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    Giving Up (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

    Just gotta mention how much I like this bit between Iroh and Zuko. It manages to hit on a straightforward discussion of 'purpose' and bits of this personal philosophy without getting bogged down with all kinds of extra narration and internal-monologuing or reading like a drop into corn and...
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    Giving Up (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

    As someone who never read the bit that expanded on Zuko's mother, I approve of this whole section and particularly the mere fact that Zuko recognizes things enough to even ask this manner of question--and it feels like a completely natural result of him investigating air-bending and the 'free...
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    Giving Up (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

    Supremely minor nitpick, but I vaguely recall there being a stylistic thing where 'interruptions' of narration like the above are supposed to end in a comma rather than a period? But I have no idea if there's actually anything to that, it still flows alright, and grammatical style is one of...
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    Giving Up (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

    I'm always a sucker for this technique where a character is written as deliberately forcing themselves to act callous and 'hard' but the mere fact they have to do that makes it clear to the reader they're trying to convince themselves rather than actually thinking that way. Always enjoy it...
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