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I loved every part where Tenzin actually fought. I always felt one of the things we missed out on was seeing advanced Air Bending since Aang was so young and, although powerful, didn't have much experience and really polished moves. Watching him take on those Equallist Window Washers (evil day job for sure) and then the mechs was just like OH MY GOD!
I had a big smile on my face when Mako reflected the lightning back at the mech and shorted it out. It made sense that since we've seen him bend lightning before that he would be more resilient when it comes to being electrocuted (at least when he can see it coming) and can reflect it back. Although I agree that he needs to get his act together and just admit he loves Korra so they can stop with the love triangle stuff.
On the Lin stuff I don't know if they will have a way to bring bending back but just based on what I remember from Last Airbender if I had to guess to take away their bending Amon seems to be blocking their Third Eye Chakra (thanks wikipedia!) which is why they can't bend after he does it. Like when Aang was trying to unblock his one chakra so he could get into the avatar state again in the Air Temple. I don't know if they could just unblock it (similar to Aang by just hitting the pressure point again?) but maybe people could unblock it themselves after a bunch of work. Sort of give the hope of people getting their bending back without it being instant and they would have to learn to bend all over again or something. But if Deus Ex Turtlina shows up again and conveniently lets Korra learn how to give people bending I will be disappointed.
But Lin jumped up to almost the top of my favourite characters list with that episode. Fighting to protect everyone then sacrificing herself to let Tenzin and his family get away and then standing by her morals and not giving into Amon at the end was just amazing.
I'm looking foward to seeing Iroh II fight! I mean, sure Mako can fire bend but we're talking about the Fire Lords son here! I wonder if he will have blue fire like his Aunt did...hmmmm I guess that would depend on how much he fights Kora/Mako since I think the only reason Azula had blue fire was so when she fought people you could tell which person was in control of which fire so everything would just be a giant mess of burnination visually.
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Date: 2012-06-17 05:13 am (UTC)I loved every part where Tenzin actually fought. I always felt one of the things we missed out on was seeing advanced Air Bending since Aang was so young and, although powerful, didn't have much experience and really polished moves. Watching him take on those Equallist Window Washers (evil day job for sure) and then the mechs was just like OH MY GOD!
I had a big smile on my face when Mako reflected the lightning back at the mech and shorted it out. It made sense that since we've seen him bend lightning before that he would be more resilient when it comes to being electrocuted (at least when he can see it coming) and can reflect it back. Although I agree that he needs to get his act together and just admit he loves Korra so they can stop with the love triangle stuff.
On the Lin stuff I don't know if they will have a way to bring bending back but just based on what I remember from Last Airbender if I had to guess to take away their bending Amon seems to be blocking their Third Eye Chakra (thanks wikipedia!) which is why they can't bend after he does it. Like when Aang was trying to unblock his one chakra so he could get into the avatar state again in the Air Temple. I don't know if they could just unblock it (similar to Aang by just hitting the pressure point again?) but maybe people could unblock it themselves after a bunch of work. Sort of give the hope of people getting their bending back without it being instant and they would have to learn to bend all over again or something. But if Deus Ex Turtlina shows up again and conveniently lets Korra learn how to give people bending I will be disappointed.
But Lin jumped up to almost the top of my favourite characters list with that episode. Fighting to protect everyone then sacrificing herself to let Tenzin and his family get away and then standing by her morals and not giving into Amon at the end was just amazing.
I'm looking foward to seeing Iroh II fight! I mean, sure Mako can fire bend but we're talking about the Fire Lords son here! I wonder if he will have blue fire like his Aunt did...hmmmm I guess that would depend on how much he fights Kora/Mako since I think the only reason Azula had blue fire was so when she fought people you could tell which person was in control of which fire so everything would just be a giant mess of burnination visually.