Gotta love how nobody holds Katara responsible. You can't tell me Katara wouldn't notice or call Aang out on this.
@prod.kilvkrxcksxlvd8183
6 ай бұрын
Ppl forget that when Aang dies, Tenzin would be the last airbender in the world, and somebody’s gotta teach the Avatar. He kinda has to focus on training Tenzin, the only airbender left so his nation’s culture, history and existence doesn’t die out with him. It made him a flawed dad, but not a horrible one.
@Derekmilewski
6 ай бұрын
More than teach the avatar, when it is the airs nations turn to have the avatar, they would be no more nation, so it would end up there, so he needed to have a slender who is a Airbender, who can still push on the air nation
@redclover8387
6 ай бұрын
@@Derekmilewskicrap I forgot about the cycle in all the talk of his family. Depending on how long each of them lived the family would still be growing and if not for harmonic convergence the descendants would be directly from ang which I think is even more pressure. Each of tenzins kids would've been pressured to have big families as well. It's pretty sad if u think about how it might get out of hand
@kellevichy
6 ай бұрын
That's basically saying it's okay to neglect your other children and family; there is no reason the other two kids COULDN'T have gone on vacation with them. Aang was a flawed father, just like he's a flawed person and his flaws were shown repeatedly in ATLA.
@Derekmilewski
6 ай бұрын
@@kellevichy they really didn’t even seem like they cared about any of the monk/air monad things would not have enjoyed learning about things that they couldn’t even do
@redwarrior864
6 ай бұрын
@@kellevichyThis is also an issue of memory, it's revealed later that it wasn't so easy going for Tenzin. I don't think these "vacations" were actually vacations, though, I think they were more like the diversions in Season 1 of ATLA; They're flying somewhere (E.g., one of the temples) for a purpose and they're close enough to this other thing (Kyoshi Island, for example) so Aang decides to stop by.
@The_Memorial
6 ай бұрын
Considering Tenzin is also the youngest imagine the disappointment they must have felt thinking “Oh dad kept having kids until he had an airbender”
@adrikklassen
6 ай бұрын
It's called "The Endeavour style".
@worminaround
6 ай бұрын
@@adrikklassen💀💀💀
@tetragaming6332
6 ай бұрын
@@adrikklassen No, it's called "I can't die before another airbender is born and taught or the next Avatars are fucked."
@girl1213
6 ай бұрын
In the end though, it's because they weren't interested in the Air Nation or where their father came from. They had more in common with their mother and their uncle rather than their father. It's only now, when they are older and looking back, that they realize how much they missed out with him. They could have ridden the elephant and built the sandcastles if they just said, "Can I come?" 'Cause we all know Aang would let them have fun with him.
@om3ga109
6 ай бұрын
Was he not supposed to? Was Aang supposed to just let the air nomads die out, and Sozin's genocide become complete? "Oh welp first kid's a non bender guess the air nomads die with me lmao"
@metaltak1154
6 ай бұрын
That's why the scene of Bumi talking to Aang's statue hits harder
@MM01901
6 ай бұрын
The way I felt so bad for Bumi during Korra. I just couldn’t help but feel like he literally basically got shown hardly any attention from either of his parents once his siblings came along. Katara probably spent a lot of time with Kya teaching her water bending and then Aang was off with Tenzin. Kind of reminded me of that scene when the Gang were all bending and Katara told Sokka to sit down, I reckon Bumi probably got a lot of that. His lack of attention from his parents would also explain why he was such a storyteller as it was probably his only way he felt he could get attention and why he was so desperate in early scenes to prove he was just as good/capable as Tenzin AND Kya. I would actually love a backstory on what it was like for him growing up. I kind of feel like he would have had a closer relationship with Sokka than he did with Katara or Aang.
@TheOfficialDjProduct
Ай бұрын
@@MM01901 I think you hit the nail dead center on the head. Took the words right out of my brain.
@BrynnSasha191
4 ай бұрын
We have to remember that in S2, Bumi and Kya weren't calling Aang a bad dad. They didn't say they hated him, or that he didn't love them. They simply were reminding Tenzin that he wasn't perfect. In Patterns In Time (new TLOK book) Bumi tells Meelo that Aang really loved him and how he understands Aang better now.
@heyontv
6 ай бұрын
We only saw the result. Knowing how complicated relationships even after marriage can be. There's more to it thn what the kids saw and remember.
