Well if you think Joffrey's bad, wait till you get a look at Ramsey Snow. I would say Ramsey is what Joffrey has the potential to become. With that said, it does feel gratuitous for the show to make up a random scene JUST to hammer home Joffrey's sadism unless you've read the books. Then you know that while in the…

She's not in the books at all. But you are right that she's sort of like the  "normal" person we follow around to see what it's like from the peasant's perspective. Especially because all the other characters are high born.

But she's not really high born is she? I mean she's the daughter of a minor lord so technically high born but her mother was a merchant's daughter and they're more like bannermen of the Lannisters. Then again you are right that I doubt most girls of privilege would be galavanting about amputating limbs. Which is…

I feel like by the end of the series half of them will be from Game of Thrones.

Re: Am I just misremembering [Davos's] prominence in this novel?

Whoa! Now I wonder what THAT could mean.

Well I mean like children or descendants or something. Or a character we've seen in the series thus far who isn't from the original series. Or someone the characters would recognize but we don't.

It's zombie Aang.

I think Amon just hides his face because it gives him power. Plus  maybe he's someone we know?

It also implies that these special forms of bending (blood bending, metal bending, and lightening bending) aren't specifically impossible skills per se but ones which required a genius to come up with first. Then once they got the technique down and are willing to share it with others, it becomes an advanced skill…

Hey Avatards! I don't really know if this has been posted somewhere in this 653 comment discussion and I'm too lazy to check. I know. Party foul. But I thought this was some pretty interesting food for thought and touches on the idea some others have thrown out there. Which is that Amon might be faking it.

If they know about spirit bending they should know about that right? Amon at least is probably someone who followed those last few months of the 100 years war very closely. If everything is about chi and energy than someone who isn't a bender should still be able to direct energy right?

Although if you were a metal bender you would have the power to stop them, maybe even redirect them at others.

I had some stray observations upon second viewing as well:

Yeah Korra is unusually strong. I don't even think Dwayne Johnson could just pick a dude up with one arm as high as she did. Maybe a really small dude. I don't think they've ever characterized someone as being that strong before because I don't see Mako doing it and I'm pretty sure in the first series everyone used…

I think I would have died if he'd said that. From joy. I don't even care how contrived and obvious it would've sounded.

Did anyone else get an "I Love Lucy" vibe when Ben hollered "Leslie!" upon seeing all the animals in her house? It was like classic "I Love Lucy" where something wacky happens and the redhead is the one to blame. Except in this case it's a blond.

I am completely in love with that battle scene between Zuko and Azula where their flames form this two sided wall of red and blue and the music is both simplistic, beautiful, and incredibly moving. It's just such a perfect bit of film making. This show deserved, like, 20 Peabodys and 1,000 Emmys.

Legion of Aged Superheroes - Aged, yes, but like a fine wine. I bet Iroh wasn't able to bend prison bars in his 20s. Or maybe he could. I don't know. That man is probably capable of anything.

For some reason that scene causes me to burst into laughter every time I watch it. I think maybe it's the weird close-up in contrast with Pippin's petrified face. Or maybe it's that a few scenes before we were introduced to Pepto-bismol orc.