I've actually enjoyed this season as a whole, but I agree this was a pretty terrible episode, so I don't get the people proclaiming it as the best in ages. There's a problem with the writing if you need a writer's surrogate spending several minutes of a half hour show just explaining the premise of the plot. It just…

I definitely agree Sarah is the worst. So I find it funny almost everywhere I've looked where people are talking about how all the characters are such horrible people Sarah almost never gets directly mentioned. It's always about Ali and Josh.

I can't get over the feeling they could replace Ali with hannah from girls for an episode without missing a beat for the most part.

Mishima's neuroses are what make him so fascinating as a writer (besides his beautiful prose). He's one author that's it's hard to separate the person and the art.

Kawabata is the greatest 20th century novelist, but I can see his novels being too sparse and understated for Mitchell's style of writing. Also I don't know if he reads them in the original, but Kawabata's reads prettier in the Japanese than any of the ones he mentions IMO.

I asked a similar question too. Based on the answers I got, it just seems the show retconned what the Avatar state is. At first it was all the power of past Avatars coming together, then Raava came into the picture. So it can either mean past Avatars no longer have anything to do with it, or it's a combination of both…

I just really feel this season was the pinnacle of the entire series. There was some tire spinning near the middle, but the beginning and especially the end were near perfect. The original series, while great, IMO was shackled by having a 12 year old as it's main character and being more explicitly a children's show.…

I just feel like it HAS to be a kiss, narrative wise. I doubt it was anything more, they're still like 13 and this is ABCF, but narrative wise it has to be a kiss IMO. One of Jude's main storylines is this slow bubbling sexuality/Connor one. It's been ignored for the past several weeks but it eventually has to be…

That was my reaction too. It was obviously there for a reason and I just can't figure what it would be besides some sort of self-harm. And I don't like the character and don't want her to get more attention than she already gets.

They seem to be hinting Connor is actually the gay one and Jude may not be. I think a younger teen gay couple would be cute, and the first one I can think of on tv, but my initial guess was Connor kissed Jude but Jude didn't respond and Connor doesn't want anyone to know.

I liked it. This is the first episode that felt like it mattered in a long time. The dialogue felt forced and overworked to me, but it was a nice episode. so it's funny to me it got a lower grade than the recent string of inconsequential episodes.

Peppermint Butler is cool? he's been repeatedly shown to be evil. There's a pretty long list of things he's done at this point. Possibly killing a goblin and saying he "found" him like that, threatening to eat jake, summoning a demon into Cinnamon Bun's body, etc. Peppermint Butler seems to be one of the most…

There used to be a super cool tumblr run by some historian who did in-depth posts pointing out the influences and real-world counterparts of the Avatar world. I'm not sure if she's still doing it but it was a fun blog to get lost in. She had a great handle on East Asian culture and history and always argued her points…

The past 2 episodes have been so, so good after what (I thought) was a weaker middle part of the season. The show is so much stronger with the new and improved korra and the main gang at the forefront, with sparing use of Tenzin and other more periphery characters.

I do still think the show needs to get back to finn and jake, but this episode worked better for me than last week's did. The only part I didn't like was it felt the ran out of time and it ended so abruptly without much of an ending.

I'm one of those who don't think AT has ever had a truly bad episode, but this was not one of my favorites. I thought it was weirdly structured mostly. When the ending came it didn't feel like much had even happened to me. We met a new character, but that was about it. AT at its best can make 11 minutes seem bursting…

20 minutes? It's been at least a year (not sure how long it's been in universe since season 1). And he's still basically the same character. Korra has been shown to finally be growing up, but Tenzin becomes the old, controlling ass every time he gets any authority. They haven't done much to develop his character. At…

And also it was yet another episode of Tenzin being a controlling asshole. how many episodes have we seen that over the past 3 seasons? then he supposedly learns his lesson, only for it to come back the next time anyone gets trained/needs his help. It just felt like a completely pointless episode right in the middle…

I'm actually surprised these episodes, especially Original Airbenders, were rated so high. It was the weakest episode so far I thought. The show suffers IMO when it focuses on Bumi, the worst Aang/Katara child, and the Kai/Jinora relationship. It really hasn't done much to show any reason why any of these characters…

I just don't get how you can apply human logic to this situation. Yeah Jake isn't a very attentive father, but he's a dog. The show has touched at that topic a few times over its run. He does things that would be irresponsible for a human to do. Does that make him bad? I guess it depends on whether or not you expect a…