@happilyevernever4289
6 ай бұрын
Exactly
@ultraisaiah7859
6 ай бұрын
Meatriding is crazy💀
@rkdarkangel
6 ай бұрын
@@ultraisaiah7859go back to playing with legos kid 💀💀
@ultraisaiah7859
6 ай бұрын
@@rkdarkangel it’s always funny when mfs look at my channel then act like what I said has no merit because it proves they don’t have a counterpoint so they resort to insults. The fact is the only reason yall are bending over backwards to defend Aang being a bad parent is nostalgia that’s it. Aang is my favorite avatar character and I can confidently say he’s a bad dad. Don’t be a meatrider, lil bro.
@rkdarkangel
6 ай бұрын
@@ultraisaiah7859 So Aang was bad father because his other 2 children didnt care about the air nomads? Or their history? And because Aang, the AVATAR, has a much bigger role in the world, trying to run around everywhere fixing everything the 100 year war screwed up, trying to bring the air nation back aswell, considering he was the LAST one until Tenzin. ONTOP of that, he was never raised by traditional parents, he was raised in a atmosphere where there are no one sole care-takers, and everyone just kinda takes care of everyone. He also felt that it was his fault the air nation fell because he already ran away from his duties once, which puts an insane amount of pressure on him AFTER he learns Tenzin is an airbender, and that Aang can rebuild the air nation. If Kya and Bumi were more willing to learn and understand the air nations history, and help rebuild it like Tenzin, they wouldve been with him on his travels. It's not that hes a bad father, it's that he had way to many expectations that everyone wanted from him. Be a good father to 3 children, keep the world at peace, rebuild the air nation, etc. You can believe hes a bad father, but if he just stopped being the avatar, and directly focused on his kids, the world would fall apart once again, the air nations history lost, and some new guy taking over everything, this time with no one to stop him because the avatar decided to be a father.
@jtdarelli2362
6 ай бұрын
For all the grief this show gets, there really are some gem moments. Aang playing favorites and neglecting two of his kids makes sense given his childhood, and I like that they explore it several times over the course of the show. I don't know, it would've been a whole lot less interesting if on top of saving the world Aang was also the perfect family man.
@SLESFMOfficial
6 ай бұрын
Yep, right on the money. Aang can't be a good father and save the world at the same time. The gap between them is too big, that is why Aang and his team founded Republic City to reduce the responsibility. Even so, fate is just that harsh.
@JRKFR343
6 ай бұрын
@@SLESFMOfficial The problem isn't with the show writing Aang to be a bad father, The problem is the writing making no sense and clashing with Aang's personality. Literally no parent would only take one of their children for a vacation and leave the rest at home So you're telling me the fun loving childlike guy DIDN'T bring the rest of his family on vacations with him or paid ANY attention to his other kids
@SLESFMOfficial
6 ай бұрын
@@JRKFR343 it is the fact he is running out of time. Yes he did spend a lot of time with his kids, but Tenzin being an airbender in the first place gave Aang hope for the future of his culture. Making the right decision is the hardest to make as a human being, and being decisive is more harsh. Roku and Kyoshi did the total opposite and Aang has to clean up their mess in less than 100 years.
@SLESFMOfficial
6 ай бұрын
@@JRKFR343 in other words, Aang sacrificed his happy personality in a way for the sake of being the only person to bring balance to the world. The Avatar's purpose is doing whatever it takes to protect the world. Not only Lord Zuko mentioned that, but the previous Airbending Avatar did as well.
@SLESFMOfficial
6 ай бұрын
@@JRKFR343 Wisdom is not taken for granted. Aang cannot just simply enjoy his life with his kids and Katara as his wife, he'll repeat the same mistake as what Avatar Kuruk did, or what Roku did when he tried to be restraint. Aang needed to be involved in life-endangering crimes or scenarios to keep peace.
@justacorn0211
6 ай бұрын
A doctor has three children but only one of them is interested in medicine and two of them have their own things. Guess which one will spend more time with the Doctor.
@dushistaya
6 ай бұрын
But the doctor could also show that he loves the rest of his children just as much, but just in a different way
@50mile.entertainment
6 ай бұрын
@@dushistaya The point isn’t about Love it’s about TIME.
@DrDeath-kb1xy
6 ай бұрын
@@50mile.entertainment Without time there can only be seperation not love
@freetime2freeminds
6 ай бұрын
@@50mile.entertainmenthe’s also the last doctor alive and arguably the most important doctor in the world, tasked with the duty of the safety of the world, having saved it at least once.
@SonGoli
6 ай бұрын
@@freetime2freemindsbro is so quick to come to Aang's defense.
