Yeah, totally—I think that's a very valid reaction. It's definitely frustrating to see someone do something you know is exactly the wrong reaction. It's also something I really like in fiction, where you know something is exactly the wrong thing to do, but you understand/empathize with the fact that they do it, and so…

Yes, I agree with all of this.

I don't think she's grown more hot-headed at all—it's just that people are tired of it, especially since they thought that was what changed at the end of the first season (to me, though, that's not the content at all of the first season—it was more about finding a connection with her self outside herself-as-Avatar,…

It's hard for me to sort out people's resistance to Korra, because you can't really know someone's intentions/baggage just from reading their comments on the internet. That said, I do think it likely that some people feel a resistance to Korra the character because she's a girl who fucks up a lot, rather than a dude.…

It's an animated series in a realm that explicitly takes a non physical aspect of self and makes it physical. Visual metaphors are to be expected.

I mean, we're never going to see eye-to-eye on this. It's literally unimaginable to me to be forced to watch a child I know and love be murdered in front of my eyes and have the power to stop it, and yet do nothing. Also, I think that's a pretty general human experience—not an obvious ploy. It says something about…

Thank you!

And while that's understandable from a position outside the situation, when you're in it you don't care. There's always the possibility that you can save everyone else later, since inaction means Jinora's death at that moment. You can pretend you would act with perfect reason at a moment like that, but honestly, I…

I disagree. It's a pretty savvy tactic on the part of someone willing to sacrifice a child's life/soul, especially when he knows Korra won't. It might be overused, but it's overused for a reason—because the situation itself is unthinkable and impossible to navigate. Basically every narrative that has an explicit…

I'm such a sucker for her little pot belly. Too cute.

Well, it's explicitly the moment where she's at her lowest, where she's coming to grips with her sense of self minus being the Avatar. And so thinking about suicide and rejecting it is the narratively intuitive explanation behind Aang's appearance—she's committed to life as simply herself, and thus accepted a part of…

And this makes sense within the episode itself, as the Spirit realm can be thought of as an externalization of the psychic realm—you're not making the world brighter, but you are making your soul, and therefore your conception of the world, a place full of light.

It took Zuko literally most of the first series to stop being as hotheaded as he started. Furthermore, Korra is more calm and reasonable when she can find a conflict to center her mind and energy on, which makes her specifically bad at dealing with political conflict. Even while she's made some strides in terms of…

I loved Korra's reversion to a child. In a lot of psychology, we're taught to think of our innermost selves as a child or infant, and this reversion was an explicit image of that, of Korra's innermost self. She's always had the opposite reaction that Aang had to danger—instead of running and hiding, she lashes out…

Yeah, I definitely felt like they were playing with that level of meta-reality, and giving an account of why this Sherlock seems more ill-equipped to be a functional person than the Sherlock of the stories.

Oh jesus yes. I was appalled—I felt so personally invaded at that moment.

The AA meeting was fantastic. It was both a deeply moving character moment, as well as a speech I felt personally connected with. And to me, it really fleshed out their understanding of their take on Sherlock—that in another life, with less stimuli, he was the original Sherlock Holmes (though obviously still an…

Actually, the joke implicit in the dick pics bit was that most women actually dislike looking at dick pics, but that the phenomenon of receiving dick pics is so universal as to be absurd. Unpack the prank he pulled on his friend—her reaction is indicative of the attitude most women have towards that situation, and yet…

Yeah, that's the sense I get as well. It's notable that Harper-Collins marketed Divergent really well, which is a big reason it's gotten so much attention.

(the real problem is that so many internet users were brought up in high schools where a B is effectively a bad grade—or at least one that signified mediocrity—whereas reviewers seem to have a teacher/professor's point of view, where a B is just what you're saying—something good but with some problems. It's a real…