History YMMV / AvatarTheLastAirbenderSozinsCometPart4AvatarAang

** Most fans take issue with [[spoiler:Aang suddenly entering the Avatar State by hitting a perfectly-shaped rock]], because such a thing was never set up or hinted at. It's also contradicted by what the Guru told him about not being able to use it unless he [[spoiler:let go of Katara to release the last chakra.]]

** The existence of Energybending is another point of contention. While Toph invented a new form of bending had already been established, Energybending doesn't use any of the four elements and wasn't hinted toward at all prior to this episode, so its usage to resolve the Ozai plot without killing him feels like a cop out.

* AssPull: Most fans take issue with [[spoiler:Aang suddenly entering the Avatar State by hitting a perfectly-shaped rock]], because such a thing was never set up or hinted at.

** [[AlasPoorVillain Azula's breakdown is sad.]] The fight leading up to it, however, is not. Azula goes after Katara ForTheEvulz after she succeeds in making Zuko take a lightning bolt to the chest. Katara realizes she can't heal Zuko or save herself in a straight fight. Instead, she gains a look of TranquilFury, grabs some chains, and lures Azula onto the storm drain grate. Azula's OhCrap on realizing she's enveloped in ice, and suffocating until Katara undoes the ice-water bubble, is satisfying.

* AssPull: Most fans take issue with [[spoiler:Aang suddenly entering the Avatar state by hitting a perfectly-shaped rock]], because it raises the issue of why this was never set up or hinted at.

** It was Zuko's fault that Ba Sing Se fell to Azula by interfering in her fight with Katara. Here, it's fitting that though he has changed and proven he's on the side of good, he makes up for the mistake [[DivingSave by protecting Katara from his little sister]].
** Azula's breakdown is sad. The fight leading up to it, however, is not. Azula goes after Katara ForTheEvulz after she succeeds in making Zuko take a lightning bolt to the chest. Katara realizes she can't heal Zuko or save herself in a straight fight. Instead, she gains a look of TranquilFury, grabs some chains, and lures Azula onto the storm drain grate. Azula's OhCrap on realizing she's enveloped in ice, and suffocating until Katara undoes the ice-water bubble, is satisfying.

** It was Zuko's fault that Ba Sing Se fell to Azula by interfering in her fight with Katara. Here, it's fitting that though he has changed and proven he's on the side of good, he makes up for the mistake by protecting Katara from his little sister.

** Ozai's defeat is truly cathartic from the moment Aang turns the tide of the battle through the Avatar State. Gone is the arrogant, vicious Phoenix King that terrorizes children; in its place is a frightened man running from an angry god. When he is almost executed by the Avatar, his expression is that of a helpless child, [[LaserGuidedKarma not unlike Zuko during that fateful Agni Kai]]. When Aang decides to take away his firebending instead of killing him, Ozai is left drooling on the floor, forced to hear terrible jokes from children mocking his new status as a non-bender and the loser of the Hundred Year War. A fitting curtain for such for this haughty tyrant.

* Ozai's defeat is truly cathartic from the moment Aang turns the tide of the battle through the Avatar State. Gone is the arrogant, vicious Phoenix King that terrorizes children; in its place is a frightened man running from an angry god. When he is almost executed by the Avatar, his expression is that of a helpless child, [[LaserGuidedKarma not unlike Zuko during that fateful Agni Kai]]. When Aang decides to take away his firebending instead of killing him, Ozai is left drooling on the floor, forced to hear terrible jokes from children mocking his new status as a non-bender and the loser of the Hundred Year War. A fitting HumilationConga for such a terrible father.