11:30 am ET
Apr 28, 2012


‘The Legend of Korra,’ Season 1, Episode 4, ‘The Voice In the Night’: TV Recap

    • Forgot to mention the Aang/sokka/toph flashback!!!

    • I had the exact same thought at the end of this episode as I did at the end of the previous episode: Best episode yet! Mike and Bryan are really doing it; they are surpassing their achievement!

    • I think this show is absolutely remarkable. As an avid fan of the original series, Korra proves to be just as adventurous. Although it is much darker, I am still awe-struck by the little details in each episode that reflects the different time period they are in. Anyways, I thought the episode was awesome. Amon seems to be much smarter and manipulative than previously expected.However, I wonder if the chi-blockers got their techniques from Ty Lee? ~~

    • It's funny when you wrote, "Was the accidental meeting of Mako and Asami really an accident," because I was thinking the SAME exact thing after I watched the episode earlier today. Everything just seems wayyy too convenient; a pretty rich girl who literally came out of nowhere shows up with a father rich enough to sponser your pro-bending team? Hmmm, seems a little sketchy to me. Mako fell head over heels, and I think Asami and her father have them right where they want him.
      Could they be accomplices for Amon?
      Ahhh I can't wait to find out!

    • Personally love the shows... But i disagree wth trying to find an occupy wall street message in the show.... think that our children need to take a stand for what they want and informing them is key... but i also believe that the shows which make them children need to have no underlying meanings but an element of simplicity and enjoyment.

    • I think these shows are great and getting better. The kids are not going to get the equality/communist/anti-religion connections. Like when Amon says bending is responsible for all wars and that it creates an oppressive upperclass. Or when it celebrates hard work and ingenuity with the Sato/Henry Ford character. It might create an opportunity to explain these things to your kids.

    • Any possible way we can just enjoy the show and not try shoehorning some free-market / Ayn Randian / "boo communism!" message into it?

    • I also want to add to I Hate Asami's theory of a potential link to the Amon/accomplices thing, I got the same feeling but I got it when Sato said he got his successful car-idea off the ground from a "generous donor", could that be Anon?

    • @slackjaw, I find it funny that you ignore how Sato didn't rise up on his own, he admitted someone gave him the money to achieve his dreams, he was given help by another. Not really the conservative ideal of doing it all on your own.

      Also if anything, its Amon that wants to overthrow the government, a government headed entirely by Benders, to do away with government involvement in people's lives.

      Also Amon is hardly anti-religious, he actually claims that the spirits are behind his ability to energybend and that they have tasked him with this, in fact he sounds more like a religious fanatic than anything.

      Also your forget that in the world of the Avatar, it has been benders that have caused the wars the previous two major wars were notably started by benders and had to be ended by two incarnations of Avatars, Avatar Kyoshi and Avatar Aang. In addition the Benders have formed an upperclass, notice there are no non-benders on the council, nor any nonbenders seen in any position of authority. Even Tenzin admits that there is tension between the Benders and Nonbenders in republic city.

    • This episode was a little draggy. I actually think this was the worst of the four episodes so far. I thought she was going to go into avatar state. I am anxious to see when she will and when Katara reveals about Zuko's mother. P.S. Go Bulls!

    • I think Korra's lack of a spiritual side is keeping her from accessing the avatar state. Unlike Aang who excelled at the spiritual side and had to work on his physical side more, Korra is extremely good at the physical side but has little skill with her spiritual side.

      Its interesting considering they have the same soul (from a metaphysical standpoint they are the same person)

    • Most of the political stuff in these comments is grasping for straws. It's fairly obvious that this is based on a marxist revolutionary environment; the revolutionaries are called equalists, after all. But all that's beside the point; if you base what you like as far as entertainment goes on how much whatever is shown agrees with whatever world view you hold, you'll miss a lot of stuff, or be completely unable to understand or enjoy many things.

    • @Strawman, I think you're never heard of the concept of Anarchism, google it, educate yourself.

      If they were marxists Straw they'd be talking about economic issues, have you seen any discussion of the means of production or the coownership of anything?

      Seriously, I find it funny how you conservatives don't even know the definitions of the words you use. I mean seriously, I know you guys think education is liberal and snobbish, but come on, at least do a little research.

    • How many people here think Amon is Aang's non-bending son Bumi? They mentioned him briefly in the first episode and I've been curious about him ever since. How would a non-bending child of the Avatar feel about bending...
      Just a suspicion.

    • I'm surprised no one has mentioned the flashback scene near the end of the episode! We see older versions of Sokka, Toph, and Aang. Was it Korra entering the spirit world? Was it a flashback of Aang's? Or was it something Amon placed in her mind when he hit her on the head?

    • There are so many potential candidates for Amon...could it be someone tied the Henry Ford-esque industrialist just introduced? With a world free from benders, industry and technology is the only replacement. And then you have Toph's daughter and this scheming politician. Amon is most likely someone we know rather than someone we don't. Is it someone from the past or the present. Interesting questions and I love this show.

    • I also think there is more to Amon than the black and white villain. If you think about the fact that the avatar's job is to bring balance to the world, then you realize that this new world is out of balance because of the bending. Amon may have the right of it. Bending is no longer a cultural tradition that is honored and practiced with much discipline. Not that the world was perfect in the original series and the arts of bending were misused, but now we have an emerging and converging society of diverse cultures and technology. Bending is the last division that is preventing the world from really achieving Aang's vision of a united people. I thing we will see Korra eventually see this and she will be the one to break the avatar cycle and remove bending from the world some how.

