ATLA Rewatch "The Siege of the North"

Book One Water: Chapters Nineteen and Twenty

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One season down two to go! We will be taking a break in the rewatch for a few days but will return to start book two June 4th. Feel free to take this time to 'catch up' if needed, and look back at previous discussions.

Fun Facts/Notes:

-Pakku comparing one student's performance to a sea sponge is a reference to SpongeBob SquarePants. In the German translation, Pakku instead refers to a starfish.

-When Arnook says some faces will disappear from the tribe forever, close-ups were shown of Yue, Pakku, and Hahn; All three of whom disappear from the NWT in some way as a result of this finale.

-The marks on the foreheads of the Northern Water Tribe warriors are the same type of marks Bato gave Aang, Katara, and Sokka in "Bato of the Water Tribe".

-'Koizilla' strongly resembles the Nightwalker from Hayao Miyazaki's movie Princess Mononoke

-When La and Aang begin moving toward the Fire Navy fleet, the Biblical story of Passover is invoked. When the Water Tribe submitted to La, they were not attacked by him; the Fire Nation soldiers who did not bow were killed.

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Overviews:

The Fire Nation's massive armada prepares to attack the Northern Water Tribe at dawn. The Tribe readies its defenses, and Sokka volunteers to be a warrior after Yue explains that she cannot contact him anymore. With Iroh at his side, Zhao leads the invasion, battling Water Tribe forces for the entire day. Meanwhile, Zuko infiltrates the tribe on his own, seeking to capture Aang. Aang believes venturing into the Spirit World and speaking to the Moon and Ocean Spirits might give him the wisdom to defeat the Fire Nation. After Aang's spirit leaves for the Spirit World, Zuko manages to kidnap his body.

After successfully capturing Aang, Zuko struggles to find shelter on the frozen waste of the North Pole. Meanwhile, as the Fire Nation invades the city, Sokka, Katara, and Yue search for the prince and Aang. As Aang's returning spirit guides them to their location, they save him and return to the Spirit Oasis, though are too late to stop Admiral Zhao from slaying the Moon Spirit's mortal form, causing the moon to vanish and all waterbenders to lose their ability to bend. Enraged, Aang combines himself with the Ocean Spirit, La, and obliterate the entire Fire Nation armada. Meanwhile, Princess Yue, who was imbued with some of the energy of the Moon Spirit when she was a sickly newborn, sacrifices her life to restore it to life. As the moon returns in the sky, La releases Aang, though upon retreating to the oasis, ambushes Zhao, who refuses to allow Zuko to save him, and drags the admiral under the surface with him. After the battle's conclusion, Team Avatar journeys on, while Zuko decides to call off his pursuit of the Avatar for a while. Meanwhile, in the Fire Nation, a young woman receives an assignment from Fire Lord Ozai.