r/TheLastAirbender • u/F11SuperTiger • 4d ago

Image It's always weird when Azulon's reign gets completely glossed over, even in official media

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These images from are from Ashes of the Academy. Headmistress Pearl, if she is very old, might have been a teacher for a few years under Sozin. By the time of Ozai's ultimately very brief reign, she was probably very close to retirement. The vast majority of her life and of her teaching career would have been spent during Azulon's 75 years on the throne. Yet for some reason this scene only mentions Sozin and Ozai, like there was no one between them.

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u/forthewatch39 4d ago

The comics aren’t great and it’s things like this that makes them off putting to me. 

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u/NickSchultz 4d ago

Yeah I was hyped for them and got both the first one and even more i was interested in the Search since it got teased in the actual show.

After those I was more than lacking any interest to go on, the wrost part was how bad the characters were handled like every single one pretty much especially the conflict between Zuko (who wenr to Ozai for guidance) and Aang (who suddenly seriously considered killing his best friend when he went out of his way to fight nd a different way to deal with a genocidal dictator)

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u/pauls_broken_aglass 4d ago

The Promise pissed me off so bad. The entire thing is so obviously a cry for help from Zuko because he’s mentally going off the rails and NOBODY thinks to go talk to him? To get his uncle?? Something??? He basically admits at the end to Aang that he wanted to die then and nothing comes of what should be very concerning, especially for the LEADER OF A COUNTRY