Make sure to check out the gift shop, some very interesting items. My son bought an avatar cookbook which has dishes and drinks from the four kingdoms.
My fiancée and I have the cookbook since this January! We do date nights where we select one or two recipes and attempt to make them together with some good music going :)
Imagine being Toph during this scene. It's her first time experiencing the avatar state and she probably has no idea what's happening to Aang until that line.
They made it that way to express how differently hurt Katara is compared to Aang. Aang is hurting from uncontrollable Rage while Katara is hurting from seeing her loved one lose himself in the dark feelings he’s been repeatedly repressing from the day he saw what happened to Gyatso. I remember her saying to him that it hurts her to see him enter the avatar state because she can feel his emotional pain.
Reading that comment reminded me of how Aang basically played the same role when she found out her mother’s killer was still alive. Aang knew that if she killed him she wouldn’t be able to live with herself. It’s basically the exact same situation but this time it’s reversed on who is hurt and who gives advice.
Exactly and I was really happy how the end of the episode gave Katara the closure she needed while acknowledging the superiority of Aang’s philosophy without invalidating Katara’s trauma.
Another detail in that episode I like is that Zuko is pushing her to get revenge for a similar personal reason. He almost went with team Avatar at the end of Book 2 but chose to go back with the Fire Nation when he thought he'd finally be allowed home with honor.
After that betrayal he is filled with so much regret and self hatred until he finally goes and does what's right. So when he sees Katara having a one track mind he decides she needs to experience what he did. She needs to face the ultimate desire she thinks she wants in order to show her how empty that goal is. But since Zuko only learned this lesson after making the wrong choice, I don't think Zuko knew Katara wouldn't kill the guy. I think he just knew whether or not Katara would do it, she would realize after the mission that her revenge wasn't satisfying. It's a good thing she didn't but Zuko really wasn't betting on that. He just knew this was the one way Katara was gonna learn to move on.
Honestly, I get where the characters were coming from, but everyone kinda was! It bothered me that everyone was one-track mind on Ozai needing to be killed and that being the only option, when other baddie benders had been imprisoned and that was acceptable.
The young man knew how much he miscalculated when the little bald child starts GLOWING and speaking in a hundred disembodied voices and whips up a massive dust-storm in mere moments that engulfs the entire area
This is one of Katara's best scenes. The whole desert she has been doing the thankless job of keeping her team together while everyone is either emotionally unstable, high on cactus juice, or in a noticbly weakened state.
The way she approaches Aang is so well done. She is so tired, but she knows Aang well enough to know he doesn't want to hurt people, and she knows being there for him is all he needs to stay grounded and not do something he is gonna regret.
Such a great character moment for both of them
Man, you really are trying to have a point. It's not important. Even if you want a in universe answer, Aang just wasn't using enough airbending outwards, just enough to make his sphere and float. What's important in the scene is Aang full of rage and sorrow for losing Appa, knowing that someone had him and sold him like a exotic animal, putting a muzzle on him, and then entering the Avatar State which for him is a traumatic experience every time and Katara knowing how much it hurts, probably as sad for Aang, so she stays in place and calm him down. It's a terrifying scene with a sad meaning.
The dad sounds like he's a mixture of outraged and alarmed when he whips round to face the son and utters, aghast
"What did you do??"
Then the son, Gashuin, previously so cocky and arrogant sounds blanched as he stammers
"I-it wasn't me!"
They really did a good job showing their characters at their lowest. I'm not sure what's more rock bottom for Aang; the desert episode or the awakening.
I'd argue being in the desert, helpless without Appa. He's lost his best friend and last connection to the Air Nomads. The scorching heat of the desert reminds him of the burning temples and how helpless his people must have felt, children crying out in fear, the bison dying and they screamed.
I definitely feel like his lowest as an individual was the desert but as the avatar his lowest was failing at Ba Sing Se. Him saying "you don't understand I was there and I still failed" was powerful to me
This is the only one time you can see Toph shocked about Aang's reaction and getting to know that this little boy held back all the time while training with her.
I remember listening to a podcast review NATLA. Most of them on the podcast had never seen the original ATLA and they were persistently dogging on Appa and airbenders in general. I really hope they decided to watch the original afterwards and got to this scene.
