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00:02:48Ok. How's everbody doing?
00:02:53Okay, how's everybody doing?
00:03:23Okay, how's everybody doing?
00:03:50Okay, how's everybody doing?
00:04:17Wow.
00:04:21It's 31 celcius here
00:04:24The humidity makes it worse
00:04:26Oh, that sucks
00:04:312 hours from my bedtime Well, oh
00:04:35Hmm.
00:05:05What have I been doing?
00:05:33I've been bidding Lilly.
00:05:34All right
00:05:44It's getting everything set up
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00:06:18Then Republic has the main setting of religion of Korra, it's where our heroes live
00:06:22It's the main central location of the conflict of season one and four
00:06:26Of season one and four and half of half of two
00:06:30Of two
00:06:32And it's the big new thing Korra has to show off
00:06:36You see at the end of the war the Harmony restoration movement was starting to return the land of the fire nation stole from the
00:06:41Earth Kingdom back to the Earth Kingdom
00:06:43It was abandoned a year later as fighting started breaking out in the colonies were instead
00:06:51Oh, actually, yeah
00:07:00You
00:07:30You
00:07:42Couldn't land the fire nation back to the Earth Kingdom, but was abandoned
00:07:46But was abandoned
00:07:59But was a bear but was abandoned and the and the colonies were kept
00:08:04Under the basis under the under the reasoning well like we already unpacked so
00:08:16You
00:08:26Was formed a nation that is neither united a republic or of the nation's a
00:08:31Nation that is neither that is neither united neither united a republic a republic or
00:08:40Or involves the nation's
00:08:43Balls the nation's so you're right you're right up. So it's right up there
00:09:10Let's see
00:09:12You
00:09:32Which is neither united a republic or involves the nation so good job on that Aang
00:09:43But
00:09:45The United but the United Republic is essentially the injection of avid of America into the world of avatar
00:09:51Yeah, I'm a big hero six
00:09:52The setting is this weird combination of San Francisco and Tokyo called San Francisco
00:09:56Tokyo or hell how in the original series the fire nation is Imperial China with the architecture of Kyoto
00:10:03Well Republic City is like someone took Hong Kong and made a bottom for New York
00:10:06So hard it was calling the Statue of Liberty mommy. Sorry that metaphor got away from me
00:10:13I
00:10:15Can think of better one for that?
00:10:18Kyoto well Republic City is like someone took
00:10:22New York and sprinkled a little and sprinkled a little bit
00:10:33Hong Kong and Shanghai onto it Shanghai onto it, you know, just just a bit just a bit just a touch just a touch
00:10:43Just a bit just a touch
00:10:51Just a touch a pinch just a touch a pinch
00:11:00Touch a pinch a spritz a sprinkle
00:11:05There we go, oh wait, no, I already have sprinkle a spritz
00:11:12I
00:11:19Public City the capital and only real location in the Republic we see has small out fuck. Hang on
00:11:25You
00:11:40Imperial China, but with the architecture of Kyoto well
00:11:55You
00:12:12China with the architecture of Kyoto
00:12:26The world of Avatar
00:12:30Republic City the capital and relocation in Republic
00:12:33We see you have small elements of cities like Shanghai and Hong Kong
00:12:35But it is mostly based on New York the layout resembles New York
00:12:39there's references to multiple New York landmarks and locations and the inspirations from avatars Chinese roots is as token and vestigial as
00:12:45Well Chinatown actually
00:12:48Yeah, it's just new yeah
00:12:50It's just New York and that's not surprising
00:12:52Smarter people than me have pointed out the bright did about as much research on the cultures
00:12:55They were lifting from as the average weeb which is to say they did ten minutes of reading and made the rest up
00:13:05Furthermore the United Republic is a liberal capitalist democracy
00:13:09Meaning it most resembles the environment that a creator that the creators live in this is important because unlike its previous shows
00:13:15Show which had the rather basic theme of war bad imperialism bad
00:13:19Cora is mostly a political show every see every season except for season three
00:13:23There's a new political philosophy to tear apart and they're almost always compared in some way to the United Republic's democratic capitalist system
00:13:31Aman is a setup of social of socialist uprisings against capitalist governments released about six years before people started to wake up to the fact
00:13:37That capitalism is a self-consuming machine that would get it's actually way now released
00:13:42During the same decade most people started to wake up to the fact that capitalism is a self-consuming machine that would sooner that would kill it's
00:13:50Machine that would kill itself if unrestrained so amongst entire existence is one long string of Cold War propaganda directed squarely at the skulls of Occupy Wall Street
00:13:58Unalak was a spirit loving traditionalist is a spirit loving traditionalist who gets into a gets into a
00:14:05With his world with his brother over the direction of the water tribe of the water tribes
00:14:10water tribes
00:14:12Until his neck snaps and he becomes a satanist in the last five seconds because his traditionalism was getting in the way of the southern
00:14:17Water tribe becoming a mercantile fever dream
00:14:20So here is an answer to the question. What is the meaning of capitalism and what does it have to do with capitalism?
