Of the arc villains, I really only found Kuvira to be compelling. I got while I was watching the show that the writers were trying to make the villains nuanced and interesting. Toph even spelled it out for us when she said that they all had good ideas, they were just out of balance. But I have to say I don't really buy that. I think the villains were plenty villainous, and hiding behind a mask of reasonableness (is that a word?).

Amon is a cult leader. Until they were shown in the same room together, I was convinced that Amon was Councilman Tarrlok in a mask. I think I would have liked it better if he had been: play to the non-benders' very real feelings of disenfranchisement to create unrest, then capitalize on that unrest to seize progressively more power. More subtle than Ozai, but unambiguously villainous.

Unalaq was a second son of the king who managed to secure the throne, then decided that wasn't enough for him. But his daughter was Aubrey Plaza, so I can't entirely hate him.

Zaheer is that kind of person who thinks that the only true freedom is anarchy because he's always been strong enough to take what he wants. For all of his lofty ideals, he's just a bully who resents law and order for getting in his way.

Kuvira is capable of great evil because she truly believes that all of her actions are for the greater good.

As to the heroes... I'm all kinds of smitten with Lin. I like the teenage characters, but it wasn't until Book 4 that they really came into their own.

So I watched all of Korra in about 4 days since you guys made it sound so interesting. NGL, when I heard about Korrasami being a thing I was like "I need to."

While I started for the lesbian-ship, I stayed because HOLY IT WAS SO GOOD WHAT DO I EVEN.

Book 2 with Won as the first avatar was like. So amazing. It really brought new meaning to what it is to be the Avatar. I really like how they made all the leaders signify an extreme ideal, but Shattered put it better above, so I'll leave that alone.

And uhm, excuse me, I'm pretty sure Bolin and Toph carried it all to victory. I'm a total sucker for hilarious one-liners and they delivered in spades.

I just loved everything. Except Korra. She turned out OK. But it took like 3.5 books.

I heard a theory that Kuvira is Azula reincarnated, given similar circumstances and then the chance to make it turn out better for her.

If that's not cool, I don't know what is.

Source: http://glamourweaver.tumblr.com/post/11 … the-avatar

I wonder about reincarnation in the Avatar universe beyond the Avatar - since effectively we assume that anyone who doesn’t transcend and become pure spirit (like Yue and Iroh did) reincarnates, but the Avatar is special because there’s the ability to know who’s the reincarnation (since that person is the Avatar), and there was the access to past lives the continuity of Raava provided (and will provide again for Korra’s future reincarnations).  But everyone else reincarnates too.

It was a truth in the original series bible that never came up on screen, that Momo was the reincarnation of Monk Gyatso.  I assume he spent the 100 years reincarnating into various animals at the Southern Temple to wait for Aang.  My headcanon is that that soul, deeply tied to the element of Air, is now Jinora in Korra’s time.

A thought occurred to me on Azula, if she isn’t still alive somewhere in Korra’s time.  What if what her soul needed above all else was a second chance?  Not peace, not punishment, but a second chance to not go down the path she went down in her life as Azula.  And so she was reincarnated into someone dotted on by a father who would craft her into his weapon, just like before, but when her father’s darkness revealed itself, this time she could choose “No” and not follow him into the infliction of suffering on others - and that’s just what Asami did.

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Source: http://glamourweaver.tumblr.com/post/11 … the-avatar

I wonder about reincarnation in the Avatar universe beyond the Avatar - since effectively we assume that anyone who doesn’t transcend and become pure spirit (like Yue and Iroh did) reincarnates, but the Avatar is special because there’s the ability to know who’s the reincarnation (since that person is the Avatar), and there was the access to past lives the continuity of Raava provided (and will provide again for Korra’s future reincarnations).  But everyone else reincarnates too.

It was a truth in the original series bible that never came up on screen, that Momo was the reincarnation of Monk Gyatso.  I assume he spent the 100 years reincarnating into various animals at the Southern Temple to wait for Aang.  My headcanon is that that soul, deeply tied to the element of Air, is now Jinora in Korra’s time.

A thought occurred to me on Azula, if she isn’t still alive somewhere in Korra’s time.  What if what her soul needed above all else was a second chance?  Not peace, not punishment, but a second chance to not go down the path she went down in her life as Azula.  And so she was reincarnated into someone dotted on by a father who would craft her into his weapon, just like before, but when her father’s darkness revealed itself, this time she could choose “No” and not follow him into the infliction of suffering on others - and that’s just what Asami did.

This made me so happy