Agreed with everyone above. You will need to get to "The Storm" (episode 8, I think?) before it becomes compelling television instead of just compelling children's television. And there are a few eps in there that cater specifically to kid humor.

Do they not teach history any more?

I was prepared to be disappointed based on the leaked clips I'd seen, so the quality of this pilot was a very welcome surprise.

I'm a fan of the ending as well.

I dunno. I've only just finished Season 3 of BB and I hate Walt with every fiber of my being. I still want to keep watching, though.

I believe all of the Korra episodes are more or less in the can. It's part of the reason the release was delayed so long.

I was just thinking that this was sort of like the mid-season 4, Crispy Earth reveal in BSG. The difference is that Avatar stays consistently awesome until the finale.

This year is turning out to be pop culture Elysium for me. Community is back. This weekend, I get the Hunger Games and Mad Men. The next weekend, Game of Thrones. Two weeks later, LOK. Then I get to look forward to Breaking Bad in July and The Hobbit in December.

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Isn't all of this just Theseus and the Minotaur for Common Era folks?

I agree they packed a lot into this episode, and we didn't get to know Korra that much, but what I enjoyed was that the writers managed to give you a sense of the backstory that bridges the two series without dumping too much exposition on you.

That and Tenzin's facial expressions throughout the whole episode.

Yeah. I was making a joke about 1) That 30k Community thread that was about everything in the entire universe and 2) the fact that Community recaps seem to be the most read of all the recaps on this site.

Just watched it. I have no willpower. It's excellent, and I am seriously impressed with the music.

I hear you. I feel the same way about Hunger Games fandom.

If they don't, I will begin colonizing the Community reviews with my own Korra recaps.

There's definitely a sense of "this is our destiny/moment" driving the lead-up to the invasion, and in this show, that's usually a trap.

So your dissertation defense was an Agni Kai?

You're definitely onto something there. I'm researching post-revolutionary fiction and the growth of common sense philosophy in the U.S., and what you see is that after the Revolution, American Protestants who had supported the war had to come up with new bases for moral action that didn't depend on received authority…

When I was a kid in the Bible Belt, Focus on the Family had a radio show called "Adventures in Odyssey." At one point, there was an episode in which one of the kids was introduced to an RPG called "Castles and Cauldrons," which was presented as essentially a gateway drug for Satan worship. I was like 10, and it scared…