Tag: aang

thelastjedicritical:

There should absolutely be some mysterious reason why Rey can’t kill Kylo. She can knock him out, defeat him for the moment but she can’t end him. And the only one who can should be Finn. and NO it’s not bc Rey’s in love with Kylo, you nasties, it should all be some crazy  Force related mumbo jumbo!

Rey’s the Zuko in this narrative, at least in that narrow sense–Zuko passed on a clear chance to kill his asshole father Luke Ozai, saying that was Aang’s job as the Avatar. Rey herself in the novelization knew that it was not the will of the Force that she kill Kylo Ren (and no, she felt nothing for him lol). It would be cool if Finn is the Aang in this scenario who has the legitimacy and the will of the Force behind him to end Kylo Ren–or better yet, pull an actual Aang and strip the asshole of his Force powers. Remember how I keep raving about how Finn might be Force immune? Imagine if he could turn that on its head and take away another Force user’s powers…

(1/2) Hi! Regarding that analysis you reblogged about the deux ex machina in Avatar: from a writing perspective, I still don’t understand what was supposed to be the conflict in that last scene in The Guru. I think the majority of viewers (myself included) thought that Aang would have to let go of his love for Katara in order to unlock his chakra, and this sacrifice was supposed to be the source of all the tension in that moment. But in the end that sacrifice wasn’t actually made?

loopy777:

(2/2) Aang still held onto his love for Katara and they ended up
together. I’ve seen some people say that unlocking your seventh chakra
doesn’t actually mean letting go of your loved ones and stuff, that in
Aang’s case it’d mean not to prioritize his attachments over the world,
but if that’s true then a) you may call it a sacrifice, but considering
it didn’t affect Aang’s relationship with Katara at all, it certainly
doesn’t feel like one b) why did Pathik word things so poorly?

(3/3) He pretty much said “Forget about the person you love”. The more
analyses I read about that last scene in The Guru, the more contrived it
feels to me. What are your thoughts? P.S.: Just to clarify (‘cause I
was called an “Aang hater” when discussing this very same topic a few
weeks ago): I love Aang, as in, he might very well be my favourite
fictional character ever. I just want to get a better understanding of
what the writers were going for in the Book 2 finale. 

Well, even though I had a reputation (and still might, for all I know) of holding the original AtLA cartoon up on a pedestal as perfect, I think the writing around this little subplot was actually pretty bad. There’s a lot going on in the finale to Book Earth, so it’s easy to miss the nuances of Aang’s “detachment” subplot. I was always under the impression that this specific subplot is resolved at the end of Book Earth, and wouldn’t continue into Book Fire (as it turned out no to), but I’ll admit that the path to that conclusion is very shaky.

And, on top of that, of the three characters who weigh in on the subject (the Guru, Aang, and Iroh) at least one of them is completely mistaken about the subject, and the cartoon doesn’t give us any clues as to who!

But let’s see if I can offer enough of an explanation to back up my reblog.

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I think you’ve got it right, attachment =/= love. There’s also Aang’s personal history to consider: He was a young Airbender who was not deeply into his studies before his education was curtailed, and even beforehand the spiritual side of his training may have suffered from receiving Avatar training so intensively at a young age, which could have been another reason for his mentor’s unhappiness at Aang’s regimen. The guru may have assumed a higher level of knowledge than Aang actually had, thinking Aang was using the terms correctly, resulting in a misunderstanding.

I agree the whole arc was not a model of clarity, especially since Aang’s misunderstanding was a common one for the audience and should have been cleared up. This confusion may have contributed to some fans’ dissatisfaction with/misunderstanding of Aang’s arc and his romance with Katara.

Also are you finally admitting Yoda was full of crud