![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Religious’ (if it can be called that) fanaticism is hardly a new narrative, and it fits right into the ‘has a point, but going about it completely wrong’ paradigm that this show favours. But because I am cynical and still a bit bummed by how the Amon/Equalists thing played out last season, I spent the entire episode thinking, “Yeah, he’s right, but? There has to be a ‘but,’ that somehow makes him the bad guy even though he has a point.” So when, in the end, the Northern Tribe’s army started marching off their boats, I wasn’t surprised. ![]() The sheer number of violent attacks in this episode are proof of that. The conflict itself is interesting: much as the Equalists had a point, so does Korra’s uncle: it’s quite demonstrably factual that the Southern Tribe’s rejection of spirituality has upset the spirits. Maybe they will have learned from last season’s mistakes and do better this time. The same thing feels true about the arc between Korra’s father and uncle, although admittedly I am jumping the gun by already being apprehensive about how the writers will handle this conflict. ![]()
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