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  • Hey youtubers it's Charlie and since Korra is on break this weekend I wanted to do a

  • bonus video for Book 4. Because of all the craziness going on with Book 3 right now I

  • thought it would be helpful to put it all into context and talk about some things we

  • can all be really happy about. And Just for fun I'm going to rank my top 10 last airbender

  • characters.

  • Congrats to last weeks giveaway winners. Effective Kill, Khaler Jex and Novelist Vampire Girl

  • you guys each win an amazon gift card. I'll be messaging you on your channels for details.

  • So check your inboxes today.

  • Even though there's no new episode I'm continuing the giveaway this week. All you have to do

  • to participate is be a subscriber and leave a comment on this video. There's only one

  • winner per episode, that's why there were three people from last week.

  • Which brings up a good point, what's going on with Book 3 right now. Nick just casually

  • dropped that they'd be doubling up on Korra episodes indefinitely. They didn't say "for

  • the rest of the season". But the next several episodes, through episode 7 at least, they'll

  • be doing two episodes back to back each week.

  • So next week when it comes back on Friday July 11th, they'll air episodes 4 and 5 together,

  • then the week after that 6 and 7. By the time we get to 6 and 7 they'll probably announce

  • if they're going to keep doing two per week, I really hope they don't.

  • It's awesome to get an hour of Korra every week. But think about it this way, the faster

  • they burn through Korra episodes, the longer the wait will be till Book 4. And there's

  • been no indication that they're going to tell us when Book 4 is going to premiere.

  • So Book 4 discussion time. Here is my thought. In light of the weirdness that has been going

  • on with the Book 3 leaks and lack of promotion. Nick is going to hold off airing Book 4 until

  • next year. And use that extra time to promote the series the way they should have promoted

  • Book 3.

  • Master Sifu was on twitter talking about going in for Korra Marketing meetings with the studio

  • recently, so if they're bringing him in to help figure out a better way to promote the

  • series it means they are dedicating resources to the problem. Which makes me a lot more

  • excited.

  • I feel like the fandom will always do a better job of creating awareness, but Nick is the

  • one with the resources to actually put ads in big places so that the general public knows

  • when and where to find new Korra episodes.

  • One of the really cool things that networks have started to do in the last couple of years

  • is rely on stars with big social accounts like on Twitter and Facebook to drive engagement

  • with the fandom and call everyone to action. The best example of this is Vin Diesel.

  • He used his own money to make that last Riddick movie and he said the one big reason enough

  • people came out to see the movie was because he was able to reach his huge facebook audience.

  • His page has like 80 Million followers. Crazy right, so if you ever wanted to fund like

  • a new season of Korra or a Korra movie, just build a giant audience somewhere on social

  • and crowd fund it.

  • Here's a good question for all you guys, if I ever got to the point where I had some crazy

  • number of subscribers here on my channel like 10 Million. And I had the chance to crowd

  • fund something. What would you want to see me bring back?

  • I'm so far away from being able to do something like that, but it's a really fun fantasy to

  • have. I'd like to think that someday if I work hard enough I could take something I

  • really love and bring it back from the dead.

  • So the big takeaway from all this book 3 weirdness is that we should be optimistic that magical

  • things will happen when Book 4 gets closer.

  • So because it's the weekend and we all need to have some fun let's rank our favorite Last

  • Airbender characters. Because a lot of them have been appearing on Korra. I'm going to

  • start at

  • Number 10 - Zhao

  • He's currently still stuck in the fog of Lost Souls as of the end of book 2. I think he's

  • still stuck in there. I'm not expecting him to appear again but I feel like Jason Isaacs

  • brought so much to this character. He's so good at playing villains. And Zhao's voice

  • was so distinct that I feel like everyone went a little nuts when he showed up on Korra.

  • Jason Isaacs even returned during book 1 to voice new lines for the character in Book

  • 1 episode 13. I don't know if they just used a dub of his voice for the scenes in Book

  • 2 in the Fog of Lost souls, but it's pretty cool that he came back at all.

  • My favorite Zhao scene was either his death during Last Airbender or finding out he was

  • stuck in the Fog of Lost souls.

  • Number 9 - Suki of the Kyoshi Warriors

  • As of right now, she's the only original Team Avatar person who hasn't been mentioned or

  • seen on Korra. She was always a character I thought deserved more screen time. She is

  • in the Search comic, but otherwise we're still waiting to find out what her final fate was

  • and if she ever ended up with Sokka.

  • Fun Fact, she's also the only origina team avatar members to not get a solo field trip

  • with Zuko. Each of the other characters got a Zuko side story when it was just them and

  • Zuko. But she was never a huge fan of his.

  • Originally the plan for her character was that she would only appear in that first Kyoshi

  • Warrior episode, it was Book 1 episode 4. But people like her so much Mike and Bryan

  • made her an official member of team Avatar in books 2 and 3.

  • I think my favorite Suki moment was during the ember island players episode where she

  • tried to sneak backstage to make the actor playing her act better.

  • Number 8 - Sokka

  • It actually took me a little while to get used to how over the top he was all the time.

  • He was always the character that reacted to things. Like Aang was in this constant state

  • of child-like wonder about things, Katara was the voice of reason and Sokka was always

  • the one who would have the WTF style reactions.

