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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Quick summary:

• Ikki can’t keep her mouth shut about Korra’s crush on Mako.
• Meelo farts on everybody.
• Tarrlok’s a dick.

Tarrlok dun fucked up

It's not even a full moon...
HIBY CONFIRMED

>your face when Tarrlok is a literal puppet master

I have a sneaking feeling Bolin bellowing "KOOOORRAAAAHHH" way too long and loud was not in the script.

Meelo's skill at Buttbending is truly impressive for his age.

Guys, guys.
I think Tarrlok is a bad guy

Tarrlok dun goofed.

Can we have one episode that doesn't end with Korra getting her ass kicked? One?

Though I must admit she was sexy as hell with her battle damage at the end of this one.

Go to Aang, child. He lives in you.

Alright, from memory the awesome moments...

Airtemple kids are best kids.

That reaction to Ikki spilling the beans on Korra's crush to Asami

Ikki's reaction to being shut out

Meelo. JUST ALL OF MEELO

Asami was fucking amazing in that chase scene, and yeah she has every right to go squinty eyed at Korra and Mako. I approve of this reaction.

Fuck yeah, Korra fighting for the nonbenders

Oh god Tarlock and that bloodbending

dat face

OH GOD

ALL THOSE THINGS THAT JUST HAPPENED

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAI WANT NEXT EPISODE RIGHT NOW I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT GIVE ME NEXT EPISODE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Tarrlok rising from smarmy politician to extremely capable bad guy? Oh my. And it looks like the show might actually examine the fact that bending has advanced over the past hundred years, since I'm sure we'll find out why Tarrlok can bloodbend so well.

And I hope the next few episodes are about Korra getting to terms with her spirituality, with added guidance from Aang.

(And it looks like Aang's mysterious villain whose name I can't spell properly was a bloodbender, too?)

why am I so chimp-like in appearance

>>103110
"Be sure and tell 'em Large Marge sent you!"

I just want to hug Korra.

HIBY confirmed, indeed.

And here we all thought Amon was somehow related Yakone. Turns out Tarrlok seems to have some weird "corrupt the dream city of the man who killed my Pa/Sifu" thing going on.

His bloodbending makes me wonder... maybe Amon wasn't entirely bullshitting about the spirits giving him his ability. It might not really be energybending, just an extraordinary form of chi-blocking, yet some malicious spirit taught him it the same as it did uber-bloodbending to Yakone and Tarrlok.

GODDAMNIT I NEED A LINK!
The one I was watching CUT OUT ON ME towards the end!
HELP!

I don't think moonless bloodbending is such a stretch, really. Hama invented the art in the same timespan the original series, so there was plenty of room for it to improve.

A lot like how the metalbending that Toph pioneered has evolved from clunky brute-force ripping and tearing to fine control over lengths of wire.

Only question is where Yakone learned the art himself. Korra knew the details of how bloodbending worked, so maybe Katara was not quite as tight-lipped with the info as she should've been.

That means now Korra and Lin are now....

SCAR BUDDIES!

;_;

There better be mucho ass kicking to end the season. You can only do so many Empire Strikes Back endings before it gets tiring. We need a taste of triumph dammit!

>enemy dangling from a ledge
>Korra shoves him down
get it girl

>>103123
>>Only question is where Yakone learned the art himself

Or where Amon learned his energybending/uber-chi-blocking.

Amon claims he learned it from spirits who turned against the old Avatar. What if he's only half-bullshitting? A spirit who can dispense secret knowledge? With a beef against the Avatar?

There's one that fits just that bill.

Meanwhile, outside the council building.

>korra confirmed for never having airbended this whole time


interestingly enough, I had a theory that the spirit world was being disrupted or that the avatar chain was corrupted in Aang's time, which would explain why Korra herself is not capable of being spiritual. I guess it seems slightly more plausible now.

It's good to see that Meelo is such a ladies man. The future of the Airbenders is in good hands.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/when-extremes-meet,79208/
Can't agree with this episode getting a lower rating than 1x05, but Emily's reviews are always the best.

Could stand to have his other eye uncovered, but I think I like him like this more than with the duckbutt.

Nice 720 version that's less than 200mb.

http://www.mediafire.com/?alv77bbc9nz5d4y

So Tahno apparently now counts as a non-bender, legally. Not a waterbender with a medical condition.

I think I finally found a link to something that could come close to describing the feeling... I... felt... after the ending:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/AAAA

>>103136
i don't think that's tahno

Good lord Tarlok is a dick. No news there, but damn.
Also, total pussy who fights in a water bubble so he won't get hurt. When Korra hit him with an ENTIRE WALL that was just badass.

