"Are you so busy fighting you cannot see your own ship has set sail?"- Iroh- The Dragon of the West
Love the art style.
7/10
haha, I remember this episode. Common theme in both this and Korra is friends being all jealous and insecure over how fast the Avatar learns lol
It does seem OP to not only get to know all 4 elements but to learn them easier too though lol
this is probably the worst thing katara ever did. and honestly being jealous of your friends and stealing from pirates isn't even that objectionable for a 14 year old so...
I do love that zuko's day was ruined for nothing.
the pirate fight scene is EPIC, I will always love Aang blowing away the smoke, realizing he’s in the middle of everyone, and just going oop nevermind.
A fun one-off adventure, which this show continues to do excellent work with. I'm always a fan of worldbuilding too, and seeing more kinds of people in the universe really adds to the depth this already unique and well defined world has. The action scene with the pirates is excellent too, mixing comedy and well choreographed animation in cool ways. Everything with Waterbending in particular continues to be really fun and creative.
This is also a great episode for Katara, who we see a lot more depth here. Her jealousy of Aang is rooted not in malice, but more just a genuine want to improve and constantly feeling unable to do what she wants to do. It's wrapped up a bit quickly but I appreciate the maturity on how it handles it, and taking a more adult approach to the situation as opposed to the obvious arguments shows usuually resort to. Another winner.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-11-18T05:52:44Z
7.0/10. Solid enough episode. It's nice to see Katara be shown as a little bit flawed and not just and endlessly trusting, endlessly supportive sidekick. The fact that she was frustrated by Aang having waterbending come so naturally to him when she had to struggle so much to reach her meager level of mastery was a nice, human moment from her. Still, it was a bit cheesy that in the end, it was her and Aang's combined waterbending skills that got the pirate ship out of the harbor and stopped it from going down the falls long enough for Appa to save them.
And my lord, the fight with the pirates went on forever. It was done well enough, with the hand-to-hand combat stuff fading into a big water-bound chase, but it was just nothing but undifferentiated action that felt like it needed another quiet moment or two to get the pacing right. There was nothing wrong with the episode exactly, and Uncle Iroh dragging Prince Zuko around for a minor game tile was good for a few laughs, but for the most part this one felt like solid but unspectacular filler.
But hey, I've slowly but surely realized that I'm endeared to Appa because he reminds me a lot of my cat, so that's something! Still, mostly a filler episode, albeit a perfectly fine one.