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shneancy@lemmy.world 3 days agothe thing is- Aang himself understands that his strict adherence to his values is not always a positive thing, i remember in one of the comics (or a later season) he outright calls it his own flaw
if not for the lion turtle giving him an alternative moments before, he’d have to either kill, or watch the world be destroyed
he later has to face that flaw again (actually this time) in the big graphic novels that came out, they’re really good btw. give them a read if you have the time to spare
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I think it’d be funny if the energy bending thing was given like a final “oh you actually don’t have to kill” but then this power actual fails when the final battle comes… then Aang is like wtf and hesitates but then goes through a bit of internal mental battle and then finally finds the will to kill Ozai anyways and I feel like this would be better character development than a weak-ass oh I didn’t kill anyone, just crippled him for life
Like you know those movie plot where a character is like “oh I’ll be the bait and lure the enemy and you’ll kill them” and promises they won’t be in danger, then like when the plan goes through, it’s revealed that that character’s sacrifice was always necessary but they lied so its easier for that one empathetic character to go along with the plan. Like imagine the lion turtle actually did that instead, it’d be so much better as a plot.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
if Aang had to kill Ozai he wouldn’t be smiling and waving after Zuko’s coronation, he most likely wouldn’t even decide to try again with Katara, the story would be forced to turn very dark, very fast, and would need to be given time and space to breathe
final minutes of the last episode are not the time to have a character break their core values, not without a season’s worth of set up to get you to that point