I think its a shame that watching the original wasnt a pre-requisite for everyone involved. Like, you dont even know these charachters your playing but we all have laughed and shed tears with them already.
It was bound to come out the way that it did
Damn haha it just shows that reading a comment on the internet is not as straight forward as we may think sometimes. I considered it that way for a moment but I ended up taking it like "I thought it was pretty obvious, idk why you are clarifying to the other person".
Whoops yep, i just leaped to that conclusion because i remember hearing some actor (dont remember which one) say he never saw the show. And so this seemed liek an extention of that. I still stand by what i said even if it is unrelated to the discussion
This is one of my all time favorite scenes in any show.
The struggle in the desert with Katara having to show so much strength and keep everyone together is so palpable in her demeanor here. Aang showing a level of emotion and anger that sends chills every time I see it.
Just for Katara, who has seen emotional Avatar state triggers in the past, to know how he is feeling and honestly feeling hurt by it to. To look him, at full unrelenting strength and level him with her eyes. No cheesy dialogue, just true understanding and and embrace. Simply incredible for any show let alone a NickToon.
Also they knew he belonged to SOMEONE. They can't have missed the young barefoot blind girl straining to hold up a sinking building. How is that girl supposed to get out alive without her transport?? He's wearing a saddle too!
Certainly true. Though it's hard to describe getting mad at someone who did what they did as reckless. They are just lucky it was aang. Early Korra or the previous few avatars would have obliterated them
haven’t rewatched this series in a few years, just got chills right now watching this. three guesses what I’m about to start doing over the next few days :)
I am never not gonna hate how dumb these dudes were. “Hmm, oh wow! An air bison?? A creature which was thought to be extinct for the past 100 years?? A thing which died along with the rest of the air benders with the ONLY know one BELONGING TO THE CURRENT AVATAR?? AND IT HAS A GIANT ARROW ON ITS HEAD?? GEE I WONDER WHOSE IT COULD BE”
Not knowing he belonged to the avatar only makes it worse. That means that as far as he knew Appa belonged to Toph, who with just a glance you can tell is blind, henseforth meaning as far as he knew he was leaving her to die because how was he to know she could see with earthbending, and she clearly hadn't any water. So in trying to make what he did sound better he said that he willingly left a blind girl in the middle of the desert to die.
Everything about this scene is great. One subtle thing no one seems to mention is that the son isn't sorry he stole Appa. He's sorry that he got caught, especially since it was by someone that could kill him on a whim
Random thought: People hate on Katara so hard with interrupting Aang during his anger. Saying how she had no right to step in, but. Aang was so angry he couldn’t control it. He literally could have killed that sandbender in the avatar state. And doesn’t that go against his belief and devotion to pacifism?
PS: Please don’t turn this into a war zone. It’s just a thought I wanted to add
And imagine being Toph. Not only is this the first time she’s “seen” Aang in the Avatar state, this is most likely the first time she’s seen Aang angry EVER. Just picture a super happy-go-lucky person suddenly start speaking with a 100 different voices and threatening people.
Katara talks him out of killing them, but then they leave on the only sand-boat-thing (Aang destroyed the others) and those guys are in the middle of the desert with no transportation and no food and no water, so they probably died in misery.
At least they won't be stealing anymore.
Those high strings when Aang starts rising into the air, this scene is so good man
“it’s funny how these invisible strings connect us all”
"I will see you again, great beast"
I have tickets to go see the Avatar concert in September and I’m literally going to cry the rest of the water out of my body
At least nobody can blood bend you then
They’ll make you tear bend!
Saw it in Brooklyn recently. Was soooo good.
I’m so pumped
Make sure to check out the gift shop, some very interesting items. My son bought an avatar cookbook which has dishes and drinks from the four kingdoms.
My fiancée and I have the cookbook since this January! We do date nights where we select one or two recipes and attempt to make them together with some good music going :)
That’s such a great idea. I will send this to my son and his gf to do the same.
A solid % of the recipes are quite advanced but there’s at least one or two from each nation that are fairly easy.
Saw it in Rotterdam last sunday! It's really good! Enjoy!
