Talk:Book Two: Earth/@comment-2043338-20100730034250/@comment-3338975-20120205055020

Well, what exactly where they supposed to do? It's not like it'd be realistic to trust four kids to gather detailed intelligence on the Fire Nation, and so instead we were given play-offs between the main characters, their attitudes towards the Fire Nation, and what the Fire Nation was actually like (which "The Beach" being a special play-off between a particular group of childhood friends, what they thought they knew about each other, and what was actually true about each character). After DoBS, it's also not like the four kids would realistically be able to enter back into the Fire Nation for long periods of time to do battle with them, so instead we had a series of episodes developing Zuko's relationships with each of the characters (Toph's kind of being spread out between "The Western Air Temple" and "The Ember Island Players"). The bottom line being, it wasn't exactly boring, but if you're not primarily in it for the way Bryke develops their characters (as I was), you'll probably end up disappointed.