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* So would Katara's Spirit Oasis water have worked on Zuko's scar?
** No, cause Zuko's scar already "healed." Healing water can repair wounds, but not completely erase scars. When she used the Spirit water on Aang, it restored his life, but his lighting scar remained.



*** That.... wasn't the question, though.
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*** That.... wasn't the question, though.
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** Toph as shown many times that, despite her usual tough guy exterior, she can be VERY sensitive and dismissive when she's feeling vulnerable. Losing her earthbending foot-sonar would leave her feeling EXTREMELY vulnerable, so she's naturally pushing Zuko away. It wears off.

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** Toph as has shown many times that, despite her usual tough guy exterior, she can be VERY sensitive and dismissive when she's feeling vulnerable. Losing her earthbending foot-sonar would leave her feeling EXTREMELY vulnerable, so she's naturally pushing Zuko away. It wears off.
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**Toph as shown many times that, despite her usual tough guy exterior, she can be VERY sensitive and dismissive when she's feeling vulnerable. Losing her earthbending foot-sonar would leave her feeling EXTREMELY vulnerable, so she's naturally pushing Zuko away. It wears off.
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* There's one episode, I can't remember the name, where Zuko is having trouble getting the team (or Gaang, as I guess it's called?) to let him join them, not without good reason. From what I recall, [[LivingLieDetector Toph]] is the only one to point out that Aang, Sokka, and Katara are letting their preexisting grudges against him cloud their judgement. She tries to go visit Zuko at night; Zuko, not realizing who it is, sears her feet with his firebending. Though she eventually agrees to let him join, she makes it clear that she's still upset with him burning her feet and still holds a grudge, even when it should be obvious that it was an honest mistake. Could she not tell that he felt genuinely remorseful, or is she just very hypocritical?

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* There's one episode, I can't remember the name, where Zuko is having trouble getting the team (or Gaang, as I guess it's called?) Gaang to let him join them, not without good reason. From what I recall, [[LivingLieDetector Toph]] is the only one to point out that Aang, Sokka, and Katara are letting their preexisting grudges against him cloud their judgement. She tries to go visit Zuko at night; Zuko, not realizing who it is, sears her feet with his firebending. Though she eventually agrees to let him join, she makes it clear that she's still upset with him burning her feet and still holds a grudge, even when it should be obvious that it was an honest mistake. Could she not tell that he felt genuinely remorseful, or is she just very hypocritical?
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***The Gaang has a poor track record when it comes to remembering that Toph is blind most of the time. She's constantly having to remind them.
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**No, cause Zuko's scar already "healed." Healing water can repair wounds, but not completely erase scars. When she used the Spirit water on Aang, it restored his life, but his lighting scar remained.
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** This was brought up in "The Deserter" where Aang tried to learn fire bending without mastering water or earth first. The order is a way for the Avatar to learn discipline and patience, and to better transition into bending that's opposite to their origins.

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** This was brought up in "The Deserter" where Aang tried to learn fire bending without mastering water or earth first. The Going in a certain order is a way for the Avatar to learn discipline and patience, and to better transition into bending that's opposite to their origins.opposite, and most difficult, elements.
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**This was brought up in "The Deserter" where Aang tried to learn fire bending without mastering water or earth first. The order is a way for the Avatar to learn discipline and patience, and to better transition into bending that's opposite to their origins.
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**The rocks were made of Earth. Avatar Extras stated that Toph could sense Earth even if it's not connected to the ground. Pipsqueak and the Duke could've also told her where to strike.
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* In “Awakening”, a ship of the Fire Nation attacked the disguised Gaang by shooting burning rocks. How was Toph be able to hit the burning rocks in the air? She should not be able to feel any airborne objects.
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* So would Katara's Spirit Oasis water have worked on Zuko's scar?
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** A few reasons. One is that Aang originally thought there wasn't any harm in learning from Pakku during the day and training Katara by night. It isn't until this plan was executed that he found out Pakku took it as an insult. Additionally, Aang has to go up against the most feared and powerful firebender on the planet in a battle that will decide the fate of the world; he wouldn't want to settle for anything less than the best when it came to learning the elements. Third, as I recall, he actually ''does'' suggest finding another teacher if it means stopping Katara and Pakku from fighting; Katara brushes him off, saying she's not fighting Pakku just to allow him back into the class anymore. And fourth, even if she had agreed, there's no guarantee that anyone at the North Pole would be willing to teach Aang after he and Katara had so brazenly insulted the utmost waterbending authority in their tribe and then refused to apologize.

