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Well gee, now I feel right at home.

Impressions:

So this little Saturday experiment is off to a rousing start with the episode being leaked early. Oh well. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a particularly good episode either, especially on following up last week’s. We get it, Korra’s scared and you’re pushing all this weird relationship stuff so hard you’d think they were constipated. Darth Tarloc has also been taking lessons from Palpatine in agenda-hiding. And yes, I’m aware or the irony of complaining about a lack of subtlety in a show that airs after two straight hours of Spongebob Squarepants, but damn it, I’m going to do it regardless. I’m mostly in it for the fighting anyway, but at least the uncomfortable humor and magical pets were kept to a minimum this week so it wasn’t as obnoxious as it could’ve been. 

Otherwise, not really a whole lot this week. Mako, being the boy-prostitute of the group finds his sugar mommy who totally doesn’t have some other agenda I’m sure. Nobody wears that much maschera and isn’t evil. Or is Zhang He. Hmmm… Ahem. Also Amon gives the whole supervillain "I could defeat you now, but where’s the fun in that?" spiel. I’m still having a hard time buying that he has the ultimate super awesome power reserved for only the best of the best, particularly this early in the series and that scene just felt like a really bad stereotypical supervillain scene to do whatever they could to string those smoke and mirrors along. I did chuckle a little bit at "Behold my masterpiece! A CG car!" Aaah, animation.