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I really love Asami, but I... also really love Korra? I mean, what I love about having both of them in the show is that I think their contrasts work to display how there are different ways to be feminine And They Are All Okay. You can be brash and/or athletic and/or wear lipstick and/or be cutesy sometimes and those are all okay! And I love how Korra's not traditionally feminine in a lot ways, but is also quite openly emotional a lot of the time, while Asami tends to be more reserved, because while being 'emotional' tends to be the more stereotypical 'feminine' thing, it's also the case that if you're a woman and emotional, you're emotional and irrational and make a fuss, but if you're reserved or stoic and a woman, you're an Ice Queen. Because women can never win!!! Yay.

(I also feel like it's a lot easier to not earn fandom's ire when you're not on screen, so. We'll see!)

But I also generally liked this episode, and I like what you've said about Aang and Aang's own experience in terms of having a 'family.' To be honest, Aang being a perfect father would seem more like character assassination to me.

Whatever. Aside from the Bolin and Mako stuff (no, not breaking up with someone because you feel genuinely threatened by them is not funny, and though I've... come up with reasons for why Mako does the things he does, I'm still not finding his saying words about things particularly enjoyable to watch), I mean, I'm very interested to see how all of this goes. And I while I'm sort of ehn on More Northern Water Tribe Men on a meta standpoint, I don't really see it as Korra falling for the same trick twice, as I do think Tarrlok and Unalaq worked very different angles. On the contrary, I thought her demand that the detainees be tried pretty clearly demonstrated that she had in fact learned from her experiences during the Equalist Revolution. It's just that yeah, Korra's bad at recognizing manipulative and deceptive behavior, and sometimes when you're bad at something, you're still going to be bad at it even if that flaw has tripped you up before. Because that's... having a flaw.