00:14:25I'm going to give you the answer to that question. I'm going to give you the answer to that question
00:14:29I'm going to give you the answer to that question
00:14:31Mercantile fever dream
00:14:33Zaheer is an anarchist. So he wants his mom Zaheer is an anarchist
00:14:36So he wants his mom to get out of Israel wants to abolish all government so that mankind can get back to nature and live
00:14:41With spirits and true freedom and it later turned out that Unalak was a part of his anarchist band
00:14:45fucking what and
00:14:46Kuvira wants to take back the stolen land from the United Republic and since the United Republic is the moral center of the entire series
00:14:51That basically makes her metal-bending Hitler
00:14:54This would be an interesting to explore
00:14:56This would be interesting to explore from the perspective of a nation whose sole concern is continuing its own existence
00:15:02but the actual government its own existence, especially
00:15:07Especially a nation especially a nation which
00:15:10Especially a nation which is technically outside
00:15:14outside the avatars jurisdiction
00:15:27But
00:15:29The actual government and guiding philosophy of the United Republic goes rather unexplored. We know it's a democracy
00:15:34We know we know it's a democracy, but we don't know the extent
00:15:39But we don't know the but we don't know the extent
00:15:45To which it's a democracy
00:15:48It
00:15:55Starts with councillors with
00:15:58councillors from the other nation's, from the other nations effectively, effectively effectively a puppet State
00:16:05Puppet effectively a puppet state for everyone else
00:16:08Everyone else but then they get their own put the but then they get their own president own president with their own president with his own
00:16:15is it with his own administration
00:16:17administration but we don't know we
00:16:21don't know who beyond the president
00:16:23president gets to be elected elected we
00:16:27know it has free enterprise but that's
00:16:29about it and season one has a
00:16:32large companies like future industries
00:16:45exist in future industries basically
00:16:55makes up makes up the primary and makes
00:16:58up the planet makes up the primary
00:16:59antagonist of season antagonist of the
00:17:01first season of the first season but
00:17:05after this point after that but after
00:17:06this point this point the the way in
00:17:09which in which a private in which a
00:17:13private industry was effectively was
00:17:15effectively able able to fund fund and
00:17:19equip its and equip its own coup coup
00:17:22attempt no attempt isn't really explored
00:17:31monarchies of the earth kingdom of the
00:17:35fire nation this because like this
00:17:37because a problem because the liberal
00:17:38capitalist democracy of the United
00:17:39Republic never has to justify its
00:17:41existence like the rest of them do in
00:17:43fact in the very last season Prince Wu
00:17:44decides to emulate the United Republic
00:17:46in the Earth Kingdom in a rather
00:17:47offhanded remark in a season that
00:17:49probably should have been mostly about
00:17:50that but we're getting ahead of
00:17:51ourselves this will be important because
00:17:54the United Republic is core status quo
00:17:56it's the first thing we see is presented
00:17:58as this forward-thinking utopia because
00:18:00it has let me see here cars and
00:18:02skyscrapers and rich people cars and
00:18:05skyscrapers and rich people and concrete
00:18:07and rich people and there's a subtle
00:18:10undercurrent that the rest of the world
00:18:11should be emulating it but this isn't
00:18:13exclusively in the United Republic issue
00:18:15the show wants to be about big ideas in
00:18:17general but doesn't explore them in any
00:18:19significant degree almost every season
00:18:23about some grand scale political issue
00:18:25but it still has to spend most of its
00:18:26time being a series about elemental
00:18:28series about elemental martial arts and
00:18:30that and that can and that conflicts
00:18:33conflicts with the with the themes of
00:18:35each season of each season which are
00:18:38about thing which are about problems you
00:18:40can't just punch punch this is actually a
00:18:45well-understood concept called capitalist
00:18:47realism described by the philosopher
00:18:48Mark Fisher as the widespread belief
00:18:50that not only is capitalism the only
00:18:51viable political and economic system
00:18:53but also that it is now impossible to
00:18:55even to imagine a coherence alternative
00:18:57to it if you're paying attention you'll
00:18:59notice that fantasy and science fiction
00:19:01world tend to almost universally operate
00:19:02with capitalism as their dominant
00:19:04economic system even if they're taking
00:19:06place in fantasy world set long before
00:19:07the emergence of capitalism or in
00:19:10science fiction worlds where post
00:19:11scarcity should have rendered capitalism
00:19:13obsolete
00:19:15in fact the only subversion this idea
00:19:28that I can think of without looking
00:19:29anything up is Star Trek where the
00:19:31United Federation exists in a period
