Wu is definitely not fit to rule and is just more of the same self-centered cluelessness his Great-Grand Uncle exemplified. The previous Earth Queen was actually competent but cruel and selfish, and I think that may be what Kuvira turns into, without the selfishness. I don't she's a better choice than Wu, unless…

Yeah I am 99% certain that Kuvira is not uniting the Earth Kingdom territories for Prince Wu, but for herself. Everything, from the banners her "army" flies (Metal clan, not Earth Kingdom), to the way she speaks about her goals ("I am trying to establish order", "Pledge your loyalty to me"), says that when all is said…

I hope this doesn't happen because it would show a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Avatar is and has been, for the creators and for the fans.

See I saw hints of that question even in the old series. People didn't really need Aang to end the Great War, they just expected him to do it. There's nothing simpler about Aang's, or any of the other past Avatars' (after nations were formed), time. One person has never been able to solve the world's problems, but a…

Yeah I'm wondering if he's with the good guys, or the bad guys, or if he thought he was with the good guys and it ends up Zhu Li was a secret agent working for the bad guys..... I think I may have had an aneurysm

Someone further down says civil war in the Earth Kingdom and I'm leaning on that. This seems far more serious than all the others, save for Season 1 and I'm hoping they manage to deliver. As for Season 3, I don't think there were any serious questions about whether or not the Avatar was needed. Sure they "asked" it,…

With the excellentness of the last season they have proven their worth. My body is ready.

Always nice to see a Naruto fan in the audience.

If it's anywhere as good as Neverwhere, sign me up!

While you're making sense, you're still missing something. It is incredulous that ALL the things you mentioned did not happen ONCE in the previous millennia. That's it. The writers have written themselves into a corner with this "No one could fly since Laghima". If you actually believe that no one went through loss,…

Agreements all around, especially with the disappearance of the White Lotus. While I agree that metalbending does seem like it could be taught, as can lavabending and making lightning, I still like there being some X factor (hinted at with Bolin's inability in metalbending) and some prodigious requirement (not shown…

That's because more people are receiving state of the art training and far more money is being poured into the sports you mentioned than in the past. It's not cheapening of the art, it's improvement. Bending, at least in the Avatarverse, has not followed the same trajectory. The percentage of benders in the population…

Even then she had been told what to do and how Hama did it. She had been told the philosophy/physics behind it. It felt forced, but much less so than Bolin, a boy never known for his smarts, just doing one of the rarest forms of bending with no background whatsoever.

I've said this to a billion and one people: All I wanted was an epiphany. Lavabending is different enough from earthbending that someone self-discovering it should have gone through some process of thought, not closing their eyes and waving their hands in front of their face, waiting for magic to happen. I don't take…

Yeah, that final scene was very poignant. I liked it though, because unlike the convenient resolution to Korra's moment of despair in Season 1, they actually left her as she was this time around, opening an avenue for growth and development in the next season. Really impressive stuff. I'm looking forward to both…

One possible explanation is that Laghima meant earthly desires, like people you love, pleasures you seek, etc. But I agree, they tried to use P'Li as his tether when he has a very real direction he wishes to take the world and that seems like a much bigger tether if there ever was one.

Haha, no need to apologise for long posts. Mine tend to run a little long too. I never saw Zuko teach people how to make lightning. One has to be internally calm to do it properly, and that doesn't even take into account that magnitude of lightning that pros like Azula and Ozai could make. If every Tom, Dick and Harry…

I've said this elsewhere, but mother being a firebender should have nothing to do with his abilities. Firebending has nothing to do with earthbending, abilities are not transitive, and his mother died when he was too young for her to have even imparted a modicum of firebending philosophy into his brain. All of that is…

Yeah, in the end one extra scene, or even a series of scenes from the time Bolin saw Ghazan do his thing, would have satisfied me. I understand not many have the same requirements, but I'm a big opponent to handwavium in my television and I like to have canonical explanations for new abilities.

It's funny but what you describe is exactly what I dread. The show breaks its own rules too often. I don't want flying to become commonplace. I didn't want metalbending to become commonplace. I was pissed that making lightning has become something that people do to make a few bucks. These are things that people…