To me Varrick has been one of the most charming and most disturbing characters of the season. He was a funny as hell eccentric but also a vile war profiteer. It was interesting the the writers concealed such a horrible real life issue like war profiteering inside one of the most cartoonish of characters. Unalaq was one-dimensionally evil in my opinion so that made Varrick even more scary.

I think there were a lot of missteps this season but Varrick was not among them.

I always enjoyed being surprised by his character. He's more relateable in today's modern world than an anti-avatar hell bent on destroying everything. It's like if you compare Voldemort and Umbridge to Unalaq and Varrick. While Voldemort was obviously the more evil of the two, Umbridge was scary because she's so believably someone that might exist in our world. Varrick may be kind at some times, helps people in others, but in the end nothing is done unless it helps him somehow.

I enjoy Julee (is that how you spell it?) as a character, but I'm not quite sure why I do. Varrick says she's just the same as a warship and she has no problem with that. She also has no problem following him into prison or doing whatever he asks, either loyalty to her job or to him for some reason.

It's Zhu Li, according to the subtitles on Nick.com.

I actually think that's an excellent comparison, though I think Umbridge was a lot less... scrupulous than Varrick. I mean, even though he was war-mongering he never tortured children by making them write lines with their own blood :X

Of course not XD I'm just saying that he's more realistic in our world than Unalaq was, which makes him more scary because we can believe it.

I don't hate Varrick, but he's real. He's someone that you might find in charge of today's corporations, trying to sell his things by pushing a war through propaganda and schemes and using people. That kind of mind set and ambition is scary.

I was teasing =P

But yeah, that's what I liked about him. He squicked me out right away when I saw him on the screen, to be honest. I didn't trust his "eccentric gazillionaire" act one bit. I didn't think he'd go so far as intentionally screwing with Asami and Mako, though, my concern was primarily with Bolin. I thought he was going to turn him into a patsy.

It's the mustache. You can't trust someone in fiction with a pencil thin mustache.