Originally posted by AuraAngelIn other news Aang was apparently kind of a crappy parent to Bumi and Kya.
I wouldn't say that. It's just the Air Acolytes only seem to care about Air Benders and those with the potential to birth more Air Benders. It's pretty much widely known that Aang had 3 kids, who they are, etc...
To not know is just ignorance, not any bad parenting on Aang's part.
Originally posted by Based
Calling it now Korra's father will end up being the main villain.
Would be awesome.
Am I the only one who just hates Tenzin's siblings? I mean I get it Aang was a shit dad to them for no real justifiable reason but it's not Tenzin's fault. Granted Kya is way worse than Bumi since she acts entitled and bossy like Katara but isn't in anyway as sympathetic. And she's dead wrong about Tenzin.
Kya: "You always put work in front of your family!"
Tenzin: "Oh you mean like how I abandoned my city to save my family from a terrorist?"
Kya: "Yeah well you're not some kind of savior to a lost civilization Tenzin!"
Bumi: "Yeah we're Aang's kids too!"
Tenzin: "True but until you guys start having kids then you'll forgive me for thinking I'm alone in this. And since you're rather uncouth don't expect me to teach any of your kids to Airbend even if they have the potential."
Yeah I don't like Kya. Bumi is more understandable but still.
The uncle is still sending off warning flags imo, but I was surprised at how easily he was captured in this episode and that he listened to Korra about holding trials. I would expect him to be more unflappable and in control if he was the villain and not so willing to accept Korra's advice.
Of course, perhaps there won't be a villain in this season, or at least it won't be from either of the Water Tribes.
Originally posted by NephthysHe needs Korra and has been using her the whole time. Probably listened to her to make her feel good about herself, wont make much of a difference, I doubt it will be a fair trial and they'll end up "rotting in prison" anyway. Pretty obvious he was the one who made the spirits attack them in the first place just so she'd open the portal (or whatever that thing was) so he could get his troops into the city.
The uncle is still sending off warning flags imo, but I was surprised at how easily he was captured in this episode and that he listened to Korra about holding trials. I would expect him to be more unflappable and in control if he was the villain and not so willing to accept Korra's advice.Of course, perhaps there won't be a villain in this season, or at least it won't be from either of the Water Tribes.
Originally posted by SamZED
He needs Korra and has been using her the whole time. Probably listened to her to make her feel good about herself, wont make much of a difference, I doubt it will be a fair trial and they'll end up "rotting in prison" anyway. Pretty obvious he was the one who made the spirits attack them in the first place just so she'd open the portal (or whatever that thing was) so he could get his troops into the city.
Agreed. No sign of spirits at all, and then BAM they're popping up like Wildfire.
And he was a little too eager to make Tanarok admit to his spirit forest fiasco to turn Korra against her dad, which pretty much worked until the kidnap/assassination attempt(which her uncle probably masterminded). Because if Korra could take them down, a master like her uncle should have had no problem.
Originally posted by SamZED
Unless there's some unexpected twist at the end so far everything points towards Korra's uncle.
Ozai didn't make an appearance until the last episode of season one which is the 33 percent mark of the show. He didn't even interact with the Gaang until the finale IIRC.
Amon did have a one liner but didn't interact with Korra until she called him out on Avatar Island. That is also the 33 percent mark of the series.
They don't show the main villain so early. Right now Unalaq is such a Tarrlok clone that I doubt their trying to pull a fast one over the viewers. He is an exact replica. I refuse to believe they will recycle an entire character like that. Unalaq will be an extremist but there's a bigger threat, for the sake of the show there better be.
And besides a lot of the villains/allies started off as the exact opposite. Zuko went from bad to good. Lin was portrayed as a total ***** and now she's great. Tarrlok and Hiroshi were allies at first then became major villains.
The Palpatine scene with Unalaq is so cliched that their trying to fool the viewers in thinking he'll be the main villain.
