Sorry this is so long. I'm working on a big paper and I keep taking breaks to type on here because I have Avatar On The Brain. Sorry I'm being so one-sided chatty today!
I have to get this off my chest-- I think there was a big reason why the writers put Zuko's two minutes of fame in this episode as opposed to, say, Omashu last week. Call me crazy, but I think that the writers are implying that Zuko was being called by his Blue Spirit identity in some way at the same time Aang was being called by the tree.
I just see so many ways in which Aang and Zuko are yin-yang connected. (Besides the fact that their initials are A-Z, opposite ends of the alphabet.) In The Storm, it seemed for a while like they were just showing the similarities between Aang and Zuko (painful past-wise), then they threw in the subtle implication that Zuko is somehow the reason that Aang returned 100 years late (in a universe-coming-together sort of way). In The Blue Spirit, Aang and Zuko were under a big tree when Aang talked about his FN friend Kuzon from 100 years earlier, and wondering if he and Zuko could've been friends.... And in The Swamp, Aang and co. were under that giant tree when Hu started talking about how everything is connected, and time is an illusion and so is death...
Edited on 04/15/2006 12:39pm