Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 2) | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Original network | Nickelodeon |
Original release | March 17 – December 1, 2006[1] |
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List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes |
Season Two (Book Two: Earth) of Avatar: The Last Airbender, an American animated television series on Nickelodeon, first aired its 20 episodes from March 17, 2006 to December 1, 2006. The season was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, and starred Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Jessie Flower, Dante Basco, Dee Bradley Baker, Mako Iwamatsu and Grey DeLisle as the main character voices.[1][2]
In this season, Aang and his friends Katara and Sokka are on a quest to find an Earthbending teacher which finishes when they recruit Toph Beifong. After finding important information concerning the war with the Fire Nation, Appa ends up kidnapped. Their journey leads to Ba Sing Se, the capital of the Earth Kingdom, where they uncover great internal government corruption. Meanwhile, due to their actions at the North Pole, Zuko and Iroh are declared enemies of the Fire Nation and desert their country, becoming fugitives in the Earth Kingdom. Pursuing both Zuko and Aang is Princess Azula, Zuko's younger sister.
Throughout the season's airing, the show received much critical acclaim, with praises such as, 'As a flat concept, Avatar: The Last Airbender is nothing special, but in execution, it is head and shoulders above other children's entertainment', and that 'as a whole, the look of Avatar is consistently excellent.'[3] Season 2 won multiple awards, including the 'Best Character Animation in a Television Production' award from the 34th Annie Awards[4] and the 'Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation' award from the 2007 Emmy Awards.[5]
Between January 23, 2007 and September 11, 2007, Nickelodeon released five DVD sets for the season: four sets containing five episodes each, and a fifth DVD collection of all twenty episodes.[6] All DVDs were encoded in Region 1. In the United Kingdom, only the season boxset was released without being released in four volumes first. The boxset was released on July 20, 2009.
Production[edit]
The season was produced by and aired on Nickelodeon, which is owned by Viacom. The season's executive producers and co-creators are Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who worked alongside episode director and co-producer Aaron Ehasz.[7] Most of the individual episodes were directed by Ethan Spaulding, Lauren MacMullan and Giancarlo Volpe.[2] Episodes were written by a team of writers, which consisted of Aaron Ehasz, Elizabeth Welch Ehasz, Tim Hedrick, John O'Bryan; along with creators DiMartino and Konietzko.[2]
The season's music was composed by 'The Track Team', which consists of Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn, who were known to the show's creators because Zuckerman was Konietzko's roommate.[8]
Cast[edit]
Most of the main characters from the first season remained the same: Zach Tyler Eisen voices Aang, Mae Whitman voices Katara, Jack DeSena voices Sokka,[2]Dee Bradley Baker voices both Appa and Momo, and Dante Basco voices Zuko.[9]
However, several new characters appear: Jessie Flower voices Toph Beifong, Grey DeLisle voices Azula, Cricket Leigh voices Mai, Olivia Hack voices Ty Lee, and Clancy Brown voices Long Feng.[2]
Mako Iwamatsu, who voiced Iroh, died from throat cancer after production was completed; he was replaced by Greg Baldwin for the following season and The Legend of Korra.[citation needed]
Reception[edit]
In a review of the Volume 2 DVD Release for Book 2, Gabriel Powers from DVDActive.com described the series as one of the best children's series in recent times, making comparisons with Samurai Jack and Justice League, and complimented it for its depth and humour.[10] Powers also comments:
“ | Without dumbing down its characters, plots, or humour, and without overtly taming-up the action or peril, Avatar manages to enthral children and adults, ages 4 to 56..There is a genuine classic feel to the series, which uses actual Asian culture and lore as its base. Like Star Wars, the creative forces behind the show have tapped into that basic, generation spanning storytelling that will live long after the series' youngest fans are old and bitter.[10] | ” |
For the video and audio quality, Powers says 'Season two generally looks better than the bulk of season one, but still has some issues' concerning image sharpness. Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 87% fresh rating in 2008.[11] Jamie S. Rich from DVD Talk says that 'As a flat concept, Avatar the Last Airbender is nothing special, but in execution, it is head and shoulders above other children's entertainment', and that 'as a whole, the look of Avatar is consistently excellent'.[3]
The show also received acclaim for its visual appeal. In the 34th Annie Awards, the show was nominated for and won the 'Best Character Animation in a Television Production' award, for Jae-Myung Yu's animation in 'The Blind Bandit', and the 'Best Directing in an Animated Television Production' award, for the episode 'The Drill'.[4] In 2007, the show was nominated for 'Outstanding Animated Program' in the 2007 Emmy Awards for the 'City of Walls and Secrets' episode,[12] though it did not win.[5] However, the show did win the 'Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation' award for Sang-Jin Kim's animation in the 'Lake Laogai' episode.[5]
Episodes[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Animated by | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code [1] |
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21 | 1 | 'The Avatar State' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Aaron Ehasz Elizabeth Welch Ehasz Tim Hedrick John O'Bryan | March 17, 2006 | 201 |
Aang and his friends rest at an Earth Kingdom outpost after their journey from the North Pole. They are to be escorted to Omashu, where Aang intends to find King Bumi to teach him earthbending. But General Fong, inspired by Aang's battle-determining actions during the Siege of the North, suggests that Aang defeat the Fire Lord and end the war immediately by triggering the Avatar State. In the meantime, Zuko and Iroh are visited by Zuko's sister, Azula, who has come bearing a message from the Fire Lord, requesting their return home. After many failed attempts, General Fong finally succeeds in triggering the Avatar State by faking Katara's death. Aang nearly destroys the base in anger but is then told by Avatar Roku that if he is killed in his Avatar State the Avatar Spirit will cease to exist, bringing to an end the cycle of reincarnation which preserves the Avatar as a force for balance in the world. The group decides to go to Omashu alone. Iroh reluctantly accompanies Zuko to Azula's ship where a Fire guard accidentally reveals that Azula's summons is a ruse in order to imprison Zuko and Iroh. Uncle and nephew manage to escape but are forced to become outcasts because of Iroh's efforts in saving of the Moon Spirit at the North Pole are viewed as a treachery by the Fire Nation, and Zuko's failure to capture the Avatar has made him a target as well. | |||||||
22 | 2 | 'The Cave of Two Lovers' | JM Animation | Lauren MacMullan | Joshua Hamilton | March 24, 2006 | 202 |
While on the way to Omashu, Aang and the group meet a group of carefree traveling bards, who take them through a vast tunnel known as the Cave of Two Lovers. Zuko and Iroh are sheltered by kind villagers after Iroh accidentally drinks tea made of a poisonous plant. Song, a young and compassionate healer, shows Zuko the effects of war from a normal citizen's perspective. Aang and Katara grow even closer as they discover the origins of the cave, which includes the tombs of the first two earthbenders. Their torch burns out, plunging them in darkness thus revealing glowing lights in the ceiling, allowing the group to escape and make it to Omashu, which they discover has come under control of the Fire Nation. | |||||||
23 | 3 | 'Return to Omashu' | DR Movie | Ethan Spaulding | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | April 7, 2006 | 203 |
Omashu has been captured by the Fire Nation. Aang and friends sneak in and are nearly captured, but Sokka fakes a deadly illness (pentapox) to scare off the guards. They meet a resistance movement, and help the city's entire population escape by faking an epidemic. The Fire Nation Governor's infant son Tom-Tom accidentally leaves with the citizens. Aang attempts to trade him for King Bumi, but Princess Azula, calls off the trade; she is now backed up by her friends Mai and Ty Lee, recently re-recruited because each is a skilled fighter. Aang manages to rescue Bumi after a fight with Azula, but Bumi allows himself to be recaptured, saying that the proper time for his escape has not arrived and that he will wait out his capture a little longer so as to catch the Fire Nation unawares at the most beneficial moment. He instructs Aang to find an earthbending teacher who 'waits and listens before striking'. | |||||||
24 | 4 | 'The Swamp' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Tim Hedrick | April 14, 2006 | 204 |
While flying, Aang and friends are attracted to a mysterious swamp and get separated from one another. They begin to see unique illusions in the swamp: Sokka sees Princess Yue, Katara sees her dead mother, and Aang sees a mysterious girl and a flying boar. They are reunited and attacked by a swamp monster who turns out to be a wise man from a tribe of swamp waterbenders who use the moisture inside the swamp's plants to manipulate the plants and hide their identities. He explains that all beings are connected, as the swamp is a single large tree, and the visions are of people they have met or will meet. Meanwhile Zuko, disgusted with having to live as a beggar, dons the mask of the Blue Spirit once again. | |||||||
25 | 5 | 'Avatar Day' | DR Movie | Lauren MacMullan | John O'Bryan | April 28, 2006 | 205 |
Aang and friends stumble upon a town celebrating an Anti-Avatar Day. The villagers blame Avatar Kyoshi, one of Aang's previous incarnations in the avatar cycle of reincarnation, for killing their leader, Chin the Great. Aang reveals his identity and is arrested and put on trial for Kyoshi's supposed crimes. Zuko disguises himself as the Blue Spirit to steal food for himself and his uncle. Iroh is not happy with what Zuko is doing, and Zuko decides to strike out on his own. Aang recalls the events that led to Chin the Great's death; a conqueror, he was confronted by Avatar Kyoshi and died from a fall when he refused to back away from a chasm Kyoshi formed to protect a people he had been trying to subjugate. Aang is pardoned after he defeats a group of Fire Nation soldiers that attack the village, and the town changes the anti-Avatar celebration to a pro-Avatar celebration. | |||||||
