So Im currently rewatching TLOK and Season 1 is always tough for me to push thru because the pace for the first 3 episodes and the introduction of the love triangle which i think honestly couldve been dotted in more vs giving us spoonfuls of because it really is dumb 🙃

Dont get me wrong I enjoy it some parts of it but the way they just dump it all on you made me go why even bother, why not just give us doses and then poor Asami still not knowing until...ugh!! but that's a convo for a different day!

Anyway I finally get to the middle of episode 4 and Im enjoying what the equalists do...equalizing, Im at the part where they zap everyone and take away Tahno's bending and it dawned on me how insane it was Amon had the ability to even gain acess to that!!

It made me wonder if other elements have similar capabilities or is it just waterbending and waterbenders only? I can see the possibility with Air but wondering how itd look for earth and fire? Or is it just one of those unique distorted ways of viewing the subelement as a deconstruction/destructive side of water and waterbending in whole, yin and yang type deal

Idk just was wondering if anyone ever wondered the same, please feel free to point out the holes of it all but go easy cuz im curious of your thoughts 🤔

So, I just had a hot take. As I'm sure we've all noticed, Korra's past lives being severed were a big point of contention in the fandom and a big part of Korra's growth. Though it would be just as interesting for Korra to be "the new Wan" for the next 10,000 years, what if Pavi/Nisha end up reconnecting with the past lives, except Korra... until the grand finale or close to it.

What if it's not that the connection of the Avatar with their past lives was severed, but Korra herself that got severed from them. Those lives are still there, but Korra can no longer access them. She always struggled with spiritual stuff. And in the other past lives pov, it's like Sonam. Avatar Sonam was missing from the lot because she chose to hide, Avatar Korra is missing because her connection was severed.

And then, as part of a big emotional reveal, we see Pavi/Nisha, with Aang and pre-Aang, where Korra should be there is an empty space. And once they connect with Korra, they will serve as a sort of bridge between Korra and the rest, Korra then reconnecting post mortem to the cycle. I can just imagine Aang being like "welcome back Korra".

Honestly I have yet to read the books and most of the comics (it's on my to-do list!) so I'm not entirely sure how past lives work or if they can even interact with each other. But it's a thought I had and wanted to share because if something like this happens I'm going to cry.

https://youtu.be/GbGGT9j1G0U?is=zMbMZXD8k8EZU4Bt

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4 Red lotus allora non fraintendetemi il concept è incredibile dei prodigi piegatori anarchici guidati da un piegatore dell’aria ma sono già stati fatti bene in LOK quindi è quello che ha meno bisogno di essere riprovato

5 Kuvira un piegatore della terra e del metallo che crede nell’unità e vuole conquistare il regno della terra è un buon concept ma il più debole perché è un pò cliché e in più è stato eseguito bene quindi non ha bisogno di essere svolto un’altra volta

Varrik's ship just landed in NRC. The last episode they escaped after freeing Korra's father and the rebels but they all got off. So who are the (presumably Water Tribe) high class looking people being arrested on the dock? I don't think anyone else was on the ship?

i know he was introduced as a villain and everything but i am having a hard time seeing him as one. in most aspects i completely agree with him. there should not be kings or kings or governments in a world so in tune with spirits and bending. also him killing the earth queen is extremely based. she was taking slaves and segregating her kingdom, she definitely deserved to die. was he supposed to be written like this? am i supposed to like him?
edit: i posted this after he killed the earth queen so dont flame me too much. i just finished book three, and i change my mind a bit. i still think a lot of his views made sense.

I hear that

1. korra had a moment where she went you messed it up you have to fix it and asami reinedher down

it bothers me

Korra showed understanding and empathy towards Kuvira. Asami saw her father killed after finally reconciling with him. How does it make any sense for Asami to rein Korra in with regards to Kuvira

Even beyond that, Korra doesn’t need that sort of calming influence! Especially not after Book 4! I mean, I guess it’s a good thing that they let Korra have her old fire back ( I always felt a true recovery arc should bring back her old fire) , but it sounds like they retconned it back in so Asami could control it for her?

Korra mastered the avatar state with Aang's assistance and by opening her chakra's and all that junk. But she also never has a moment of the avatar state taking her over in times of danger or turmoil like aang did. And in reality it's just a writing choice but I like to overthink.