@TheonlyCamera-Man
6 ай бұрын
To be fair, if the other two had showed ang more intrest in the idea of it then he would've brought them along but he probably needed to zone in on tenzin cause he was literally the only chance he saw at the time to revive the air benders
@yahia3182
6 ай бұрын
I meaaaaan they were young nd when ure not an air bender u dont care much abt it. It's like when most parent force their child to go to church...etc they dont rly care (Gotta say though that they all deeply love Katara so she must've been an amazing mom)
@Bala_Niranna
6 ай бұрын
"its the kids fault their dad didn't want to spend time with them"
@TheonlyCamera-Man
6 ай бұрын
@@Bala_Niranna worst way to describe what I said, his entire heritage was on the line if he didn't focus on tenzin, he literally needed to, the others weren't interested so he didn't het to teach them as much, doesn't mean he wasn't there for em at all
@TheonlyCamera-Man
6 ай бұрын
@@Bala_Niranna he'd want to spend time with all of them, it is their fault he didn't teach them though cause of their disinterest, he wouldn't want to force that on them
@kingcharles2606
6 ай бұрын
@@Bala_NirannaThose "trips" was Aang traveling around the world to rebuild the air nation so the only kid who actually cared he took.
@CorpinMiguel
6 ай бұрын
y'all have to remember the pain aang felt when he lost everything
@AmpOnup
3 ай бұрын
Aang is the typical Chinese dad picking his favorite son that would continue his legacy
@kinggears
6 ай бұрын
I Feel Aang is a Good Person, But not a Great Father.
@istoppedcaring6209
6 ай бұрын
nope they undermined his character especially since katara wouldn't have stood for it, neither would Sokka, Zuko, Toph, or their own grandfather Hakota who would have wished to see his grandkids grow up, but i guess legend of korra kinda forgot he ever existed because he isn't mentioned once in the show
@watchoutimanidiot4751
6 ай бұрын
@@istoppedcaring6209 and also aang didn't have parents how could he had known what to do?
@bimaa666
6 ай бұрын
The only one with air bending definitely be favourite since aang need to pass all that he knows about air nomads to him
@ΤΟΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟ
6 ай бұрын
He tried to be a good father, it's just that their complaining about Aang not being there even though the only reason he wasn't with them much is because they didn't want to learn anything about air nomad culture.
@trevorsnow4274
6 ай бұрын
@@istoppedcaring6209or you're just not very good at judging good writing. Aang had one dream to rebuild the air nation. His other two children had no interest in anything he had to say.
@MALAY_TENGU
6 ай бұрын
He type of dad that create villan arc in their children
@roziewon2525
6 ай бұрын
Parents do have favourites, but it's based on what they need. like i have 3 younger siblings, our mom's favourite would be me when she wants to chat about random things, and it's my younger sister when she wants to go shopping, and then it's my younger brother whenever its about school achievements. ... now, aang one day woke up that ALL the airbenders were gone, and he's the last remaining one. So obviously, there's anxiety if there will be another one ever after he gets old and die. THEN BOOM!! Tenzin, his youngest, is an airbender! Aang's excitement probably was skyhigh.
@smitty5431
6 ай бұрын
This is a big reason I am critical of LOK. Because we are just told that Aang didn’t bond much with his other children, we have no freaking clue why the kid who was always concerned with balance would later grow up to show favoritism towards only one of his children. Instead of all these live actions, let’s get an interim series that explains a little of what happened between ATLA and LOK.
@catdogfishdogcats
5 ай бұрын
The reason is that the writers hate the original series. Pretty much most of the original avatar cast is thrown under the bus. They wanted to replicate the edginess of Zuko, without the Counterbalance of Iroh. Tenzin has none of the counseling tact and patience of Iroh. Korra is the new writer's Zuko. But Their Iroh stand in can't make headway with Korra. Almost every single relationship in Korra is filled with angst and loathing.
@tobsonasanya4765
5 ай бұрын
Eh no@@catdogfishdogcats
@EddieB-ready
4 ай бұрын
@@catdogfishdogcatsI think it's less they "hate" the OG series and more that they didn't have Aaron around to help balance it out. Cuz if memory serves, he was the main reason Toph and Iroh and even Zuko are who they are on the OG. And I'ma be honest... Him not being there kinda shows
@shadenox8164
Ай бұрын
@@catdogfishdogcats Wow that is the worst breakdown of Korra I've ever heard. No honey, its because they thought about it for five seconds. Tenzin is his third child, how do you think Aang would be feeling at that point with no airbender kid? His actions make sense. It's just not great parenting.
@twinbladevolt8679
4 ай бұрын
I don’t wanna excuse him being neglectful, but if you try to look at it from aangs perspective you can quickly realize he probably didn’t even SEE an air bender until his son arrived. After that I can only imagine watching someone ELSE bend air after no one did for his entire life. I can only imagine he wanted to spend time with someone who could relate with him on such a precious topic for him.
