Now this may be stating the obvious or be discussed in another thread but I couldn't find it so if it is please direct me to it.

Now through out the second season we have seen Azula be cruel,??maniplutive, commanding, skilled and generally the psychotic flame flinger we all know and love. While she made a great second season villian, in some ways she was nothing more than a new Zhao (alot prettier though ).

Then??the season finale comes and we finally see why she is the fire lord prodigy. It still sends shivers down my spine the way she broke Long Feng, not with threats, not with a show of power but by sheer will alone.