This is true. And saddly, when the last movie is released and on the DVD Rack at Blockbuster or Best Buy or Wal-Mart, the forums shall die down again, this time it's likely to be permenant.
.................Unless Nick were to go into a business venture where they release 'continued adventures' of Avatar as Comics.
.....If they were to do that, I'd prefer that they do it as a series of Trade Paperbacks like how they release Manga here in the States.
Why? Because although it takes longer, TPBs make much more money in the long run then single issue releases with monthly titles.
Of course, I'd prefer if
I were at the helm of the writing team. ^_^
If we apply that theory to canon. What would it mean for Aang, nay...the world, since he chose Katara?
Hmmmm........ Ya know, I've not given that much thought. And even if I did I don't think I could discover all those niffty little nooks and cranies and details that someone else could.
So Marvel, should you ever feel the need to take a break from writing the next chapter of
World Tour for something dark and deep-or equally humorous somehow-I think you'd be
perfect for the role to use that theory and bring it to it's inevitably dark and apocolyptic conclusion.
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Another thing that got to me was why weren't the other Avatars aware of it?
Why did it appear after all these years, decades, centuries, just for Aang?
Kinda forces the point that Aang isn't just special, he's special-er.
That's a very valid point, one which I have a counter-point, but didn't want to mention it when this was brought forward.
Why did no other Avatar at least know of Spiritbending as shown in the finale, you ask? Simple.
It is
blasphemy. To take away someone else's bending, or messing with it in any other way, is to claim equality-at least-to whatever Utmost Higher Power is in charge of the Avatar World.
Find it far fetched? Think about it: Bending is a major point of life for everyone in the Avatar World, even to the non-benders. It's even involved in most-if not all-of the religious philosophies of the four nations, as the Northern Water Tribe has shown.
In the Finale Commentary, Bryke mentioned Aang's possably justifiable fear of becoming a Merciless Avenging Avatar.
Marvel, I know what you are thinking in regards to Aang's revulsion of responsibility and rejection of reality.But still, I find this exchange interesting from Aang: "I can't just go around
killing people I don't like!"
......Let's try rephrasing that: "I can't just go around
taking away the bending of people I don't like!"
As you can see, I think Aang's a bit of a hypocrit.
As mentioned earlier, Aang doesn't want to become a cold-hearted killing machine of an Avatar.
But I think it would be an ironic-and to some, most likely highly humorous-twist if-in the eyes of the religious people and the masses at large-Aang has become the very thing he tried to avoid, by becoming a "Bender Killer."
The way I see it, this is something even the Great Spirits
TM would consider heresy and a mortal sin, each one having a different reaction.
Please humor my fanon insert.Pan Ding, Great Spirit of Judgment: Finds it dishonorable, under-handed, cheap and down-right evil. ...
And he loves it.Feng, Great Spirit of Air: Is torn. On one hand: If Ozai was killed, his followers could use him as a marter. On the other: If he lives, he could still rally rebellion and discord for personal gain. Either way, Ozai's needed influence needed to be removed from the World Stage.
On the whole, he approves of Aang's actions, but condems the reasons(his near-obssesion with Katara, selfish concern over his soul, not thinking about the world at large).
Da Di, Great Spirit of Earth: The punk needed to grow a pair and bend an earth javalin through Ozai's chest, finds it incredable that the Avesa Spirit still wanted the Avatar while it was in such a whiny incarnation. As for the blasphemy part: She figures La'll have enough rage for the rest of them with plenty to spare.
Agni, Great Spirit of Fire: Dishonorable. Simple as that. That, and along with his rejection of the Avesa Spirit, will make it
very difficult for the current Avatar to regain his respect.
Yue, Great Spirit of The Moon: She's the newbie. Her opinion doesn't count.
La, Great Spirit of The Ocean: Aang has crossed the uncrossable line, he is now a filthy dirty blasphemer with no chance for redemption. Aang must now be slaughtered like the filthy rooster-pig that he is in the most gruesome way imaginable and his dang`ed soul cast into the eternal fires that burn but do not consume. His evil influence must never taint the next incarnations of the Avatar Cycle, and the next Avatar must be trained by the spirits themselves in Spiritual matters, since Roku failed once again to do his duty.