@Tessa-vz1qb
5 ай бұрын
I gotta say, Kya turned out pretty well for a middle child, especially with adult Aang as their father
@BigStankyFish
6 ай бұрын
Dude i heard the Omniman voice and i genuinely thought everyone was gonna get smacked tf up
@stirlinghicks3931
6 ай бұрын
Honestly, the biggest misstep LoK took with Aang's kids is that we only ever saw things from their perspective. Imagine if Korra had let Aang possess her like Kyoshi and Roku did to Aang, so he could have a heart-to-heart with his kids?
@BigBeardJesusYT
6 ай бұрын
Aang was so overjoyed and over stimulated he jumped the gun with Tenzin. It’s not that he cared more about him than his siblings, it was more so after 3 kids he finally had an opportunity to pass on his nation and hope to rebuilt it through his son. His over stimulation and excitement for this task definitely over shadowed his two other kids. Although he was not meaning to do this. He simply made a mistake any parent could easily make.
@Ironbreeze53
6 ай бұрын
Aang completely dominating Ozai during Sozin's comet taking away Ozai's ability to bend in the moment of his life when he felt the most powerful was far crueler than just killing him.
@JokulXyrevived
5 ай бұрын
In his defense he was happy to see the potential of the revival of the air nomads
@devinkennedy3454
5 ай бұрын
“Son where’s the pictures of spiderman!”
@nerdierannie1351
6 ай бұрын
Guess being a horrid father who would always neglect their children is a running theme among our favorite main characters. Aang from Avatar, Naruto, Harry Potter.
@NanobanaKinako
6 ай бұрын
Probably because Tenzin is his only airbending companion.
@shadenox8164
Ай бұрын
Not an excuse.
@fanpro-yn1cy
6 ай бұрын
That baby lies still like an npc while tenzin id talking💀
@kingeriq
6 ай бұрын
The fact that tenzin thought the whole fam went on those vacations with him jus shows how distant him and aang were to they fam
@timbax3267
6 ай бұрын
Let's think positively here. Aang wasn't raised by and, as far as I'm aware, never mentioned his mom and dad. We saw his mom give birth, sure, but I'm pretty sure that's it. At the very least, he was a part of all three of his kids lives, despite having favorites. Tenzin breaks the cycle. Dude is a pretty good dad, trying his best, not perfect, but those kids have a pretty good childhood with a loving father.
@hellboysj6679
6 ай бұрын
To be fair, I think he did try his best in someways cause he had to restart the air, Temple, the best that he could and then he also was the avatar, so he had to also make sure that there was balance in the world as well and to be fair, I think he’s one of the few avatars to have a wife and kids or kid.
@Obistopmotions
5 ай бұрын
People forget that when Aang dies if he didn’t teach Tenzin all he needed to know and try to rebuild the air nation it could never be rebuilt, he has a job to the world, not just his children
@shadenox8164
Ай бұрын
Aang learned everything about Air nomad culture by the age of 12, he had the time.
@om_ikis
6 ай бұрын
Can't believe Goku and Vegeta are better parents than Aang
@kinggears
6 ай бұрын
Ok buddy, Goku is a GREAT father, He spent 5 years with gohan, gohan got kidnapped and sacrificed himself for his safety, he died 2 times, the 2nd being so villains won’t come to earth, and look how that turned out… Vegeta on the other hand is just tryna act cool in front of his kids.
@boredape1986
6 ай бұрын
That's not a fair comparison though. You're comparing great parents to someone who allowed one of his kids to become gay
@basicsimp8798
6 ай бұрын
@@boredape1986Homophobic garbage 😂
@ThMrksman
6 ай бұрын
This is possibly the most egregious retconning I've seen in any series.
@forestreflection2066
5 ай бұрын
I kinda feel bad for tenzen. Because I was the favorite of my dad cause and I would he wanted " someone of my bloodline to finish college and become something." Because none of his kids finished highschool and went on to live crime and drug ruled lives. My eldest sister use to be the youngest of his kids before I showed up. She was 13 when I was born and my dad worked 2 jobs to give me everything. Middle class neighborhood , fancy cars, everything I wanted he gave because he saw potential in me. And wanted to give me a life that in his younger years neglected to give to the other kids. When my dad had my other siblings he was 20-30s he had me at 42. Never saw my brother's cause they were grown up. My eldest sister was the only one from his side that lived with them cause she was 13 by the time I was born. She was in her late teens to 20s during my childhood. And was resentful of everything I got. I'm 25 in college for my BA in Game Art and Design while my sister doesn't have her GED and is struggling. And dad is dead.