>>103136
the cops earth bending made me lol

>>103136
It looks to me like that person's wearing a dress and has got boobs... I don't think it's Tahno.

>>103142
Maybe Amon took away more than his bending.

Yakone must've been pretty fucking powerful, rewatching the flashback scenes.

He's literally bloodbending the entire courtroom with his hands bound.

>>103142
Maybe that sort of hairstyle is just very fashionable in this time period. Or she's just a huge Wolfbats fan.

Does anyone have some caps of Tarrlok bloodbending Korra?

Lion Turtle: "To bend another's energy, your own spirit must be
unbendable, or you will be corrupted."

I'm begenning to think that Korra's inability to airbend or lack of spirituality isn't actually her fault. I think that Aang took Yakone's bending away, but in the process, Yakone was able to fight back enough that he somehow damaged the Avatar spirit itself, causing an imbalance between the spiritual and physical.

That's why Korra was able to master the more physical elements so fast and young, but can't manage to airbend or can't even activate the Avatar state to save her life, literally.

The damage to the Avatar spirit may have also been why Aang gave instructions to have the next Avatar after him guarded so closely by the White Lotus.

>>103110
Korra you just went full anime, NEVER go full anime.

>>103150
Anon-chan, hidoi yo...

I think Korra is very kawaii

Looking back at those flashbacks, Yakone either was INSANELY powerful waterbender, since nearly everyone in courtroom was struggling to move, or he had his own waterbender terrorist group(look, Toph's hand is pulled back, so it may have been his asociates).

Either way,
DAMN.

How do you people even know that's Yakone? Yakone was mentioned in passing once and everyone automatically assumes it's him.

Don't get me wrong, there is a very strong possibility it could be him.. but I think you may just as easily be misleading yourselves.

>>103145
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!

>>103152
In Aang's part it looks like someboedy is waterbending in the background.
Bloodbending triad?

>>103153
Why else would he be mentioned by name? In a series with 26 planned episodes, they don't really have time to fuck around and name drop people who don't have anything to do with the story.

Damn you all, I'm totally unable to watch it since I'm still at A-Kon (I've seen maybe one or two Korras, it's a crime.) Might be able to download it off iTunes or something, or see if my phone can handle a rapidshare when it goes up later.

>>103157

It's already up.
This is hd but it's missing a couple of frames/words every once in a while.
http://www.mediafire.com/?alv77bbc9nz5d4y

http://mattdemers.com/post/24281539212/watch-review-the-legend-of-korra-s1e08-when
New review/recap is up!

>>103156
Remember the Chin the Conqueror arc when he came back from the dead and became a major antagonist? That was my favorite park in Book 3.

>>103160
Even though he never actually came back. He was responsible for the creation of the Dai Lee and the events that lead to the Earth Kingdom's fall. I can't see a name said not to have some impact to the storyline.

>>103161

Kyoshi formed the Dai Li, not Chin.

>>103162
Yes, but he was the reason.

>>103163

Kyoshi formed the Dai Li because of the Earth King, not Chin.

Whoops fucked that up. Chin with the reason she created the Dai Li.

So his only point was to explain the lengths at which Kioshi would go to do what she felt was necessary.

>>103148
Found one.

>>103159

The line that escalated Korra and Tarrlok's fight was her saying that he's as bad as Amon. When she said that, his eyes bugged right the hell out. There's clearly something there that we don't know yet.

As for Korra's 'excessive' force, he was clearly trying to kill her the whole time. He wasn't just splashing water around, he was using it like blades with cutting force...and he didn't escalate up to that or anything, that was his opening move. And Korra...well, she's always had a temper. Not surprising she wouldn't take kindly to this smug prick opening up her face.

I really enjoyed Tarrlok in this episode.

>>103167
>There's clearly something there that we don't know yet.

Tarrlok and Amon are brothers, gifted by a vengeful spirit with the power to unmake Republic City in the name of imbalance, because fuck Aang?

>>103170
Quick, somebody post this on tumblr, and get them going on 'rape culture' again!

>>103170
He looks a lot like Ozai with his hair down. Not trying to theorize anything crazy, just saying.

>>103173
Or Gaston.

