Season Two Wish List
Edited to add because this is important to my feels: What happened to Zuko’s mom!?!
What do you want from season two?
The Missing Plot: Korra’s First Chi-Blocking Fight
In ‘The Revelation’ Korra fights her first chi-blocker and gets her ass handed to her.
The chase and fight, which lasts a good two minutes, especially since Korra fights one chi-blocker in a long, engaging person on person fight, gives the impression that we are introduced to a secondary villain. Yet we never see this specific chi-blocker again, nor is there a re-match, or does Korra even learn how to defend herself against chi-blockers in general.
Missed opportunity: Asami is trained in the same fighting style, yet her training Korra, is neither mentioned nor shown.
The Missing Plot: Amon’s Platform
Why do thousands of people join him, civilians take up arms for his cause, what is the fodder that incites this civil war?
All we get in 12 episodes is that the non-benders feel oppressed, but we never get a concrete example, but for after the fact when Tarrlok starts rounding up Equalist supporters.
Edited to say: Background information is not the same as getting told by a member/ one a flyer/ the newspaper etc.
We can ASSUME a lot of things, but we never get verification on them other then Sato’s specific motives to join. Assuming is not fact, or even potentially right.
What the show fails to do is to DIRECTLY tell us why Li Average i.e. normal non-benders without personal tragedies, join the Equalists.
Why and how would Gommu have a telegraph?
I guess one could say that he may have stolen/scavenged from a dumpster, but that still leaves the question of why he would even have one.
I fail to see what use someone living partially in a bush, and partially in a slum, would have for a telegraph. Even an illegal phone line would make more sense, honestly.
The question here is: Convenient plot hole, or a question of who gave it to them and for what purpose?
I am not asking WHY he knows how to operate it. I am asking who he is talking to when he is not conveniently helping out.
Who are you talking to? Are the Equalists involved, or the mob, or a third group we do not know about?
tsurix replied to your photo: What Korra will be doing between seasons……
I’m still wondering about that..will she just heal everyone who got their bending taken away, no questions asked? Because Amon took the bending of some pretty bad people, like those gang members. We’ve seen Aang use this power to punish people too…
This is a good question. While on the one hand LBZ deserves to be in prison, the question is: Does he deserve to have his bending taken away?
I think it mainly depends on what having your bending taken the Amon way (which differs from Aang’s) does to your body. Are there health, physical or mental, consequences?
What Korra will be doing between seasons… 456780987654567 times.
No body. No spirit. No death!
The Equalists - Unresolved Social Issues in Republic City
Removing Amon from the equation does not mean the end of the Equalist movement. Or at least it should not.
Amon get’s taken down because the populace still hate benders…
Social inequalities do not disappear if you remove the leader, and I’d be really disappointed if this is the last we hear from the Equalists.
Not only did we see more desperate need for social reform in this episode i.e. the homeless camp in the sewers, but neither have any of the existing issues been solved. There is a reason thousands of people joined the Equalists in the first place: The council and government are still unbalanced and still favor water, air and earth benders.
Also, please do not forget that this was not an outside force invading Republic City, this was Republic City citizens rebelling against an unfair system. This system still exists. Removing the leader solves nothing, in fact would make it worse. If this were the real world, there would be riots in the streets.
Defeating Amon solved none of the above.
Here’s my prediction for season two: The Lieutenant and Sato are going to pick up where Amon left off, and take over the Equalist movement.
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Also: MWUAHAH called it weeks ago.
Is Amon a bender? The evidence speaks for it.
Part Three: Energybending vs Taking Someone’s Bending
edit: reblogged to add infoAmon - The New Spiritual Leader
I have mentioned before how Amon’s Equalist movement has a lot of religious elements to it. Click me!
- He calls his followers ‘brothers and sisters’, not ‘comrades’.
- He calls his rallies ‘Revelation’
- He claims to be in contact with the Spirit World
- He replaced Aang/the Avatar with himself
- He sets up his de-bending line/basecamp on Air Temple Island
- He speaks of ‘cleansing people of their impurities’
And that there is a potential parallel, not only to the rise of the Communists and the Chinese Civil War, but also to the Taiping Rebellion.(Where Hong Xiuquan, who claimed (through visions) that he was the younger brother of Jesus founded the 太平天囯 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom).
And now we see another piece in the puzzle: Take a look at what he did to Aang’s statue. He did NOT tear it down, as is/was common during all communist revolutions i.e. the sacking and burning of temples and churches.
Instead he replaced Aang’s face with his, the Air Nomad symbol with his flag. He is not just toppling the Avatar, he is replacing him. With himself.
