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Korra and the blow of Team Avatar alternate to television Friday with the additional division premiere of “The Legend of Korra.”

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Back on Nickelodeon afterwards a 15-month hiatus, the activated alternation picks up with “Book 2: Spirits” — a new division that offers a attending into the abstruse apple of alcohol aboriginal alien in the show’s predecessor, the Emmy-winning “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”

The premiere appear an afraid accord amid Korra’s ancestor Tonraq (James Remar), baton of the Southern Water Tribe, and his brother Unalaq (Adrian LaTourelle), arch of the Northern Water Tribe. Unalaq’s action to become Avatar Korra’s new trainer in airy techniques after-effects in battle amid the brothers, amid Korra and her family, and, it would seem, amid the tribes.

Hero Complex sat bottomward with “Legend of Korra” and “Avatar” co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, as able-bodied as added Janet Varney, who choir Korra, to babble about the accessible season, the similarities amid Korra and “Avatar” hero Aang and the chastity that guides the series.

HC: Book 2 is aloof starting, but I accept you’re already alive on Book 4?

MDM: We’re aloof in assorted stages of assembly on all three books.

BK: Yeah, a complete overlap. That’s TV animation. That’s why it’s so hard. Because it takes so continued to accomplish anniversary episode, that you accept to do them all at one time, aloof staggered.

In this aboriginal abstraction art for “The Legend of Korra,” the show’s charlatan looks out over Republic City. (Nickelodeon)

HC: It seems like “Korra” absolutely boasts a aerial ability of artistry. Is that important to you?

BK: Yeah, and that’s what takes so long. I mean, the appearance is abominably adamantine to make, and absolutely adamantine to accumulate consistent, and Mike and I, we’re there aloof aggravating to accomplish abiding it’s as acceptable as can be. We attending about and we go, “No one’s authoritative us. This is our fault. We set it up to be this hard.” So we affectionate of accept abandoned ourselves and our co-workers to blame.

MDM: Aback we’re in the average of it, there’s absolutely canicule breadth it’s like, “Man, is it account it?” But again aback it’s done and we get to allotment it with everyone, seeing all the clips from the accomplished season, it’s like, “Man this is gonna be awesome!”

JV: That’s how I feel anytime I see a little sliver of annihilation from the show. That’s how I feel every time I’m with these guys. Like aback we were accomplishing a DVD commentary, I was badinage that I forgot to anytime say anything, because I was like “Ah, it’s so cool!”

HC: So Book 2 is “Spirits” — a apple you briefly affected on in “Airbender.” Why did you adjudge to focus on this world?

MDM: We brought in two writers from the old series, Josh Hamilton and Tim Hedrick, to advice us address Book 2 and Book 3 and Book 4, and you know, aback we started throwing about account aboriginal on, alcohol was article we had consistently enjoyed and we knew that admirers absolutely capital to apperceive added about the spirit world.

BK: It affectionate of bent their imagination.

MDM: So we were like, “If we’re gonna do it, let’s go abounding spirit world.”

“The Legend of Korra” Comic-Con 2013 poster. (Nickelodeon)

BK: Mike and I had a altered abstraction for Book 2, well, not different, but we had an abstraction for Book 2 that was alike article we were blame about for Book 1, and we accomplished it was too abundant story, and we said, “Well, if we get to do addition book, again that will be the idea.” And that’s still there, and again the accomplished spirit affair affectionate of grew out of that. So it’s cool, it’s like two storylines formed into it.

HC: You said “if” you anytime get to do addition book — was there anytime a question?

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BK: On “Avatar,” we did a angle and a alternation bible and a pilot, and again we got best up for scripts, and again we got best up. The crazy affair about “Korra,” they aloof showed up and said, “Hey guys, we best up 12 episodes. You can do whatever you want.”

MDM: Which never happens.

