Noel, Allison, and Kate kick off week 14 Streaming In Place with Avatar: The Last Airbender season one, episodes 15 and 16, “Bato of the Water Tribe” and “The Deserter.” Aang’s occasional less-than-heroics, Sokka’s leadership skills and rookie spicy food habits, and Katara’s cool new abilities. Tune in for our thoughts on these episodes and come back tomorrow for our takes on episodes 17 and 18, “The Northern Air Temple” and “The Waterbending Master.”
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There’s one thing that kind of bugged me in ep 15: Uncle Lazy lusting after June. That was kind of gross.
Also, I am not so sure about Katara and Aang as a (future) couple which I feel is pushed on the audience a little hard right now. First we get that scene in ep 14 with Sokka calling Aang “a powerful bender” and Katara’s reaction of hearing her brother saying those words being framed as kind of an epiphany. And then there is their banter at the end of ep 15 which was really funny but felt a little too grown up for my taste, especially on Aang’s side. As Taylor Swift described it “The playful conversation starts / Counter all your quick remarks / Like passing notes in secrecy”.
If Katara is like 15 and Aang is something like 12, I totally get that he would fall for her. But in my experience it takes a lot more maturity and training to have (or fake) that ease when interacting with someone you’re attracted to, let alone someone you have a crush on. To have enough confidence to not weigh every single word and, to some extent, to take the person you are smitten by off the pedestal you yourself put them on. 15 would be really young for that, especially if you never been in a situation like that before (which I would assume is the case with Katara since her brother seemed to be the only boy her age at her village). But there’s no way Aang is even close to being mature enough for that.