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Somebody in a Youtube clip of this episode pointed out that in the flashback you could see a boy behind Aang who wasn't affected by the blood bending of... Yakone is his name? (I wonder how people know of this guy), it's very likely that Tarlok is related to him.
This show is getting better and better.
#102
Awesome episode, it was nice to see Korra go full kick-ass on Tarlok before be broke out his overpowered blood bending. Also I loved when the non-bender woman said to Korra "Help us, you're OUR avatar too!"
The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginning-less time, darkness thrives in the void but always yields to purifying light.
Interesting theory about the flashback scenes:
http://birdbrainblue.tumblr.com/post...the-flashbacks
Might be spoiler-ish for future episodes, but a good read.
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#104
All hail our bloodbending overlords!
Yeah, that came out of left field. Tarlok's segregation plans do seem a bit too convenient as justifications for the Equalist movement, but on the other hand he may very well be a genuine bending supremacist. Three-way conflict with a possible uneasy alliance?
The silly parts were a nice touch, as long as they're few and far between of course.
One step closer to the end of the decadent Eldar race.
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#105
Pfft. Told you guys that Tarrlok is Ammon.
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No way Paladin, it's obviously Pabu (or possibly cabbage guy).
Tarrlok isn't Ammon, it would totally ruin the obvious Ammon-saves-Korra-from-custody-to-reveal-he's-sorta-good character arc and Tarrlok-goes-crazy-and-turns-RCity-into-another-Earth-Kingdom plot.
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#107
Actually it wouldn't ruin that at all. If Tarrlok shows up in Ammon drag and saves Korra, and this creates an alliance of convenience between them, it plays directly into Tarrlok's plans.
Judging by Tarrlok's reaction when Korra mentioned Amon, I'd say it's unlikely that the two are the same person.
#109
Make more sense that Tarrlok is using Amon's Equalist movement to give himself more and more power, it's not a threat to him personally. Seeing as he's a blood bender and can do it without a full moon, this would make Tarrlok somewhat immune to Amon's Spirit Bending in the sense that he could just blood bend Amon and destroy him.
Tarrlok clearly wants to establish his own dominance over all human kind in the Avatar world. Amon hand Tarrlot have completely different fighting styles and disciplines, I don't think it would be that easy to turn them on and off. Amon needs the Avatar to remain in his game, he needs the world to see how she failed to protect Republic City during the finale, Tarrlok has removed Korra from the game altogether, both are conflicting ideals.
Well there goes that theory about Tarrlok being Amon. Also Aang's bending in that flashback wasn't as flashy as when he did it to Ozai. Maybe it was that way to add effects and suspense when he did it to Ozai. At least we now know what that kind of bending looks like without the lights.
This episode just makes me wonder what Amon is even more.
Haven't seen it yet, but maybe Aang vs Ozai was more flashy because it was a more important/personal fight than some mob guy you had no real quarrel with?
Goddamn that was an amazing episode. So much top tier action and lots of really nice flashback goodness, just fanastic. And yeah, the theory of Amon=Tarrlok is definitely gone now.
Next week is season finale and one hour long, not sure if my body is ready for this.
immmediate reaction after watching the episode, spoilered for language
<Kalimac> HOLY FUCK
<Kalimac> KORRA
<Kalimac> shiiiieeeeeet
<Kalimac> dat fucking preview for next weeks one hour finale
<Kalimac> dat based Lin
<Kalimac> holy damn Amon is great
<Kalimac> all dat bending
<Kalimac> my brain is full of fuck and awesome
oh snap there's this thread. awesome. this show is amazing.
Do we know what happened to Aang btw? I want to make a crazy conspiracy theory that Amon and Aang simply because both have the power to take away bending.
Or I've read somewhere that Amon is another person with avatar power, that while Korra has the physical avatar power, Amon has the spiritual power, like being able to take away bending and stuff.
That was epic.
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#114
Actually I'm still not 100% convinced Tarrlok isn't Ammon. He's just the shifty kind of dick to stage the whole thing. After all, with that mask, could have been anyone.
#115
The guy is not human. Or a bloodbender himself, as this allowed Katara to resist it in the old show. Didn't expect Tarlok to go down so quickly, esp. due to the flashbacks.
