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>> - As I noted when it was released as a promotional clip, the first
>>scene with the vines made me facepalm. Korra and Tenzin doing the
>>Korra-and-Tenzin thing, as they have since Day 1; she gets frustrated
>>and stomps off, he pets her patronizingly on the head. Really, guys,
>>we're still doing this?
>
>... wait, what?
>
>Tenzin is kind of Korra's mentor. He never patronizes her, except

... almost every time he speaks to her. Come on, watch that clip again and check his tone of voice when he says, "You'll figure it out."

>Hmm. Is it weird that I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the airbender
>proliferation in general, but am actually really ticked off about it
>applying to Bumi in particular?

The first part's a bit weird; the second, not so much.

>Also: oh my god, Asami's bedroom eyes. I think they may rise to the
>level of "genuine superpower."

"All 12 seasons of Lovebender? Is somebody lonely?"

>> Lin Beifong
>>remains... rather less than brilliant. Way to remember who your
>>friends are, hon. Your mom was a real jerk sometimes, but at least
>>she was always able to keep that straight.
>
>.. wait, what? What'd Lin do?

Well, most prominently, she stood there doing the square root of fuckall while President Fuckstick repeatedly exceeded his authority, with that growly "I agree with everything the authority figure is saying" face on.

>Okay, I'm actually gonna offer an extremely limited defense of Raiko.

Just for the record, there is no defense for that guy. Seriously, none. "He's poorly informed as to what is actually going on" is a further indictment of his competence, not a defense. If he doesn't know what's happening and why, he should; it's part of his job. In summary, fuck him.

>Okay, this one I'm going to mount a much sterner defense on. The White
>Lotus don't seem to be all that jerky here. I mean, yeah, that group
>of guards was pretty snide to Zaheer. Zaheer tried to kidnap and/or
>murder a four-year-old.

Oh, I don't specifically care that they were jerks to him. It's that they're always jerks. If you're supposed to be the good guys, you can either be jerks or you can be incompetent. Both doesn't get a pass from me.

>He's lucky he's in solitary and not dead.

Not that lucky. Historically, almost everyone in the Avatar universe who has needed to be dead hasn't been.

>Also, they got Grey DeLisle voicing an armless waterbender. That's so
>crazy it just might work.

Or... not.

>Asami got a whole shit-ton of money from Varrick. When he bought a lot
>of Future Industries? I can't see her having given that back to
>him.

To him, no, given the circumstances, but on the other hand, if she actually got the company back, one expects the judicial system would have expected the money she got for it to go somewhere else. Just because the dude's a felon doesn't mean she gets to get back what she sold him and keep the money he paid for it.

>It feels like the writers know she's
>>trying to grow, and sometimes their attention wanders and she gets
>>away with it a little, but then they consciously set her back for some
>>inexplicable reason.
>
>Eh. Aang had the same thing going on, where he'd flip back and forth
>between "this kid is really wise for a twelve-year-old" and "wow, you
>are the most passive-aggressive brat in the universe."

Well, yes, but Aang. Was. Twelve.

And a bit of an idiot. And on a much kiddier show. :)

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