Garden and Korra

[thistlechaser]

While I was away for ten days, I was worried my plants would die. I bought a self-watering system, but it was basically hoses and water bottles, so I worried I'd come home to dead plants.

Instead my plants sent me a message: STAY AWAY! They grew a ton while I was gone, so big and thick.



Everything got so big! On the far left are the sunflowers (already starting to bloom but not even two feet tall yet -- odd!), close up in the round pot is the thyme (which originally looked like these little sicky sprouts), in the back is basil and chives and parsley -- all of them so lush!, and on the far right is some kind of flower (the empty pot next to it never had anything in it).

Oddly, my basil seedlings all died a fast, harsh death, but the ones I grew from a seed are growing like weeds.

The flowers all look a little ratty (I think something's eating them), but the herbs are amazing. I really have to figure out something to do with it all.



And this will be an even less organized post than I usually make, because OH MY GOD EEE is this the best show on TV ever or the best show on TV ever?

They took Lin Beifong's bending away! DDDDDDDDDDDDD: I swear, that made my chest hurt in RL. She was so strong and a badass and amazing at bending and gah! (Though I also hope they don't figure out how to return bending to people, it would feel cheap to me, plus having to learn to live without bending would make for an interesting storyline.)

And of course there's ZUKO General Iroh! While the voice didn't seem to really fit the character's age/size/shape, I DON'T CARE! OH MY GOD, ZUKO'S voice back! EEEEE!

I love Tenzin so very, very, very much. Perfect father or perfect father?

The one small part of the ep I didn't like was the whole love triangle thing. Shape up or ship out, Mako. I have zero interest in Asami, too.



So! Poll time!

[Poll #1847435]

Comments

[socksofjello.livejournal.com]

Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!

I never watched the original series so I have no feelings toward the new character, but Lin is definitely one of my favorites and the ending there was a complete "oh shit" moment. I have no idea what I want to happen to her after this. It's a struggle between a desire for her return to glory and for the story to maintain the fact that sometimes Bad Shit Happens and there's nothing you can do about it.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

This will contain spoilers, don't read if you don't want spoilers.

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.

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this episode, the last few have been kind of lukewarm with me. Bolin has been really lamesauce for me even though in the beginning I LOVED him. I still do, but I haven't really felt anything for him either way in these episodes.

Lin was amazing this episode, she made me almost tear up quite a few times (a feat for me).

Loved seeing Tenzin's kids' fighting, they were amazing. Especially Meelo's fart bending (yes, I am 5).

Mako is really pissing me off, I don't mind Asami so much. I think the love triangle thing is really forced and unnecessary. It just pisses me off that Asami told Mako what she knew/felt and then Mako still has his hands all over Korra...so rude.