Well, her apologists tend to focus on a few moments in The Beach and ignore just about everything else or perhaps they think the behavior in Zuko Alone comprised her worst moments rather than being typical for her. One fairly common argument is that Azula had a harder time than Zuko because he had good people in his life and she didn't after Ursa left.
One big problem I have with the "Iroh should have saved Azula like he did Zuko" argument is that in the end Zuko had to save Zuko. Iroh's nurturing and wisdom was a big factor but redemption isn't something you can realistically do for another person.
One fanfic author whose work I normally love decided to explain Azula by having Ozai train her to be a monster. The arguement that the author used is that "monsters are made not born" so some people just can't accept sociopathic tedencies in children there has to be some other reason.
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Date: 2012-09-05 04:19 pm (UTC)One big problem I have with the "Iroh should have saved Azula like he did Zuko" argument is that in the end Zuko had to save Zuko. Iroh's nurturing and wisdom was a big factor but redemption isn't something you can realistically do for another person.
One fanfic author whose work I normally love decided to explain Azula by having Ozai train her to be a monster. The arguement that the author used is that "monsters are made not born" so some people just can't accept sociopathic tedencies in children there has to be some other reason.