The last stop on the Air Temple world tour. Wouldn't it have been nice to visit one per book, but I get why they didn't.
Our kids approach the temple and see - people flying!
Katara is impressed, but Aang isn't - they're not real airbenders.
The boy in the glider chair pulls fancy tricks with Aang in the air, and they land. They're Earth Kingdom refugees who found a home in the abandoned Temple.
I really like how Aang was protective over his culture - he failed to save it and it's mostly gone, so seeing the temple modernized and mechanized would bother him greatly.
The hijinks with Sokka and the Mechanist are pretty funny.
Aang is distraught to see all the mechanical changes. Later, when Teo is encouraging Katara to use a glider, he realizes that the spirit of Airbenders lives on in him, and vows to open the door.
That was already open, because The Mechanist is building weapons for the Fire Nation, and they've come to collect. Teo is ashamed, and Aang forces him to not help any longer, revealing himself when a general shows up to take some new weapons.
There's a fight - air bombs drop, tanks roll up, it's fine.
Fine.
Our kids are finally at the North Pole! Here is the beginning of the end of Season One, and time for you token Sexism Episode. Luckily, it's a cool (HA) one.
It's certainly a lot bigger and more, well, advanced than the Southern Water Tribe. Why didn't they help their sister tribe out? Mainly because it's hinted that the SWT is basically made of defectors, from Kanna to, later, Korra's father.
Sokka notices a girl with white hair - Princess Yue (yoo-ay), who is played in the 'movie' by Seychelle Gabrielle, who is also Asami Sato in Legend of Korra.
They had to pay her back somehow for that penis hair.
Katara and Aang, however, find Pakku, a Waterbending master...
who will only train Aang. Waterbending as a fighting art is 'men's work' to him, and Katara is delegated to the healing huts.
She says "I don't wanna heal, I wanna fight!" I love it.
The Fire Nation advances, Iroh thinks Zuko has been killed. But no, he's a stowaway on Zhao's ship.
Anyway, does Katara sit quietly and accept it, or does she demand to be - well, what do you think.
Here is one of the greatest battles in the series, and I'm glad it's on youtube to show you. Sort of.
It's surprisingly hard to find clips of this show that aren't Over the Top reactions.
Though Katara puts up a great fight, even Pakku admits it, she loses...and Pakku notices the necklace she has, considering he made it for his intended betrothed, Kanna, who didn't like Pakku and refused to put up with the NWT's customs and left. See, defectors!
This upsets Yue...because she's also betrothed - to, frankly, a jackass, as much as she likes Sokka.
It ends with a very large fleet of Fire Nation ships en route to the Northern Water Tribe...
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