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I don't care how messy your divorce is when your ex husband who works for the CDC tells you to get out of town you get the fuck out of town! It's not like he's asking you to run away with him. And why didn't Eph show his wife the video he made such a big deal out of last episode? This show can be so dumb sometimes.

Loved it! The first half was all right, cute even, but the second half was amazing, and freaking brutal! Damn! I was afraid they'd have Tenzin job to Zaheer to prove how dangerous he is and I was thrilled to see that wasn't the case. Tenzin kicked his ass with ease! I don't think Zaheer even landed a single blow! If the finale can keep the momentum from the past couple episodes going then it'll be the first Korra finale I'll actually enjoy.

Would the show do that, though? After all the drama, propping Su and her family, and belittling of Lin would they do that only to villainize Su at the last minute? I mean, it's definitely possible, and it'd be hell of a twist considering a lot of people really liked Su from the start and even sympathized with her after Old Wounds.

Aw, let Aiwei go, Su. I'm sure he'll come back in a few years to apologize and it'll all be water under the bridge, right? Wait, who am I kidding? Anyone who breaks the law should always face the consequences of their actions, what was I thinking? Anyway, I love Varrick! I shouldn't love someone so gleefully amoral, but, damn it, the dude makes me laugh! I hope he isn't working with the bad guys. And how come we didn't get to see Zhu Li's interrogation? I wish the fight during the attempted abduction had been longer and more than benders throwing elements at each other. I wish the combat were more intricate and dynamic like when Korra was sparring with that guy at the beginning of the episode. Instead the whole set piece was kind of boring, tbh.

From the start Lin told everyone she wanted no part of her family. Su knew it, Korra knew it, and Opal knew it. But still they acted as though they had a right to force Lin to make nice because they wanted her to make nice, then were offended when Lin was like, 'Fuck that noise!' And that's all Opal's Pollyanna bullshit was, noise. Opal has no idea why Lin was mad, because she didn't care why Lin was mad. Opal approached the feud in away that didn't deal with its underlying issues, those issues being Su's horrible criminal behavior and Su's utter refusal to take meaningful responsibility for that behavior. To Opal nothing her mother could have done could be so bad it shouldn't be forgiven. Which is natural, Su is her mother. However, that doesn't mean Lin has to placate Opal, or that Lin has to be nice to make Opal feel good. No one has the right to make you to feel what you don't want feel. Not family and not friends. And it drives me nuts the show decided Lin was morally obligated to be tolerant and respect Opal's feelings when no one was tolerating or respecting hers. I mean, Jesus, the only person who seemed to care about Lin's emotional state was the fucking acupuncturist who had no skin in the game! The whole storyline would have benefited greatly if someone, anyone, had been on Lin's side and offered her unconditional support. Instead, every member of Team Avatar, Lin's supposed friends, immediately took the side of a bunch of stranger bitches. What kind of friends does that irl? Or here's a better question, who would want to be friends with people who do something like that?

I'd be more or less inclined to agree if Lin hadn't been demonized throughout the two-parter as though having a bad attitude and shouting at Miss Sweetness and Light was anywhere near as bad as what Su did. Lin arguably owed Opal an apology, but Lin owed Su nothing of the sort. It also would have been nice if Lin had been allowed to deal with her pain on her own terms and in her own time and not everyone else's. Frankly, I saw Lin as the wronged party and how the show treated her was appalling and borderline victim blaming.

Lin was in no way responsible for how the Bei Fongs split apart. Su is the one who committed armed robbery and assaulted a police officer while resisting lawful arrest. Scarring her sister's face! And you know what the real kicker is? It turns out Toph would have let Su go free anyway! Su never had to answer for her crimes and she never will now that the only person who held her accountable let her off the hook. While Lin who did no wrong to Su at all gets treated like the devil because she has integrity, and then has to apologize for it! Man, this show has some fucked up morals, yo.

Ita. It's like the people running the show don't know how to make conflict happen organically anymore.

