AVATAR : THE LAST AIRBENDER 1X14 EXTENDED REACTION
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Hello !
I watched the two last episodes the same day, I was really excited about all the informations we learnt and everything I needed to think about after them. So I was a little disturbed by this one : the story was great and it brings a lot of philosophical questions about destiny, how you can fight in and can you really fight it ; but most of it was about Aang and Katara's relationship. I told you I had trouble to imagine it, Katara was considering him as a kid and acting like a mother, Aang is such a naive and pure kid, and with the Avatar role and how I imagined it, he couldn't have a love relationship at all.
But this episode proved me I was wrong. Aang is serious about his feelings, Katara is beginning to have doubts, and their relationship can evolve after this episode. How, and is it gonna go really in that direction ? I'm still not sure yet, but this episode made me open to the discussion and see them differently.
I'm still french, so I'm still sorry if my english hurts you.
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Comments
Haha make her read Lord of the rings ๐ (cf my response to your other comment). Frodo had no love relationship but his bromance with Sam was one of the best I ever read ๐ค
Laura Reactions
2021-03-10 09:26:21 +0000 UTCHello ! Thanks for your two comments, I'm gonna respond here because I find your question really interesting. I'm totally ok with Aang marrying, being in love, I want him to be happy, and I'm not "demanding" his celibacy. But, I explained it, maybe I thought of the role of Avatar as something so big, like other fictional roles in movies/books, so rough, that I couldn't imagine it for him, for me he was only defined by this role which would be bigger than himself and his desires, see ? But it's clearly a personal thought that I explained also for GOT where I predicted the same for several characters at the end, because I was really impacted a lot by Lord of the Rings and final chapters, the author was explaining so well that we lived hard and heavy stuff, your heart AND your mind are too "full" of it, there are places for friendship and new adventures but nothing like mariage or things like that. Like I said during my review, maybe I was wrong to imagine the role of Avatar as something like that, it's totally my fault here ๐
Laura Reactions
2021-03-10 09:24:05 +0000 UTCI wish I could convince my 12 year old she's too young for love relationships lol ;)
Libby DVR
2021-03-10 09:22:09 +0000 UTCCelibacy is an awful thing to demand of someone. Don't you think Avatar's should be able to marry?
Libby DVR
2021-03-10 09:13:50 +0000 UTCI love this episode. I always found it very funny and as a literature nerd there's another reason I love it. This is the episode where we hear the theme of the series. Aunt Wu's advice to Aang at the end. Katara is motherly to everyone and would be motherly to any love interest. You see her do it with Jet briefly, "I made him this hat." People get too in their feelings about their 'ships' which I find annoying. The only ship that counts is the one the writers intended. They put in the work so the question is what a relationship says about the characters and what the writers are saying about the world. Ignore shippers in the comments and pay attention to what the writers are foreshadowing instead. That is my advice. Keep an open mind as well. Character development is what this show is all about.
Libby DVR
2021-03-10 09:00:04 +0000 UTC
