Panem. Need I say more?

(Kinja swallowed my earlier response, but I have new thoughts anyways)

Well, I think the show has consistently shown that the individual Avatars have often been fallible, and that concentrating all the responsibility of bringing balance to the world in a single person has sometimes led to disastrous results (e.g. Roku's inability to face Sozin's militarization of the Fire Nation until it…

Yes, I very much agree — the scene with Amon, Unalaq, and Vaatu resurfacing and saying the Avatar is no longer needed is especially telling. Unlike Aang, who resented the duty of being the Avatar (at least initially), Korra's identity has been wrapped up with the being the Avatar since she was a small child. We've…

#NotAllYoungWomen #YesAllMen

Oh my goodness, I geeked the fuck out when Sif and May had their terse little heart-to-heart together. They're both like Zoe from Firefly, except Viking Zoe and Super-spy Zoe, and they can be besties! I really want Sif to be a regular now, JUST for this.

Love the animation ... there's just one issue ... which is that the songwriters said that they wrote this song to cause some drama between the sisters such that Elsa would lose control of her powers and wind up freezing Anna's heart, which leads to the last half of the movie ... so I was a wee bit disappointed when at…

I thought it was okay ....... until my parents put "The Sound of Music" basically on repeat to entertain my little sister when she was a baby. Except they would always stop the movie before the oh-shit-we-better-run-from-the-Nazis part, because it was too dramatic or scary for her (which is like totally dumb - she was…

Agreed. I also feel like this raises the stakes for Books 3 and 4. In the end of Season 1, Aang appears deus ex machina to fix her lack of bending. While it's symbolic and important that she is the first Avatar of the new cycle, that also means that her past lives can't show up and bail her out anymore out of crappy…

I was so glad Tenzin could work out some of this parental AANGst, if you know what I mean!

Haha - I have terrible experience with teaching someone to cook by starting with yellow cake! My cousin from Shanghai visited my family, and she had NO idea how to cook (her mother had done all the cooking in the family, and had basically never let her touch the stove). My father insisted that it was my cousinly duty…

Super torn between Dark Willow and Hermione. I love them both so, so much, but I don't know who would win in a fight.

It's been a very long time since 8th grade science class, but, isn't it a solar eclipse (as opposed to a lunar eclipse) when "the Moon snugly fit[s] in front of the Sun"?

Is that ... a trailer for a trailer for Catching Fire???

False. I had allergy-induced asthma as a kid so I had to have allergy shots. I had them for probably like 6 or 7 years, starting with weekly shots and then progressing to monthly shots. They were an enormous pain in the ass. My asthma is under control, and some of my allergies are certainly better, but I still have…

Oooh, ooh! I loved that book so much when I was younger! I need to go reread it now.

Is it just me or does the woman in the beginning of the trailer bear a striking resemblance to Michele Bachmann?

See, now I'm convinced that won't happen, unfortunately ... Now that it's revealed that he's the descendant of the Dark One as well as having good magic on his mother's side, I think the writers are going to make him into this super special one who has control over light and dark magic. I just wish that this epic…