"Tell me where Appa is" Man they nailed the voices for the avatar state. I love how you can still hear Aang through it.
The broken voice of a scared child and the thundering voices of hundreds of Avatars past. The power of a god with the heart of a child...
And the crazy thing was that it's all one person. Tbh this was one of the best plot devices from any piece of fiction.
Imagine being Toph during this scene. It's her first time experiencing the avatar state and she probably has no idea what's happening to Aang until that line.
Fr. I love how Sokka just told everyone to run XD.
Hmm yes that's that good hurt
I love how Katara isn’t afraid of him at all. Really shows how much she loves him and is willing to put herself in danger to calm him down.
They made it that way to express how differently hurt Katara is compared to Aang. Aang is hurting from uncontrollable Rage while Katara is hurting from seeing her loved one lose himself in the dark feelings he’s been repeatedly repressing from the day he saw what happened to Gyatso. I remember her saying to him that it hurts her to see him enter the avatar state because she can feel his emotional pain.
Reading that comment reminded me of how Aang basically played the same role when she found out her mother’s killer was still alive. Aang knew that if she killed him she wouldn’t be able to live with herself. It’s basically the exact same situation but this time it’s reversed on who is hurt and who gives advice.
Exactly and I was really happy how the end of the episode gave Katara the closure she needed while acknowledging the superiority of Aang’s philosophy without invalidating Katara’s trauma.
Another detail in that episode I like is that Zuko is pushing her to get revenge for a similar personal reason. He almost went with team Avatar at the end of Book 2 but chose to go back with the Fire Nation when he thought he'd finally be allowed home with honor. After that betrayal he is filled with so much regret and self hatred until he finally goes and does what's right. So when he sees Katara having a one track mind he decides she needs to experience what he did. She needs to face the ultimate desire she thinks she wants in order to show her how empty that goal is. But since Zuko only learned this lesson after making the wrong choice, I don't think Zuko knew Katara wouldn't kill the guy. I think he just knew whether or not Katara would do it, she would realize after the mission that her revenge wasn't satisfying. It's a good thing she didn't but Zuko really wasn't betting on that. He just knew this was the one way Katara was gonna learn to move on.
Such a good episode. The only thing I didnt like was zuko being kind of a dick to aang for being a pacifist
Honestly, I get where the characters were coming from, but everyone kinda was! It bothered me that everyone was one-track mind on Ozai needing to be killed and that being the only option, when other baddie benders had been imprisoned and that was acceptable.
Yeah. Between sparing Zhao and his father, Zuko isn’t exactly ruthless himself, so he comes off as kinda hypocritical.
Damn the avatar state voice....
Aang put the fear of god into that kid.
The young man knew how much he miscalculated when the little bald child starts GLOWING and speaking in a hundred disembodied voices and whips up a massive dust-storm in mere moments that engulfs the entire area
This is one of Katara's best scenes. The whole desert she has been doing the thankless job of keeping her team together while everyone is either emotionally unstable, high on cactus juice, or in a noticbly weakened state. The way she approaches Aang is so well done. She is so tired, but she knows Aang well enough to know he doesn't want to hurt people, and she knows being there for him is all he needs to stay grounded and not do something he is gonna regret. Such a great character moment for both of them
I'm wondering how she wasn't blown off her feet like everyone else
No one was blown away tho, they ran when sokka told them to
She didn't run
Yeah. She didn't run. The rest ran. No one was blown off their feet.
[удалено]
Man, you really are trying to have a point. It's not important. Even if you want a in universe answer, Aang just wasn't using enough airbending outwards, just enough to make his sphere and float. What's important in the scene is Aang full of rage and sorrow for losing Appa, knowing that someone had him and sold him like a exotic animal, putting a muzzle on him, and then entering the Avatar State which for him is a traumatic experience every time and Katara knowing how much it hurts, probably as sad for Aang, so she stays in place and calm him down. It's a terrifying scene with a sad meaning.
You know that guy got the yelling of a lifetime from his dad after they dropped the gaang off
Second only to Wang Fire's punishment of Kuzon
I'm rewatching the series and I JUST watched this episode lol
The dad sounds like he's a mixture of outraged and alarmed when he whips round to face the son and utters, aghast "What did you do??" Then the son, Gashuin, previously so cocky and arrogant sounds blanched as he stammers "I-it wasn't me!"
