Published: July 27, 2014, 6 p.m.
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ReWatchable is back for the first Avatar: The Last Airbender episode recapping season 1, episode 1, "The Boy in the Iceberg," and episode 2, "The Avatar Returns."
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\\nSuperfans: Michal, Caitlin, and Natalie. Newbie: Brittany
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\\nAvatar: The Last Airbender season 1, episode 1, "The Boy in the Iceberg"
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-Brittany was a little lost. Especially during the intro. Wow, that was a lot of information, right off the bat!
\\n-A:TLA is drawn in a style similar to anime, but is a Western cartoon. We\'re glad their mouths match up to the dialogue in this show!
\\n-Caitlin tells us all about some of the differences between Western and Eastern animation.
\\n-Watching the show again, even the superfans were surprised at how quickly the show moves in the beginning.
\\n-It\'s definitely a lot easier to appreciate this show\'s intro scene retrospectively.
\\n-We\'re able to understand Sokka and Katara\'s relationship in the first moments that we see them.
\\n-How odd that we don\'t know that Aang is the Avatar in the first episode!
\\n-The character growth we\'re going to see in this show, especially for Sokka and Katara, is going to be tremendous.
\\n-Brittany thought that everyone on the show was going to be able to bend!
\\n-Yeah, let\'s just get this out of the way. This show really isn\'t strictly a kids show.
\\n-No one\'s age is revealed in the show, so Brittany gives her best guesses (and is pretty close).
\\n-Sokka\'s "sexist" comment was pretty intense for the first drama scene of the show.
\\n-Katara tends to see things through rose-tinted glasses, especially about her discovery of Aang.
\\n-How cute was Aang as he asked to penguin sledding right as he woke up!
\\n-Brittany still doesn\'t know what the Avatar really is.
\\n-"Zuko" will always be followed by "no comment."
\\n-And amongst the love of the Firebender from the superfans, the newbie "just wants to slap him."
\\n-But then we all agree that it\'s okay to hate on Zuko this early on in the game.
\\n-Newbie Brittany thought that Zuko wore facepaint every day. Instead of having a burn scar.
\\n-Gran gran is understandably protective of the last South Pole Waterbender.
\\n-Okay, we admit it. Katara does say the word "hope" a lot.
\\n-Bending isn\'t meant to be a magical thing, rather more in line with nature.
\\n-Aang becomes a lot of Katara\'s world, very quickly. Is this because of her missing out on being around any other benders?
\\n-We almost sort ourselves into our respective bending types. But then we don\'t. No comment!
\\n-The animal hybrids of this world are the best! How cute were those penguins?
\\n-Aang seems to snap into the frozen world that he\'s in without any hesitation.
\\n-Iroh gave us a really neat description of how bending happens this early on in the show.
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\\nAvatar: The Last Airbender season 1, episode 2, "The Avatar Returns"
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-The first epic battle between Zuko and Aang showed off some great choreography.
\\n-Firebenders could be compared to the Slytherines of the A:TLA universe.
\\n-Do we even have time to think of the ships this early on in the show?
\\n-Yeah, the A:TLA fandom can get pretty in depth when it comes to ships.
\\n-Watching this show right after a show like Spongebob will really not set you up properly for this show.
\\n-The animated characters in this show is as real to Natalie as real people characters, due to their awesome complexity.
\\n-Sokka goes for the eye of the tiger, armed only with a spear and his trusty boomerang. Also, his moment against Zuko gives him a good reprieve from his less-than-favorable previous presentation.
\\n-Arrogance is a common flaw in many characters in A:TLA.
\\n-Brittany pretty much hits the head on the nail about what the Avatar state is.
\\n-Was it okay that Aang wanted to have so many fun adventures, when such an important mission was already at hand?
\\n-What are the events we\'re looking forward to seeing, in concept, for the remainder of this epic journey?
\\n-Aang definitely isn\'t processing the consequences of his current situation quite yet.
\\n-What number re-watch are the superfans on for A:TLA?
\\n-This is the first show that hasn\'t been cancelled that ReWatchable is covering.
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