Not enough information given. I think they harken back to earlier eras of humanity than feudalism. Humanity's been nominating powerful families and building walls around the settlement MUCH longer than castles-and-courtly-love. (And the interesting thing about this show being pseudo-Asian is that the Avatarverse can…

They're still trying to make a point about the Avatar that the fandom is seemingly not willing to accept. Korra is a human with amazing powers to shape the world - but ultimately, like all Avatars, she's frail with the same bullshit as the rest of humanity.

I tried to point this out last episode and got shouted down rather angrily, so….

I believe that was the implication at the end of the last season, but I bet Korra doesn't realize that herself yet.

I think so, but I also think it will massively fuck up the world if permanent separation also means 'no more benders'.

Ah, but she's also the Avatar most directly like Wan that we've seen in instigating pointless shit.

I'm surprised no one's asked Korra to try MAKING new airbenders.

This would be really, really interesting.

I think we're meant to think that the more Wan draws on her power, the less she exists as her separate self. Thus why we see her getting smaller and smaller as the episode progresses, and why the Avatar will not reincarnate if she's killed while Raava!Avatar!State.

It's more about human beings trying to achieve balance and fucking up in the process than it is about heroes and monsters.

I sometimes feel like people should attribute Korra's sometimes flaily suckiness to 'well, the waterbending Avatars, y'know?'

Agreed, but she's too far down the cycle now.

The interesting thing about the 100-year old Bajoran judge is that it's implied she's a judge because she's JUUUUST old enough to remember Bajoran jurisprudence before the Occupation.

I don't think Bolin not getting it is the show treating it as inconsequential, however. It's trusting the audience to get that Bolin is being a skeeve because he's inexperienced.

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I do too. I don't think I was very sheltered, but her sometimes aimless rage against forces in her life she doesn't really understand really speaks to me. It's great to see a young woman face those kinds of problems, since that story is almost always coded masculine.

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The comics don't count for our purposes here. I also don't think Ginger chewing his ass out between takes really counts as the show treating it inconsequentially. She was clearly pretty upset/pissed off.

I didn't really mean it as much of a slur as it came out. In both cases (Korra being suicidal, Asami's loss of everything) I think he genuinely meant it in a teenaged boy way. Adults don't make those kinds of grand gestures as tossed off as he does, because we realize that they have consequences down the line. (Like…