It's difficult to say things like "she's boring" in a discussion of this type because it's just basically guaranteed to not be true across people. That's just a super subjective point. I also am not entirely sure how Korra's "disloyal". She's very much entitled, but I'd also disagree with the point that she's…

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 ; She's disrespecting Tenzin after everything that happened in S1 because she spent another six months training with him, was willing to go on a spirit journey with him, found out he was responsible for locking her away in a compound (which she compared in the first…

To be fair, there are ways to understand this. Korra's not necessarily a "villain"; she makes poor choices, but she's not "a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot." (a definition I shamelessly pulled from Dictionary.com). I'm also not sure Hasook counts!

Agreed. MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD, but it's been mentioned somewhere in the past that Varrick's invention (or probably not invention; financial support?) of the moving picture will be used during the Water Tribe Civil War to create propaganda. Asami and Bolin are in a great place to be helping with that; and an interesting…

@LoveWaffle:disqus; I'm just not sure where we're disagreeing with each other? I just keep pointing out that there are broader trends that we can pinpoint and make assumptions about, which you agree with, and you just keep pointing out that it's not a certainty, so anyone making their reproductive decisions based on…

I take issue with the idea that Pema could "just as easily pass on" whatever Nation she came from's ability to bend, because it seems to be somewhat exaggerated. Yes, nonbenders can have bending children, and benders can have nonbenders as children. However, there are families in the world that have always produced…

To your point: I wasn't asking this question about what might be happening in 500 years, but rather to what challenges might be faced by the population within the next fifty, sixty, or seventy years.

Fair enough, and that's a good point; I had forgotten about that scene (shamefully enough). I'd argue that the main reason she isn't skeptical about the "invading" forces is, as far as I can gather, the fact that the Northern Water Tribe technically "rules" the Southern Water Tribe at the moment (I'm guessing that was…

I'm tempted to agree with most of what you're saying here. Mako/Bolin are being monstrously underserved (since the second half of this season takes place in Republic City, here's hoping they make a "comeback") and the politics of the Water Tribe should definitely not all be revealed in interviews. "Chief" is such a…

Re: Skynet; I'm still withholding judgment on her response to her uncle ONLY because the episode that aired last night is the first part of two, and thus, TECHNICALLY, is supposed to be watched only with the benefit of having the second part to look at (a pretty big misstep on part of Nickelodeon's distribution…

I was going to make my response to Skynet a little bit longer, but I decided that some of the points I wanted to make there might be better suited to be here.

I remember thinking, around the third or fourth episode of the first season "Oh, man, Zuko's definitely going to be Aang's firebending teacher". Since at that point all we had seen pointed to the idea that all of the Fire Nation was EVILEVIL and since Zuko was given a lot more screentime and importance (in framing and…

To your second group of points, Skynet.

Is Korra "annoying"?

You might be right. All I can remember him doing is raising his hand. That was one of the biggest problems I had with season 1 of Korra; the political system seemed sort of ridiculous to begin with (five councilors deciding both the day-to-day workings of both the capital city AND the entire country), and as it was…

- I don't really understand the "too many waterbending villains" point. A:TLA had mostly firebending villains. I guess if the point is that the darkest-skinned characters of Korra are all villains, well, Korra's Water Tribe and Amon got a LOT lighter than he was in flashbacks?

I agree with a lot of these points. And I definitely think that the airbenders will bounce back eventually - it'd be sort of ridiculous to not have them do so. Nevertheless, it's going to take a WHILE. And while I admit that Jinora and Ikki probably want to have kids and WILL have kids, there's a difference between…

One of the biggest problems with The Legend of Korra (and there are quite a few, I'll admit) is that it's being released episodically. We are meant to root for Korra, yes, but from the beginning of the series it's been established that Korra is a deeply flawed Avatar (regardless of what the people around her say). In…

No; Tarrlok was the representative of the Northern Water Tribe. You can see, in the Council Meetings, that there was a second representative in Water Tribe get-up. That man was serving as the cultural representative of the Southern Water Tribe, as Sokka did before him. It's easy to forget that he exists, though,…

I think Unalaq's pretty obviously the bad guy; Avatar's never been shy of just "making" someone a bad guy (Ozai, Amon, Zuko, to a degree). But they HAVE done a great job of giving their bad guys somewhat unexpected motives. I think that, considering that bending and spirituality are deeply connected (which has led,…