00:19:32where transporters and replicators have
00:19:34put an end to economics as we know them
00:19:36capitalism is as foreign and ancient
00:19:38sounding to most of the Federation as
00:19:39the idea of a flat planet in most other
00:19:44works capitalism and American style
00:19:45democracy is so readily accepted as the
00:19:47norm that even in works where both of
00:19:49those things fall due to their own
00:19:51inherent failings the main goal of the
00:19:52heroes is to reinstate it as it was from
00:19:55the moment it fell because the creator
00:19:57simply cannot conceive of any other way
00:19:59of doing things and that's all over
00:20:01Korra the moment they introduced a
00:20:03modern-looking city they immediately
00:20:04oriented it around the world they live
00:20:06in as an idealized default setting that
00:20:09the rest of the world is just naturally
00:20:10moving toward oftentimes other
00:20:17characters will just will remark a will
00:20:20remark on the cultures of cultures of
00:20:22nation of the other nations other
00:20:24nations as being inherently obsolete for
00:20:28obsolete for reasons that make for
00:20:31re-obsolete because of because of modern
00:20:35techno because of modern technology
00:20:36which technology which as a which is a
00:20:40notion that makes absolutely no sense
00:20:45no sense unless you believe you believe
00:20:48well we have radio we have radio time to
00:20:52swap out
00:21:04well we have radio time to swap out one
00:21:07tyrant 3,000 miles away for 3,000
00:21:09tyrants one mile away cars now time to
00:21:20swap out one tyrant 3,000 miles away for
00:21:223,000 tyrants one mile away now well it
00:21:24sounds like I'm arguing the politics of
00:21:26all this I'm actually argument arguing
00:21:27the imagination the politics at play in
00:21:29capitalist realism kneecap the attempt
00:21:31attempts to discuss political issues in
00:21:33Korra by positioning every philosophy as
00:21:35inherently inferior to the United
00:21:36Republic without question but further
00:21:39than that it's just boring and
00:21:40uninteresting lawless backwards towns
00:21:45where all crime goes and thievery is
00:21:47everywhere ain't that just capitalism
00:21:48without billionaires explicitly holding
00:21:50power and control over the masses no
00:21:52that's just capitalism as it exists
00:21:57tech bros and libertarians have been
00:21:59trying to make those cities for years
00:22:04you
00:22:09part of the appeal of avatars its
00:22:11defiance of the standard fantasy setting
00:22:13it's over the generic hodgepodge of
00:22:14Western Europe that makes up most most
00:22:16fantasy avatar was set in was a set in a
00:22:18generic hodgepodge of Canada Korea
00:22:20Tibet and I'm sorry China Korea Tibet
00:22:23and Canada apparently yeah the world
00:22:26building was made with an atlas strewn
00:22:27across the creators lap and a Wikipedia
00:22:29page open in another and many people
00:22:30have rightfully accused this of
00:22:31Orientalism which is a subject I'm not
00:22:33knowledgeable enough to cover so I'm
00:22:35sure you I'm sure you'll forgive me if I
00:22:38don't but when facing claims that you're
00:22:40borrowing the surface level elements of
00:22:41a culture and exotifying the rest like a
00:22:43wee bit of tea shop
00:23:01you
00:23:17like a wee bit the Nintendo store I'm
00:23:20pretty sure the solution was not was not
00:23:21to burrow yourself in radio punk
00:23:23Manhattan and extol the virtues of
00:23:25private industry all of this just makes
00:23:28the United Republic very dull avatar
00:23:30pretty much never used the same design
00:23:32for any city the fire nation capital
00:23:34bossing say Oh Moshu fire fountain city
00:23:36wolf Cove Agni Kella they all look very
00:23:39interesting very and they all look very
00:23:41interesting and were designed with their
00:23:45cultures in mind mind given that the
00:23:49Republic in the Republic was governed by
00:23:52the four nations Republic City should
00:23:54look like it comes from all four nations
00:23:55you got this really interesting look to
00:23:57it like public transit that resembles
00:23:59the stone monorails of bossing say
00:24:01maybe maybe in the process like maybe in
00:24:04the process of being upgraded to metal
00:24:08metal buildings with all four with all
00:24:11four architectural styles arranged in a
00:24:13haphazardly colorful spray Oh Moshu's
00:24:16unique approach to shipping and delivery
00:24:18most of the waterbenders living by the
00:24:19coastline and now maybe they built
00:24:21sections on the water using ice as
00:24:23platforms
00:24:30aren't there any with people from Alaska
00:24:32and Greenland it's it what here's the
00:24:34thing it's funnier to go and Canada
00:24:36apparently
00:24:43arranged a half has Oh Moshu's unique
00:24:45but hell maybe they built sections on
00:24:47the water using ices platforms the whole
00:24:49city should look like for architects
00:24:51sat down to design it and immediately
00:24:53started arguing but instead what we get
00:24:58is a gray and brown a gray and brown
00:25:01steel and concrete desert filled with
00:25:03cars and all the and all the garbage
