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>>116771
His plot in book 2 relied on Asami doing pretty much nothing, Bolin becoming an absolute idiot and a caricature of himself, and Lin being incompetent. Almost all the conflict in it relied on no one listening to him or unfairly bullying him (the idiot cops Lin trusted). It could have pretty easily been reworked so that Mako could be insightful and clever (good character points) without making everyone else complete idiots in the meantime. They could have had Lin running an undercover op on Varrick and Mako's snooping messes it up but also gives her some important intel, or have the idiot cops instead be on Varrick's payroll and purposely blocking Mako from getting info to Lin which makes him desperate. Lin can still be stubborn and have bad channels of communication in the office, and Mako can be clever and good detective material without it all being eye-roll worthy. Keep Bolin as a little dim (but not ridiculously so) and having the fame go to his head and idk about Asami.
>>116772
Amon is a self-loathing bender who hates bending so much he made it his mission to debend everyone. Having him compliment any character on their bending and mention it's almost a shame to debend them is ridiculous, and it's definitely questionable when that character is the tribute character.
Mako's got an interesting backstory, and he does have good character traits to work with, but they seem to be trying way too hard to show us how great he is when that should just come naturally. I thought that short they released with Mako and Bolin was good, and I really liked him in that (and in the first 4 eps of book 1). I also enjoyed The Sting when it aired. The best part of the short was Mako being forced to do some morally questionable stuff to survive, but being pulled back by Bolin's sense of right and wrong. That's a great dynamic to work with, and I'd like to see more of that and get into their past with the triads. At this point, I don't know if they can fit that in with all the world-changing stuff going down.
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