The Legend of Korra

Does Raava get control? I mean, yeah, probably, when the Avatar isn't fully realized yet, but.

Actually, maybe not even then, because Aang's usages of it were kind of dumb if you think about it.

I wish the Avatar State was a booster rocket though.

edited 29th Jan '15 11:14:42 AM by unnoun

I never considered that it might be Raava activating it. I always thought it was kind of a fight/flight/shit yourself instinctual thing.

It's both.

I still like the mental image of an Earth Avatar with only Korra to ask Avatar-y advice from.

"No, Punching probably won't work." "Oh come on, it worked for literally every problem I had!"

The Satos!

Workout routine! A little NSFW.

Um. Asami?

It didn't work on Unalaq/Vaatu, or Kuvira.

What worked on them was lasers.

edited 29th Jan '15 12:26:15 PM by unnoun

Lasers are like punching someone with light.

That last one!

edited 29th Jan '15 12:35:30 PM by MurkyMuse

I guess what really worked on Kuvira though was that whole "empathy" thing. Trying to see where someone else is coming from.

When Kuvira came out of the portal some of her mecha tanks were there waiting. She could have had them rescue her and keep going.

And, well. I'm not sure Korra's punches were what worked against Zaheer. It seemed more like a big air tornado. And a chain.

True.

She also threw mountaintops at him.

It didn't quite work. He dodged most of them.

It took the air nomads and their tornado to get him down.

Korra's not even the one that beat Ghazan, Ming Hua or P'Li.

I'm still surprised she didn't wrap the chain around him neck and break it while they were in the tornado. Just dragging him down by his ankle was strangely merciful as the capper to the brutal death conga that happened to the rest of the Red Lotus.

With season four behind us, it's clear Zaheer lived so he'd be around for that scene where he helps Korra meditate into the Spirit World, but it's still weird.

EDIT: Although one might argue that killing him would be overkill because he's already dead inside anyway.

edited 29th Jan '15 12:43:21 PM by TobiasDrake

Is it too late to snap his neck with a chain? I mean, they're right there.

I'm pretty sure there are laws against that.

Stairs

Presumably the White Lotus or some other court handed what they saw as an appropriate sentence (again). Why in Koh's name he didn't get the death penalty this time for regicide I have no idea, but there you go.

Well she was kind of a dick. Not like anyone is gonna miss her

Because there was no Earth Kingdom government to try him for regicide. Any crimes committed against the Earth Kingdom are outside the jurisdiction of whoever would try him, leaving only his crimes against the Air Nomads and the Avatar.

edited 29th Jan '15 12:53:52 PM by TobiasDrake

I again submit that the Avatar world doesn't use the death penalty anymore.

Probably Aang's influence.

I'm not sure whether that's mercury or whether Metal benders can just change states of matter of things like that. Still neat though.

Dangit writers.

Police are jerks.

Toph and sexual taboos.

Toph likes statues of herself. She can appreciate them. Unlike something like, say, paintings.

EDIT: I don't think you could really hang someone that can fly.

Or push them down stairs.

edited 29th Jan '15 12:58:56 PM by unnoun

It's normal metal. We've seen them bend metal substances so smoothly that they move like fluid many times.

For the record, I don't think they're actually shifting phases with the metals, they're just moving it and restructuring it so rapidly that it resembles a fluid when in motion.

edited 29th Jan '15 1:06:39 PM by DrDougsh

Asami has a very high rank in "detect Korra" apparently.

Yay elements!

Dangit Asami.

Asami dats not nice

Flapper Korra and Asami, presumably flapping.

1x05 recap

This weeks one felt a little weak to me, but this one did stand out [1]◊.

edited 29th Jan '15 6:53:02 PM by 32ndfreeze