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At some point in season six, during the episode where Kendall and JoJo had solos, and Brynn and Nia respectively, were learning their solos, during Jill’s interview, she says that Kendall was being groomed to be the next star.

I think at some point during the show, Jill probably did believe that Kendall was supposed to be the next breakout star after Maddie. I feel like that’s probably why she put so much faith in Abby as Kendall’s manager. I figured maybe Jill thought that since it worked out for Melissa’s kids, she figured it would work out for her daughter. Unfortunately, it didn’t feel like Abby really cared that much about the success of the other kids aside from Maddie. For Chloe and Nia, she actively sabotage them out of spite, for Brooke and Paige, it seemed like she didn’t really care, and for dancers she did like such as Kalani, Brynn, Elliana, Lilliana, and even Brady from the 8 team, she didn’t appear all that invested in their careers.

This is by no means trying to downplay their successes, because a lot of kids from the show are doing very well in life, but I mean when it comes to A-list celebrity status it seems the only ones able to achieve that where Maddie and JoJo. I figured maybe Jill at some point thought that it would happen for Kendall but it didn’t.

I don’t personally have a problem with it, and I feel like it makes sense because lava is literally just molten rock, so it makes sense to me that an earthbender could lavabend. I’m asking because I’ve seen people complain about how they feel like earthbenders lavabending don’t make any sense. Or that they feel like firebenders should be able to lavabend, or they don’t like the fact that it went from an Avatar only skill to an earthbending sub skill. I’m thinking that maybe some people’s problem is the fact that earthbenders can heat up the rock enough to make it lava, and heating things up is something we only see firebenders do, but I’m still not sure what the issue is.

I remember sometime after The Legend of Korra came out and we got the official family trees for the characters, we see that of course Aang and Katara got married and had three kids; Bumi, Kya and Tenzin, but Sokka never married, nor did he have children. I remember being disappointed finding out that Sokka didn’t have children because I simply thought it would be cool for Aang and Katara’s kids to have some cousins in their family. However, in the years since then, I don’t really care that much that Sokka didn’t have children.

The reason I’m asking this question though, is because in the weeks since the movie came out, I’ve seen enough comments on Twitter about the fact that Sokka didn’t have children, with one comment with a couple thousand likes talking about how it was a massive fumble that in the movie, Sokka was given “ massive dad energy”, in reference to how he was interacting with the kids in his workshop, but he ended up not having kids of his own. I’ve also seen people say that they genuinely believe that Sokka secretly fathered Toph’s daughter Suyin, or that he’s even secretly Varrick’s father, both of these theories I dislike. I figured if Sokka did have children the series creators would have confirmed it by now.

I’ve seen people compare the scene in the recent Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender film, where Aang and Katara are arguing about going through the immortal storm, and Aang says that Katara and the rest of the group don’t understand the position he’s in when it comes to wanting to revive the airbenders with Avatar Sonam’s staff, to the scene where Zuko was going to help Katara confront the man who killed her mother, and Aang expresses his objections and Sokka agrees, and Katara tells him he didn’t love their mother the way she did.

When it comes to who was harsher, I think Katara was harsher. Although I do believe it’s true to say that the death of their mother affected Katara differently than it affected Sokka, considering that Kya (their mom) was killed trying to protect Katara from being taken away by the Fire Nation for being a waterbender, Katara must’ve felt survivors guilt. However, Katara says this to Sokka, after overhearing Sokka and Toph’s conversation where he confides in Toph that he doesn’t really remember what his mother looks like, and from my perspective, she basically throws in his face by telling him that he didn’t love her the way she did.

When it comes to what Aang said, I feel like what he said was objectively true. If anything, Katara can sympathize to a point about the destruction of her culture because by the time she was born, the Fire Nation had wiped out the southern waterbender population, leaving Katara to be born into a world where there were no other waterbenders in the Southern Water Tribe. With that being said, there’s more to the Southern Water Tribe culture than waterbending, they have their food, their customs, their traditions, and their fashion. The Fire Nation didn’t wipe out the entirety of the Southern Water Tribe, leaving only frozen tundra. However, the Fire Nation did wipe out the Air Nomads, leaving only empty air temples. So had Aang not had an airbending child, and had he not created the Air Acolytes, Air Nomad culture would’ve died with him.

When I say dismissive attitude towards bullying, I’m specifically referring to two instances.

The first one being in season four when Christi was talking about how Maddie said something mean to Chloe, and an interview with Jill was inserted into the scene where she says that it’s not the time for Christi to be worried about Chloe being excluded by the other kids or her feelings being hurt because it’s part of life.

The second instance was in season five when the girls, Maddie, Mackenzie, Kendall and Kalani had made fun of Jojo during a meet and greet, and JoJo and Jess found out about it, and when Jess talks to the other moms about it, Jill says that they were just stating facts, and their comments were innocent. Even worse, when she talks about it directly to JoJo, she says it wasn’t malicious, and it was fun, and they were including her by talking about her.

I find Jill‘s attitude in these instances to be pretty infuriating, because I feel like that’s not an attitude a parent should have when their child is hurting the feelings of another child. I’ve seen claims that people who have met Kendall say that she’s a mean, girl. If that’s really the case, this is definitely part of the reason why. Her mother, instead of correcting bad behavior instead just makes excuses for it. I can guarantee that if the shoe was on the other foot and Kendall was the one being excluded by the other kids, or she was the one being trash talked by her teammates, Jill would feel differently instead of making excuses to defend the other children.

