I'm bored so I feel like analyzing some more stuff. Let's look at the theme of hope, shall we?

Hope has been a theme since the very beginning. Even in the opening of the first episode, Katara was shown to have hope. She had hope that the Avatar was born into the Air Nomads and he or she was alive somewhere. Sure, you can call it naive optimism, but didn't it turn out well? Even before Katara knew that Aang was the Avatar, the fact that he was an Airbender, a race supposedly extinct, gave her hope.

If you take what Iroh said in CoD, "You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you keeping moving forward, you will come to a better place." Hope is a key factor in being able to move forward. Without it, how do you have the will to do so?

But there are times when you can lose it too. If something horrific might happen to you or someone you know, you're not going to particularly positive, are you? A sign of strong character is being about to find the light in a seemingly dark situation. Aang lost hope when Appa went missing, and even went through different stages of loss. Which wasn't exactly the same as the stages of grief, but they were similar. He felt anger, even lashing out at Toph who was busy trying to keep them from sinking, he felt a form of acceptance, but he used this emotion to block any feelings of sadness. And finally, he felt hope.

I feel like I'd start blathering if I continued, so I'm going to end here for now. If someone wants to add onto this, go right ahead.

Ok, so we need to be analyzing one thing at a time to make sense right? Zuko's scar is probably symbolic, of course the creators could have put it there to add a deeper dimension to his character, symbolizing his hurt and banishment, and the conflict in his mind over his loyalty to his father. I think it may be healed in the end but we never know. The creators could have just put it there to make him look cool lol.

Anyway, this could mean that everything in Avatar, down to the smallest detail, could have been put there because of some sort of meaning. Even the cabbage man and the foamy mouth guy have meaning. I know it sounds crazy, but the cabbage man is an example of a man who keeps losing, but always goes onward, and the foamy mouth guy? He got caught up in a craze.

Talking about Iroh though, I find him to be the deepest character in the show. One only needs to look at his wiki page to see the depth the creators gave him. I didn't notice that with Zuko's face actually, good eyes. That proves that his scar is symbolic of the fight inside him.

Now this show is much deeper than Naruto, even though I find the beginning episodes to be very childish, but so was Aang in the beginning, and they show how much he's grown up over the course of the 3 seasons. And so, we spend the good part of an hour looking deeper into the show, but I must stop at that point, because this, my friends, is the true reason so many are Avatards...

This show goes down deep, deeper than any other. There is real emotion, real pain, and real symbolism. But as Tom said, we must only scratch the surface, or fall in. That is why I will not spend longer talking about the depth of avatar, as one could easily drown in epicness.

And I'm pretty sure I won't be quoted on that one.

Ok, here's something;

What do you think Freud would do if he saw this show?

And here comes the over analyzation!

Avatar has different theme's to its epic story. With battles that not only include ones when you have to fight face to face, but with inner turmoil. There are the main themes to the story, such as love versus power, love versus hate, war versus peace, mercy versus agression and so on. I've learned that it's all about making choices, and using them well in the long run.
Take Aang for example: Even though he has the burden of the whole world on his shoulders, he knows how to control his actions in such a way where they cannot get too out of control. And no. I'm not saying that they haven't gotten out of control before.

When you watch Avatar, you must look at the story from different angles. The show teaches you that everyone has different intentions and that people do have some good in them. Even Azula somewhat cares for her brother, and Ozai did are for Ursa in some form. But the main person I'm talking about here is Firelord Sozin. We can see that he was indeed a great man, and even started out with good intentions to better the world, but his power became twisted and corrupted over time.
Even if we looked from the Fire Nation's perspective in the war and not in Aang's we do see that they can qualify as a nation with good intentions. But look at it this way, both sides have the same intention: to better the world.

Avatar has also taught me something else...
That children are smarter than adults. I am a teenager, yes, but this just kind of shocked me. Children are so innocent and kind if they are taught to be or intend to be. Like Aang, he was naive in the first season. But if you think about it, you come to realize that it was showing his way of blaming. Like when a child's parents are divored, who do they blame it on? Not the parents, but themselves. Aang blamed the state of the word on himself, not the Fire Nation. Although he does have some sort of grudge on them because it only makes sense. As you grow older, you learn to blame things on others, thus you loose sight of innocence and mercy as a young person. Because Aang can blame himself, he will not show aggression to the Fire Nation towards the end of the war, but show mercy and treat them too as if the war had affected them the same way. Without the use of blaming others for mistakes, Aang won't hold as big of a grudge.