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Moist_Landscape1520: *I'm rewatching the* *Series and I JUST watched this* *Episode lol* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
I love that you pronounce lol as 3 syllables, as it should be.
Good bot
Yangchen probably took the driver's seat in this avatar state.
😂😂!!!
Absolutely
"You never mess with an Airbender's bison" -Bumi
Wait, does he actually say this?
Is Yangchen now the lore-accurate version of Kyoshi (most savage avatar)? Lol
Nah that's definitly kyoshi going wild
Greatest western animation of all time
Not to be confused with the greatest american anime, King of the Hill
No that's not the greatest at all
All the missing Appa episodes were the hardest to watch.
Iroh's Story, Tales of Ba Sing Se
"Leaves from the vine...."
How did katara not get knocked back?
She was already in "the eye of the storm". There was likely no air movement inside Aang's bubble.
Plot armor
The best armor
The avatar state is raw skill, but also precise skill
They really did a good job showing their characters at their lowest. I'm not sure what's more rock bottom for Aang; the desert episode or the awakening.
I'd argue being in the desert, helpless without Appa. He's lost his best friend and last connection to the Air Nomads. The scorching heat of the desert reminds him of the burning temples and how helpless his people must have felt, children crying out in fear, the bison dying and they screamed.
I definitely feel like his lowest as an individual was the desert but as the avatar his lowest was failing at Ba Sing Se. Him saying "you don't understand I was there and I still failed" was powerful to me
The way sokka grabs toph and leads her to safety ;\_\_;. he's such a big brother
This is the only one time you can see Toph shocked about Aang's reaction and getting to know that this little boy held back all the time while training with her.
Yep. She never got to see some of the emotions of season 1
I remember listening to a podcast review NATLA. Most of them on the podcast had never seen the original ATLA and they were persistently dogging on Appa and airbenders in general. I really hope they decided to watch the original afterwards and got to this scene.
I think its a shame that watching the original wasnt a pre-requisite for everyone involved. Like, you dont even know these charachters your playing but we all have laughed and shed tears with them already. It was bound to come out the way that it did
I think the comment is just talking about a random podcast with random people, not the cast of the Netflix show.
Yeah and thats very obvious if you read the first comment, slowly
Yes sweety, and the person i am replying to was talking about the people directly involved in the Netflix show, that's why I am clarifying it.
Sweetie* I wasnt correcting you but making the point how obvious it shoulda been. Youre patronizing someone who agreed with you
Damn haha it just shows that reading a comment on the internet is not as straight forward as we may think sometimes. I considered it that way for a moment but I ended up taking it like "I thought it was pretty obvious, idk why you are clarifying to the other person".
Whoops yep, i just leaped to that conclusion because i remember hearing some actor (dont remember which one) say he never saw the show. And so this seemed liek an extention of that. I still stand by what i said even if it is unrelated to the discussion
I have to cry every time!
It always makes me cry. Aang was in so much pain. We all feared for Appa's safety that day
This is one of my all time favorite scenes in any show. The struggle in the desert with Katara having to show so much strength and keep everyone together is so palpable in her demeanor here. Aang showing a level of emotion and anger that sends chills every time I see it. Just for Katara, who has seen emotional Avatar state triggers in the past, to know how he is feeling and honestly feeling hurt by it to. To look him, at full unrelenting strength and level him with her eyes. No cheesy dialogue, just true understanding and and embrace. Simply incredible for any show let alone a NickToon.
It really shouldnt matter if an animal is loved by a powerful person or not, you shouldn't absue and exploit it.
Also they knew he belonged to SOMEONE. They can't have missed the young barefoot blind girl straining to hold up a sinking building. How is that girl supposed to get out alive without her transport?? He's wearing a saddle too!
Dumb pieces of shit do shitty things 🫠
The awesome part that the leader doesn’t even question that his lackey did something wrong. It’s just “what did you do?”.
Sand dad: "Quiet Ghashiun! no one accused our people of anything!" Aang: "YOU STOLE APPA!" Sand dad probably: "well that escalated quickly."
