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[Seagloom]

It's Amon. I took this screenshot of the voice credits minutes ago to confirm it:



Speaking of next episode, a sneak peek of "The Aftermath" is up.

Modifié par Seagloom, 17 mai 2012 - 09:25 .

[the_one_54321]

Future industries are so in league with the equalists. Just seeing his response to Tenzin and Lin is so blatantly and predictably trope-y. I'm certain of it now.

[RedArmyShogun]

Thats what I was thinking unless he's really just a true goody goody. Problem is he's acting more good than the good guys. So either he's too gun-ho or he's just acting.

[Homebound]

the_one_54321 wrote...

Future industries are so in league with the equalists. Just seeing his response to Tenzin and Lin is so blatantly and predictably trope-y. I'm certain of it now.

I always got the impression that he owes the triads money. this sorta ties in with my Devil in the details theory where Amon will turn out not to be the "baddest" bad guy.

[Seagloom]

It's more likely he owes Amon money. The mysterious benefactor that believed in his ideas and financially backed him may have been Amon. If nothing else it explains their close relationship. Although it wouldn't surprise me if the bending triads were responsible for his wife's death, and that event motivated him and Asami to continue supporting the Equalist cause.

Modifié par Seagloom, 18 mai 2012 - 11:46 .

[RedArmyShogun]

Seagloom wrote...

It's more likely he owes Amon money. The mysterious benefactor that believed in his ideas and financially backed him may have been Amon. If nothing else it explains their close relationship. Although it wouldn't surprise me if the bending triads were responsible for his wife's death, and that event motivated him and Asami to continue supporting the Equalist cause.

Steping out for a bit, but actully, that would make perfect sense. I mean we seen in the first ep just how rough those guys are. Beaking crap setting fires for the lulz. I mean whats a normal woman to do if a huge wall of rock "accidentally" slams into her. The Triads wouldn't be able to openly take money or threaten people if they were always caught unharmed, or had scooby doo like arrests. Its like in Avatar, while the show won't show it we KNOW Aang killed people. Never seen it, but between crashing airships, those ships he sank at the north pole, and the factory him and Katara blew up, there had to be fatalities. The show will never show them, but in context you know they happen.

So thats not a far off assumption.

[JasonPogo]

Is it just me or dose this show seem to be moving a little to fast? It just seems to me like they are rushing it. Korra just met Meko but she feels the need to break him and the other girl up. And Mako meets this girl and next we know her dad is funding the team and her and Mako are dateing. I don't know it all just seems rushed. Like in the last Airbender we would of had a few more episodes to pad all that out and explain more...

[RedArmyShogun]

Well for one its not even clear the guys making it want too. After all the fourth book of Avatar had to be forced to be made. And I think the directors of this show only wanted to make two seasons at best. So they kinda do have to rush parts of it. Though I think that has less to do with nick and more to do with whos making it.

[Megaton_Hope]

JasonPogo wrote...
 And Mako meets this girl and next we know her dad is funding the team and her and Mako are dateing. I don't know it all just seems rushed.

That, I think, is rushed by design. It's supposed to seem suspicious.

Overall, I'm actually a little miffed that it's moving as slowly as it is - that is, we've been introduced to one looming threat, but there's still no sign of what Korra's supposed to DO about it. (Except that she's going to have to experience some spiritual awakening to win, of course.)

[Naughty Bear]

Megaton_Hope wrote...

JasonPogo wrote...
 And Mako meets this girl and next we know her dad is funding the team and her and Mako are dateing. I don't know it all just seems rushed.

That, I think, is rushed by design. It's supposed to seem suspicious.

Overall, I'm actually a little miffed that it's moving as slowly as it is - that is, we've been introduced to one looming threat, but there's still no sign of what Korra's supposed to DO about it. (Except that she's going to have to experience some spiritual awakening to win, of course.)

We know how it will end. Korra will defeat Amon, get with Mako at the end, Korra becomes the greatest Avatar, has children with Mako, dies and the next Avatar will pop up some how.

