Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-76.22.26.5-20120825180801/@comment-4211718-20120830231709

No, just no. That would totally be derailing Asami's character and very poor writing. Asami considers Korra one of her friends, why on earth would she start trying to essentially backstab her and subver her efforts? Doing that to Asami's character pretty much makes the whole significance of her turning her back on and electrocuting her father Episode 7 completely irrelevant and pointless. She made it quite clear what she thought of the Equalists (if you agree with someone or a group's goals you typically don't refer to them as "awful"), she wouldn't be fighting them if she approved of what Amon or his orginization said. If she had agreed with their message but not their methods, then the show would have pointed it out, and she would not have continued to be involved in fighting against them.

And on the subject of Amon, he was not in any way, shape, or form right, not at all. He wasn't seeking anything remotely resembling equality between benders and nonbenders, his goals were quite clearly putting nonbenders in ultimate power and relegating any benders to the level of second-class citizens. You saw the finale, normal, benevolent governments don't march their armies up the streets, or bomb the innocent population in their takeoever of the city, Amon's bombing would have left just as many nonbender casualties as bender...possibley even more as he had all of the rescue departments and so on sabatoged. Benders don't have it any better than nonbenders either, the two are already equal in terms of social status. For instance, we have Hiroshi Sato and the Cabbage Family (Cabbage Merchant, and Cabbage Merchant Proginy) as examples of nonbenders making it to the top, and then Mako and Bolin as examples of benders close to the bottom (or those hobos living with Gommu who are benders), or for another instance of benders being just as susceptible to being cheated and taken advantage of, the Wolfbats in Pro-Bending, they cheat in order to win the championship...in a game against other benders.

And the Council isn't closed to nonbenders or only hosting benders, Sokka was on the Council before Korra's time and an Air Acolyte as well. The Triads are organized crime, they're not going to specifically target benders or nonbenders over the other, if someone is weaker then they are and they can get away with it, then they're a target. Mako and Bolin's parents for instance, they were attacked and killed by a bender despite at least one of them being a bender as well. Bending or no bending has nothing to do with what the issue actually is, which is humanity itself. Just look at the real world, we don't have any benders here, yet the strong attempt to oppress or take advantage of the weak. Removing bending from the Avatar world (in addition to upsetting the balance) would simply be treating one of the symptoms rather than the actual problem. There is no oppression of nonbenders being comitted by benders at all, not even in the least (and I'm talking about before the Equalists had even started up their little rebellion). As far as I'm concerned the Equalists don't have any kind of leg to stand on in the least. ...Now, of course, that isn't to say that nothing can be improved in the situation and the Equalists are wrong for trying, which is not true at all. Things can always be improved in some way, but there is no legitimate reason for the Equalists to be staging a revolution or anything to justify such a course of action.

About Amon himself. On the contrary, I think him being Noatak the son of Yakone and a Bloodbender made it all far more interesting. The little story that Amon made up for himself is far too generic and cliche in fiction, I, and I'm pretty a great many other people, would not have found too much interesting in such an origin story. There's little to no depth to it, and it just feels hollow :/ What Bryke gave us in the finale is so much better. And even if anything Amon or the Equalists said about the situation between benders and non-benders were true, Amon being a bender wouldn't illigitimize the Equalists in any sort of way...it would just make Amon himself a liar (about his backstory and how he's gained the ability to remove bending) and the Equalists would fall apart because they don't have a leader, that's the only reason they even are a threat at all, because of Amon.

This turned into a longer post than I thought it'd be >_> TL;DR version: The initial idea about Asami would be a bad one because it'd be completely derailing her character. And the Equalists' claims are a load of bovine excrement and they don't have a leg to stand on in terms of legitimacy...but that doesn't mean that things can't be improved, or that they're wrong for trying to bring about change.