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Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
Amazing.
Honestly the best show I've ever seen, Breaking bad with it, Aang's my favorite, love how he's always fun throughout the entire series, even though he lost his entire race, he's still a happy, fun and friendly kid who's trying to fix the entire world.
Zuko, this guy has the best development in fiction, him and Walter White. Zuko feels a need to please people because he was never valued by his father. He has an unending need to capture the Avatar because it will please his father. When he feels this is impossible he falls in on himself (Zuko alone). When he changes sides he feels the need to make all gaang to like him not just let him be there. This results in the "life changing feild trips" where his own experinces allow him to help the others.
Zuko has Self-Destructive tendencies. He gets in fights he isn't sure he can win with Zhao and Azula and otherwise puts himself in unnecessary phsycial danger danger. He also subjects himseo to emotional situations that he knows will hurt him. He has little skill to handel his emotions or direct his energy and ambition destructing tends to be his outlit. Self-destructing also is an outlit for his own self-hate.
Honour is an important concept within the culture of the fire nation. But Zuko has an over-attachment to this idea to the point that people feel the need to comment on it (Namely Azula & Iroh). He fixates on this idea because it was drilled into him it was the most important but he feels he lacks it and overcompensates. It becomes a fixation and a way in wich to search for meaning he is lacking and a way to justify his self esteem issues and anger.
He has a tendency to be very dramatic in general and have extreme reactions. This is generally a reaction to a perceived slight against his ego, rejection or insults. I believe like the dangerous streak he deals with the emotional scars he was never taught to process his emotions and his self-image is completely shattered by being banished.
His struggles with pretty intense Trust Issues. This is shown by the fact he denies help from most people and doesn't believe they want to help him. This is born from the fact that most people he grew up with were duplicitous.
Shame is a prominent characteristic of Zuko's character. This is pointed out by uncle Iroh in Bitter Work. This comes I think from the lack of emotional support.
Through his exposure to the earth kingdom, seeinf first hand devstation of the war and spiritual teaching from Iroh Zuko is able to reconcile his innate compassion and the love he did see from his mother as a kid with his belife in honour and strength. He learns a strength born from humility, love and family.
Azula is a complex character who is gifted, clever, beautiful, and deeply psychologically injured. Her story is one of abuse, manipulation, and war. She was raised by abusive people in a cult of power and supremacy; by the age of 14, she was being used to put the same trauma out on the entire world.
The prime driver for Azula's character is the necessity to retain control over her situation and due to her status as the princess of the world's dominant power, this is control over everything. Control and power are the only things Azula truly understands as valuable. This control also equals safety, safety from physical harm during a battle, and emotional harm by others. We can see this control manifest in her emotional distress at having even one hair out of place during her training (2x01). She uses her place of power to hold fear over other people, those she considers lesser than her, by invoking the fear of losing their place and physical harm. Her social power and skill in bending back up the threats.
Azula's need for control started as a child who grew up being taught through the iron hand of Ozai who demanded perfection. Her status as a prodigy with fire bending, physical aptitude, and intelligence gave her positive attention from her father but also led her to be inculcated even stronger into the idea that fear is the only way. Her father taught with the fear of retribution for failure as much as any positive attention. The more blatant abuse Zuko suffered from their father for showing what was perceived as weakness and emotionality was another teacher that she must always control every part of her.
Overall this show MIGHT seem like it's a childish movie but in reality it's a movie with amazing characters, tragic scenes, amazing fights, perfect story and just a wonderful world.
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang (2008)
Easily top 3 best episodes in tv show history and the best animated episode in historh
It's AMAZING, the way that Aang got his avatar state back was so badass, the way they show how powerful Aang is, is just perfect, the way they show that Aang is above everyone in that universe in power is just insane and Azula in that episode just proves to me that she's the best animated antagonist in history and no one can change that fact, the fight scenes in that episode were stunning, Aang destroying those pillars, Zuko's Agni Kai against Azula, Toph Suki and Sokka's plan to sneak in the airships and the best of all, the White lotus, just an incredible addition to this already perfect series.