As I've been saying, this show is the DS9 to A:tLA's TNG.

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I don't know, Korra's kind of a grab the bull by the horns girl…

He groans or something at the very end, so…

Also no spoilers, but the people saying this season was ephemeral… um. I'm not sure how ephemeral that change is to the show's worldbuilding. (I am also really, really sad about it.)

It's a pretty good point, unless we're meant to think two 17 year olds in a committed relationship AREN'T having sex, which is… not really the realism this show is going for in many respects.

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It's because bending has to do with your physical body, so if it's not there, you can't. But seriously: this was hugely explained in the last two episodes. You can't list that as a reason this episode sucks.

This is hella too TeelDeer for me to even start, but we've established in the previous episodes that you can bend in the Spirit World if you enter through the portals. So… maybe try actually watching the show and understanding it first?

Before this season, I was a committed Mako hater. I am going to have to disagree with Bolin having the stronger arc, because in terms of the writers finally figuring out what to do with Mako, he's the clear winner. His reaction to Korra's amnesia was perfectly played and animated, because as Emily says, every bit of…

I wish we could talk about all the stuff in the last two episodes because OMG THEY WENT THERE AND DIDN'T UNROLL IT.

I thought for sure that Unalaq had delivered a killing blow to Korra's dad, but it was just the online video streaming skipping AT THE MOST CRITICAL MOMENT. And yes, I agree, that fight has some really epic stuff in it. Did we know waterbenders could rip the shit out of permafrost before?

Right, the lesson I took away from Varrick's battleship is that even though Raiko has good reason not to believe the teenaged Avatar, even a commitment of a handful of troops could have ended the battle before it got as serious and fucked up as it did.

I just want to chime in as being on Team Starship Troopers Is Better As a Movie.

Benny Russell's the epitome of a guy beaten into meakness so as not to be seen as a threat and I think we're meant to read into the breakdown that this is the first time he's ever raised his voice to a white person.

I've always viewed it as kind of a meta-commentary on Dorn himself. Cough.

That episode was the first she ever sold, true story.

About a year ago, Slate writer Matt Yglasias kind of slagged on this episode as being bizarre in a recap he did of all the Treks. This was the relevant paragraph I wrote about that at the time, because I was pissed about that for about a day:

I guess I just don't remember the Mayor being a big force in it. According to the story I've been told, it's that the local NAACP was organizing a protest, and to prevent the protest from disrupting the city, Hank Greenspun went around to the casino owners and organized a meeting in the old (by this time well…

As an actual Las Vegan, this is kind of a very cleaned up white-person's perspective on how Las Vegas ultimately ended up de-segregating. And the wikipedia article is um, special, in the way that it points out every single Jewish 'criminal'. (I mean, finding someone without mob ties in Vegas in 1960 would have been…