History FridgeBrilliance / TheLegendOfKorra

* Korra is strong, but lacks restraint. Pro-bending, with its rules and regulations, is all about restraint. Also, now that she's on a team, and it isn't just her training, she has all the more reason to learn and practice her control. Also, this is a perfect opportunity of her to learn how to be a team player, which can be handy once her team is established a few episodes later.

* Korra is strong, but lacks restraint. Pro-bending, with its rules and regulations, is all about restraint. Also, now that she's on a team, and it isn't just her training, she has all the more reason to learn and practice her control.

[[spoiler:** Except those granted Airbending by Harmonic Convergence.]]

** Except those granted Airbending by Harmonic Convergence.

** The scene also explains why Iroh's Pai Sho games resembles Mahjong, while the game Asami and Bolin are playing seems to work more like Shogi: a wide variety of different rules exist for the game.
* The Red Lotus are anarchists, just as the Equalists were communists. Both ideologies were quite popular in the 1920's, and both were very dangerous.

* Just before Korra leaves the airship to give herself to the Red Lotus, a hidden ShipTease moment between [[spoiler:both her and Asami]] is stealthily put in there. [[spoiler:While she is hugged by everyone in Team Avatar, with Mako getting the most dramatic one (to illustrate how he's finally gotten over his awkwardness around her), it's notable that Asami is the first one she turns to and hugs. Not only that, but Korra and Asami are the only ones who hug each other simultaneously. Korra had to initiate the one she had with Mako, and Bolin took her by surprise from behind. The girls are perfectly in synch and their feelings are mutual.]]

** Ghazan was imprisoned on a boat at sea. All it took to free him was Zaheer tossing a few rocks into his cell.
** Ming-Hua was imprisoned above a volcano, depriving her of water. Zaheer and Ghazan provide her with water from a barrel. Since airbending requires one to be quick on their feet, Zaheer would also need someone else to carry the barrel for him while he fought off the guards and Earthbenders like Ghazan tend to be [[TheBigGuy the]] [[TheBrute muscle]] of their groups.

* Why would members of the Order of the White Lotus break off to form an anarchist alternative? Simple, their governments have heavily failed them. The Fire Lord for the past few generations have tried to conquer the world. The Earth Kingdom has been ruled by ineffectual or tyrannical monarchs puppeted by sinister Dai Li. The Water Tribes had sexist traditions or had no means to defennd their population from aggression. The Air Nomads had been massacred. The last group might have had the most influence on the Red Lotus, a nation with leaders but little formal government (that we can see) was the most harmonious and probably saintly in the eyes of the average Red Lotus mook. Even the great experiment of the heroes who ended the Hundred Year War had devolved into anti-Bender sentiment with Benders being seen (and resented) as a privileged class. All this is the responsibility of the Avatar. The balance of the world is on the shoulders of a single person who may or may not be ready for it. Little wonder that the Red Lotus grew into what it has become.

** At one point he tells Korra, "Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else." Iroh spent many years helping Zuko recover from his abusive father and sister, and it's been heavily implied in the previous series that his relatioship with his nephew helped Iroh cope with the death of his own son.