Bending the Ending.

[orlandobr]

Yesterday I managed to watch the Avatar: The Last Airbender® series finale.

The ending is good if nothing surprising (in the end, the good guys have to wing, right?), but I hated how they managed to put a horrible deus ex machina to solve Aang's -the main protagonist- final moral dilemma: how to deal (permanently) with your greatest enemy while

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[ladyfelicity]

I didn't think that "solution" was that bad. Although I did hate how you couldn't hear the lion-turtle thing, so you didn't know until the last minute. Pablo said others had complained about that as well.
What I found very, very vexing was the huge plot hole in regards to Zuko's mother. Pablo says (he keeps up on this stuff more than I do) that apparently one of the show's management said that the explanation was originally in the season finale, but one of the show's creators didn't want it in there.
To me, it's like creating a Renaissance painting and then throwing a huge red splotch onto someone's face.

[orlandobr]

YES!

Damn, they never said what happened to her! Or with Azula! :/

And what about Uncle Airoh? What happened with the Earth Kingdom? And what would happen with the next Avatar, since Aang is the last Airbender?

I think a perfect solution would have been a "many years later" epilogue, showing what happened with each character.

I hate what they did with the finale. It is as we say here: "They did as the cows: "if they don't crap at the beggining, they crap at the end!" :D

[ladyfelicity]

I was curious about Azula, but it was not quite as pressing as Zuko's mom. It was hinted very heavily in an earlier episode that it would be addressed, and it enver was.
You mean, since there are no more Airbenders, what would happen the next time the Avatar was supposed to be an Airbender? Good question. Maybe he gets together with Katara and makes another Airbender? ;)

[orlandobr]

Well, yes. Even more pressing: when Aang dies, who will teach the next Avatar how to do the airbending?

He will need to take disciples, if the Avatar is meant to exist in the future. :)