"There was also the NWT. Arnook was a monarch by another name, but he didn't have the comparative power of Kuei or the Fire Lords. Pakku could tell Aang to piss off and there wasn't anything Arnook could do to countermand the dismissal."
Really? I rewatched this episode recently and I'm not sure that it's that he couldn't do anything, just that he wouldn't because keeping his most powerful waterbender happy and maintaining his tribe's traditions was more important than making sure the Avatar learned waterbending. Cause at that point, they still were under the delusion that they were safe from the FN.
Arnook's such a blank other than being Yue's father, though, that eitIher interpretation fits.
"America's not a white knight, but they're still a lighter shade of grey compared to the PRC."
I dunno. With us recently coming out of two ugly wars, one which was not necessary, with the more that I'm learning about Vietnam and the Cuban missile crisis, with all the horrible things American politicians would do to halt the spread of Those Awful Reds and all the indigenous people we have either directly slaughtered or indirectly contributed to the slaughter of, I'm just not so sure we are a lighter shade of gray.
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Really? I rewatched this episode recently and I'm not sure that it's that he couldn't do anything, just that he wouldn't because keeping his most powerful waterbender happy and maintaining his tribe's traditions was more important than making sure the Avatar learned waterbending. Cause at that point, they still were under the delusion that they were safe from the FN.
Arnook's such a blank other than being Yue's father, though, that eitIher interpretation fits.
"America's not a white knight, but they're still a lighter shade of grey compared to the PRC."
I dunno. With us recently coming out of two ugly wars, one which was not necessary, with the more that I'm learning about Vietnam and the Cuban missile crisis, with all the horrible things American politicians would do to halt the spread of Those Awful Reds and all the indigenous people we have either directly slaughtered or indirectly contributed to the slaughter of, I'm just not so sure we are a lighter shade of gray.