BK: And they were like, “This time, we’d like ‘em to be affectionate of a independent 12 episodes, and not like a big, over-arching thing.” And Mike and I absolutely anticipation that was cool. We were aflame about that idea. Alike on “Avatar,” we didn’t apperceive if we were activity to get to Book 3. It’s not like Nickelodeon best it up for three. They best it up for six episodes, and again 13, and again 20 and again addition 20 and again we accomplished it, and again we aloof fabricated an added adventure after asking, and that’s why there’s 61. But yeah, on “Korra,” they were like, “We’ll aloof try this, and we’ll do 12 at a time,” and that angry into 14 for Book 2 and 13 for Book 3 and 13 for Book 4.

HC: One of the things that set “Avatar” afar from abounding added shows was that it was a deliberate, three-season story. It didn’t accumulate activity and activity until bodies got annoyed of it. Sounds like “Korra” is a altered beast, with anniversary division actuality its own thing?

MDM: Yeah, we advised “Korra” abnormally for that reason. I anticipate allotment of it was the network’s needs and allotment of it was like, yeah, we ability abandoned get to acquaint 12 stories, and it would be a abashment if it was like we about got started, and it’s catastrophe center in. So it was like, if there was abandoned anytime Book 1, it still was a contained, acceptable story.

BK: And as a aftereffect — I was aloof talking to Mike about this the added day — I mean, “Avatar,” the altered books had a little bit of altered flavor, but in “Korra”, because we are alive on Books 2, 3, and 4, aback I anticipate about anniversary season, it’s so audible from the added ones.

Aang, top, is the appellation appearance in “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” He is helped in his adventure by Katara, a adolescent water-bender, and her warrior brother Sokka. (Nickelodeon)

JV: I anticipate that’s what so air-conditioned about the way television is actuality fabricated in a lot of means too. Now, aback you attending at BBC shows, and I anticipate added American shows are affectionate of demography a folio from that, there is a array of beginning, average and end to a series. You can now bolt up a agglomeration of episodes at already — bodies watch things on demand, bodies watch things on DVD — and it holds up. You don’t necessarily accept to delay anniversary to week, and you can affectionate of feel like you watched one big august film, and anniversary book of the “Korra” adventures is array of like that. It’s about like you’re seeing a film, and its sequel, and the next, and they’re aloof these absolutely abstracted arcs.

BK: And they’ve got this audible flavor, and anniversary one has its focus. Mike and I, we aloof admired that claiming aback Nickelodeon came to us with that, a added independent arc for anniversary season. I anticipate it’s affected us to address a little bit abnormally but still break accurate to the anatomy that we like.

HC: Korra is a altered heroine. Are there any characters that paved the way for her or served as an inspiration?

BK: There’s no one thing, because Mike and I actualize together, and alike if one actuality has an abstraction for a character, added bodies add to it, and again you know, the articulation actors accompany a accomplished new ambit to it. But it did aurora on me that one of my sisters — I accept three sisters — but one of them in accurate is like Korra.

JV: Really? That’s so cool!!

BK: ‘Cause my sister, she’s a boxy cookie. Mike knows her. She doesn’t absolutely booty account from anybody.

JV: That’s so interesting! I appetite to accommodated her.

BK: She is affectionate of similar. But I mean, it was additionally able athletes, changeable MMA fighters. I’m absolutely into alloyed aggressive arts. Aang was such a air-conditioned character, but he was so specific in his personality, and I’d be watching a action and thinking, “Man, it would be air-conditioned to accept a appearance like her.” These kinds of characters are appealing accustomed to us.

MDM: I consistently don’t absolutely apperceive how to acknowledgment that, because it’s like, “I don’t know. It’s aloof a air-conditioned character. Whether it’s a boy or a girl. I mean, we accurately capital to accomplish it a girl, because it was altered than Aang. And we capital to accomplish her added bullheaded and not the afraid hero. Allotment of that was aloof to differentiate it from the old alternation so we weren’t retreading the aforementioned types of stories, and we knew with a appearance like that, you accessible up a accomplished new breadth of belief that you can tell. And accepting her already accept abstruse all the elements, or three of the four, aback the adventure started, it’s like we didn’t appetite to do aloof the same, “Oh again she’s activity to go apprentice fire-bending, and again she’s activity to apprentice earth-bending…” So we affectionate of jumped advanced a little bit in her maturation process.

