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Examples as to how they bitchified the Avatar State. 1.) Tagah twirls his magic plot staff and gives Aang's clothes little rips because of the force of the rock and air. Meanwhile Aang slams Ozai with jet stream winds capable of stripping A MOUNTAIN APART. 2.) Aang turns on these cute little hands and feet fireworks to escape a giant mountain rock thing THAT HE FAILS TO OUT RUN WITH THE AVATAR STATE. TAGAH SINGLE-HANDEDLY stops it from falling on them. Meanwhile, multiple instances of Aang casually tearing giant rocks and mountains apart controlling MULTIPLE ELEMENTS AT ONCE. 3.) Aang charges in like a Korra (dipshit) with a single element while Tagah twiddles his widdle fingers and fucking kills him in one go while Aang was looking straight at him. Meanwhile, Aang counters and DISMANTLES Ozai's powered up fire blasts with multiple elements and is in complete control. ----- "So you want a show/movie with no stakes? You don't want good writing? If the AS is too powerful, there's no conflict! It was way too broken." That's not what I'm saying. I want a show/movie with stakes and good writing. Good writing is CONSISTENT with what came BEFORE it. If you set up the AS as this incredibly powerful state that THREE FIRELORDS FEARED FOR 100 YEARS, then that is how it must remain. In the OG, Azula baits Aang into the AS and shoots his ass from BEHIND because she's smart and understands that you CANNOT fight it head on. Azula beat the AS not because she was stronger but because she was CLEVER. "But Tagah has his magic plot stick that no one from the 4 air temples that Aang visited before being frozen knew or spoke about. It belonged to an Avatar! It powers him up significantly!" Even with his dumb ass plot stick was he doing anything remotely capable of what Aang did when he fought Ozai. The Avatar in the Avatar State is supposed to be a Demi-God. You aren't SUPPOSED to be able to fight it head on. Which is why Ozai lost and could barely fight back. He controlled MULTIPLE elements at once, was in complete control and completely overwhelmed him. Ozai was supped by Sozin's commit and still lost. Tagah was supped up by some magic plot stick and some how won because the only way the writers know how to make a conflict is to take the thing that was once impossible to fight head on, suddenly lame and unable to do anything. Good writing does not mean to take cool thing and make it less cool because otherwise you don't have a story. Good writing is to take cool thing and write around it while keeping it as cool (or cooler) as it always was. Hope you enjoyed my rant.

Hell, you wanna have this scene be written slightly better? Tagah keeps his staff. He thinks he's hot shit with it. Aang busts into Avatar State and Tagah tries going on the offensive—and is completely shut down. Aang counters every stupid finger twiddle shit Tagah throws at him because he's the fucking Avatar in the Avatar State. Maybe he gets a lucky hit in that Aang mostly shrugs off. Aang gives him a "What you're going to do will upset the balance of this world." speech. But Aang isn't finishing the fight, he's not putting Tagah down or taking his bending. He doesn't believe his friends are dead and is holding back on the final blow to stop him. He's holding back because he wants to bring the Air Nomads back and doesn't want to kill the first Airbender he's seen since he was frozen. Aang puts Tagah's ass in the dirt and, like Roku, doesn't finish the job. He drops out of AS believing he's won, goes in to take the staff, is tired after using the AS and having to fight another Airbender after not wanting to. Suddenly, Tagah airbends himself to his feet real quick, twiddles his dumbass fingers and before Aang can react or pop the AS again, pops Aang like he does in this clip. Aang didn't want to fight Ozai but understood he was evil and needed to be stopped. The only thing he stopped himself from doing was killing him. Against Tagah, he doesn't want to fight him, Aang wants to see Air Nomads again which gives him a personal stake, fighting another one of his people after not seeing another airbender after so long makes him reluctant. He has 3 reasons not to do what he knows needs to be done. The AS remains the narrative powerhouse that it was. Thoughts? Last time I quote this tweet lmao.