Yeah, I don't really know what they were thinking with putting Katara at that fight. It's like "we don't know what to do with her....oh just send her with Zuko!" She just had no reason to be there. At all. It was so shoehorned.
Upon rewatch, I've decided that Azula's madness probably began at the Boiling Rock, since Mai and Ty Lee betraying her meant she had no control over them (and in Mai's case, I'm doubtful she ever did have control, she thought she did, but it seems to have been Mai's decision from the start "she can throw all the lightning she wants at me, I'm not going down there"), and she just doesn't know how to handle not having control.
I agree with you wholeheartedly on Katara. The one point that really got me? "You didn't love our mother as much as I did!" ...and she never apologized for it. Never. I can't forgive her for that. I can see saying it in the heat of the moment, but that's a horrible thing to say, and she never apologized, or even tried to. *grump grump grump*
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Upon rewatch, I've decided that Azula's madness probably began at the Boiling Rock, since Mai and Ty Lee betraying her meant she had no control over them (and in Mai's case, I'm doubtful she ever did have control, she thought she did, but it seems to have been Mai's decision from the start "she can throw all the lightning she wants at me, I'm not going down there"), and she just doesn't know how to handle not having control.
I agree with you wholeheartedly on Katara. The one point that really got me? "You didn't love our mother as much as I did!"
...and she never apologized for it. Never. I can't forgive her for that. I can see saying it in the heat of the moment, but that's a horrible thing to say, and she never apologized, or even tried to. *grump grump grump*