Avatar: The Last Airbender - Avatar | Aang #4: "It's easy to do nothing. It's hard to forgive."

**pink velvet** · 05-09-2023, 08:03 AM

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"The past can be a great teacher."
"When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change."

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**gold-steps** · 05-09-2023, 07:25 PM

Thanks for the new thread!

**pink velvet** · 05-10-2023, 11:53 AM

No problem

I'm happy we made it here

**gold-steps** · 05-10-2023, 09:13 PM

Me too! It's exciting we're getting to the fourth thread for some characters!

**pink velvet** · 05-11-2023, 11:43 AM

We will probably get to #5 before the Netflix threads start moving more

**gold-steps** · 05-12-2023, 08:48 PM

Probably at the rate we're going (and the pace they're going making the show

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I felt really bad for that episode too. It had to be hard to see the place he loved as a kid that he was hoping would be preserved had changed so much.

**pink velvet** · 05-13-2023, 05:31 AM

The wait is so painful

It was too much progress to see happen all at once

The poor guy didn't get to see things happening gradually. Even if he had, he'd still be hurt by this.

**gold-steps** · 05-13-2023, 07:46 PM

Yeah even seeing gradual progress is hard (see: the tech revolution has been happening my whole life but AI absolutely terrifies me and it seems like it came out of nowhere). But it's even harder to see a really jarring change to something that's really personal to you.

**pink velvet** · 05-15-2023, 10:31 AM

This AI stuff truly is frightening

I don't know why some people find it necessary

Aang didn't need to see all those pipes and smoke around sacred statues

but he did come around to some aspects of what was happening.

**gold-steps** · 05-16-2023, 07:40 PM

Every time I see a realistic-looking AI image I get scared

Yeah the scared statues and paintings got me a little bit too. There are some things that you just have to respect I think. But it wasn't like there was anyone around to stop the people who built all the new pipes and tech

At least the episode had a happy ending! It was nice that Aang started to embrace some of the change.

**pink velvet** · 05-17-2023, 12:25 PM

Same! The voice stuff is already getting out of hand too

It's like the culture was so faded from the world that they didn't feel the need to think twice about what they were doing

Yes! Like Aang, I thought it was wonderful for these people to have somewhere to live and try to escape the dangers of the world

**gold-steps** · 05-17-2023, 07:16 PM

Oh yeah the voice stuff scares me too

Yeah plus with no airbenders around (except Aang who was busy doing other things) it isn't like there was anyone to stop them. So I understand how people could forget about them unfortunately. That's why real history is so important (which the avatar world was lacking as we've seen)

The air temples did just look nice and kind of peaceful and isolated. They'd be great places to live I think.

**pink velvet** · 05-19-2023, 02:04 PM

The history lessons in the ATLA world are incredibly unfortunate

And I think it rings true to our world. We're all taught a certain perspective about a history and we don't learn at all about other parts. Aang handled himself decently, considering

**gold-steps** · 05-19-2023, 08:09 PM

It is sad how much important history I'm still learning even after finishing high school, college and nearly grad school! And most of the times I hear about something for the first time I go "why didn't I learn this in school"

One of the saddest/scariest parts about rewatching the show as an adult is realizing just how much it mirrors real life.

**pink velvet** · 05-21-2023, 09:15 AM

It's true that we never stop learning

It really is startling to know that there is endless important lessons and I won't learn them all

The show truly does transform with age


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