I love the joy he gets whenever June casually throws out a clever insult, even when they’re aimed at him. Guess who one of my favorite guest characters is? With her dry, biting wit and a ruthless shirshu to match, June immediately found her way to my heart. I’ve mentioned before that my favorite character is Iroh. Sokka even gets to have the coming-of-age ceremony that he was initially denied due to the village’s men leaving! There was a bit of exaggeration in the interest of rationalizing Aang’s jealous actions, but on the whole we get some heartfelt, explicitly water tribe moments, which hadn’t been explored since Avatar’s pilot. They reconnect, hearing tales of their father and his crew and sharing old memories. In their first time interacting with one of the men who left years ago, they immediately feel at home with Bato.
It’s how we react to them and attempt to make up for them that defines who we are.Īs the title would suggest, “Bato of the Water Tribe” ended up being pretty big for our two main water tribe characters. Everybody has their own flaws that lead them to do things they regret. Aang isn’t a perfect character, and that’s by design. By the end of the episode, everybody makes up and learns their lessons, and the bonds ultimately feel stronger for it. This does, however, lead somewhere greater than if we hadn’t seen Aang fall for this character flaw. But that may just be an execution problem, because the concept is completely logical and feels true to the situation. On one level, some of the drama here feels manufactured - I never completely bought the interactions after Aang comes clean. He can’t help but jealously hide the information about the whereabouts of Katara and Sokka’s father, then constantly hide the evidence. How does the episode hold up? Here are my thoughts.Īfter some major development over the last few episodes, we see here that Aang still has a long way to grow. Welcome back for another weekly review of Avatar! This week, we meet the Bato of the Water Tribe.
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