@silasgs9257
6 ай бұрын
Remember parents, your children when grown are the only ones who get to judge how u were as a parent. You dont get to cop out and tell everyone how amazing u were if your child says u were neglectful. You dont get to be your own judge Thats like going to a baking competition, eating your own cake and saying to the judges “excuse me but mines the best i should win”
@asandax6
6 ай бұрын
You can be the world's most amazing parent and still raise the world's most fucked up adults. Kids also can interpret you trying to protect them as abusive and restrictive and hate you for it.
@silasgs9257
6 ай бұрын
@@asandax6 if youre talking about nature vs nurture youll find the most fucked up people in the world far more often then not came from very bad upbringings, including but not exclusively very bad parenting. This is getting to deep for this but as an example from cartoon to real life comparison, i bet if someone asked aang hed say he was the best and most amazing father while 2/3 of his children say he was neglectful. See here he doesnt get to be the judge only they do. Parents have alot of cop outs or just choose to forget the bad things they did. But the children remember they always do
@Sans_The_Skeleton
6 ай бұрын
aang never had a father so he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do he thinks “airbender = most important”
@sabite6459
2 ай бұрын
Bro fought his entire life of kid we should forgive him 😂
@maestrulgamer9695
6 ай бұрын
Come on,Aang.How hard could have been to take all of your kids on the same vacations?
@Birthnote
6 ай бұрын
"I suppose you wouldn't know of fathers, being raised by monks." -Zuko, to Aang
@phillyjrzempoalteca1543
5 ай бұрын
I forget this dude voices Nolan from invincible
@veronikahudakova8365
5 ай бұрын
the biggest mistake is that he had a family and knew very well what was waiting for him! he had to decide either the family or the avatar, a person cannot have two things
@Titi-zm7gr
6 ай бұрын
The kid that was raised without a father figure is a bad father. Who would've guessed
@mattybadger13
6 ай бұрын
Did you know "proceeds to tell a core story line"
@kessyokonkwo9337
6 ай бұрын
Lmao. Aang lowkey a deadbeat. It always be the ones w good intentions 😭😂
@riitviksannoju6524
6 ай бұрын
Bro actually aang tried to teach them air nomad culture but they had no interest in so he didn't want force then into anything, he is actually a good father. they just feel left out now if he had forced them into it, it would have been a bigger problem .
@Emeraldsembrace
6 ай бұрын
Half of team Avatar didnt really end up being great parents but they did teach their kids to be great people. Toph was the only parent who did the worst to me but even still she just wanted her kids to be able to choose their own path, she just didnt know they need some structure as well. I mean we can all see how visibly upset she was when lin basically told her she hated her. But Toph was willing to bare that burden if it mean her kids were happy. Aang i think got too swept with teaching Tenzin and trying to rebuild the air nation to realize his other kids needed him too. But i dont believe for one second that he didn't love them, he just needed to do better by them.
@moguri722
6 ай бұрын
im pretty sure kya and bumi never even stated outright that they hated their father for not spending time with them as much as he did tenzin, they were just correcting tenzin because he had a different experience
@sandmaker47
6 ай бұрын
The man had to preserve an entire civilization. Had to put all of that on one person.
@kylemcdoyl908
6 ай бұрын
Never play favorites with your kids. Love them and treat them equally.
@thecaprikid1329
6 ай бұрын
Just as long as the same is done towards one's parents. Parents are not some godly individuals. They are just older people than you. Stop assuming they know or should know everything. That's naive, arrogant and youth speaking. Stop expecting them to know the universe's secret just because you were born. They are literally still just normal people.
@lhgaming945
6 ай бұрын
One of the most enraging things about kora was this kind of stuff right here. Making the past content worse by changing it to fit the story. Aang would NEVER play favorites, that’s just not who he is. Or at least who he was. Why can’t people just create new stuff instead of ruining the great tv shows we had.
@ProfessorGunk
6 ай бұрын
Yeah nail on the head right there
@sprYTel11
6 ай бұрын
At least the hat a dad, Aang grew up without any parents....
@pyrogotz5076
6 ай бұрын
I have to wonder. Did the air nomads even have people who couldn't Airbend? If they did, he did do a disservice to his other children by not teaching them anything.
