Sunday, June 3, 2012
Analysis of the flashbacks
As of this week's episode (Book 1 Chapter 8 - When Extremes Meet), here's the analysis of what happened 42 years prior to the events of The Legend of Korra.
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Sokka (The Southern Water Tribe Representative) |
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Yakone. Behind is Avatar Aang |
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Avatar Aang |
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Toph Beifong and her metal-bending officers |
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Yakone standing up to give testimony on his crimes |
Yakone stands up to give testimony on his crimes.
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Sokka being blood bent |
That is when everything goes wrong as never expected before
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Toph Beifong & the people in the courtroom being blood bent |
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Avatar Aang trying to stop Yakone |
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Yakone handcuffed |
The Red Monsoons were one of the first Triads formed in Republic City, if not the first, after their founder Yakone rediscovered the art of bloodbending. Every full moon they terrorized the citizens of the city, extorting money, committing murders, and threatening the stability and peace Aang had created. It took a long time, but with help from his friends, Aang finally managed to track down and capture Yakone so he could face justice.
Or so they think.
Yakone has discovered a way to bloodbend without the assistance of the full moon. His gang comes to his rescue during the trial, when almost all of Republic City’s most powerful figures are in one room, and make it so Yakone can flee.
But it doesn’t work. Why?
The Triad relaxes their hold on the people in the room out of shock and fear - could one ofthem accidentally be subjugating their leader? - and that’s all the opportunity Aang needs to break free and go Avatar State on Yakone, their battle taking them all the way to the street.
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Avatar Aang in Avatar state |
Yakone leaves. And five years later, Yakone has a son.
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Resemblance between Tarrlok & Yakone |
In addition to the physical similarities, there’s hints in Tarrlok’s own words that he is Yakone’s son. Why would he choose events five years before his birth to justify the creation of his task force? For someone who’s only 37, he certainly seems to know a lot about what happened 42 years ago.
Tarrlok isn’t interested in getting revenge on anyone for his father - or at least, not yet. All he wants is power. Korra was a valuable ally for him, and so he was content to work with her for a time. But it was after she compared him to Amon that he snapped and attacked her. Why?
Because Yakone pumped his son full of bitter stories about how terrible it is to lose your bending. Tarrlok is going to such extremes in his efforts to take down Amon because the removal of bending abilities is his berserk button, so to speak, and now a man has appeared in his city with the power to do the same?! Tarrlok won’t stand for that. He’s putting all his effort into making sure Amon goes down, no matter what he has to do in the process or how unlikely it is that he’s fighting actual Equalists.
And now the Avatar - the direct reincarnation of the one who took his father’s bending - has the audacity to say he’s the SAME as Amon! Tarrlok isn’t going to take that. He no longer needs Korra as an ally, she’s begun to cause him problems, and now she’s pissed him off. It’s time for Tarrlok to remove her from the picture.
So he kidnaps her.
And he locks her up in the place in the mountains where his father fled after his banishment, and where Tarrlok was born.
You know. A place right “Out of the Past”.
Source : birdbrainblue
However we do not believe that this theory / analysis based on the flashbacks Korra had on book 1 chapter 8 (When Extremes Meet) is 100% accurate. But was trying to make sense out of it.