Talk:Amon/@comment-5043528-20120617210422/@comment-203.173.223.244-20120617215704

The great thing about A:TLA was the depth of its characters, and the way they could accordingly humanise the villains and make even the good guys have their dickish traits. Eg, we see Sokka in his love triangle at the Northern Water Tribe and Aang's inability to sacrifice his own morals in the name of the greater good (as Avatar Yangchen points out is his duty as avatar). If Ozai or Sozen were in any other show, they'd simply be power-hungry villains with no hope of redemption but we are shown how at least Sozen genuinely thought he was improving the world with the invasion, and it's even implied with Ozai when Zuko has a nut at him on the Day of Black Sun.

LoK falls well and truly flat by comparison, but the characters are still pretty good in this regard, Amon especially. Early on I noted that if I were in Republic City I'd see his points as pretty hard to argue with.