[TV] The Legend of Korra - Page 157

After watching the first two episodes, this might foreshadow a civil war between the two water tribes.

water nation

Korra's unlce is the antagonist and his goal seems to be domination of the spirit world and gaining power in general.

He hired the barbarians to attack the Northern Tribe because he knew Korra's dad would overreact and anger the spirits. It's funny he can somehow calm the spirits down. IMO he has some sort of brainwashing power of the spirits. The way I see it the spirits are naturally peaceful creatures but can get angry if they get brainwashed. So basically Korra's uncle set it all up so he could have his brother exiled and become the chief.

After that he became chief and mastered his spirit brainwashing ability or whatever. When he heard his brother had the next avatar he planned to have her brainwashed as well. Except there was one problem. His brainwashing ability relied on spiritual connections and Korra has a pretty weak spiritual connection. Thus he hatched his plan to train her and bolster her spiritual connection enough that it'll be on the level that Korra will be brianwashable.

That's pretty much what you see in this episode. At the start the spirits are only attacking ships and Korra's uncle arrives to speak about them with Korra at the festival. Then a spirit attacks Korra which convinces her she needs to be trained by her uncle. Then her father comes along and continuously argues with Korra's uncle so Korra's uncle decides to stage another spirit attack to make himself look good and his brother bad so Korra would send him away.

All this training looks like one big set up. I bet all these spirit attacks are being staged by Korra's uncle. Every spirit attacks benefits him in some way.

I bet the season is going to involve Korra's uncle conquering the world with a spirit or army or something along those lines. By the end by Korra being rescued by Tenzin and co. They then have her communicate with the first avatar or whoever and there she learns this deus ex machinima trick of how to free the spirits from brainwashing, Then Korra will turn all those spirits against her uncle and accept her father was right all along and then they'll live happily ever after.

I just hopes there's more to it because I've seen this kind of plot several times.