Yea i posted that after I watched ep 5. Working on ep 7 through 9 now

Just watched 9. Yea...totally blew the idea of Tarrlock as Amon outta the water lol

I already figured Amon to be a bender. wonder what type, blood maybe since he resisted.

I'd consider the action secondary to the politics and character conflicts at this point, but it really is quite good. Win Beifong in particular continues to live up to her fan moniker.

so i am very curious about amon. (spoilers aplenty)

from a meta POV ,the mask, as a writer in the series you only need make a masked man if that man is someone that the characters would recognize on a regular basis, or someone that the watcher recognizes on a regular basis. so we need to start asking, "who have we seen at the same time as amon in the same room?". or they are from the original series the only flaw with this thought is everyone would be incredibly old. (point 1)
resistance to blood bending. the fact that amon cannot be blood bent only means one thing. "no blood", with this fact known and with all of the technology in this series maybe we are looking at a cyborg - puppet. (point 2)

(point three) spirit bending, you could only learn this from two different places. the lion turtle, and avatar Aang. the fact that we see the avatar use this technique more than once means that he may have taught it to someone else. some one he trusted with the power like his own children or a trusted council member.

in short maybe a cybernetically enhanced Ten-Zen that would be just a busy protecting korra as sabotaging the rest to prevent another world war.

Some of the stuff you put as spoilers aren't really spoilers like "Amon wears a mask" Also your personal theories aren't really spoilers either.

Yes Amon wearing a mask could mean we have seen him before. However it could mean many other things as well, It could mean he is someone other people in the world would recognize but that we haven't seen because we only have a limited view of the world. Perhaps it's someone Tenzin would know but not us because we don't know everything.

or it could be something more akin to batman "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea". By creating an alter ego and hiding behind a mask Amon has become MORE than a man. and he has backed that up with unique abilities.

Take V from V for Vendetta for example. He wore a mask the WHOLE movie and we never see who he is. However his guy fawkes mask become a symbol against oppression. In a sense Amon is V, we just are seeing the story from the other side of the fence.

Your next point is spoilerish, so I will sensor some we know that the Bloodbending slowed him down, So he probably isn't a cyborg, especially since that level of technology is yet to be introduced to this setting. Honestly if Amon is a robot I think Noblebear and I will join forces to decry this series.

In truth it's probably because he is just really powerful spiritually

Also Spirit-bending and Amon are introduced within the first 3 episodes of the series, anything discovered in the first 3 episodes is part of the general knowledge of the series, at least by my standards, just like Tarrlok is a blood bender may not really need a spoiler tag once we reach season 2 and beyond because the knowledge will reach a critical mass among the fan base and anyone watching the series will likely reach that episode in a short while because they will not be forced to watch them one week at a time as we now are.

While the series has only shown us that only Aang an the Lion turtle have known how to preform spirit bending that does not mean others don't know how to use it. In fact the only reason the lion turtle knew about it was because he was REALLY REALLY old, so anything of sufficient age and wisdom could know about it.

Azhrei has put forth the fact the Koh, the face-stealer could be connected. The more I think about it the more I think I like it. Because we have no information on what the consequences of face stealing are, perhaps it gives Koh the ability to control the physical body. It would also mean that the person's body, with the mind and will of Koh would be a terrible force. Though I personally think this is a bit far fetched and I do believe that face stealing just means you are trapped in Koh, but I would be willing to go along with this.

Of course there was an idea that hit me that we do know something about Spirit bending, From the Lion Turtle we know that Spirit-bending is dangerous and can corrupt and destroy your own soul if perform incorrectly, we also know that it was a technique used BEFORE elemental bending so anyone probably can learn it.

While the anyone can learn it leans more toward Koh, the other part lead to another option

Aang. Amon dodges things with ease like an airbender and he knows spirit-bending, we now know that Aang didn't stop using spirit-bending and seemed to have a sort of arrogance when he took away Yakone's bloodbending We also know that the Avatar can live lifespans MUCH longer than most.

Perhaps 17 years ago Aang tried to spirit bend someone and his spirit was weak and malleable and it destroyed part of him, turned him into something, in a sens Aang had died and this new person was there, possibly this disrupted the connection to the Avatar spirit and made it move on to the next in the cycle, taking the ability for Aang to bend with it. Perhaps this is why the Spirit of Aang has't tried to communicate more soundly with Korra like Roku did with Aang, because the spirit isn't fully there. Perhaps this is also why Korra has a block from air-bending and contacting the spirit world.

It also would explain why Tarrlok would despise being compared to Amon, because Amon is the avatar who harassed his family and took away the power of his father. Amon is a twisted freak of an Avatar who lost the power to bend and is in a sense a different person.

Of course this is just a theory.

Amon is Spike Spiegel.

Quick correction: I haven't said flat out that I think Koh is controlling Amon, or Amon is Koh, or anything like that. Just that he's connected to him in some fashion, and Koh is a possible means of learning Energybending.

Maybe he is controlled by Koh, maybe he struck a deal with him, maybe he's completely unrelated. Who knows? It's at least 50% wishful thinking, because Koh is awesome.

I don't know that we can completely rule out Tarrlock being Amon. He had an intense reaction to being compared to Amon. While that certainly could be (and it is most likely) because Tarrlock hates Amon so much that he hates even being compared to him. Even though under this scenario, Tarrlock is indeed playing right into Amon's hands. And is also becoming more like him in a "to fight darkness you must become darkness" kinda way.

BUT, another way to look at it is the intense reaction was simply because Korra had just hit so close to home. Of course, any Tarrlock == Amon theory has to explain why Amon/Tarrlock hasn't just either killed Korra or taken away her bending. He's had multiple chances...

Never mind. Just saw the latest ep. We can totally rule out any Tarrlock == Amon theory.