Book 1: The Blue Spirit / The Fortuneteller

It's all about Aang this time around. When is it not, when your show is called The Last Airbender.



The storm has made Sokka and Katara sick, so sick that the former is hallucinating and the latter seems to flat out be dehydrated. Which must doubly suck for a Waterbender.

What a cute Wanted poster.

The Avatar Hunt has now been given prime importance, so basically the rug is being pulled from under Zuko by now-Admiral Zhao so he can never succeed.

There's also canon confirmation that Momo cannot understand the human language.

So Aang goes off to find some ... slightly frozen frogs for them to suck per a healer's instructions.

You've seen the image above the cut, but I can't emphasize enough how pretty this episode is with it's dark greens and darker browns, and some dark reds make the cut too.

Zhao gives a speech about how Fire is better than the other elements, how he has the Avatar, and how the war will finally be won. I wonder how much of a PR nightmare it was for FN Citizens to integrate themselves back in the world, considering most of them might not have agreed with their monarchy and government at all.

As a US citizen...we're gonna figure that out soon enough.

Well, the series is now at an end, the Avatar is in Fire Nation custody and the - wait, there's someone in a blue mask with two swords - and he frees Aang.

Trust me and we will escape from the city.

After a very awesome fight, the two are cornered by Zhao's forces. The Blue Spirit is ready to take Aang's life with swords to his throat.

Zhao relents but not before an archer knocks off the mask and reveals Zuko, who is now unconscious.

Makes sense; If Zhao caught Aang, Zuko could never return home and complete his misguided quest for his father's love.

Being the good person he is, after a moment of fear, Aang saves Zuko, and later the latter wakes up in a swamp, listening to Aang tell tales about how he enjoyed visits to the Fire Nation a hundred years ago, before all the bullshit, and asks if, in another life, they could be friends.

In this life, it's a no.

Aang returns with the medicine, melancholy and sad.


"Fun" Fact, this episode got a sequence in the Ill Fated Film, where Aang looks into the camera - as the Fire Nation soldiers are holed up in an Air Temple - and goes "This was their practice area,", which is even odder as in the show, this altercation takes place in a Fire Nation stronghold tower thing.

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Sokka the Skeptic Strikes Again!

It's a fairly simple episode so I'm just going to point out bits of interest. Can you believe, this is episode 14! We're almost done with Season 1!

Here's a platypus bear.

Again, how do these things procreate, this is terrifying to imagine.

The three visit a village where Katara and Aang get slightly obsessed with a fortuneteller, Aunt Wu.

She also has an assistant, Meng, and remember that voice.

It'll be more familiar than you think.

Also;

I appreciate how Aang is so concerned with his love life. So many shows aimed at boys try to pass it off as something icky and gross instead of a part of someone.

Wu says that a volcano will not destroy the village, and it doesn't. Okay, maybe this episode is filler too, besides reaffirming that Kataang is indeed endgame.