Amph ATLA and The Legend of Korra (ATLA live action remake coming Feb 2024)

But Katara clearly overrules Sokka in decision-making. He's a technocrat and a planner, but he never really set the broad outlines of any policies.

 

He was the one constantly pushing for an invasion of the fire nation.

 

The real villain was the Cabbage Salesman.

How come he was everywhere the protagonists and antagonists were? Something is fishy here.

 

What do you mean "pushing?" No one ever disagreed. He talked about it most often because he was the one responsible for articulating all the details of how it would work.

 

ZOMG you're so right!

 

Well there was the scene where Aang was saying he was unsure if killing the Firelord was the right thing to do, and Sokka chopped the Firelord effigy's head off. Aang just wanted to stop the war, Sokka was the one saying that invading the fire nation was the way to do that.

 

Roku is pretty dogged in his insistence that he was only friendly with Sozin insofar as he was completely unaware of the latter's preparations for expansionist foreign policy, which he had curtailed previously.

 

I supposed you had a lot of foresight when you were 12.

 

Yeah, that's like calling the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia "brotherly help".

Try again, and this time call things by their truthful name.

 

Honestly, he probably should have. The penalty for treason is death, anyway.

 

I don't see how these differ, especially since we don't know what he intended to do about the Fire Nation's leadership.

Zuko's acceptance of the role of leadership came after he turned against his father and allied himself with Aang, a change that was a direct result of his encounters with Aang (among other factors).

 

Well, you have a point there. I have to imagine there were at least several dozen deaths and injuries when he demolished the entirety of the palace complex just to "warn" his old friend. And I don't know if it's more disturbing if Roku knew and simply didn't care, or if he was somehow under the impression that only one person occupies a building at a time.

 

I don't dispute that, but encounters like the first appearance of the Blue Spirit or during the siege of the Northern Water Tribe certainly planted seeds in Zuko's mind that he wasn't doing the right thing. I don't mean to diminish Iroh's involvement, but Aang was a positive influence on Zuko's choices as well.

Whether his intentions were good or not, whether his influence was positive or not, Aang was instrumental in returning your beloved Fire Nation leadership to its rightful place. Contrary to your previous statements that he was evil for having overthrown the Fire Nation, I daresay given this new line of dialogue, one might call him a hero.

 

No, it's the same thing. Invading other nations and calling it "sharing our culture". Sozin committed freakin' GENOCIDE! How is that tolerant and non-aggressive?

And the Fire Nation régime as we saw it is borderline totalitarian, which was my point (not the side of the political spectre. One totalitarian system is as bad as the next, whether right or left). Stop picking on details.


And now I'm an anti-monarchist just because I'm opposing one country invading the rest of the world by FORCE and committing genocide? Come now, Jello, you can do better than this.

 

Actually a lot of the earlier techniques he demonstrated seemed to be for his own amusement or means of transportation. The martial use came later and only after he was continually attacked Zuko and Co., usually by knocking away threatening forces with a quick blast of air that was rarely life threatening. They became more complex and combative out of necessity.

 

Um, yes, we do, we have the first-hand testimony of Sozin: "I knew the next Avatar would be born an Air Nomad. So I wiped out the Air Temples. But somehow the new Avatar alluded me." It's pretty straight forward, no ambiguity there. He wanted to get rid of the next Avatar, so he wiped out the Air Nomads. End of.

On the contrary, given how Aang was raised, the Air Nomads were pretty pacifist, respecting all life (even being vegetarian).

Oh, come on, ALL four kinds of bending stem from martial arts! And if anything the Airbending is the most defensive of them all! As Spidey mentioned above, most of the "battle" Airbending Aang demonstrated was used to get away from his attackers or to knock them away so he could escape. If there's one bending that's mostly offensive, it's Firebending.

 

Of the four bending techniques Firebending is almost entirely offensive, while Earthbending balances both offense and defense and water and air are almost entirely defensive. And of the four elements fire is almost always destructive even in its smallest forms. It takes an larger amount airbending to become destructive.

 

No, I just am not allowed to talk about it. But I can make whistley faces when something is guessed right.



Edit: Okay well I guess now I can. Nick just announced it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100721/ap_en_tv/us_tv_legend_of_korra