26 | 6 | 'The Blind Bandit' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Michael Dante DiMartino | May 5, 2006 | 206 |
Aang is searching for an earthbending teacher, but with little success. While at Xin Fu's earthbending tournament, Team Avatar witnesses a display of powerful earthbending by a young blind girl named Toph, who Aang recognizes as the girl from his vision in the spirit swamp. Toph uses her earthbending to sense her environment, perceiving the lay of the land around her and the subtlest movement of her adversaries, allowing her to launch effective counter-attacks; she therefore fits Bumi's advice that Aang's earhtbending instructor should be someone who 'listens and waits before attacking'. But Toph cannot become Aang's teacher due to her wealthy and overprotective parents, who attempt to keep her isolated from any danger and to form her into an obedient daughter who conforms to the expected social roles of a young woman of the Earth Kingdom aristocracy, despite the fact that Toph is by nature tough, sarcastic, and intentionally unrefined. Xin Fu kidnaps Aang and Toph thinking he was cheated. Toph reveals her power by defeating Fu's gang, but her parents become even more restrictive. She runs away from home and joins Aang. Toph's parents, believing Aang has kidnapped her, promise Xin Fu and Master Yu a chest of gold if they bring her back. | |||||||
27 | 7 | 'Zuko Alone' | JM Animation | Lauren MacMullan | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | May 12, 2006 | 207 |
After leaving his uncle, Zuko continues his journey to an Earth Kingdom town where a young boy named Lee befriends him. Zuko remembers his childhood, including Azula's psychopathic behavior and his own perseverance. Finally he recalls his mother's last words and the announcement that his grandfather died and his mother has suddenly disappeared. As Zuko defends the family against abusive Earth Kingdom soldiers, he reveals his identity as the Fire Prince at the battle's end, and the boy, his family, and the townspeople reject him because of it. | |||||||
28 | 8 | 'The Chase' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Joshua Hamilton | May 26, 2006 | 208 |
Aang and his friends are chased by a mysterious machine, which makes it impossible for the group to stop and sleep. The lack of sleep makes everyone irritable, and causes a quarrel between Katara and Toph. Toph blames Appa for the chase and the group realize that she is correct: they are being tracked because Appa is shedding. Aang takes some of Appa's fur to act as a decoy to lure their pursuers away, but he is cornered by Azula. His friends, joined by momentarily by Zuko and his uncle, arrive to take Azula down together, but she injures Iroh and utilizes the ensuing chaos to escape. | |||||||
29 | 9 | 'Bitter Work' | DR Movie | Ethan Spaulding | Aaron Ehasz | June 2, 2006 | 209 |
Aang finally begins his earthbending training with Toph, but grows frustrated when he encounters difficulty with the earth element, the natural opposite of air; Avatars tend to have more difficulty in learning some elements than others, a reflection of their personalities, and Aang's inclination towards evading and staying ahead of threats and challenges puts him at a disadvantage with earthbending, which requires a more direct, resolute form of willpower. Eleswhere, Zuko struggles with a similar dilemma as Iroh tries to teach him lightning-bending, an advanced form of firebending; Zuko's anger keeps him from having the cold precision lightning bending requires, and he is accutely aware it is a skill both his father and sister have mastered. Deciding on another approach, Iroh shares with Zuko his belief that wisdom comes from many sources, and he describes the relative strengths of each of the four elements, and the nations associated with them, and advises that understanding the other elements and other ways of life makes one whole. Iroh then teaches Zuko the art of redirecting lightning, a firebending technique he created himself by studying waterbenders. Aang finds Sokka in danger from a Moose-Lion and is able to save him by firmly standing his ground as an earthbender would. | |||||||
30 | 10 | 'The Library' 'The Fury of Aang' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | John O'Bryan | July 14, 2006 | 210 |
Sokka decides the group needs some intelligence to defeat the Fire Lord. At an oasis, the group encounters a professor who tells them about a hidden Spirit Library in the desert. The group travels deep into a massive and forbidding desert and eventually locate an entrance to the library, but Toph, who is unnerved by sand because it partially disrupts her ability to sense her surroundings with her bending, refuses to descend with the others and stays outside with Appa. Inside, Sokka discovers a crucial weakness to the Fire Nation that could end the war: the date of the upcoming solar eclipse which will temporarily prevent the bender of the Fire Nation from firebending for its duration. The spirit of the library, Wan Shi Tong, refuses to allow them to leave with the knowledge and sinks the library into the sand. Meanwhile, Appa is kidnapped by sandbenders when Toph, much closer to being truly blind than normal, is unable to stop them. The others escape from the library but are devastated by the loss of Appa. | |||||||
31 | 11 | 'The Desert' 'The Fury of Aang' | DR Movie | Lauren MacMullan | Tim Hedrick | July 14, 2006 | 211 |
The gang is stranded in the desert, without sufficient provisions to make the trek out again now that they no longer have Appa. Elsewhere, Iroh reveals a mysterious association with some form of secret society when he uses a White Lotus tile as an opening in a match of Pai Sho, his favorite game. The move functions as some sort of message to his opponent, who then helps protect Iroh and Zuko from a Fire Nation search. However, in the process, they are seen and recognized by the same mercenaries who are searching for Toph, and the bounty hunters plan to capture Iroh and Zuko, who are valuable prisoner in both the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation. After a long trek and much hardship in the desert, Aang tracks down the sandbenders who stole Appa, and learns that Appa was traded to a merchant and is likely in Ba Sing Se, the imposing capital city of the Earth Kingdom. Upon hearing that Appa was muzzled, Aang becomes so angry and upset that he enters the Avatar State, almost wiping out the sandbenders, but is eventually calmed by Katara. | |||||||
32 | 12 | 'The Serpent's Pass' 'Secret of the Fire Nation' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Michael Dante DiMartino Joshua Hamilton | September 15, 2006 | 212 |
After leaving the desert, the group fortuitously meets up with Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors, and attempts to lead a couple through the Serpent's Pass, a dangerous route to the outlands of Ba Sing Se. They are attacked by a giant sea serpent, but ward it off and make it past. Meanwhile, Zuko and Iroh, assuming identities as Earth Kingdom refugees, are also on their way to start a new life in the Earth Kingdom capital, and encounter Jet and some of the Freedom Fighters, with whom Zuko starts to bond. The group finally makes it to Ba Sing Se only to find the Fire Nation is about to send a gigantic drill to penetrate the titanic outermost walls of the capital region, which have protected the people within, including the Earth Kingdom leadership, form more than a century of Fire Nation assault. | |||||||
33 | 13 | 'The Drill' 'Secret of the Fire Nation' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | September 15, 2006 | 213 |
Having successfully crossed the Serpent's Pass, Aang is determined to go to Ba Sing Se where he hopes to find his lost sky bison, Appa. However, he discovers a Fire Nation drill commanded by Azula heading straight for Ba Sing Se, intent on penetrating the wall. Battling against Azula, Mai, Ty Lee, and contingent of firebending soldiers, Aang and the group succeed in stopping and destroying the drill from the inside. Meanwhile, Jet wishes to recruit Zuko for his Freedom Fighters, but then learns that Zuko and Iroh are firebenders after deducing that Iroh used firebending to warm up a lukewarm cup of tea. | |||||||
34 | 14 | 'City of Walls and Secrets' | JM Animation | Lauren MacMullan | Tim Hedrick | September 22, 2006 | 214 |
Aang and the rest of the group arrive in Ba Sing Se, determined to find Appa and inform the Earth King about upcoming opportunity the solar eclipse will provide to strike back against the Fire Nation. However, they soon discover that the protocols and bureaucracy of the royal court and aristocracy surrounding the Earth King keep them perpetually stalled from making contact with him. They are assigned a liaison, an uncomfortably cheerful young woman named Joo Dee, who indirectly makes it clear to them that any mention of the war is forbidden within the walls of the city, one of many disturbing rules they begin to encounter that are enforced by the Dai Li, the secret police of Ba Sing Se, and their corrupt leader, Long Feng, who appears to know something about Appa. Elsewhere, Jet repeatedly tries and fails to gather evidence that Zuko and Iroh are firebenders, and his allies in the Freedom Fighters begin to believe he is losing his steel. His last attempt, challenging Zuko to a sword fight, ends in his own arrest and being brainwashed by the Dai Li into believing there is no war in the city. Note: This was nominated a Primetime Emmy for 'Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)'.[citation needed] | |||||||
35 | 15 | 'The Tales of Ba Sing Se' | DR Movie | Ethan Spaulding | The Tale of Toph and Katara Joann Estoesta Lisa Wahlander The Tale of Iroh Andrew Huebner The Tale of Aang Gary Scheppke The Tale of Sokka Lauren MacMullan The Tale of Zuko Katie Mattila The Tale of Momo Justin Ridge Giancarlo Volpe | September 29, 2006 | 215 |
'The Tales of Ba Sing Se' is a set of vignettes about each of the main characters' adventures in Ba Sing Se, providing a glimpse of their personalities and private lives.
