The Legend of Korra is HERE

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By Christopher John Farley

Nickelodeon

Image from the coming series “The Legend of Korra.”

Nickelodeon has announced a new series from the creators of cartoon epic “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”

The new show from Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko has the working title of “The Legend of Korra” and will premiere on Nickelodeon in 2011.

A live action theatrical movie based on the cartoon series called “The Last Airbender” was released earlier this summer to pans from critics and better-than-expected box office. The movie was directed by M. Night Shyamalan (”The Sixth Sense”), who has expressed interest in doing a sequel. Paramount, the studio behind the film, is watching the movie’s international grosses before making firm plans about any follow-ups.

The world of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” is one in which there are four nations–Air, Water, Earth and Fire–each with “benders” capable of controlling the elements. In the first series, a young airbender named Aang is revealed to be the Avatar, someone capable of manipulating all four elements, and prophesied to help save the world. “Avatar: The Last Airbender” debuted on Nickelodeon in 2005 and aired for three seasons.

Nickelodeon said in a release that “The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the events of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ and follows the adventures of the Avatar after Aang – a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra.”

Korra’s quest eventually leads her to Republic City–the epicenter of the world of “Avatar.” A metropolis powered by steampunk-type technology, the city is inhabited by people from all nations. Korra finds that Republic City suffers from rampant crime and is also dealing with an anti-bender revolt. Korra is tutored by Aang’s son, Tenzin, is the ways of airbending.

How does the new series sound to you? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Comments

[boundbooks]

I'm totally rusty on season three, so I don't recall. But, yeah, Aang has really taken an epic amount of damage before he was even thirteen.

Now that I think about it, the majority of the other Avatars would have been masters of all four elements for over a decade and at least in their mid-twenties before they got in a fight for their life.

Aang was a twelve year old with one element and a very basic understanding of the others (and only three at the time of the lightning strike) while he was trying to do the job.

[holyschist]

Yeah, I definitely got the impression from the flashbacks that the other Avatars didn't take nearly as much damage.

I kind of wonder about Zuko's life expectancy, too, given how hard Azula fried him.

[feanna]

There could also be the considerarion of what being in the avatar-mode costs, especially so (I assume) realative often and also at such a young age.