I hope we do find out what happened to her--it seems like Zuko's "Then she might be alive!" could be leading that way. It feels like there's a shoe to drop there.
I hope it's left open. I imagine that Zuko will be king by the end of the series. I would like to see him consider/start his King on a Quest journey, a nice end from where we met him as Prince in Banishment.
It's interesting now that you point that out how as you say, the idea of Zuko imagining things happening to her puts him in the position of saving her in that classic damsel in distress way. Not that Zuko thinks his mother is powerless, I don't think. There's just a slightly different dynamic to the switching of roles of protector and protected.
Or the dynamic difference is child(protector)/mother(protected). Mother is usually the protector with their children (unless stepmother). So it would be the cub (Zuko) protecting the mama bear (Ursa), rather than the Knight saving the Damsel. (I don't see her as damsel, and hope I never do)
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Date: 2008-06-20 07:07 pm (UTC)I hope it's left open. I imagine that Zuko will be king by the end of the series. I would like to see him consider/start his King on a Quest journey, a nice end from where we met him as Prince in Banishment.
Or the dynamic difference is child(protector)/mother(protected). Mother is usually the protector with their children (unless stepmother). So it would be the cub (Zuko) protecting the mama bear (Ursa), rather than the Knight saving the Damsel. (I don't see her as damsel, and hope I never do)