I don’t think that tracks with all the exercise they show him doing in prison before then. Or the many comments about his shape before that. I feel like the implied arc is that he went downhill after losing his son and finally does a comeback to break out and meet up with the White Lotus and fulfill his destiny to take back Ba Sing Se.
PS: Uncle Iroh before getting ripped in prison.
NGL, I had to read that twice lol
He didn’t get ripped in prison. He was always ripped but it was revealed to the viewer for the first time in prison.
I don’t think that tracks with all the exercise they show him doing in prison before then. Or the many comments about his shape before that. I feel like the implied arc is that he went downhill after losing his son and finally does a comeback to break out and meet up with the White Lotus and fulfill his destiny to take back Ba Sing Se.