@PGPoncho
6 ай бұрын
Sidenote: it’s something ironic that adult Aang and Omni-Man are the same voice actor. 😂
@LegendCobraX-w2o
6 ай бұрын
I know some people hate this about Aang and felt it was bad writing or out of character but I honestly like it for Aang. It makes him feel less like the pure hearted, fun loving kid that we saw in the original show and instead shows us a more flawed side of him in that just because he’s the avatar doesn’t mean he always does everything right or even is able to acknowledge his own flaws. Just because he wasn’t the best dad dosen’t make it out of character for him to favor Tenzin especially given the context of the air nomads history.
@dianarojo2556
5 ай бұрын
I think he could’ve still taken Bumi and Kya to all the places Tenzin went and taught them his culture. They might not have been able to airbend but they’re as much as air nomads as Tenzin is.
@sirtimothy92
6 ай бұрын
Aang amd Goku are the same: Good heroes, horrible parents
@keybladegames_real
6 ай бұрын
I learned he loved them equally but focused on Tenzin cause he wanted to make sure the air nomad way of life would be passed down. But that claim is thrown aside with the fact he only took tenzin on those vacations. So press F to doubt
@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773
6 ай бұрын
Aang a character that should have never had kids. He makes Goku look like a competent parent.
@speedyjames2770
6 ай бұрын
In order to achieve avatar state he even had to left his feelings for katara
@bogustoast22none25
6 ай бұрын
gee if only there was a way to talk to Aang and solve this.
@kevrink5605
6 ай бұрын
Not taking his other kids on vacations is a bit much. But I understand why Tenzin was his favorite. Until Aang became a grandfather, he and Tenzin were the only airbenders
@GraveDigger35
6 ай бұрын
Aang died before Tenzin had kids
@kevrink5605
6 ай бұрын
@@GraveDigger35 that improves my point. When Aang died, Tenzin was the ONLY living airbender
@Gr3nadgr3gory
6 ай бұрын
Remember, airbenders usually weren't raised by their parents. Aang being a bad father actually makes a lot of sense given that he was raised by monks, one of whom definitely showed him favoritism given that he was friends with Aang before he was born.
@J_Bb
6 ай бұрын
That’s sad… left out because you couldn’t air bend and then as an adult your dad passed away and then you become an air bender
@christianjung5583
6 ай бұрын
I wrote that somewhere else already. He was a Kid. Got told with 12 years you are the Avatar. Childhood over. Normally they get told with 16. He runs away. The war breaks out. They couldn't solve it in 100 years. He needs to save the world. Done that. Needs to deal with the aftermath and Avatar duties. Get's onto family building. And here comes the catch. He was the last Airbender. Was literally the name of the show. The Avatar needs all 4 Elements. So he had to get a child who could be an Airbender. Teach him so said child could teach future Avatars and rebuild the Air Nation as a whole. So he had to focus on the child who was the next Airbender. Yeah that sucks. But the world is sadly more important then your personal preferences. And he was a great father to Tenzin. And would have been to his other kids as well. But his time was short due to 100 years in Avatar state. He never had a life of his own. For his own sake. He was the Avatar. Doing Avatar duties he got put onto him because the previous once were lazy and let personal feelings cloud their judgement. Aang wanted nothing more then to be a fun dad and enjoy his life. And gave his kids the childhood he got robbed off. He could give it to Tenzin. But that was it.
@georgezp7787
6 ай бұрын
Did you know that aang is a fictional character, and everything he did in korra is a reflection on the personalities of the writers?
@shadenox8164
Ай бұрын
Uh no. People write characters doing things they don't agree with all the time.
@teamblack204
5 ай бұрын
In a sense, Aang is actually quite like Ursa. They both favored their son for necessary reasons (Ursa had to protect Zuko, and Aang wanted to bring back Air Nomad culture), which resulted in making their other kids feeling left out. However, both Aang and Ursa loved all their kids dearly. They were flawed parents without guidance, that's all
@lovepeoplehu9883
6 ай бұрын
Aang and Sasuke can relate to each other
@luwirap
6 ай бұрын
I'm still curious why Tenzin has this vague memories about his siblings being there with him and Aang in those vacations. I mean come on, you have 2 siblings! It will be really strange not to realize your 2 siblings are missing in action!
@lunyfool872735
6 ай бұрын
Didn’t the other two not want to learn about the air nomads.