Note: Iroh's tale was dedicated to his voice actor Mako Iwamatsu, who had just died 7 days after Chapters 10 and 11 initially aired. | |||||||
36 | 16 | 'Appa's Lost Days' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | October 13, 2006 | 216 |
Chapter 16 tells the story of Appa's hardships after being abducted many episodes previous. After being abducted, Appa is traded to circus run by Fire Nation citizens where the circus trainer whips, humiliates, and generally mistreats him, though the Sky Bison eventually escapes with the help of a small boy. He later unwillingly enters a fight with a Boarcupine, and wins but is badly wounded. By fortune, Suki and the Kyoshi warriors come across Appa and help him recover from his injuries, but the warriors are attacked when they encounter Azula and her team, still not far outside Ba Sing Se and attempting to infiltrate it. Appa is forced to flee at Suki's urging, lest he be hurt in the ensuing battle between Azula's forces and the Kyoshi Warriors. Completely dispirited, confused, and longing for Aang, Appa returns to his childhood home at the Eastern Air Temple, where he discovers a mysterious guru has taken residence in the ruins. The guru senses the terrible burden within Appa, nurses him back to health and imparts to him Aang's location; before sending Appa to be reunited with Aang, the guru attaches a message for Aang to Appa's harness. Appa arrives at Ba Sing Se, but just short of reuniting with Aang he is ambushed and captured by Long Feng. Note: This episode won a Humane Society award for its portrayal of the mistreatment of animals. | |||||||
37 | 17 | 'Lake Laogai' | DR Movie | Lauren MacMullan | Tim Hedrick | November 3, 2006 | 217 |
Finally having enough of the rules of the city and the obstruction of the Dai Li, the group decides to evade their constraints to find Appa. As they do so, the gang meet Jet again, although he does not behave as they would expect. They find Smellerbee and Longshot and realize Jet was brainwashed by the Dai Li. They travel to a facility located at the bottom of Lake Laogai, in the hopes of finding Appa. Instead, they find Long Feng and the Dai Li waiting for them. Elsewhere, Zuko discovers that Aang is in the city and sets out in the disguise of the Blue Spirit to find him, and believes he has hit on a winning strategy when he discovers the imprisoned Appa. However, with encouragement from his uncle, Zuko decides to free the sky-bison and give up the Blue Spirit alter-ego forever. After an intense battle between Team avatar and the Dai Li on the surface, during which Jet is killed by Long Feng, Aang and Appa are finally reunited. | |||||||
38 | 18 | 'The Earth King' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | John O'Bryan | November 17, 2006 | 218 |
The group breaks into the Earth King's palace to warn Earth King Kuei about the War, having discovered that in Ba Sing Se, even the King is now kept ignorant of the reality of how far the Fire Nation has encroached in the Earth Kingdom. The team eventually convince the King by showing him the destroyed Fire Nation drill and Long Feng is arrested for treason. Meanwhile, Zuko succumbs to an illness which Iroh believes is a manifestation of the deep internal conflict within his nephew, as he attempts to grapple with the gulf between his inner self and his image of what he thinks is required of him as a prince of the Fire Nation. Elsewhere, Azula and her cohorts infiltrate the city, disguised as the Kyoshi Warriors. | |||||||
39 | 19 | 'The Guru' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | December 1, 2006 | 219 |
After Team Avatar receives letters that were confiscated by Long Feng, Aang travels to the Eastern Air Temple and meets Guru Pathik, who trains him to master the Avatar State through the unlocking of chakras, to bring Aang closer to spiritual enlightenment and allow him to enter a controlled form of the state at will. Toph is captured by Xin Fu and Master Yu, who attempt to transport her back to her parents; they lock her in an iron enclosure to negate her powerful earthbending, but the experience leads Toph to an epiphany when she realizes that there are tiny bits of earthen material within the metal, which she can use to manipulate it; Toph tears open the enclosure, creating a new form of earthbending in the process: metal bending. Long Feng is tricked into a deal with Azula where he will exchange Aang for assistance in regaining control of the Dai Li and consolidating their power over the Earth Kingdom throne, which will then act as a proxy government for the Fire Kingdom. At the air temple, Aang slowly unlocks all chakras but for the seventh and last, which requires giving up all earthly attachments, the most significant of which is now his deep affections for Katara. Almost at the point of true enlightenment, Aang sees a vision of impending danger for Katara and retreats from disattachment, instantly deciding to return to her and protect her at all costs, even though Guru Pathik warns that this may leave Aang's final chakra inaccessible, compromising his ability to safely and reliably access the Avatar State at all. | |||||||
40 | 20 | 'The Crossroads of Destiny' | JM Animation | Michael Dante DiMartino | Aaron Ehasz | December 1, 2006 | 220 |
With Long Feng released, Zuko prepares to capture the Avatar. Before he can do so, Azula takes control of the Dai Li (and hence Ba Sing Se), explaining that they admire her brutal discipline. She has Zuko imprisoned, whereupon he meets Katara for the first time outside of his attempts to capture Aang, and the two discover they share a lot in common. When Aang, aided by Iroh, attempts to free Katara, Zuko is told by his uncle that he must carefully consider the path that his next actions will set him upon, hoping that the prince will embrace his innate inner light and abandon the brutality his father has tried to imprint upon him. To Iroh's dismay, Zuko instead chooses to help Azula attack the Avatar. In the battle that follows, Aang realizes that he must let go of Katara in order fulfill his destiny, and meditates into the Avatar state, but Azula hits him with lightning while in the Avatar State, striking him in exactly the location of the Chakra the Guru had cautioned him about, and putting the Avatar near the brink of death. Launching into an offensive, Iroh delays Azula, Zuko, and the Dai Li long enough to allow Katara to escape along with the gravely injured Aang, and then surrenders, being taken prisoner as a traitor to the Fire Nation. Katara uses a vial of spirit water earlier given to her from the pool of the spirits after the Siege of the North in order to save Aang as the team, with a deposed Earth King Kuei in tow, flees from Ba Sing Se, now in the hands of the Fire Nation after a century of resistance. |
DVD releases[edit]
Nickelodeon began releasing DVDs for Book 2 on January 23, 2007.[13] The first four DVD releases contain one disc that consisted of five episodes each.[14] The final DVD was the 'Complete Book 2 Box Set', which contains all of the episodes in the season on four discs, and packaged with a special features disc.[6] All of the DVD sets for Book 2 were released with Region 1 encoding, meaning that they can only play on North American DVD players. Book 2 was released on Region 2 on July 20, 2009.
Volume | Discs | Episodes | Region 1 release | Region 2 release | Region 3 release |
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1 | 1 | 5 | January 23, 2007 | Not released | June 4, 2009[15] |
2 | 1 | 5 | April 10, 2007 | Not released | August 6, 2009[16] |
3 | 1 | 5 | May 22, 2007 | Not released | October 29, 2009[17] |
4 | 1 | 5 | August 14, 2007 | Not released | March 31, 2010[18] |
Box set | 4[19] | 20[19] | September 11, 2007 | July 20, 2009 | September 9, 2010[20] |
Footnotes[edit]
- 1.^ Production code format taken from the commentary for 'Sozin's Comet: The Phoenix King'
References[edit]
- General
- 'Season 2'. Avatar: The Last Airbender. IGN. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
- 'Season 2 DVD Information'. TVShowsOnDVD.com. February 24, 2005. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved September 6, 2008.
- Specific
- ^ ab'IGN: Avatar: The Last Airbender: Season 2'. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on 29 September 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2008.
- ^ abcde'Avatar: The Last Airbender Cast and Details'. TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
- ^ abRich, Jamie S. (September 12, 2007). 'Avatar The Last Airbender — The Complete Book 2 Collection'. DVD Talk. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
- ^ ab'Annie Awards: Legacy - 34th Annual Annie Awards'. International Animated Film Society. February 9, 2006. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
- ^ abcMesger, Robin (September 8, 2007). '59th Creative Emmy Awards Winners'(PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. pp. 11–12. Archived from the original(PDF) on November 28, 2007. Retrieved June 5, 2008.
