>On some level I want to like Azula, but I can't as long as
>her flavor of the crazy is mainly about murder.

I think this may have been precisely the effect the ATLA writers were going for.

>Good cactus juice comes on slow. The first hour is all
>waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing
>the fool who told you about it, because nothing is happening... and
>then ZANG! Fiendish intensity, strange glow and vibrations... a very
>heavy gig in a place like the Misty Palms Oasis.
> - excerpt from Fear and Loathing in the Earth Kingdom

... now I've got a mental image of UF-Raoul Duke wandering around with the "secret tunnel" nomad guys. (Or did Sokka take a turn for the gonzo later in life, you think?)