Talk:And the Winner Is.../@comment-72.208.80.236-20120515035648/@comment-50.53.109.37-20120515211613

Amon was making a point by bringing up the cheating since the audience seemed to be perfectly happy rooting for a team that was blatantly going against the rules. All things considered, whether the ref was paid off or not, the sort of blatant cheap tricks going on in that match should have immediately illicited an outraged reaction from the audience and the match should have been stopped or someone should have stepped in. But no, people were eating it up.

THESE were the benders that people idolized, the "Best of the best", nothing but a pack of pitiful cheaters who couldn't even win a match without trickery, and the audience loved them anyways. Which, of course, is perfect for Amon since he pretty much brought up that exact thing, chastising the audience for rooting for and idolizing such obviously despicalble frauds.

It has nothing to do with Amon perhaps having a soft spot for Mako and Bolin or anything, we already saw in Revelation that Amon was perfectly prepared and willing to brutally strip Bolin of his bending if he hadn't been rescued, so that idea is kind of out.