# Avatar: the Legend of Korra **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820 "2012-04-15T04:28:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![piepiepie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@piepiepie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/piepiepie)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/81 "2012-04-28T15:29:05Z")
Just some thoughts from this week: I don’t trust Taarlok and I’m fairly certain that Sato girl is Azula’s daughter (I know she’s way too young for that) or female relative. Crazy eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/82 "2012-04-28T15:37:46Z")
> [@piepiepie](#): > > Just some thoughts from this week: > > I don’t trust Taarlok and I’m fairly certain that Sato girl is Azula’s daughter or female relative. Crazy eyes. The math doesn’t work. If the girl is older (say 30) and Azula was 14 at the end of the show, Azula would have been 54 when the girl was born. It’s not impossible, but not very likely. Could be a relative, but I’m pretty positive she’s not Azula’s daughter. Did anyone else enjoy the grown-up versions of Sokka and Toph in the flashback memory? I thought they were cool. ---
**Author:** ![piepiepie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@piepiepie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/piepiepie)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/83 "2012-04-28T16:31:44Z")
> [@Wolverine](#): > > The math doesn’t work. If the girl is older (say 30) and Azula was 14 at the end of the show, Azula would have been 54 when the girl was born. It’s not impossible, but not very likely. Could be a relative, but I’m pretty positive she’s not Azula’s daughter. > > Did anyone else enjoy the grown-up versions of Sokka and Toph in the flashback memory? I thought they were cool. Yeah I know. I’m posting from my phone and just got it out quickly, which is why I went back and edited it. However, I do think she looks like Azula and might be related somehow. Plus, when she said her mom died when she was young. Similar basic backstory. Maybe she’ll end up good and is in Zuko’s line. Just speculating, but not everyone has to be related. I missed the flashback ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/84 "2012-04-28T16:43:09Z")
It wasn’t really a true flashback. After Korra was attacked a Amon, she saw a few of Aang’s memories and then Tenzin comes rushing up while she calls him Aang. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/85 "2012-04-30T01:08:58Z")
Gah, [Nick.com](http://Nick.com) hasn’t put up the latest ep yet. I’m traveling and need my fix, darnit. Help! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/86 "2012-05-05T21:55:06Z")
I though they said this series was supposed to be tighter, without the filler, just all plot. If the plot continues to be is a high school soap opera I am going to be disappointed. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/87 "2012-05-06T01:38:59Z")
Dammit, still not up on [Nick.com](http://Nick.com). I finally watched last week’s (they put it up on Sunday or Monday), and found it wanting. So it doesn’t get better this week either, huh? Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/88 "2012-05-06T03:28:49Z")
It may be only my opinion but as the episode hit end credits I almost swore it off for good, but gave it a reprieve for another week because I enjoyed the main series so much. But She is the born to be the most powerful person on the Planet, groomed from birth by the best there is to develop that power, and we end up with Bender Valley High and a stupid love triangle and the utterly cliche cool kid taunting her and breaking her confidence. Total brainless after school special crap contrived to show 8 year olds how everybody has the same problems you do. Just no sense of adventure that made it so good in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/89 "2012-05-06T04:04:16Z")
Yea episode five is easily the weakest of all, I’m hoping this is the end of the love triangle bullshit for a good while at least. There was a lot of interesting things set up they can explore, Toph’s daughter and the metal benders, that threat Aang dealt with as an adult, the popularity of the anti-benders. Hoping they get to it and drop the high school/sports crap. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/90 "2012-05-08T05:03:31Z")
[Nick.com](http://Nick.com) finally put it up today. OK, there’s some character development in it, but it was weak. I don’t care about the sports stuff, I really really don’t care about the Kool Kids our team has to face next time. I kinda sorta care about Korra dealing with teammate drama but it wasn’t all that interesting. And it doesn’t advance the greater plot one bit. Meh. 1000 times, meh. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/91 "2012-05-08T05:20:33Z")
OTOH, I didn’t know Korra could heal, that’s new. ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/92 "2012-05-08T16:16:54Z")
You guys are taking this too seriously - I thought episode five was pretty funny. “And Bolin loses his noodles…literally.” If you recall, the original Avatar series also had a number of silly, one-off episodes that didn’t do anything to advance the plot. Just roll with it and enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/93 "2012-05-08T16:28:17Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > OTOH, I didn’t know Korra could heal, that’s new. I think all waterbenders can, at least those skilled enough. It was a plotline in the first season of the original show, Kitara is outraged that in the Northern waterbender tribe women are only allowed to waterbend to heal not to offensively attack. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/94 "2012-05-08T17:02:20Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I think all waterbenders can, at least those skilled enough. It was a plotline in the first season of the original show, Kitara is outraged that in the Northern waterbender tribe women are only allowed to waterbend to heal not to offensively attack. I don’t think this is the case. Kitara got her healing powers in the episode “The Deserter”. Aang burned her hands when he tried to fire bend, and she accidentally stumbled on this ability just after. Jeong Jeong witnessed her heal herself, and his comment was “the great benders of the water tribe sometimes have this ability”. Which to me says that not all of them do, and perhaps not all water benders are “great benders” I guess, which narrows the healing-abilities pool further. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/95 "2012-05-08T18:10:16Z")
Just a bit of trivia: I was poking around the Avatar wiki and noticed that David Faustino, aka Bud Bundy, voices Mako. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/96 "2012-05-09T01:29:37Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > Honestly, one thing I finally realized kept bugging me is that everyone in the show moves the same way. I don’t see a clear difference between fighting styles of any of the benders shown. In fact, the only time anything was shown differently was when they wanted to show Korra suddenly learning not to faceroll. The creators said about The Last Airbender that each bending style was modeled after a real and different fighting style. I am assuming they kept to that. > [@Wolverine](#): > > It wasn’t really a true flashback. After Korra was attacked a Amon, she saw a few of Aang’s memories and then Tenzin comes rushing up while she calls him Aang. I just watched this episode and They look like they are preparing for battle, Maybe that big bad Taarlok mentioned. Sokkas face is grimaced. Toph is standing with her police. Aang looks to be in a meeting or listening to news. Then Aang is attacking and he doesn’t look happy. Then Tenzin shows up. I really hope they flash back to that some more or have Korra spirit walk or spirit talk to pasties to fill us in some more. ---
**Author:** ![piepiepie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@piepiepie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/piepiepie)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/97 "2012-05-09T01:31:18Z")
I love show or movie specific wikis. They’re helpful in [some cases](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Healing). I’d guess that most waterbenders could learn healing if they had a proper teacher, but it’s the rare ones that innately acquire it, like Katara. However, since the Northern Water Tribe only taught the women to heal, we’ve never actually seen male waterbenders do it, but it’s probably possible. Especially considering the time skip, it’s possible that rare techniques like healing have spread and more people can do it, like how Mako can bend lightning. Not too many firebenders did that in the original series. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/98 "2012-05-13T12:01:36Z")
Anybody with a better understanding of the clues inher latest vision? ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/99 "2012-05-13T14:59:45Z")
Something has been bothering me, how are Mako and Bolin brothers, yet have two different elements of bending? Are they adoptive brothers? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820/100 "2012-05-13T15:09:33Z")
> [@RetroVertigo](#): > > Something has been bothering me, how are Mako and Bolin brothers, yet have two different elements of bending? Are they adoptive brothers? They’re probably just the decendants of an interracial marriage, and one took after their mother or grandmother while the other took after their father or grandfather. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/618820.md?page=6)