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Avatar, book 1, eps 1-4
Sep. 4th, 2014 10:12 pmI felt I should go back and make some more coherent notes! So; in episode one, Aang is discovered inside an iceberg by Katara and Sokka, of the Water Tribe of the South Pole, and they set out together to find the water benders of the North Pole to train Katara (who has some water bending power, but no one to train her) and Aang, who needs to master all four elements as the Avatar.
I mentioned that I liked that this doesn't waste time generating suspense with the obvious. It also leaves things unexplained - Katara and Sokka's tribe is small, and Sokka is the closest to an adult male they have (and later, it appears that the Fire Nation may have wiped out the air benders solely to prevent the Avatar from reincarnating, so things may not be too good for the tribe's future).
I do wonder how close the poles are.
Meanwhile, Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation is determined to find the avatar in order to redeem himself from an as yet unspecified disgrace, and Aang conveniently sends up a flare from an abandoned Fire Nation ship he insists on exploring. Prince Zuko has Uncle Iroh, of whom I am already unreasonably fond.
Zuko attacks the water tribe, but leaves in exchange for Aang (who promptly escapes, leaving Zuko disgraced again and vulnerable to Commander Zhao, who is not only bad but dishonorable as well); they attack again with substantial collateral damage when the group visit Kyoshi, a town that has avoided trouble previously. In between Aang visits his Air city in to discover it empty, all its inhabitants killed by the Fire nation, despite being apparently accessible only by very cuddly flying bison. I do hope there are more flying bison to come; they remind me of the Catbus/Nekobasu in My Neighbour Totoro.
(while on the subject of likenesses - the unagi Aang is desperate to ride at Kyoshi reminded me so strongly of the zolomb in FFVII that I almost saw tiny action bars on the bottom of the screen :-) )
Next up, Earth benders and cabbages.
I mentioned that I liked that this doesn't waste time generating suspense with the obvious. It also leaves things unexplained - Katara and Sokka's tribe is small, and Sokka is the closest to an adult male they have (and later, it appears that the Fire Nation may have wiped out the air benders solely to prevent the Avatar from reincarnating, so things may not be too good for the tribe's future).
I do wonder how close the poles are.
Meanwhile, Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation is determined to find the avatar in order to redeem himself from an as yet unspecified disgrace, and Aang conveniently sends up a flare from an abandoned Fire Nation ship he insists on exploring. Prince Zuko has Uncle Iroh, of whom I am already unreasonably fond.
Zuko attacks the water tribe, but leaves in exchange for Aang (who promptly escapes, leaving Zuko disgraced again and vulnerable to Commander Zhao, who is not only bad but dishonorable as well); they attack again with substantial collateral damage when the group visit Kyoshi, a town that has avoided trouble previously. In between Aang visits his Air city in to discover it empty, all its inhabitants killed by the Fire nation, despite being apparently accessible only by very cuddly flying bison. I do hope there are more flying bison to come; they remind me of the Catbus/Nekobasu in My Neighbour Totoro.
(while on the subject of likenesses - the unagi Aang is desperate to ride at Kyoshi reminded me so strongly of the zolomb in FFVII that I almost saw tiny action bars on the bottom of the screen :-) )
Next up, Earth benders and cabbages.
