The story is very much on Zuko's side and so having so many chapters where the Fire Nation are justified for their actions followed by explicit explanations on why the Gaang's actions have culturally wrong is getting annoying. That Zuko could have been so much worse and gone back to punish the water tribe village for Aang's breaking parole, strikes me as a more vindictive take then the woe is me, he broke our ship and some of our soldiers were almost killed by the dunk in arctic water previously harped on.
I think Vathera is also writing under some blinders as in the author notes I read how Zuko has wrong accusations and his views are being changed as well but if that is occuring, they are largely being changed so that the situation was even worse then he thought it was going to be. Insert angry blow-up here from Zuko, and everyone else realizing they've made a grave error. Now that Zuko's going back to Ba Sing Se, I'm hopeful that the lack of Katara and Aang will place the story in a setting that doesn't have as many predictable emotions and events occuring. Personally I think the back story has been given enough attention and more energy needs to be spent on current events and battles, the Avatar world is real enough after everything Vathera done in the previous chapters and while cultural differences are interesting, they're only going to hold attention for so long.
I think Vathera is also writing under some blinders as in the author notes I read how Zuko has wrong accusations and his views are being changed as well but if that is occuring, they are largely being changed so that the situation was even worse then he thought it was going to be. Insert angry blow-up here from Zuko, and everyone else realizing they've made a grave error. Now that Zuko's going back to Ba Sing Se, I'm hopeful that the lack of Katara and Aang will place the story in a setting that doesn't have as many predictable emotions and events occuring. Personally I think the back story has been given enough attention and more energy needs to be spent on current events and battles, the Avatar world is real enough after everything Vathera done in the previous chapters and while cultural differences are interesting, they're only going to hold attention for so long.