How has what I said made you think that I dislike her character? I just dislike what's been done with her character. I'm looking at this from the third perspective with an unbias view of anything.
Time and time again, I've said that it isn't Katara's flaws that bothered me. What bothered me was that some of the big flaws of Katara's character has seriously hurt other characters and nobody seems to give a care for this fact. How can people say that she hasn't done anything wrong when she clearly has? People can be hurt and do things that are wrong, that's what makes us human. We make mistakes and we grow for them. But in Katara's case, her mistakes have been excused. People are not accepting her mistakes as mistakes, they're just glossing over it.
Every character in the show has gone through some sort of pain that has affected them. When I watched this show (last year), I was the same age as Katara too and to me she seemed like an unrealistic portraition of what girls her age are or should aim to be, she isn't relatable nor inspiring. How is she strong if she lashes out many, many times at people and be excused for it because of what had happened to her? In reality, my life, just like any others, the worst of life hits us and we get hurt. Someone strong faces all this with embracing it and putting on our best attitudes. But Katara's character doesn't and it doesn't motivate us to get through things. Katara is not entirely strong but she's supposed to be and people see her as that. Katara is not seen to be focusing on managing her emotions but instead just doing things.
Being an OG fan and being a fan now makes no difference and brings no relevance to the conversation. That is a completely personal offense, a fandom should be accepting of all watchers, not be divided like this.
Black and white good and evil is not realistic, yes. But the fandom has treated Katara as someone who is just good. She's seen as the good person in the show as well because she's on the good side of the story. Unlike say, Zuko, for example. He starts off as someone on the evil side of the story, then we see everything he has been through, and later on he tries to come on to the "good side" of the story, but all the things he has done and all his mistakes get thrown over and over again at him even though we clearly see now that deep inside he's a good person on the wrong side.
Everyone has good and bad in them. However, in the show, there is no in between sides. There's only the good side and there's the bad side. But people are way more complicated than that. "In good there is evil, and in evil there is good." The show doesn't explore the "in good there is evil" as much as the other.
If something happened in the series where they showed a stiutation that contradicted with Katara's negative actions and she faced it head on just like who she is, someone strong, that would've made for an amazing character for who Katara is. An example I've said is the "Imprisoned" episode. Katara absolutely shined here, with all her righteousness but also her mistakes and weakness that came from it, which she soon faced with the strength and willpower that her character has. This is a perfect balance of a strong person that makes mistakes but manages to pull through for what her character should've grown into. I would've absolutely loved the development by the end if the series but we never got that. Her character is overrated and underdeveloped.