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Just completed season 1 of LoK. For context Amon father was a bloodbender who can bloodbend even on day but his bloodbending got taken away by Aang. Amon and his brother still become a bloodbender.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I thought the twist of Amon being a bender really undercuts that seasons story arc. The Equalists were asking a questions that makes sense in their world, benders are ridiculously more powerful than non-benders and in their world's history (at least in Aang's time) held almost all significant offices. The equalists had a fair question about how to even the play fielding for all citizens. But this question isnt answered or considered, Amon comes out at as a bender and the equalist movement is forgotten about

[โ€“] Lumun 13 points 1 month ago

Totally agree. I still really liked LoK but it tried to interrogate much more complicated politics than ATLA and really highlighted for me how much the showwriters and I disagreed. Both Amon and Zaheer are undercut for seemingly no good reason. I hated how they portrayed the fall of the earth monarchy.

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