How did they manage to make a children's cartoon fight scene so powerful and engaging?

How did they manage to make a children's cartoon fight scene so powerful and engaging?

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Ultimately made irrelevant by a copout

You're talking about Zuko vs Azula, right?

A perfect blend of 10/10 visual and sound direction, 10/10 choreography, 10/10 storytelling. Irs just objectively close to perfection.

By waiting until the last minute and copying DBZ

He would've proved Ozai and his justifications for genocide right if he didn't follow air bending teachings and killed him. The air nomads would've been no more.

Last I remember, every DBZ villain whose name didn’t start with V and rhyme with fajita got brutally murdered.

>He would've proved Ozai and his justifications for genocide right
No, because with Ozai dead he could no longer be a disturbance. Which he continued to be even after he was thrown in jail.
>The air nomads would've been no more.
They already were no more at the time. Aang wasn't an Air Nomad, he was the Avatar. He's above cultural restrictions and customs. His clinging onto his Air Nomad upbringing proved him selfish because he refused to do what was required of him and put down a very serious threat to the world and it's spiritual balance he was charged with protecting. And even if he did kill Ozai as his predecessors rightfully told him to, that would not prevent him from passing on the teachings of the Air Nomads to a new generation. His taking a life does not erase any and all of that.

not really.

Aang was established as being frighteningly powerful (and just straight-up frightening) in the Avatar State as early as the Southern Air Temple episode and again and again throughout the series. Showing him not only use it to its full potential to overpower Ozai with all four elements, but also gain actual control over it towards the end of the fight was super gratifying and the epic conclusion we’d all been waiting for.

Basically that shot of him glowing inside that flying miniature planet comprised of all four elements was what told us, “yep, this goofy kid we’ve known throughout the series is now a full-powered Avatar ready to fuck shit up and save the world.”

They didn't.

This, it was just godlike levels of satisfying.

He was unironically kind of scary in this sequence, it was really cool.

why didn't ozai just shoot him?

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I was shocked at how good that scene was, she didn't just stand there and let him power up like Goku. I was devastated.

no ozai should have beaten him if he had the comet in a straight 1v1 fight

the writers weren't SJWs at the time of this shows creation

the entire energybend still a huge Deus ex machina to me.
>oh i dotn want to kill ozai, there must be another way
>giant turtle appers from fuck nowhere and gives a free magical power to defeat ozai with no need of any sacrifice.

come on

He did do his duty as the Avatar and put Ozai down. You make it sound like Aang let Ozai continue his conquest of the Earth kingdom.

yeh....those were a good couple of years

who owns avatar? because i really want someone new to do a reset after the show ended. that includes the crappy books.

Aang v Firelord was pretty crazy too, I remember being disappointed but on rewatch it was great, I think my dissapointment with Iroh/white lotus arcs ending made it hard to enjoy the rest

AT&T owns avatar.

The build up should have been longer if they were going to do that, the part where he is asking the previous avatars and they all tell him to man up and take one for the team was pretty based

Aang is a firebender, are you retarded?

Irrelevant if the comet and avatar state dont stack in power

Not irrelevant but bullshit regardless.

What does being a children's show have anything to do with how fight scenes are written and directed?

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When you think about it, was Aang taking away Ozai's bending any worse than killing him? He tampered with the man's very soul and took away a part of it, it would be like taking away someone's sight, or their hearing.

If they had an extra episode where aang goes into the spirit world looking for that kind of answer, talking more in depth with the past avatars and some spirits, dipping our toes into some buddhist philosophy or some shit then it would have worked out okay. I don't at all have an issue with concept of energy bending (or is it just glorified chi blocking?) but better for him to put in a little effort to find it than just being given it on a silver platter.

Dude... Roku plus literally every single other firebending Avatar was fighting alongstide Aang in that battle. That's how the Avatar state works. You're talking about one firelord powered up by Sozin's comet vs. hundreds of Avatars & their bending skills+knowledge condensed into one body also powered up by Sozin's comet.

Why didnt aang have hyper power firebending once in the avatar state then? It would also in principle be lame even with the comet the firelord wouldnt stand a chance

Yes, I thought it was disturbing.

this. made whole series pointless

>Why didnt aang have hyper power firebending once in the avatar state then?
He did, he just didn't need to use it. He was showing at least a little restraint because he was trying to avoid killing Ozai.
>It would also in principle be lame even with the comet the firelord wouldnt stand a chance
He didn't either way lol. Did you even watch how one-sided the "fight" became once Aang started glowing? Ozai was reduced to literally just running away and trying not to die.

What reason do you have to believe it wouldn't?

>He did, he just didn't need to use it. He was showing at least a little restraint because he was trying to avoid killing Ozai.
He SHOULD have needed to use it
And since he didnt actually use it how do you know for sure he did have the super fire
>He didn't either way lol. Did you even watch how one-sided the "fight" became once Aang started glowing? Ozai was reduced to literally just running away and trying not to die
Yeh and it was stupid