Herr Bad Moon Wrote: I also wonder why the hell Pakku didn't mention this emotional manipulation bending when training the freaking Avatar and another water bending prodigy, people who could concievably reach the upper eschelons of water bending.You know, I wonder exactly how common emotion bending is. From the way Hakoda and the other Water Tribsmen have described it, it sounded as if they were describing a legend, not a commonly known bending technique. For all that Pakku is a master waterbender, he could have dismissed emotion bending as old wives tales, and chose to focus on waterbending techniques that were known, and had obvious and distinct results.
Also, some more speculation on my part, but I wonder if Katara's emotion bending has started a sort of feedback loop that is warping her own emotions as well. The moon's pull on the ocean's causes tides, but the moon has tides too, even if they are a lot less visible. She 'connects' to the Water Tribesmens' emotions, pulls on them, and then their emotions pull on hers, whichs pulls on theirs again, and so on.
Also, regarding Jet, rewatching the episode, it wasn't a Fire Nation settlement, it was an occupied Earth Kingdom village. Also, quite a few of Katara's responses to Jet fit in quite well with the background Vathara set up. She only starts attacking him when Jet implies that he's disposed of Sokka, and when she stops him by freezing him to a tree, she says "I can't believe I trusted you. You lied to me! You're sick, and I trusted you!" And freezing him like that, at the poles that would be a death sentence, barring rescue or inner firebending, wouldn't it?
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