She also apologizes for not telling him about the Fire Nation soldiers earlier, and he accepts that apology with no hard feelings. In fact, his entire minset this episode is “obsessed with food.” There’s also this lovely interaction: He wants to adopt it and cuddle it and keep it as a pet. He recognizes the previous Avatar, the firebender Roku, even though he’d never seen him before a day in his life. All he find are statues of the previous incarnations of the Avatar, aka his past lives. That sounds wrong.īack in the present day Aang uses his airbending powers to get into the Air Temple Sanctuary, reasoning that if he survived in an iceberg for a century someone else might’ve survived in there.
Gyatso tells Aang that inside the Air Temple Sanctuary he’ll meet someone who will teach him how to Avatar, but that’s not as important to me as an old monk caking people in the face. Also trying to protect Aang is Katara, who hides from him incontrovertible proof that his home was invaded by the Fire Nation.Īang comes across a statue of his old mentor, Monk Gyatso, and from there we head to flashback land where we see Gyatso training a reluctant-to-be-the-Avatar Aang by having him airbend cakes at people’s faces. But he does it anyway, ’cause he’s a champ and Aang’s his friend now. Sokka distracts his new friend by asking him how to play airball, which A) he doesn’t care about, and B) he knew would probably just lead to getting his ass kicked. I take it that will be the next episode.īack at the air temple, Aang hasn’t found corpses (yet), but he hasn’t found any people, either. Aang agrees… but lists a whole bunch of fun activities they have to do first. Book Three: Fire.), so they should go to the North Pole for some waterbending lessons.
The legend says that the Avatar starts as an airbender, then masters waterbending, earthbending, and firebending ( do I spot a series arc? Book One: Water. Katara, slicing through the sads with some ice-cold practicality, reminds him that he’s the only one who has the power to stop the war, and that’s pretty cool, so buck up, buttercup. Bangarang, boy.Ī dejected Aang tells Katara and Sokka that he kept his Chosen One status a secret from them because he never wanted to be the Avatar in the first place. A blusterful Zuko says he won’t underestimate the Avatar again!!! and Let’s go after him… as soon as my guards are defrosted. Our heroic trio escapes, and Zuko and Uncle Iroh-who’s just woken up from his nap-try to shoot them down with a gosh-darn fire spout, but all that happens is that Aang deflects it and the ship ends up encased in ice.