I am convinced that one of two things will happen. Either:

A: My original theory will be played out. Korra will “lose” her bending and have to hone her spiritual abilities, i.e. the avatar state and speaking with past lives.

B: Korra will go into the Avatar state and fuck Amon’s day up just before he does it to her. Because, Aang said that the Avatar state triggers when the Avatar is in mortal danger. Now, losing bending isnt mortal danger, but to someone like Korra who’s whole identity revolves aorund bending… you know, since shes the avatar… it would be just a bad and i think upsetting enough to trigger it. I mean, Aang did it when he saw that Kiatso was killed by Fire nation. He wasn’t in mortal danger then. Despite Aang saying in that episode that he needs to be in mortal danger for it to happen, hes mostly in emotional distress when he goes into uncontrolled Avatar state (Kiatso, Water tribe, Appa’s kidnapping, etc) So its entirely believable if Korra was to go into the avatar state as Amon tried to remove her bending.

And im glad that they didn’t change Sokka much. Totally remove my theory about Amon being Sokka. No way. He and his trusty boomerang and meteor sword…. brings a tear to my eye…

And i know im like, 3 weeks late for this… but CABBAGES

Just think about it. They never say that Sokka died. Just that Katara “lost her brother” Could it be? Is it possible? I would hate to say that Aang and Sokka eventually became enemies, but teenage friendships can turn into that. Sokka could, potentially, have become a chi bender, no? I mean, Ty Lee joined the Kyoshi warriors, Sakka was banging a Kyoshi warrior. There’s a VERY good chance he could have learned it. Clearly Ty Lee taught people how to chi block. THIS IS INTENSE.

And I’m assuming that the story Amon told was a lie, thought there is a chance his face was burned by a fire bender. Maybe even Zuko.