#Avatar the last airbender season 1 episode 2 full episode series

It turns out the Gaang can’t make people want to fight because “Avatar” is all about choices, the Earth Kingdom prisoners have to choose it for themselves.ĥ3.

Honestly, it’s exactly in the spirit of Avatar. Like the preteens and teenagers that Aang, Katara and Sokka are, they see getting captured by the enemy and becoming a literal prisoner of war in order to incite resistance against oppressors as a good plan. Book 1, Episode 7: “Winter Solstice - Part 1: The Spirit World”Įxposition time: In addition to learning the four elements, the Avatar has a spiritual responsibility. This episode gave us memorable exchanges like “Can your science explain why it rains?” “Yes! Yes, it can!” - not to mention some lovely messages about shaping your own destiny - but is largely inconsequential.ĥ5. Sokka learns that girls can fight too and Aang learns that hero worship is a double-edged sword. Book 1, Episode 4: “The Warriors of Kyoshi” Insane King Bumi’s introduction is fun, even if it’s a bit obvious that he’s Aang’s childhood friend.ĥ7. It deftly establishes Zuko’s potential, and when Aang, Sokka and Katara take off on Appa, it’s the real beginning of the show.ĥ8. And off the bat, Zuko shows he has honor - he promises to leave in peace if given the Avatar, and he does. Book 1, Episode 2: “The Avatar Returns”įor the record, Aang was never officially unbanished from the Southern Water Tribe. It’s a bit moralistic and heavy-handed, even if Aang’s lie to the two tribes is hilarious.ĥ9.

#Avatar the last airbender season 1 episode 2 full episode series

It’s a good sign when a series only goes up from the first episode.Ħ0. Book 1, Episode 1: “The Boy in the Iceberg” The series as a whole is excellent, but how do the individual episodes stack up? By no popular demand, here is an entirely objective ranking of all 61 episodes of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” from worst to best.Ħ1. In fact, it’s one of the best shows of all time, full stop. Katara is just a little bit too whiny – but what’s truly amazing is how the whole thing goes off without a hitch.“Avatar: The Last Airbender” is one of the best animated series of all time. So, with a lot of ground to cover, it’s liable that there’ll be a few bum notes in there – the editing between the storylines of Aang’s capture and the rescue effort could have been a bit clearer, for instance. The tone of the show needs to be set (smart move, making episode one the adventure segment and episode two the action segment), the main characters need to be pretty fleshed out and, of course, the mythology needs to be explained quite a bit so we understand it. There’s a lot of ground covered in this episode and The Boy In The Iceberg. To cut a long story short, Aang is rescued by his new Water Tribe friends and they escape, Zuko vowing to never underestimate the Avatar again. Of course, this only turns Aang into the Avatar, allowing him to attack pretty much everyone on board using waterbending techniques. Zuko is well and truly beaten (bludgeoned by a mattress, ow) but he doesn’t take no for an answer and his persistence eventually pays off when he knocks Aang off the ship and into the waters. Obviously, this doesn’t last long with Aang escaping to get his staff back, bringing him to blows with Zuko. It’s that it guarantees an unwanted end to the war.Īppa helps them out by being their big, fuzzy ride, leading to a great moment when Sokka accidentally makes him fly. The downtrodden faces of the Water Tribe inhabitants aren’t because of a funny little kid being taken away by the enemy. “It’s been so long since I’ve had hope,” Gran-Gran tells Katara, telling them how it was her and her brother’s destiny to find the Avatar. There’s some PG terrorising of the villagers as he orders to know where they’ve hidden Aang, when – surprise! – he reappears, reveals he’s the Avatar (how in the world did the camp not make this association before? More on that next week) and makes a deal: the camp’s safety for his capture. Even Sokka, putting on his big brother boots and yelling orders (“No potty breaks!”), is trying to act out a role played by his absent father, something we’re reminded of when he’s easily defeated by Zuko later in the episode.Īnd Zuko, yup, he shows up looking for the recently departed Aang, in the most tyrannical manner possible, barricading a Fire Nation ship through the walls of the camp in a style that’s not quite David and Goliath, more Tiny Ant and Goliath. Where Katara is teen-stubborn over her wishes to become a Waterbender, Zuko is an angry teenager and Aang is still naive enough to joke about using fun to beat the Fire Nation. It’s fitting that these kids are all giving adolescent reactions to something beyond their understanding.

When Sokka and the siblings’ grandmother order Aang’s banishment yet again, Katara threatens to leave with him.