Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Mark Watches 'Avatar: The Last Airbender’: S01E09 – The Waterbending Scroll

Over at Watches the review for 'The Waterbending Scroll' should go up soon.

Spoilers (and a boot to the head) below.


 An oldie, but a goodie. I still laugh at it.
Appa
+1 for the belly flop splash
+1 for coming at the whistle call
+1 for saving the entire Gaang. Again.

Aang
+1 for suggesting that Sokka clean out the mud between Appa's toes. And bugs.
-1 for washing away their supplies
-1 for spending a third of their money on a whistle
+1 for trying to haggle with the pirates and for the accent
+1 for the chase
+1 for freeing the boat

Sokka
+1 for freaking out Aang
+1 for cleaning the gunk from between Appa's toes
+1 for the realizing that the pirates are pirates
+1 for the chase
+1 for turning the pirates against Zuko
+1 for the fight
EDIT: +1 to Sokka for attempting to be the voice of reason

Katara
+1 for offering to teach Aang waterbending
+2 for the realization that she, so far, has made up every move she knows
-2 for stealing the scroll. Like you were going to get away with that, Katara.
+1 for the chase
-1 for being jealous and hurting Aang's feelings
+1 for freeing the boat
+1 for getting the water whip dow
EDIT: -1 to Katara for water-whipping Momo, the real victim here.

Momo
+1 for attempting to guilt trip Katara into being practical through staring at her
+1 for freeing Katara
+1 for the fight

Zuko
+1 for letting Iroh change course over the White Lotus tile
+1 for realizing where the Gaang will be
-1 for attempting to bribe Katara. Like that would ever work.
+1 for the fight
-1 for throwing away the tile that caused this entire mess in the first place! Now how is Iroh supposed to play Pai Sho!

Iroh
+1 for changing course over a Pai Sho tile
+1 for using impulse buying to torture Zuko
+1 for agreeing that this is all Katara's fault
+1 bringing the fighters back to reality
+1 for inventing a proverb
+1 for the lotus tile being in his sleeve the entire time
EDIT: +1 to Iroh for buying a tsungi horn for music night 

Pirate Crew!
+1 for not knowing what a curio is
+1 for bragging over stealing stuff and being high risk traders
+1 for the chase
+1 for capturing Sokka and Aang so easily
+1 for the fight
+1 for stealing Zuko's boat

Cabbage Guy
+1 for lovin him some cabbages
+1 for MY CABBAGES!


Character 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
Katara 5 4 2 5 3 8 2 3 2 34
Aang 2 4 3 5 5 4 3 4 2 32
Sokka 0 6 3 3 2 4 4 3 6 31
Iroh 1 1 4 2 8 4 7 27
Zuko 0 2 3 2 1 8 3 1 20
Momo 3 0 2 4 1 4 3 17
Appa 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 3 14
Boomi 9 9
Pirate Crew 6 6
Suki 6 6
Roku 1 5 6
Cabbage Guy 4 2 6
 Haru  5 5
 Tyro  5 5
Warden 4 4
Unagi 3 3
Hei Bai 2 2
Shyu 2 2
Flopsey 1 1
Foaming Guy 1 1
Gran-Gran 0 1 1
Painter Dude 1 1
Zhou -2 0 -2


Running Count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
Aang does something that brings him only trouble 1 1 1 1 1 5
Aang feels guilty 1 1 1 2 1 6
Aang goes all glowy 1 2 1 4
Aang has an obvious crush moment 1 3 1 5
Aang shows off 1 4 1 1 1 8
Boomi snorts 8 8
Iroh mentions tea 1 4 5
Iroh plays Pai Sho 1 1 2
Iroh tries to talk sense to Zuko 1 1 2 1 5
Katara acts motherly 1 1 1 1 2 6
Katara gives a speech full of hope 2 1 4 1 8
Minor character comes and is EPIC for an episode 3 2 2 1 8
MY CABBAGES! 3 1 4
Old dude kicks ass and takes names! 1 1 1 1 1 5
Sokka gets the short end of the stick 2 1 1 1 1 2 8
Weird hybrid animal seen 2 1 3 1 3 1 11
Zuko chews the scenery 1 1 2
Zuko looses his temper 2 2 1 1 3 9
Zuko mentions his father 1 2 1 4
Zuko mentions honor 1 1 1 3