>>108012043Solid post.
I actually think kids can deal with hard moral questions. They're not dumb. Anyway, I think Aang made the right choice sparing Ozai, but agree that he wasn't challenged enough.
>>108012073>Katara has every reason to like Aang...cheap drama.Where have I ever discussed Katara's feelings? My focus has been on Aang's feelings.
However, if you want to discuss Katara, you are absolutely wrong about her apprehension being "cheap drama".
View things from her perspective. I know you said she's a tool that exists to make Aang feel better, but try to imagine her as a person. Katara's mother was murdered by the Fire Nation. Her father left her to fight and then was arrested. Her tribesmen were arrested. Her friends were arrested. They were hauled off to a maximum security prison, managed to escape, and then separated from her again - and this was the good scenario. When Katara flees during Day of Black Sun she doesn't know if her friends and family are going to be burned alive on the beach, just like her mother.
Katara's (and Sokka's) life has been a series of the Fire Nation painfully ripping away the things and people she loves. It's not only painful, it's exhausting.
Suddenly Aang wants a relationship. For someone like Katara, a romance is just another avenue to be hurt. She developed a crush on Jet (who, according to the creators, was the first boy she kissed) - and then Jet died. Katara has every reason to be too tired and afraid to open her heart to romance while the war is still on. She's already damaged, losing a man she loves may break her.
And Aang is going to face the Fire Lord in, what, three days? Even if she loves Aang, it makes sense why she would avoid further attach herself to someone who could be murdered in a few days.
>Aang gave up his entire life and world by virtue of being the Avatar.He lost. He did not give up. Critical difference. These are not small problems.
