Talk:Iroh (United Forces general)/@comment-67.83.94.254-20120617041436/@comment-50.4.137.100-20120617054813

So much of the uniqueness that makes Legend of Korra not a copy of Last Airbender comes from the completely different setting. Also, as others have pointed out, it's not that huge of a stretch how far they've progressed.

It is interesting though to see how bending has changed the course of technology. Like the fact that they have electricity now (and a clean renewable source known as bending) but still never invented guns from lack of need. Also, seems like metalbending has made a lot of old weapons obsolete. Sword is kind of useless when someone can just bend it back at you. For that matter, a gun barrel would be too. Or if a firebender just ignited your ammo before you could use it. And there are other things too, like several of the boats and the submarines from the invasion being powered by waterbending, the earthbending trains, etc. I'd like to see what else the come up with.