Aang must die, die, die,
die, die, die, die, die, die, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!!! BENDER KILLER!! BENDER KILLER!! BENDER KILLER!! BENDER KILLERR!! PAN DING!?! How can you
STAND there and let such infidelic
trash LIVE!?! KILL IT!!! Or I'll do it
myself!!!!.......................As you can see, for the rest of his mortal life-and maybe for all eternity-Aang is banned from the sea and will most likely have to watch his back while in the Spirit World.
Anyway,
AS FOR THE LION-TURTLE. I don't know what he intended for Aang to do with the knowledge/wisdom he was given, but given what I've just said about what messing with bending was all about, I doubt what we saw was it. But hey! He's new at the 'interact with Mortals' bit! He was only a baby when he last met the Avatar. .....Which was, like, two-thousand years ago in my fanon.
This also brings up
another interesting bit with non-benders: He can't touch them. They have no bending for Aang to take. And since everybody knows that Aang won't kill(shades of
The Dark Knight), he can be taken advantage of.
Let's look at this scenario: In the Former Fire Nation Colonies, some of the captured lands have been allowed to remain in Fire Nation hands. Not everyone likes that. And so, a group of Anti-Fire Nation Terrorists from the Earth Kingdom kidnap a Fire Nation Govener's daughter, threatening to kill her if
all of the captured lands are returned, and then some. The Avatar is brought in to negotiate.
What no one realizes is that they have no intenion of letting the girl-possably no older than Aang/Toph, maybe even Katara-go to her family, and every intention of killing her when she's no longer useful, if not sooner.
So Aang and the others.... Okay so it's just Katara by now, work with me-They go in and try to negotiate, Things go bad and Aang winds up having to go into their hide-out after them. After a few moments he corners the leader and tries his "Magic Laser-Face
TM trick on him, only to learn something disturbing:
He's not a bender. NONE of them are. "You can't take what's not already there Fire-Lover."
Aang has no idea what to do, since his only trump card is now worthless, and he still hasn't taken a life on purpous.
They fight, with Aang having to go on the offensive to injure the Bad Guys to take them out of the fight, but their leader-with both feet crushed, cracked ribs, missing teeth, a bloody nose and a broken arm-has somehow grabbed a knife and is now holding the girl infront of him as a sheild with said blade to her neck.
Aang and Terrorist Leader have a chat, until the latter stumbles, giving Aang the chance to airbend him and his victim apart. Knowing he's lost the fight, the Leader throws the knife at the girl, stabing her in the neck, slashing the Corrotid Artery, killing her-mercifully-in seconds, in a spray of blood ala
Sweeny Todd.
The Terrorist Leader is especially proud and smug of himself. He may have failed in his original mission, but he killed a Fire National and discredited the Fire-Loving Avatar to boot. A most satisfactory victory and consolation prize.
Later, Aang and the Fire Nation Govener are alone with the Govener's daughter's body.
It is silent, when the Govener speaks to Aang in a quiet voice. One that leaves no doubt in it's sincerity, but it is one without rage seeking only a scape-goat, only sadness.
"You killed her, Avatar."
"What?! N-no! It was him, I didn't do anything."
"Exactly." the greif-stricken man said as he turned to Aang, the look in his eyes not at all unlike the one in Cheif Arnooks after Yue's passing. "Had you killed them, she would still be alive."
"Govener, with all due respect, you know I don't believe in taking lives being the answer."
"I know, and I understand. But because you were so concerned in letting them live, my daughter is dead."
Silence permeated to small room as Aang's mouth scrunched up into a thin line, desperatly searching a loop-hole in the accusation, but finding none.
"All it takes for evil to win Avatar, is for good men to do nothing." The Govener's eyes became hard, and his voice took on a steally quality to it. But still Aang did not feel as though all the blame was heaped upon his shoulders. It was all still just a simple statement of facts.
"And to just stand by and watch evil take place. Without even trying to do something to stop it. Is more evil than the act itself." The govener stood up straight, turned back to his daughter's corpse, and stroked her icy cold cheeks. "Please. Leave us."
Deeply humbled and saddened by what the man had said, Avatar Aang turn away oh so slowly, walked out the door, and closed it behind him..................See Marvel? I can go dark too. ^_^