The cycle will repeat.

[Seagloom]

Maybe not. Il Divo mentioned in a post on page twelve that Wikipedia states this storyline ends on episode thirteen. Maybe that isn't true, given Wikipedia's questionable reliability at times. Buuut, if it is true it may not end that way at all.

I'll be disappointed if Makorra ends up being the canon pairing. That would just be so cheesy and stereotypical. It probably will though. Grrr.

I definitely don't expect Korra to be regarded the greatest avatar. She might end up being the most influential and important, but fighting social upheaval isn't as epic as ending a war that endured for generations.

Modifié par Seagloom, 18 mai 2012 - 04:35 .

[Megaton_Hope]

Seagloom wrote...
I'll be disappointed if Makorra ends up being the canon pairing. That would just be so cheesy and stereotypical. It probably will though. Grrr.

They're telegraphing that one pretty hard for it not to happen.

[Seagloom]

It's more fun to root for the underdog.

Modifié par Seagloom, 18 mai 2012 - 04:57 .

[RedArmyShogun]

I'm hoping it'll be Bo-Lin he's treater her rather well and its obvious even to a blind man he likes her, be nice for the "comic" to actully be happy once in a way.

[Megaton_Hope]

Confess-A-Bear wrote...

I'm hoping it'll be Bo-Lin he's treater her rather well and its obvious even to a blind man he likes her, be nice for the "comic" to actully be happy once in a way.

Hey, Sokka was happy.

Okay, so his girlfriend turned into the moon, but his other girlfriend didn't.

[RedArmyShogun]

Megaton_Hope wrote...

Confess-A-Bear wrote...

I'm hoping it'll be Bo-Lin he's treater her rather well and its obvious even to a blind man he likes her, be nice for the "comic" to actully be happy once in a way.

Hey, Sokka was happy.

Okay, so his girlfriend turned into the moon, but his other girlfriend didn't.

Lol saddly if some predictions hold true she's also how Amon and the Chi blockers came to be.

[Megaton_Hope]

Confess-A-Bear wrote...

Megaton_Hope wrote...

Confess-A-Bear wrote...

I'm hoping it'll be Bo-Lin he's treater her rather well and its obvious even to a blind man he likes her, be nice for the "comic" to actully be happy once in a way.

Hey, Sokka was happy.

Okay, so his girlfriend turned into the moon, but his other girlfriend didn't.

Lol saddly if some predictions hold true she's also how Amon and the Chi blockers came to be.

That'd be his OTHER other girlfriend. Well, it was kind of one-sided. I don't know why all the ladies fancy Sokka.

If Amon really knows that technique Aang learned from the lion turtle, there's got to be a complicated story behind it, I think. Perhaps Aang taught him.

[RedArmyShogun]

What I wonder is if he's even really taking the powers from them. Or if he found a shut off valve. It just doesn't seem the same. And those who its used on seemed to have taken it better than the Fire Lord, who  was left pretty much like a cripple.

Modifié par Confess-A-Bear, 18 mai 2012 - 05:42 .

[JasonPogo]

I hope Korra ends up with some as of yet unitroduced character. Since Mako is just to generic and Bo-lin to much the comic relief. She seems to epic for those two. She needs like a male Lin Bie Fong. I think what would be great.

Also every time Korra has faught with Amon she has had flashbacks of Aang. Somehow I think he is conected to Aang a d I think it will turn out he is a bender himself.

[Seagloom]

Confess-A-Bear wrote...

What I wonder is if he's even really taking the powers from them. Or if he found a shut off valve. It just doesn't seem the same. And those who its used on seemed to have taken it better than the Fire Lord, who  was left pretty much like a cripple.

That is my suspicion as well. It may be why Amon didn't try it on Korra two episodes back. He might be afraid she will figure something out other benders failed to as the Avatar. When Aang did it on Ozai, there was this incredible lightshow of their souls fighting for dominance. Here it's comparatively anticlimatic.

