Good Tea Is Its Own Reward

even after all this time, he becomes flustered around her

They had historical consultants for the show's technology and real-world allusions, such as figuring out how the Fire Nation's trebuchets would work.

A cultural consultant who was an actual professor in the field.

A blind consultant to advise on how Toph would behave or move.

Consultants for martial arts, including martial artists, stunt coordinators, etc.

It's unspeakable how insulting in comparison that "According to CHATGPT" part of the panel is.

Just the sheer fact that they chose to write that instead of, IDK, citing the sources the LLM inventedlisted? That they felt comfortable writing that?

That's even ignoring them yapping about how they are shying away from real-world allusions and creating their own language and removing all those real-world references that grounded the setting.

Fixed it!

Featuring the return of Katara’s wavy hair and Zuko’s lightening scar, Zutara being a couple… and because I am not in the long hair Zuko fan club – Zuko with shorter hair:

Here are some opinions that are not "problematic" or "toxic":

Zuko and Katara were set up to and should have been canon in the original series.

Aang's (and kataang's by extension) writing suffers from early 2000s incel/nice-guy influences.

Aang and Katara did not have romantic chemistry.

Zuko and Mai did not have romantic chemistry.

Zuko and Katara did have romantic chemistry.

Aang is an annoying character who does not have a satisfying arc.

Mai is an annoying character who does not have a satisfying arc.

Katara should have become an ambassador/queen and moved to the Fire Nation long-term.

Katara likes wearing red.

Zuko is a more interesting and well-written character than Aang.

Aang was a bad or abusive father, boyfriend, husband, friend etc.

Harassment of the largely female fanbase for zutara was perpetuated and encouraged by the shows creators.

These are all just opinions, not everybody is going to agree with all of these, and nobody is going to force anyone to do so.

Also not "problematic" or "toxic":

Liking Zuko and using Katara as a self-insert.

Liking Katara and using Zuko as a self-insert.

Shipping zutara because of aesthetics (they're both hot, red/blue, fire/water etc.)

Headcanons/fanfic where Katara cheats on Aang with Zuko or Zuko cheats on Mai with Katara.

The characters in Avatar are not real people. They are animations given words to say and things to do by a group of predominantly white, American, male writers. In the new movie, Katara could turn around and say 'i think we should start hunting small children for sport.' and it would be just as canon as anything Uncle Iroh has ever said.

Me Apparently:

But sure, the most basic, vanilla enemies to lovers ship of two fictional characters from a 2005-2008 Nickelodeon cartoon is toxic and anyone who still ships them hasn’t grown up yet.