Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Mark Watches 'Avatar: The Last Airbender’: S01E13 – The Blue Spirit

Over at Watches the review for 'The Blue Spirit' should be up soon.

Spoilers (and my Blackberry isn't working!) below.



Yu Yan Archers
+1 for the target practice
+1 for shooting at Aang
+1 for jumping off the cliff after Aang
+1 for capturing Aang without a scratch on him
+1 for taking out The Blue Spirit at that distance

Zhou
-1 for taunting Aang
+1 for the uplifting speech of evil
-1 for making me have terrible flashbacks to THAT MOVIE.....
+1 for actually having a decent plan

Appa
+1 for being a good space heater

Aang
+1 for going for medicine
+1 for fleeing the archers
+1 for grabbing the frozen frogs while still trying to flee
+1 for blowing air at Zhou
+1 for "My friends need to suck on those frogs!"
+1 for going back for the Blue Spirit
+1 for the escape
+2 for not leaving Zuko behind

Sokka
+1 for loving Appa
+1 for thinking he's an earthbender
+1 for forgetting about Aang in a fever induced haze
+1 for thinking the frog was tasty

Katara
+1 for taking care of Sokka
+1 for freaking out over the frog

Momo
+1 for the view of Katara in Momo's head
+1 for bringing back a dead mouse
+1 for bringing all that weird stuff to Katara

Zuko
+1 for being the Blue Spirit
+1 for teleporting into the wagon... That's the only way I can figure he avoided the guard
+1 for the l33t ninja skills
+1 for freeing Aang
+1 for the escape
+1 for taking Aang prisoner the moment Zhou says the Avatar needs to be taken alive
-1 for attacking Aang
+1 for actually looking a bit guilty about it

Iroh
+1 for kicking butt in Pai Sho
+1 for "It's been an hour and you still haven't given the men an order." Zuko is Mr. Bossypants!
+1 for music night!

Herbalist
+1 for making Miyuki her dinner
+1 for prescribing frozen frog legs for medicine
+1 for throwing cat food at Aang


Character 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Total
Aang 2 4 3 5 5 4 3 4 2 4 9 2 9 56
Sokka 0 6 3 3 2 4 4 3 6 11 4 3 4 53
Katara 5 4 2 5 3 8 2 3 2 5 3 1 2 45
Iroh 1 1 4 2     8 4 7     6 3 36
Zuko 0 2 3 2   1 8 3 1     6 6 32
Momo     3 0 2 4 1 4 3 3 2 1 3 26
Appa 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 3 1 2 2 1 20
Boomi         9                 9
Gyatso     4                 3   7
Pirate Crew                 6         6
Suki       6                   6
Roku             1 5           6
Cabbage Guy         4       2         6
Canyon Guide                     6     6
Haru           5               5
Tyro           5               5
Yu Yan Archers                         5 5
Warden           4               4
Unagi       3                   3
Fisher Man                       3   3
Herbalist                         3 3
Pipsqueek                   2       2
Hei Bai             2             2
Shyu               2           2
The Duke                   1       1
Smellerbee                   1       1
Longshot                   1       1
Flopsey         1                 1
The Zhang                     1     1
The Gan Jin                     1     1
Foamy       1                   1
Gran-Gran 0 1                       1
Painter Dude       1                   1
Fisher Woman                       1   1
Jet                   0       0
Ozai                       -2   -2
Zhou     -2         0       -1 0 -3

And Aang takes the lead!


Running Count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Aang does something that brings him only trouble 1 1 1 1 1         1  
Aang feel guilty 1   1 1     2 1      
Aang goes all glowy 1   2         1      
Aang has an obvious crush moment 1     3         1    
Aang shows off 1     4 1   1   1    
Boomerang! 1                 1 1
Boomi snorts         8            
Iroh mentions tea 1   4                
Iroh plays Pai Sho 1               1    
Iroh tries to talk sense to Zuko     1       1 2 1    
Katara acts motherly 1   1 1   1     2 1  
Katara gives a speech full of hope   2   1   4 1        
Minor character comes and is EPIC for an episode       3 2 2     1 1 1
MY CABBAGES!         3       1    
Old dude kicks ass and takes names!     1   1 1 1 1      
Sokka gets the short end of the stick 2 1     1   1 1 2    
Weird hybrid animal seen 2   1 3 1   3   1   1
Zhou is a douche     1         1      
Zuko chews the scenery     1           1    
Zuko looses his temper 2   2 1     1   3    
Zuko mentions his father   1 2         1      
Zuko mentions honor  1   1           1    


Running Count 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Total
Aang does something that brings him only trouble 1                 7
Aang feel guilty 3 2               11
Aang goes all glowy 3                 7
Aang has an obvious crush moment                   5
Aang shows off                   8
Boomerang!                   3
Boomi snorts                   8
Iroh mentions tea                   5
Iroh plays Pai Sho   1               3
Iroh tries to talk sense to Zuko 2 1               8
Katara acts motherly 2 1               10
Katara gives a speech full of hope                   8
Minor character comes and is EPIC for an episode   1               11
MY CABBAGES!                   4
Old dude kicks ass and takes names!                   5
Sokka gets the short end of the stick                   8
Weird hybrid animal seen   1               13
Zhou is a douche 1 3               6
Zuko chews the scenery                   2
Zuko looses his temper 2 1               12
Zuko mentions his father 1                 5
Zuko mentions honor                    3