Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Mark Watches 'Avatar:The Last Airbender': S01E17- The Northern Air Temple

 Over at Watches the review for 'The Northern Air Temple' should be up soon.

Spoilers (and engineers on cats) below.



Aang
-1 for being a jerk to the gliders
+1 for the flying
+1 for making peace with Tey Yo
+1 for refusing to give the Fire Nation more weapons
+1 for the fight
+1 for the save
+1 for accepting the residents

Katara
+1 for trying to smooth things over for Aang
+1 for trying to comfort Aang
+1 for going gliding
+1 for the bug
+1 for the fight

Sokka
+1 for having a bug and some crumbs in his pockets
+1 for figuring out how to prevent gas leaks
+1 for getting the war balloon working
+1 for the war balloon
+1 for blowing the mountain. Though I am still surprised they didn't blow the entire temple

Momo
+1 for keeping his mouth open to catch bugs

Appa
+1 for the fight
+1 for the save

Teo
+1 for the flying
+1 for the sky art
+1 for trying to cheer up Aang
+1 for the fight

Mechanist
-1 for destroying part of the temple for a bathhouse
+1 for bringing everyone to the temple
+1 for being a genius
+1 for figuring out how to prevent gas leaks
-1 for making weapons for the Fire Nation
+1 for the war balloon
+1 for realizing that with the loss of the war balloon, they also lost the sky


Character 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Total
Sokka 0 6 3 3 2 4 4 3 6 11 4 3 4 8 4 3 5 73
Aang 2 4 3 5 5 4 3 4 2 4 9 2 9 5 3 3 4 71
Katara 5 4 2 5 3 8 2 3 2 5 3 1 2 3 2 6 5 61
Iroh 1 1 4 2 8 4 7 6 3 4 40
Zuko 0 2 3 2 1 8 3 1 6 6 2 1 35
Momo 3 0 2 4 1 4 3 3 2 1 3 2 1 1 1 31
Appa 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 3 1 2 2 1 1 1 3 2 27
Boomi 9 9
Gyatso 4 3 7
Aunt Wu 6 1 7
Roku 1 5 1 7
Pirate Crew 6 6
Suki 6 6
Canyon Guide 6 6
Jeong Jeong 6 6
Cabbage Guy 4 2 6
Haru 5 5
Tyro 5 5
Yu Yan Archers 5 5
Jun 5 5
Teo 4 4
Warden 4 4
Chey 4 4
Bato 4 4
Herbalist 3 1 4
Mechanist 3 3
Unagi 3 3
Fisher Man 3 3
The Nuns 3 3
Pipsqueek 2 2
Hei Bai 2 2
Shyu 2 2
Meng 2 2
Performer Guy 1 1
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
Painter Dude 1 1
Fisher Woman 1 1
Gran-Gran 0 1 1
Jet 0 0
Azula -1 -1
Ozai -2 -2
Zhou -2 0 -1 0 -1 -4

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SpiderHyphenMan · 725 weeks ago

This episode is so MEH, especially considering that tomorrow THE ENDGAME OF THE SEASON STARTS
3 replies · active 725 weeks ago
I actually liked this one more than I remembered (I almost didn't bother rewatching). Lots of funny moments (I love that Sokka puts the bug *back into his pocket*), plus it's the first real battle of the show, which helps to transition to the sudden ramping up of the stakes that happens in the finale. But yeah, not the most relevant episode!
Hey ELSOS, I recently started using RSS feeds for this site, but the Avatar posts don't seem to show up, whereas everything else seems to (the meme, DW posts, sunday summaries I get). Anything you can do/anything you can suggest I do?
6 replies · active 725 weeks ago
i kind of like this episode, but for some reason i always skip it when i'm re-watching. weird :/
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H. Torrance Griffin · 725 weeks ago

RE: Teo

" He’s just there, he’s awesome, and it’s not even to make some grand statement on anything. He is a character. He’s in a wheelchair. Those statements are not mutually exclusive. And he is perfectly capable of doing whatever the hell he wants because WHO IS GOING TO STOP HIM? "

He is gonna love Toph. Seriously.

And if he think's the show has peaked _before_ 1.18-1.20 he is in for a (pleasant) surprise.
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4 replies · active 725 weeks ago
is anyone else extremely excited for the introduction of azula?
i miss her D:
3 replies · active 725 weeks ago
So, um, someone made this and captioned it "Castiel’s lesser known hipster brother, Matthew."

(source)

Thought you (all two of you plus some occasional lurkers, it seems) ought to know this is a thing that exists.
1 reply · active 725 weeks ago
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MichelleZB · 725 weeks ago

Actually, this episode sets up one of the funniest bits of dialogue in the series, ever, during The Boiling Rock, when Sokka and Zuko are on their bromantic adventure. At first, they have nothing to say to each other and it's super awkward. Sokka breaks the silence.

Sokka: You know, a friend of mine actually designed these war balloons.
Zuko: No kidding.
Sokka: Yep. A balloon. But for War.

THAT MAKES ME LAUGH EVERY TIME, not to mention that 5 seconds later they've bonded:

Sokka: My first girlfriend turned into the Moon.
Zuko: That's rough, buddy.
2 replies · active 724 weeks ago
Well, I finished the series.
6 replies · active 724 weeks ago
It's been a while since I finished the Hunger Games trilogy (by that, I mean a couple months, I think). Decided to read Mark's first review just now, and looking at the first page of comments, the comment voting sure looks wanky. I don't think Watches really did that much downvoting, did it? Even with Firefly?
1 reply · active 724 weeks ago
Uh... is it just me or did today's topics disappear? o.0
9 replies · active 724 weeks ago
re Aang meditating: "THAT IS SO EXCITING, F U EPISODE FOR NOT SHOWING ME WHAT’S ON THE OTHER SIDE"

What's on the other side? Only the creepiest damn thing I've possibly ever seen on television. Ever. In my life.
3 replies · active 724 weeks ago

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