- ^ ab'Season 2 DVD Information'. TVShowsOnDVD.com. February 24, 2005. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved September 6, 2008.
- ^DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan (August 29, 2005). 'Interview with 'Avatar' Program Creators — Page 3'. Animation Insider (Interview: Transcript). Interviewed by Aaron H. Bynum. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved May 29, 2008.
- ^DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan (August 29, 2005). 'Interview with 'Avatar' Program Creators — Page 4'. Animation Insider (Interview: Transcript). Interviewed by Aaron H. Bynum. Archived from the original on May 27, 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2008.
- ^'Dante Basco'. 2005. Retrieved March 31, 2008.
- ^ abPowers, Gabriel. 'Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 2, Vl.1'. DVDActive. Archived from the original on 2008-10-11. Retrieved June 5, 2008.
- ^Powers, Gabriel. 'Avatar: The Last Airbender, Season Two Collection'. DVDActive. Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved June 5, 2008.
- ^'59th Creative Emmy Awards Nominations'(PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. 2007. p. 1. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 27, 2007. Retrieved June 5, 2008.
- ^'Avatar: The Last Airbender Search'. Amazon.com, Inc. Retrieved June 5, 2008.
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- ^'Buy Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book 2: Earth - Volume 4 on DVD-Video from EzyDVD.com.au'.
- ^ ab'Avatar: The Last Airbender — Season Two DVD Information'. TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2008. Retrieved October 28, 2008.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. It first aired on February 21, 2005, on Nickelodeon with a one-hour series premiere[1] and concluded its run with a two-hour TV movie on July 19, 2008.[2] The Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise refers to each season as a 'Book', in which each episode is referred to as a 'chapter'. Each 'Book' takes its name from one of the elements that Aang, the protagonist, must master: Water, Earth, and Fire.[1] The show's first two seasons each consisted of 20 episodes, while the third season had 21. In addition to the three seasons, there were two recap episodes and three 'shorts'. The first recap summarized the first seventeen episodes while the second summarized season two. The first self-parody was released via an online flash game. The second and third were released with the Complete Second Season Box Set DVD.[3] The entire series has been released on DVD in Region One, Region Two and Region Four.
Avatar The Last Airbender Book 3 Episode 7
In the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe, there are people who are able to manipulate, or 'bend', the four elements: Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. Along with the four elements, there are four nations that correspond with each element. Not everyone can bend an element, and those that can can only bend one. However, the Avatar is a being able to manipulate all four elements as well as communicate with the spirits. The Avatar is also born into one nation, and after dying, is reincarnated into another nation following the pattern of Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. The series takes place 100 years after the Fire Nation declares war against all other nations and has killed off all airbenders in search of finding the Avatar, who has been reincarnated as an airbender named Aang. The Avatar, trapped in ice for 100 years, knows nothing of the war. The series starts with Aang being accidentally freed by Katara, a waterbender. The series then primarily follows the adventures of Aang and his companions, Sokka, Katara, and later Toph and Zuko, as he tries to master all four elements and defeat the Fire Nation. There is also a strong secondary focus on Zuko, the banished and disinherited crown prince of the Fire Nation. Zuko was scarred in a duel with his own father, the current Fire Lord, and is obsessed with trying to capture Aang to regain his father's favor and in doing so restoring his honor.
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Series overview[edit]
Season | Book | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | |||||
1 | Book One: Water | 20 | February 21, 2005 | December 2, 2005 | ||
2 | Book Two: Earth | 20 | March 17, 2006 | December 1, 2006 | ||
3 | Book Three: Fire | 21 | September 21, 2007 | July 19, 2008 |
Episodes[edit]
Book One: Water (2005)[edit]
A pilot episode for the series was made in 2003. It was animated by Tin House, Inc., written by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, and directed by Dave Filoni. Mitchel Musso voiced Aang in this pilot but was later replaced by Zach Tyler Eisen when the show began production. In the episode, Sokka and his sister Kya (Katara was named Kya at the time of the pilot) must travel the world to find masters for Aang, who is the Avatar; however, they must evade a critical foe, Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, who wants to capture Aang.
This episode was first publicly released as one of the extras in the NTSC season 1 DVDbox set, which were not available with the previously-released individual volumes. As the PAL box set lacks extras, the episode was not made available on DVD in PAL regions. The episode was released with audio commentary from the creators, which unlike commentary on other episodes in the season is not possible to disable on the DVD set.[4] On June 14, 2010, the unaired pilot was made available with and without commentary for the first time via the iTunes Store.[5]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Animated by | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code [1] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 'The Boy in the Iceberg' (Part 1) | JM Animation | Dave Filoni | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | February 21, 2005 | 101 |
2 | 2 | 'The Avatar Returns' (Part 2) | JM Animation | Dave Filoni | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | February 21, 2005 | 102 |
3 | 3 | 'The Southern Air Temple' | DR Movie | Lauren MacMullan | Michael Dante DiMartino | February 25, 2005 | 103 |
4 | 4 | 'The Warriors of Kyoshi' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Nick Malis | March 4, 2005 | 104 |
5 | 5 | 'The King of Omashu' | DR Movie | Anthony Lioi | John O'Bryan | March 18, 2005 | 105 |
6 | 6 | 'Imprisoned' | JM Animation | Dave Filoni | Matthew Hubbard | March 25, 2005 | 106 |
7 | 7 | 'Winter Solstice, Part 1: The Spirit World' | DR Movie | Lauren MacMullan | Aaron Ehasz | April 8, 2005 | 107 |
8 | 8 | 'Winter Solstice, Part 2: Avatar Roku' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Michael Dante DiMartino | April 15, 2005 | 108 |
9 | 9 | 'The Waterbending Scroll' | JM Animation | Anthony Lioi | John O'Bryan | April 29, 2005 | 109 |
10 | 10 | 'Jet' | JM Animation | Dave Filoni | James Eagan | May 6, 2005 | 110 |
11 | 11 | 'The Great Divide' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | John O'Bryan | May 20, 2005 | 111 |
12 | 12 | 'The Storm' | JM Animation | Lauren MacMullan | Aaron Ehasz | June 3, 2005 | 112 |
13 | 13 | 'The Blue Spirit' | DR Movie | Dave Filoni | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | June 17, 2005 | 113 |
14 | 14 | 'The Fortuneteller' | JM Animation | Dave Filoni | Aaron Ehasz John O'Bryan | September 23, 2005 | 114 |
15 | 15 | 'Bato of the Water Tribe' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Ian Wilcox | October 7, 2005 | 115 |
16 | 16 | 'The Deserter' | JM Animation | Lauren MacMullan | Tim Hedrick | October 21, 2005 | 116 |
17 | 17 | 'The Northern Air Temple' | DR Movie | Dave Filoni | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | November 4, 2005 | 117 |
18 | 18 | 'The Waterbending Master' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Michael Dante DiMartino | November 18, 2005 | 118 |
19 | 19 | 'The Siege of the North, Part 1' | DR Movie | Lauren MacMullan | John O'Bryan | December 2, 2005 | 119 |
20 | 20 | 'The Siege of the North, Part 2' | JM Animation | Dave Filoni | Aaron Ehasz | December 2, 2005 | 120 |
Book Two: Earth (2006)[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Animated by | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code [2] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
21 | 1 | 'The Avatar State' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Aaron Ehasz Elizabeth Welch Ehasz Tim Hedrick John O'Bryan | March 17, 2006 | 201 |
22 | 2 | 'The Cave of Two Lovers' | JM Animation | Lauren MacMullan | Joshua Hamilton | March 24, 2006 | 202 |
23 | 3 | 'Return to Omashu' | DR Movie | Ethan Spaulding | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | April 7, 2006 | 203 |
24 | 4 | 'The Swamp' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Tim Hedrick | April 14, 2006 | 204 |
25 | 5 | 'Avatar Day' | DR Movie | Lauren MacMullan | John O'Bryan | April 28, 2006 | 205 |
