redbrunja | Azula & Unpopular Fandom Opinions

Okay, so I'm doing

avatar_contest because I want to get back into the habit of writing for Avatar and honestly, I'm sorry I broke up with that show the way I did.

The last couple of prompts have both reminded me of Azula and you know, the more time goes by the more I realize I am really, really disappointed in how her arc turned out. Even thought I know that she was going crazy because of Mai and Ty Lee betraying her, it still read a lot like another women losing her sanity when when she got power.

I think that Zuko leaving Mai (what was presumably) a really thoughtful letter is a good way to break up with someone in general. Additionally, I think telling her face to face would have been dumb and given Azula a chance to stop him.

It is okay that Ozai was really a faceless villain. That was his role and we didn't need to know/care about his motivations the way we did Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee.

Also, you know Zuko's scar? That is not a symbol of Zuko and Katara's love and when Zuko looks at it he's not going to think about saving Katara; he's going to think about how two of the four members of his family have tried to kill him.

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Which men handle it fine? Ozai doesn't seem like he's got all of his screws tight either (because, again with the massive genocide, who in their right mind thinks that's a good idea?), and what happens to him in the end is worse, because at least Azula has a chance to heal after her break down. It takes Zuko a long time to get to the place where he would be a reliable Fire Lord: in fact, it's the point of his arc. Aang's ultimate power renders him incapable of following his own strongly held moral code.

The only one who seems to handle power "well" is Long Feng, and his actions have consequences, too.

Just look at the order of the white lotus and how just about all the old women that they met were crazy.

This is a good point.

Yes, but Ozai's very clearly in control of himself; he was very effective in his madness while Azula is lounging around in her robe and not even been clear about who she's exiling.

The voice actress acted the hell out of crazy Azula (possibly one of the best voice performances in the show, IMO) but the differences in male/female insanity and handling of power are the one major strike against the show for me. (Even I admit that I'm somewhat petty when I comes to Jet. I just don't like him and find him a boring cliche.) Also, the Ba Sing Se convo you mentioned may have been in my post, not cofeeandink's.

*nods*

Oh, yeah, the VA was amazing. But I really think Azula's breakdown would have played better if:

1.) it had been handled differently

2.) it had occurred at a different point in the series.

There are a lot of ways it could have been handled better and, IMO, not many ways it could be handled worse.

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