There is a *small* part of the North’s plan to reunite the tribes that is well intentioned. The two tribes are supposed to be ruled by the same chief, but they’ve been out of touch for so long that obviously an occupation is going to set the South off. It looks like this could lead to a total separation of the two tribes – they’ve already been acting that way, its just time to make it official.

There’s a lot of doubling going on. Siblings who have opposite approaches to the same problem or who are virtually identical (except one is dating Bolin).

The Water Tribe was always the next step in Spiritual from the Air Nomads (Air, Water, Earth, Fire – rough ordering) and was home to the moon spirit in ATLA. But that was just the Northern Tribe while the Southern Tribe had been robbed of it’s benders, leaving them without a grand city and living an inuit-like lifestyle. After the 100 Year War, they haven’t seemed to embrace the Spirits like their Northern counter-parts (possibly because they didn’t have the Spirit Portal Stargate and it was quite a journey across-world) since.

If the Spirits originally gave humanity the power to bend the elements and a non-bender is now President in Republic City thanks to Amon’s actions, the world might be out of balance. When the Council ruled Republic City so one nation couldn’t infringe on the interests of another, the Southern and Northern Water Tribes were represented separately. Now there’s a single man representing those interests and we don’t know if he’s aware of the Unalaq situation.

We’re seeing a lot of imbalance in a story that’s trying to examine both sides of a complicated series themes. I expect to see those imbalances addressed.

-Da7e-

Republic City Dispatch

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