Who is Amon, really?
If you have been watching the last three weeks of The Legend of Korra you know that Amon is the protagonist for the latest reincarnation of the Avatar. Amon is the leader of the Equalists, a group of chi blockers bent on destroying the structure of bending. How are they going to do that? Amon can take away someone’s bending as he showed at an Equalists rally where Bolin almost got his Earthbending taken away and he plans on destroying bending one by one as his Equalists line them up before him. But as Tenzin said, “Only the Avatar has ever possessed that ability!” Not like it needed to be said, we already knew that. And if you didn’t all I have to say to you is: really? You honestly believe that Avatar Aang was walking around just teaching people how to take bending away? It’s the same as Katara probably never teaching Korra how to Bloodbend because it’s not okay for someone to have that much power over another! (Sorry Brittany.) But Amon proved that he can do it…or did he?
You see I’m a little skeptical on the whole thing. Amon said that the spirits came to him to teach him this move so that way he could bring balance back to the world, because apparently the Avatar wasn’t doing a good enough job. Whether he was talking about Korra or Avatars in general I have no idea. But if he was talking about Korra, in her defense, she’s only seventeen and has been locked up for a majority of her life. Either way that’s obviously false because if you know anything about Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra then you know that the spirits have always chosen the Avatar to bring balance back to the world and that the Avatar shows up when balance needs to be replaced. Not to mention the spirits are all about nature and the elements, shoot, the moon spirit is a personal friend of the Avatar and I don’t see Yue just voting to suddenly get rid of the Avatar because if that was their intention then Korra would have never have been born and the Avatar would have ceased to exists. The only spirit I see against the Avatar would be Ko, the Face Stealer, only because the previous Waterbending Avatar tried to kill him.
I heard arguments that Amon could be Bumi, Aang’s and Katara’s second born and first son. Bumi is rumored to be the only non-bender of the family and if so that would make sense. Kia would get all the attention from their mother because she was the Waterbender and Tenzin from Aang because he was the next Airbender. Bumi would have been left in the dust and harshly because of the fact that he was the first son and fathers are always proud of their sons especially the first born; so the attention would have brutally switch from Bumi to Tenzin the moment he started Airbending if the rumors are true. Besides getting the name of his father’s best friend from his original childhood, Bumi, as harsh as it is to say, is nothing. If so in an effort to try and reconcile with his first son he could have made the mistake of teaching him Engerybending and now, with major daddy issues, he is setting out to destroy everything his father stood for. So that’s the possibility.
What I did like about last week’s episode is the creators of The Legend of Korra show they still know how to tell a good story. As it is The Legend of Korra has a darker theme because of the fact Korra is seventeen not twelve like Aang was. The series has, and has been made to have, a darker feel much like Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight; and the scene where Amon gangs up on Korra is a perfect example of that. Actually, Korra trying to hide her fear the whole entire episode was the perfect example. The writers depict a female who has had the weight of the world on her shoulders since she was a little girl. It’s not like the other Avatar’s who were told the truth on their sixteenth birthday. It seems like Aang wanted the White Lotus to find the Avatar early on and train them to get them ready. If anything, Aang showed they didn’t have to wait. Not to mention if you saw the first episode Korra was able to do three of the four elements when she was a girl, probably at the age of five. For the first time in her life, Korra is up against a challenge that she can’t compete against, actually two challenges; learning Airbending and Amon and the Equalists. But she’s not alone, everyone fears something, and no one knows that better than her past life who was afraid of losing his identity to protect the world.
The episode ends with Korra crying in Tenzin’s arms and Tenzin telling her that admitting her fear was the first and hardest step to getting over it, but before that we get a glimpse of Sokka, Toph, and Aang as adults…and looking good I must say. Toph looked basically the same but the boys, now men, looked awesome. And like one friend of mine said, “Aang looked so good with a goatee!” I agree to that. But as Tenzin runs up to Korra she thinks she’s seeing Aang run to her which means Avatar Aang isn’t going to let Korra go through this alone. He has something to tell her and he’s slowly starting to reach out to her. As far as we know, this is the first time ever that Aang has ever tried to talk to the young Avatar.
“Ever since you were a little girl you exceled at the physical side of bending, but completely ignored the spiritual side. The Avatar must master both.”
“I haven’t ignored, it just doesn’t come as easy to me.”
Already showing that spiritually Korra is…lacking, so Aang could now be forcing his way through, or the events taking place in Republic City are opening up her spiritual side or both.
And why shouldn’t Aang help her, Roku and Kioshi were very helpful to him and when the current Avatar’s journey on this world ends his/her job isn’t over, he or she is there to help the next Avatar bring balance back to the world and when needed lend their strength and training through the Avatar State. So no matter what Amon says, this isn’t the end. And in my opinion, seeing as when Amon took their bending away it wasn’t the big light show that we saw when Aang took down Phoenix King Ozai, it seems like he doesn’t know what he’s doing, so I’m not so sure. But all will be revealed as this season continues. So keep watching and root for Korra as she faces and entirely new threat that no Avatar has faced before. New episode tomorrow on Nick at 11:00 pacific time! According to Michael III, this isn’t the end!
—Michael III
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