00:25:05that usually comes with living in New
00:25:07York with with nothing practically
00:25:09unique or interesting to set it apart
00:25:10from 200 other diesel punk settings I'll
00:25:13give them this though they were though
00:25:14they really capture the 1920s the cars
00:25:16all look and sound like Ford Model T's
00:25:18the radio announcer is to talks with
00:25:21that with that distinct old-timey radio
00:25:23and TV accent in the second season
00:25:24Bolin stars in a series of films that
00:25:26are unfathomably racist
00:25:41war prep is like doing a combination of
00:25:44war propaganda film and minstrel show
00:25:47combination of a war propaganda film and
00:25:50minstrel show you know it's it's really
00:25:52captures the this really captures New
00:25:54York in the 1920s it's terrible racist
00:25:57propaganda films I'll beat me to it is
00:26:00doing a combination of war propaganda
00:26:01film and minstrel show
00:26:24also they should look like four
00:26:30architects sat down to design it
00:26:32immediately started arguing
00:27:24minstrel show
00:28:24you
00:28:43let's see
00:28:54you
00:29:24it's just a united republic is just a
00:29:33boring place to be every other every
00:29:35other city in an avatar is unique it is
00:29:41unique you can see the you can see a lot
00:29:43of the answer a lot of the inspirations
00:29:45you can see a lot of the inspirations
00:29:46they took from real from real world
00:29:49locations locations locations but
00:29:52they're still but they're still
00:29:53interesting places people places where
00:29:55people actually actually live help
00:30:00bossing say is so it it's so interesting
00:30:05it's practically it's like stepping into
00:30:10a stepping into an entirely new a new
00:30:13nation from the rest of the earth
00:30:15kingdom
00:30:23you
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00:31:23I keep thinking about those monorails in
00:31:25particular
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00:35:34nothing it's largely cars and trolleys
00:35:37weirdly small trolleys to I'm working on
00:35:43the not on the roof of the United
00:35:45Republic section
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00:39:19and the best anyone could come up with
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00:41:15hey Ren
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00:41:32really want to get a snack or no I'm
00:41:33still here
00:41:43new lord I'm still here
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00:41:57hmm
00:41:59as model teams and that's cool if you
00:42:01like cars but it's kind of a boring
00:42:02answer
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00:43:27but I'm weirdly interested in the
00:43:29layouts of fantastic a fan of fantasy a
00:43:31fantastic pasticle city so fuck you I
00:43:34know it's a weird thing to focus on but
00:43:37I'm weirdly interested in the layouts of
00:43:39fantastical a fantastical city so fuck
00:43:41you so fuck you and going from
00:43:51you
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00:45:37hung up on the design of cities like
00:45:39hasn't been as much a waste of a time as
00:45:41I feared it was being no it is probably
00:45:43a waste of time I mean I wouldn't do
00:45:45that in an actual story but
00:45:52worse even it's a brand-new Poland and
00:45:54with the people it stole from still very
00:45:56much around to take umbrage with that I
00:45:58mean we didn't get to take umbrage with
00:45:59that
00:46:22to take umbrage with that but nobody
00:46:24does but nobody does only two people two
00:46:28people call the call the United Republic
00:46:31what it is what it is and they're both
00:46:34villains only two people call the United
00:46:39Republic what it is and they're both
00:46:40villains everyone else everyone for
00:46:43everyone out for everyone else else the
00:46:46United Republic Republic is just weirdly
00:46:51accepted as if it's as if it's always
00:46:53been there as if it's always been there
00:46:59hmm
00:47:21you
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00:48:12settlers off stolen land being cast as
00:48:15the villains for doing so
00:48:21you
00:48:35would the earth betters be indigent
00:48:37while they are literally indigenous to
00:48:38the earth kingdom so
00:48:50you
00:49:20you
00:49:40okay trying to kick settlers off stolen
00:49:43land of being cast as the villains for
00:49:45doing so
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00:53:19good work session Lily you're lovely
00:53:21thanks rag
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00:55:51hmm i missed any tea since yesterday no
00:55:55no tea
00:56:05the avatar being the check on power for
00:56:09let's put some something in the
00:56:11background
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00:56:56oh there we go
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01:00:34the spammer in the chat oh rin bandham
01:00:36thanks rin
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01:02:52i call this show politically confused
01:02:54because i don't think
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01:08:41what's your favorite flower?