Korra and her accompany Mako and Bolin. (Nickelodeon)

HC: What about you, Janet? Any accurate influences?

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JV: Well, it’s so funny. Buffy makes faculty to me for sure. I anticipate the aberration is that Buffy was affectionate of afraid to booty aloft her responsibilities, and Korra is actual abundant the opposite. Korra is actual abundant like, “Oh this is activity to be my identity.” So there’s a big aberration there, right? That array of abhorrence and a admiration to be a approved jailbait that a appearance like Buffy had, and Korra’s added like, “What do I do?! Aback do I start?!”

HC: Do you chronicle to Korra?

Janet Varney choir the appellation appearance in “The Legend of Korra.” (Nickelodeon)

JV: I allocution about this a lot because it absolutely is candidly true. I don’t accept any of the amazing admiral that Korra has, but I absolutely chronicle to a lot of her appearance defects, ha-ha! And I’ve been afraid at the way that the scripts and the storylines unfold. Obviously things are accident to her that are absolutely clashing annihilation I go through in my own life, except that there are consistently things that appear up for me aback I’m account the scripts and recording that again do comedy a role for me. I consistently allocution about how in Book 1, aback she’s acquirements how to air-bend, and she’s so impatient, and it takes a adolescent to say, “Be the leaf!” and to array of booty those breaths. That is article I anticipate about in my own activity because I am actual bullheaded and I am actual impatient. I do feel like I accept a big heart, and I’m actual enthusiastic, but I can get that array of, “Ugh, appear on!”

MDM: That’s why she does it so well. Do you apprehend that? That’s Korra.

JV: I couldn’t accept accepted that that was activity to be that affectionate of adventure aback I auditioned for it, but I really, absolutely chronicle to the stories, and I anticipate that that’s aloof been such a huge account for me. We aloof recorded article bygone that’s for an adventure way bottomward the band with Eva Marie Saint [who choir the appearance Katara in the series], and I acquainted like she was talking to me, Janet Varney. There is actuality she says in that calligraphy that I was like, “Oh my gosh, I gotta bethink this. This is so true. This is how activity is. Activity is absolutely hard.” I anticipate that’s article that makes bodies adulation the appearance too. If I’m sitting there activity like I’m actuality announced to personally, again I can’t brainstorm that that’s not accurate for admirers out there. For adolescent women and adolescent men and everybody who aloof needs to be reminded of those things.

BK: We created Korra as a character, and it wasn’t a affected thing. I mean, we were like, “Oh let’s accomplish her altered than Aang.” But already you set that up, again you aloof run with the character, like, “No, I don’t anticipate she would do that…” And they become actual absolute to you. I adulation Korra as a character. I chronicle to her, and I’m a 37-year-old dude in our day and age. But she’s somewhat absolute to me, and it’s not a amplitude for me and Mike to be like, “Yeah, I chronicle to a changeable superhero boyish character.” It’s not like, “Oh, but I’m a guy, and I’m not declared to.” We aloof don’t anticipate that way.

JV: Thank God, because that’s what makes the appearance so great.

MDM: All the actuality we do, alike admitting she’s angry spirits, and all the crazy actuality that happens in the world, we consistently arena it in absolute affections and absolute feelings, like not activity able and low self-worth.

JV: And actuality absolutely conflicted about what one allotment of you wants and the added allotment of you knows is acceptable for you, and how those adverse choir abide in all of us, no amount what our circumstances.

MDM: Alike with P.J. [Byrne’s] appearance Bolin, in Book 2, he’s awesome, and he does the wackiest actuality we’ve anytime done with him, but we ashore it in, he’s a little bit lost, and he’s aloof aggravating to amount out what the hell to do with his life. And he affectionate of gets sucked into a assertive job that leads to a lot of action and fun.

JV: It’s so good, it’s so good!

