AWESOME FIGHT WAS AWESOME. I was fairly "meh" about the tournament because tournament fighting anime (well, sports competition in general) just isn't something that turns my crank, and I was all, "Oh, like we don't know how this is going to end" ... but then THEY LOST, and then we had the AWESOME AWESOME FIGHT, and all was well. :D

... I am very worried that Asami was one of the people with a mask pulled over her face, though, because she and her father were at the match, and then they completely vanished during the fight.

LIN BEI FOOOOOOONG! Fandom totally called it that she and Tenzin were an item. And, given my severe discomfort with Pema's advice last episode, I was really happy to get Tenzin's side of it and find out that it was just Pema's take on events, after all.

Tarluk and Amon are TOTALLY in cahoots. Actually, at this point they are signposting so blatantly "TARLUK IS A TRAITOR" that I'm starting to hope he actually isn't a traitor just because it's so obvious. (I've halfway decided that Tarluk is Amon, but if so, I can't imagine what his plan is. This whole thing was DEFINITELY a calculated move to discredit Lin Bei Fong, though.)

ETA: Oh, I forgot! CABBAGE CORP! That made me grin so hard. You go, technology-firm-founding cabbage merchant! :D