>>103171
Or

Tarrlok is Amon

Think about it guys. Tarrlok is a persona, the corrupt councilman, which he is using to stir up dissent within the non-bender population and drive a wedge between them and the Totally Oppressive Bender-Only Council. He basically made the bender/non-bender divide a real thing just to give Amon's claims more meaning, to show that every non-bender is going to be affected. Non-benders are the majority, and if all of them stand together, they will be able to overpower the council. And they stand behind Amon, who has already stated his aim to control the city, and is driven by his hunger for power instead of equality. Tarrlok has a very similar goal made clear in this episode.

"Tarrlok" will be ousted with the rest of the council but he will still be in charge from under the mask.

Perhaps they are different people and are just working together, however I can't see Tarrlok taking the fall like this. What does he gain by playing the bad guy and demonising the social class he's in?

>>103176
Please return to regular /co/

>>103179
oh and the source used is 720p.

>>103151
WHITEWASHING

Is that Suki behind Aang?

>>103206
fuck i was wondering if that was someone important

she doesn't look like she's being bloodbended though

>>103206
She doesn't look much like Suki at all...

OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT EPISODE WAS AMAZING

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE

QUICK SOMEONE LETS MAKE A TIME MACHINE SO WE DON'T HAVE TO FUCKING WAAAAAAAITTTTTTT

>>103215
well, that could be green she's wearing and if she married sokka chances are she didn't stay with the kyoshi warriors. also remember that the characters are in their 40s in this, suki wouldn't look facial wise how she did in atla.

I can't wait for Tarrlok to get his shit pushed in.

What a fucking prick.

Oh mah gawd.

Everyone's just got the creepiest and nastiest abilities in this series. It's like every 'worst case' scenario I ever talked to anyone about between ATLA and this is coming to pass.

I really hope some chink is found in all these techniques. Nothing can be as imposingly total as this appears to be.

Also, that last set of flashbacks seems to have threaded a few things together rather nicely, theorywise. I'll be interested to see what people will make of it all over the next few days.

>>103224

This was probably the best theory that can come out

http://birdbrainblue.tumblr.com/post/24281699688/an-analysis-of-the-flashbacks

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Heh, when the episode first started, the whole Krew's on the island, i'm half-expecting it to be a "rest" episode building up the characters and the relationships more... then BAM WHAM OH GOD IT'S BUILDING UP SO QUICKLY EVERYTHING IS BLOWING UP

God, that Tarrlok-Korra fight escalated so quickly! Dem cuts and rips and firebreathing and KORRA SMASH and

bloodbending... even creepier and more sickening to hear it at work than in the original ATLA episode. Far less "puppetmaster" and more "I will break you."

And I liked the touch at the end with the credits at the bottom as Korra's getting taken away instead of having them running after the end frame. Leaves more time for the viewer to go "no no no Korra no goddammit Tarrlok this can't be how the episode ends...."

Yakone's collar clasp/button is the same crescent moon that Tarrlok could bloodbend under. Above, a flashback shot of Yakone before he starts bloodbending. Below, the pan up show at the end of Episode 8 as Tarrlok drives Korra out of the city.

>>103226
Dayum. Well reasoned.

In case anybody still needs a dl link
http://www.mediafire.com/?poup2xmkt7dwqdp

>>103247
Is it just a shitty gif or do the frames actually skip in the show? Because that's pretty stiff/awkward.

>>103251
It's a really shitty gif, the colours aren't even right in it. The animation is a lot smoother in the show.

>>103142
after Amon took his bending he decided to become a gender bender.

I guess the rope Tarrlok used to tie up Korra with is made of metal.

Also, the windows in that Satomobile must be very strong.

Did anyone else notice how Korra attempted to use the pro-bending style of fighting against Tarrlok and ended up getting destroyed?

I'm assuming this is when Korra realizes she needs to learn from real masters and not from spectacle fighting.

>>103256
Actually, Korra pretty thoroughly beat his ass until the hax bloodbending came out.

>>103256
She just flinched a bit like Pakku did against Katara's ice disks, except Tarrlok's attack was much stronger. She pretty much won the fight before getting bloodbended.

Asami was pretty badass in that car chase fight. The way she just casually electrocutes those equalists in the middle of a high speed kung-fu chase battle. ahaha

What gender is this fuck

>>103260
I thought from the appearance that it's a guy, but after hearing the character's voice, I assume it's an old woman.

>it's not even a full moon
AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA

>>103256
Uh, who do you think Korra learned water, fire and earthbending FROM? Also, hurling a wall at someone isn't probending style.

>>103127

True! Plus, wasn't there that that one scene in the first show that hinted one of the spirits joined the Fire Nation? Don't remember anything happening with that, so maybe the writers were thinking REALLY far ahead. Then again, I could be remembering wrong.