That said, am I the only who thinks this whole benders losing their powers thing is portrayed as too melodramatic at times? Okay, I can understand how losing bending might feel like having a limb shorn off to some of them. But the way the plot is treating it, you would think Amon was lobotomizing hapless victims. It's like... whee! you're normal now! ...is that really so horrible? *Really?*

Anyway, yeah...

Also, Bokorra 4evah. :happy:

Modifié par Seagloom, 18 mai 2012 - 06:30 .

[RedArmyShogun]

Well in a manner it is for them horrible.

I mean Bending IS power. It would be like having a limb lopped off, maybe even worse for them. they've had fancy powers, top dog jobs, or soldiering duties, and had powers that well frankly minus the BEST warriors in the world leaves a normal person at a handicap. Its like being a King, then being kicked to the level of a commoner.

That would be well frankly worse than death for most of them. Being Normal is being of the faceless masses to them...funny enough that gives some truth to what the Equalists say. Not that I trust Amon and his Whole "lol lets start WW1" idea.

[Seagloom]

The thing is benders seem to be very common in Republic City. In AtLA, non-benders were the norm with benders appearing somewhat infrequently unless they were Fire Nation. They are more prolific in LoK, and some of them seem to have pretty crummy lots in life. I don't think gang activity would flourish to the degree it has if bending alone was a ticket to easy street.

I can understand how some of them might feel like they are being rendered into invalids by having their bending stripped. At the same time, I'm a normal person. So the idea of someone freaking out so much over suddenly being unable to throw around ice spikes or burn people befuddles me a bit.

It's partly why on some level I can agree with what Amon is saying despite his horribly cruel execution.

Modifié par Seagloom, 18 mai 2012 - 06:50 .

[RedArmyShogun]

Hmm most of what he says isn't really untrue, which is what makes him dangerous. The Truth is often the greatest weapon one can have. Benders are for the most on top and in republic city at least criminal. The problem is from what we've seen thats more out of arrogance or poor law enforcement. A government could fix those issues, problem is admiting they are there, then fixing them.

So while Republic City's council can mark Amon as a minor force, or that the issues arn't major as they don't seen them or have to deal with them, thats like, saying a quarter of the city being on fire "isn't a big deal" or "only a quarter", which really thats just going to rub people wrong or make them apathetic. Which is as bad as joining the other side.

At the same time Amon while out for himself is at least to the average joe doing something and going "hey we have a problem here" now in the case of say the city burning his idea basically amounts to "Lets burn more of it to stop it!" While Crazy, he's doing something. Which is in a matter better than nothing. The Dangerous thing about Amon, isn't the mask, or his violence, or being able to take bending away. Its that he speaks just enough truth on the issues to make people who live with it take up his cause and fight.

[Naughty Bear]

I agree with Amon to some extent. People with bending abilities are dangerous, the common folk with bending abilities is even more dangerous. What is going to stop them from abusing it?

How could an average non-bending person even have a chance agaisnt someone with the same background as him/her did but with bending abilities?

It's dangerous for someone to have that much power. Either everyone must be a bender or a non-bender.

Korra easily demonstrated her ability to abuse hers when she defeated the thugs and stomped that little man who delivered her the invite to that guys party honouring her.

[Megaton_Hope]

Seagloom wrote...

When Aang did it on Ozai, there was this incredible lightshow of their souls fighting for dominance. Here it's comparatively anticlimatic.

That maaaay have been because there was more of a test of wills. Amon seems to be targeting the low-hanging fruit. Aang went right for a much older man who considered himself a god on earth. And he'd never even attempted it before the climax of the series; who knows what kind of practice Amon has had behind him.

Though it goes without saying that here it's a recurring plot device, and there it was a pivot point for the climactic battle between good and evil. (Personally, I liked Zuko's battle with Azula more as a climax. Of course, in my ideal plot arc, Zuko would have taken the opportunity offered by the eclipse and killed his father, then Azula would become the main villain.)