ALL THOSE PEOPLE. And poor Korra, and all her scared sad faces. (And the one 'dying of Ikki-induced embarrassment' rageface--Ikki, you and Meelo are an adorable force for evil and I love you. Then Korra and Asami do the pretending-that-never-happened thing in the hope that it just never comes up again and I smirk into my steepled hands in anticipation for the episode where they work out that old issue and ~*bond*~ some more. By telling each other how awesome they are and touching each other... with their faces. >:D)
On a more serious note, I'm pretty sure having a huge crowd of people look at Korra with hope and terror in her eyes as she tries to save them--and then having them watch her fail--is among her worst nightmares. She grew up wonderfully confident in herself as the Avatar, but that resolve has been getting torn apart since the day she showed up in Republic City. The culmination of that in the near-brawl with Tarrlok in front of the trapped crowd must've nearly killed her inside.
Where was her coat, though? Where were everyone's coats, out and about on that cold night? Korra knows that weather can kill you if you're not prepared, and I would have loved to see the return of Korra's Southern Water Tribe parka as a visual reminder of why the deliberate power outage was so horrible and how keenly Korra feels what depriving people of heat can do to them. I also just liked getting a good look at everyone's different clothes. What do Mako and Bolin's coats look like, I wonder? I would have liked seeing some of Asami's winter styles. She had all those trunks, after all! (Lazy visual joke, IMHO. I have decided some of those trunks contain mechanic's tools and whatever suspicious paperwork Asami didn't trust the police to handle or decode properly.)
Damn, Tarrlok is creepy. He even has Kingpin's office! I was kind of hoping Korra would do something with that giant water feature besides cut it off, as a kind of fuck-you mirror to that we're-not-so-different speech. However, her approach was tactically sound, even if it ultimately failed.
"You're our Avatar, too."
On a more serious note, I'm pretty sure having a huge crowd of people look at Korra with hope and terror in her eyes as she tries to save them--and then having them watch her fail--is among her worst nightmares. She grew up wonderfully confident in herself as the Avatar, but that resolve has been getting torn apart since the day she showed up in Republic City. The culmination of that in the near-brawl with Tarrlok in front of the trapped crowd must've nearly killed her inside.
Where was her coat, though? Where were everyone's coats, out and about on that cold night? Korra knows that weather can kill you if you're not prepared, and I would have loved to see the return of Korra's Southern Water Tribe parka as a visual reminder of why the deliberate power outage was so horrible and how keenly Korra feels what depriving people of heat can do to them. I also just liked getting a good look at everyone's different clothes. What do Mako and Bolin's coats look like, I wonder? I would have liked seeing some of Asami's winter styles. She had all those trunks, after all! (Lazy visual joke, IMHO. I have decided some of those trunks contain mechanic's tools and whatever suspicious paperwork Asami didn't trust the police to handle or decode properly.)
Damn, Tarrlok is creepy. He even has Kingpin's office! I was kind of hoping Korra would do something with that giant water feature besides cut it off, as a kind of fuck-you mirror to that we're-not-so-different speech. However, her approach was tactically sound, even if it ultimately failed.