26 | 6 | 'The Blind Bandit' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Michael Dante DiMartino | May 5, 2006 | 206 |
27 | 7 | 'Zuko Alone' | JM Animation | Lauren MacMullan | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | May 12, 2006 | 207 |
28 | 8 | 'The Chase' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Joshua Hamilton | May 26, 2006 | 208 |
29 | 9 | 'Bitter Work' | DR Movie | Ethan Spaulding | Aaron Ehasz | June 2, 2006 | 209 |
30 | 10 | 'The Library' 'The Fury of Aang' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | John O'Bryan | July 14, 2006 | 210 |
31 | 11 | 'The Desert' 'The Fury of Aang' | DR Movie | Lauren MacMullan | Tim Hedrick | July 14, 2006 | 211 |
32 | 12 | 'The Serpent's Pass' 'Secret of the Fire Nation' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Michael Dante DiMartino Joshua Hamilton | September 15, 2006 | 212 |
33 | 13 | 'The Drill' 'Secret of the Fire Nation' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | September 15, 2006 | 213 |
34 | 14 | 'City of Walls and Secrets' | JM Animation | Lauren MacMullan | Tim Hedrick | September 22, 2006 | 214 |
35 | 15 | 'The Tales of Ba Sing Se' | DR Movie | Ethan Spaulding | The Tale of Toph and Katara Joann Estoesta Lisa Wahlander The Tale of Iroh Andrew Huebner The Tale of Aang Gary Scheppke The Tale of Sokka Lauren MacMullan The Tale of Zuko Katie Mattila The Tale of Momo Justin Ridge Giancarlo Volpe | September 29, 2006 | 215 |
36 | 16 | 'Appa's Lost Days' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | October 13, 2006 | 216 |
37 | 17 | 'Lake Laogai' | DR Movie | Lauren MacMullan | Tim Hedrick | November 3, 2006 | 217 |
38 | 18 | 'The Earth King' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | John O'Bryan | November 17, 2006 | 218 |
39 | 19 | 'The Guru' | DR Movie | Giancarlo Volpe | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | December 1, 2006 | 219 |
40 | 20 | 'The Crossroads of Destiny' | JM Animation | Michael Dante DiMartino | Aaron Ehasz | December 1, 2006 | 220 |
Book Three: Fire (2007–08)[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Animated by | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code [3] | Viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
41 | 1 | 'The Awakening' | SEK Studio | Giancarlo Volpe | Aaron Ehasz | September 21, 2007 | 301 | -- |
42 | 2 | 'The Headband' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | John O'Bryan | September 28, 2007 | 302 | -- |
43 | 3 | 'The Painted Lady' | Moi Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Joshua Hamilton | October 5, 2007 | 303 | -- |
44 | 4 | 'Sokka's Master' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Tim Hedrick | October 12, 2007 | 304 | -- |
45 | 5 | 'The Beach' | Moi Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Katie Mattila | October 19, 2007 | 305 | -- |
46 | 6 | 'The Avatar and the Fire Lord' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | October 26, 2007 | 306 | -- |
47 | 7 | 'The Runaway' | Moi Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Joshua Hamilton | November 2, 2007 | 307 | -- |
48 | 8 | 'The Puppetmaster' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Tim Hedrick | November 9, 2007 | 308 | -- |
49 | 9 | 'Nightmares and Daydreams' | Moi Animation | Ethan Spaulding | John O'Bryan | November 16, 2007 | 309 | -- |
50 | 10 | 'The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Michael Dante DiMartino | November 30, 2007 | 310 | 3.77[6] |
51 | 11 | 'The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse' | Moi Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Aaron Ehasz | November 30, 2007 | 311 | 3.77[6] |
52 | 12 | 'The Western Air Temple' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz Tim Hedrick | July 14, 2008 | 312 | -- |
53 | 13 | 'The Firebending Masters' | Moi Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | John O'Bryan | July 15, 2008 | 313 | -- |
54 | 14 | 'The Boiling Rock, Part 1' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | May Chan | July 16, 2008 | 314 | 3.97[7] |
55 | 15 | 'The Boiling Rock, Part 2' | Moi Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Joshua Hamilton | July 16, 2008 | 315 | 3.97[7] |
56 | 16 | 'The Southern Raiders' | Moi Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | July 17, 2008 | 316 | 4.23[7] |
57 | 17 | 'The Ember Island Players' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Tim Hedrick, Josh Hamilton John O'Bryan | July 18, 2008 | 317 | 4.53[7] |
58 | 18 | 'Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Michael Dante DiMartino | July 19, 2008 | 318 | 5.59[7] |
59 | 19 | 'Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters' | Moi Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Aaron Ehasz | July 19, 2008 | 319 | 5.59[7] |
60 | 20 | 'Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into the Inferno' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | July 19, 2008 | 320 | 5.59[7] |
61 | 21 | 'Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | July 19, 2008 | 321 | 5.59[7] |
Video releases[edit]
Region 1[edit]
The first Avatar: The Last Airbender DVD set became available on January 31, 2006. The first season had five DVD sets, each containing four episodes. For season two and three, four DVD sets were released, with five episodes on each. The only exception to the release pattern was the last DVD set of season three, which contained a sixth episode. At the end of each season, a box set was released, containing all of the episodes from the season. Each box set contains an additional disc of bonus features not available as an individual disc release like every episode of the series. Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Complete Series DVD box set featuring all 3 books was released in North America on October 6, 2015.[8] A Blu-ray version of The Complete Series box set was released in the North America on June 5, 2018.[9]
Volume | Book 1: Water | Book 2: Earth | Book 3: Fire | ||||||
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Released | Discs | Episodes | Released | Discs | Episodes | Released | Discs | Episodes | |
1[10] | January 31, 2006 | 1 | 4 | January 23, 2007 | 1 | 5 | October 30, 2007 | 1 | 5 |
2[10] | March 28, 2006 | 1 | 4 | April 10, 2007 | 1 | 5 | January 22, 2008 | 1 | 5 |
3[10] | May 30, 2006 | 1 | 4 | May 22, 2007 | 1 | 5 | May 6, 2008 | 1 | 5 |
4[10] | July 18, 2006 | 1 | 4 | August 14, 2007 | 1 | 5 | July 29, 2008 | 1 | 6 |
5[10] | September 19, 2006 | 1 | 4 | There is no volume five DVD for this season. | There is no volume five DVD for this season. | ||||
Box set[10] | September 19, 2006 | 6[11] | 20[11] | September 11, 2007 | 5[12] | 20[12] | September 16, 2008 | 5[13] | 21[13] |
Collector’s Edition[10] | June 22, 2010 | 7[14] | 20 | Currently no information. | Currently no information. | ||||
Complete Series DVD box set | October 6, 2015[15] | 16[16] | 61 | ||||||
Complete Series Blu-ray box set | May 1, 2018 (Best Buy); June 5, 2018 (Elsewhere)[17] | 9 | 54 |
Region 2[edit]
In the United States, all Season One DVDs were encoded using NTSC. Since this is not compatible in most countries outside North America, Nickelodeon released separate DVDs in regions where the video would be encoded using PAL instead. These releases began on February 19, 2007;[18] each DVD was released months after the original release. As with the original DVDs, each set contained five episodes on one disc,[18][19][20][21][22] with the exception of The Complete Book One Collection Box Set, which contained all of the twenty episodes in the season on five discs.[23] In the Netherlands, all episodes came out in a box.
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Complete Series DVD box set featuring all 3 books was released in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2012.[24] A Blu-ray version of The Complete Series box set was released in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2018.[25]
Volume | Book 1: Water | Book 2: Earth | Book 3: Fire | ||||||
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Released | Discs | Episodes | Released | Discs | Episodes | Released | Discs | Episodes | |
1 | February 19, 2007[18] | 1 | 4 | Not released | 1 | 5 | Not released | 1 | 5 |
2 | June 4, 2007[19] | 1 | 4 | Not released | 1 | 5 | Not released | 1 | 5 |
3 | September 3, 2007[20] | 1 | 4 | Not released | 1 | 5 | Not released | 1 | 5 |
4 | February 18, 2008[21] | 1 | 4 | Not released | 1 | 5 | Not released | 1 | 6 |
5 | May 26, 2008[22] | 1 | 4 | There is no volume five DVD for this season. | There is no volume five DVD for this season. | ||||
Box set | January 26, 2009[26] | 5 | 20 | July 20, 2009[27] | 4 | 20 | February 1, 2010[28] | 4 | 21 |
Complete Series DVD box set | August 6, 2012[29] | 13 | 61 | ||||||
Complete Series Blu-ray box set | June 11, 2018[30] | 9 | 61 |
Region 4[edit]
The following release dates are the Australian release dates, and may or may not represent the release dates for all of region 4.
