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Okay, so he was set up to look for a third option. The form that third option took was never previously established, not just weakly established, or weakly foreshadowed, not established or foreshadowed at all. There was nothing to suggest it was possible. Nothing to say \
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Okay, so he was set up to look for a third option. The form that third option took was never previously established, not just weakly established, or weakly foreshadowed, not established or foreshadowed at all. There was nothing to suggest it was possible. Nothing to say \\\"Hey, by the way, this is a thing.\\\"
The right way to go about this is to have him remember that one time where the wise old man said in a cryptic manner \\\"Look out for them moving islands, eh?\\\" or something like that.
The wrong way to go about this is \\\"I\\\'m gonna go off on my own and meditate with the spirits or whatever --fourteen hours later-- well, I didn\\\'t get the answers I wanted, but what luck I was actually on a lion turtle and he gave me this technique that didn\\\'t exist before now. Que suerte!\\\"
You will note that I did not say he didn\\\'t commune with the spirit world, I said that he didn\\\'t find his answers from doing so. When the answers he received weren\\\'t the ones he wanted to hear, he asked the lion turtle for help. The Lion Turtle gave him energybending which was not, in fact, foreshadowed.
Like I said before, just because A and B were foreshadowed doesn\\\'t mean C was. It bears repeating that the solutions he was looking for weren\\\'t achieved through any sort of real process, considering his options, weighing his actions. It\\\'s just magic turtle —> Hand on face, no more bending.
Regardless of whether the turtle\\\'s existence was established, the fact is that he just happened to show up at the last minute, apropos of nothing, and give Aang a solution to his problems without any sort of actual foreshadowing as to whether or even how this solution can possibly exist.
This is not grasping at straws, this is firmly holding onto the barefaced, clear as day conspicuously discernible, thesaurus usingly, distinctly distinguishable, glaringly obvious truth. Otherwise known as \\\"a moment when the writers pull something out of thin air in a less-than-graceful narrative development, violating the LawOfConservationOfDetail by dropping a plot-critical detail in the middle, or near the end of their narrative without ForeShadowing or dropping a ChekhovsGun earlier on.\\\"
There was no detail to conserve, no shadow to fore, no Pavel to shoot the gun.
The right way to go about this is to have him remember that one time where the wise old man said in a cryptic manner \\\"Look out for them moving islands, eh?\\\" or something like that.
The wrong way to go about this is \\\"I\\\'m gonna go off on my own and meditate with the spirits or whatever --fourteen hours later-- well, I didn\\\'t get the answers I wanted, but what luck I was actually on a lion turtle and he gave me this technique that didn\\\'t exist before now. Que suerte!\\\"
You will note that I did not say he didn\\\'t commune with the spirit world, I said that he didn\\\'t find his answers from doing so. When the answers he received weren\\\'t the ones he wanted to hear, he asked the lion turtle for help. The Lion Turtle gave him energybending which was not, in fact, foreshadowed.
Like I said before, just because A and B were foreshadowed doesn\\\'t mean C was. It bears repeating that the solutions he was looking for weren\\\'t achieved through any sort of real process, considering his options, weighing his actions. It\\\'s just magic turtle —> Hand on face, no more bending.
Regardless of whether the turtle\\\'s existence was established, the fact is that he just happened to show up at the last minute, apropos of nothing, and give Aang a solution to his problems without any sort of actual foreshadowing as to whether or even how this solution can possibly exist.
This is not grasping at straws, this is firmly holding onto the barefaced, clear as day conspicuously discernible, thesaurus usingly, distinctly distinguishable, glaringly obvious truth. Otherwise known as \\\"a moment when the writers pull something out of thin air in a less-than-graceful narrative development, violating the LawOfConservationOfDetail by dropping a plot-critical detail in the middle, or near the end of their narrative without ForeShadowing or dropping a ChekhovsGun earlier on.\\\"
There was no detail to conserve, no shadow to fore, no Pavel to shoot the gun.
