Korra Discussion Post: Skeletons in the Closet & Endgame

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The two-part season finale of Korra airs today! Spoilery discussion below.

Although we've reached the end of the season, do be mindful that not everyone will be able to catch up at the same time and continue to mark for spoilers when posting to the comm. Thank you! <3

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I was bona fide terrified when Amon brought out Tenzin & the kids. The horror of the genocide of the Air Nomads was brought back, and it seemed to really illustrate Amon's callousness, violence and megalomania. Because there he was, about to commit genocide again.

Yakone had his children after he lost his bending, and they inherited it from him. Lin and Korra had their bending restored as if Amon's technique blocked bending rather than removed it, although that's debatable. Amon removing all airbending activity from the world would probably have had a serious spiritual effect, but if he didn't murder Tenzin and the children then they could still have future airbending children.

This would mean that Korra now has the power to let anyone in the world become a bender, even be able to master all the elements.

That would be fantastic to see, although perhaps it would be considered "imbalance" to give bending to former non-benders. Logistically it would be impossible for Korra to give everyone bending. I think a story block in the way of that might be Asami: it's important to balance out the team with a non-bender, like Sokka in the previous series, and yet if Korra started giving out bending there's no reason why she wouldn't start with her friend.

Bending is an advantage, but Sato technology has shown that there are many areas you don't need bending to be successful. Perhaps it's through technology and increased knowledge that non-benders have gained enough power to *start* protesting like this in the first place. Bending gives characters a physical advantage in a fight, but as a society becomes more technology-based it may be more important to know how to design a tank than how to metalbend the wires in a factory worker's job, to understand human anatomy and how to create medicines rather than how to spread magic water over a wound, how to handle large-scale administration for a whole city rather than to be a waterbending sewer worker cleaning up one grate.

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