Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3006074-20180119014410/@comment-4010415-20180606172603

73.Anon.52 wrote: Glitchee123z wrote: I personally thought “Tales of Ba Sing Se” was filler. In a way, except each storyline has direct relevance with the main story as I recall, one tells exactly how Uncle's past is relevant as I recall, while another shows how Zuko became somewhat at peace with his circumstances, and all of them steadily reveal layers of the city Setting's societal structure as it relates to our heroes actions in the next few episodes, meaning less explanation was needed in the episodes with the main characters... it also raised the stakes as you never know when a side character like that might die. Indeed, it was a great world building and character building episode.

It was also nice to see the fact that Iroh lost his son have more importance than a single mention. It had been mentioned before as the reason Iroh stopped his attack on Ba Sing Se, due to his grief. But it was nice to see that it was still an important aspect of his character, that his son really was so important to him and that losing him was painful.