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You forgot moral of the story, Solve your own problems, and don't expect to someone else to do that for you..

OMi26

You can't hate on the painted lady for not being the saving grace and wiping out humans for the sake of other humans. I know you were worked up, but if anything you should be hyped that the painted lady didn't want to seek revenge for someone pretending to be her. That's what I always thought when I saw this, that the painted lady would show up and be like "don't pretend to be me" like most spirits or deities would. But she's appreciative that someone was using her name and image to help those who couldn't be helped, and the people of her river. So I've always found her thanking her a total heartwarming and relieving moment. Spirits are powerful and can be vengeful, you don't want to mock taunt or upset them. lol

Jonah Bertorelli

Cool but dark fan theory for this episode I heard several years ago. Doc is a former soldier in the army with PTSD, who lost his brothers Shoe and Bushi in the war and formed some kind of coping mechanism which we see on display whenever he 'switches'.

Red

Hahah true

Carlie & Ange

I never noticed Momo licking Appa's tongue lol

JN

I used to write this episode off as filler back when I re-watched this for the second time. It definitely is sort of a side quest for the gaang, but I also just enjoy how it puts on display who Katara is as a person, and I think it only adds onto her character, and the episode even added more to Sokka's character for me. Having seen this episode about 20 times now, I definitely appreciate it a lot more.

Gabriel Barott

Clearly he finally got to use his plan of dressing Momo up as a ghost...

Craig Payne

The painted lady would not have been able to help out because she is too weak and the pollution in the water from the factory basically scared her away

Maya Coleman

How can you say that about Momo, is the only one not being fooled by that story. Is like, 'What sickness? You guys are dummies. Appa is passed out of eating all the berries and didn't give me any. I'm gone lick what I can from his tongue.'

João Enes

Other people have already explained why the Painted Lady didn’t help earlier, so I’ll just add on that the idea of animism shown in this episode-the river having a spirit, as well as its apparent duty to protect the town, is very similar to Shinto animism, and belief in Kami. In this context, the people of the town have a duty to protect the river, which will provide and protect them in return. It’s a belief system obviously meant to encourage people to live in peace with nature and focus on conservation and sustainable practices. By allowing the river to become polluted the people had lapsed in their duties to nature and the spirits. And the stagnation and metaphysical corruption of the waters prevented the Kami from manifesting.

Graham

Was Momo stupid for licking Appa's tongue though or smart for being the second member in the whole group to figure out it was safe food? 🤔

KaijinGarou

I don't think that was the real Painted Lady either. I think it was just Sokka playing a joke on Katara.

KaijinGarou

Aang maniacally smiling at lava. Reason number 23 why our savior is a menace 🤣

KaijinGarou

On the painted lady that appeared at the end, spirits are as powerful as the medium they dwell in on the mortal realm so since the river was polluted she was pretty weak, once the Gaang cleaned the river she could once again appear and will most likely protect the village.

Edward Chireno

Sooo the theory about the Painted Lady is, that her powers are bound to the river. Some think that she couldn't use her magic or take form in the physical world while the river was polluted. And another theory about this episode I heard somewhere: Shoe and Dock and Bushi were actual brothers, but two of them got killed (probably by the firenation army) and the third brother developed a split personality out of grief and trauma. Just a theory though.

Stella Keil

The river was polluted so the painted lady spirit could not show and that’s why at the end when the river was clean she showed up

King Jamal

The painted lady was blocked by the gunky river, now it was cleaned she was able to come out 😂

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