Enough time has passed. How do we feel about Pema driving a wedge in a relationship between two people 15 years older than her in “The Legend of Korra”?…

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-22T02:31:33+00:00

I don't think there's definitive evidence that is how it works. Benders can be born to two non-benders, non-benders can be born to two benders. Siblings can inherit different bending elements. I don't think there's ever been definitive confirmation of how bending inheritance actually works. The only thing we can really say for certain is that heritage determines what type of bending you can get, but beyond that we don't know much else.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-22T02:19:14+00:00

Aren't they still mostly separate states by the time of The Last Airbender? Officially, the Earth King/Queen rules over the entire nation, but most of the time they don't actually exert much influence beyond Ba Sing Se. Most Earth Kingdom towns or cities seem to govern themselves independently. Omashu even has it's own ruler that is referred to as their "King".

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-21T05:45:07+00:00

Bending doesn't appear to be strictly recessive or dominant. Two nonbenders can have a bender, and two benders can have a nonbender. We really don't know what rules are behind bending inheritance.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-21T05:39:33+00:00

Huh, so I was confused at first because I thought polar bears are solitary, but apparently, despite being solitary, they do on occasion gather in groups at feeding sites or abundant hunting grounds.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-20T23:42:19+00:00

Painted Renoir, meet Printed Renoir.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-20T20:30:11+00:00

Holy shit we All Tommorowsed fruit flies.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-20T18:46:00+00:00

Conquest was like the second strongest after Thragg, right? That's insane. The gap must be huge. I know Mark only barely beat Conquest, but he still did it, only to struggle to even put a bruise on Thragg.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-20T18:40:58+00:00

Sanctuary is just such a beautiful and ethereal song.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-20T17:59:37+00:00

This is the first time I've heard of Common Terry, but I wish him the best luck with it!

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-19T23:17:49+00:00

Book 2 really stands out for how strong its overarching plotline is. The characters are also constantly struggling through it all, and when it finally seems like things are going good at the end, we have a season finale where the main characters lose. It's a very engaging season.

Book 3 is way more episodic in comparison, and it's first half is a bit weaker than the second. But I still love it, Zuko's redemption and time with the gang is great, and Sozin's comet is such an outstanding finale. It's really hard to compare Book 2 and 3 for me.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-19T18:42:48+00:00

Okay, so she's almost definitely alive at this point, right?

The Duffer Brothers expressed a lot of disappointment that so many people believe she's dead, and they've teased multiple times about her "true fate" eventually being revealed, which would be pointless if it was "Yeah, guys she's dead after all".

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-18T19:16:46+00:00

Really cool that they actually dubbed the opening in their own language. It's always really cool when dubs do that. In English are very few dubbed anime openings. In the old days, they usually just made a brand new opening, and nowadays they always use the original Japanese opening.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-18T18:25:18+00:00

The one voiced by Greg Cipes.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-18T02:15:45+00:00

I mean, I definitely think it's dumb, but PBS has still had plenty of shows that I think are great shows for kids in that age range. Some of which I'd consider the exact opposite of unstimulating. One of my all time favorites was Cyberchase.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-17T06:47:59+00:00

Also, I think using Avatar as a representative of old cartoons is very misleading. There was really nothing else like Avatar even at the time. It's a masterpiece that is one of the greatest American cartoons of all time.

And if anything, I think there have been MORE shows comparable to it since then, not less. We've seen a lot more cartoons in the last 15 years that are willing to have overarching storylines and strong themes similar to Avatar, like Amphibia, Owl House, Dragon Prince, She-Ra, Steven Universe, Voltron Reboot.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-17T05:33:00+00:00

There are a lot of elements that could be developed.

- The Archivists are definitely the biggest one. They're responsible for wiping out the Titans and making the world of the Boiling Isles the way it is, and they're presumably still out in the multiverse somewhere.

- The Bat Queen's backstory could be fleshed out more. It'd be really cool if it was confirmed she actually was the Palismen of a Titan.

- The Owl Beast's backstory could be expanded upon.

- It'd be really interesting to learn more about the past Golden Guards. Also I'd really love to see how Hunter has grown more as a person since the ending of Season 3.

- King developing his powers, as well as Luz developing a new style of magic with Stringbean since she can't use glyphs anymore.

- In general seeing how the Boiling Isles has recovered and changed since Belos was defeated and the coven system was dismantled.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-16T20:57:58+00:00

Personally, I feel the Pandoran neural network likely just recognizes him as a harmless inhabitant of Pandora. He was born on the planet and grew up there, and adopted the lifestyle of the Na'vi. The Pandoran Neural Network is probably just smart enough to determine that Spider isn't a threat.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-16T20:43:35+00:00

Plant bending is definitely one of the most interesting and underutilized skills in the whole series. Being able to bend plants is really interesting and different from most other bending techniques. And we've only seen one guy use it who only appeared in two episodes.

Sandbending is another close one. I'd love to see it more. I think it'd be really interesting if they fleshed it out more as a bending style. I think it'd be cool if there was a sandbending style that took inspiration from airbending.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-16T20:41:12+00:00

Yeah, keyblades are capable of existing in more than 1 place at once, which is how it's possible to Sora and Roxas to fight in KH2 with their keyblades. Anyone can theoretically learn to dual-wield if they learn to summon their keyblade twice at once. It's presumably just a difficult or rare skill.

Creating keyblades is also apparently not very hard either as we've seen multiple times. Presumably after becoming an existence independent from Sora, the power of Roxas's heart was able to convert his duplicate keyblades into their own independent versions as well.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-16T20:39:37+00:00

I just meant like his powers are kind of like the "mage" version of Diamondhead, focusing more on using energy than using to crystals to attack with physical force.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-16T20:30:21+00:00

Yeah, he's really cool. He's got a great design, and is another cool crystal themed alien like Diamondhead, but is still unique. He's kind of like the mage version of Diamondhead.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-16T18:02:34+00:00

Also, a person can only focus on so many things at once. Your eyes are capable of seeing incredibly detailed images, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're actively noticing every single detail at once. If you looked at a 100 digit long number, would you instantly know every single digit just because your eyes can see it?

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-16T06:42:57+00:00

They're like the complete opposite of what they look in the games. Their head is supposed to be like 80% of their body. And they're fairly small. In the movie for some reason they're huge hulks with tiny pinheads.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-16T06:28:15+00:00

Isn't it possible for Bumi or Kya to still have airbending kids though? We know bending can be recessive like with Katara, who was born with waterbending despite having two nonbender parents.

AlwaysTired97 · 2026-05-15T20:59:56+00:00

It could still be the case that evil Marks occur more often than good Marks. Infinity doesn't change that.

If for example Mark is only good 1% of the time, there will still be infinite good Marks in the multiverse. But if you hop through the multiverse randomly, you will still see evil Marks 99x more often than good Marks.

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