YMMV / Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Deserter"

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Did Roku really expect Jeong-Jeong to teach Aang firebending? Or was he just trying to get his successor to learn a lesson in discipline and self-control?
  • Another alternative is that Roku also wanted Jeong-Jeong to stop hiding and rejoin the world for the eventual fight against Ozai, which he did with the other members of the White Lotus, and getting him to interact with Aang could be the trigger for that.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Roku spontaneously appearing to berate Jeong-Jeong. Aang shows no signs of having transformed like he does in "The Winter Solstice Part 2" and "Avatar Day", meaning this is the only time where a previous Avatar appears before a normal human on their own.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: After burning Katara, Aang swears to never firebend again. He eventually came around to firebending once more, this time without burning Katara (or anyone on his side for that matter). And he also learns that fire is not destruction and savagery, as Jeong-Jeong stated, but creation and beauty.
  • Also, this line from Aang: "I don't know why, but I thought you'd be better than Zuko!" Take a wild guess who Aang's proper firebending teacher is.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This line from Sokka:
  "See if you can find a menu; I'm starving!
  • Remember the Training from Hell Jeong-Jeong put Aang through? His earthbending training'll be even harder.

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