That was the worst thing about Avatar 2, even worse than the titular character. The 1910-1920 New York City setting was incredibly off-putting. No attempt at making it fit the previous world or try to be a progression of it, it was just The Big Apple with magic powers. More zeppelins though which was nice. I gave up after a few episodes so maybe it makes sense later.
Didn't the tanks and that one big drill of the Fire Nation require constant use of bending for power? The industrial revolution was about finding harnessing energy to remove the need for labor. How that works in a world with dudes blasting fire I have no idea. I probably shouldn't think hard about it.
They did show a scene in Korra of fire benders lightening bending to charge up a power plant so that explains where electricity comes from.
I wouldn't be surprised if electricity can simply be produced by bending and stored that explains the power requirements without the need of fossil fuels.
The fact that so many firebenders can now use lightning in Korra is in and of itself bullshit. There were a grand total of 2 (maybe 3) firebenders capable of using lightning in Aang's time because it was so difficult to use and required apparently superhuman levels of focus. It wasn't some new technique that once found could just be taught to everyone, it was a known quantity that was simply nearly impossible to pull off.
Now it's so common an ability that entire swathes of people make 9 to 5 careers out of it. Bullshit.
That was the worst thing about Avatar 2, even worse than the titular character. The 1910-1920 New York City setting was incredibly off-putting. No attempt at making it fit the previous world or try to be a progression of it, it was just The Big Apple with magic powers. More zeppelins though which was nice. I gave up after a few episodes so maybe it makes sense later.
Didn't the tanks and that one big drill of the Fire Nation require constant use of bending for power? The industrial revolution was about finding harnessing energy to remove the need for labor. How that works in a world with dudes blasting fire I have no idea. I probably shouldn't think hard about it.
They did show a scene in Korra of fire benders lightening bending to charge up a power plant so that explains where electricity comes from.
I wouldn't be surprised if electricity can simply be produced by bending and stored that explains the power requirements without the need of fossil fuels.
The fact that so many firebenders can now use lightning in Korra is in and of itself bullshit. There were a grand total of 2 (maybe 3) firebenders capable of using lightning in Aang's time because it was so difficult to use and required apparently superhuman levels of focus. It wasn't some new technique that once found could just be taught to everyone, it was a known quantity that was simply nearly impossible to pull off.
Now it's so common an ability that entire swathes of people make 9 to 5 careers out of it. Bullshit.