    • I think Amon is Tenzin.

      I mean, think about it.

    • Amon = Fireferret's lost father

      'nuff said

    • The two most tantalizing tidbits in the episode for me: At dinner, Tarrlok mentioned something about Aang facing some threat to Republic City in the past (Tenzin bristled at the comparison). Later, when Amon disables Korra, there's a flashback seeming to show adult Aang in combat (others mentioned spotting Sokka and Toph... went by too fast for me).

      Amon is apparently connected to that incident. Either deliberately or inadvertently, his chi-attack to knock out Korra transferred a flash of memory. I don't think enough's been revealed to speculate further than that, but it does get the imagination going!

      My current theory: Amon is Aang's son, perhaps a non-bender bitter over what he did not inherit and determined to use the surprising ability he did inherit to settle the score. Why? Just guessing really, but one of the themes in the original show was the idea that good/evil-loyalty/betrayal could exist very closely in families.

      In any case, I just want to say how much darn fun it is to watch this beautifully created show with my whole family (I'm 46, kids 11 and 8) and enjoy it on so many levels. To see Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino reclaim their magnificent fictional universe from the humiliation M. Night Shayamalan's cinematic disaster is extremely satisfying. To gab about it like a fanboy on the WSJ... well, that's just icing on the cake.

      -- mm

    • The answer to Amon is obvious.... This is how the Legend of Korra will unfold.

      As a coucilman, Tarrlok will win the trust of all benders, including Korra, and will eventually create and command the loyalty of a united bending army, powerful benders and metal benders led by Korra, that will hunt down and eliminate all chi blockers in Republic City. But the army will not be disbanded after all chi blockers have been eliminated since Amon is never found. Amon will then appear out of the blue on Air Temple Island and take away Tenzins bending, therefore ensuring that Korra will never fully understand the spiritual side of bending and never becoming a full Avatar. Korra then vows revenge and with Tarrloks help, she is able convince the council to put the city under total control of her bending army until Amon is found and eliminated... As time goes by, Korra becomes frustrated and begins to abuse her powers in order to locate Amon. Eventually the normal people and benders of Republic City begin to demand that Korra and her army be removed from power in order to ensure the safety of its citizens. The council is forced to agree with the people and they send Chief Bei Fong and her metal-benders to capture and detain Korra... Before Korra is captured, Tarrlok informs her that he has figured out the location of Amon. In order to kill Amon, Korra and her loyal bending army fight and destroy Chief Bei Fong and her metal benders. During the battle, Mako is sevearly injured, this prompts Korra to use all her anger and she nearly kills Chief Bei Fong. Now, there is no force in the way of Korra and her loyal army, but the council decides to make Korra and her army an enemy of the Republic... Korra and her army quickly follow Tarrloks directions and find themselves face to face with Amon. Feuled by anger and rage, Korra quickly lashes out with all her power at Amon,but Amon does not fight back. Before Korra is able to kill Amon, he takes off his mask to reveal that he is Tarrlok. Confused Tarrlok explains that there is no escape. If she kills him, the council will have her captured and the Avatar will never be able to bring peace to the nations. And if she is captured and detained she will never be able to be with Mako again... But if Korra joins forces with Amon (aka Tarrlok), they will be able to take over the entire Republic and ensure peace between benders and non-benders alike... And she will be able to live a life of peace and luxury at Mako's side.

      .... Confronted with the situation with a mind clouded with fear and anger, Korra agrees with Amon and together, with Korra's army, they take over the council, Reprublic city, then the world.

    • I think @BGB wants to turn "LOK" into "The Prisoner."

    • Amon is obviously the fireferret's lost father.

      In episode 3, at the rally Amon states that his face was disfigured by a rogue firebender and that his family was lost. We also know that the fireferrets were orphaned by a rogue firebender. Any connection xD?

    • Rrgh I keep trying to figure out who amon is, I'm thinking it may be a relative of the cabbage merchant, remember him from the last airbender? MY CABBAGES. D:

    • I think that Amon might be the child of lee family pig farm that Zuko rests at in season 3, but i dunno

    • I think BGB is an idiot.

    • @Dolan: I'm glad I'm not the only one!

    • @Dolan: I swear I thought the same thing

    • i thought that amon was that little kid where zuko visited but that would mean he has to be atleast 80 years old.

    • @atx113
      Firstly, you are quite the annoyance.
      Socialist philosophies coincide with one another and therefore I think The Marxist opinion isn't too far off from a communistic one. And Amon is not an anarchist. He wants power. And power = governing force. So shut yer trap. I digress. There is no real ONE target philosophy that Amon portrays. What he does display is an unruly hate for benders (whether or not it is genuine or not, who's to say). So I think Amon isn't really against the government, so much as he's against benders. If he was an "anarchist" he could easily go live in the wild. There's plenty of anarchy there, well minus the order of nature.
      Anywho, Amon is most definitely in league with someone somewhere, because there's no way he could hope to eliminate all benders (not government) without extra help. So, personally, I'm waiting for the big reveal. So maybe you ought to cool it with the complaining and enjoy the show?

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