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We should be thought buddies. Korra is Aang's inverse. Where Aang was too committed to neutrality, Korra is too quick to take sides.

I prefer to think the conflict was that she was childfree, and Tenzin by necessity can't choose that. Except it doesn't exactly hold why she's still bitter and angry about it decades later, so… might be true.

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I'd love it. I don't think the Avatar is entirely as benign as the fandom thinks it is…

I agree with this and wish they'd gone further to background the second generation Gaang characters. I really enjoy Lin and Tenzin, but man when they're on screen you can hear the fandom's attention getting sucked out of the room.

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On this show, speedboats are death.

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And by the end of it, Tenzin clearly regrets his own training regimen for pushing her away.

Yeah, I'm really interested in where the war profiteering storyline goes. It's very dark, but very in character and understandable for Asami to get sucked into this: she has daddy's business to rehabilitate, but the only products she has to move are weapons of war. Hardly anyone alive can testify to the horrors of the…

I'm not thinking Bumi was some kind of great war hero either. I think the military has been mostly cooling on its heels and dealing with small scale piracy and the like for so long that everyone involved has kind of a trumped up perspective of their service.

Do the people of Republic City even go to temple? I don't think we've seen a single one.

The Avatar Cycle is clearly based off the real world system of the Dalai Lama. And Korra's behavior has increasingly reminded me that in the real world, the Dalai Lama system has extreme weaknesses and the majority of them died before they could become Supreme Ruler. Several of the deaths were covered up for 20+ years…

Wasn't it just last season that we saw the United Republic forces are hopelessly outdated when it comes to air power? And now Asami's in the position of being desperate and having a lot of arms to peddle to anyone interested.

The politics in this episode made the most sense of any this season. I like how once Korra's stepped out of her Southern Pole home, where she's both Avatar AND a member of the Royal Family in the bottled up world of tribal politics, her opinion becomes somewhat meaningless. In the South, she's a big macher, but in…

In terms of Iroh's motives?

Aside from the role that Varrick wants him in, which is pure propaganda and clearly based off of a number of icky things from the first years of Hollywood, becoming an actor seems like it might be good for Bolin. He's not bright, but he is likeable and charming and already a name due to Pro Bending.

I think that's my position on Varrick too. He's clearly a patriot, but he's also clearly a war profiteer. For him, this war is win-win.

Sort of, yes. She answers to the spirits, who are quite clearly pissed at her. And I'm not at all convinced that at the end of the season, that anger is going to have been all manipulated by Dear Old Uncle.