Talk:Azula/@comment-4068251-20111025184033/@comment-3338975-20111026051352

I've always assumed that the reason Aang did not speed up to 300 mph and catch her is that he unconsciously held back from doing so out of a reluctance to take on Azula by himself .... which would extend to the general reluctance expressed by the general going-ahead-with the invasion plan in the first place to solve his problems head on like the Avatar was supposed to - he did so so as to have his friends there as back-up, in case things turned sour. (Or is nothing to be learned from the plot of "The Awakening?) The particular reason why he would have unconsciously held back is two-fold: one, he knows she already killed him once, and two, she showed herself to be a master deciever in the face of Toph's Seismic Sense, meaning he could not know what might be up her sleeve (where, as it turns out, she actually did have a weapon stashed away). It is not unrealistic to assume that he might think such things of her after her display of her great ability to decieve, considering what Team Avatar was suspcious of Zuko doing when he tried to join later on. Aang's specific words were - "I can't pin her down! She's too quick! " - meaning that it was not necessarily the case that he couldn't hit her or capture her, but that he had no ability to keep her in one place long enough for the purposes of futher questioning (which was the reason they were chasing her, after all), with his friends preferrably alongside him for support. Of course, my case cannot be proven, but neither can the case that the whole matter was a "writer's fail", and in my opinion it is better to presume the best for the narrative rather than the worst when a particular case remains ambiguous. That being said, I have no desire to argue with Kaizuh on this subject any futher; all I wanted to do was air an alternate opinion, so that Kaizuh's skepticism might not ruin the experience of the show for other viewers needlessly.