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"The Guru / The Crossroads of Destiny"

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Episode Synopsis: A guru at the Eastern Air Temple helps Aang take the next step in his Avatar journey.. meanwhile, Sokka meets his long-lost father...

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Chase Gardner

Yes yes! My childhood right here and season 2 is my favorite all the emotions!

Amy

I agree there were execution issues, but I thought the lack of logic behind Zuko's actions made a warped sort of sense when I looked at him as a victim of his sister's emotional abuse as well as his father's physical abuse. There's all sorts of research about abused people staying with their abusers or returning to them in horrible cycles, so I think there's a degree of realism here, even if the show may have stumbled upon by mishandling the execution in other ways.

Seth Workman

I can’t tell when you guys are joking anymore

Robert English

Hakoda, Sokka’s father, has previously appeared in this season. In Appa’s Lost Days, we saw a Water Tribe ship captain looking up and seeing Appa fly. It is a cool connection that makes sense because Appa was heading to Ba Sing Se and Hakoda is on the city outskirts looking for enemy invaders.

Seth Workman

Oh.. and don’t over think anything. It is a great story of good, evil, betrayal, and loyalty.

Seth Workman

No offense, but this is an example of overthinking the story telling. Just because it is hard to see, does not mean that it is not there

John Wedig

Just a clarification; Aang wasn't feeling the grief of all the past Avatars. The people he saw were Monk Gyatso and the rest of the Air Nomads i.e. his entire culture and the victims of straight-up genocide. That is a LOT for anyone, let alone a kid, to have to bare. Oh, and this season wasn't worked on by people who worked on Star Wars. Dave Filoni had already left to work on Clone Wars at this point, but the showrunners (Brian Konietzo and Michael DiMartino) were big SW fans nonetheless. And finally, this is sadly the last episode in which we hear Mako as the voice of Iroh. He passed away towards the end of Season 2's production (hence the "In Memoriam" we saw in "Tales of Ba Singe Se"), with a few pick-up's being done by his replacement Greg Baldwin. So if you notice a change in voice next season, that's why.

W T

It's not overthinking, it's just indulging in the in-universe rules and having fun with it. There is such inherent diversity in how you approach redemption and rehabilitation, it's very much salient and to the point as far as Avatar is concerned - especially with the almost on-the-nose themes relating to Imperial Japan, China and everything in between, be it cultural expression, revolution (big yikes) or subjects that never lost relevance to this very day. This is as tame as it gets. People suffer through far less abuse and inevitably grow up with an entirely skewed way of looking at moral constellations, Zuko is really damn far on the victim spectrum and I am far more scared of not giving someone the benefit of the doubt - despite a few bad encounters - than being murdered in my sleep by someone who, against all odds and with no foreshadowing, turned out to be an angry murder hobo. He messed up, sure, but 92% of teens with a car once were a couple of inches away from doing way more damage than Zuko did so far - and I'd seriously hate to be judged by my past self. Really nailed every beat as far as I am concerned, the alternative would have been awful to watch (i.e. some kids in an abusive household actually going mad or something depressing). Which is really where Avatar shines: not coddling your audience too much, while keeping it from quite treading into Schindler's List territory. The show almost explicitly references some of the worst man-made atrocities, and it always feels tactful.

Preetkanwar Sandhu

If you listen to the way Zuko speaks with Iroh after his fever, he's very passive, just kind of running with things and not really considering his internal struggle, putting it on the back seat. He's not in a rational state of mind, and even if he was, siding with the Avatar against his own nation might have been an equally irrational, he has nothing to gain from the fall of his nation or his father. Zuko has clearly been confronted throughout the season with signs that the fire nation isn't doing the best, but it would take a lot more than seeing harsh treatment of people during wartime for you to suddenly