>>103256
Absolutely nothing Korra did in that fight was even remotely reminiscent of pro-bending. Watch it again. She starts the fight by ripping half the floor up, follows that with a continuous flame-thrower like stream of fire, pulls a wall to block Tarrloks attack, uses the entire wall behind him to smash him out of his office, explodifies the walkway he's holding on to, then jumps down and craters the ground as she lands.

The only part of the entire fight that's even remotely pro-bendingish is when she does a back flip to dodge Tarrloks barrage, and even that's a pretty basic martial arts tactic to escape an attack.

>>103265
>wasn't there that that one scene in the first show that hinted one of the spirits joined the Fire Nation?

No, there was absolutely nothing like that in the original show whatsoever.

Just noticed the non bender woman and her kid had Korra and Ikki's VAs.

You know what would've been useful at this juncture? Airbending. lol.

I cant' stop rewatching the fight scene.

Okay guys, Tarrlok or Amon? Who's your evil husbando now?

>>103270
not even close

>>103270

The answer is obvious -- threesome.

I ship Ozai x Amon x Tarrlok. They have the nastiest sex. So hot.

Admiral Zhao comes in for a foursome on slow days.

Calling this now: Korra defeats Amon, Tarrlok and social injustice by taking off her boots.
She's being wearing them for months.

>>103266

They're probably referring to the part when Tarrlok is hitting her with waves of ice knives and she punches through a few. It was the combo punch Bolin showed her in the second episode.

Is it strange that I want to see meelo earn his tattoos from developing a flatus based rocket technique? or heck buttercup kamehameha waves?

the sub categories of bending just seem to always add an interesting twist.

But Katara effortlessly bloodbent that Fire Navy guy who she thought led the raid that resulted in the loss of her mother, and it wasn't even at night, let alone during a full moon.

>>103272
Oh god, he's the most atractive male in the show, with his hair down...

It's the Sokka effect.

>>103173
He also looks a lot like Nathan Explosion with his hair down.

>>103288
>see filname

>>103289
i'd say he looks more like sirius

>>103286
Yeah it was actually.

>>103286
Is this a /co/ meme or something?

Hey Katara..you think that "shit that could mess you up" should be on the list of things a young Avatar should know about? I mean since according to that flashback it tore the hell out of gang back in the day.

>>103295
uh i'm pretty sure katara told korra about it, considering korra knew you needed a full moon to do bloodbend.

>>103296
She should have taught her some of it if at least to be some sort of counter to someone using it on her.

>>103297
Even if she was a bloodbender she would've needed a full moon.

How did this one asshole become so hax?

>>103299
He's out for Revenge and is probably in league with the equalists so he could get into the position. He'll be hax till he gets double crossed.

>>103300
It makes literally zero sense for him to be tied to the Equalists in any way. All we've seen him do is go after them relentlessly and bust down their headquarters left and right. How does Amon profit from this? Tarrlok is Amon's antithesis in almost every way; the other extreme.

>>103301
The more he acts to oppress non benders the more he forces those that didn't want to pick sides to side with the Equalists if just to protect themselves.

>>103302

That's true, but after this episode I can't see them being in cahoots. He wouldn't have had such a negative reaction to being compared to him if he was.

This is the episode where we went full political commentary.

>>103302
Yeah, but the same could be said of McCarthy.

Personally, I really hope that Tarrlok isn't in cahoots with Amon. The cliched "Senator Palpitane" thing of a master chess player orchestrating the whole conflict makes me yawn. Having someone like Tarrlok be power-hungry but also strongly in the "anti-Equalist" camp helps show that even the right side can have evil people on it. To make Tarrlok be working with Amon gets rid of that complexity -- it would be like Jet secretly working for the Fire Nation by fueling resentment against the freedom fighters.

>>103314

Tarrlok is unlikely to be with Amon or in league with him.

The parallels between the Equalists and Kuomintang are so obvious that I'm starting to think that the resolution will be similar to what happened between China and Taiwan.

>>103314
If those flashbacks are any indicator he has a vendetta that goes back to his father/grandfather against Aang and the rest of Team Avatar v1 and just wants to see his dream go down in flames.

>>103314

>Implying the pro-bending side is the 'good side'

Pfft, OPEN YOUR EYES, MARI.

>>103124
I'm interested if they'll be permanent or not.

If so, we may just have something that can glow while she's in the Avatar State in lieu of arrow tattoos.

>>103314

I kind of think that, just as Amon is influenced by the early twentieth century communist movement in a lot of ways, Tarrlok's attitude and actions are meant to reflect the opposite political extreme around the same time.