Unless... could those be about Amon as well? More Yakone offspring or Yakone himself? When did the flashbacks start, actually? Why did he know of Tarlok's remote murder shack?
Quite a revealing preview as well. Fire nation warships in the bay of Republic City, Korra training at the north pole again, Amon taking over Avatar island... intense.
Here's my theory: Aang & Katara had three kids, one waterbender (tbr), one airbender (Tenzin) and one non-bender (99% chance it's the middle son lol) who inherited soulbending power and became acommunistrevolutionary wacko.
#117
Personal theory is amon was heavily injured by the firebender who seems to linking almost every protagonist's backstory and is possibly a cripple or has suffered burns to his limbs sufficent that his limbs dont exactly work normally anymore. Explains why the mask and how he could resist the blood bending to a degree. He could be wearing some sort of fancy exosuit or like the hint with super combustion man has mental powers enabling him to move his limbs by thought (stretch on that one).
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#118
Or the hints were right there in the last Episode; Amon is just a new type of bender (one who claims to be not) and that he's a purely spirit bender, he can't be control through blood bending because he's spirit is simply too strong.
#119
That's what I've believed ever since he took the first person's bending away. Obviously a spirit bender, they aren't trying to hide this it's right in the open. Whether he has any other special abilities is up in the air still, but I don't think he can bend anything other than the spirit.
I have two theories. One, is that it will be a completely anti-climatic reveal, he's Yakone, or another son of Yakone, and he simply blood bent himself to negate Tarrlok's blood bending, hell, maybe he takes away people's bending by causing a blood clot to block chakra points or whatever they're called.
Or.
He's the god damn terminator, that walk, that "you're about to be equalized"? Sounds and looks like one.
#121
Well, The Last Airbender did have Combustion man who was effectively a Cyborg; Amon could have similar tech (upgraded) implanted in himself to make him immune to Blood Bending. Although I still believe its simply due to his high spirit and spirit bending, as that makes the most sense to me.
Actually, Amon was visibly stopped by the blood bending, but either true sheer will countered it or just by being a spirit bender (and we all know that spirit benders are the forefathers of bending) so he might know some spirit bending tricks to counter other bending since y'know, we haven't been really shown what real spirit benders can do.
I know who is Amon... a freaking badass.
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I hope they don't drop the ball with this character, he's really interesting.
#124
@Misiok,
I can't wait to see more of what spirit benders can do. Ammon is a total badass and I look forward to every scene he is in. Speaking of Combustion Man, in the last episode Sokka almost killed me in the flashback. "In my time I've seen many unbelievable things, I once saw a man who could firebend with his mind..."
"...but I took him down with my trusty boomerang *big grin*."
#126
Poor Asami.Spoiler
She even lost her spot as the show's most kick-ass non-bender now
Definitely excited for the finale.
Amon should really fire his second hand guy.
Don't worry Asami will get Iroh Jr.
My theory: there are mechanicals behind the mask. Amon is not a human, or not, perhaps, fully human. The precedent was set in an earlier episode with the mechs.
Or in the earlier series, remember Combustion man? He had a mechanical robotic arm and leg.
99% chance that Iroh is son of Fire Lord Zuko.
And yet again, I agree with Mlai: Asami's totaly going to be his love interest.
I don't give a rat's ass about the couples, GIVE ME MORE BATTLES!
The next episode should be epic... I'll miss the badassery of Lin Beifong though.
(meelo techniques were... very special)
#133
Holy shit I'm so hype right now. Lin Beifong was a fucking badass this episode. I am such a sucker for heroic sacrifices. I also fanboy squee'd so hard when I heard Iroh Jr. speak.
Tenzin was awesome, Lin was awesome, Korra was not so awesome. This new avatar is grimdark as fuck! The atmosphere itself is incredibly bleak despite iithe first Avatar ending with high expectations and prospects of a golden age which strikes now in a clear contrast.
Also, I'm not that concerned with Lin losing her bending, after all all Korra needs is some push in the right direction and she can give bending back!
Also, Iroh having Zuko's voice actor, sounds a bit weird but it's awesome he's back.