Are you seeing the spoilers in my posts? I see them all as tagged in the browsers I use so I can't tell which ones need to be edited. Plus, I'm not sure if it's allowed to delete/edit posts after they've been replied to. Damn, I wish I hadn't put those spoilers up in the first place!

I don't hate Opal, but the way she was written annoyed me. The show made Opal sickeningly saccharine so Lin would look irrational and unreasonable in comparison. So much so Korra got to righteously declare Lin was going to die miserable and alone. It was manipulative and it threw Lin under a bus. ETA: Gervi got there first and pretty much sums up all my feels.

Why does Opal's desire to know Lin trump Lin's desire to be left alone? Why does Lin's feelings matter less than Opal's? Because Opal is earnest and cute that gives her the right to force herself into Lin's life even if Lin doesn't want it?

Lin doesn't owe the kid anything just because the kid heard second hand stories from her family about Lin. And I find it curious Lin's sister and Toph apparently didn't tell the kid Lin has a surly side. It might have dulled the shock of Lin's antagonistic behavior if they had. But considering what we learn later it wouldn't surprise me they recounted a very whitewashed version of their relationships with Lin. Then she shouldn't use her natural sweetness and light to manipulate Lin into "getting over it" and making nice. I judge her because if the situation was reversed and Korra was angry and bitter at someone like, say, her father, then no one and nothing would be able to make her not be bitter and angry until she was god damn ready. Her friends know better than to even try. But god forbid anyone else act the same way around her then they're just mean or stupid. She's a hypocrite. That being said, sometimes you have to let people work out their issues on their own, you can't force them to do it when you want them to do it. And If Korra really cares about Lin then I think as a friend Korra shouldn't have said Lin would die miserable and alone. Who says that to a friend who is going through something so painful they can't even bear to give that pain a voice? No, Korra was more concerned about strangers, granted nice strangers, but still strangers, than her friend. Smh. It's baffling to me how willingly Korra dismissed Lin's obvious pain like it didn't matter because Lin was being mean to people Korra just met.

My problem with that is I don't think Korra has the right to get in Lin's face with an opinion about something she knows almost nothing about. It seemed to me she approached the situation like this, "I think Lin's family is cool, therefore I think Lin should think they're cool too!" That's incredibly arrogant to me. And, yes, Lin let her niece speak her piece, which she wasn't obligated to do, and Lin rejected her efforts then firmly told her to leave. That should have been that. Instead, Miss Doe Eyes pouted and mewled in disappointment that her overly sweet words and flattery didn't have their desired effect, which I found manipulative and childish on her part. Ain't nobody got time for that. I don't totally blame the kid, because Korra convinced her it would thaw Lin's attitude, but it didn't, and that's on Korra for getting the kid's hopes up. I do, however, blame the kid for whimpering and running out in tears because a woman she just met shouted at her. Because, let's be real, Lin is practically a stranger and Lin's rejection shouldn't have been that devastating. I also fault Korra for declaring a woman she fought beside in life or death situations would die miserable and alone because Lin didn't respond to Korra's scheme the way Korra wanted her to.

I might have felt the same way if the show hadn't made Lin's niece so doe eyed just to make Lin look like a puppy kicker. At first I was shocked by Lin's outburst too, then I realized moments later what the show was doing and it pissed me off. I hate being clumsily manipulated so it instantly made me sympathetic towards Lin. I know Korra is a kid’s show, but I think when it starts dealing with subject matters like serious family conflicts, child soldiers, and genocide, then it should try to do better than using cheap narrative tricks. And the part that gets me is Korra thought little miss 'look at me, ain't I adorable's,' Pollyanna nonsense was going soften Lin. That's not Lin, that has never been Lin, and Korra should know that by now. But Korra sees what she wants to see and thinks the world and the people in it should bow to her every whim or else they're stupid, mean, and wrong. And need to be punched. Worst. Avatar. Ever!

