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Guess who started re-watching ATLA? (and is entertaining weird AU scenarios)

Is the most 'Here Damn!' moment of this movie since it's not explored and everything revolves around Aa//ng

Did those yahoos seriously think that adding a scene where Aang looks at the camera and says Zuko and Katara are not a couple was going to stop us from shipping those two together?

If there was a scene that just screams #kataradeservedbetter (and there were quite a few of them), it would be this moment where she confronts Tagah.

Here, Tagah explains the reasons he's doing this, and in response, she tells him about how Aang is "the reason this world knows peace". And the reason why I take issue with what the writers chose to have her say is that, well, SHE DOES UNDERSTAND WHAT HE'S BEEN THROUGH (AND SHE'S ALSO A HUGE REASON THIS WORLD KNOWS PEACE)!!!!

Like, wouldn't she show that she fully understands what he's been through and empathize with him due to the trauma she suffered from Fire Nation's atrocities, which may I remind you made her one of the last remaining waterbenders of the Southern Tribe?! Wouldn't she talk to him about her decision to forgive Zuko despite all the terrible things he did to her and her loved ones, and how she doesn't regret forgiving him at all and still treats him like family? Wouldn't she talk about her own struggles and experiences in helping to keep the peace between every single nation as a council representative of Republic City? Wouldn't that have made for a more impactful scene than just having her hyping up Aang for a minute straight?

And to be frank, the movie does have a big issue with not giving enough development and focus to the other Gaang members, but what makes the treatment of Katara particularly egregious is that it's indicative of the treatment her character has suffered throughout the franchise (especially following her kiss with Aang). It feels like the franchise is deliberately neglecting the qualities she has and doesn't characterize her as anything besides Aang's lover.

Hera and Iris

“The statue of Hera is seated on a throne; it is huge, made of gold and ivory, and is a work of Polycleitus. She is wearing a crown with Graces and Seasons worked upon it, and in one hand she carries a pomegranate and in the other a sceptre. About the pomegranate I must say nothing, for its story is somewhat of a holy mystery. The presence of a cuckoo seated on the sceptre they explain by the story that when Zeus was in love with Hera in her maidenhood he changed himself into this bird, and she caught it to be her pet. This tale and similar legends about the gods I relate without believing them, but I relate them nevertheless.”

Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 17. 4

“So she (Iris) spake and seated her beside the golden throne, even as a hunting hound of Artemis which, when it hath ceased from the swift chase, sitteth by her feet, and its ears are erect, ever ready to receive the call of the goddess. Like thereto the daughter of Thaumas sat beside her throne. And she never forgetteth her seat, not even when sleep lays upon her his forgetful wing, but here by the edge of the great throne with head a little bent aslant she sleeps. Never does she unloose her girdle or her swift hunting-boots lest her mistress give her some sudden command.”