Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra - Tenzin tries to recruit airbenders

It'll keep your face from getting any uglier!

You know, this is one of the things I liked about these three episodes. It'd have been kinda unrealistic if people had just signed up for this lifestyle, because in the end what Tenzin, Korra and the others haven't grasped yet, and what the annoying kid they did pick up showed, was that Airbending /=/ Air Nationer.

These people are Earth Nation. Their culture is Earth Nation, their heritage is Earth Nation and their understanding of their world is shaped by these facts. What I think Change will mean, in one aspect, in this season is Tenzin and Korra realizing that the classical Airbender society, the one Aang tried to keep alive by not establishing Republic City on the ruins of one of the old Air Temples and teaching it to his son, is dead.

It is dead, and it died ~150 years ago. If there is going to be a new Air Nation, it'll have to be a NEW Air Nation. One shaped by the ideas of its new Airbenders. Not by the five classical Airbenders who are recruiting them.