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.
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 
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.
Gah, Nick.com hasn’t put up the latest ep yet. I’m traveling and need my fix, darnit. Help!
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. 
Dammit, still not up on 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.
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.
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.
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.
OTOH, I didn’t know Korra could heal, that’s new.
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.
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.
Just a bit of trivia:
I was poking around the Avatar wiki and noticed that David Faustino, aka Bud Bundy, voices Mako. Cool.
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.
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.
I love show or movie specific wikis. They’re helpful in some cases. 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.
Anybody with a better understanding of the clues inher latest vision?
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.