Namely, Fascism.

Personally I hope that they don't decide to have the two working in cahoots, if only because 1. It won't make a lick of sense, and 2. implying that everything bad in the world is due to a shadowy group of people controlling both sides behind the scenes... is both cliche and kind of stupid.

It'd be like saying that Long Feng, Jet and Ozai were actually working together from the very start, as they all came into conflict with Aang at some point and were willing to go to extremes to get what they wanted.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/tv-shows/
#1 again.
Go Korra.

>>103363
I don't think they're on the same side at all, but there's definitely some red herring.

http://sards.tumblr.com/post/24333779859

The complaints about Mako and Bolin being useless have to stop. Even if they were completely worthless in combat (and they're not, they're definitely stronger than season one Sokka and pre-118 Katara), Korra needs them as friends. A father figure and a dog aren't enough.

>>103372
As the prime mover in such complaints; no. They are completely irrelevant to the story now. Whatever psychological benefit she receives from their company is insignificant compared to the trouble it has caused her. In addition, Mako is nothing but a walking dick that Asami and Korra must fight over because of formulaic Twilight fan pandering and this cheapens both their characters. Bolin is an annoying clown whose job description appears to be moment-killer. There's no situation with emotional content he can't completely fuck up. He's everything bad about this show being on Nickelodeon. His presence is a thousand idiotic network executives laughing in my face.

Furthermore, as Korra is without a doubt superior in the bending arts in every way, what they do every episode is make her look useless. She didn't do jack shit in that car chase scene even though she could've fucking whipped the shit out of both of the guys who fell onto the car simultaneously. This isn't like Avatar, where for a long time Katara was more or less equal with Aang in terms of waterbending ability and its usefulness in defense; this is keeping Korra's potential locked up in the basement with a rag in its mouth just to make them appear to have some kind of potential use other than a ham-fisted romantic subplot.

>>103373
>Mako is nothing but a walking dick that Asami and Korra must fight over because of formulaic Twilight fan pandering and this cheapens both their characters

Yes that is definitely what is going on here. Asami and Korra are clearly at each other's throats.

I mean, wait, what the fuck? Are we even watching the same series?

>>103377
One that is forced to include scenes like her glaring at them in her rear-view mirror with angry, narrowed-eyed expressions that indicate the presence of romantic rivalries which could split the team apart at any moment.

>>103379

Oh no a half-second shot of her being a little leery of affectionate banter between her boyfriend and a girl she knows is interested in him romantically! What a disaster!

Seriously, listen to yourself, you sound like an idiot.

>>103376
>There's no situation with emotional content he can't completely fuck up. He's everything bad about this show being on Nickelodeon. His presence is a thousand idiotic network executives laughing in my face.
You're such a grown-up. I'm surprised you've not bitched about the lack of blood yet.

>>103376
Give me some of the shit you're smoking. Nitpicking about a ten second scene where Korra still helped and wasn't really needed since Asami zapped both their opponents.

>>103381
I would never complain about a "lack of blood". Bolin does literally nothing but misplaced comedy bits apropos to nothing every single time the camera is on him. It's his entire character. Sokka was Mr. Meat and Sarcasm? Bolin is Mr. Funny Voices and Awkward-acting.

I can only hope that the fact people complain about Mako and Bolin, two guys not being much help in combat, will go some way towards stopping people who whine and play the sexism card when people complain about girl characters who don't do anything.

For weeks I couldn't figure out what was causing this bizarre tonal yo-yo effect in the show that leaves me with mixed opinions about everything. It was only this week I finally figured out that it was Mako and Bolin. They don't take shit seriously, ever, they don't have problems in their lives that I can find sympathetic enough to override those of Korra and Asami, and they don't make me want to know them better. They're window-dressing. Mike and Bryan actually finally did it. They made a series where men are the useless sluts who fart around in the background while the people who actually matter do things.

I bet Tarrlok tries to explain all the destruction from he and Korra's fight as her going berserk and running off to do things alone. Too bad Tenzin won't buy that shit for a single second. Tarrlok's assistant was the last person to see Korra and Tarrlok before shit went down. Think he'd rat out Tarrlok?

>>103395

More likely, I think Tarrlok would spin it as the Equalists attacking City Hall, with him and Korra fighting them off. They capture Korra, who bravely sacrificed herself to save Republic City's leader.

>>103391

Re: Mako and Bolin's narrative weakness, I think the problem with them is two-fold.

