Episode 48 Review (The Puppetmaster) Episode 48 (The Puppetmaster) Review
So the Puppetmaster, another really memorable episode. This is the episode I think best fit’s the term spooky. It begins with a ghost story, then they meet this old lady. And you can tell there is something off the beaten track. She’s creepy, people are disappearing at the full moon, and she was keeping a secret, but turns out it wasn’t much of a secret. She’s a waterbender from the Southern Tribe. So just as it seems things are going good again, they go right back to bad. The lady starts showing Katara all the cool things you can do with waterbending. (Probably my favorite part of the episode) She’s using the water in the atmosphere, there a really good scene where she used these beautiful flowers she said she waited every year for, and then they just died for the sake of combat. Then you get her back-story as the full moon shows. And it’s another really good back-story. She used to be this beautiful lady, then she rotten in a prison. And every full moon she started testing what she called blood bending on rats. She’d use the water inside the creatures and control them. And they try to make her seem crazy and that blood bending is wrong. They got her hair in her eyes in that scene, the Bloodbending looks nasty, and they really made the lines and wrinkles on her face to show how nasty and crazy she is. But what happens after she escaped (another very cool scene) and it goes to the present, turns out she was taking fire nation people captive like prisoners like she’d been. But then she fights Katara, Sokka, and Aang. And she is about to make them kill each other, but Katara uses Bloodbending on the crazy chick. And then evil laugh from crazy chick, she got her to be a pupil by Bloodbending. Katara is in tears, camera goes to the moon, roll credits. I know this sounds fucked up but those tears weren’t really called for. I mean, this episode is spooky. I got chills in the end. But I feel like it wanted to be creepy, as in a chill goes up your spine and you look around your shoulder. And I think this would have gone better if the old woman had like a heart attack or something. I know that sounds bad, but it would have! I mean imagine her laughing through a heart attack and then her dying words was then she said, "Congrats Katara, you’re a Bloodbender!” Camera goes to the moon, roll credits. I know that’s hard to do with Nick, but it’s Avatar. They could have done something, just not show it. If they couldn’t, then mix up the story. Don’t have Katara in tears. It wasn’t that big of a deal. "Oh no, I just saved my brother and future husband! How awful!” Just no, have some consequence. And this didn’t even come back! I mean, Bloodbending did, but not Katara knowing it. Anyway, still a really great episode. It was spooky, you can’t take that away from it. And the ending is just annoying, not bad or anything. I still got chills, I think that lady was a really cool character. But really!? This is Katara episode number three, and Toph has had to share one with her! Not fair!
Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 48 (The Puppetmaster) gets a 4/5
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