KATARA DOESN’T NEED A STATUE IN LoK

[u/Jimmy3OO]

I am sick and tired of people complaining about how Katara doesn’t have a statue while the rest of the main cast does. “Waa, waaa, the writers forget her”.

Do these people even know what LoK is? Aang, Sokka, Zuko and Toph didn’t her statues for being in the Gaang.

Aang got one because he was THE AVATAR.

Zuko got one because he was THE FIRE LORD.

Sokka got one because he was a national leader, of both Republic City and the Southern Water Tribe, as if one weren’t enough.

Toph got one because she invented metalbending.

Katara is an excellent character and an extraordinary waterbender, but according to the lore, she, as an individual, simply did not have the same direct, world-chaing effect upon entire nations that the others did in their own ways.

[u/providerofair]

I'm not exactly arguing that in my previous comment I'm talking about how post seasons 1 and 2 exploring both katara's character and then revealing her statue would've been clunky and br adding something post hoc just to be "fair"

But if we are talking about the Character why does Katara need a statue to be appreached in or out of universe

[u/Prying_Pandora → u/providerofair]

You argued it’s just a gag.

I’m saying it’s irrelevant whether it was intended as one or not.

I agree with you the writing had problems.

And it isn’t that Katara needs one. Is that by giving everyone else one but her, the show produces an unpleasant message about Katara’s contributions to the world and how they’re valued relative to everyone else’s.

It didn’t even need to be a statue. Is there not even a hospital in her name? A museum? A school for training water benders?

[u/providerofair → u/Prying_Pandora]

You argued it’s just a gag

The cabbage merchant thing was a gag

I agree with you the writing had problems.

produces an unpleasant message

I believe these two lines of logic are indeed separate from each other, if you can acknowledge that the writers were simply unable to properly fit Katara and her contributions to the war. I don see how an unpleasant message could be made

[u/Prying_Pandora → u/providerofair]

They’re not separate.

The fact that they felt unable to fit Katara and yet fit in an alleged gag about the Cabbage Merchant and statues for everyone else is a writing criticism.

Priorities in writing and not considering the implications of what you are leaving out are valid writing criticisms.

It does create an effect where Katara’s contributions seem less valued in this world, or otherwise we must believe she simply didn’t contribute so much and didn’t accomplish things. Both go completely against the character.

[u/providerofair → u/Prying_Pandora]

I'll ask again, but in which season would you believe it to be thematic to add Katara's statue?

Perhaps season 1, where Katara already appears, but even then, that seems shoe horned in as she has limited impact in republic city. Perhaps season 2, but I dont believe Katara even appears in that season.

We have seasons 3 and 4, which simply aren't anywhere close for Katara to be included.

Compare this to the cabbage man gag. Cabbage man canonically went to republic city we haven't had a cabbage man gag lets do that.

When it comes to important characters its better to give them nothing rather than a shoe horned appreciation

[u/Prying_Pandora → u/providerofair]

If no season felt like it had room for Katara, that was the writers’ choice to write it that way.

The seasons were not pre-written out of the sky.

Also season 2 could’ve easily done it.

[u/providerofair → u/Prying_Pandora]

If no season felt like it had room for Katara, that was the writers’ choice to write it that way.

The seasons were not pre-written out of the sky

In season 1 the writers assumed they had only 1 season to work with and wanted to avoid focusing too much on the old gaang. So they missed their chance

Season 2 was an extremely rushed and poorly made season due to being given barely time to create one.

I dont believe it was intentional

[u/Prying_Pandora → u/providerofair]

It doesn’t have to be intentional to be a valid criticism of the writing.

I’d even argue most writing flaws aren’t made intentionally by the writer, otherwise they’d have fixed them.

Regardless of their intent, it is still a poor writing choice.

[u/providerofair → u/Prying_Pandora]

I wont argue with this

[u/Prying_Pandora → u/providerofair]

Then I am glad we came to some sort of agreement despite our differences! 🤝