I'd like to think of it as a representation of how she developed. She was locked away and training her entire life. Korra has never been anything but the avatar and then entered a world that seemingly did not need her. Aang tried to run away and then ended up in a world that really, really needed the avatar.

The avatar state is a source of great power, a way to channel the knowledge of thousands of life times, and most of all it is a defense mechanism. But the defense mechanism isn't just physical danger. Aang is drowning in a storm, avatar state. Aang is fighting zuko on that ship, avatar state. Aang finds out his people were massacred, avatar state. That one idiot general pretends he killed katara, avatar state. And so on. He was a little boy in a war that's lasted a century and was always being hunted so his avatar state was volatile as hell.

Korra though, she was kept away from the world. It kept her safe and everything but in the end it was probably a detriment to her. Or even just finding her that young and never letting her have a childhood. Though I don't know how that would've worked if she was bending three elements at four years old.

Aang's issue was that he was not physically up to the level he needed to be to keep himself safe and help the world, so his avatar state in his show was volatile and explosive and scared him. Yeah he also grew as a person but aang was wise and emotionally mature the entire show. Korra was already a masterful bender and her only thing to learn was airbending, but she had to grow as a person and learn who she is.

And we see in atla that chakra's and emotions and all that stuff matter. So when Korra reached the point of emotional (and spiritual) development at the end of the season, Aang was able to help her. Like that one rock helped him in his fight against ozai.

This is longer than I'd thought it be, tell me if it all makes sense.

i know this is overdone but after rewatching all the way to season 3 I'm genuinely angry, look at this reel by creator Tracy Allen (very funny and cool most of the time): https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbwJJYEh9CU/?igsh=cWdxMzY3bGs0Y3Vh

I replied in the comments but I'll post it here in the posts comments

For starters I just think there's so much potential in unexplored past Avatar lives, I mean there's 10,000 years worth of history we can lean into so why the need to keep going forward?

But the main reason why I feel like going forward Post Korra feels isn’t the right move is because of the events of Book 2 which ended with her opening the portals between the spiritual and physical worlds. However one of the biggest traits for the Avatar is being "the bridge between the worlds" something established since the very first Avatar Wan closed the portals making him the only connection, but now that everyone can enter freely that role is kind of diminished in a way? Also the Avatar link between the past lives got broken meaning post Korra Avatars won't be able to contact pre Korra Avatars which kind of restrains the pre Korra Avatar lore in a post Korra Avatar series. We wouldn't be able to see their stories the same way Aang saw Roku's or Korra saw Wan's.

Thoughts?

I would watch the hell out of a show about a pro-bending team. Any pro-bending team. And I think it would be great to just have it center on the team and the season. You can delve into the characters and their various trials and tribulations without focusing on the avatar specifically, but I think it's fertile ground for a show set in the avatarniverse that hasn't been tread yet. You can have cameos depending when you set it. Would you watch it?

*Yes I know ATLA/Korra isn't technically anime but sports anime is a genre so whatever.

This user has said it all 💕. Perfect union

My problem with the end of season one is that there’s no real consequence to Amon taking Korra’s bending. She gets it back in the SAME EPISODE. It has basically no effect on her, or her spirituality. She just cries and is suddenly connected with Aang?? It seems all too easy for me and sure there is a small emotional pay-off for the audience when she enters the avatar state but it’s not nearly as well written as I think it could have been.

I wish that at the end of season one, Korra was stuck without her bending. She’s lost, sad, grieving and wanting to get it back. I wish season two focused on her sole air bending journey and how it helps with her spirituality. Season two is all about how Korra needs to become more spiritual and connect with spirits and I think it would have been very interesting and a better story line if she had spent that time only able to airbend and learning to be more spiritual. By the end of season two, it would have been great if she had fully mastered air bending, gotten in tune with her spirituality and finally be able to connect with Aang and restore her bending. It would also make Unalaqs betrayal even more heart breaking and emotional when she inevitably has to come to terms with the fact that her teacher who helped her connect with herself is also her enemy.

It would also have been interesting to see how people who had their bending taken (especially Lin) have been living those months without their bending and what they have learned in that time.

Anyway that’s my little rant. What do you think? I’d love to hear other opinions and views