The only problem being that the scene almost doesn't make sense if she wasn't contemplating suicide. If you assume she was, everything about that scene (and her attitude this season) makes much more sense.

Doesn't that one episode where Aang meets the most recent cycle of Avatars state that the Avatar killing is more common than not? Because the big shocker in that one is that the previous airbender, Yangcheng, had no problem murdering even though it goes against the airbender religious ethos.

I feel like this show finds a new way to push 'so this is a kid's show' every episode. I'm not sure they can top a murder/suicide followed by the main character considering it herself, though.

Until the show tells me otherwise (which ugh, it might at the rate it's meddling with the backstory here) I assume that all humans and animals in Avatarverse reincarnate. So for Iroh, the Spirit World isn't like our heaven, but more like a bardo where he's spending time until he reincarnates again. (Or maybe it's…

I don't think it's running off of anything more than the rules that govern say, Dreamtime, or Faery. (And I think the child!Korra we see is meant to be like, the split second before she awoke herself as Avatar.)

I think you're overthinking it. The spirit world is powered by thought, both conscious and unconsciousness.

Even though I felt it was very telegraphed (tell us again, character on screen, about how Jinora's powerless in the spirit world), Tenzin's reaction in the final moment as he realized that Korra had lost Jinora was a real gut punch.

For some reason, I think she'd have no problem with it. (And that her lack of problem with it might in and of itself be a problem.)

She turns into the child she was before she was the Avatar because it's her manifestation of helplessness, because this was the last time she WAS powerless in the physical realm.

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It could have been incredible for the series at this point if the trial was on Bajor for Dukat's war crimes, and the Bajorans had hung him. You know, just go full Eichmann with his story - and maybe play it the same way, with Dukat clearly being not mentally well, but also the audience knows he's responsible for such…

Agreed, and just going to repeat my earlier point: FBtS is suffering from some critical reevaluation right now which I don't agree with in the slightest, while ItPM is in no danger of losing its spot as 'best ever'. Of the two, I'd rather have space to argue why FBtS is better.

Choosing between "Far Beyond the Stars" and "In the Pale Moonlight" as spotlight episodes is like the Sophie's Choice of your job. I will say that I think FBtS deserves it because it has suffered in recent years a decline of esteem which I don't think it deserves, while ItPM is and has always been recognized as a high…

Not only this, but I think there's a large element of Winn's character that was always power hungry, but on Occupied Bajor the options were to throw in with the collaborators or become a terrorist. Winn took a different road down the third path: she joined the faith, in secret in a time when they were oppressed, and…

The second one. At the time, there was a big, big internet demand that Dukat be given a redemptive plot line (similar to Spike on Buffy) where he ultimately joins the crew.

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This is it exactly. Right down to the episode coming up later in this season, "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night."

I wouldn't rule it out because I think Lin's supposed to have a big role next season.

That's a great summation of Tenzin's big flaw as a human.