And all the developments that have been predicted since the beginning of the season have turn into a reality. Kuvira attacks Republic City just because, finishing his transformation into Godwin-on-legs and culminating the most boring villain arc in this series since Unalaq's, and Wu suddenly now's useful. They even…

Yeah. My god, looked closely Lin's life is painfully tragic. She never got the love she needed from her mother, her mother always refused to tell her who her father was, despite it was something that obviously pained her not to know (and, to add injury, she casually comments it fifty years later to a passingby strange…

Thank you. I was starting to think I was the only who felt that way.

Actually, that's not true. Only 2nd season ends with Korra agreeing that her antagonist had a point. Zaheer or Amon's motives aren't adressed in one single instance of the series by the hero. And as a matter of fact, the only way in which Amon's grievances were "adressed" were in the reform of Republic City's…

In normal conditions I'd agree with you. But here the "good guys" are arming a local warlord to clean their dirty laundry while preparing a puppet ruler to govern the newly reunited country according to their own interests. If there's anything that I hate more than imperialistic interventionism, that's waging wars by…

…Seriously? "Earth Empire"? Please tell me a single fictional organization with "Empire" in its name that wasn't Evil Incarnate.

Kuvira: Best girl or THE Best Girl?

As usual, loved the episode, but I am terribly uncomfortable with its political undertones. Basically, they are trying to fit in a neat, clear-cut narrative of good guys vs. bad guys a political situation that it's so fucked up and cynical I can't believe I'm seeing it in a kid's show. In short, the world's largest…

Zhao Fu totally creeped me out. It was like Galt's Gulch with superpowers designed by the unholy offspring of Albert Speer, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. I was disappointed there wasn't any sinister revelation about it because the place practically screamed "This is Brave New World all over again, yo!"

It would be nice if they had a good answer, but even a bad answer would be better than silence. I have to clarify that I see this mostly from a narrative point: I'm just explaining what I think it is a severe narrative flaw. This is not merely ideological.

For once, I've got to say that I agree completely with you. :)

This is a universe in which, a huge chunk of the population possess superpowers by purely genetic accident. Not only that, Aang and Korra are, by virtue of birth, the incarnation of a cosmic force and literally the most powerful person in the world in their respective times. Do I really have to explain why they're…

But we're dealing with a narrative here. This is not social policing, or history class. We're telling a story, and if you don't face an element that you yourself have introduced in the story, the narration ends up with a limp. And that's why I think S1's ending is flawed. Cool, yet flawed.

Exactly. I mean, he's the villain, he has to lose, and his cause proven to be wrong in some way. But here, we got nothing. I like the Harry Potter analogy, it pretty much nails it.

Amon's background was disappointing. First, there is that part about turning the last part of the arc in an ad-hominem against Equalists ("Amon is a bender, so his argument is invalid"). Second, it reduces the strength of one of my favourite scenes of all season: when he overcomes Tarrlok's bloodbending ("How badass…

Yeah, but that's the point. They are villains. Of course their answers aren't going to be workable; but the important thing is that they HAVE one.

God, you just put out in words something I've been struggling with since S1. From a purely creative point of view, the real problem with the resolution wasn't the resolution per se: there wasn't an actual resolution save in the widest, more melodramatic sense of the term. The issues raised aren't faced, it is not…

I obviously don't feel it so strongly as you, but… yes, the political analysis of this series has always made me a little uncomfortable. All the protagonists are obviously privileged and you can tell it. That is not a problem in itself; it is when the narrative is twisted in their advantage just because of, as you put…

Yeeaaaah, me too. I thought "Oh, that´s so cruel", yet laughed anyway.

I completely understand you. On the other hand, my life is pretty boring, so I think is comprehensible if I think the crazy, adventurous one could also be the most interesting one