And it's a nervous breakdown. Anyone who thinks they're pretty hasn't had one.

Not for a flat second, though I think it has some poetic justice to it.

I think there are certainly other black leading men who can topline a film, but there's definitely far fewer working in Smith's particular field, which is the sci-fi/fantasy summer action flick.

I briefly thought that was where this was going.

I rewatched this one just now. Taken as a whole, this season so far really is shaping up to be a wonderful metaphor about the hardest battle of all to face: the one with your inner demons.

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Well, everyone in the Korraverse is an animist, so… yeah.

The nation cycle seems pretty hard-fact canon for Avatarverse, though I suppose that if Kya had waterbending children you could have had a setup where Aang's direct descendant was the next Avatar. (And they probably could have justified it by saying that the Waterbending Avatars are born North/South and the Southern…

You are awesome and your voice is needed here. Please come around more often.

Women are not inherently free of internalized misogyny, which I know you're alluding to here: I just want to state it for the record.

All good questions.

There's a pretty interesting comic called "Pyongyang" about just this issue. (Well, the reason he's in North Korea is to supervise animating cultural conventions like this.)

And you have issues with thinking your mentors all consider you incompetent? Try waking up and then explaining to your mentor that you got his eldest child killed.

She's a little bit good, but she's a whole lot of baaaaad.

My money's on 'Korra accepts Vaatu into herself' as the ender.

Unfortunately, I think the way it's written is juuust subtle enough that it could be /anything/ if it's not suicidal.

It's true. It's one of the big problems of the other show for me. Unlike Korra, who is basically an adult, there's a level to which you can't separate Aang's actions from his age.

Especially because there was no WAY Nickelodeon was going to allow them to openly address this subject in a show for 12 year olds.

What Dampersand said. If she's not contemplating suicide, then what is it that she rejects or pushes aside that calls Aang to fix her? I guess there's a reading that it doesn't have to go that far, but it feels really narratively weak.

I always took the opposite opinion on this: Aang made everything about his job harder through his opposition to actually being the Avatar. (Which yes, includes killing people.) I remember being very surprised during that episode that the actual Avatar Cycle seemed to agree with me.