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The Great Divide. Aang + others reach a giant canyon, which can only be crossed with the aid of an Earth bender (or, one assumes, a flying bison). Two Earth tribes fleeing the Fire Nation arrive at the same time, but they have a hundred year feud and each refuses to let the other go first. Aang, practising his Avatar peace-keeping abilities, sends the sick and wounded over on Appa, and then he and the Earth bender guide monitor the groups as they move in parallel through the canyon. Both groups smuggle in food despite the guide's warnings, and when they are attacked by canyon crawlers (the design of which is successfully creepy) as a result, the guide is disabled.
( Slightly more specific discussion. )
The Storm. This is a flashback heavy episode in which we see a) why Zuko is exiled, driven to hunt the Avatar and has what turns out to be a burn scar on his face and b) how Aang left the airbenders to end up in that iceberg, interspersed with a storm that sees Sokka endangered on a fishing boat, the captain of which has accused Aang of turning his back on the world when they needed him (thus triggering Aang's flashback sequence).
( Assorted ponderings. )
Anyway. I have been languishing with a cold, so the opening of the next episode (in which, post-storm, both Sokka and Katara have colds) was all too appropriate. Next write-up also likely to be delayed by the election, other commitments etc, but The Blue Spirit advance review – arrgh! Awww.
( Slightly more specific discussion. )
The Storm. This is a flashback heavy episode in which we see a) why Zuko is exiled, driven to hunt the Avatar and has what turns out to be a burn scar on his face and b) how Aang left the airbenders to end up in that iceberg, interspersed with a storm that sees Sokka endangered on a fishing boat, the captain of which has accused Aang of turning his back on the world when they needed him (thus triggering Aang's flashback sequence).
( Assorted ponderings. )
Anyway. I have been languishing with a cold, so the opening of the next episode (in which, post-storm, both Sokka and Katara have colds) was all too appropriate. Next write-up also likely to be delayed by the election, other commitments etc, but The Blue Spirit advance review – arrgh! Awww.
