#Avatar the last airbender season 2 episode 2 full

He does, but then immediately once he’s in Avatar state, Azula zaps him with lighting. The only way Aang has even a shot at winning is if he enters the Avatar state, which means he has to let his “worldly attachment” to Katara go. Why do I always fall for characters who make awful decisions all the time? First THIS FUCKER: Zuko could get an email from a “Nigerian prince” offering to restore his honor in exchange for his entire life saving’s and left kidney, and Zuko would fucking fall for it. And now?! After everything? I mean it’s so awful but still so very very believable because of Z’s honor-shaped blind spot She tried this exact same “come home with me and dad will love you” tactic in the season finale, and he fell for it then. SHE IS PLAYING YOU, OH MY GOD, SHE IS PLAYING YOU” thing.

It’s not even a good vs evil thing, at least not exclusively. What the actual fuck, Zuko? What the actual fuck?! I was convinced all through the ensuing fight scene that it was all some sort of con, but no, he really did fall for it.

We can rule together, and you can win back your honor and Dad will love you again. Choose good!” Azula tells him: “You can still redeem yourself. Iroh tells him: “You’re at the crossroads of your destiny. And Long Feng does.Īzula’s coup now 100% successful, she goes to the crystal caves to ruin Zuko’s life just a liiiiiiiittle bit more. In one of my favorite scenes of the episode, Azula takes down Long Feng without lifting a finger-she just calmly explains to him that he’s a punk-ass brat and she’s TRUE QUEEN MATERIAL, and she’s already won this fight, so kindly bow down and pay your respects, motherfucker. Long Feng then strides in, all convinced that he can get the Dai Lee to arrest Azula. Except the coup’s not so much “upcoming” as “literally happening right now.” Toph takes care of business in the ensuing fight scene with Ozai’s Angels, as is her wont, but when Azula gets her pocket-sized lighting bolt to the Earth King’s throat, they have to surrender. While Iroh and Aang are on prisoner rescue duty, Sokka and Toph are hoofing it to the Earth King to tell him about Azula’s upcoming coup. And ohhh, remembering that water thing is gonna hurt me later. She’s even about to use her super-secret healing water to try and get rid of the scar on his face-the visible manifestation of the hold the Fire Nation has over him-when Aang and Iroh bust in to rescue them. Katara and Zuko end up bonding hardcore over all the ways in which the Fire Nation has dicked them both over. All except Toph, who didn’t need any convincing, because she just knew Iroh as the guy who gave her good advice back in “The Chase.” While there, they get a visit from Iroh, who’s just decided “Hey, I’m gonna go to the Avatar and suggest that we work together to rescue Katara and Zuko.” And, because he’s Uncle Iroh, they are convinced as to the wisdom of this plan pretty quickly. The Earth King tells them that Katara must be in their old house, which of course she isn’t. Speaking of the coup: Aang, Toph, and Sokka don’t know yet that the visiting “Kyoshi Warriors” are actually Ozai’s Angels. So the guards immobilize Zuko and take him away, because Azula’s too fucking smart to let herself get distracted by drama when she has a coup that needs pulling off. Cue Iroh’s literal facepalm at his nephew’s poor decision-making skills (the first of many times they will pop up this episode):Īzula: Wait, so you want to challenge me to a duel then? But Zuko refuses to follow, saying that he’d rather confront Azula once and for all than keep running from her.

The fact that he can literally breathe fire makes his escape from Azula pretty easy.

We start with Iroh revealing why he’s called “The Dragon of the West,” and HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT. Bet you thought you’d seen the last of me” and gets her new BFFS the Dai Lee to arrest him. She gets a cellmate in Zuko, whose hippy dippy “everything is great with the world”ness ends preeeetty quickly when Azula pulls a “Surprise, bitch. Namely, rescuing Katara, whom Azula dumped in the crystal caves underneath the city. On their way back to Ba Sing Se, Aang and Sokka come across Toph, so that “being captured and separated from the rest of the group” thing resolved itself pretty quickly, eh? No complaints-Team Avatar has shit to do. Rebecca Pahle October 20, 2014īut let’s start with the recap. I know he ends up with the Gaang eventually, and I’m sure it’s gonna have this great message like “no matter how many times you totally fuck up, DAMMIT ZUKO mistakes you make, you can always redeem yourself.” But right now? After that episode? I am S C R E A M I N G.

#Avatar the last airbender season 2 episode 2 full

OK, I’m gonna get the elephant (or, given that it’s Avatar, the “flamingo elephant” or something) in the room out of the way been waiting for this since you first started talking about how obvy it was that zuko was gonna be good by end of season btwĪfter a FULL SEASON of soul-searching, Zuko decides to go back to the Fire Nation.