[[A quick note, since we're commenting back and forth so much to-day and I know you've contracted the contagion, poor love, and I haven't: I, so far, know nothing about the Avatar finale whatsoever. To achieve this, I've withdrawn almost totally from what little fandom I was in. So. Yup. Five weeks to go, huttah.]]

Smart more.

And you're totally hitting the nail on the head with Sokka. To which I'll add, I bet part of the reason he's so much the idea guy is that he DOESN'T have bending. I bet if he did, he wouldn't stretch his mind or think as creatively as he does now. Note, it's not any of the benders who come up with fake!firebending - it's the guy who doesn't have bending at all that realized that he can be trixy with the fact that it didn't work.