*whew*  I feel better now.  Thanks, dude (or dudette).

Must not… low-hanging fruit…

Holy smokes.  Good find.  That's badass, and really, you can kind of see that in Amon's mask.

All right, Avatari (I just made that up):  I just watched the episode with captions on, and it's what happened 42 years ago with "Yakone" (silent e).

As long as we're handing out kudos…

Yeah, I got that vibe, too. And Tarrlok smiles the entire time Korra is issuing her challenge. When I first saw that part, I got the idea that the idea of challenging Amon to a duel was something that Tarrlok approved of.

That's really hard to say, since I (like, I suspect, many of us on here) watched the entire original series in about a week and a half.  I'm not used to having to watch something in the Avatar universe in weekly chunks, so I can't compare it (not that I didn't try!) to what I've already seen in Last Airbender.
I'm just…

More evidence of the backstory being phony is that, in at least one up-close shot we saw of his mask this week, you could see that there is normal-looking skin around his eyes.  Now, is it possible that his face got burned off EXCEPT that patch around his eyes?  I guess, but that's some kind of aim.

@avclub-7cbaf9384cf3835106bf2f444c0bcf65:disqus I get what you're saying.  I don't mean that he doesn't care about the city or its problems; I mean that, of the five (?) council members, he is probably the least engaged in day-to-day life there, and might not get what the real problems are.  I assume that the other…

@avclub-5643089fc5312acca6e68376dca7ca81:disqus , now THAT, I would pay to see!  Aang, done up like Gordon Gekko?

Agreeing with Murc here, and adding that Aang didn't grow up in isolation.  He had been to the Fire Nation (Kuzon), buddied up with Bumi, and who knows what else?

That's actually exactly what I've been thinking.  I feel like, when watched as a whole, this is going to be an excellent series.  As individual episodes, however, it's a little messy.  Not that the episodes are not still excellent, but I don't really feel like I can miss a couple of episodes, watch one, and still be…

Amon has yellow eyes.  He's got Fire Nation in his blood at some point.

You could even make a case that Tenzin is not really OF Republic City.  Today marked the second or third time we've seen Tenzin actually in Republic City.  He mostly keeps himself away on Air Temple Island.  One point that I thought of last week is that the art for the scenes on Air Temple Island was much more crisp…

It's permanently glued to my skin.

Yeah, I had kind of thought about that, too.  It's a little unfair for any of us to judge the film based on this one interview and an under-three-minute trailer.

I was going to stay out of this, but that's kind of a douchy thing to say.  Well, not really douchy, per se, but reductive.  Does that mean women don't need or shouldn't want to watch the film, because it gives the female perspective, and, hell, they're already women, right?  They already KNOW what they're thinking!…

But again, what is the benefit to running this as a feature, instead of having Marcus write it up as a review?  How can you say it highlights something that might not merit a review when the article is practically a review (minus any of the critical parts) itself?  At first, the feature didn't really bother me.  To be…

Serious questions: What's the point of these articles?  Isn't the point of the reviews to tell us whether they like something or not?  Isn't this how the Dawes shitstorm began?  Why are people okay with this now?

This could really be taken either way, but the way that Lightning Bolt Zolt reacted after having his bending taken away is almost exactly the same as how Ozai reacted after Aang took his bending away.  Sit back, resting on one arm, try to throw a fire punch, crumple, and ask "What… what did you do to me?"  It could…