It is late and this is a derp post. I am a fucking idiot. Originally, this post decried your reasoning because he lost his face, but...hands. Yeah.

Lamora signing out. This is what calculus does to a man.

 

Perhaps he preserved his hands in a homemade hyperbaric chamber. :awesome

 

It's Michael Jackson. You heard it here first.

 

The Promise is old news. Part 1 feels like it was written by a six-year-old.

 

I leafed through Part One. Not great. If anything from that turns out to be relevant to the show, I'm sure it'll be explained there enough for anyone to understand it.

 

Have been sitting on this idea for a while. Sharing it now because I just had a nightmare featuring Amon that scared me shitless.
Some time in the future Amon will attack the Air Temple island while Korra is away, and after his family was captured Tenzin will be forced to surrender. Amon will take away Tenzin and all the kids' airbending, leaving a barely trained Korra as the last airbender - who must now learn to airbend through the pure theories from Tenzin and watching the Sky Bisons (since it was said back in ATLA that the Air Nomads learned airbending from the animals).

In the end, after Amon is defeated, Pema will give birth to Tenzin's fourth child, who is an airbender and can continue the "family business" so to speak.

 

Newest episode.... Well, forget plot, this one's all filler.

I am not ashamed to admit that I was giggling like a schoolgirl throughout. The awkwardness of the teen romance is so exceptionally... awkward.

 

I'm not remotely interested in the whole pro-bending thing, so this episode was pretty dull. Tenzin's kids are cool though.

Also, I really dislike the little recap at the start of the episodes.

 

I'm really hoping this episode was just a rare anomaly, the relationship dynamics were annoying and the probending seems so unimportant. Bolin's particular brand of immaturity is also pretty jarring to me.

 

I think that was just Korra's ignorance/naivety rather than her trying to screw with Bolin.

Overall, I enjoyed the episode despite the subject matter not being to my usual taste. It's the first time I actually found Bolin to be amusing. And I don't the same problem with Pro-Bending that everyone does; it's enjoyable in its own way.

 

I don't mind Pro-Bending that much. It's fun to watch.

I'm not sure what to think about how fast they're moving with the relationships in this. TLA had the whole "will they or won't they?" with Katara/Aang for the entire run, but here we've got established relationships by the fourth episode. I kind of think they should have developed it more, but on the other hand I want them to get it over with. I guess we'll see how it turns out.

 

It also felt more of a parody about the usual way these kind of romance subplots go than anything else, seeing that it had a triangle romance on fast forward and that had me laughing quite a bit. They got most of it out of their system and provided a few laughs, so I was happy with it.

 

Farewell pro-bending subplot. You will not be missed.

 

Its nice to see Korra have some capacity to fight Lt. Lightning, even if she is critically weak to ambushes. I hope we see more of her strength as a fighter, and more of her incorporation of airbending.