Volume | Book 1: Water | Book 2: Earth | Book 3: Fire | ||||||
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Released | Discs | Episodes | Released | Discs | Episodes | Released | Discs | Episodes | |
1 | March 15, 2007[31][32] | 1 | 4 | June 4, 2009[33] | 1 | 5 | June 3, 2010[34] | 1 | 5 |
2 | July 5, 2007[35] | 1 | 4 | August 4, 2009[36] | 1 | 5 | September 23, 2010[37] | 1 | 5 |
3 | March 13, 2008[38] | 1 | 4 | October 29, 2009[39] | 1 | 5 | October 7, 2010[40] | 1 | 5 |
4 | June 19, 2008[41] | 1 | 4 | March 31, 2010[42] | 1 | 5 | November 4, 2010[43] | 1 | 6 |
5 | March 5, 2009[44][45] | 1 | 4 | There is no volume five DVD for this season. | There is no volume five DVD for this season. | ||||
Box set | June 4, 2009[46][47] | 5 | 20 | September 9, 2010[48] | 4 | 20 | December 2, 2010[49] | 4 | 21 |
Complete Series Blu-ray box set | November 14, 2018[50] | 9 | 61 |
Footnotes[edit]
- 1, 2, 3.^ Production code format taken from the commentary for 'Sozin's Comet: The Phoenix King'
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Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3) | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 21 |
Release | |
Original network | Nickelodeon |
Original release | September 21, 2007 – July 19, 2008 |
Season chronology | |
← Previous Season 2 | |
List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes |
Season Three (Book Three: Fire) of Avatar: The Last Airbender, an American animated television series on Nickelodeon, first aired its 21 episodes from September 21, 2007 to July 19, 2008. The season was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, and starred Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Jessie Flower, Dante Basco, Dee Bradley Baker, Greg Baldwin, Grey DeLisle and Mark Hamill as the main character voices.
This third and final season focuses on Aang's quest to defeat the tyrannical Fire Lord Ozai and finally restore harmony and order to the world.
The season is then followed by The Promise, The Search, and The Rift comic series that take place one or two years later after the hundred-year war's end. Corel products keygen x force.
The final season features twenty-one episodes, one more than the previous two seasons. The season finale consisted of the four episodes airing together as a two-hour television movie. Season Three received a similar positive critical reception to that of the previous seasons. The season, and especially the four-part finale 'Sozin's Comet', received much critical acclaim, with praises from sources such as DVD Talk. Between October 30, 2007 and September 16, 2008, Nickelodeon released four DVD volumes and a 'Complete Box Set'.
Production[edit]
The season was produced by and aired on Nickelodeon, which is owned by Viacom.[1] The season's executive producers and co-creators were Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who worked alongside episode director and co-producer Aaron Ehasz.[2] Most of the individual episodes were directed by Ethan Spaulding, Lauren MacMullan and Giancarlo Volpe.[3] Episodes were written by a team of writers, which consisted of Aaron Ehasz, Elizabeth Welch Ehasz, Tim Hedrick, and John O'Bryan, along with creators DiMartino and Konietzko.[3]
The season's music was composed by 'The Track Team', which consists of Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn, who were known to the show's creators because Zuckerman was Konietzko's roommate.[4]
Plot[edit]
In the season's beginning, protagonist Aang and his friends Sokka, Katara, and Toph are traveling through the Fire Nation, conjuring a plan for invading the Fire Nation and looking for a teacher to teach Aang Firebending. Midway through the season, Aang gathers friends he met in previous episodes and leads a failed invasion into the Fire Nation. Former antagonist and anti-heroZuko changes sides and joins Aang, serving as his Firebending teacher until the four-part series finale when Aang finally defeats the Fire Lord and ends the one hundred-year war in a surprising way: he uses a new ability to permanently rid Ozai of his natural firebending abilities to avoid violating selfless Air Nomad teachings.
Cast[edit]
All of the central characters generally remained the same: Zach Tyler Eisen voices Aang, Mae Whitman voices Katara, Jack DeSena voices Sokka, Jessie Flower voices Toph, Dante Basco voices Zuko, Dee Bradley Baker voices Appa and Momo,[3] and Grey DeLisle voices Azula.
Additionally, Mark Hamill joins the cast to voice Fire Lord Ozai after having minor appearances throughout the first and second seasons of the series,[3]while Greg Baldwin now voices Iroh due to Mako Iwamatsu's passing.[5]
Reception[edit]
The season received critical acclaim. Jamie S. Rich from DVD Talk remarked, 'In addition to the solid writing, Avatar the Last Airbender [sic] also has amazing animation. The character designs, with its roots in classic Asian folklore, are colorful and inventive, and the overall animation is smooth and consistently executed'.[6] Jamie S. Rich wrote in another review:[7]
“ | This final season in the trilogy is turning out to be the best.. At this point in the story, major things are happening, with the characters going through changes and the various plot elements coming together. Thankfully, the show creators never rest, and the quality control is top-notch. The writing is smart, and the animation always impressive. (2008) | ” |
Henrik Batallones, a BuddyTV Staff Columnist, also noted the wide variety of positive reviews from the press for the series finale, noting that sources such as The New York Times and Toon Zone gave Avatar: The Last Airbender 'glowing reviews'.[8]
The season also received praise for its video and sound quality. Nick Lyons from DVD Talk felt that the video quality appeared better than previous seasons, which had also garnered additional awards. He also remarks that the sound is 'spot on..as per usual.'[9] At the 2008 Annie Awards, the season won 'Best Animated Television Production for Children'. At the same Annie Awards, Joaquim Dos Santos won the 'Best Directing in an Animated Television Production' caption for his directing in 'Into the Inferno'.[10] Joaquim Dos Santos also gave Avatar: The Last Airbender a nomination at Annecy 2008 for his work with 'The Day of Black Sun Part 2: The Eclipse'.[11] Additionally, music editor and composer Jeremy Zuckerman and the sound editing team were nominated a Golden Reel award for 'Best Sound Editing in a Television Animation' for their work in 'Avatar Aang'.[12]
Episodes[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Animated by | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code [1] | Viewers (millions) |
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41 | 1 | 'The Awakening' | SEK Studio | Giancarlo Volpe | Aaron Ehasz | September 21, 2007 | 301 | -- |
Aang awakens to find himself weakened, his head full of hair, and all of his friends dressed in Fire Nation clothing as they travel on a stolen ship. He is dismayed to discover that the world believes him to be dead, just like when he was frozen in ice. Sokka believes that this is a positive development and insists they should maintain the illusion as long as possible, since it means the Fire Nation won't be hunting Team Avatar anymore and that they won't be expecting Aang at the invasion. Zuko and Azula are welcomed home as heroes, and Fire Lord Ozai makes his first appearance in the series in which his full, unobscured figure is revealed, as he congratulates Zuko for killing the Avatar. Zuko realizes that Azula credited him with the honor-bestowing reputation for having killed the Avatar for ulterior motives that will eventually serve her own ends. Aang tries to run away by himself, but his friends find him. He accepts that with the fall of Ba Sing Se, secrecy is their greatest advantage, and gives up his glider, a part of his identity as an airbender, to the lava flows of Avatar Roku's island. | ||||||||
42 | 2 | 'The Headband' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | John O'Bryan | September 28, 2007 | 302 | -- |
Aang and friends steal some clothes as temporary disguises while traveling in the Fire Nation, and Aang is accidentally taken to a Fire Nation school. He hides his tattoos with a headband and long sleeves, and learns the Fire Nation pledge of loyalty and must maintain his cool upon hearing propaganda about the death of the airbenders. He organizes a school-wide dance party for the up-tight Fire Nation kids. When the principal arrives to shut it down, the kids help Aang escape. A form of movement similar to Capoeira is shown as a Fire Nation traditional dance. Meanwhile, Zuko becomes increasingly certain the Avatar is still alive and hires an assassin to kill Aang. | ||||||||
43 | 3 | 'The Painted Lady' | Moi Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Joshua Hamilton | October 5, 2007 | 303 | -- |
The gang arrives at a Fire Nation village populated by sick and starving people. They are sick because of a nearby Fire Nation munitions factory polluting the river. Katara convinces the group to stay by making Appa appear sick and assumes the role of 'The Painted Lady,' a local legend, in order to heal the sick and steal food from the factory. eventually destroying the factory, she is forced to give up the ruse to Aang. In response to the destruction of the factory, Fire Nation soliders attack the village, but are repelled by Team Avatar. Katara reveals herself to the villagers, who thank her for her selfless aid. Later that night, Katara is also thanked by the spirit of the real Painted Lady. | ||||||||
44 | 4 | 'Sokka's Master' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Tim Hedrick | October 12, 2007 | 304 | -- |
