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The A/B plot difference highlights a problem with this season. The show was built around Republic City when it TLoK was supposed to be just a mini-series, and it doesn't always mesh well with the more cosmic approach of Season 2.
Mako, Bolin, Asami, and Varrick are all operating on their own local scale, and the conflict between them has some decent danger to it. Varrick "means" a lot more to Asami and Bolin even before he threatens them, simply because he's their salvation in life.
Meanwhile, you have Korra, Tenzin, and Unalaq battling over the fate of the world, and they're all pretty suited to that role. They're all leaders of their own domain. They're not really tied to Republic City anymore.
Both plots are bound together via the civil war, but it's a tenuous connection at this point, as the war is happening off-screen, and doesn't seem to matter to the Republic City B-plot cast except as a means to an end. When the Republic City cast got transplanted outside their native setting, to the South Pole for the opening four episodes, it wasn't the greatest thing as they had little to do: Bolin got shackled to an arguably funny crazy girlfriend, Mako played the token love interest to Korra, and Asami outright vanished for two episodes because she only existed to facilitate Varrick's introduction.
It makes me worried for later seasons.
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