The pro-bending arc in the first half of the season wasn't tied in well enough with the Equalist and Airbending arcs. Tenzin's whole reason for reluctantly approving of Korra joining pro-bending was because it let Korra put airbending theory into practical use. Like Bolin said, the key to pro-bending is being light on one's feet. But that tie-in to airbending got dropped after Episode 2, and pro-bending instead became a sport where Korra could screw around with instead of focusing on the serious problems in her life.

The second problem was that the brothers don't have the same personal stake in the Equalist dilemma as the other mains do. Korra has her dark parallel messiah in Amon, Asami has a Luke/Vader thing going on with Hiroshi, Tenzin has his personal conflict with Tarrlok stemming from the Equalists. Mako and Bolin are threatened because they're benders, sure, but that feels nebulous compared to the concrete issues facing the others. Bolin's kidnapping didn't have repercussions beyond one scene in one episode, and even the arena attack (an attack on their home and livelihood!) didn't seem to really hurt.

Really, there's endless ways for Tarrlok to spin "Avatar was here, now there's a mess and she's gone."

The hardest part for him is going to be picking just one!

I have an idea regarding why Korra is having trouble with her spiritual side.

Namely: Amon was telling the truth about the spirits giving him his abilities.

They may feel that the existance of Republic City is fundementally wrong, as although it's brought about peace between the peoples of the world it's also contradicted the balance between nations that Roku clashed with Sozin over and what Aang clashed with Zuko over in the Promise.

So now Korra doesn't just have to deal with pseudoCommunist revolutionaries, an increasingly Fascistic government and organised crime, she has to try and win around the spirit world to the modern era as well.

And Tarrlok probably will just say that Korra was abducted by Equalists, who pursued them out of the city on a potential wild goose chase or something.

>>103456
That is an interesting point, too often people assume that the spirits are absolutely good and know exactly what the best thing for the world is. But what if many of them are just reactionary pricks who don't like the idea that people of all elements are starting to peacefully coexist and develop technology that makes humanity more powerful at the expense of the natural world that the spirits rule and protect.

>>103456
That sort of goes along with what I said when Amon first claimed "the spirits" were guiding him.

The correct reply to that is "which ones?"

There's a lot of things in the spirit world. KOH is a spirit for Pete's sake. Having "Spirits" on your side could mean very bad things.

>>103457

I kind of the the impression that the spirits in Avatar are kind of... um... spiteful. For instance, in the episodes in season one where the panda spirit started abducting people and destroying their town due to the Fire Nation burning down a section of its forest... were there no forest fires prior to that? Surely the forest regrowing on its own would be obvious to a nature spirit?

Same as with the spirit who had the world's largest library. He didn't appear to see the difference in using information to wage a war of aggression against other people and attempting to use information to STOP said war, even if one of the people in the latter group is the Avatar.

I don't think that it's entirely unreasonable for spirits to decide that the massive population increase coupled with the rise of industrialisation and the invention of the automobile might be the sign to return humanity to their pre-Fire Nation War state.

>>103464
I'd disagree slightly. They are spiteful, but only if others intrude on their turf. Koh is a prankster of sorts but I don't think he had a plan for stealing Kuruk's beloved beyond feeling like he needed to be taken him down a peg or two.

Human affairs don't tend to interest them much beyond that which violates their domain. The Avatar is the exception, and has to take the form of a human to do so. Picking a random guy and giving him powers to enact some kind of socio-political overhaul doesn't seem like their style.

Better promo for the next episode,
Legend of Korra Season 1 Episo…

>>103466
>They, they, they

Really. You know EVERY SINGLE LAST SPIRIT?

We know a handful. For the most part they're like you said, and Koh is just a nasty bugger that only messes you up if you wander into his line of sight, but that doesn't mean there's no spirits at all that might want to help Amon out. Hell for all we know something Aang did annoyed a few spirits, or let free some long-imprisoned bad spirits... that's me spitballing, the point is that we have a very incomplete picture of the spirit world. Maybe they don't have a role at all, but maybe they do.

Apparently the new Korra Nation clip says that Tarrlok said Korra was kidnapped by Equalists, though I can't see it, not being in the US and all.

>>103481
Yeah. He planted some Equalist gear around the building and shocked himself with an electro glove to back up his story.

If Amon and Tarrlok AREN'T working together... then explain this?

You can't can you?!

chances are that naga is gonna pull a "lassie" and get lin and tenzin to play batman

>>103481
is there some kind soul uploading all these somewhere for all us poor foreigners?

http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-109-find-the-avatar-clip.html
New clip!
Tarrlok is still a douche.

