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We get the big action set pieces, the beautiful animation, we get the characters coming back, we get Toph kicking ass on top of the zeppelins, we get the big showdown between Aang and And Ozai is beautiful, is brilliant, is fantastic, and I love, love, love how this could have easily been a dragon ball fight. I am so used to these heroes going in, kicking their ass at the bad guy, blowing them up, never have to worry about them again unless they're rewritten into the story. But Aang, in his very much philosophical and spiritual teachings, doesn't want to take the life of Ozai, and that is a big running theme in book 3, that he doesn't want to kill him. He could easily. several times he could have killed him outright, but he chooses to spare his life because he sees the value of preserving life rather than being like Ozai where he would just take a life without thinking about it as he takes away the one thing that defines him. Defines the Phoenix King, never gets old, but he takes away his bending and he becomes what he considers as useless and I don't know if that's changed in the comics or the books or whatnot but I think it's such a good ending for that and it fits A with the character so much and B with the morals of the show that it shows you there's another way, there's another path, you don't always have to meet violence with violence, you don't always have to meet destruction with destruction, you have to try and step back and find the best possible alternative and if it comes to that destructive process then unfortunately that's the way it has to be whereas if there is another way then by all means go for it and I think that is so important and it's a kind of closing point. I think what makes this show special to me and especially when I re-watched it, totally not building up furniture but that's the story, it's a very good show for that, I was also building furniture while watching Avatar recently. That's so funny. It's such a good show for that. Because I've seen it a million times. I know what's going to happen, so I don't need to pay full attention to it. But I definitely was three to maybe four episodes of Avatar while I was building an IKEA furniture. But what I love about this show And again, I can go back to the animation being beautiful, the story being well crafted. But I think the main thing I love about this is the characters. I think that every character in this show plays a part. I think there is such a huge emotional core. And what I love as well is purely the diversity of the characters. And what I mean by that is everyone in this show, whether they're a villain or anti-hero or whatnot, they're shown to have they are pros and cons, but they all feel very realistic that you've got Aang dealing with the way of this guilt that his absences cost, the world being gone for a hundred years, and you've got Katara trying to hold everyone together, be motherly, you've got Sokka trying to be, you know, oh, upbeat and funny, and then triumphing over his shortcomings as someone who isn't a bender, he is just a regular a guy in this universe, but I love that episode as you were mentioning before that he has to learn to stand up for himself. Sordman, the Boomerang enthusiast, Toph as well, being someone who isn't as able-bodied as other people yet she absolutely kicks ass.