That platypus bear is POOPING MONEY!!! 😮
Alright, episode redeemed. Series redeemed. Everything ever redeemed.
But seriously, the pacing was horrible in this episode. Everything happened too fast so we couldn't have any time to get invested in the moment or feel any drama or anything.
Korra threatens to kill a guy who doesn't really deserve that twice. Jesus Christ Korra, wtfvck? And she's so stupid and arrogant. I actually facepalmed after I saw her going after that judge. No, she's not arrogant, she just does things without thinking them through or paying attention to any authority than her own. Threaten to kill a judge in the middle of fvcking court? Sure! Offer to bust your dad out of prison? What could go wrong?! Track down and threaten to have you polarbeardog bite the head off the same judge for information? Nothing immoral here! Aang should be rolling in his fvcking grave.
Furthermore the judge was bought by Unalaq and so were the barbarians that were the sole reason Korra's Dad was banished. This is literally the biggest "**** you" the writers could have given to anyone giving them the benefit of the doubt. Its the cheapest, laziest writing. More mature themes my ass. Unalaq is literally just Tarrlok at this point.
The good thing about it was that it was completely hilarious.
Originally posted by AuraAngel
Korra unflinchingly made a death threat. This isn't like the Tarrlok fight where he came at her with killing intent. This was just a judge working with the evidence before him(as far as she knew at the time).
Yeah, no, I just meant context makes things a bit easier to understand. It's still an incredible showing of...just plain tyranny on behalf of the one being that's supposed to be above such things. I get she ruled by her emotions and is most definitely a flawed person in ways Aang never was, but holy shit. If there's ever a moment where the universe (read: writers) decide that things aren't conveniently against her, she could very easily become the worst criminal in the world.
I wonder if any other avatars actually did become criminals, if even for a short time. That's a lot of power they're given to wield, and lot of responsibility. Korra's doing a bang up job showing what can go wrong with that.
"What annoyed me about it was how ridiculously obvious it was that the court trial was rigged. The only questions the judge asked, that we know of at least, were all basically set up to make Korra say her father was the ring leader and then he gave judgement. And Korra still thanked Unalaq afterwards for saving him. It's extremely frustrating to watch Korra be someone's puppet time after time after time. I was thinking about this as I watched the episode and with Aang's development mostly focusing on him learning new bending styles and trying to figure out more spiritual things like whether he should kill Ozai it was easy to mark his progress, and you could see it in his fights so you always knew he was getting better. Korra though? Her progress is supposed to be about learning to think and mediate, but she never makes any progress. The one thing she did, suggesting a trial, blew right back up in her face and she fell in to step behind someone else using her again immediately afterwards. Not only that, but after her father asks her not to break him out she jumps at the first chance to do so through fisticuffs once again without ever considering other methods. Something which will again, blow up in her face and probably cause the bigger issue of the season, which she'll have to spend several episodes cleaning up. The fact that she got her ass-kicked on a number of occasions last season by the big bad when her prime achievement is supposed to be her physical prowess and mastery of bending does not help matters either. She's getting her ass kicked both physically and strategically and you kind of have to wonder what she's doing to justify her position after a while.
It's also annoying in that twice now the show has set up you up for pretty interesting villains with some degree of moral ambiguity and twice it's thrown it aside to make them evil power mongers for all intents and purposes. Why do it once, never mind twice? It's obviously only going to make people disappointed that the villains aren't as cool as you were making them look initially and that it will in turn make fans less happy than if you just played them as straight power hungry the way Zhao, Azula and Ozai were. Hell, power hungry as they all were, they managed to inject some humanity in to them that Amon and Unalaq don't really have. Though admittedly, there are 8 episodes left to flesh out Unalaq, discounting the two for Wan's story.
I also really wish the writers would let Bolin have a moment. Just like, one moment, that isn't comedy. He's such a likable character, but he's basically useless to the plot so far."
^^^ Truth.