Avatar: The Last Airbender Fan Club

Question: Was it just me who thought, at one point, Korra was spirit-bending? There was one moment where the grey wisps were surrounding a spirit (before she failed and was saved). Way too much progress for my liking :/ I wish they would tone down her super-learning skills.

Also, what is there left to train with air-bending? They went on about how she needs to continue training, but... she can airbend, she can ride air-balls which previously they described as a skilled technique. It felt like they were imagining a need to train just to add to the conflict... unnecessary and not well thought out, imo.

Yeah, I think Korra was totally spirit bending towards the end of the premiere. I didn't expect her to have any luck with spirit bending already.. She's still working on her spiritual side. She was kind of annoying when she used physical force to open the portal.

Asami and Bolin working together, great. Jinora getting some screen time, awesome. Eska has taken quite a liking to Bolin, but I hope it's for comic relief. I don't kinda don't want more love triangles and such again, haha.

I think Korra still had a lot to learn about airbending. She's learned the other elements in a decade, but only 6 months for airbending, that's not enough...

I think they mean that she has to understand airbending instead of just learning how to physically do it. Like, every single avatar in the past before her studied all the elements by training with a master and learning the culture of that nation. Korra kind of just had to make do, because there were no airbenders. She can physically airbend but she doesn't understand any of the airbending culture and it's kinda sad because the airbenders were my favorites and it seems like their culture has kinda been lost. I mean there are air people but they don't get the tattoos, they don't really seem to act like airbenders at all I guess? I can't really explain it.

I'm really excited for this season because it looks like they'll be giving us completely new stuff like spirits whoaa :3 I hope Jinora becomes more important and doesn't just stay as "one of the airbending kids" because I think she's p cool.

Book 2's looking good overall! I like the pacing - it's neither too rushed nor too slow. Hmm... I'm a little sceptical about Korra's decision to make her uncle her new teacher. He has this thing about him which makes him a little suspicious in a sense. I'm not even sure that opening that spirit portal was the right thing to do, but it seemed to be alright by the auroras in the sky. There's still not enough information for me to conclude anything though.

Another reason why I think Korra's decision to abort her lessons with Tenzin is not the right choice is that although Korra can now airbend, she still doesn't know the spiritual side of it, and thus doesn't have complete mastery of it yet. I feel that if she had visited the air temples with Tenzin, she would have gained much more insight on how to better her air bending as well as open up her mind to the spiritual side of the art. Perhaps this way, she could even learn how to calm the dark spirits easier since her spiritual side has been awakened.

All in all, amazing first few episodes! Can't wait for the others.

That was an awesome episode, eee. I really did miss the style of comedy from the show so having it back really brightened my day. Lots of crazy Bolin and interesting interactions between Korra and Tenzin as well as the other adults. Still wondering what happened when Asami found out about Korra and Mako, though.

"Is this thing fast enough to get away from my crazy, waterbending ex girlfriend?"
"Why do you think I built this boat?"

Funny episode, glad Korra isn't going to spend the entire season being blind to the obvious trickery going on.

The spirits were /mostly/ forgotten here though - and I'm wondering what the point of the Tenzen side-story is, and when the two will be colliding. It's nice and all but... yeah.

I'm kinda on the fence about this season. From the start of the series, the humor (mostly Bolin) has been kinda random and weird for me. And having some familiar voices like Kya (Lisa Edelstein, I'm a big House MD fan) and Eska (Audrey Plaza) is kinda weird too. But the plot is very interesting. It does seem to move a bit quickly, but that's fine. To me, Korra seems to be almost abusing her status, going into the Avatar state for the most random things. I wished they would've shown flashbacks to Aang and his kids.

Personally, I really enjoyed the episode. It was really interesting to see how they pictured the past, and how the humans were basically few and far apart, and how all the bending powers weren't inherited like they are in the current time of the series. Kinda makes you wonder why people started being born as benders, however it could be that the power of the elements were basically part of your blood once you obtained them, and that it just carried over to your children, however that kinda contradicts the fact that not everyone in the modern day has bending powers. I guess once the spirits and the humans were seperated by worlds, the humans didn't really need the powers anymore, but that kinda leaves a lot of loose ends hanging. Why weren't everyone required to return their powers then, or why weren't everyone allowed to have and keep them? Ahh details.

Anyways, I really loved Wan. He was a super lovable character, and he honestly reminded me a lot of Aang. Being a bit of a joker, while still fighting for what's right, and I would honestly have loved to have seen more of him. I also really liked how they changed up the artstyle for those two episodes, it really made one feel that it was in a different era. Other than that, extremely good story and concept, and I love how he actually became the avatar.

You can definitely tell that the role of the avatar has changed over time, because whereas Wan sought to defeat the evil he had set free and tried to make the spirits and the human live in peace with each other, both of the avatars we've seen have been all about keeping peace between humans (which Korra isn't really doing a good job at atm :p), however with the passing of was it 1000 years? approaching, and with the fact that she already opened one of the gates between the spirit world and the human world, I reckon we're gonna be in for something big ;) Really looking forward to the future episode, and looking forward to seeing Korra redeem herself as an Avatar :p

thats funny nickelodeon, i got that reference of wan being the first avatar ;3 geddit? #captobviousnoob

Anyways, just waiting for the new episodes to come out :3

Not much happened, really. Love Genora though.

OMG GENORA WAS AWESOME :33 poor tenzin tho :/

I'm sure Korra or Jinora will find a way to let people into the spirit world.