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I think it’s common knowledge that the reason for their break up was that they drifted apart due to having differing life goals; Tenzin wanted children and Lin did not. However with that being the case, I found it puzzling that Lin was so upset when Tenzin broke up with her. Lin would’ve known their relationship had an expiration date and I figure she would’ve known that the break up was bound to happen eventually since their goals didn’t align.

The reason I come up with is that maybe Lin was angry with the fact that Tenzin left her with the intention of getting with someone else. So maybe she’s not angry about the break up itself but that fact that Tenzin moved on so quickly. I’ve never experienced a situation in my dating life where my partner left me for someone, but I figured that when that happens to a person, they tend to feel hurt because maybe they feel like the relationship mattered more to them than it did to their now ex. In the real world, it seems like people feel hurt when their partner who they’ve dated for so long is so quick to move on and start dating another person.

I figure that maybe if Tenzin broke up with Lin, then met and got with Pema later, Lin wouldn’t have been so resentful. What do you think?

I’ll be honest, when I was a kid between the ages of five and eight, when the original series aired, I didn’t really care who ended up with who. When I rewatched the series as a teenager, although I wasn’t against it, I found Aang and Katara ending up together at the end of the series being kind of strange, and now as an adult, even though I still am not against Aang and Katara being together, I still find their union at the end of the series pretty odd.

The reason I find it strange is because even though Aang had obvious feelings for Katara from the very beginning, Katara’s feelings towards Aang, were not all that clear. In season one it’s clear she didn’t really view him as a romantic partner, but by season two it seems like she goes from maybe having a crush on him to viewing him in a familial sense, and flip flops between that. She starts reciprocating in season 3, but it goes back to being confusing when she talks to Aang and she tells him she’s confused about her feelings.

Usually the criticisms I’ve seen about Aang and Katara being endgame are rooted in the fact that Aang has feelings for Katara from the very start and for the most part Katara doesn’t reciprocate until near the end.

Some suggestions I’ve seen is that Aang and Katara should’ve parted ways at the end of the series and reunited when they were older between the events of The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra and got together then, or that Aang should’ve gotten over his feelings for Katara at the end of season 2, because of the whole issue of opening the last chakra by letting go of his attachments to master the Avatar State.

I simply would’ve developed Aang and Katara’s relationship similar to Sokka and Suki’s relationship where Sokka and Suki’s romantic feelings for each other develop pretty much at the same time. I would’ve started Aang and Katara off as friends and Aang wouldn’t have had a crush on Katara at the beginning, and the two of them would’ve started developing feelings for each other over the course of the series as they get to know each other and appreciate each other more.