01:08:43uh, the black bakara
01:08:46hmm
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01:09:06a story about how change is bad doesn't work when things end up changing anyway
01:09:16sorry
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01:09:29hmm
01:09:33it doesn't work when things end up changing
01:09:35a story about how change is bad doesn't work if things end up changing anyway
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01:14:55whenever a creative work brushes against my own experiences with trauma and especially abuse i find a
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01:16:45at the very least it makes you think about the things that caused your trauma in the first place
01:16:49and how to maybe and how to actually avoid them
01:16:52avoid them and there isn't a single
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01:26:49these are just
01:26:51to being about stopping a villain so we don't have time for any of that
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01:27:52well they could nobody's stopping them
01:27:58ft2 dick punches
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01:28:30i think have a vocal ticket might help you're satisfied yes yes i am
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01:32:27which core was feeling every ounce of pain from no it's this
01:32:40huh
01:33:03hmm
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01:33:20oh it's this and only this
01:33:26hmm
01:33:32i've heard some argue argue that this is especially traumatic traumatic but i
01:33:37strongly disagree disagree i think what she went through
01:34:07hmm
01:34:12dr by this uh by then hadn't the problem is the writers hadn't thought to give her
01:34:17a ptsd art by then season three is basically is the is the only season
01:34:22written with the written with the knowledge
01:34:30there was going to be another one another one next which is why which is
01:34:34which is why it has multiple
01:34:39long-lasting negative effects negative effects on the on the world and the
01:34:44characters characters that don't get tied up tied up in a neat little bow after
01:34:50the neat little bow afterward
01:34:54hmm
01:35:01and that's about
01:35:24hmm
01:35:29characters that doesn't get tied up in a neat little bow at the very end
01:35:37and that's about the only reason this is
01:35:43kora is dealing with any of this now
01:35:48hmm
01:35:52two seasons ago
01:36:10hmm
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01:36:54there we go
01:37:01hmm
01:37:03kora is dealing the only reason kora is dealing with any of this now as opposed
01:37:07to two seasons ago
01:37:11hmm
01:37:15okay i think there's about as much i'm gonna get at this point
01:37:21let's watch more of the show
01:37:27oh
01:37:41oh
01:37:47after three years
01:37:54during that same time
01:38:00and most recently
01:38:05it is ready to return to action
01:38:30we have an emergency
01:38:35i'll contact president raiko he'll send the united forces
01:38:42call whomever you want but they'll never make it in time
01:38:45kabir is already here and she brought her entire army
01:38:49hmm
01:38:59hmm
01:39:20we must do this right that's why we need bowling
01:39:23do you really think we can rely on him
01:39:26sue trusts him she'll listen to him
01:39:30are you sure we should be going to zaofu
01:39:33dad wanted us to bring you back to republic city
01:39:36if kabir is heading to zaofu so am i
01:39:38she needs to know that the avatar is back
01:39:41the world needs to know
01:39:43oh
01:39:46this is going to be awesome
01:39:49milo there's not going to be a fight
01:39:51kavira saved my dad she was a captain in sue's guard
01:39:54i think she can be reasoned with
01:39:56what no fight
01:39:58why did we go through all that trouble to save you
01:40:01if you're not going to beat someone up
01:40:08julie is this thing on
01:40:10we're rolling sir
01:40:12okay i'm varick of varick industries international
01:40:15and this is spirit vine experiment 3-02
01:40:19hand me the thing
01:40:25in this stasis capsule is a preserved spirit vine sample
01:40:29weighing approximately two julies
01:40:34i have postulated that these spirit vines are a form of pure energy
01:40:38that's unstable in what we call typical earth conditions
01:40:41this machine should transfer the energy from the vine
01:40:45into a battery using electrical currents
01:40:47reverse magnetic polarity
01:40:49and a little known phenomenon i call
01:40:51the berry effect
01:40:57it's working
01:40:59it's registering five barracks of power
01:41:01now seven barracks
01:41:04oh what is this
01:41:06what's going on
01:41:12julie shut it down
01:41:14there are too many barracks
01:41:34sir
01:41:39you're too heavy
01:41:41you know you could stand to lose a few julies
01:41:43i think you're just weak sir
01:41:45pull harder
01:41:54varick you saved me