Sokka has long felt isolated as the only person of the group unable to bend. Determined to increase his usefulness to the group and the war effort, he seeks out Fire Nation sword master Piandao, still under his assumed Fire Nation identity. With persistence, he convinces the master to take him on as a student. Piandao teaches Sokka the philosophy of swordsmanship by giving him various seemingly boring tasks like painting and rock-gardening. The sword master also helps Sokka forge his own sword, and Sokka chooses to use a meteorite he has found for the necessary material. When Sokka gains Piandao's respect, he becomes ashamed of misrepresenting himself and divulges he is not from the Fire Nation. Piandao reveals that this fact had been readily apparent from their first meeting and that the ways of the sword belong to all nations. He gives Sokka a white lotus Pai Sho tile as a farewell gift. Meanwhile, Iroh, devises a plan to escape his Fire Nation prison and, while feigning the part of a broken and humiliated wretch for his captors, secretly begins an intense training regimen to further build his strength. Note: At the end of the episode, Sokka gives Toph a piece of the meteorite. She bends it to create the Nickelodeon splatter shape. | ||||||||
45 | 5 | 'The Beach' | Moi Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Katie Mattila | October 19, 2007 | 305 | -- |
Zuko, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee are forced to go on vacation to Ember Island while Aang and his friends meanwhile are attacked by Zuko's assassin, who uses an obscure form of firebending (later referenced as 'combustion bending') which channels his power through his third eye to create powerful localized explosions with much more destructive force than normal firebending. After winning a beach volleyball game, Zuko and the girls get invited to a party where Azula tries to flirt but scares guys away with her psychotic raving. Zuko, who has resumed a romantic relationship with Mai, observes a boy flirting with her and destroys a vase in anger, prompting Mai to tell him off. Later around a campfire, Ty Lee reveals she is so outgoing because she grew up with six identical sisters and hated it. Mai reveals that her parents were worried about their careers and gave Mai anything she wanted, but required that she always kept her emotions subdued and acted properly, and that this created the cold persona that she feels she must always project to others. Zuko reveals that he hates himself because he is unsure of the difference between right and wrong anymore. Azula reveals that she knew her mother thought she was a monster, before brushing it off by claiming that her mother was quite obviously correct. The group then bond and end the night by returning to the party and trashing the place as the horrified host looks on and cries. | ||||||||
46 | 6 | 'The Avatar and the Fire Lord' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | October 26, 2007 | 306 | -- |
Through separate sources, Aang and Zuko both learn about the strong and close childhood friendship of Avatar Roku and Fire-lord Sozin. Sozin suggested to Roku that, as the pinnacle of civilization, the Fire Nation should control the destiny of the entire world to ensure universal prosperity. As Roku was the Avatar, he knew the importance of balance between all people and disagreed. When Sozin later greedily took an Earth Kingdom colony, Roku defeated him in battle and threatened to kill him if he again tried to do anything that crossed that line. When Roku's island volcano erupted years later, Sozin came to help. But, at the last moment, when Roku was overcome by volcanic gases, Sozin realized that he could rule the world if he let Roku die, and he abandoned him. Roku then died from the lava and was reincarnated as Aang. In his prison cell, Iroh tells Zuko that as the great-grandson of both Roku and Sozin, he alone has the ability to resolve their endless conflict and restore order and peace to the world. At the end of the episode, Toph asks if friendships can transcend life times where both Aang and Katara acknowledge and accept Toph's intuition (implying that Aang's next incarnation, Avatar Korra, will befriend both Katara and Toph). | ||||||||
47 | 7 | 'The Runaway' | Moi Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Joshua Hamilton | November 2, 2007 | 307 | -- |
Katara expresses her disapproval when Toph begins scamming Fire Nation civilians for quick cash. Toph thinks Katara is acting too motherly, and a rift forms within the group. To patch things up, Katara decides to pull a scam with Toph, but they are caught by Zuko's assassin, Combustion Man. He uses them as bait in an attempt to kill Aang, but Katara's quick thinking saves the day. | ||||||||
48 | 8 | 'The Puppetmaster' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Tim Hedrick | November 9, 2007 | 308 | -- |
The gang discovers that there have been strange disappearances in a Fire Nation town during a full moon. They befriend an elderly innkeeper named Hama, who reveals that she is a waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe that had been taken away sixty years previously alongside her fellow Southern waterbenders. She becomes Katara's mentor and shares with her the tragic story of her life as a longtime prisoner of the Fire Nation. Katara then discovers that Hama is enacting her revenge by kidnapping Fire Nation civilians with bloodbending, a sinister and dark technique of waterbending which can only be used by an incredibly strong and skilled waterbender, and only during a full moon when his or her waterbending abilities are at their strongest potential. The resulting battle forces Katara to use the technique against Hama to save Aang and Sokka. After being arrested by the village, Hama congratulates Katara on mastering bloodbending. A horrified and saddened Katara cries and Aang and Sokka comfort her. | ||||||||
49 | 9 | 'Nightmares and Daydreams' | Moi Animation | Ethan Spaulding | John O'Bryan | November 16, 2007 | 309 | -- |
The invasion is four days away, and Aang begins to feel nervous about confronting the Fire-Lord. Feeling that he is unprepared, he trains constantly and loses sleep, causing him to hallucinate and have nightmares. After three straight days, it takes the collaboration of Sokka, Toph and Katara to get him to finally sleep and feel confident about facing Fire Lord Ozai. | ||||||||
50 | 10 | 'The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Michael Dante DiMartino | November 30, 2007 | 310 | 3.77[13] |
On the day of the solar eclipse, many allies featured in previous episodes reunite with Team Avatar to a launch the planned invasion of the Fire Nation, lead by Hakoda. Aang finally kisses Katara as sign of his strong feelings for her, worried that he may not return. Relying on several forms of bending and aquatic vehicles designed by Sokka, engineered and constructed by the Machinist, and propelled by waterbending, the invasion forces successfully circumvent several layers of Fire Nation defenses and infiltrate the capital, where they begin a grueling assault towards the palace under constant onslaught from Fire Nation forces. Aang reaches the Fire-Lord's palace, only to find out that no one is present. | ||||||||
51 | 11 | 'The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse' | Moi Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Aaron Ehasz | November 30, 2007 | 311 | 3.77[13] |
As the eclipse begins, Sokka, Aang, and Toph search for the Fire-Lord, but only find Azula in an underground bunker, and give chase to her. When Sokka realizes that Azula is merely delaying them to exhaust the time they can benefit from the eclipse, he initially attempts to stop the chase, but Azula provokes him into going on the attack again by telling him of Suki's capture. Zuko confronts his father in another bunker. He tells Ozai that Azula struck down the Avatar, who survived the attack, that the Fire Nation only spreads fear and hatred, and that in order to restore peace he will join forces with the Avatar. Zuko refuses to kill Ozai as that is the Avatar's destiny, not his. As he begins to leave, Ozai stalls him by revealing the events of the night Fire-Lord Azulon died. Azulon had ordered Ozai to kill Zuko, as punishment for Ozai's request to be made heir to the Fire Nation throne, following Iroh's retreat from state affairs after the death of his son Lu-tan at the siege of Ba Sing Se. Desperate to save her son's life, Zuko's mother sought an alternative, creating a treasonous plan for Ozai to take the throne immediately by assassinating Azulon with poison which she would produce; Zuko's mother was banished following the successful implementation of the plan, but Ozai does not reveal where she was sent. As Ozai finishes the tale, the eclipse ends and he attacks. Zuko redirects Ozai's lightning back at him, using the technique taught to him by Iroh and leaves, intent on freeing his uncle. However, Iroh single-handedly breaks out from prison before Zuko can join him. The exhausted and diminished invasion force has no choice but to surrender and be captured, but at the urging of his allies, Aang flees with his friends to the Western Air Temple with Zuko trailing them on a stolen warship balloon. | ||||||||
52 | 12 | 'The Western Air Temple' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz Tim Hedrick | July 14, 2008 | 312 | -- |
Zuko follows Aang and his friends to the Western Air Temple, seeking to join their group. There, Zuko desperately tries to prove to them that he has changed for the better and wishes only to atone for his past mistakes. It is only after Zuko helps save them from Combustion Man that he receives their acceptance as Aang's firebending teacher and the fifth member of Team Avatar. However, an embittered and cautious Katara still refuses to trust that Zuko has really changed and threatens to take his life at the slightest sign of treachery. | ||||||||
53 | 13 | 'The Firebending Masters' | Moi Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | John O'Bryan | July 15, 2008 | 313 | -- |
Zuko tries to teach Aang how to firebend, but has lost his own ability to bend as he is no longer reliant on rage, the previous focus of his firebending. Toph suggests they learn from the original source of firebending, the mighty dragons. Zuko reveals that his uncle Iroh killed the last dragon long ago, in the last of a line of glory hunts that earns a firebender the title of 'Dragon'., but he also notes that the dragons first imparted their knowledge to the Sun Warriors, a now extinct people who were the genesis of the Fire Nation. Zuko and Aang travel to the ruins of the Sun Warrior civilization, where they discover a tribe of the fabled people still exist. The pair must carry a sacred flame up to the mountain to meet the 'Masters', who turn out to be a pair of surviving dragons, but their flames go out at the last moment. They perform the dragon dance, a series of firebending forms seen carved in the ruins, and the last two dragons reveal that at its core firebending is a source of life, not destruction. The Sun Warriors reveal that Iroh had lied about the extinction of the dragons after receiving similar training, in order to protect the remaining members of the species from further hunts. Both Aang and Zuko begin to firebend again, stronger and more skillfully than before. | ||||||||
