AtLA Rewatch: The Boy In The Iceberg & The Avatar Returns

[frith_in_thorns]

Hi! Welcome to the first part of the Avatar: the Last Airbender watch/rewatch, hosted by sholio and myself. There will be a post each week, and then we watch two episodes (20 minutes each) and discuss/squee in the comments.

Book 1 Episodes 1: The Boy In The Iceberg & 2: The Avatar ReturnsIn which there are penguin-otters (seriously, they are the cutest

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[frith_in_thorns]

Only discussion up to these episodes, please!

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[kaberett]

This first episode seriously contains one of my favourite bits of the entire show - specifically, the bit where in the first five minutes of the first episode of the first series of a mainstream USois kids' TV show, a female character calls a male character out for sexism in those words -- and is taken seriously.

I cannot even with how much I love this show! I have watched these two episodes about 10 times in the last 18 months, though, so I find it hard to keep up the squee for them excepting, naturally, that bit - & the otter-penguins!! - & naturally Appa. ;)

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[frith_in_thorns]

Yes! I love that so much! I really adore Katara and I love that the show does that.

And she also breaks my heart a little in the first ep saying, "I haven't done this since I was a kid!" She's had to grow up so fast -- and Sokka has too. That scene when Zuko's ship is sailing up and he's standing on the wall all alone in adult war-paint seriously gives me chills.

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[kaberett]

Yesssss. God, so many tears, still, every time, at how much - how quickly - they've all been forced to grow up, by the same circumstances, and the directions it's taken all of them in.

MY BABIES. COME AND HAVE HUGS.

God, this show really does start out not even a tiny bit pulling its punches, does it.

(Show of my heaaaaaaaaaart.)

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[littlered2]

Penguin-otters! They are adorable. I hope they don't mind being used as sledges.

I love Katara and Sokka, but it makes me sad that they had to take on so much responsibility so young. Sokka tries so hard!

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[frith_in_thorns]

They don't seem to mind! :D (I want one.)

And yes, the poor darling babies. *hugs them*

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[littlered2]

It is deeply sad that we don't get to have our own penguin-otters. I want one!