#135
It probably sounded weird because we are used to Zuko, so seeing the same voice on another character threw us off for a moment. At least it did for me. I'm so glad he has Zuko's VA though. Iroh and Zuko were my favorite characters on TLAB, and now Iroh and Zuko are spiritually in Legend of Korra.
I still don't believe we've seen Team Korra pull off anything as badass as Team Aang yet but I am hopeful. They all seem so much weaker in power compared to Aang, Katara, and Toph. Asami definitely seems like she's got more power than Sokka, although Sokka was very intelligent and tactical which made up for his weaker but still capable fighting prowess.
I was pretty impressed by Mako's electricity redirect on the mech, but I imagine that the eletricity from that machine is far less potent than the lightning from a master firebender, as getting hit by bender lightning was shown to be fatal except for when Katara was there immediately to provide healing.
#136
In the original Avatar series, the biggest display of power didn't happen until the finale, so you might still get that.
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Last episode shocked me a bit with its violence. Obviously wasn't explicitly shown in a children's cartoon, but those last few fights surely left some Equalists dead.
Hope that the finale has something in store for Mako. Any interesting traits he might have seem to be ignored, currently he's reduced to a simple device for the romance sub-plot. Would've preferred this part of the story to be put on the backburner, the whole thing is pretty condensed already and the minutes freed up could've been put to good (better?) use.
#137
I think the issue with that sporty is the new 12 episode season rather than than the 20 we got in TLAB
#138
Aye, add to that the aspect that they're presumably going through one entire villain arc in those 12 episodes (since a second season wasn't originally intended from what I gathered), being condensed is a given.
To me the teen romance stuff feels so superficial compared to other forms of character development (e.g. Asami breaking away from her only living parent and home/social status vs. her being jealous/suspicious), so the little time there is feels a bit squandered to me when used for that. I understand that the hardcore fanbase is crazy about character shipping, so at least it's fanservice and not some arbitrary decision.
Eh, teen romance as seen in many other cartoons/movies. He kissed her but it's not like that...ah, you see its...uhh...oohh...ehh, talk to you later!
So annoying. Would've saved 10 minutes out of the total show time if not more by just saying that it was she kissing him, and how he turned her down. But no, let's play the odd guy and make it more awkward.
And why is he so worried about her? I mean, it's not like she saved him/his brother a few times, even once one of them from Ammon, oh and she's a good friend and not to mention the Goddamned avatar and is probably the most important person in their whole world.
Gosh, I wish these promising and good shows would just drop THOSE types of tropes.
#140
I don't know if it is reasonable to expect teenagers to act like adults. I don't really care for the whole shipping thing but I'm ashamed to admit I was a teenager once and when I lived amongst their population and observed their behavior I noticed that is how they acted.
#141
I never knew anyone who was so stupid he couldn't figure out how to say "No, she kissed me, it wasn't mutual!" even when I was in like, junior high O.o
#142
Well, the target audience is teens, who probably think they are going through that kind of stuff. So it makes sense to have some love stuff in the show.
#143
Nothing wrong with including a romance, but having a character fail to say something utterly obvious that pops into every viewer's head immediately, in order to preserve a contrived point of conflict is just lazy writing.
#144
Sometimes when it comes to relationships, saying what is obvious doesn't help.
#145
But in this case it would have. Why are you being difficult?
#146
I don't really think a teenager is going to buy the whole "she kissed me, it wasn't mutual" thing. There is no way she would just say oh, well in that case it's not a problem.
#147
It's really simple. "She kissed me, I pushed her away, end of story."
Anyone who won't buy that (Especially since there was a witness, and Korra herself would probably admit that's how it went down if asked) isn't worth having a relationship with.
There's no excuse for it, it was lazy writing, end of story. It's easier to make your characters too stupid to fix a contrived situation than it is to write a situation that would realistically be hard to fix.
Oh look at you discussing teen romances... so cute HAHA
Next thing you know, you will be discussing who you ship
*deploys shields
#149
Please. I don't care who Korra ends up with, I just hate lazy writing.
Besides, if I were to care about any romantic subplot it would have to involve two males, and the two male leads are brothers or something, so...
Too much information, dude!!
I don't need to know that you fancy incest, goddammit!
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