Have we taken the time to appreciate how brilliant Katara is recently? She may not be the inventor of the family, but my goodness, this girl is all kinds of genius in her own right.
The Winter Solstice Part 2 might be one of my favorite examples of her awesome, outside-the-box thinking.
And I know, it's also an obvious display of Sokka's inventiveness (just look at this kid and his explosives)
but Sokka's idea to open the sanctuary doors doesn't work. It's cool and innovative, but it doesn't solve the problem they're facing.
And Sokka tries to figure out what went wrong with his fake firebending technique (valid question, it was a smart thing to try)
But Katara is the real MVP here. While the others are focused on figuring out the flaws in the engineering attempt (Sokka), writing the mission off as a dangerous waste of time (Aang), or rolling over and admitting defeat (Shyu, my dude, you've got to be a bit more resilient than that if you're going to be a renegade Fire Sage), Katara remembers the bigger picture. Namely, the fact that there are angry Fire Sages on the way, and they still need to get the door open so they don't leave empty-handed. Yep, coming to Crescent Island was risky. Too late to worry about that, they're already on the island, and leaving without the information they came for (and very likely getting captured on their way out) isn't going to help things. Yeah, Sokka's explosives idea should have worked, but it didn't, and it doesn't matter why. What matters is getting the door open so Aang can get the information he needs.
And Katara, awesome, brilliant Katara, is the first to realize that they trick their enemies into doing what the Gaang needs and can't do themselves. She takes Sokka's failure and turns it on its head to use the enemies' strengths against them (sounds a bit like certain bending techniques, doesn't it?), and it works. Her inventive thinking takes every tool they have at their disposal, including the enemy Fire Sages, and puts them to use to accomplish their goals. And I think that's absolutely amazing of her.
Not to mention the fact that it displays a solid understanding of people and an ability to quickly understand and tackle complex problems that would have served her very well in later political aspirations y'know, if she'd chosen to pursue them.
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