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The same thing happens in "Welcome to Republic City," where Korra's voyage (by boat) seems to take, at most, 24 hours even though the South Pole is halfway across the world.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus I suspect that, like myself, you are carrying around a couple of English degrees.

As I understand it, the importance of that moment wasn't that Aang entered the Avatar state but that he gained mastery of it by turning it off at will and then summoning it again (to bring up the tide in order to put out the fires). That's the final pre-requisite for becoming a "fully realized Avatar." In other words,

One of the themes that seems to be emerging in Korra is that the near total loss of Air as a culture and a bending discipline has resulted in a kind of "secularization" effect, where spirituality is gradually disappearing from the culture (I would argue that we see that at work in TLA as well) and bending is becoming

Good catch! And Mai's "leave me alone" outburst in "The Beach" was actually addressed to Azula. I think Zuko's return exposed a rift between Azula and Mai that just finally came to a head. Recall that in "Zuko Alone," both Mai and Ty Lee tended to be the victims of Azula's one-upsmanship, and Mai in particular was the

According to the Nick website's nifty interactive map, they are Air Acolytes, non-benders who are electively trained in the ways of the Air Nomads. I also wonder if the ability to airbend might emerge from among them, particularly in the newer genrerations.

@avclub-b5e54b8379a1cec1ea981e47bfb5ada1:disqus But it was pretty clear that Azula had to pull that trick because Zuko had the upper hand, goading her into using lightning so that he could redirect it back at her and presumably kill her.

And let's not forget the fact that it seems plausible to the crew that they would be having a birthday party as the airships are flying into battle. Granted, there's a bit of a lampshade on that scene, but still.

The same rule applies to the range of Toph's spidey sense.

I have that internal response throughout the whole first act of this thing, though I do enjoy Toph's epic sand sculpture. God bless Zuko for reminding everyone that their world is about to go to shit.

It's also yet another example of this show's amazing prop continuity. Isn't that the sandal from Winter Solstice I?

Their rehabilitation is pretty suspiciously rapid and probably had to do with time more than anything else. But I always sort of thought that Mai and Ty Lee were pretty good representatives of Fire Nation characters who straddle the line between "good" and "bad." They're on the wrong side because that's how they've

Ya'll, there's this whole other show…same universe…some of the same characters…hopefully the same ship-o-meter…

Exactly. The presence of a well-worn trope does not, by definition, make it bad or lazy writing as some people seem to think. The term deus ex machina merely describes a dramatic technique that was common in Greek tragedy, but more and more, it feels like these terms get tossed around as if they are critiques in and

@avclub-55655e3296788419699ec577c7a76f6b:disqus I don't think Lurky was contradicting you.

I refuse to subscribe to the Makorra portemanteau.

You two represent the very best of the creepy, maladjusted corner of the fandom. If the ship-o-meter doesn't join us on the Korra threads, I'm going to be seriously disappointed, because it's the funniest, sickest part of my week.

Yeah. I didn't know until last week that some people don't like the fact that Katara finishes the fight, and I think they're a little bit nuts. You get the emotional whallop of Zuko's sacrifice and possible mortal injury, then you get to see Katara being a badass while the show still acknowledges that she's not a

@dwhite10701:disqus Yeah, that part gives me chills.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus I always took that claim at face value as well. Plus, Toph's discovery of metal-bending is made possible by the fact that her connection to earthbending is far more primal that it is for Bumi or any of the other earthbenders we see. She learned from fucking badgermoles. Bumi, I assume, learned