Episode 3 Review (The Southern Air Temple) Episode 3 Review (The Southern Air Temple)
In episode three, we really do start the adventure. On one side we learn more of Prince Zuko, as he takes his ship in for repair, we meet Commander Zhao, a fire bender master who clearly is a bit of an ass. He while distracting Zuko and Uncle Iroh interrogate his soldiers, who tell that the Avatar is alive. Zuko challenges Zhao to a fight, (an Agni Kai) and even manages to win. But rather than killing Zhao or wounding him, he purposely misses, and walks away. Zhao tries to hit Zuko, but Uncle Iroh stops him. We learned that Zuko is a banished prince, his father gave him his scar, and he may have a little more than a flaring temper for a character. Also his last line with Iroh at the end was great. Meanwhile Team Avatar (yes I’m calling them that) are entering the Air Temple in which Aang grew up in. We learn a little more about Airbenders starting with their sport of choice, and Aang’s guardian I guess you could say. There is even a bad ass room full of statues, one for each of Aang’s past lives. It’s like a under story orgasm already in the third episode. But while in the room a Lemur (a type of animal) walks into the room, and it seems he’s the last living thing in this temple. Of course Sokka tries to eat him in a crazed meat hunger (later in the series they poke fun at Sokka just having food jokes, and for now it works) But after a little comedic moment, Aang stumbles on the skeleton of his old guardian, and sees how the firebenders burned him to death. (You know, something all the kids will love!) Aang suddenly starts to glow like in the last episode, and this time it’s a really big deal. He starts glowing and seems like he wants to kill something. But Katara and Sokka run to Aang’s side despite his intimidating power, which shows something about their friendship. (Of course the movie had done this terribly) But Momo the lemur joins the team, and they take off, ending the episode with Aang looking back at his former home. Ultimately it was another great episode. I feel some parts could have been better in execution, and I guess before the adventuring parts continue, you do have to establish some more ground for the series. But in the end it really is interesting, and it actually flies by, and it felt really short to me. But I thought was still great, and really didn’t have anything that bugged me. And of course it is always awesome when there is new member of Team Avatar. GO TEAM AVATAR!
 Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 3 (The Southern Air Temple) gets a 4/5
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