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* In "Nightmares And Daydreams", Aang says he doesn't know any firebending, and yet, he learned firebending in "The Deserter", so how can he not know any of it?




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* In "Nightmares And Daydreams", Aang says he doesn't know any firebending, and yet, he learned firebending in "The Deserter", so how can he not know any of it?
** He means he doesn't know any firebending moves.

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** I was thinking she might've accidentally touch him or rubbed against him after he undressed. That's just my two cents though....



** I was thinking she might've accidentally touch him or rubbed against him after he undressed. That's just my two cents though....
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** I was thinking she might've accidentally touch him or rubbed against him after he undressed. That's just my two cents though....
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* In "Nightmares And Daydreams", Aang says he doesn't know any firebending, and yet, he learned firebending in "The Deserter", so how can he not know any of it?
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* Does it really matter what order the elements are learned in? I mean, the Avatar still masters all four elements regardless of the order, so why would it be a big deal which way he/she/they went?
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** I don't even think she's that angry, really. There's sufficient room to interpret most of her actions in this episode as being calculated. This is not to say that she planned everything to go the way it did, but that she's clearly working towards a goal in this episode and takes every opportunity she gets to try and forward that goal: she wants to get the gang working with Zuko so that he can teach Aang firebending. After she visits Zuko and gets burned she understandably gets a bit freaked out from the pain in her feet and from not being able to see and panics, but once she gets out of there and safely back to the gang she's pretty upfront and clear to them that it was "kind of an accident". Realizing that this is not a super convincing position, she then goes along with their assessment that Zuko's dangerous and shouldn't be left alone and suggests that they should invite him back—which could be interpreted as her trying to subtly get them in contact with Zuko so he'd have a route to try and get in their good graces, which is really what she was trying to accomplish by visiting him in the first place. Then the events with Combustion Man happen and for the most part that takes care of it. When Zuko then apologizes to her and Aang asks for her opinion about letting him join, she's by far the quickest to say yes, and only adds the "it'll give me plenty of time to get back at him for burning my feet" part so as not to make it seem like she's forgiving him too easy and, well, because she's Toph and enjoys making playful threats like that all the time.
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* Did Aang really have to fight the Fire Lord alone? I mean, his friends offered to help, and Toph said that she and the others would be there to help if he needed, yet they clearly ignored the fight in favor of downing the Fire Nation zeppelins, and for the first half of the fight, Aang was clearly getting curb-stomped like Satan in the second of the two Manbearpig episodes of WesternAnimation/SouthPark. Iroh just said that Aang had to be the one to beat the Fire Lord, he didn't say anything about him getting assistance in achieving that goal. Is there something I'm missing?
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* In "The Waterbending Master", why didn't Aang just decide to find a new waterbending teacher upon finding out women weren't allowed to learn waterbending? I know he said he wouldn't enroll in Pakku's classes if he didn't teach Katara, but why didn't he just find somebody else to learn from, like, perhaps, a former student of Pakku's, or perhaps any other waterbender? I mean, the Northern tribe certainly has no shortage of waterbenders, and Pakku certainly can't be the only teacher from the tribe, so learning from Pakku couldn't've been Aang's only option.
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* When Zuko fought against the earth kingdom soldiers in "Zuko Alone" he was able to take out most of them with no effort using just his sword skills and hand to hand but when faced with their leader he is "outmatched" because of his bending. Before this Zuko has been shown to be extremely agile, strong enough to shatter a chain with a single kick, and he's dodged fire blast, so why didn't he just dodge the rocks that were flying at him instead of blocking them this his sword? The momentum alone pushed him back even with blocking, Zuko can be an idiot sometimes

