Wait a minute...I just thought of something. It relates to NATLA, and...it's about Toph and her role in the show.
If they are letting Aang and the Gaang meet Toph in probably Ba Sing Se, then...this raises a question...why would Toph even join Aang and the Gaang on their adventures in the first place?
Think about it. If Aang and Toph supposedly meet at Ba Sing Se, and they are limited to this one location throughout the whole season(I feel like they'll use a bit of Omashu as well), and if Aang really needs an earthbending teacher...would Toph just like, go over to where Aang and everyone else are on foot since it's one big city that she's living in, instead of just joining them on their adventure?
So that leaves the question: Would Toph even join them if she's training Aang earthbending from where she's supposedly residing? In the cartoon, Toph and her family originally lived in Gaoling, and that's a long way to Ba Sing Se. But if this setting is in Ba Sing Se, then...she has no reason to join Team Avatar. Sure, she can help out every once in a while IN Ba Sing Se, but...would Toph even leave with Aang to go to the Fire Nation, where Aang has to defeat the Fire Lord? Would she even leave her whole family and home behind?
And that's when it hit me.
Toph WILL go with Team Avatar...she WILL go with Aang...but it's only for Aang...
Think of it this way. Aang is the very first friend that Toph supposedly has, a real friend...which could blossom into something more.
If they are doing something like changing the setting to where Toph and her family live right now, and letting Toph escape the Earth Kingdom and Ba Sing Se because she wants to help her friend, Aang, who has been hurt by Azula...maybe Toph was even captured by the Dai Li by containing her in a metal cell, which Aang has to save her this time. And thanks to her being in that metal cell, she learned metalbending along the way...
Thus...she looks for Aang, all the way to the Crystal Catacombs...and Azula might strike Toph down as a cheap shot at her with lightning...but then, Aang jumps in front of her...and absorbs the shot from her...and now Toph, forever grateful, wants to follow Aang to make sure he recovers.
What do you all think?
(Also, maybe Iroh would probably jump in front of Zuko to block Azula's lightning in the early episodes of NATLA, probably in episode 2? I don't know, maybe. Just something that could parallel Aang wanting to jump in front of Toph when he sees Iroh doing the same thing to Zuko. And maybe Zuko will do the same thing to Katara in the third season, who knows? :O )
I need y'all's input on this. ;)



