Exactly, Lin was only there to protect Korra, that's it. Lin doesn't need to be nice to anybody to do that, and thank god, because Lin isn't known for being super nice any way! Lin literally could have stayed in her room the whole time and Korra could have recruited the airbender without any issues. Korra should have focused on doing that, not inserting herself in a decades long family feud that had nothing to do with why Korra was there. If she had then Lin wouldn't have been put in a position to be bitchy in the first place.

If Su had stayed the same person when she was younger then I can understand Lin being so angry but the fact is Su had changed. And she wanted to reconcile but she chose to stay angry. Lin was standoffish since they came to the city. She made it clear she wanted nothing to do with her family, right or wrong, she did not want to interact with them. Then Korra decided to bring Lin's niece there and force Lin to make nice with her family because Korra thinks Lin should make nice regardless of Lin's wishes, again, right or wrong. Lin was curt when she said get out the first time, but she didn't shout. They should have left once it was clear she was done listening instead of acting like she owed them more of her time. Personally, I don't think she should cut her sister's kids out of her life because she was angry at her sister, but she had a right to be left alone if she wanted to be left alone. .

In the version I watched she didn't. I am banging my head against my laptop right now! I am so sorry! I wanted to know what Lin's deal was and um, well, yeah, jumped ahead. Finding out why Lin was so upset and watching her sister take zero responsibility for it pissed me off so much I went ahead and vomited my outrage haphazardly. Again, I apologize, that was sloppy and thoughtless of me. I'm usually better about not spoiling things.

That was on Korra. Lin made it clear she wanted to be left alone and even asked them to leave very calmly, but they acted like Lin didn't have the right to her privacy. Korra acts like she can force people to do what she wants and none of it was her fucking business in the first place! Yikes. Sorry about that!

Okay, I thought it felt off! When the raid was going down I kept thinking to myself what is going on here? What is the show trying to say by showing me this? I figured the government had developed some kind of zero tolerance policy against David Koresh types after the '14th' and said screw human rights! But if that kind of violence isn't in the novel, then, yeah, they are definitely trying to spice up the show with "NEEDS MORE VIOLENCE!" Not that I blame them, the show is boring to the point of tedium sometimes. I wish there was more scenes like Nora's, it was intriguing as much as it was infuriating. And I liked the ephebophile cult leader's scenes. He is beyond creepy, but interesting to watch. I like how the mayor and the chief interact as well. I kind of ship it, I think? At the very least I want them to play off each other a bit more, because they're pretty lively together. This show could sure use more lively.

The pilot was okay, good acting, good direction, but... I'm sure I would be devastated if I lost a loved ones like that, but three years seems like more than enough time to process what happened and move on, even if no one really understands why it happened. Instead, almost all the characters are acting really raw about it, like the "rapture" happened last week. It would have been interesting to see characters who managed to get their act together instead of focusing on a bunch of whiny, self-indulgent woe-is-me types. I dunno, I guess I'm not entertained by unrelenting misery. I will watch a couple more episodes because I want to see how things work on a larger scale in a post "rapture" world. I would love to see how it effected the economy and education. Better yet, I want to see the other side of the tragedy. Surely there have to be people who think what happened was a good thing. One thing still confuses me. Why did the future lung cancer patients of America think it was a good idea to hold a demonstration at the memorial? Why do they even care? Aren't they basically nihilists? Whatever, I would have beaten the crap out of them too.

I hated everything that had to do with Korra and the gang, what a bunch of A-holes. I am excited about the new big bads. And Zuko! I must say I'm surprised the show actually allowed people to blame Korra for, well, anything really. I still think it stinks she's barely taking any of the blame for a lot of people being displaced in Republic City. I was hoping she'd realize how high handed her decision to merge the material world and the spirit world was after seeing the damage it did, but no such luck. Also not loving how she bullies people more and more as the show progresses. Screw Tenzin too. How selfish is he? Does he feel anything for the people who had no say in the changes he's so happy about? Does he care at all people are suffering? Doesn't seem like he gives a damn at all. I used to like the character, but now he's just as arrogant as Korra.