Let's wait for the episode then, but if you ask me, episode 5 itself had it's few bad writing moments, the whole deal with Mako insecurity over his relationship with Korra and Asami came out of nowhere, and it was badly handled in my opinion. So I don't think the writing team is invulnerable, besides, what's so bad about Korra making a mistake or jumping on the gun? She is still human, sometimes people just end up messing up here and there.
my point is that if the writing team
forgot what they wrote and wrote something that would contradict what they've already established, then
that would be bad writing.
shoe-horning Mako's feelings for Korra, while I admit was a weak attempt to introduce Mako's side of Makorra, wasn't bad writing. They had their hands full with Bolin and Korra, so I don't blame them. They needed to at least present Mako's conflict, and they accomplished that. If I were to criticize, I'd say that they could have used Mako's feels as a sub-plot as we go along to flesh out Makorra a bit instead - but I don't think they could have done so properly and consistently without it being distracting from the main plot. (and even if they did, people would
still complain unfortunately)
I'm glad they got it over with in THAT one episode. Now we deal with the fall-out (which has decidely more room to develop, with Korra and Bolin out of the way).
and yeah she's human BUT we saw her fault and learn in Episode 05; that was the point of the episode and the learning process is complete. As humans we retain what we learn, and if she suddenly forgot the consequences of her mistakes in E05 (i.e., just how badly her inconsideration hurt her
and her friends) she's either inhumane, sadistic or a broken character.
Is anyone else wondering what exactly happened 46 years ago in Republic City (the event Tarlok mentioned and that seems to be in Korra's flashback visions?) Who is that guy in her visions and how is he connected to Amon!? Whoever he was, he gave Aang a fair bit of trouble, and Sokka and Toph were somehow involved.
I'm also curious about Mako's and Amon's backstories. They both claim to have lost their parents to firebenders. Mako's parents mugged by a firebender? However, his parents had to be a firebender and an earthbender to produce both a firebending and earthbending child, right? Something doesn't add up. Amon's parents were poor famers who were being extorted by a firebender? Who would have anything to gain by extorting a peasant farmer? Could the things be related to each other, or even perhaps to the man who terrorized Republic City four decades ago!?
re: past
people are speculating that the dude is Yakone, a waterbender who was possibly a bloodbender. I'm not sure if this prediction is still valid, but the confrontation is supposedly about Yakone getting away with bloodbending someone (and as a result killing them) and Aang dealing with it, despite his preference to do so peacefully.
re: Mako and Bolin
the process of the bending ability and how it's distributed isn't really cut and dry.
However, what
is known is that: the ability to bend is half genetic and half spiritual; and hypothetically, anyone and everyone
can bend if they "wanted to" (i.e., appropriately met the critierion to bend).
But to break this down a bit simplier, we'll apply the genetic model:
- both their parents were benders (a firebender
and a earthbender)
- only one of their parents had a dominant bending gene in their family line while the other had a recessive
- both posessed a recessive bending gene while somewhere in their family line there existed the dominant gene
Personally, since I figure the bending genotype has saturated the population of Republic City moreso than the non-bending one in this time-period (e.g., we have lower-class citizens who are specialized benders) - it's more likely that
both their parents were benders, but which element belonged to whom, we don't know.
I'd put a couple of bucks on their mother being a firebender, and father being an earthbender justcuzz.
and yes their parents were "cut down" by a firebender, during a mugging (iirc) - Mako was present, doubt Bolin was.
re: Amon
it was
because they were poor that Amon's family was so easily extorted. When you're struggling to get by, you don't really have much power - arguably, the weak are more often than not the easiest to abuse/manipulate/etc.
About the next episode, I think this suspect will somehow have a connection to the equalists, or else the Avatar will just sink really low. Which is bad D: Edit; I just wonder, how do you think Korra will handle the suspect? Maybe she'll tell Tenzin, or I think she'll keep and eye on(and maybe spy, hoho on him/her.)
Also I don't get why this topic was moved, the two sections are pretty similar anyway.. :/
I doubt she'd tell Tenzin. Korra seems the type to do the work herself.
My bets on her being witness to something shady, then going to the guys for some input.
And if our suspect turns out to be Asami, I really doubt Mako would help. I mean, sure he did own up to his feelings after Korra calling him out, but since he's still with Asami, I suspect he's still trying his hardest to live in denial. In fact, from what we saw in E06, they're going strong - so at most, Mako will probably hear out Korra but reject her suspicions out of weak desperation. That is until he's alone with Asami and he'll either A) subtlety look for signs, B) see signs but try to rationalize them as just his ~imagination or C) there will be a huge climactic "I need to tell you something" moment and Mako will break about the Korra kiss, and Asami will break about her involvement with the Equalists.
now that I think about it, this could be a Mako-development heavy episode.
re: thread move
It always felt wrong to have my thread sit in the Animu Section, so I put in a request for it to be moved. LoK isn't animu, it's a western cartoon (there's a huge difference lmao)
Katara is the avatar, I don't think the standard genetics apply in the avatar's case. Besides she's at least from the water tribe, if her parents weren't benders there is a high probability that her ancestors were. There's a lot of case evidence that the bending ability is a dominant hereditary gene. How else could a firebender and an earthbender be biological brothers?
Korra's case is special, so you're right on that part; the Avatar-line and it's corresponding Avatar-cycle transcends standard bending geneology. The Avatar is true spiritual, it doesn't answer and/or isn't limited by the traditional hereditary frame-work. I figure the ratio of spirit to genetics is vast for the Avatar.
um, but remember Katara was one of the MC's in ATLA, while Aang was the Avatar. Here we have Korra, the current Avatar. (No offense, but it's kind of hard to mistake the two..)