BK: That’s the abandoned affair we haven’t revealed. It’s so funny, because I anticipate from Book 1, we were so acclimated to episodes aperture and all this actuality leaking. With Book 2, we were like, “Ugh, it was delayed, so there’s aloof added adventitious things are gonna get leaked.” But there’s one affair we’ve kept quiet, and I’m not cogent anybody until they see it.

P.J. Byrne choir Bolin in “The Legend of Korra.” (Nickelodeon; Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images)

HC: You’ve been alive in this apple for over a decade now…

BK: Yeah, 11 years. Over 11 years.

HC: Do you anytime get annoyed of it?

MDM: Not really, ’cause we aloof try to accumulate it fresh. I don’t feel like we’re accomplishing the aforementioned affair over and over.

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BK: If we were still cogent Aang’s adventure that would be tiring. I beggarly for one thing, the kid who played Aang is like 20 now, so he apparently has a added articulation than me.

MDM: Yeah, and I aloof feel like the ambit of the world, about award balance, there’s never an acknowledgment to it. There’s consistently issues that appear up in my activity and actuality breadth it’s like, “Oh, I can administer that to the stories,” or “I’m activity admitting this, and I absolutely appetite to address a adventure about ambidextrous with that.”

HC: If there’s one bulletin “Korra” has for kids, or bodies of any age who watch the show, what do you anticipate that bulletin is?

A affiche for “The Legend of Korra.” (Nickelodeon)

BK: The affair that we’ve consistently appear aback to from the actual aboriginal adventure of “Avatar” all the way through aggregate we’re accomplishing — it’s consistently about balance. And that’s antithesis aural yourself. We try to break abroad from acceptable adjoin evil. It’s added about can you acquisition antithesis aural yourself, antithesis amid you and the alfresco world. And again it was consistently about aggravating to antithesis these four cultures, and not like, “Oh the acknowledgment is that everybody’s the same, and it’s all bound down.” There’s consistently activity to be conflict, there’s consistently activity to be altered identities. Whether they’re cultural identities, or personal, animal identities, or altered animal identities, how do you acquisition balance? And I anticipate that is the catechism of the world, and you can dress it up in a lot of altered ways, but that is what it all comes bottomward to. That is what we’ve consistently been admiring to in Eastern philosophy. And yeah, it is that Zen affair — there is no answer, and so you aloof accept to accumulate trying.

And I would say empathy. That’s like the one answer. You may not anytime absolutely accept addition on the added ancillary of that band of a nation or an adversary or something. But if you aloof try to empathize…. I anticipate Aang was a abundant hero in that way. He never anticipation of Zuko as an enemy. Ever. He remembered his accompany from the Fire Nation and stuff, and we consistently admired that about Aang. He wasn’t activity to anticipate about bodies as evil. But we additionally admired authoritative him not perfect. Aang had this acerbity in him, and this beginning affliction that he couldn’t control. And it would aloof appear to the Avatar state. He could do absolutely abhorrent things, and he could aching people, and that’s the thing. There’s no absolute character, and we don’t accept anyone’s like that. It’s aloof about acclimation those energies.

MDM: A adventure that deals with their flaws is bigger than authoritative them absolute and shiny. What is that gonna show? Some unattainable ideal?

JV: Alike what you were talking about with the aboriginal book, you can analyze with the Equalists. It makes sense. It aloof makes sense. You can accept why it would be actual difficult to abide in a apple breadth assertive bodies could do things that you artlessly couldn’t, and that you could feel taken advantage of by that, by bodies who are application it for ill, so you know, you set out initially with Book 1, this battle breadth a lot of bodies were talking appropriate away, about like “I don’t know. There’s affectionate of a point.” And again the additional book, we were talking about the spirits, and this abstraction that if that’s a threat, is it a blackmail because the animal apple has done article to actualize a bearings in which it is now threatened by these spirits. Would they accept been larboard abandoned had they been added balanced? And that’s array of what we analyze in Book 2.

– Noelene Clark | @NoeleneClark | Google

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