#so they're sidecharacters? so why aren't there more sidecharacters who are allowed to hate the people who ruined their lives

[innocentimouto]

Hama deserved a freaking therapy and reunite with Kanna again yet all they did was throw her in the same inhumane conditions she has spent decades of her life in. Hama deserved better.

The bare minimum wasn't done. The bare minimum. How do you justify sticking her back into chains?? She could have died. She could have disappeared and never returned. She could have had a breakdown from the years of trauma and finally finding one of her people and having some hope and sharing her culture to someone who would carry it on but it still not being enough because she lost so much, and appeared sympathetic---

wait that doesn't work in this fandom

This quick episode to show some lesson about 'evil being in everyone' really needed more attention considering half this season was spent humanizing the Fire Nation and yet no season gave any attention to the Water Tribes. I wanted to see the regular people going about their day. I wanted to see a bunch of girls sneaking off to watch Katara waterbend. Some random silly scene about merchants complaining about how weird some parts of the ek are about waterbending. Some old woman talking about back in her day waterbending students were much more advanced.

Any of it would have helped lessen the uncomfortableness of this. Even still, even if writing Hama without any salvation, she didn't have to be stuck back in prison, which almost seems like agreeing with the fn. Like they were somehow right that it was the right choice.

I just feel like this message wasn't necessary for the Water Tribe specifically since we got it enough from the Earth Kingdom. So that's one problem. And then the other half of the problem is making Hama into this one dimensional evil when she is, ironically, one of the handful of characters who hate the Fire Nation. Kind of funny how hating your oppressors always needs to be punished out of you hmm?