The thing most reviews have been terrible at explaining is that at least ten years pass in this movie. (By the end of the film, the main character is no longer a high schooler, but a young professional.)

Actually, as a queer woman, I will tell you I found that scene extremely painful and uncomfortable. I was pretty fortunate to never be popular, but when girls bully, it looks EXACTLY like that, right down to the encircled quick jabs of the fight.

The Fire Nation astronomers are pretty good, it is known, and it seems like all the priest-sages are aware that celestial events can effect chi.

It's breakfast, bitch!

Only TV show I can think of that's set in Africa and about Africans. Depressingly.

How many complete, intact stories does humanity currently know from 10,000 years ago? Rolling that far back in time for us means before writing and the very beginnings of agriculture and city-states.

I suspect that's right.

You could also probably argue that we mostly see Fire Nation colonists and the very upper classes. It could have been extremely rotten to be a lower class Fire Nation citizen on the mainland.

I can't think of a major superhero/heroic fantasy character in the last 20 years who hasn't either been in the 'power is suffering' mold or had it bolted on in a reboot. (Superman as proof that society at large no longer understands Superman.)

Her justification for learning pro-bending is because she is a. struggling with air bending and b. feels slightly outclassed knowing the classical forms but not the modern melting pot bending forms of Republic City. Although she clearly enjoys it, it's not until Amon wrecks the pro-bending arena in the final arc that…

She's actually the reason I tune in every week. I'm very invested in her as a person. She may not be everyone's cup of tea, but a character whose entire purpose IS to be the best superhero she can be, hampered by her own biases and flaws and struggling to achieve awareness of those flaws… you're right, maybe not…

The narrative of this episode invites a much closer reading between Wan and Korra, and I agree that the result, fandom proclaiming Wan to be 'so much more interesting!' is reductive and frustrating. Wan IS Korra; they are clearly much alike, and the story of Wan presented in these episodes is both influenced by the…

Possibly, though it's usually not a given in surgery that there is literally only one person on the planet who can perform it. ETA: Despite what 'House' and other medical shows would have us believe.

Korra herself seems like a fresher take on the Chosen One mythos than Aang does, but I know that I'm out on a far limb in thinking that her characterization is great. Also, Aang is written as an eleven year old, and I sometimes have a hard time separating what my frustration is with him from the fact that he's written…

I was thinking more of pre-Babylonian Turkish city-states ruled by warlords. (Japan in that period was apparently led by powerful priest-clans from what I remember, which… again, not enough information given but the Chous seemed 'in' with the Lionturtles.)

I wouldn't bet on it. I mean, humans can think of lots of ways to substitute for fossil fuels but we haven't (yet) because fossil fuel is still cheap and easy. And Korra's verse is still one where humans are the cheapest and easiest resource of all.

I'm not really sympathetic to the number of times he tried to run away from his responsibilities, and I found his willingness to abandon everything for a goof off moment very frustrating. (I cut him more slack, though, because he is also ELEVEN.) And of course, the narrative hands him the ultimate out at the end of…

He'd probably have big big reservations about it, you're right, but everyone seems keen enough to have Korra energybend their powers back. (No doubt because as the Avatar, she is the only person on the planet who can do so.)

Heh.

Hah.