#i fully believe that if aang hadn't known or said shit about k and z hunting down yon rha she would've made the exact same choice | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

lovegrowsart · 2 months

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"aang didn't tell katara to forgive just to let her anger out and let go" ?!?!?!?! litcheraclly the WHOLE false dichotomy presented by the narrative of the episode (using AANG as the primary mouthpiece) is forgiveness vs revenge like please watch the episode again and pay actual attention to the words coming out of aang's mouth.... so many tsr takes ignore the words in aang's mouth to interpret him more positively while putting words in zuko's mouth to view him more negatively, all the while pretending katara never said anything at all about HER OWN TRAUMA

#tsr actually manages to achieve some really profound nuance despite the limitations of the simplistic moral narrative its partly pushing #and yet the takes are SO fucking rancid my fucking beloathed forever #holly talks bs #aang critical #katara #zuko #i fully believe that if aang hadn't known or said shit about k and z hunting down yon rha she would've made the exact same choice #to not kill out of mercy but not forgive out of justice #because its not aang or even zuko that knows katara best #but katara that knows herself best #she did not almost lose herself in tsr #she FOUND herself #and to quote zuko #she did it on her own

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