>>103506
>Tarrlok is still a douche.

Huh. And I was expecting him to be redeemed in the clip.

It didn't even occur to me until a forum post I just read, but

If Tarrlok hadn't busted out the bloodbending he would be a charred smear on the council chamber floor right now, huh?

I'm so used to heroes in shows pulling the honorable if I kill him I'd be just as bad card, but someone talking about the fight really made me notice it. When Tarrlok is dangling from a high ledge, Korra doesn't do the stupid hero thing and help him up, she knocks his ass off. And that final blow that Tarrlok stopped was a double fisted fire blast to the face. She was actually trying to kill him..

>>103526
I doubt she was going to kill him, but it's unlikely he'd keep his prettyboy good looks for much longer.

>>103526
And so Korra continues the tradition of female Avatars being far more hardcore than the dudes.

>>103528
she makes his face explode with bloodbending.

anyone got hi-res caps of Korra's freakout face when Ikki tells Asami about her crush on Mako?
for some reason my media player crashes whenever I try to take screenshots

>>103533

How are these?

last one

>>103526
>>I'm so used to heroes in shows pulling the honorable if I kill him I'd be just as bad card, but someone talking about the fight really made me notice it. When Tarrlok is dangling from a high ledge, Korra doesn't do the stupid hero thing and help him up, she knocks his ass off.

I agree with>>103528 in that I don't think she was actively trying to kill him per say... but she's certainly not the type of person to hold back. You're right, she isn't the type of cartoon protagonist to keep dangerous actions or life threatening injuries off the table, this much is true. Korra is very, very raw. She's got no filters, she sees something she wants/wants to do and she just goes and goes; regardless of what said thing is. It adds a nice degree of tension to this series, because I know that (to an extent) Korra won't stop at the last minute and go "No! No, that's not how us good guys do things".

As... bloodthirsty as this might sound, its one of the reasons I like the show so much and like Korra as a character so much because she's so driven by primal emotions and doesn't let "the right thing" stop her. Sometimes, you just want the hero to whip out a gun and at least try to shoot the bastard. Not saying the hero actually has to shoot the guy, but the motive must be present.

>>103176
Well that would certainly explain why they held off on showing benders mistreating nonbenders AFTER the Equalists emerged. Because as it stands they're basically riding on an offscreen Freudian excuse and their cause wasn't shown to have much merit until this happened, which wasn't until after they showed up.

>>103534
>>103535
>>103536
thanks bro, really appreciate it
>>103537
agreed, at first that aspect of her kind of annoyed me but now I really like it and it makes her a lot more interesting than the usual bland "moralfag" behavior I've come to expect of cartoon protagonists

I don't think she necessarily has killer instinct or intended to kill Tarrlock. She didn't have a whole lot of "intent" period.

Like Avatar Kuruk (who she REALLY needs to look up), she's a bit of a brash showoff, loves a good fight, loves some hot sexy eye-candy, hates sitting around doing nothing, and is all about just going with the flow, acting on impulse rather than thinking things through. "I'm gonna be a stowaway and go to Republic City! What'll I do when I get there? Eh, I'll think of something. STOWAWAY! Man that sounds cool..."

If someone had yelled "that's it Korra, kill him!" during the fight with Tarrlok she would have frozen up horrified and stammered a "n-no, I'm not... I wouldn't kill him!" or something to that effect.

But he hit her with brutal attacks, and she just went with it, throwing brutal attacks right back without thinking about it and going "oh right, he was trying to kill me, so if I start throwing the same sort of shit back at him, he's likely to die. Hmmm. Which would probably be badish. I guess. For a few reasons. Like... um... oh! Sanctity of life, due process, and all that... Plus it'd make Tenzin really cranky."

She really needs to learn about Avatar Kuruk though, because the lifestyle he lived ended up costing him dearly. It would behoove her to learn from his mistakes.

>>103551
I don't think so, while in general Korra and Kuruk lead similar sorts of lifestyles and have similar mindsets; the specific mistake that Kuruk made that led to his divine punishment was that he didn't get involved in world affairs that much. Now Korra could be faulted by trying to solve problems in a heavy-handed or overly naive way, but she is certainly not ignoring the problems and conflicts of the world around her.

>>103526
She was probably just gonna injure him.

>>103506
So he can bloodbend but he's not a healer, interesting.

>>103534
My waifu being perfect.

>>103564
>So he can bloodbend but he's not a healer, interesting.

Healing is a ladyjob. Do you see him having ovaries?

>>103565
But that's a man healing him.

Can healers heal themselves? I don't think they can...

