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Bushgjl t1_j5bu5hs wrote

Reply to comment by LightThatIgnitesAll in Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live action T.V. Series Adaptation). by [deleted]

I mean it makes sense to me, you have to unexperienced children in leadership positions with both being informed by extremist views. Zuko by Ozai and Aang by Roku, both encouraging the other to take a strongman position to enforcing order on the world.

So Aang considering killing Zuko under the advice of Roku and believing himself to have failed in bringing peace is not unbelievable.

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LightThatIgnitesAll t1_j5buza5 wrote

>I mean it makes sense to me

I see I guess it's just a difference of opinion. For me, it makes zero sense, hurts the show and sours Aang's character arc.

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Bushgjl t1_j5bvna1 wrote

To me it doesn't hurt his character arc because the idea Aang would never make serious mistakes after the series ended was unlikely.

His character arc in TV show is accepting his responsibility as the Avatar and becoming fully realized. However he has no peacetime leadership experience and is still very young, so expecting him to struggle with the morally grey areas of peacetime is to be expected.

You can see in the Legend of Korea that Aang and all the gang change drastically in their lives to fit the roles they take on.

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