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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

The Painted Lady

Review of Avatar: The Last Airbender episode
Book 3: Fire
Chapter 3: The Painted Lady

The Painted Lady is the third episode in the Gaang's journey's through the Fire Nation and involved them arriving to a village that was being oppressed and ignored by the Fire Nation. It showed the kind of future many people would face if Aang failed to defeat the Fire Lord, and was quite a bleak thought in itself.

The village itself lacked food, medical supplies, and sat on a very polluted river from a Fire Nation factory nearby. During the episode, though, the Painted Lady turns up and helps to bring the village's freedom, together with the rest of the Gaang (and you'll know what I mean by the rest of the Gaang if you've watched the episode ;))

There is also a well known line that Katara speaks from the trailer that I did not expect at all in the context she spoke it in, and I loved the way the Gaang conducted the Painted Lady's final appearance and battle. Brilliant!

Overall, quite a good episode, but not one I would consider a favourite.

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