54 | 14 | 'The Boiling Rock, Part 1' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | May Chan | July 16, 2008 | 314 | 3.97[14] |
Sokka and Zuko infiltrate the Fire Nation's top prison, the Boiling Rock, to find Sokka's father Hakoda. It is surrounded by a boiling lake, trapping Sokka and Zuko when their balloon crashes. They find Suki and hatch an escape plan with Sokka disguised as a guard. Zuko is captured and the warden, Mai's uncle, recognizes him. A prisoner, Chit Sang, blackmails them into letting him join help orchestrate the escape. As they are nearing escape, a new batch of prisoners arrive, including Sokka's father Hakoda. Sokka, Zuko, and Suki decide to stay to save him. Chit Sang and his friends leave without them but make a mistake. | ||||||||
55 | 15 | 'The Boiling Rock, Part 2' | Moi Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Joshua Hamilton | July 16, 2008 | 315 | 3.97[14] |
Sokka, Zuko, Suki, and Chit Sang create a new plan for escaping the prison after the original plan failed. Mai appears and demands to know why Zuko left her. He says he's trying to save the Fire Nation, not destroy it. Later, Sokka and allies take the warden hostage to escape on the gondola which provides access to the prison over the boiling water. The guards attempt to cut the line following the warden's orders, but Mai saves them by stopping the guards. Azula is furious over her betrayal, but Mai declares she loves Zuko more than she fears Azula, enraging Azula further. After Ty Lee stops Azula's attack on Mai with Chi-blocking (a technique which allows her to temporarily eliminate the abilities of a bender) and tries to aid her escape, Azula furiously has them both imprisoned. | ||||||||
56 | 16 | 'The Southern Raiders' | Moi Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Elizabeth Welch Ehasz | July 17, 2008 | 316 | 4.23[14] |
Azula chases Aang from the temple. Zuko confronts Katara about her distrust of him and tries to gain her friendship. He decides to help Katara find the soldier responsible for Kya's untimely death. Aang warns her that revenge is not the answer. Along the way, Katara's behavior becomes increasingly aggressive, and she even resorts to mercilessly bloodbending a Fire Nation soldier. They eventually find the retired soldier, Yan Rha, who reveals that Katara's mother had died protecting her. Despite Katara's rage, pain, and desire for revenge, she is unable to take Yam Rha's life as revenge. Katara and Zuko leave, and once reunited with a relieved Aang and the rest of Team Avatar, Katara finally forgives Zuko and accepts his friendship. | ||||||||
57 | 17 | 'The Ember Island Players' | JM Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Tim Hedrick, Josh Hamilton John O'Bryan | July 18, 2008 | 317 | 4.53[14] |
Sokka discovers that the Ember Island Players, a Fire Nation theater group, is debuting a play based upon their adventures. The play turns out to be Fire Nation propaganda, and although the audience enjoys the play, Aang and his friends are embarrassed by the inaccurate and exaggerated portrayals of themselves (with the sole exception of Toph, who is amused by her depiction as a large muscled man who employs a primitive form of sonar by yelling at everything). In context, the play also serves as a concise summary of Aang's entire journey throughout the show. The play ends with the Fire Nation winning the war, Azula killing Zuko and the Fire Lord killing the Avatar, which triggers a standing ovation from the audience and clearly frightens Aang. | ||||||||
58 | 18 | 'Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King' | JM Animation | Ethan Spaulding | Michael Dante DiMartino | July 19, 2008 | 318 | 5.59[14] |
Aang has decided to fight the Fire-lord after Sozin's Comet passes. Zuko derails this plan by revealing that Ozai intends to raze the entire Earth-Kingdom continent while under its influence. The gang begins a frantic training regimen while Aang struggles with his responsibilities: his friends exhort him to simply kill Ozai, but Aang clings to the pacifist beliefs of his Air-Nomad heritage. In his sleep, Aang is drawn towards a mysterious island that appears suddenly in the sea; the next day, his friends find June the Bounty Hunter to attempt to locate him again. Ozai bequeaths the Fire Nation throne to Azula and declares himself 'Phoenix King', ruler of the known world, while Aang awakens on the unknown island now in the middle of the sea. | ||||||||
59 | 19 | 'Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters' | Moi Animation | Giancarlo Volpe | Aaron Ehasz | July 19, 2008 | 319 | 5.59[14] |
On the island, Aang seeks guidance from his past lives, but they too insist he may have to take violent action against the Fire Lord. The island turns out to be a giant lion-turtle, which gives Aang the guidance he has been seeking. After June is unable to find Aang, Zuko decides to ask June to find his uncle Iroh instead. After June leads them to the outer wall of Ba Sing Se, they meet King Bumi, Jeong Jeong, Master Pakku, and Master Piandao, who are revealed to be members of the Order of the White Lotus, a secret society, presently lead by Iroh, that is constituted by citizens of all three surviving nations. After reuniting with Iroh, the team decides to split up and go in different directions to help stall the Fire Nation's plans: Zuko and Katara will handle Azula at the capital of the Fire Nation; Sokka, Suki and Toph will attempt to deflect the Fire Nation airships encroaching on the Earth Kingdom, and Iroh is to lead the White Lotus in the liberation of Ba Sing Se. Sozin's Comet arrives and Phoenix King Ozai prepares to destroy both the Earth Kingdom and the Avatar. | ||||||||
60 | 20 | 'Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into the Inferno' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | July 19, 2008 | 320 | 5.59[14] |
Azula's mental stability, undermined by the betrayal of her childhood friends at the Boiling Rock, begins to deteriorate as her coronation as Fire Lord approaches. Zuko and Katara confront her right when she is about to be crowned, but Azula challenges her brother to an Agni Kai. Zuko, although initially prevailing against his sister's unbalanced assault, is gravely injured when he dives in front of lightning that Azula throws at Katara. Aang duels Ozai, but still being unwilling to kill, is kept constantly on the defensive, narrowly avoiding Ozai's onslaught of firebending, which is powerfully augmented by Sozin's Comet. Sokka, Toph and Suki attempt to halt the Airship fleet but are soon separated, while the Order of the White Lotus battles for Ba Sing Se's freedom. | ||||||||
61 | 21 | 'Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang' | JM Animation | Joaquim Dos Santos | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko | July 19, 2008 | 321 | 5.59[14] |
With a chance injury, Ozai accidentally causes Aang to enter the mighty Avatar State. The Order of the White Lotus successfully liberates Ba Sing Se, while Sokka, Suki and Toph successfully disable all of the airships in the Fire Nation attack armada. Katara fights and outmaneuvers Azula, freezing her in ice and then chaining her to the ground, triggering a psychotic breakdown in Azula. Katara then uses her exceptionally strong healing abilities to revive a severely wounded Zuko. Aang, in the power of the Avatar state, chases and easily overwhelms Ozai, yet still refuses to kill him. Aang uses knowledge he received from the lion-turtle and employs an ancient form of bending to alter the natural energy within Ozai, using the technique to permanently strip him of his firebending abilities, defeating the Phoenix King without taking his life. In an epilogue sequence set some days later, newly appointed Fire Lord Zuko declares the war over. Zuko and Mai reconcile officially, and Zuko confronts his father, angrily asking where his mother, Ursa, is being kept. Some time later, 'Team Avatar' celebrate together at Iroh's tea shop in Ba Sing Se; slipping out to share a quiet moment together, Aang and Katara embrace and kiss under the sunset.
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DVD releases[edit]
The first three DVD volumes contain five episodes each, and the fourth volume contains six. A later boxed set contained all four volumes. The first DVD was released on October 30, 2007, and the complete boxed set was released on September 16, 2008.[15] They are released by Paramount Home Entertainment. Each of the individual Season Three DVDs also comes complete with an exclusive comic book.[16] The Complete Book 3 Collection DVD includes the following DVD extras: Inside Sozin's Comet: Exclusive Four-Part Commentary by Creators, The Women of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 3 Finale Pencil Test Animation and Into the Fire Nation at San Diego Comic-Con.[17] The boxed set was released on February 1, 2010 in the United Kingdom.[18]
Volume | Discs | Episodes | Region 1 release | Region 2 release | Region 4 release |
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1 | 1 | 5 | October 30, 2007 | Not released | June 1, 2010[19] |
2 | 1 | 5 | January 22, 2008 | Not released | September 23, 2010[20] |
3 | 1 | 5 | May 6, 2008 | Not released | October 7, 2010[21] |
4 | 1 | 6 | July 29, 2008 | Not released | November 4, 2010[22] |
Box set | 5[23] | 21[23] | September 16, 2008 | February 1, 2010[18] | December 2, 2010 |
Footnotes[edit]
- 1.^ Production code format taken from the commentary for 'Sozin's Comet Part 1: The Phoenix King'
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