Talk:Appa's Lost Days/@comment-76.90.212.98-20101027095959/@comment-3068994-20101027224728

What they shown with this, is the unspoken agony that animals go through that many people are often unaware of. They were not showing it to be "Let's be cruel to animals" but to show us the darker side of reality, and feel sympathy for Appa and glad to see his escape, and eventual reuniting with his loving master.

This is not out of line; this episode even won an award for just how much it depicted animals in the spotlight, and the fearful emotions that overcome them in such situations.