01:41:57of course i saved you
01:41:59i can't clean this place up by myself
01:42:02grab a broom
01:42:04what happened were we attacked
01:42:06no we were spirit vine
01:42:08but don't worry i'm putting the kibosh on this project
01:42:11no you're not
01:42:13do you realize what we can do with this kind of power
01:42:15yes i do
01:42:17and that's why we gotta put an end to it
01:42:19what if it fell into the wrong hands
01:42:21since when does that matter to you
01:42:23i know it's not like me right
01:42:25usually i look at a project like this and all i think is
01:42:27wow i can make a ton of money off this
01:42:29but recently i've been having these strange feelings inside
01:42:33it's like i'm concerned with others
01:42:36and there's this nagging voice in my head constantly
01:42:40telling me what's right from wrong
01:42:42i believe that voice is your conscience sir
01:42:44well i'm the other voice in your head
01:42:47and i'm telling you you will continue this project
01:42:50sorry no i just really gotta stand my ground on this one
01:42:54whoa
01:42:56now there's a voice in my head telling me to drop you on the tracks
01:42:58should i listen
01:43:00no no
01:43:02head voices are liars
01:43:04why don't head voices know
01:43:06i'll work on the project
01:43:08please don't drop me
01:43:24asami you came
01:43:29hmm
01:43:31i'm here to return these
01:43:33you never opened them
01:43:35stop writing me
01:43:37i never want to see or hear from you again
01:43:41please just let me say one thing then i'll never contact you again
01:43:46i can't forgive myself for all the horrible things i've done
01:43:49and i never expect you to forgive me
01:43:52for our family apart and destroyed our good name
01:43:55i did a life of regret
01:43:58that cough that makes me smile
01:44:02just hurt myself
01:44:04i just want you to know i'm so proud of you asami
01:44:08you are the greatest thing i ever created
01:44:22am i in trouble
01:44:24no in fact i have good news
01:44:27we want you to be a part of our inner circle
01:44:30inner circle no way yes
01:44:33that is a great honor
01:44:35what does it mean exactly
01:44:37it means you've proven your worth
01:44:39we're so close to uniting the empire
01:44:41but su has some resentment towards me and vatar that might cloud her judgment
01:44:45and stop her from making a wise decision
01:44:48we believe you can help her see clearly
01:44:50i can do that
01:44:52by the time i'm finished telling her all the great things we've done she'll be begging to join
01:44:56good because we're here
01:45:01aren't all these troops gonna send the wrong message
01:45:03the army is here to project strength
01:45:05you're here to present peace
01:45:19oval you're here too
01:45:21no you've chosen your side
01:45:24sides there shouldn't be sides
01:45:26i know why don't we all stand in a circle huh
01:45:28maybe hold hands
01:45:30i'm not giving up zaoku
01:45:32i don't care if you brought your entire army
01:45:34su i didn't bring my army to threaten you
01:45:36i wanted to show you all that your son and i have accomplished
01:45:39you must realize what you're doing goes against everything your father and i tried to teach you
01:45:44son you belong here why
01:45:47so that i can go on living in your shadow
01:45:50don't say that
01:45:52can't you see she's brainwashed you
01:45:54i didn't brainwash him
01:45:56i set him free
01:45:58and now he's accomplished more with me than he ever could have with you
01:46:01okay guys
01:46:03obviously there's a lot of personal painful history here
01:46:06so what do you say we just all forget about that stuff huh
01:46:09i mean that's the past
01:46:11bolin trying really hard to be the avatar right now
01:46:13right wing right way
01:46:15you guys know what i'm talking about
01:46:17high five
01:46:20alright no that's cool
01:46:22you know what i think we need to do
01:46:24focus on the future
01:46:26and the future is bright let me tell you
01:46:28i've seen it yeah
01:46:30saw it last month
01:46:32we went to this town that had nothing
01:46:34most of the people there had never even seen a sonomobile before
01:46:36but now
01:46:38they have two sonomobiles
01:46:40running water and a magnet train that goes right through their town
01:46:42i mean how awesome is that
01:46:44they might have been happy when you first arrived
01:46:46but i've seen what happens after you leave
01:46:48citizens are forced to work as slave labor
01:46:50dissenters are sent off to who knows where
01:46:52you're wrong opal
01:46:54now i don't know what you think you've seen
01:46:56but i'm giving you the 100% bolin guarantee
01:46:58that we're making the earth empire a better place to live
01:47:00i can't believe
01:47:02you brought bolin here to try and sway us
01:47:04leave
01:47:06zaofu will never accept you as their leader
01:47:08then you leave me no choice
01:47:10you have 24 hours