@metal_gear_rayquaza8914
6 ай бұрын
Endeavor and Naruto: "That's rough buddy"
@mrotaku183
6 ай бұрын
Aang, Goku and naruto have lot in common except goku and naruto ignored all their kids equally 😂
@Graylord12
6 ай бұрын
Bro was in ice for 100yrs and when he came out went straight to fighting the fire nation Of course he won't be the best dad
@tauva33
6 ай бұрын
Well at least they still care each other, thats what matter
@Mythos0187
Ай бұрын
They turn Aang into a deadbeat dad.. yeah okay I’m done
@thebanjoorder4446
6 ай бұрын
It annoys me that Aang being a bad father is something they wrote in. He would have had people to learn to be a good father from like Katara's dad and Iroh and even then Gyatso treated him in a way that could be called a parent child relationship. I don't think Aang would just abandon two of his kids and focus on one and that Katara would even have let him but sadly the bad writing of Korra dictates that exactly what happened and is another reason I have lost faith in all future Avatar productions
@Yuki_the_first
5 ай бұрын
Monks are not raised by parents so Aang never knew how to be a father as he never was raised by one
@Kev.NTheLich
6 ай бұрын
Ii dont think aang was that bad of a dad, but it seems like no one ever mentions katara for not knocking some sense into him.
@jay4dacheck
6 ай бұрын
Thats crazy you put this up and forgot to mention the part where they opted out of not wanting to help rebuild the airbending nation with Aang and Tenzin
@tylersmith9465
5 ай бұрын
I guess he was a father figure to his kids
@missedthebandwagon976
6 ай бұрын
What kills me is that after Bumi says "I've never felt like a part of the Air Nation..." Tenzin replies "You are now." When the CORRECT response is "You always were." Bumi may not have been born an Air bender, but he was a part of Aang's family! How can Aang be in the Air Nation but not Bumi? Ugh, that lines burns me up. And I love Tenzin! But he can be very oblivious when it comes to his siblings.
@veryshia
6 ай бұрын
His kids were just not interested. Knowing Aang's character, he would be a very compliant dad. If he sees his kids not really interested then he wouldn't force them to. The things he did would be seen as bad either way. If he forced his kids to learn then it would be seen as bad too, just like now. No parents are perfect, there are no guidebooks on how to parent. Aang was also in a lot of pressure to keep the culture of his people live on before his time was up. He wasn't exactly a good dad, but he's not a bad dad either. He's just a parent who makes mistakes
@urbanlegend5464
6 ай бұрын
Aang lived long enough to become the villain lol
@shawngordon9781
6 ай бұрын
I like the fact that they made it a point to show that even though aang probably loved all his children equally he was still a flawed person he and Kora are not gods just powerful mortals trying to do their best and sometimes failing like everyone else aang was raised by monks never had a father other than his mentor who too was a monk aang was just doing what was taught to him to share the air Nations lifestyle to one of the last air benders it probably never occurred to him how the others felt because they never told him
@MysticMorigan1998
6 ай бұрын
I always felt so bad for Bumi. I wish they had shown that he had a great relationship with Sokka. Air Nomads are so connected to the spirit world that everyone was a bender. He had to be disappointed that his first child wasn't a bender at all. Imagine if Bumi did really take to the air nomad way, only to be pushed aside when Tenzin was born. I also wonder how Kya felt about it. She was the daughter of one of the best water benders on the planet and the avatar, what if she never met up to the levels of the Beifongs. I loved act 3 and 4, but I really disliked the younger gen
@Courtjester-m4
4 ай бұрын
And he scared tenzen to made him feel like he had to build up air national to
@levihuerta8279
5 ай бұрын
He wasn’t playing favorites, he was just doing his best to ensure that the next generation of airbending would be protected by teaching Tenzin. Yeah, he missed out on his other kids, but wouldn’t you be scared too if you thought your culture would die if you didn’t pass it on?
@lindsaymorrison7519
6 ай бұрын
I didn't like this in the show first came out because it didn't seem like something katara would even allow Aang to do, and honestly some of this does feel unrealistic because most of the vacations Tenzin mentions are not air nomad specific at all, but it makes more sense considering just how crazy busy Aang was and how little he knew about fatherhood because he was raised by monks, and heck Katara has been motherly since her mom died but she still had a lot to learn about what it was to be a parent to anyone over the age of 9 because she never had that experience... They both grew up too fast. But mostly it makes sense because it's actually probably really hard for Ang to describe any of airnomad culture to his non-airbending kids because part of what made the nomad so special was that they were the only nation where literally 100% of the people in it were benders. Everything they did every day and created probably involved some form of air bending, so he probably didn't know how to teach a non-bender to participate in it or even if he tried that non-bender probably immediately felt the reminder again and again that they couldn't physically do what their dad could. I feel like his oldest son probably tried to keep up, which is one of the reasons why bumi is so good at jumping around and being really martial arty, but by the time Kya came along it was probably just increasingly obvious that air nomad culture wasn't relevant to these kids. And Aang was probably about to give up on continuing it until Tenzin was born and he had hope again. He was wrong to place all that hope and favoritism in Tenzin alone, but it does make sense
@VictoriaStobbie
5 ай бұрын
Ah yes, I remember watching this entire series with my ex.
