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I think Jianzhu is an illusion of a good leader. He had power, but the keys around him were still build through corruption and the image. A great example of this comes in the book with the kid that Kyoshi spares. He was a warlord who controled the warlords, but any external force would make it bend. It's the same problem as Kuvira.

Here we enter the problem of effectively making a nation based on China without wanting to address the Chiang Kai-shek, Mao and Xi Jinping elephants in the room. The earth Kingdom is basically forever stuck in the "warlord era".

It seems it can always get worse for Russell.

Lewis getting away with a sneaky bad season after Barcelona because of how inconsistent his teammate has been. Leclerc played matchmaker with the wall for five races and has only 9 points behind.

Because there's over 20 years of graphical development between this in engine trailer and the original trilogy cutscenes.

Here the solution is also raise the car, run different springs etc all of which cost performance. Cars can be made to be more compliant with a bumpy track. It is pretty revisionist to claim the 2022 cars were not causing health concerns to some drivers, especially when the FIA did make the technical directive to alleviate the issue.

Ultimately, it is immaterial. The final part of my statement still stands, if it is affecting all drivers he can easily bring the matter to the GPDA and have no issue convincing his fellow drivers to support a request for action.

I think they are running out of practical avatars. The Zonam book seem to be an attempt to create a new line that is distant enough of Aang to create new possibilities, but also I don't see many more world building marks to go through.

As for the people around Aang, it only remains to adapt them into a show and short stories (comics). Stezo is just not an interesting premise, and Kuruk has the 6ft Kyoshi problem that anything further down the timeline be a prequel of the more interesting avatar. Hence why I think this series is a bit of an experiment.

F1 does, but through their union, the GPDA. The whole purpose of the GPDA is for drivers to take concerns that affect a majority of the drivers to the FIA as a unified voice to call for changes. It was this that brought, for example, the heat hazzard rules that we have now, coincidentally ones that Max was making fun off not even one race before.

This is not a dig at Max himself, but to a problem that is in the nature of motorsports: drivers, on their own, will only raise questions when it affects their individual performance. Case in point here, not four years ago, Redbull was completely dismissing the porpoising issue, as they were the fastest car. You can't heed to every complaint.

Max has a channel if he wishes to demand changes to COTA bumps, raise the matter with the GPDA president (Russell) and try to convince his fellow drivers that this is a critical saferty matter and demand, together action from the FIA.

Until then this will be taken, rightly, by the FIA as one driver trying to gain an edge because their car sucks at dealing with a bumpy track.

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Depends on how they plan 7H to end. But it is effectively a narrative reset for the world, they can build anything afterwards.

If I were to bet, likely they will focus on avatars before Aang. The Kuruk series seems to be a test of concept before committing to something more dangerous such as transforming the novels into a TV show.

The civilian fleet would most likely be running supply runs. It was the reason why Hecket wanted it. You wouldn't risk it on this assault, and if you did, it likely would be a minimal crew, not necessarily those who operated the food production of these ships. Probably, many would need to remain in Ranoch, as the planet itself was not prepared to sustain the population yet.

No publisher will fund it. They are forcing everything into GoT like 9/10 ep seasons regardless if it fits format.

There's no technical impossibility, it is just where the market is right now.

The idea of an animation show with 24 episodes in 2026 is simply not possible. I get the wish, but it won't happen any time soon.

But on the merit, I don't think the world building being affected at the minute. You can see the subtle cracks of Elora's social contract through the faceless, EPs 4 through 7 were not filler as we usually would define it, but they just move the plot as the faceless queen is arrested.

I don't think the pacing is a problem right now

It's messy world building wise. First quarians and Turians would not have food outright. Second because earth would struggle to sustain such a population spike after the reaper war. How many crops, factories etc were reduced to dust.

A more realistic scenario would've been something akin to the expanse, and society expanding across the solar system and nearby starts, as ships can FTL.

This is the overall sentiment I've been getting from these leaks, the overall plot seems quite interesting and definitely a way to switch up the franchise past the reapers and into something that could be sustained. But the world building has be scratching my head and skeptical.