01:47:12to agree to join the empire
01:47:14or we take the city by force
01:47:16i see it
01:47:18zaofu
01:47:20we made it
01:47:22and a bunch of other people
01:47:24are here too
01:47:26oh no
01:47:28i hope we're not too late
01:47:30korra
01:47:32i can't believe it
01:47:34where have you been
01:47:36you disappeared
01:47:38everyone was so worried
01:47:40and now
01:47:42you're here
01:47:44you disappeared
01:47:46everyone was so worried
01:47:48i'll tell you the whole story later
01:47:50right now i want to help you stop kuvira
01:47:52what can i do
01:47:54you were just bluffing right
01:47:56i mean you're not really going to attack zaofu
01:47:58are you
01:48:00when people don't cooperate
01:48:02we must find other ways of convincing them to join
01:48:04other ways
01:48:06how many times have we used these other ways in the past
01:48:08it's not for you to worry about
01:48:10so uh
01:48:12what does happen to all those towns
01:48:14and villages after we leave
01:48:16i just realized i never really gone back
01:48:18and checked on them
01:48:20those people are my loyal subjects
01:48:22and they contribute to the empire however i see fit
01:48:24now that you're in the inner circle
01:48:26you're going to have to accept some hard truths
01:48:28maybe i'm not really
01:48:30an inner circle kind of guy
01:48:32or maybe
01:48:34we don't take over zaofu
01:48:36we could just let them be on their own
01:48:38then yay the empire's united
01:48:40i didn't know your personal feelings for opal
01:48:42were stronger than your loyalty to me
01:48:44zaofu will join us
01:48:46the only thing i'm second guessing
01:48:48is the decision to bring you along
01:48:50maybe you need to spend some time
01:48:52in a re-education camp
01:48:54i thought that's where we send people
01:48:56to learn new trade skills
01:48:58hard truths bolin
01:49:00your loyalty seems to be wavering
01:49:02no
01:49:04no i'm totally
01:49:06on your side
01:49:08i'm totally 100% loyal
01:49:16how did things get so bad between you and guvira
01:49:18i thought she was your protege
01:49:20she was more than that
01:49:22she was like a daughter to me
01:49:24i took her in when she was 8 years old
01:49:26and nourished her talents
01:49:28guvira was smart
01:49:30a natural leader and quickly rose through the ranks
01:49:32i saw myself in her
01:49:34what happened
01:49:363 years ago after the fall of the earth queen
01:49:38raiko and tenzin came to see me
01:49:42the earth kingdom is in chaos
01:49:44there's a vacuum of power
01:49:46and i'm concerned about what will happen
01:49:48if someone doesn't take control of the situation
01:49:50and do you think i should be the one
01:49:52you're the perfect person to take charge
01:49:54the world leaders trust you
01:49:56and as a beifong you have credibility in the earth kingdom
01:49:58i'm honored that you thought of me
01:50:00but i'm not interested in imposing my ideals
01:50:02on an entire nation
01:50:04i'm afraid i can't help you
01:50:06shu yin i know this isn't my place
01:50:08but i think you should do this
01:50:10zaofu has always been a beacon of modern progress
01:50:12and now you can share that with everyone
01:50:14what would you have me do
01:50:16march into ba sing se with an army
01:50:18we'd be seen as conquerors
01:50:20and greeted with nothing but war
01:50:22there are already wars
01:50:24the earth queen nearly destroyed our nation
01:50:26this is our opportunity to change things
01:50:30it's not going to happen
01:50:32i didn't realize at the time
01:50:34but that moment created a rift between us
01:50:40Kuvira turned my own son against me
01:50:42and together they plotted behind my back
01:50:46what do you think you're doing
01:50:48we're doing what you don't have the guts to do
01:50:50we're going to ba sing se
01:50:52to help bring order back to the earth kingdom
01:50:54no! you will stay here
01:50:56and who's going to stop me
01:50:58your security force was more than happy to join my cause
01:51:00they're some of the best fighters in the world
01:51:02and they are tired of being treated like exotic birds in your cage
01:51:04if you leave now
01:51:06you will never be welcomed back
01:51:08when i choose to return
01:51:10it'll be on my own terms
01:51:12kuvira and batar left that day with veric
01:51:14my security force
01:51:16and a few of zaofu's wealthiest citizens
01:51:18after kuvira proved herself
01:51:20by stabilizing ba sing se
01:51:22oh hey lola
01:51:24raiko and the other world leaders
01:51:26uh hey lola
01:51:28raiko and the other world leaders
01:51:30made her the provisional head of the earth kingdom
01:51:32once she refused to step down
01:51:34I knew it was only a matter of time
01:51:46raiko and the other world leaders
01:51:48made her the provisional head of the earth kingdom
01:51:52once she refused to step down
01:51:54it was only a matter of time until she made her way back here.