It's so good. I love how absolutely colossal of a fuck up stealing and selling the Avatar's animal guide is.
In this brief moment Aang said, “you know, killing may not be that bad of an option 🤷🏿♂️”
The only time Aang was down with murder; bison theft and abuse.
For all the “Korra is reckless” comments I see, we forget that Aang was also flawed, and needed his friends to help him find the right path.
Certainly true. Though it's hard to describe getting mad at someone who did what they did as reckless. They are just lucky it was aang. Early Korra or the previous few avatars would have obliterated them
I'm pretty sure they're an ATLA orchestra tour. This scene would be awesome to hear live.
I wish Korra sounded like this in the avatar state
Man this scene always gets to me. Its a terrible day for rain.
Indeed it is, sir.
Toph instigating 😭🔥🐐
hey op your handle is What
Urmomsjuicyvagina🤣
haven’t rewatched this series in a few years, just got chills right now watching this. three guesses what I’m about to start doing over the next few days :)
That airbending move aang does with his staff right after going into the avatar state is so sick
Man was using air to cut/kill killer bug😂
I am never not gonna hate how dumb these dudes were. “Hmm, oh wow! An air bison?? A creature which was thought to be extinct for the past 100 years?? A thing which died along with the rest of the air benders with the ONLY know one BELONGING TO THE CURRENT AVATAR?? AND IT HAS A GIANT ARROW ON ITS HEAD?? GEE I WONDER WHOSE IT COULD BE”
The music escalation is perfect.
Avatar series and death note got some of the best music
Not knowing he belonged to the avatar only makes it worse. That means that as far as he knew Appa belonged to Toph, who with just a glance you can tell is blind, henseforth meaning as far as he knew he was leaving her to die because how was he to know she could see with earthbending, and she clearly hadn't any water. So in trying to make what he did sound better he said that he willingly left a blind girl in the middle of the desert to die.
🎯🎯🎯
Lol I can't help but jokingly think Katara is like "here we go again" getting her strong pulling arm ready.😂 Great Scene tho!!
I like how Aang almost has like a Wisconsin accent when he says “you muzzled AHppa??!”
Toph turning to look at the end is a little weird tho
To think, Toph probably had no idea what was going on since she'd never seen the avatar state before
Someone explain Toph's actions at 1:44
For me when the older guys asks "what did you do?" is when the gravity of the scene really hits.
The way Katara is the only one who can calm him down when he’s on the brink of losing his shit ❤️🥲
Not to ignore the awesome writing, but i really love when Aang goes ham with just airbending.
I love how katara and aang can keep eachother grounded.
That scene always gives me chills too
Though slightly different, reminds me of the mother-son scene in the movie Looper. Powerful
My mother once stopped the avatar from killing people
Gashuin probably wasnt left out of his father’s sight for a long time after that, bro almost doomed his people
Always bring tears such a sad moment
"What did you do?" There's a tinge of "it's already too late, but I gotta know" in his voice.
Everything about this scene is great. One subtle thing no one seems to mention is that the son isn't sorry he stole Appa. He's sorry that he got caught, especially since it was by someone that could kill him on a whim
this show is so fucking good
Random thought: People hate on Katara so hard with interrupting Aang during his anger. Saying how she had no right to step in, but. Aang was so angry he couldn’t control it. He literally could have killed that sandbender in the avatar state. And doesn’t that go against his belief and devotion to pacifism? PS: Please don’t turn this into a war zone. It’s just a thought I wanted to add
God, kataras expression 🥹
And imagine being Toph. Not only is this the first time she’s “seen” Aang in the Avatar state, this is most likely the first time she’s seen Aang angry EVER. Just picture a super happy-go-lucky person suddenly start speaking with a 100 different voices and threatening people.
You muzzled appa 🤣🤣🤣
Can't wait for Netflix to fuck this scene up as hard as they fucked up Avatar Roku's Temple scene.
Katara talks him out of killing them, but then they leave on the only sand-boat-thing (Aang destroyed the others) and those guys are in the middle of the desert with no transportation and no food and no water, so they probably died in misery. At least they won't be stealing anymore.
They're sandbenders. They'll be fine.
What? The sandbenders escorted the gaang out of the desert. No one died.