Talk:Firebending/@comment-110.55.3.27-20110618051758/@comment-4533483-20110706003745

No, anon, what I am saying is that you cannot expect the connections between bending to lie in the nature of the "elements" (which do not exist anyways), but in the attitude of the bender and the mental attitude they must take on - which is what links typical Firebending and Lightning Generation. It is pretty much pure fantasy, but for what it is it does a good job of creating systematic rules for bending (which only hold valid in the Avatar world). Not being scientists, the creators of the show probably do not intend to create a world which resembles ours in that respect in every way possible, though they do seem to intend to ensure it has overall similarities. Bending is essentially the control and manipulation of energy latent in objects (which is probably what links it to Energybending in some way), but it seems that the First Law of Thermodynamics (energy can't be created or destroyed) holds true in that "world", along with the Second Law (every system tends to become more disordered as a whole when left alone). I'm not debating the scientific truth of your statements about lightning and fire, which are basically valid; what I am saying is that if you expect a scientific representation of the world in a fantasy story grounded in the real world's scientific rules rather than the fantasy's own pseudo-scientific rules, you are probably going to be sadly disappointed time and time again, regardless of the series.