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Episode 11 Review (The Great Divide)

Out of all the Avatar episodes that I would count as fillers (although I count none) this one seems the most candidate for that title. Does that mean this is a bad episode? We’ll see. First, this episode is really separate, and doesn’t even have any Zuko or anything else. After a little feud with Katara and Sokka, they see this Great Divide. And two tribes come along, and they are mortal enemies and still need to pass. And they still don’t want to go with the others, and they both they the other should go because they have either sick people or old people. And the two tribes are obviously different, one is super clean and orderly, the other are slobs and more loose. But Aang being the Avatar has to be the peacekeeper. So his solution is have the sick and old go across on Appa, and everyone else goes on foot, alongside this, this canyon tour guide Earthbender that will keep them safe. And they can’t bring food ‘cause it’ll attract monsters. And sure enough a monster shows up, and the tour guide gets his arms broken, and can’t bend. Then the fight begins, and they go along in two different passageways. Katara goes with the clean ones, Sokka with the dirty. And Aang goes alone in the middle. While resting it shows they both brought food in because they assumed the other would bring food in, and didn’t want to starve while the others didn’t. And then there’s a big back story of why the two tribes hate each other. Then when they reach the wall back up at the other end of the canyon, more of the monsters show up. But Aang finds a way to defeat them, a way that allows the two tribes to work together. And then they still fight. So Aang tells a story before he was frozen a hundred years ago where the big feud long ago can be toned down to a kid game. So the two seeing how small it was, go together in one group. Then Aang tells how he made the story up, and it ends. And the ending is controversial. It almost says "hey, the past doesn’t matter if we can make up a reason for why they should get along.” But then again it avoids a deus ex machina. And I think the idea was to show how meaningless the past could be, and the squabble of an old feud can be irrelevant in a bickering in today’s society. Ultimately I don’t have a problem with the ending, just with it was executed differently. And if the episode did have problems, it would be that it doesn’t have much to do with the story, and the fucking face Aang makes when he sees food, which was not funny. That character, and that face, they don’t equal funny. So I thought this was still a good episode, and borderline great. Just the worst episode so far, not because it was entertaining, but because it just had some problems. Still very good though.