[TV] The Legend of Korra - Page 88

They already said the whole Amon thing is going to be resolved within this season.

...what? then...what will tie season 1 to season 2?...I'll believe that when i see it.

I'm sort of with you. Between the plot and the constant teenage thick-headedness and focus on relationships I'm watching the show for the fact that it's in the avatar universe. I really really dislike it though, to be honest.

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Edit: in the next episode previews:
will we be left with a cliffhanger where korra has to 're-find' her bending?
or will she go avatar mode on his ass?

On a more serious tone, I doubt we won't hear of Tarrlock and Yakon again. For one, the whole flashback story would be too lame if it were just hype. Second, I cannot conceive there is no link between Amon and events past. He cannot have drawn his abilities out of nowhere and you would except those events to have more or less involved the TLA characters. And no competent writer would suddenly decide to introduce a mysterious and outrageously strong bender, only to have him appear on flashbacks and have his son be a villain for one episode. A while ago, we expected the two villains to oppose as the series would go on, both rising as major threats to the heroes. If Tarrlok goes down, all the menace introduced through the flashbacks must transfer to Amon. Thirdly, the matter of Yakon's abilities cannot remain unexplained. It isn't natural that someone should be able to bloodbend thirty people at once, one of them being the strongest Earthbender around and the other, someone supposed to be stronger than absolutely everyone else. Bloodbending cannot be that strong than simply being skillful at it makes one invincible.

One thing that struck me previously was that very pact-with-the-devil reek around the two villains. Both have very unnatural powers, although maybe in Tarrlok's case it can be explained by bloodbending actually not requiring the full moon. It cannot in Yakon's case though. This is strange because we haven't really heard of anything in the Avatar world that would enable one to acquire new and mysterious powers beyond what usual bending can be thought to achieve. We shall wait and see for that, but if there is a connection between Yakon and Amon, it would already make more sense because there may only be one "pact", but of course it does not nearly explain how the weird powers of one and the other differ so (bending/ antibending). Amon being a bloodbender I don't reckon, not only would it be too predictable after what we've seen but it wouldn't account for his bending-removing abilities (which we can safely accept as real now) ; I guess he could have studied human anatomy very thoroughly and learnt which arteries to make explode to disable the imagine-it-as-you-like part of the body that controls bending, but that doesn't make for a very exciting plot point. Lastly, as it is clear Amon is not simple charismatic leader who happened to have a Marx-like epiphany when "his family was killed" but a being fueled with evil strength, we're left to guess his real motives (he seems to clever to only covet power anyway). Him being a bloodbender who would have learnt from Yakon previously yields no motives at all besides greed, although if he was just greedy, removing any other bender so as to control everyone at will would be an admirable plan.

And, as already pointed out, there's a third question : how did they find Korra ? I wouldn't be surprised if Amon explained that the abuction was completely imbalanced...sorry, completely part of his plan (a plan of which the Avatar is supposed to be a part, which implies it aspires to more than superseding the government).

Side notes : - Sorry. Tarrlok being surprised at Amon's immunity almost proves they're not brothers, otherwise Tarrlok would instantly have thought his opponent was a bloodbender, and those do no grow like mushrooms. Unless he was ignorant that he had a brother.
- If Korra had decent airbending she could have floated in the cage and avoided the electric shock altogether. Time to cease wooing and start training.
- Now that I think of it, Amon leaving the responsability of handling the resourceful and dangerous Korra to a bunch of stupid and incompetent henchmen just to transport a consciousless man that has no fighting ability whatsoever into a truck twenty meters afar and close the door seems unlike his cunning. I wouldn't be surprised if he later claims he did that on purpose as well.
- Since Amon is very smart and has a thoroughly designed laid-out plan to fullfil his goals, I don't expect him to have completely forgotten about the Avatar State and devised no counter to it.

Well i didn't say i disliked it. All i said was it took a turn that i didn't expect. It seems that Tarlock will be pretty much no threat at all with out his bending. So i can't really see him being a significant character, and with his reputation shattered he won't be able to re-establish him self on the council.

I mean its possible that i could have liked my idea for the story better, but i won't know that until i see the entire story. Including season two.

While i do have thoughts about whats coming, i try to detach my self from preconceived notions of how the story should flow. So i'm not angry or disappointed, that things didn't go in the way i though they might. I'm just riding along with the story.