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* When Zuko fought against the earth kingdom soldiers in "Zuko Alone" he was able to take out most of them with no effort using just his sword skills and hand to hand but when faced with their leader he is "outmatched" because of his bending. Before this Zuko has been shown to be extremely agile, strong enough to shatter a chain with a single kick, and he's dodged fire blast, so why didn't he just dodge the rocks that were flying at him instead of blocking them this his sword? The momentum alone pushed him back even with blocking, Zuko can be an idiot sometimes
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*When Zuko fought against the earth kingdom soldiers in "Zuko Alone" he was able to take out most of them with no effort using just his sword skills and hand to hand but when faced with their leader he is "outmatched" because of his bending. Before this Zuko has been shown to be extremely agile, strong enough to shatter a chain with a single kick, and he's dodged fire blast, so why didn't he just dodge the rocks that were flying at him instead of blocking them this his sword? The momentum alone pushed him back even with blocking, Zuko can be an idiot sometimes
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** Also, season 3 Katara is a different person from season 1 Katara. For starters, Season 3 Katara knows that if you steal from someone, they're eventually going to find out and come after you for it.
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** It's possible that she is not aware that the different bending arts aren't all the same in form at that time, since all she intrinsically knows is her home. Not to mention, Aang himself points this problem out when she asks, in spite of being the Avatar. That being said, Iroh ''did'' suggest that one elemental bender could learn from the disciplines of other benders to make new techniques; it's how he invented lightning redirection from watching waterbenders regularly redirect in their bending motions, after all.
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* In episode 1, why did Katara think that Aang could teach her how to waterbend. She knew he was an airbender and she didn't know he was The Avatar yet, so she had no reason to believe that he knew how to waterbend. Are the different forms of bending not distinct arts?

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* In episode 1, why did Katara think that Aang could teach her how to waterbend. waterbend? She knew he was an airbender and she didn't know he was The Avatar yet, so she had no reason to believe that he knew how to waterbend. Are the different forms of bending not distinct arts?
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* In episode 1, why did Katara think that Aang could teach her how to waterbend. She knew he was an airbender and she didn't know he was The Avatar yet, so she had no reason to believe that he knew how to waterbend. Are the different forms of bending not distinct arts?
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** Toph's just angry that he hurt her; accident or not. Just like Sokka was angry when Aang burned Katara. But Toph isn't going to hold a long grudge over it, especially considering her feet are healed up almost immediately. Toph's "grudge" in this case is a minor thing, resulting from a minor annoyance that the youngest -- and orneriest -- of the group was momentarily upset about. It's not nearly on the same level as the grudge the rest of the Gaang holds.

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** Toph's just angry that he hurt her; accident or not. Just like Sokka was angry when Aang burned Katara. But Toph isn't going to hold a long grudge over it, especially considering her feet are healed up almost immediately. Toph's "grudge" in this case is a minor thing, resulting from a minor annoyance that the youngest -- and orneriest -- of the group was momentarily upset about. It's not nearly on the same level as the grudge the rest of the Gaang holds. She probably got payback between episodes by launching him into a river when he wasn't expecting it.
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** Toph's just angry that he hurt her; accident or not. Just like Sokka was angry when Aang burned Katara. But Toph isn't going to hold a long grudge over it, especially considering her feet are healed up almost immediately. Toph's "grudge" in this case is a minor thing, resulting from a minor annoyance that the youngest -- and orneriest -- of the group was momentarily upset about. It's not nearly on the same level as the grudge the rest of the Gaang holds.

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