Let me start by saying WHAT????!!!!!!!!
Welcome to The Giver meets Avatar.?? It was so weird.?? I expected it to be like the North Pole, nice, peaceful, amazing.?? Clearly it wasn't.????On a??different note, this theory is??very long, sorry if it takes awhile to read.?? Team Sifu was allover the phones last night, and we came up with this theory in conclusion to our talks:
This control may have come from when Iroh invaded the city about 4 years ago.?? He wouldn't just surrender the war upon the death of Lu Ten, he was a different man.?? Unless Lu Ten's death was what changed him.?? As he said in SOTFN, "When I was a different man."??
This episode gave me and the rest of my friends a ton to talk about.?? So many loose ends.?? Here is one, why was the city so segregated (sp).?? Our guess is that it is because the refugees know of the war, know too much, so they throw them in the outer wall, away from all else, and the first to be attacked if any invasion would come.?? These people are kept under control because there is only one place lower to hit, death, or banishment from the city forever, and not being able to use the train or fairy on the way back, this would be through posters, do not let on posters.?? They are first to be attacked, and made up of poor refugees, and people who spoke or said too much.??
Then, to move up, you must have a talent, and never mention the war.?? Some how doing something to get in with Long Feng, or the king (whoever he may be).?? The tour guides are probably watchmen trying to become noblemen here.?? If they mess up, let someone go to far, see ya!?? Anyone who talks about the war, mentions the fire nation gets the Jet treatment, and is probably sent to the outer wall (btw, sorry Shea about what happened in last night's epi).??
Next, we move back to the Iroh invasion.?? He will probably be noticed working at his tea shop for his tea making abilities by someone, maybe a Dai Lee monitering the outer wall, maybe someone else.?? He might be captured, or sent to Long Feng and with the Dai Lee.?? I think that they are captured Earthbenders from the last invasion, and when Iroh surrendered, they were kept there to keep watch over everything.?? Including Long Feng.?? The Earth king could be a figure head, threatened by Long Feng and the Dai Lee, as they have to keep things under control, or he could be a character we have seen before, say Lu Ten.?? If the war was a fake surrender, Iroh seeing that he couldn't win, they could've been placed there then as captured benders, still under control from the FN.?? As we know from SOTN, he is a great war stratigest, maybe he even sent his son to be king, faking the death, and faking defeat.?? I doubt that last part, due to the opening scene with him in Bitter Work, but it is possible.?? The Earth King could be someone else in the fire nation.?? Long Feng clearly wants to keep the war out, but the top wall, where the SOTFN battle was, does know about the war.?? So, the control is only for sevillians, why?
Why, well they dont want havoc, and they want a surprise attack to happen if they are in with the Fire Nation.?? That's why they didnt want Aang to talk to anyone, to stop havoc also.?? If they want the war secret, they want the Avatar out of telling people anything.?? Then, finally, the end to this endless theory: how does Long Feng know about Appa???
Probably because he got a report from Joe Lee about him, before she was sent down, saying, "tell me everything you know.?? And you might not be banished."?? She did, she then knew too much, about everything, so she was sent down.?? Aang needs to find Appa, Toph could sence him if he were close (he ways like 500 pounds, not hard to sence), so Long Feng knows this, doesnt want Aang to leave even.?? He threatens him with something that he knows that he loves, and will now try to keep Aang away from the black market, for some reason, we dont know why.?? This should be a very interesting end to Season 2.?? Sorry for the length of this theory.