  • I really loved him more when they made it to the Northern Water Tribe and after the

  • Suki character was introduced. If feel like that's when he matured a little and started

  • to get more hero moments.

  • My favorite Sokka moment was in Book 3 where he and Katara had to attend Aang's Fire Nation

  • parent teacher conference as Mr Wang Fire.

  • But here's an interesting thought. If Sokka were still alive today, do you think he would

  • have been one of the people to gain airbending? He was from the water tribe, so there's no

  • guarantee he would have. But if they let Bumi become an airbender I supposed it's possible.

  • Number 7 - Firelord Ozai

  • Shoutout to Mark Hamill. His Ozai was dramatically different from the other voices he's done,

  • but just think about the idea of Firelord Joker. Ozai did go a little bananas at the

  • end.

  • I loved his arc up to the appearance of Sozin's Comet when he declared himself the Phoenix

  • King.

  • In case you haven't read a lot of the backstory, Ozai and his father Firelord Azulon wanted

  • to bond the Avatar's lineage to theirs so Ozai married Ursa, Avatar Roku's granddaughter.

  • Zuko's mother.

  • So technically you could say that Zoku is linked to Korra on a spiritual level, even

  • if she's been separated from her past lives. I also know a lot of you haven't read The

  • Search comic, that's the one that tells what happened to Zuko's mother. So read it if you

  • want to know. He does find her at the end.

  • Number 6 - Azula

  • She genuinely had some non-evil person moments. Like when they went to Ember Island and she

  • tried to pick up that boy.

  • Best Azula pickup line. "That's a sharp outfit there. Careful, you could puncture the hull

  • of an empire class fire nation ship. Leaving thousands to drown at sea."

  • So hard to figure out why she's still single?

  • I know everyone is curious if sparky sparky boom girl on Korra is related to her just

  • because of the visual similarity. I don't think that's the case, but I do think we'll

  • find out what happened to Azula by book 4.

  • Number 5 - Katara

  • She was everyone's mom even before she became an actual mom. I always liked when Mike and

  • Bryan let her have fun and she didn't have to be the responsible one. That was kind of

  • her role on Team Avatar. Make sure ADHD Aang focused on the task at hand and make sure

  • Sokka didn't get himself killed.

  • And she doubled as the healer. We saw her use her healing ability during Korra last

  • season, and even though we haven't seen her yet in Book 3, I think she'll be back soon.

  • My favorite Katara moment was from The Fortuneteller episode where she sees Aang super bend the

  • volcano lava flow and realizes he might be the powerful bender she's destined to marry.

  • Number 4 - Iroh

  • I was so happy when he showed up in the spirit world. If there was any character who deserved

  • to get that kind of an ending it was him. He kind of reminds me of what Darth Vader

  • would have been had he not died. Like maybe if Luke had died like Iroh's son, maybe he

  • would have killed the Emperor and started helping the rebellion.

  • I love Mark Hamill but I think I would have rather seen that version of Star Wars.

  • I'm not expecting to see Iroh again on Legend of Korra, I think Zuko is filling the role

  • he would normally occupy now. Especially since he's connected to the White Lotus.

  • My favorite Iroh moment was when he was stuck in prison and started to train secretly when

  • the guards weren't watching him. It's like you were just waiting for him to tear shit

  • up.

  • Number 3 - Aang

  • Yes he was the protagonist of the series, but I feel like saying the main character

  • was the most interesting is a cop out. He was one of my favorites and one of the most

  • interesting ones.

  • He's been a huge part of Legend of Korra, even when he's not on screen in spirit form.

  • Only characters that had a deep connection to the spirit world end up there, so I'm hoping

  • we get to see him again that way. But it's implied that Korra will never reconnect with

  • her past lives, so I think if we see him any time soon on Korra it will be in a flashback.

  • And most of the flashbacks this season are Beifong flashbacks.

  • My favorite Aang moment was when the Lion Turtle taught him to Energy Bend. He would

  • have learned it from Guru Pathik but left early to help his friends. I guess that's

  • another Star Wars reference, like when Luke left Yoda early to save his friends from Vader.

  • I think we can all guess Mike and Bryan are huge Star Wars fans, especially since the

  • ended up casting Mark Hamill as the Emperor Palpatine of their series

  • Number 2 - Toph Beifong

  • So many Toph questions still, her whereabouts right now are still one of the biggest. But

  • I'm so pumped to see her and Lin in the flashbacks this year.

  • I think my favorite Toph moment was when she schooled Aang in sandbending a perfect replica

  • of Ba Sing Se with one stomp of her foot.

  • Has anyone ever wondered how often she had to clean her feet when she started living

  • in Republic City? I bet she had pretty gross feet walking around without shoes all the

  • time.

  • It was pretty awesome when we got to see Lin take her shoe off in book 1 and use the stomp

  • echolocation Toph style.

  • and my Number 1 favorite Last Airbender character - Lord Zuko

  • I say Lord just because he's not Firelord anymore. He passed it on to his daughter,

  • who we still haven't met, even though we've met his grandson. Just like Toph, there are

  • so many unanswered Zuko questions right now.

  • I think my favorite Zuko moment was actually when he first decided to help Aang and was

  • all like, "Hello, Zuko here!" and there were all these scary music cues. Dun Dun Dun.