Was this deus ex machina?

Was this deus ex machina?

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Yes

yes

yes

Looks like his forehead and chest each have a green portal that’s either sucking up or expelling a fuckton of literal shit.

Yes. It’s probably one of the prime examples.

Lion Turtle bullshit that enabled energy bending and Aang and Katara getting together out of nowhere were literally nothing but pure bullshit.

lol at people who say, 'avatar had an amazing ending'

Those people are just delusional zealot Avatar fans. Its a shit ending and they know it.

Yes. I objectively like the show, but I'd be lying if I said this wasn't.

>Aang and Katara getting together out of nowhere
Get back to your containment thread, filthy Zutaran.

>I objectively like
oooohhhhhhhhh...

>not watching stories that get so dire that God has to step in from how complex the machinery got

Zuko's "redemption" arc is shitty and he doesn't derserve Katara
Aang/Katara is also idiotic and made the already subpar ending even worse
But I guess it's too complex for someone like you who thinks in terms of "containment threads" and "ships"

An ass-pull so the kids' show didn't end up Aang killing the Fire Lord, even though it would've ultimately been more satisfying of an ending.

Yes, and so was Aang regaining the avatar state in the way he did. It's not like they had to have him use it to beat the fire lord

I don't really know. The objective was to kill Ozai, which is something that could have been achieved without spiritbending. Aang even had the chance before his avatar state was accidentally restored, when he parried Ozai's lightning. What spiritbending did was allow for a copout where Aang didn't have to worry about ethics or morality.

Katara doesn't deserve him*

Strangely I disliked it more as a kid than as an adult, I’m OK with it now. The show really would have benefited from another season, even just a few more episodes to help foreshadow this better. Maybe have some episodes where Aang tries to learn Ty Lee’s chi blocking and get him thinking about ways to make it permanent or something.

What's really weird is that killing Ozai was a non-issue in the first place. It's never actually articulated why it's necessary or why simply imprisoning him isn't viable in the show itself. Zuko basically just says "it's the only way" and that's about it. Like, if this was such a big issue, what was the plan during the eclipse? Was Aang just not on the same page as everyone else about what he was supposed to do with Ozai once he found him?

There had to be a confrontation with the Fire Lord himself or else the Fire Nation would still continue. It was a decapitation strike. Having to kill the Fire Lord went without saying, because he obviously wasn't to give in without a fight or change his ways.

>thing that was only visually shown once gives aang a power that has never been discussed before that moment to help him weasel out of his moral dilemma
Double deus ex machina.

yes

So why wasn't Aang angsting about killing Ozai before the eclipse then?

I don't care for Zuko and Katara pairing either. Still doesn't change the fact that Aang and Katara is a shit pairing that came out of nowhere.

Yes. Very irritating.

Ozai was the firelord. The only reason why Zuko's coup succeeds is because he's royalty himself, if Ozai had retained his bending there would have been popular support for him to challenge Zuko for the throne.

Because the show is bad written at times

Yes

That's a reasonable explanation, but they don't articulate that in the show and even then it's still not sufficient to establish it as an absolute necessity. There was literally nothing stopping Aang from just imprisoning Ozai in a high security ice hole in the north pole.