Like Sokka's bommerang, you knew it'd come backFollow

The only part I actively disliked was how Bolin seemed to be purely a comic relief character. Sokka had genius and badassness underneath all the slapstick gags. Bolin seems to be there entirely for the comedy, and that's just not necessary.

Also, why is Asami still around? Does she add anything at all to the show?

I'm not impressed yet, it all seems a bit too obvious and simple. I really hope things won't be what it looks like right now.


SpoilerPersonally, I'm hoping for an all all out war between the two water tribes with neither side being right or wrong. Maybe revealing a decade(s) long shadow war as the season goes on.

Edited, Sep 15th 2013 2:46pm by Aethien

Obviously she's the token non-bender, but she doesn't really do anything. This season she doesn't even have the excuse of being part of an awkward love triangle.

It's a bit odd. It seems like they split the role that Sokka played into two characters. Asami as the smart non-bender and Bolin as the comic relief. Problem is that neither ends up being as interesting or important. Asami didn't even go to the south pole with them.

Spoilerhttp://katorra.tumblr.com/post/61347525143

Hey, you just don't understand how tough it is being the avatar's.... BOYFRIEND!!!

Well, I'm kind of starting to lose interest. I was hoping the dad joined the resistance and we'd get a proper civil war with Korra torn and having to hurt (or even kill?) her father rather than the current goodie goodie predictable villain *********

Did Kavekk forget his password or something?

I'm still enjoying the show. I have a few issues with it though.

The Team Avatar members have done absolutely nothing so far this season. The focus has been entirely on Korra alone, or on Aang's kids. In TLA even when a episode focused on a specific character the rest of the cast still had a good reason to be hanging around. Now it's been three episodes already and the rest of the team could have been written out completely and nothing would have changed at all (Asami wasn't even in the latest episode at all.)

Honestly, I think one of the biggest issues with the series as a whole is that it's just too close to TLA. I kind of wish they had skipped a generation, of even gone back in time to a previous Avatar. The TLA cast is still too much a part of the world and that's keeping from Korra standing on it's own as a show.

Such a bad episode. No one takes realistic actions and there are apparently no consequences for anything.

Korra threatens to murder a judge in the middle of court for a verdict she didn't like, no consequences. She then goes on to assault him, no consequences. He then immediately and ever so conveniently spills the beans about her uncle and not even a lampshade of "I've said too much" can save. Her uncle also apparently likes sharing all his secrets because he felt it necessary to tell the judge about his decades old plot, who then also thought it spontaneously necessary to tell Korra. And then, when they go save him, he's just waiting there not only not having nothing better to do, but confronting them all by himself.

It's pretty clear the spirits being unleashed is going to be the more important conflict for this season. A civil war just seems like a much smaller conflict than series 1 or even the threat of an anti bender movement of season 1. So Unalaq is going to unleash the spirits thinking he can control them and use them as his army. Most likely they'll fall out of his control and run wild, threatening the world. Korra is going to restore balance and harmony between the spirit world and the physical, and that's going to be the conclusion to both this series and Avatar as a whole. Sad day.

The bits about Aang's family were pretty cool, especially the moment with Bumi and Aang's statue. The main storyline is barely watcheable and if it keeps going like this I highly doubt I'll stay with the series.

I'm still thinking about tonight's episode. Taking in the story of the first Avatar and trying to figure out how I liked it.

SpoilerPart of me wishes he had stayed a "street rat" a bit longer and got the other lion turtles to give him the elements. Only learning to be one with the spirit world after gathering all four skills. I just think it'd have been a more interesting story if he had received all four elements without the express consent of the lion turtles, and shown everyone what could be done by a person with the powers. I'm not a fan of the whole "well, it's never been that way but... ok, we'll do it!" progression.

I'm thinking Unalaq has been corrupted by Vaatu, probably during a trip to the spirit world in his young life. His whole "healing the angry spirits" being a ploy to hide his true intentions of bringing out all the corrupted spirits and empowering Vaatu,

Raava being the source of the Avatar's power is a bit interesting When I first saw Wan stumble upon Vaatu and Raava fighting, I thought it was going to be Tui and La, prior to being what they are in this world. That Wan was going to be a catalyst to improve their relationship and make them take permanent forms in the human world, improving his relationship with the spirit world in the process. But that was shown to be wrong pretty quickly.

I didn't realize that this was a thing.