Ah, the revenge episode. Well first off, the team gets attacked by Azula. And she is a crazy bitch. The team gets split up again, and after a big scene to start off, they find a new place to rest. And Katara and Zuko have a big confrontation. And they realize Zuko knows who killed her mom way back when. And yeah, they take off. Aang tries to give some philosophy that she shouldn’t do that, and Zuko has a nice comment back that this isn’t airbender preschool or something. Anyway, they take off, and they go hard. They first think he’s on this big ship. And you just picture this guy as young as he was back then when he killed Katara’s mom, but when they fight the guy (Katara even uses some Bloodbending) turns out it’s not him, he’s retired. Then we meet this guy, and he’s so… anticlimactic. I mean he’s this old guy living with his mom, who just complains. He’s kind of worthless in a way. Like Katara says later, he’s pathetic. And yeah, she meets him, and Katara can jump into a hard person really quickly. We see her so many times in her nice girl family personality, but she’s resilient. When she’s mad, or other times, we see her like how she is now, but this is the birth of her other side. And she has him. She uses the rain in this very cool way that is a perfect end to this guy. And you could almost hear Tupac saying Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy. But no, she stops. And the guy isn’t nice or anything, he begs for his life. He even offers his own mother. And yeah… they leave. And the guy is by himself in this really dramatic scene. You felt bad for him, yet you still hated him. And then we have our resolution. Katara says she’ll never forgive him, but in a way she’s healed. And Aang says violence is never the answer, and Zuko asks how he’ll beat his father then. And that’s a nice way to end it off. Anyway, loved this episode. Episodes like this are really hard to execute. But they did. And it did everything it needed too, and other than maybe being a little rushed, I think this episode is the closet they had to perfect. Not in that way. In the way it completed everything it needed to, and didn’t have any slaps on the wrist. Also, Katara’s voice actress killed it. She was serious, never went over the top, and was believable. Just saying, she like the rest of the episode was sort of flawless in a way. Anyway, loved the episode, very good.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 56 (The Southern Raiders) gets a 5/5

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