Everyone who knew dragon age was gone from BioWare before the closing of the studio. It is not nearly as simple.

Besides, at this point, the effort is to save BioWare. There's little point in dividing the message and creating less momentum, for more that I personally believe this will not change a thing.

A part that I see no one considering is that we don't know the when of this. It does seem like it is future industries using the spirit energy but it can also easily be after Assami's death.

I feel like having her be the world destroyer due to her hubris in believing she could control a technology everyone was so opposed to in LoK would be a weird narrative choice.

Something a lot of comments in this thread seem to be missing is that this is a system that is a constant for a sizable portion of time. Conscription is a temporary state and would be accurately depicted if the benders were called to defend Elora *when* a threat was near.

In one of the first scenes of the story, we see a bender being taken away from their families. Jae is activelly hunting Pavi in the first episode. His friend can barely visit her family. There's clearly a sociatal tension that the show wants to explore more here, the problems of having a non volunteer force.

You can't place the burden of hard times in a sole group of society without creating problems. Here is everyone's confort, not survival, at the expense of bender labour.

Like I get that. 600 years is basically a reset, they can do whatever they want and have a plausible justification for it.

My point is not this is impossible to happen, but from a narrative standpoint you want the world to be at least somewhat recognisable. Otherwise you're just writing another universe.

I have many qualms with the world building.

The idea of a cold war between the races is, interesting, but humans and batarians? Wouldn't it make more sense for the council races to split, Human and Turians Vs Salarians and Assari over the choices of the genophage? Having the geth, who can get wiped many different ways in the choices be a superpower?

I feel like it's so unrecognisable. Narratively it might work, but just odd.

From the original series pretty much. Like the past lives are barely featured, avatar state is more of the useful thing. I'm not aware of how the comics deal with it, the only other media I've read is the Kyoshi novels which follows a similar dynamic.

The thing is that they are lore. They add to the mystery of the world and richness of the setting. That's why removing them was such a boneheaded decision. You can see in the new show how having Korra haunting the narrative makes it more interesting than if being disconnected from what came before. Furthermore, the dynamic of LoK itself could've connected to multiple past lives, although I don't think they had that fleshed out yet (after all the novels are from 2020s).

I believe the reason why LoK did so is because of the number of characters it already carries, so having even more past avatars would be a struggle.

By the way they are speaking, engine power will reduce significantly. A lot of what makes these and previous gen engines incredibly efficient is getting thrown out.

There's a balance ( hehe) in that. The Gaang won much because it was an episodic show with little contained adventures that moved towards the goal, especially in S1. Obviously Korra couldn't do that with it's run time, but for example make have them beat the red lotus once or twice before the ending. Have her deal with something smaller for a bit other than the main antagonists.

The consequence is that Mako and Bolin end up as useless because their single role in the narrative is helping with the fighting and they always fail at it. S3 in Korra is where this goes berserk, Zaheer just becomes a master air bender that can fly in like a week or two.

It just creates a dynamic that becomes repetitive for 4 seasons.

I think that's a consequence of LoK trying to rise the stakes every single season with a new villain because they never knew how many seasons they had. The narrative doesn't have the time to make a haunting character like Ozai.

They didn't have to win, just stall long enough. But that's kinda of the plot problem in LoK, the protagonists just take defeat after defeat until the last episode when they pull a great miraculous win

But who would buy it?

Dragon age is not a cheap IP, is written into a corner if you don't want to make Veilguard not cannon or write something before or parallel to the games events.

If something might get sold, it is mass effect

Remove energy bending. It cannot be overstated how much of a copout that decision is as Aang doesn't have to sacrifice his ideals or risk the keeping Ozai in prision.

No studio could survive three 200mi failures in a row.

It's a shame it happened. Thankful for the memories and games. But I do hope that studios get the lessons from this, and don't just chalk it up only to EA interference. As the ever insightful Mark Darah videos show, much of the problem was also born internally.

The crash is the fault of the Corvette, but the Mclaren placed itself in a terrible position by going to the racing line just after exiting pitlane with cold tyres. The Corvette was simply caught out by it and made a honest mistake.