Arc Vembris
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- Posted: Sat, 05 May 2012 05:55:31 +0000
Kid Kryptonite
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Aang is not Amon, Aanmg's already been reincarnated in Korra. Amon might be a legacy character though, who exists as whoever takes up his mask, a la V for Vendeta.
It could easily be a corruption of his intentions, whatever they may be.
Here's what I don't get about Amon's bender-hate: Right now (I haven't seen episode 4 yet sweatdrop ) we're taking it on faith that non-benders are as oppressed as Amon claims them to be. They're definitely a group that has power over another group, and everyone has at least one parent who was killed by a Firebender, and anyone can see the Triple-threat Triad are bad news. Even so, to hold all benders as responsible seems like a huge leap. Since we saw Ba Sing Se, benders are the backbone of industry in this setting. The world they have is only possible with the utility of hard-working benders. Now some of Amon's men seem to have technological means of generating electricity and I've got no clue how that's supposed to work as it's presented. There's no doubt they could have, or could have developed the means to power their society through technological means, but he's attacking the working class in order to achieve his goals, not the high and mighty of Republic City.
Those aren't merely tasers, they're electrified batons. Tasers themselves weren't developed until the 1960s, so even assuming a parallel advancement in technology alongside bending-assisted 'magitech' this is a bit advanced for the setting. They'd have to be carrying Tesla coils around on their backs, and I don't think those are very portable. This is battery technology that rivals stuff we have today.
Now I know it's just a show and they have platypusbears and whatever. I'm just sayin' I think Amon protests too much for a society that, as far as we have seen, relies very strongly on benders for its tech.
Airships and submarines date back to the 18th century, earlier if you count nonmilitary prototypes. Submarines were in limited use during the American Civil War.
For the setting, flamethrowers are a far more reasonable weapon to duplicate bender powers. In truth we really don't know how the Equalists' "tasers" work, but it's hard to imagine the strobey thing on their backs is a generator or a sufficient battery. Wireless energy transmission is a possibility, but the most likely answer is that it's the Rule of Cool.in operation. Korra's battle with the "Taser" wielders is one of the few rotoscoped scenes, and a technique I hope they use more often as long as it doesn't get obtrusive.