in the epi. The Chase remember when Zuko, Toph, Aang, and Katara put their bending powers together to fight off Azula.wouldnt Katara's water and Toph's dirt wash away Zuko's fire and Aang's wind would blow it all away. i know it looks cool and it a cartoon but they could have made it alittle bit realistic.

they did combine when??they hit Azula's fire and if they did take out each other the most Azula would feel is Aang's wind and alittle bit of wet dirt

From what I can tell, they didn't combine....

Good try, but NO.

It almost looks like Azula's flame sphere pulled all of their attacks into it's flow.?? Notice how all four move to the picture's left.?? Most of the water was probably evaporated, and the earth was vaporized.?? The explosion may have been more the wind causing explosive combustion with Azula and Zuko's fire.?? Kind of like what happened when Aang and Zuko hit each other with walls of their air and fire in Bato of the Water Tribe.?? What I want to know is where Sokka's boomerang went in all that.?? He threw it in there, too.?? Would have been funny if it had gone in last and hit Azula on her way out.

Funny, Zuko uses the same art to a lesser extent to survive the ship's explosion. NERF FIRE WALL!

Yeah, he appears to have thrown high in his excitement.?? I always think how funny it is that he's there to throw it.

What my opinion has always been on the famous "4 element explosion" thing is, what cuased the explosion had to do more with the actual bending itself. Perhaps the release of energy was the result of the bending energies mixing. What I mean by bending energy is that actual connection between the bender and element, you know that force that lets them control an element. This energy can be seen in "The Drill" when Aang bends a falling boulder at Azula and when he moves a boulder over the cuts he made in the metal. It looked like a light blue aura. Perhaps its what gives air its blueish color when Aang bends it. It wouldnt be as visible with water or fire so I guess they didn't bother animating it. Anyways I beleive that when these energies mixed it cuases an explosion. I dont like the water being evaporated and earth vaporized by the fire idea becuase it shows an inbalance. The four elements should be in balance with one another showing that one isn't better than the other and there all equals. Obviously if you throw a puff of fire, a puff of air, some dirt and a squirt of water at a fire ball it wont explode in such a fashion so it must've had to do with the forces moving the elements.

Yeah I get what your saying, but that inbalance I mentioned was ONLY for that specific scene, I just think that in that scene no element surpassed the other. This is obvious becuase of the way all 4 benders attacked as one. But anyways yeah I get what you are saying, except for that part about "And when Aang moved the boulder in "The Drill he was earthbending, not airbending", why did you say that? Im assuming you think I mistook earthbending for airbending or something which I can assure you I did not.

I think you' re both right.?? * giggles and waits for another collision course while??some of pop-corn* ??

From what i see, the elements curved round the Jeong-Jeong (Yes i have named that move the Jeong-Jeong) showing that the elemens did not mix and most likely only water would had been gone from extinguishing the flame. The earth attack looks only like a cloud of dust but that could be toph turning the ground into quicksand. The explosion was probaly from the wind and fire mixing together