[quote=Hank]
How on earth did you have a problem with Ming-Hua's water arms? It's one of the more creative bending applications I've seen on the show.
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They were absolutely [i]stupid[/i]. sure they were creative in a way but I felt they were a [i]stupid[/i] novelty to make the character seem wacky and [i]cool[/i]. Not to mention I always felt that part of waterbending was motion with the integral pieces of the body she was missing to keep a fluid martial form, so her existing kind of undermines the bending form and rules. You can't be fluid with your arms if you have none. To give her some credit I like her way more as a character than combustion girl who was about as one dimensional as a brick. But I still hate those water arms, they were as I said stupid and I didn't like them. Props to those who enjoyed them, though, definitely not my taste.

Also, Sozin and Roku (as well as a previous bender) showed lavabending options as [i]firebenders[/i] so turning it into an earthbending form didn't make much sense to me. But that's a small gripe.