I think they were talking about patterns - in season three especially you have a lot of older male characters who are badass - Iroh has his prison break-out arc, you have Piando (?), you see more of Ozai, and then you have the entire male order of the lotus, Roku being trained by all male benders, and that's contrasted with Azula's older henchladies who are used often as the butt joke and Hama, who's crazy and evil.
I think how they made Azula go crazy and their choices NOT to bring back the fortuneteller and the herbalist from season 1 into the Order of the Lotus were unusually bad gender dynamics for this show.
I honestly think Suki would stand up as a much better counterpoint to Azula if we actually saw her fighting and leading her team in season 3. While Suki IS the leader of the kyoshi warriors, she spends a LOT of time separated from them.
Yeah, you can get into plot considerations like time and needing to have Sokka and Suki be a bit isolated for their romance, but still...
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I think how they made Azula go crazy and their choices NOT to bring back the fortuneteller and the herbalist from season 1 into the Order of the Lotus were unusually bad gender dynamics for this show.
I honestly think Suki would stand up as a much better counterpoint to Azula if we actually saw her fighting and leading her team in season 3. While Suki IS the leader of the kyoshi warriors, she spends a LOT of time separated from them.
Yeah, you can get into plot considerations like time and needing to have Sokka and Suki be a bit isolated for their romance, but still...