I always forget that the episodes are 20 minutes long. I always get really stoked about 15 minutes in only to remember this isnt Game of Thrones and the action's over for a week. :P
That said, great episode! I love Korra as a protagonist, from the way she carries herself, to her obvious weak spots, to the fact that she's probably the only character in this series that could get away with calling anyone "bub".
Great episode, I wish they showed this one last week so we could find out what happened.
Twas a great episode. Loved it.
Very, very nice. I thoroughly enjoyed that ass-whooping, while it lasted :)
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He may not be Amon, but this is definately a peronal conflict between the two...
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Naw, it was definitely a flashback. It showed Aang, Sokka, and Toph all on the receiving end of some bloodbending.
There was also a guy who looked a lot like Tarrlok (though I'm guessing based on the timeline it was probably his father or uncle or somesuch) who looked to be on trial.
Theory has it that's the Yakone guy that Tarrlok mentioned back several episodes, when he was advocating for a head-on attack on Amon because "Avatar Aang faced Yakone directly head-on when he was making trouble in Republic City". He's visibly older than Tarrlok, and there's no denying that was Aang and Sokka and Toph - the only other arrow-head guy with a beard we have is Tenzin, and this guy just had the chin-strap beard rather than the full beard-and-mustache.
Anything in sepia tones is flashback. =) That's been a standard film and television trope for years.
I've seen a picture that directly compares Yakone?'s facial features to Tarrlok's - the hairline, jawline, and eyes are extremely similar and the nose is an exact match. I'll post it as soon as I get home, I can't get to it from work. Or poke Scint to post it for me. =)
Well at least Korra will have time to meditate in the back of that truck...
Much obliged =)
Interesting...
Good eyes, Scintillae...
I can't take the credit; someone else linked it to me.
Source, but speculation-heavy
Oh snap! That was Sokka! I keep forgetting they were all pre-teen/teenagers in the first show...
Did Zuko ever find his mother?
Did Zuko ever find his mother?
Although they have alluded to it, I do not believe any answer has been given.
Did Zuko ever find his mother?Although they have alluded to it, I do not believe any answer has been given.
The story of his mother's true fate is supposedly set to be revealed in the comics.
The story of his mother's true fate is supposedly set to be revealed in the comics.Did Zuko ever find his mother?Although they have alluded to it, I do not believe any answer has been given.
Unless Ikki shows up.
Saw episde 9 "Out of the Past".
Also, bloodbending, metalbending, shouldn't the avatar be taught that stuff? If she could metalbend cages and cuffs off of herself, she wouldn't have so many problems.
HOLY CRAP that was a good episode.
How do they do that without benders? The equalists would have to realize once the earthbenders are gone...no more easy platinum.
It is probably pretty easy to mine anything you want if half the population can use their minds to burrow through the ground, keep caves from collapsing, and sense the location of rare earths and precious metals. The bigger question to me is wondering why don't they have oil?
Heh. Fair point.
Jesus, like, two hours before I streamed this I was saying that I wish the show had hour-long episodes to wean me off of Game of Thrones.
One hour season finale. I feel like a wizard.
Also they do have oil, or at least something similar to it, since the Satomobiles are using combustion engines rather than steam.
I'm equally torn between "nice to see Amon put this upstart secondary villain in his place" and "if this season could have been longer there could have been much more interesting, longer drawn-out conflict between Amon and Tarrlok's respective extremes". My disdain of politics is the main reason I'm rather okay with the way it turned out, though.
Also is anyone else here somewhat irked that Bolin did nothing but crack jokes all episode? He didn't seem very worried at all, in a situation where he really should have been as panicked as Mako was, but the few times he showed up on screen he was just being his normal doofy self.
Not really, I'm of the opinion that normally Bolin is an optimist, and more likely to just assume things will turn out well. And when under pressure, he'll crack more jokes as a coping mechanism, unless he takes a really heavy emotional hit.
The Spiderman response. Joking helps ward off the panic, a brain busy with jokes is too busy to crash.
And noone mentions that cage being platinum. They just didn't teach metalbending to the avatar. I'm trying to remember if wesaw her using lightiing... I think we did but now i'm not sure.But all that platinum does annoy me. If Sato is THAT rich, why not just buy half the Earth Kingdom and make his own non bending country? It would be cheaper.
That doesn't get rid of benders.
I think it makes sense. They used to be super rare and unique, but once responsible benders mastered them, they wanted them passed on. Compare to unique technology in our world. One guy had a gun, someone else learned to make it so the power wasn't in one hand.
*shrug*
I'm really more bothered by the platinum, platinum everywhere, but that could just be the social studies teacher in me. Though I doubt Tarrlok's box was made of the stuff.
I'm really more bothered by the platinum, platinum everywhere, but that could just be the social studies teacher in me. Though I doubt Tarrlok's box was made of the stuff.
I guess I don't understand why ubiquitous platinum is so far-fetched. Anyone care to enlighten me?
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form a scientific point of view its all to do with how elements are created, heavy elements, like gold or platimum are created by super nova explotion and only in very small quantities, the exact portion of each element made depends on the wieght and will decrease the heavier the element. platinum is thus going to be rare, very rare.
form a scientific point of view its all to do with how elements are created, heavy elements, like gold or platimum are created by super nova explotion and only in very small quantities, the exact portion of each element made depends on the wieght and will decrease the heavier the element. platinum is thus going to be rare, very rare.
I figured it was something like that...thank you.
Edit: My chemistry teacher would be so ashamed...
form a scientific point of view its all to do with how elements are created, heavy elements, like gold or platimum are created by super nova explotion and only in very small quantities, the exact portion of each element made depends on the wieght and will decrease the heavier the element. platinum is thus going to be rare, very rare.I figured it was something like that...thank you.
Edit: My chemistry teacher would be so ashamed...
Your astronomy teacher certainly would. ;)
I'm willing to accept, however, that in a world (or is that "universe"?) where mystical powers abound, and the spirit plane can be accessed regularly and repeatedly (at least by the Avatar), that certain physical constants from our universe might not be the same.
Platinum could be more common on Bender-World because it is a spiritually "pure" metal - so it may coalesce in areas of spiritual significance.
Or it could just be enough that it makes a good story.