1982]

AH! Sokka has too serious a face....bleh, gonna wait until movie I guess ....
Hmm....I guess the siblings are pale for a reason, they do live in an icy environment right? Which may result in pale skin color? Maybe I'm getting my Science wrong..... Feel free to correct me.

well it would of been closer if they were darker. Most Inuit peoples that live in the high northern reaches are usually darker in skin color. I'm guessing that would because the sun reflects off of the snow and ice.

That and I think they should of got the VA for Sokka to play him. That would of fit being that he isn't that much older than Sokka's character and could hit the character spot on even if it demanded a more serious tone.

[krisk]

I have to agree, and Aang looks too cheeky (he looks like an effin' chipmunk!)

XD as much as I'd love to jump on the bandwagon, I think that particular picture of Noah Ringer is just bad. I'm sure while he's acting he'll be able to seem more like Aang.

Hmm....I guess the siblings are pale for a reason, they do live in an icy environment right? Which may result in pale skin color? Maybe I'm getting my Science wrong..... Feel free to correct me.

uh... wat. The casting in this movie is the worst possible example of the real world. Ever heard of the Inuit? Amazingly the cartoon is more accurate to real life than the movie

anyway read to relieve some of that confusion, shad XD

Despite the frigid, ice covered landscape of Northern Canada and Alaska, the Inuits remain warm beneath parkas of animal hide. Warm and…tan. Despite barely seeing the light of day, the native people’s skin retains a bronze glow.
Even in the early 20th century, scientists were trying to understand and map skin color. Felix Von Luschan, a doctor and anthropologist, created a Human Skin Colour Distribution containing 36 different color tiles to characterize skin tones. The further a person’s ancestors are from the equator, the fairer the person’s skin should be, according to his scale.
More recently, Penn State anthropologists Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin wrote in a 2000 edition of Science that there is a correlation between the skin color in people residing in an area for more than 500 years and their exposure to ultraviolet light. They even came up with an equation that determined the pigments of a population based on sun exposure and length of time spent living in an area. But neither their nor Von Luschan’s research answered the question of an Inuit’s bronze complexion without exposure to a great deal of sun.
Jablonski and Chaplin were onto something though, when they realized that the body’s interaction with UV rays from the sun, was tied together with skin tone. Skin color is determined genetically. Genes tell the body how much of the two types of melanin, the pigment that helps to determine the skin color, to produce. Pheomelanin causes reddish yellow pigments, and eumelanin gives deep brown coloring. But skin tone is not all genetic: more melanin is produced when you are out in the sun. Sunlight exposure causes the optic nerve to signal the pituitary glad to release more melanin. Thus, you tan.
Ultraviolet, or UV rays, from the sun are responsible for activating the melanin. As melanin levels rise and our body’s natural pigment darkens, protection against the sun’s rays increases. Too much UV exposure can deplete vitamin B folate –used by the cells to create DNA. On a smaller scale, the rays can also cause painful sunburns, with too much exposure leading to cancer.
However, UV rays aren’t all bad for us: they naturally convert cholesterol into Vitamin D, which is crucial in protecting the body against certain cancers, heart disease, diabetes, and mental illnesses.
When the ancestors of modern man separated from apes, they were covered in hair. Little UV light reached their skin and as a result, anthropologists believe they were fair skinned. As modern humans evolved however, their body hair became finer and thinner, leaving their skin more exposed to the equatorial sun. To adapt, thier bodies produced more melanin to protect them from damaging UV rays. Increased melanin made their skin become darker.
As early humans started migrating north into Europe and east into Asia, they were exposed to different amounts of sun. Those who went north found their dark skin worked against them–preventing them from absorbing enough sunlight to create vitamin D. To adapt, these humans started producing less melanin.
But Inuits vitamin D intake wasn’t dependent upon the sun. They get all that they need from their diet, heavy on types of fatty fish that are naturally rich in vitamin D. The plentiful amounts of the vitamin kept them from developing less melanin. In fact, before milk was fortified with D, people living outside of Northern Canada and Alaska loaded their diets with fishy products, such as cod liver oil, to get their daily supplement. So despite their chilly climate and lack of sun exposure, it’s the Inuits’ diet that has kept them in their natural glow.

sauce: http://scienceline.o...l-inuiteskimos/

That and I think they should of got the VA for Sokka to play him. That would of fit being that he isn't that much older than Sokka's character and could hit the character spot on even if it demanded a more serious tone.

LOL JACK DESENA? But then we'd be even further from fixing the pile of poo that the casting is. :teehee:

[shadow_Uzumaki]

' No need to give me that sour look, I did say I might be getting my Science wrong, I forgot to keep in mind that snow does reflect the sun, and even more so in an icy environment, resulting in higher concentration of the dark pigment....

[blindeye]

More bad news for the movie

Near the end of the journal:
http://greenifyme.de...urnal/26199444/

I asked him [Sifu Kisu] if he was going to be involved in the live-action movie in any way and he said no. I guess initially he was...but he had some...problems with the executives. He said it wasn't his thing, he didn't like what they were telling him, and he left. T__T Now I'm worried.

[Terrace]

I seriously doubt that any executives looked at his leaving the project with "All right, we got that hugely popular guy to leave the movie. Now we just need to replace the whole cast with New Yorkers and set the story in a High School and drop the bending, and we will rake in the money!"

Any executives who actually try this should be shot without trial, of course.

[Tahaji]

Looks like we are getting a manga adaption of the movie, PLUS a manga prequel.

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Im excited about the prequel, I guess we get to see more about Roku? Or maybe more about the previous Avatars?