Avatar Legend Of Korra

The introduction sequence is longer than normal, giving the past Avatars more time to demonstrate their element. Kyoshi bends earth and punches it to the left. The camera cuts to the tight. Roku strikes left and right, fire bursting from his hands. We cut back to the left to find an adult Aang, his jaw trimmed with a dark beard. He dances and kicks at stage center. We cut upwards. Korra sloppily waterbenders, soaking the camera. The screen whites out. When it dims, an aged ink drawing fills the screen. It's Team Avatar from the original series, at the age we last saw them. From left to right: Sokka brandishes his space swords, Suki is dressed in her Kyoshi Warrior uniform, Toph is earthbending, Katara is waterbending, Zuko is firebending, and Aang is airbending. The camera pans rightward across the drawing before finally focusing on Aang. His eyes and arrow tattoos begin to glow white. Then they flash. A standard Avatar world map appears. The camera zooms in, tilting and turning, and the map becomes partly three dimensional with regards to the mountains and volcanos. The camera approaches a spot in the Earth Kingdom's continental northwest. The screen whites out again, as if the camera is passing through clouds. When it comes through the other side, the view is one of a flyover shot of Republic City. The camera can see the whole width of the sprawling city. Then the camera shoots into the waters of Yue Bay, before coming up for a shot of the city's skyline. The camera races towards the skyline, only to veer off to the left, turning around to approach Aang's giant memorial statue. The camera keeps moving, but slows for a moment to linger on Aang's face. It shoots up vertically into a cloud-filed sky, finally settling on a shot of the blazing sun.] Tenzin: (voice over) Earth... Fire... Air... Water. When I was a boy, my father, Avatar Aang, told me the story of how he and his friends heroically ended the Hundred Year War. Avatar Aang and Firelord Zuko transformed the Fire Nation colonies into the United Republic of Nations, a society where benders and non-benders from all over the world could live and thrive together in peace and harmony. They named the capital of this great land "Republic City". Avatar Aang accomplished many remarkable things in his life, but sadly his time in this world came to an end. And like the cycle of the seasons, the cycle of the Avatar began anew. Act I (It's nighttime in the Southern Water Tribe, the sky filled with storm clouds and the air with snow. The camera pans down to reveal mountains along a coastline. In the background, a coastal city blazes with bright lights. Yet our interest is the three cloaked figure advancing up the hillside, the central figure holding aloft a lantern. We cut to a view behind the trio as they reach the crest of their hilltop. Their purple cloaks stand out against the white snow. The trio pauses. Their new focus is shared by the camera; the hazy background sharpens. There are a few homes atop the hill. We cut to a view of this landscape, with several igloos and tents dotting it, and the camera pans across it. Three tiny figures approach one igloo; it blazes with light. We cut to the wooden door of that dwelling. Tonraq, a large muscular man in Water Tribe clothing, is holding aloft a lantern. He bows his head in respect to the cloaked figure in the foreground.) Tonraq: The White Lotus has honored my family by coming. Thank you. (Tonraq turns and pushing open the door. Senna, his wife, is sweeping in the center of their home. Her robe is stained and their house is clearly in a state of disrepair. Senna halts her sweeping and bows.) Senna: Welcome. (Her statement is puncuated by a decorative shield falling off the wall. The cloaked figures pull of their hoods. Tonraq walks around them. Their leader, a short, hefty man with greying hair, speaks.) White Lotus Leader: We have investigated many claims, both here and in the Northern Tribe. All have turned out to be false. (Tonraq comes over to Senna and puts an arm on her shoulder. The couple smiles at one another, then turns back to the trio.) Senna: Then you should be happy to know, your search has come to an end. (Cut to a close-up view of the trio. They are clearly unimpressed with this declaration.) White Lotus Leader: What makes you so sure your daughter is the "one"? (Cut back on the couple. Senna turns to the left and calls out.) Senna: Korra, please come in here. (Cut back to the White Lotus trio. They're facing the camera, still looking bland, when a slab of rock flies past them. Their eyes shoot wide. They turn, startled, to the right. The camera zooms rightward, revealing a circular hole in the room's stone interior wall. Backlit by a bright light, a kid Korra strikes an action pose and then starts jumping around, bending the various elements.) Korra: I'm the Avatar, you gotta deal with it!