Yeah, they gloss over too much in the show. Korra's airbending, energybending her bending back into herself, her ease with the Avatar state, and the weird Kaiju spirit thing at the end of season 2 are all things that had no background or explanation or even buildup, but happened anyway. It used to piss me off, but…

I see your points, and they make sense, but the metalbenders in the police or Zaofu are not great benders or prodigies. They get beaten just as easily as every other person not blessed with plot armour in this show. They seem like perfectly normal people who somehow have this "gift". The only explanation that makes…

Please disregard my initial statements on Zaheer. I was thinking of a completely different scene than the one in the finale.

Technically Aang let go of Katara the first time he willfully entered the Avatar state, and then he nearly died so he never even tried to again, until Ozai forced his back into the rock and the traumatic memory triggered the state.

I've seen a lot of people mention his parentage as if that has anything to do with anything. It doesn't. Your father knowing how to bend fire has no effect whatsoever on you as an earthbender. It can't. Fire and earth are completely different elements in almost every way imaginable. They're not comparable at all.…

Exactly! Bridging the gap between spirits and people is something they're probably much more suited for, especially when you see Bumi and Jinora communing with the spirits so easily. I agree about Tenzin. If he'd been a more spiritual person he almost certainly would not have made that declaration. Unfortunately his…

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You seem to have missed Zaheer's airbending moment. He already knew he had the skill when the guards showed up. He was simply waiting for the right opportunity. It wasn't a flight or fight moment. It was a very carefully planned and well-executed escape, unless you're talking about another scene entirely.

Bolin made lava. It was only once, and it's easy to miss, but he did it. If you have the episode recorded it was from 12:56-13:00.

Personally I feel that the mission Tenzin has given the Air Nation is one that, while ambitious and noble, is bound to fail. People need to learn to police themselves. Even the Avatar only shows up to do things when a large amount of people have their lives at stake. If the new Air Nomads take it upon themselves to…

While Jinora's magic spirit gifts are certainly worse than Bolin's lavabending, I think the lava bending is bad. If he just solidified the lava (with much effort), that'd be good. If they'd even shown him having a light-bulb moment that would have been even better. He literally just waved his hands and became a…

I didn't mean it in terms of who beat whom, but more that it was an aerial battle between an Avatar and a skilled bender who could fly. I agree that Zaheer had the advantage for most of the fight, but Korra was battling the poison as well so she couldn't exactly be on her A-game.

He made lava. There's a scene where he blocks a rock, rolls, and turns the earth beside him into a lava projectile.

No Bolin very clearly made lava when he was fighting with Ghazan. The development was far too quick.

Using Korra's airbending as an example is not going to sway me, as that was one of the MANY things about Season 1's finale that I hated. The way Aang mastered earth and fire, by having to learn about the essence and philosophy behind the elements and their arts, that's how bending is supposed to be discovered. Saying…

Excellent episode all around. I have to say, watching Korra and Zaheer do battle was like watching Aang and Ozai all over again. Excellent form, wonderful animation, great moves; literally the best battle of the season. In fact seeing all that Korra could do while bound hand-and-feet was very inspiring.

Perhaps we had different expectations from the show. The moment I started it I knew it was supposed to be a very down-to-earth, non-flashy police drama. I had no other expectations. If they'd had anything not grounded in reality I would have been very disappointed in the ending. It's also funny that the fact that…

I'm not sure what was wrong with the ending. Were people expecting magic and hocus-pocus stuff? It was a realistic, firmly rooted drama about two flawed detectives solving a series of murders, and it was excellently executed. What was bad about the ending?

Haha. We must duel to settle this disagreement. Also awesome username.

Maybe they're just tolerant, like me :). I didn't need easing in either. I remembered the Old Who from reruns when I was a kid, and then someone showed me Blink and I thought, "This is still on?" Go to Netflix, see that there's a new one and started watching. I didn't have to be coaxed. There were times that I only…