Legend of Korra 02x03

[delphi]

Oh Korra, you are such a dumbass. Hey, Tonraq - maybe if you'd sheltered your daughter less, she would have some rudimentary radar for fascists. Because that's kind of a useful thing for an Avatar to have.

That said, I could watch Air Family drama all day. I love how realistically the dynamic shifts between the siblings: the two non-Airbenders versus daddy's heir, the two benders versus the only non-bender in the family, two brothers versus a sister, the two settled ones versus the nomad. I hope too that we see the subject raised of how Tenzin would parent Rohan if it turns out he's a non-bender or Earthbender.

(But I could seriously have done without the implication in Bolin's storyline that it's funny and harmless when a girl threatens a boy with violence when he tries to break up. It wouldn't fly the other way around, and it's not cool.)

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[lokifan]

Oh Korra, you are such a dumbass. Hey, Tonraq - maybe if you'd sheltered your daughter less, she would have some rudimentary radar for fascists.

Haha, right??? I was kind of startled actually because it felt a bit... Korra, remember when there was this other big scary enemy, and the dude who was like "I will save everyone!" but went all fascist so you had to fight him? Remember that? Yeah.

So agreed on the Air family dynamics, and also the skeeviness of the Bolin thing. Plus it weirds me out that he's scared of breaking up with her and scared of her generally, and he's violent, but it's presented as just him being worried about hurting her feelings or whatever. Idk, I might be being unfair to the programme... but definitely Mako reacted like "just gotta break her heart" as opposed to concern for YOUR BROTHER'S GIRLFRIEND USES PHYSICAL FORCE AGAINST HIM.