I find it a bit rushed too, even though it's a great ep.
The sukka moment was priceless! What was that about avatar being a kids show?
All in all, this is one of my fav episodes, even though everything is rushed. Oh well, it was most definatly worth it

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I feel like every episode in the third season (except The Headband, Painted Lady and Sokka's Master) could've handled being in two parts. I think the emotional development that time would've given could have been awesome. But I liked it. ^^

But HO MAN, WHAT were Sokka and Suki thinking they were doing??? I could not believe something like that would be on this show O_O I'm actually upset about that. I hope it wasn't anything TOO bad, or else I'd be mightily disappointed in the both of them. >=[

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Great episode, even more so the commercial for the next episode after it left a lot of questions: Aang is apparently gonna have a "discussion" with Katara

Also, did he bend fire out of his mouth there?

This episode was full of Zutara moments . But SokkaxZuko ..... xD I've laught till my tears came. ^^

All in all this episode was one of the WOW episodes. I Think this episode was very important for cleaning up this all Katara's mother and Firenation shit (sry ) , and the relationship between Katara and Zuko.
When Azula and Zuko faught, I just said OMG OMG OMG. That was so exiting.

I agree that the episode was running too fast and I just said ,,What? That's the end? I want more!!"
So,let's wait for 'The Ember Island Players' and than ... the Final 2-hour-episode! *YAY*

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Like already mentioned here there was a lot of OMGOMGOMG!moments.

I felt Kataras desperate need for revenge was a little extreme. Or just a bit "I'm angry and out of control but I will come to my senses at the end of this episode"-obvious. But after once again having to separate from her father probably made a lot of impact on her. But seriously, listen to Aang dammit! He knows of what he speaks. (I really like how Sokka commented on that he was "pretty wise for a kid"). He needs more recognition!

Zutara ninja-duo = Total WIN.
Azula = is starting to lose it.
And Katara's bloodbending was creepy! Didn't think that after "The Puppetmaster" it would ever hold the same level of freaky-ness. But it did!

"Southern Raiders" also had a lot of knee-slapping LOL-moments. (Do I have to mention the SokkaxSuki love tent fail?)

I'll stop rambling now.

I still can't believe we're getting more Avatar in just a couple of hours.

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I love it, too, and I actually thought the animation was great . I thought it was a great fight between Zuko and Azula at the start.

Also - Azula with her hair down =

à la fin de la deuxième bande annonce de la saison 3 on voyait Sokka dans sa tante avec sa petite rose dans la bouche, mais je me demandais bien où/quand ça pouvait arriver et si on allait vraiment voir ça ! loool et bien OUI ! c'était du Sukka à fond "Hot Sukka" en fait

C'est vrai que tout va super vite et un double éisode aurait surement été sympa mais bon, y a tellement de choses qu'on pourrait approfondir dans la série qu'on ne l'arrêterait jamais Mais c'est vrai que ça s'enchîne un peu trop vite pour qu'on ait vraiment le temps de ressentir la situation... aaah le bloodbending, je l'avais senti venir celui-là et même Zuko était totalement déassé là !!!!
Surement un de mes éisodes préférés, nous montrant toute la détermination et la puissance de Katara et aussi à quel point Zuko a envie de se faire accepter, à quel point son amitié est sincère et fidèle
Azula a bien changé depuis TBR, le ton de sa voix montre qu'elle commence à basculer dans la folie totale. Que du bon à venir...

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I agree...I would have liked to see two episodes. This went rather quick to feel even slightly realistic. I had no time to dwell on any one emotion because the feeling of the show changed too quickly for me. Not the tearjerker that was promised in my opinion. I did not feel pity for Katara in the least. She chose to chase after her mother's killer instead of relocating the father she did not want to be separated from just a day ago? Not admirable in my book. And when she said to her brother, "Then I guess you didn't love her like I did." Cold. Too cold. That really broke my heart to hear her say that to him.

I think Bryke have strayed from the character I used to love and made her into someone hateful. She has reason to hate, but the sudden show of it is, from a writer's standpoint, is way out of character for her. They are simply using her hate as an excuse to bring her and Zuko closer as comrades to prepare for the finale. (Yeah, I read the stupid book )

I do have to say, bravo Bryke for the fight scenes. The brief one on that gondola was pitiful in TBR. It's nice to finally see some decent bending again.

And the whole Suki sneaking into Sokka's tent......awesome. That's the real reason Sokka wanted to split up from the 'extras'.

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Yeah I liked the episode too! It kind of annoyed me the way Katara acted towards Aang and Zuko (holding a grudge and all) but I thought it was well done. We finallyyyyyyy got to see their mom's face! And the Sokka and Suki thing...I almost peed my pants! I can't believe Nick actually allowed that considering the sexual undertones! I really liked the fight scene with Zukko and Azula! And of course Katara's waterbending was awesome to watch!

I have to say if they don't kick up firebending like they did with the rest of the elements than the finale is going to be rather boring. Aang will be throwing around massive amounts of the other elements while the Firelord is going to be fireball, fireball, fireball.

Also question, why is it that a nation who has been at war for the past 100 years has only 4 real masters, two of which are young teenagers, while everyone else is pathetically weak and incompetent? It would seem to me that the best fighters in the Firenation would be the ones who have been on the battlefield most of their lives(which is why Iroh is so good), not the ones who have bathed in luxury for most of theirs.

I realize that firebenders are limited both as the badguys, meaning they have the stormtrooper effect, and that massive third degree burns would bump up the ratings but still. Katara was throwing around all that water and what not and Zuko was doing enough to barely light a camp fire.

I still wasn't even that impressed by Zuko and Azula's fight. It would have been fine for early to mid second season. But at this point, I expect more than two people trading fireballs. I want to see more powerful firebending, at least somewhat of what it could actually do, and generally just more fire. I also want to see more speed involved in firebending, they create it with their minds so I see little reason for them to have to put everything they have into a physical thrust to send the flames foreward. The physical movements should serve as nothing more than guidance as with the other elements.

Of course I also see little reason other than ratings to not have firebenders just use other's body heat and just incinerate them on the spot. Once upon a time I would have said that that just didn't go with the theme of Avatar, it's a bit too realistic. Then they added bloodbending and frankly threw that rule out the window.

Also is Katara going to apologize to Sokka, cause that was a horrible thing to say.

Now don't get me wrong I liked the episode, it's just that these things are getting more annoying the closer we get to the end.

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