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

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+1 for "My friends need to suck on those frogs!"

Best Line Ever!
Lol Zhao's points just keep going down and down :D
These charts are great. xD
OH THE KEYSMASHING. I can't wait to see Mark's reaction! :D
1 reply · active 726 weeks ago
Seconded on the keysmashing. :D :D I think it warms the hearts of everyone to see Mark flail.

I wonder if Mark will pick up on/comment on Zhao's mention of 'sons and daughters of Fire', especially knowing the NWT dickishness that he'll get to next week...
1 reply · active 726 weeks ago
Thought I should post this here, because I figured some people might be interested. Sorry, ATLA fans that aren't DW- I just wanted to make sure that people saw this. Anyway, Doctor Who-related stuff in the comments.
8 replies · active 726 weeks ago
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SpiderHyphenMan · 726 weeks ago

Season 3 Spoilers in the reply to this comment
15 replies · active 726 weeks ago
Watching the Fortuneteller, and I don't know what the general consensus about this episode is, but I actually really enjoy it. Sokka is fabulous and it's quite funny.
6 replies · active 726 weeks ago
I was originally going to post this on the Watches blog, but I think I'm implying too much about Aang's future character development/plot stuff, so I'm posting here instead:

God, the quote from Aang at the end breaks my heart every damn time. Zuko is my favorite character, and this episode is definitely one of the reasons why, but that one line says so, so much about Aang. He is just a good person--totally gentle and kind. And then being the Avatar foists so much responsibility on him, and the need for him to make tough decisions in order to do his duty, and at the same time there is this violence within him that he doesn't understand and often can't control. That one line really points to some of what Aang has lost not only due to him running away from his responsibilities but having those responsibilities dumped on him in the first place. (Not to mention reminding everyone that there was a time when the Fire Nation wasn't a hated enemy of everyone else in the world--the question being, can the world ever get back to that state?)

(Season 2 spoilers here :) The episode I was thinking of in particular is the season 2 finale where Aang trains with the guru, and it's made explicitly clear the sacrifices that are expected of the Avatar, and Aang's inability (or refusal) to make those sacrifices at that time.
Ugh, guys....exams today. *shudders*

Do you think bending any of the elements will teach me how to do advanced trigonometry?
1 reply · active 726 weeks ago
So watching ahead put me on a Katara appreciation kick, and I found an AMAZING Katara vid.

SPOILERIFIC (ALL 3 SEASONS) AWESOMENESS AHEAD.

5 replies · active 726 weeks ago
Doctor Who people - the upcoming DW Magazine cover is SPOILERY for the title/vague premise and writer of that one ep, so beware. (if you don't know which ep I'm talking about, chances are you're not yet spoiled.)
1 reply · active 726 weeks ago
I was going to come here to tell you how awesome I am for buying the Avatar soundtrack--

and it doesn't exist!

How does this not exist? I am so sad. I am listening to a listing online. But lordy, they would make money if they released the soundtrack to this.
2 replies · active 726 weeks ago
Hehe great article! Too bad that a soundtrack does not exist on the market!

Pfff, not a problem, i will take it from the internet somehow, and if not i will record the audio from the movie and done....!

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