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* Sokka realizes that the best method to defeat the giant drill was to "get inside and attack it's weak points." The Gaang get inside easily enough (too easily, really), and they even gets some blueprints. What does Sokka decide are the drill's weak points? The engine? No. Hydrolic lines? No. Various pistons and drive shafts? No. He attacks ''the superstructure''. The LEAST "weak" part of the entire thing.

*** The Drill was right at the wall of Ba Sing Se, taking it out for even a day would be more than enough time to get guys in and deal with it. By the time they get the parts needed to fix it the Earth Kingdom military will have secured the drill. And it will take longer than you think to get the parts anyway, since every part would be custom so that's probably the only drill they're gonna make in the next decade or so. With Sozin's comet coming my question would be why bother with a drill at all?

** Realistically? Less time than a month. The Fire Nation is an industrial-age army that uses mechanized warfare. They've got to understand logistics and how important it is. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a supply depot within an hour or day's time away with enough parts to replace anything that goes haywire on the Drill as quickly as possible - and that's discounting the notion that they'd carry spare parts inside the Drill itself for quick maintenance. That thing's also got to have some redundant systems that they can switch over to if one breaks down; a device that big will practically ''require'' them if they want to get any maintenance done.

** Also Sokka was just looking at the blueprints and he's not a mechanical genius when it comes to things as advanced as the fire nation.

** They brought that up. She's initially hesitant to go out onto the ice. Also, bending a path for herself would have been difficult, given the Serpent fight in the water at the time. There's no garuntee the Serpent wouldn't just destroy it.

** The [[Myth Busters]] went did something like this. Whenever you tell the truth, the lie detector says it's the truth. If you're telling the truth, lie detector cannot be convinced that you're lying. I can only assume that it works in reverse.

*** Which, by the way, is a myth in itself. Lie detectors have not been proven to be infallible regardless of what Myth Busters seems to think.

*** She was pressed up against a definitely stone wall. Toph could detect her heartrate and stuff anyway. Who needs the soles of one's feet when the rest of her body will do?

*** "I can only assume it works in reverse" No! Universal declarations do not go both ways. Think of Monty Python as an example; characters in Holy Grail humorously conclude that, since all wood burns, all that burns is wood. Untrue for the same basic reason.

** Lighting redirection, general mastery of the elements, and Iroh style new techniques are all good reasons.

** That may depend on whether Toph actually recognised Iroh. We know he saw her, because it's that distraction that gives Azula her opening to strike her uncle. But IIRC Iroh doesn't speak during that scene where they're ganging up on Azula, and with no voice to go by, and so many people around it's not guaranteed that Toph could have identified him as anyone other than a firebender also fighting Azula. Although she has been able to tell people by how they move, like with 'twinkletoes', she wasn't with Iroh for long.

*** Toph did recognize Iroh. When Iroh is on the floor, he, Toph's feet and then Toph's sad face are focused, indicating that she knew he was the old man she had talked before.