skygiants

Ooh, I can do unpopular opinions for this one!

1. I don't actually ship Katara with anyone in the series, and I certainly don't feel the need to join one side or the other of the Great Katara/Aang vs. Katara/Zuko debate. She's thirteen or fourteen and about to become the super-hot heroine of the world; she has plenty of time to meet other guys! Or go on a nice low-pressure date with Haru and his 'stache or something. I like Zuko/Mai, and if I ship Aang with anyone it's pigtails girl from the Oracle episode.

2. I LOVE MAI. I also love Ty Lee but I feel like that is less unpopular? I think they are both great characters and among my favorites in the series, and I wish that we'd seen more of them in the buildup to the finale.

3. Relatedly: it is my firm opinion that the Boiling Rock duology are the best episodes of the series. Definitely better than the finale, which I loved, of course, because it was THE AVATAR FINALE, but thought was actually kind of crammed and didn't address some of the stuff I wanted it to.

4. Ursa is a lot more than Zuko's wonderful loving mother. For a start, she's one of very few people in the series that we know has actually killed - and, more than that, murdered in cold blood. Killing in the Avatarverse is a big deal, and to me that implies a level of moral ambiguity and stone cold badassery that I find really interesting and can't remember ever seeing anyone talk about.