01:51:58I want to fix this.
01:52:00You can.
01:52:01Go into the Avatar state and demolish her army.
01:52:04Remove Kuvira from power once and for all.
01:52:07Fighting is something the old me would do.
01:52:09That always made things worse.
01:52:12Let me talk with Kuvira.
01:52:14Maybe I can reason with her.
01:52:16Kuvira doesn't listen to reason.
01:52:35I can't believe Kuvira locked me in here like a prisoner.
01:52:38I'm not feeling well.
01:52:39I think I'm running out of air.
01:52:41Julie, hold your breath.
01:52:43I'm not holding my breath.
01:52:44Great!
01:52:45Then we're both gonna die!
01:52:47Varric!
01:52:48Varric!
01:52:49Ah!
01:52:50And the head voices are back!
01:52:53Bolin!
01:52:55Thank goodness you're here.
01:52:56Where did that hatch come from?
01:52:57Forget the hatch!
01:52:58There's something important I gotta tell ya!
01:53:00Well, there's something important I gotta tell you too!
01:53:04Kuvira's crazy!
01:53:05Crazy!
01:53:06How'd you find out?
01:53:07When I refused to build her a superweapon, she threatened my life!
01:53:10She threatened me too!
01:53:11And she's threatening Zafu, and it turns out she's been threatening villages this whole
01:53:15time!
01:53:16We gotta get outta here!
01:53:17I couldn't agree more, kid.
01:53:29We have an unexpected guest.
01:53:31The Avatar is here to see you.
01:53:35Korra, it's such an honor to see you again.
01:53:40The last I heard, you were still healing in the South Pole.
01:53:43Well, I'm feeling much better now.
01:53:45That's wonderful news.
01:53:47I'm here to ask you to back down.
01:53:49Please, take your army and leave.
01:53:52I think we both know that's not going to happen.
01:54:03I can't let you take Zafu.
01:54:05Look, I was tasked with bringing stability to the Earth Kingdom.
01:54:09Zafu is the last holdout.
01:54:11Why should I treat it differently than any other state?
01:54:14What you're doing isn't right.
01:54:15I understand you're just trying to do Su a favor, but you can't come to me as I'm on
01:54:20the verge of reuniting my nation and tell me to stop.
01:54:24The world was descending into chaos while you were gone.
01:54:27In order to fix it, I had to make some tough decisions.
01:54:30I know what that's like.
01:54:32I've had plenty of people mad at me about decisions I've made.
01:54:35Exactly.
01:54:36Nora, if you really want to help, go back to Su and try to talk some sense into her.
01:54:42Let's call a temporary truce.
01:54:44I won't make any moves until you talk to her and get back to me.
01:54:49Maybe that will be for the best.
01:54:52Have you seen Bolin?
01:54:53He came by to see Varric, but we turned him away.
01:54:57Open the door.
01:55:01We have some fugitives to catch.
01:55:04Okay, I say we go up and around the mountains and sneak into Zaofu from the rear.
01:55:12We're not going to Zaofu.
01:55:13That place is doomed.
01:55:14We gotta head to Republic City.
01:55:16What?
01:55:17No, no, no, no.
01:55:18We gotta help here.
01:55:19We'll be helping by warning the world about Kuvira's potential superweapon.
01:55:23Well, that's helping, but it's a completely different type of helping.
01:55:27Let me think about this.
01:55:28That's not the flamethrower.
01:55:29What idiot designed these things?
01:55:30You did, sir.
01:55:31Less lecturing, more saving my life.
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