@nirlambghumman7398
6 ай бұрын
Aang was not necessarily a bad father. He did give priority to Tenzin because Tenzin was interested in Air Nomad culture. Aang tried to teach Bumi & Kaya which is apparent when you consider that Kaya had some knowledge about Air Nomad culture. Kaya’s knowledge wasn’t an accident Aang tried to teach her but she was really interested and Bumi, at the time, was even less interested. Aang could’ve just forced them to learn more and he probably should’ve but we should try to see it from Aang’s perspective.
@snowpegasi
6 ай бұрын
Look at the end of the day he was flawed, yes Kya and Bumi weren't interested in the Air Nomad ways but they brought up actual vacations that they were left out of, you can still like Aang and still think he's a good person because he is, but as a father he wasn't the best, the circumstances don't matter in this case because he still could have at least brought them on trips even if he didn't spend as much time with them during those trips, but from the sounds of it he didn't make the attempt after they showed no interest in being Air Nomads.
@angelaworld5383
5 ай бұрын
One more reason why Zutara should have been canon😢 Zuko would have cared for all of them, despite what they were, even if all of them were born as waterbenders or non Benders. I’m not saying that Aang didn’t deserved to have a family, Gosh he is literally the first Avatar who had this luxury and well deserved it, I just wish they didn’t wrote him that badly
@jllilib.8803
6 ай бұрын
he's not an ordinary father. he's the avatar, his duty is for the world. to have a balance between 4 different nations. he can't do it if the other one is endangered. no one can blame aang for doing his duty first as an avatar than being a father to his other children, having a family even have a burden of being an avatar is just a plus or a bonus for aang. other avatars didn't literally have family not even a wife or a child. he just lucky that he have katara, loyal friends and his children to help him restore balance to the avatar world. also, i don't think he has favorites,he just focus more with tenzin so that he can teach all of the airnomad things to him so he can passed it down to his successors or new generations of air nomads in the future as well as so that tenzin could help the new avatar when he (aang) passed. he was so misunderstood like any other normal people. you guys should remember avatar yangchen's advice to aang when he was in the energy bending lion turtle "selfless duty calls you to sacrifice your own spirirual needs". he needs to restore airnomad's legacy to the world with a sacrifice of being a father FATHER to his other kids. i don't justify his lacking but like what i have said, he's the avatar and i think he thought his duty was not just to bring back balance and to end the 100 years war but also to keep the air nomads traditions, cultures, knowledge and beliefs through tenzin since he's the only one who can bend air when he was still alive.
@orekihoutarou9376
6 ай бұрын
While zuko being the best father 😂
@aliceslab
6 ай бұрын
aang is not the type of person to be like that, they exaggerating maybe is what i always thought. maybe he played favorite but he was still around and cared about them
@KrimsonKage
6 ай бұрын
Yall do know his kids wasn't interested in his culture but Tenzin was
@sadcat7031
5 ай бұрын
The problem I have is that Tanzin has the same voice as omni man and now I can’t watch the show without seeing him as omni man 😭😭
@WobblesandBean
6 ай бұрын
The amount of people tripping over themselves to say child neglect is ok just because it's Aang is disgusting.
@kanelovec4315
6 ай бұрын
I think aang had a hard time being a father sense air nomads were community raise not by parents. So he was probably lacking in parenting ways and gave his kid what he wished for at the time. Aang also had the flaw on only focusing on one person at a time.
@xanderortega4359
6 ай бұрын
Aang maybe not the best father, but he did try he encourage kya to pursue her true love, let bumi do his goals, and they of course still have their uncle sokka who mostly wont let them leave alone like that, remember kya and bumi once mention Aang telling them stories about his air nomads culture. People sometimes forget Aang wake up a 12 year old kid in a world of war and an avatar force to carry big responsibilities, even after the war he has to restore his culture and nation along with his avatar duties, atleast he still manage to find time for his children... You usually see kya and bumi cases on those children of soldiers, and maybe Aang able to focus on tenzin as he was the youngest born maybe after the stability from war allowing him more time to teach tenzin All in all Aang is a good father not perfect.
@BaleetaTheCubeyPerson
4 ай бұрын
Why did I just realize that AANG treated tendon better because he was an AIRBENDER unlike bumi and Kya💀
@orboobleck5366
6 ай бұрын
Ironically, Zuko turned out to be the best parent.
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