"Nucular disarmament"? :)

::starts counting, feels inadequate::

I think it was the dude's ineptitude that bugged her more than the lack of ethics.

Wait, I thought *Emily* was Batman…

A third option is also for Diane to start embracing the judge way of life and remain neutral in the matter (this is a stretch, and also maybe the exact opposite of truth: Judges in fact have to make rulings on things).

It does! Like some portmanteau of "front(al)" and "frottage."

"Wait a minute… It was in the *bathroom*, not in the office, technically."

Alicia is usually so mild that it was a pleasure to see her chewing out the mole guy. I thought she would pre-fire him from Florrick and Agos right there.

And I'm glad that she didn't "test" him or anything like that before deciding whether to tell him about Alicia. (E.g., trying to see if he'll go back to being nice to Diane again).

It was frightening.

Diane had two separate scenes where her face, without moving all that much, conveys such intense emotion. One was her staring at Alicia without saying a word (yikes!), and the other was at the bar with Kima from The Wire when realization dawned.

That's true. I did find it a bit distracting that the lead, who is Australian, was doing some sort of (to my ears) Manchester-like accent. Then again, I've no clue what the historical Mary's accent would have settled into by this point in her life.

Not to mention the risk in having all that water right underneath them. What if a waterbender breaks in and attacks them :)

He's definitely a bit dim :)

I loved the part where the posse of guards comes to see the hermit who lives with the spirits and they all attack him at once with firebending; I could see that become a rite of passage for would-be warriors, to challenge the weird nature dude (and get their asses summarily kicked).

"Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck!"

"A lineage of people": In a fundamental sense, it's even just the same person.

LOL, yeah, all those "Haven't you heard the legends? I'm not like other men."

There were a lot of Big Ideas that served as nice subtext (maybe subtext that wouldn't hold up to much scrutiny, but interesting all the same). The Prometheus angle has already been mentioned. There was also the bit where Wan's friend gets the nerve to leave the city (lion-turtle), which has a lot of connotations.…

Those sages were very Avatar-like in their (admittedly Muggle) use of the other elements. Water (for the immersion therapy to allow Korra to "remember") and air (the bison).