4 episodes in and I think I'm already liking this season better than the last.  I think getting out of the city helped.  It took a while to get straightened out which tribe was the southern one and which was the north and how that related to what we saw in Avatar, but once I did, everything began to fall into place.  I like that we're spending so much time with the water tribes since, in the previous series, we only had three episodes set aside for them (well, plus the one for the bloodbender chick).  Chief Unalaq should make for a good antagonist.

Loved the focus on Aang's kids and grandkids in the B story.

I even enjoyed the C story, with Bolin helping Asami with her business deal with Varrick.  Everything about hiding in the stuffed platypus bear was amazing.  The thing with him and Korra's weird cousin, however, came about way too suddenly and felt really forced.  The dynamic could have worked, but it should have built up more over the course of the season.

That said, I want Lin back in the cast.

I will it eat it here or there.  Joe, I will eat it anywhere.

If that IS your real name.

But of course it isn't, because the internet is built on lies.

My family bought me a monocle.  My family is awesome.  All sophisticated and shit now.

That's what they want to peek at?

Let's talk more about women and their sexual peaks.

The only thing better than contractions are double contractions.  This thread shouldn't've gone so long without someone mentioning them.

I got myself access to the BBC online feed for most of the Olympics.  Full access to streaming coverage of every event plus all the archived video.  I wish they would have shown me some ads or something so I wouldn't have felt somewhat guilty about stealing their bandwidth.

It's just that NBC sucked so much.  There was no choice.  I wanted to see something other than the USA swimming, beach volleyball, and gymnastics matches.

I strategically waited until today to wish you a happy birthday so I wouldn't get lost in the shuffle.

I may have to pick up those graphic novels.  Zuko's post-100 Year War story is definitely the thing I'm most interested in.

I really don't agree at all with his base postulation, that Legend of Korra is fundementally about how cool it is having cool powers and having cool fights.  Boiling it down to that ignores the various obvious parallels that can be drawn between the situation in Republic City and the powder keg that was places like 18th century France and 19th century Russia.  The only way that could have been more overt is just calling Amon Robespierre or having one of the council members saying the non-benders can eat cake.  May as well just have the bending removal take place with a guillotine-like device.  If the first series was about the dangers of unrestrained nationalism, this one just as effectively portrays how fucked up it is if we try to force the whole world to be equal.

What about the themes of racial cleansing?  I mean, the air nomad genocide prior to Last Airbender while evil, wasn't even about trying to wipe out their culture.  It was a means to an end of combatting the Avatar.  But in Legend of Korra, it's all about wiping them out as a people.  Amon hates them and everything they stand for.  You can hear the glee in his voice when he has Tenzin and his family up on the stage and he's about to wipe out the airbenders once and for all.  With Sozin, it was buisiness.  With Amon it was pleasure, which I found much more frightening.

More than anything, Legend of Korra was a story about accepting responsibilities and learning to serve people that may not even like you.  People hated Aang, but it was either because of what he did, abandoming everyone for 100 years, or because he was seen as an enemy of their nation.  But Korra?  People hated Korra simply because of who she was, because she was born with the equivelent of a genetic abnormality.

Any failings of Legend of Korra lay with the individual characterizations, not with the base themes or lack thereof.

I certainly agree that Korra/Asami would make a much more interesting group than Korra/Mako/Bolin.  However, I don't really see Tahno as a much better replacement.  Perhaps an older person to top off the trio.  One of Lin's lieutenants, perhaps.  I'd say Lin herself, but that's too much estrogen for Team Avatar.  It needs a dude.

Could be nice to get out of the city for at least an episode or two.

On another topic, I just rewatched the first season of Last Airbender and, damn, Katara sure does progress with her water-bending lightning quick.  In the first episode, we see her struggling to perform a relatively simple move.  By the end of the season, after just finding a single water-bending scroll and practicing with Aang, another novice bender, she's able to pull off some pretty advanced shit when fighting Master Pakku.  Oh, she also randomly discovered how to use bending to heal.  (That said, I really liked her fight with Pakku, especially when she "dug in" and froze her feet to the ground after flipping over him.

I'm not all a fan with how easily what's his face was tossing lightning around in episode 8.

Family tree.  Nerds.

I'm not playing anything because, after 6 years, my 360 finally red-ringed.

Prince of Space is a good one. The Fugitive Alien movies...Space Mutiny, Manos, Pod People, Cave Dwellers, The Day the Earth Froze, Teen-Age Strangler, Outlaw, Laserblast...

I could really go on like that all day.

Which one had the gang of teenagers who ended up in a shoot-out at the school?  That one's good.  I'm also a fan of the giant spider invasion one.