it's why Zuko for once ACTUALLY had a chance to beat her in a straight fight, she was 'slipping'.
The music at the start of that final Agni Kai is sublime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae9VB_Cf5RM
Also for anyone who was paying attention throughout the series you can see just how much control Azula has lost since her first appearances, going from precise two-finger points when firebending to entire fist thrusts. She was an obvious prodigy as seen when her flames turned blue but still ended up losing to both herself and her brother who in the end took firebending to a completely new level by combining his existing skills with the knowledge from both the progenitors of firebending, the dragons, as well as what his uncle taught him who developed novel techniques observing other bending schools. How he moves his body during the Agni Kai highlights this with his fluid movements, like waterbending, his deflections of incoming attacks, like airbending, and then during his own push the unrelenting force behind his attacks, like earthbending.
Also you can't forget,
RUFIO!
She starts off bold, brash, uncaring of others, and downright destructive
And remained that way throughout.
End of season 1: fucks up and loses her powers
End of season 2: fucks up and destroys the Avatar cycle along with the connection to every single previous Avatar from the past thousand years
End of season 3: fucks up and almost destroys the Avatar cycle again, gets poisoned with mercury, chained up with platinum, and forced into the Avatar state so that when killed in such a way the whole cycle dies forever
End of season 4: fucks up and destroys the united city then fucks off to the spirit world avoiding the consequences of her actions yet again
Korra is one of the worst protagonists ever. She accomplishes next to nothing. She wipes out decades of heritage. She never listens to Tenzin. She was horrible to both Mako and Bolin - both of whom deserved far better. She constantly falls in with the wrong people despite being warned otherwise. She almost ends the world at least twice. And she is constantly needing bailed out of her fuckups.
Lesbian badgers confirmed.
John would have been a great twist instead of the half brother.
I ended up skimming the later seasons, especially when they brought in even more alternate universe stuff so missed the return of Day and various others. From what I remember the actual finale suffered from covid restrictions severely hindering how many people the production could get in one place so the actual final scene ended up only being the brothers with the previous scene of Dean of and Bobby. Almost every scene was only two people so the plan to bring back various others went out the window.
Modern "gamers" are too incompetent to strategise turn based games so the inevitable lowest denominator is a button masher in the same vein of modern Dark Souls where tactics barely matter and everyone rolls around like a panda which as a baseline is a retarded animal.
They'd flail, fail, and wail if they had to actually fight Ruby Weapon, Emerald Weapon, or any classic FF Superboss because the fights actually needed effort, even if that effort was basically playing Eugenics: The Game and creating the ultimate inbred chocobo to get KOTR.
They can break adults, see Heath Ledger when shooting TDK, so what hope do others have?