2008 Zutara shippers were NOT delusional 😭
I found this old Book 3 finale trailer and it’s kind of interesting how it frames everything. There’s a pretty noticeable focus on the Aang vs Zuko dynamic when it comes to Katara 😭 On my last post I also shared an official 2007 Nickelodeon magazine page that straight up asks whether Katara will end up with Aang, Zuko, or neither. When you put those together, it kind of feels like the “who will Katara choose?” idea was being kept in the conversation pretty deliberately through marketing at the time.
This trailer especially leans into that tension in a way that feels very intentional from a promotional angle. Obviously Kataang is canon, but it’s easy to forget how much the marketing kind of kept that triangle energy floating around for viewers. So even though we know how it ends now, it makes a bit more sense why that Aang/Zuko/Katara debate felt so alive back then, and why Zutara discussions weren’t just coming out of nowhere lmao.