Forget Katara dark or Zuko dark, do you even know how messed up TSR is?
The Southern Raiders is, in worldbuilding sense, the last arc of “fire nation x water tribe.” The episode physically connects the present day story to the darkest historical conflict of the hundred years war, namely the racial genocide — which is the peak fire nation’s oppression act; the evilest most ruthless connivery the a*holes fire lords had came up with (Sozin), had started the war with (Sozin), and is about to end the war with (Ozai); something they’re super proud of, that they had named the natural phenomenon used as nuke for the genocide after the guy who came up with the idea (Sozin’s Comet).
And then, there’s the personal level mind f*ckery…
Set aside your characters’ bias for a sec and think of these people as your textbook historical figures…
In this episode, we’re seeing an aftermath journey of a survivor victim, who had personally experienced the reigning oppressors’ repeated assault in her homeland, which wiped out her people to near extinction, and in result made her the last magical kind of her entire tribe of an entire continent. This survivor had also lost her mother in the attack. And now she’s facing the oppressors responsible, who are currently still alive, roaming free, unpunished, unaccounted for, because their actions are a gold-medal patriotic accomplishment in the current circumstance… Do you get how dark that is?
I’m talking about the equivalent to “if a surviving jew were to face a nazi unit when Hitler and the nazis’ genocide/ concentration camps were still reigning because the second world war hadn’t ended and the international forces hadn’t intruded” kind of dark.
The kind of messed-up dark no one should live to experience, let alone children.
and yet, some people are obsessing about katara being mean in that one scene… what a mind numbing utter crap.
