What? Toph, blind?? Not a new condition?? When did this happen.

...Anyway, awesome new episode. Can't wait for the next.

 

Guys, toph can see fine, she just can't see colors. or things that mysteriously hover, so gliders and stuff.

 

If Dr Who appeared amidst the Pony people, he can appear amongst the benders and make it happen. Maybe he's the avatar of the universe and can channel the forces of time, space, win, and fail. In the last season he'll learn to internetbend. #wtfamisaying

 

So what I'm going to type may probably be immensely stupid but whatever.

Spoiler

I'm seriously starting to think Ammon is also an Avatar. Yes, I'm well aware there should only be ONE Avatar running around and it should be Korra but hear me out.

Taking away someone's bending has always been traditionally an Avatar only ability and I'm having issues thinking that some non-bender could learn it.

Ammon recently pretty much walked right through Tarrlok's blood bending, this may be evidence of water bending ability as waterbenders have always had some base resistance to blood bending, but not to the degree where he can pretty much shrug it off. Personally with no evidence I reckon that's a combination of water bending and earth bending in manipulating the water in his blood as well as the iron to not do what Tarrlok wanted; but that's just my theory.

Now how could multiple Avatars come to be? Well other then the fact that the Avatars have traditionally been able to commune with their past selves by actually talking to them, something's obviously gone wrong when instead Korra is reliving Aang's memories instead.

The reason for this break in connection would possibly be due to when Azula dropped a lightning bolt on Aang while he was in the Avatar state. Aang may have recovered but I don't think the Avatar Spirit ever did completely. And from this (which has never happened before), the cycle was damaged resulting in two avatars running around.

I'm really not that familiar with the lore behind avatar outside of the actual show so if someone can debunk my theories go for it. It's pretty flimsy evidence I know, but it's the only explanation I can think of other than Ammon = Bumi and even that doesn't really explain his near mystical abilities.

 

What we have here is a standard Buffy Slayer kerfluffle.

Spoiler

Your Slayer dies, so a new girl becomes the Slayer, but then the dead Slayer comes back. Now you have two Slayers running around running this shit like they're both the top girl. Ammon is Kendra/Faith and Korra is more or less just a carry-over of Buffy from Aang

 

You all are pretty stupid if you think Amon can bend (any of the traditional elements). First off, it would be the ultimate form of hypocrisy and Amon seems above that. Secondly, when he overcame the blood-bending, it wasn't because of any water-bending he did, he was simply walking forward and there was practically no movement of his hands. I think either it's something new and/or Amon does not have blood in most of his body (ala technology/robot)

 

I doubt they are serious when guessing that Amon is an Avatar, but you are right in that it is a particularly bad idea. It's certainly possible, but it would be a rather asinine reveal, especially considering how well they've handled everything else. I don't feel as if it's very likely.

 

No, it wouldn't be hypocritical at all. For Amon to be a bender and fight for the rights of non-benders... that's even more selfless and noble.

 

Exactly, which is why it would be retarded of him not to advertise it.

But I digress. We know next to nothing about him. Let's just wait and find out next time.

 

Is anyone else not a fan of this sudden, uber-bloodbending bloodline popping up?

I get that there are always exceptional benders but in the original series I was always under the impression that things like "special abilities" came about not through genetic quirks but through power and skill. There was the one guy who could long-distance firebend, but if I remember correctly he wasn't all that powerful outside of his trademark ability.

Someone like Toph, who might be the best earthbender ever, learning to metalbend was not hard for me to swallow. Nor was Katara learning to bloodbend. They were both strong characters who grew through intense trials.

However, some random thug who can miraculously bloodbend an entire room of super benders, including the Avatar, just rubs me the wrong way. The fact that it's just a tiny footnote to the story at large makes me wonder why they even included it. Seeing Aang struggle against anyone is a hard pill to swallow for me after the sorts of things we saw him do in the original series, even outside the Avatar state.

Amon is an interesting character, but I hope they don't twist his powers into something absolutely ridiculous when they are revealed. I'm with the group that thinks he has to be some sort of super-bender on at least some level. Maybe a super anti-bender? He naturally resists other bender's powers? I'm not sure. The fact that he was able to shrug off Tarlok's bloodbending when the guy managed to knock out a room of some of the strongest characters in the show with ease tells me that there's more to him than just strength of will when it comes to resisting the powers of benders.

Damn I hope Zuko is still alive. Would be fun for a second season to have Katara flee Republic City to the old Fire Kingdom to rally support.

 

Could just be confused specialized knowledge, like lightning was in Aang's time. Nothing a trained and skilled bender of the base element can't do if they know how and have practiced the right technique. More about understanding it than sheer power.

Bloodbending was only discovered first, I think, or at least rediscovered by the woman who taught it to Katara. There's been enough time for a single family to have heavily refined those techniques - and I wouldn't freely hand out that knowledge. Imagine every waterbender able to play puppets with everyone? If there's no simple way past it, like strength of will, surpassing bodily limits and causing damage to yourself, or being drunk as a drunk in Republic City's unseen shanty town, it'd be devastatingly imbalanced.

This isn't RPG class balance nerdrage stuff, but equilibrium of the natural world kind of thing. Although, that considered, it could be interesting to explore it as a consequence of the air nomad massacre, or more so, murder of the moon spirit. Someone threw a rock at the water element, and now it has bounced back.

I haven't seen the latest episode yet, so this could be way off topic.

As for Amon, I suspect he's a spiritbender, or chi bender - not blocker - or whatever it was called. Like the Earth Kingy dude, which I suddenly realize may have been a fanfiction fail, because I haven't seen that episode either. Basically, contacts spirits like the Avatar, but doesn't bend the normal elements. He's the special number five.

Amon: redheaded step-child of the Avatar world. His face was burned one dark day when hair and freckles disagreed over who got the forehead. Both were destined to lose and be replaced by the usurper mask.

 

So is there an OP form of Air-bending? You have Lightning, Metal-bending, and Blood-bending, so where is our pumped up Air-bending? Or will that be something Korra achieves first?

 

So... Sound-bending? I can jive with Noise Marine Air Nomad Monks.

 

Bloodbending is just blending a different fluid. Metal bending is just bending a new material. (Lightning is a bit more unique but meh). Advanced air bending could simply be bending more/different types of gasses. Or something like removing the air from a person's lungs. Insta-kill.

 

Until they, y'know, inhale again.

 

I'd heard that the advanced form of Airbending was weather control.

 

Another bending mechanic that I'm curious in is in regards to lava. We've seen firebenders bend lava before, but do you think earthbenders can? Lava is molten earth, after all.

 

http://equalistpropaganda.tumblr.com/

Probably the funniest tumblr I have ever seen. It's basically some person answering questions as Amon, using hand drawn pictures.