Talk:Amon's relationships/@comment-128.252.20.193-20120624234249/@comment-4662143-20120628171835

I agree. The ending just dumped a truckload of information on us that should have been delivered as tantilizing hints in each episode. But because we're too busy being treated to shipping with a side of teenage angst, they had to leave all the important stuff for Tarrlok to just explain all at once. The execution was simply terrible. I am also very upset that Amon was not his own character. Amon was, until the finale, perhaps the only nonbender able to do serious damage to a bender in ways that Ty Lee, Sokka, or Jet couldn't have. His quiet dedication raised serious questions about whether bending is indeed the great and wondrous power that it has traditionally been portrayed as. Had Amon been a nonbender, he would have been a much more complex and deep villain; instead, he's just another power hungry bender.

Further development of the actual tenets of Equalism would have exposed the faultlines in Republic City's society, and explored how they could actually have been fixed. Instead, the writers just portray the Equalists as the Firebending soldiers of this episode, who can be defeated by a good clobbering. Never once does Korra actually investigate why Amon managed to gain such a following that he was able to wage a successful civil war. Never once does she actually try to understand the problems of the nonbending citizen. The most significant line of the entire season, I think was when the nonbending woman being unfairly arrested beseeches Korra "You're our Avatar too!" Even after being extorted by bending Triads, robbed of their electricity, after being rounded up like livestock and jailed, people like her still have faith in the Avatar. But Amon was able to change all that somehow. So what do nonbender see in the Avatar? What do they expect from the Avatars given that, despite their years of training, they have never actually gone through what nonbenders have gone through? And with Amon's death, the Equalist movement is just assumed to have fallen apart. Remember, the show was originally just suppposed to end with Season 1. None of the Equalists' genuine concerns about bending triads, lack of representation in politics, law enforcement, sports, and certain areas of the workforce, etc. are ever truly addressed, though they are brought up, which is what makes this sudden about face in the finale so irritating. The show had potential to explore all this but did not.