It's also interesting if you see Tenzin as the guardian of the airbender legacy.  He knows that his children are all going to determine the future of the airbenders, and will almost inevitably be thrust into leadership positions, so it's critical that they learn the skills necessary to be a good leader.

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus Don't worry, I'm sure the casting for the movie will make it much more clear.

This episode was really enjoyable after the last one- there's more of a sense that Korra is full of it, her reactions come across as those of an teenager who's in over her head (I went to high school at the beginning of the Iraq war, so I was really feeling the whole bit about self-righteous teenagers who can't…

For all the inspiration the original series took from Star Wars, they never made the equivalent of the Ewok battle.  I guess they're trying to fix that.

Yeah, I'd say the major point of this Water Tribe Civil War storyline is that it shows why the Avatar ought to be neutral in most wars.  One side may be more justified than the other, but it doesn't follow that they're always going to do the right thing, or that they will be any more willing to end the conflict.  If…

Particularly not war profiteers who advocate military coups.

Chris Tucker is Luke Cage.  Jackie Chan is Iron Fist.  They are hired to investigate the last of four mysterious incidents of traffic gridlock.

Yes.  I was surprised I had to go this far down to find them mentioned.  Harold laughing so hard at the dummy somehow makes the scene hilarious and painful at the same time, though I guess that par for the course with this show.

It's a decent, relatively static show week-in, week-out, and people go crazy if they can't attach a narrative to something.

I believe that was her dancing on Eagleton's grave.

Of course Ron would accidentally be winning eating awards when he's just trying to have dinner.

Well, in recent budget talks, Obama has insisted that proposed spending cuts not affect a program that allows the president to transform into a multidimensional eldritch horror, "should the need arise."

*Gallagher goes for the double-eye gouge, but Liam stops it with his hand*

And then, a tornado hits a fertility clinic…

Half-Blood Prince looked okay, but Hogwarts just seemed so empty and blank, especially next to Prisoner of Azkaban, where Cuaron crammed every frame with crazy details- when I rewatch it, I catch the people in the pictures doing new things every time.

It's actually slimmed-down by the standard of the later Potter books, so even though Harry doesn't do much, the plot around him moves at a respectable pace.

I really liked the movie too, and even though it's a bit too talky, the film itself is incredibly efficiently-constructed.  The three spacecraft that show up each correspond to one act of the screenplay, and the events around each one move Bullock's character through another emotional state (fear, hope, despair,…

You know he's not going to make it, but I didn't expect him to die as soon as he does.  When he shows up again as a hallucination, I briefly thought that the movie had allowed him to live, but then he said "it's a hell of a story" a second time, and it became clear what was happening.

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The space stations all being next to each other is probably a compromise for the dramatic narrative, but they covered Bullock's freakouts pretty well- she's a relative newcomer who was given just enough training to handle herself in a normal zero-G situation, and then she's thrust into a situation more intense than…