So what, Fire Nation Man was the midwife or something?

@avclub-e14267dedd4e1d0cc0093bc13643fd59:disqus Yeah… that's why he was doing it…

@avclub-e14267dedd4e1d0cc0093bc13643fd59:disqus Yeah… that's why he was doing it…

No, she didn't literally die.  When she gets her bending taken away, the 'ceremony', I guess you'd call it, takes place on Air Temple Island.  But for the purposes of the show, she's dead now.  She's "dead to us," as it were.

No, she didn't literally die.  When she gets her bending taken away, the 'ceremony', I guess you'd call it, takes place on Air Temple Island.  But for the purposes of the show, she's dead now.  She's "dead to us," as it were.

It's actually "Bosco" with an "o". (The bear, that is)

It's actually "Bosco" with an "o". (The bear, that is)

That is strange.  If we consider that all the people who've gotten their bending taken away have not been heard from again (well, okay, Tahno, but that was pretty brief and a long time ago), Lin is, for the purposes of the narrative, dead.

That is strange.  If we consider that all the people who've gotten their bending taken away have not been heard from again (well, okay, Tahno, but that was pretty brief and a long time ago), Lin is, for the purposes of the narrative, dead.

@avclub-333ce6a840a3368cd20e29c11fdb219a:disqus  It'll be just like The Rocketeer!

@avclub-333ce6a840a3368cd20e29c11fdb219a:disqus  It'll be just like The Rocketeer!

I internally debated this week's bad-ass award, because there are so many worthy nominees: Tenzin, for his tornado takedown; airbending children for asskicking while young; Asami for flipping dudes over her shoulder and stuff…

I internally debated this week's bad-ass award, because there are so many worthy nominees: Tenzin, for his tornado takedown; airbending children for asskicking while young; Asami for flipping dudes over her shoulder and stuff…

Fuck that. I laughed.  Sure, the first time it came up, it was kind of gross and felt "Dreamworks"-y.  But that his genuine, serious fighting style consists of sitting on a dude's face and then blasting him with air from his ass is too funny conceptually to be an old sourpuss and tsk-tsk it.

Fuck that. I laughed.  Sure, the first time it came up, it was kind of gross and felt "Dreamworks"-y.  But that his genuine, serious fighting style consists of sitting on a dude's face and then blasting him with air from his ass is too funny conceptually to be an old sourpuss and tsk-tsk it.

Huh.  I thought the review was pretty great.  A valid review will bring up weaknesses in an episode in addition to analysis.  That's exactly what Emily did.

Huh.  I thought the review was pretty great.  A valid review will bring up weaknesses in an episode in addition to analysis.  That's exactly what Emily did.

I guess that makes you Tenzin.  Or something.

I guess that makes you Tenzin.  Or something.

I think maybe she'll begin one of the episodes (maybe the first episode of the finale?) just having learned how to airbend, and then discover that learning to airbend did not solve all of her problems as the Avatar. That could be a compelling episode plotline.