Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-5081746-20120519204937/@comment-50.53.109.37-20120519205911

Not to mention keeping the charade going by this point would make no coherent sense. Hiroshi had pretty much neutralized everyone present, if Asami were spying on them, her mission would be over at this point and there would be no more reason to pretend. But instead she shocks her own father, obviously looking torn about it, and helps everyone escape. This is pretty much counterproductive to the equalist agenda and thus if Amon orchestrated this, he would be a monumental fool (and we know he is no fool).

People continue to suspect Asami because she is currently the big obstacle to the Makorra ship. That is pretty much it. They don't have any real justification for suspecting her at this point, and I have seen no legitimate theories about how her being a spy at this point could be at all sensible, but plenty of people writing about how she "must be an equalist, so Makorra can happen" or similar sentiments.

I also like Makorra, and yet I have no issue with Asami, and I certainly don't think she is a super secret triple agent or some other silly notion. Asami was awesome in this episode, and she makes a good representative for non-benders by showing that not all non-benders are petty jealous A-holes who want the world to be equal-by destroying the lives of a third of its population. Her being an equalist at this point would be a major AESOP fail for the story since it would prove that non-benders are bad people and that we, the viewers, can not trust anyone without bending.