#dropped plot points

[nikkoliferous]

Thor in The Avengers: “Loki’s mind is far afield”

And then he never spoke of Loki’s behaviour being out of character, ever again... 🤷‍♀️

[newx-menfan]

My theory/ headcannon for how Surge was able to get to America is that she went through human trafficking, and when she reached America the human traffickers turned out to be bad guys who want to sell her to some evil scientists who experiment on mutants, but since she was a speedster she was able to escape and lived in the streets till she joined the x men. What do you think?

Cool headcanon!

Honestly...I’m always eternally disappointed this plot point hasn’t been explored with just how Noriko got to America...along with Julian’s older brother James...And Sooraya’s mom...

[headedoutleft]

Now that I’m reading frequently again, I see the impact of the lack of publisher funded editing because occasionally I’ll run across a book and start taking notes on things not to do and start feeling like a mean Goodreads reviewer but really I’m just thinking of how much better the story would be if someone had just given this person decent feedback yikes

[atla-annotated]

The Missing Plot: Korra's First Chi-Blocking Fight

In 'The Revelation' Korra fights her first chi-blocker and gets her ass handed to her.

The chase and fight, which lasts a good two minutes, especially since Korra fights one chi-blocker in a long, engaging person on person fight, gives the impression that we are introduced to a secondary villain. Yet we never see this specific chi-blocker again, nor is there a re-match, or does Korra even learn how to defend herself against chi-blockers in general.

Missed opportunity: Asami is trained in the same fighting style, yet her training Korra, is neither mentioned nor shown.

[atla-annotated]

The Missing Plot: Amon's Platform

Why do thousands of people join him, civilians take up arms for his cause, what is the fodder that incites this civil war?

All we get in 12 episodes is that the non-benders feel oppressed, but we never get a concrete example, but for after the fact when Tarrlok starts rounding up Equalist supporters.

Edited to say: Background information is not the same as getting told by a member/ one a flyer/ the newspaper etc.

We can ASSUME a lot of things, but we never get verification on them other then Sato's specific motives to join. Assuming is not fact, or even potentially right.

What the show fails to do is to DIRECTLY tell us why Li Average i.e. normal non-benders without personal tragedies, join the Equalists.