people who bitch about the kataang kiss during the day of the black sun better bitch about that trope EVERY damn time it occurs in media (e.g. the primary hero kissing their love interest out of the blue as a last-ditch attempt to convey their feelings before having to go off into a life-threatening battle from which they may not return) or else you're just a whiny jerk who hates kataang and you're clearly looking for obnoxious ways to justify your hatred instead of simply saying that it's not your cup of tea and moving on
I think maybe people should also be bothered by Sokka just up and kissing Suki in “The Serpents Pass”?
This ^^^ The majority of the kisses in the show are like this.
In fact, I think the only ~kiss~ in the whole show where any kind of consent was explicitly discussed before the fact was Katara and Aang in the Cave of Two Lovers (and that conversation didn’t even go well lol). All other kisses were a) dramatic, romantic tropes with no preamble and therefore “overused” or “problematic” or b) on the cheek. If you wanna get bothered about tropes or the lack of explicit consent in the dialogue, then that’s like...every kiss in the show.