I find the aftermath of this situation pretty interesting because I remember back then, after the episode came out, I saw people commenting that they thought it was sad that nobody from the junior elite team comforted Christi and Chloe after what Abby said. However, I saw people responding to that, claiming that the members of the junior elite team did comfort Christi and Chloe, but it just wasn’t shown on camera, only for a few years to go by and Christi and Chloe both confirm that no member of the junior elite team consoled them after the fight with Abby. It’s even more disappointing that the season five production notes for the very first episode show that they blamed Christi for what happened.

There was a post on here talking about how heartbreaking the season four finale was, and I remember a comment saying that this is the reason they find it crazy that Christi is still friends with any of the moms. I feel like if I were in Christi or Chloe’s shoes where I’m at my lowest point, and none of my friends comforted me or reached out to me in anyway, I think my friendships with these people, if they didn’t come to an end, would’ve cooled off, because that had to be such a hard thing to forgive, because neither Christi nor Chloe have forgotten it.

Since Avatar: Seven Havens was announced, I’ve seen a plethora of theories as to what caused the cataclysm, and I see that a lot of people believe it was because Korra left the spirit portals open.

I’m sure people have heard of the YouTuber, The Avatarist, and he put out a video a few days ago saying that someone emailed him claiming to have inside knowledge about what’s going on with Seven Havens, and apparently this person claims that the reason the cataclysm happened is because Korra left the spirit portals open.

I’ve seen people since then say that they don’t really like this idea because they don’t like the idea of the spirit portals being the cause of the cataclysm when opening the spirit portals and keeping them open, was framed as a good thing. However, when I think about it, keeping the spirit portals open for the most part had negative consequences.

In season three, the main villain, Zaheer gains airbending abilities because of the events of season two, he breaks himself and his friends out of prison and nearly kills Korra, resulting in her being away for three years recovering. Earlier that season, he also killed the Earth Queen which caused the Earth Kingdom to fall into a state of chaos which resulted in Kuvira’s rise to power. Kuvira also harvested the power of the spirit vines to create a giant laser cannon which one can argue was a weapon of mass destruction.

Some of the other problems caused by leaving the spirit portals open was the fact that some of the spirit wilds took over sections of Republic City, forcing people, specifically, Mako and Bolin, out of their homes. I remember, that President Raiko blamed Korra for the issues with the spirits in Republic City, and she was subsequently kicked out of the city. There was also that issue in season four when the vines kidnapped a tourist group. It seems like the only good thing to come out of leaving the spirit portals open was that airbending returned.

I’ve also seen people criticize this idea, saying it doesn’t make sense because the spirit portals were open during Wan’s era, but suddenly it’s a problem now that they’re left open in Korra’s era. On The Avatarist’s comment section, someone said that they think maybe the cause of the issues was the creation of the third spirit portal and maybe that’s what caused things to go awry. To be honest, I completely forgot about the existence of the third spirit portal.

I personally don’t mind the idea of the cataclysm being caused by leaving the spirit portals open, or maybe that the existence of a third spirit portal contributed to the problems, because that kind of falls in line with the fact that in the series, leaving the spirit portals open has shown to have mostly negative consequences.

I want to preface this by saying that I have never had an issue with the fact that Zuko joins Team Avatar halfway through Book 3. I enjoyed the way his character was handled as well as his redemption arc, and although I’ve seen some people say that they felt like his redemption was rushed, I don’t feel it was.

However, I do think it would’ve made sense for him to join sooner, as in, by the end of book 2. I believe this mainly because of what happens throughout Book 2, with Zuko and Iroh living as refugees in the Earth Kingdom and getting to experience and see for themselves just how badly the Fire Nation’s war has affected people in the Earth Kingdom, such as people being displaced and essentially being forced into poverty, as well as people having been physically harmed and overall traumatized by the Fire Nation. I feel like Zuko coming to the realization of the Fire Nation being the bad guys, definitely could’ve happened at the end of the second season. Instead, I think the line in the sand for him was when he went back to the Fire Nation and sat in on his father‘s war meeting, and Ozai reveals his plans to commit mass genocide on the Earth Kingdom.

Now if I remember correctly, the writers, or creators, or both I don’t remember, had the idea for Zuko to join Team Avatar at the end of book 2, but they decided against it because they felt it was too soon. But what do you think?

When I watched the Southern Raiders episode, I was looking forward to seeing Zuko make amends with Katara so there wouldn’t continue being this awkward team dynamic with everybody else being cool with Zuko, and Katara still being understandably angry with him. So when they confront the leader of the Southern Raiders, I remember being shocked when it turns out that the guy that Katara was bloodbending was not her mother‘s killer, and I was actually worried they wouldn’t find him. However, at the end of the episode, they do find him, Katara gets her confrontation, she forgives Zuko for his earlier betrayal at the Crystal Catacombs and things are finally better between them.

But then I think; What if things turned out differently? What if they were unable to find Yon Rha? Like if they couldn’t find him, or if they find out he died, would Katara still have forgiven Zuko for his actions at the end of Book 2. After thinking about it, I like to believe she would have, because she would’ve seen Zuko making a sincere effort to do the right thing and trying to make things right with her, and I feel like that would’ve meant something to Katara.

What are your thoughts?

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.