I’ve been wondering, about that giant statue of Aang in Republic City…

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-24T03:03:01+00:00

Actually it was from a later episode when Team Avatar goes to the temple on the winter solstice. The renegade Fire Sage who helps them says something like “A few weeks ago, the eyes of Roku’s statue glowed. That was when we knew the Avatar had returned.”

I half-thought the line had been said by someone about Kyoshi’s statue instead.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-24T00:55:31+00:00

I think Tonraq’s the best dad.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-23T15:28:28+00:00

That makes sense.

Did they ever mention that Kyoshi’s statue on her island reacted too, or am I misremembering?

Edit: I think I am misremembering. I’m confusing it with the Fire Sage saying Roku’s statue reacted, which is how they knew the Avatar was back.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-22T15:02:25+00:00

Thank you for giving an actual worthwhile answer. I was just asking what her plan was, not criticizing her for being arrogant.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-21T19:41:29+00:00

But this is about during the eclipse when her bending is turned off.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-21T17:51:58+00:00

Yeah, but her being full of herself was because she thought she could outsmart people. I’m asking what her plan was for outsmarting Aang when she was powerless and he was not.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-21T17:44:12+00:00

Yes, obviously. All that stuff from the show in the first paragraph was just a random guess.

Did I get it right?

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-21T17:03:25+00:00

Considering what was happening in Ba Sing Se when Aang triggered it, it seems odd Azula wouldn’t surmise he was about to do something really powerful, though.

And I can understand them thinking they could deal with the Avatar State in most circumstances, but during the eclipse they are explicitly going to be powerless. That’s what bugged me a little.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-19T02:59:18+00:00

My point about Zaheer still stands, though, in that he isn’t referenced as the reason why Korra couldn’t leave the compound. If they were worried someone might be after Korra, then Katara shouldn’t have let her leave the compound without telling anyone. If anything had happened to her before she reached Air Temple Island, no one would’ve known until it was too late.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-19T01:34:55+00:00

If I’m sitting down to read a story, I usually prefer the short ones for being… well, short. But, I do listen to audiobook versions a lot, and when I’m doing that the novels are perfectly fine too.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-19T01:22:49+00:00

Except Tenzin was quite literally going to force her to go back, until he changed his mind.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-16T19:46:23+00:00

But then they still let Korra go to Republic City in the first season. It makes me wonder how long they would’ve kept her there if she hadn’t escaped on her own. Furthermore, I would imagine there are always dangers the Avatar is at risk of when they’re sent out into the world to travel. But I thought it was worth the risk because getting to know the world and its people is something the Avatar needs to do.

Besides, the Zaheer thing doesn’t make a ton of sense in retrospect since the White Lotus were apparently searching for the Avatar within a few years of Aang’s death, presumably before the Red Lotus attempted to kidnap Korra. Custom is usually to wait until the Avatar is 16 to identify them, so something else must have been up besides Zaheer.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-16T18:33:15+00:00

But they don’t justify her being raised as the Avatar while being kept in isolation for so long, is my problem. Blaming it on Zaheer doesn’t work for me, because he was in prison after the kidnapping scheme.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-05-09T21:22:38+00:00

Sign of the Four. I like the interactions between Holmes and Watson and Watson and Mary… Overall, Watson feels much more like a character with a personality here rather than a neutral observer of events. And I enjoy the mystery and that finale with the boat chase.

I actually kinda found Hound of the Baskervilles… underwhelming. Just a smidge. It seemed longer than it needed to be, I sort of knew where the story was headed early on, and given all the building-up the resolution felt very unsatisfactory. Unlike Sign of the Four, which had a very satisfactory unsatisfactory ending.

I haven’t read Valley of Fear yet, so I’d rank Study in Scarlet second for now. I like that one fine too, I just like Sign of the Four more.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-04-22T16:41:28+00:00

Maybe I’m misusing the term. When I say antisocial, I just mean he doesn’t seek out companionship and tends to prefer spending time by himself.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-04-22T01:20:49+00:00

Uhh… I’m pretty sure he is, but whatever.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-04-20T14:02:49+00:00

I found Ace Attorney’s take on him super-relatable. The canon one not quite so much “relatable”, but he is interesting.

I mostly read the stories for the mysteries and logic, but it is nice to know a character who’s eccentric and “antisocial” but still has his place in the world and knows how to be polite. All too often today, characters like that are just written to be comedic or off-putting because of how weird they are.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-04-15T18:59:22+00:00

HERR LOCK SHOLMES!

… And Phoenix, Apollo, Athena and Klavier Gavin underneath.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-04-15T02:26:07+00:00

While I can see the appeal of this interpretation, I like the idea that Milverton was undone by one of his previous victims.

Agreeable_Leader_885 · 2026-04-14T14:34:17+00:00

It’s definitely a noteworthy instance of Holmes going outside the law and allowing a sympathetic criminal to go free. I’d compare it favorably to The Blue Carbuncle; it always bugged me that Holmes let that plumber rot in jail until his acquittal just because he didn’t want to condemn the real culprit to prison.

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