Legend of Korra thread 2: Would you do it for a Bosco Snack?

And we have magnitudes in number more nations, many more ethnic groups, a bunch of militant religions, and we even have a much larger marketplace of ideas, and there are a number of other factors that make it difficult to compare our world to theirs. For all intents and purposes removing bending might be good, because it removes one of the few dividing lines that their world has.

Ah Korra looks to kiddy in that picture, and your second one isn't showing up.

But not THE dividing line-wealth and power remaining in the hands of the few.

Except even in the real world we've had examples of homogeneous groups by themselves such as china or japan that went to war with themselves though out their history. A Homogeneous group does not guarantee peace by any means. The Hundred year war probably stilled would of happened and been just as brutal.

Civil wars in Ancient China killed somewhere around 30 million people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion

Well looks like the internet calmed down a bit. Still some bitching but dramatically tuned down.

I must admit as epically awesome I found /co/'s mental break down the shit just got sad after day 2. Though then we would of missed the declarations of them being smarter than anyone else that liked the finale. And they were all apologists or fanshits. But srlsy watching grown fat men cry over some boy and girl being somewhat crappy to another girl or Amon wanking is hilarious for about a day. When you walk back in and find them on the floor still crying its hard to keep amused.

/co/'s going to take a while to live this one down.

And you are bitching about people on 4chan bitching about something.

Personally, I'm expecting a timeskip between season one and two of at least a decade.

I won't be at all surprised if we get something like that, yeah.

Laughing at them. Thats a big difference.

China isn't homogeneous, it is actually quite diverse, it just looks that way from the outside, and perhaps from the Han forcing cultural conformity.

Japan on the other hand, is, at least with regards to its numerous civil wars, all of whose major factions were based around the core ethnicity. The same, in fact can be said for China. There were a few periods of disunity where race played a part, but the majority of civil wars were Han Chinese against Han Chinese.

And yeah, you might want to translate your argument about how its a good thing to eliminate all benders to one against nearly any other inherent division between humans, post it in NSFD, and see how long it takes before you get banned.

I wasn't even arguing that, I was saying it could be a good thing, but of course you would be losing all those cool powers and the fact that there are still creatures like the Sexual Harassment Panda that you'd need benders to defend against, or at least benders would help.

What I was saying is that the people of the Avatar world have few reasons to be divided, and that their nations are based on elemental bending, if bending was removed it would destroy the bases of the national system, which might encourage people to come together into one nation, though it might promote even more divisions, since the bending nations did provide the basis for a stable system. All I was saying is that if bending was removed, the whole system that divides people in the Avatar world would be undermined, and it could be a good thing, though it is much more likely to be a bad thing.

So what are they going to do in the next season?

As for the ending of the first it would of been interesting if the next season was about reestablishing her connections with the other elements.

I pointed out earlier in this thread that we never see any division between benders and nonbenders until Korra, and the reason is likely the disappearance of national divisions in the Republic. Take away one defining trait of The Other, and humans will simply come up with another. Indeed, the Avatar nations have distinct races, which would remain different even in the absence of bending.

One more thing. Thanks to makeup he could better hide his identity. Because after speech he could remove his makeup, remove his mask and walk around as someone else. With burned face everybody could recognize him and would be easy identified by police.

He was to confident that his powers would work same on Avatar as on ordinary benders and he made some mistakes, and in the end, after he loses his mask and control of the whole situation we can see that he is ordinary human (albeit genius in some aspects), not some omnipotent antibender force, and I like this transition.

Because Amon, behind his mask mortal, imperfect, and capable of doing mistakes, is much deeper and better character then him being some unstoppable force which could be defeated only by some deus ex machina.

I would like to see that Council page guy more. They managed to make him look like a dork of epic proportions (voice, appearance, even the way he walk and move), so he could be a perfect Keyser Soze character. Or even better, without any powers, just perfect manipulator who could always remove all suspicion with his "I am a total sissy" altitude.

http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Council_page

But he was defeated by deus ex machina. Korra and Mako were able to break through Bloodbending when it's been demonstrated both in this series and the previous one that will/strength/generic bending power is meaningless to bloodbending. The only way you can break bloodbending is your own bloodbending or going into the Avatar state.

If a fully realied avatar and a prodigy like Toph, plus a whole courtroom of other people, can't break free even when they are all being bloodbent at the same time, I'm going to have to call shenanigans on Mako doing it.

Whether or not Mako managing to finish an already begun movement after great struggle taking advantage of Amon needing to kill his second in command is a deus ex machina, it most certainly didn't defeat Amon. Seeing as how Amon subdued Mako seconds later.

Yes Mako's lightning didn't defeat him, however Korra's airblast through his bloodbending directly led to his defeat, since that knocking him through a window forced him to expose himself. Mako's had less to do with Amon's defeat but it was more egregious of a break with canon since Mako isn't anything that special.

Well, dont remember exactly how that happened in ATLA, but I think bending is not absolute, even in a case of bloodbending. Imho their father managed to bloodbend everybody including Ang and Toph not just because he was bloodbender, but because he was a one really tough mofo bloodbender.
Also thanks to his Tesla power Mako was able to launch attack with only his fingers without a need for any bigger movement which bloodbend would hinder.