>>103575
Katara did it.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/tv-shows/
Still in the top five.

No friday clip?

>>103700
It's early yet, on the west coast.

Extended clip up,
Legend of Korra: "Out of the P…

Huh, the existance of phones in the show somehow seems weirder to me than the existance of cars and motorbikes. Does that make sense?

>>103727
Weren't phones mentioned in the second episode?

>>103728
>>Weren't phones mentioned in the second episode?

The first. Lin tells Korra that she should have called the police rather than picked a fight.

>>103727
Metal bending (wires) + Lightning Bending (electricity) + Sound Bending (kind of obvious, here) = Cabbage Corp Communication Horn.

>>103732
It's just a magnet hitting a diaphragm

>>103731
Yeah because the only way to call for the police is the phone.

Going "HEY! POLICE! HELP POLICE!" doesn't count for some reason.

>>103728

The announcer said 'hold the phone'.

>>103736
doesn't really matter even if you yell for the cops because Republic City has Gotham City police syndrome
they fly around all day in their blimps and only show up after Batman (Korra) arrives

>>103739
To be fair hoods running protection rackets really isn't the kind of shit beat cops are supposed to handle, or even SWAT. That's what a detective squad is for. Does Republic City even have a detective squad?

>>103742
it looks like the RCP are operating at a Robert Peel era of policing, but with 1930s' technology all beholden to a, i want to say, meritocracy based confederation of five

Finally catched up this episode...
And I'll enjoy so much when I see Tarrlok beaten up.
Motherfukcer

>>103742
I bet if the show had any breathing room for side episodes we'd find out.

Fucking Nickelodeon and their "we want it to be like 24" bullshit. 24 was an horrible tv show and they never should've agreed to this.

>>103755
Wait.
What?

>>103756
Long ago, in a distant land, I read an interview with Mike and Bryan that had them explaining the basic premise for this show before it was produced was that it would be a miniseries which, like the execrable Fox show 24, told a rigorously-defined story over a short time frame with minimal dissertation or exploration.

>>103757
>>103755
There's nothing wrong with shorter, more coherent stories. I haven't watched 24, but if it sucked it was because of the writing and the acting, not because of the fact that the story was self contained and stayed on-point.

>>103759
No it sucked because, like Korra at its worst, it's extremely pressed for time and chooses to focus on trivialities without being able to give them emotional content that might make the audience feel rewarded for having seen them and the pacing is screwed all to hell by the need to pack the first part of the show with hooks that never pay off because by the time you get to the meat of the story it's over in three episodes and the finale is upon you.

>>103760
>make the audience feel rewarded for having seen them

i thought the reward was more story

>>103762
The reward is closeness and identification

>>103727
Shit man, do the creators of this show just tempt me to want to see a spin off of tenzin and his family. He's too fucking lovable.

>>103764
Behold, the power of JK Simmons' charisma.

>>103764
I would give ALL of my money if that was even a remote possibility.

>>103773
Yeah, he's a good voice actor but more than that, I love the kids. I haven't seen a scene with them yet that I didn't enjoy with all of my feels.

FUCKING TARRLOCK IS OP

>>103456
Ok I'm gonna try n help explain this.

The spiritual side is glitchy cause aang was actually killed in the avatar state katara revived him with the sacred water this was the only reason he survived it was explained in the episodes themselves this is why the connection is wonky it's barely there anymore I have no doubts she'll connect eventually but this was a key point I'm surprised you all forgot. azula actually killed aang in the avatar state. katara reviving him may have been the only thing that kept the cycle from breaking completely ok it was still there for aang but i'm sure when the next cycle began it faltered a bit wich is understandable.

So Amon's going full evil-empire: show trials, public executions, redesigning monuments to glorify himself.

Also, airplanes exist.

>1 hour season finale

So episodes 10 and 11? Isnt this a 12 episode thing? or is episode 10 maybe still next week?

>>103780
Yes, episode 10 is next week. They're advertising the season finale now because two weeks is the standard promotional period for television events.

>>103778
>So Amon's going full evil-empire: show trials, public executions, redesigning monuments to glorify himself.

Comrade Stalin is truly a great force for equality in the world.

>>103778
More like public "solutions".

I seriously don't think the Equalists have killed a single person yet.

I mean, that'll probably change when they start dropping bombs from the sky, but you know. Decent track record so far.

>>103806
Unless the bombs are full of candy...

That would be awesome.

OH! Or they could be modernized versions of the Stink n Sink! "Nooo, Amon is dropping stinky sticky shit on us!"

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