There’s two—count ‘em TWO—waterbenders in the GAang. “Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff…” sounds a whole lot like “I’m just a guy with a boomerang” when you think about it. Look it up if you haven’t figured it out. Avatar has its share of Wedge Antilleses and Boba Fetts. I love the solution to convincing the villagers that Aunt Wu was wrong that the volcano would not erupt—go into the sky and change the clouds! Exact Words: Aunt Wu predicts that the town won't be destroyed by a volcano this year. And the majority of questions I was asking? Aang, Katara, and Sokka travel to a village that relies solely on the predictions of a cloud-reading fortuneteller. His fiction is forthcoming in the anthology The Living Dead 2. In “I Do,” episode 3.06 of LOST, Kate and Sawyer do it. Katara and Aang use waterbending to shape clouds as a way to warn the villagers. I think knowing what would happen to me in the future would make life boring as hell. I think if the 12-year-old Jordan found out the actual answers to those questions, she’d have a fit. Aunt Wu predicted the volcano would not destroy the village. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Was she though? At the end of LoK Katara is 88 and Jinora is 14, with a boyfriend. I’ve always wondered if that was a real fortune, or if she was just saying stuff to get rid of her. That’s a little unsolicited relationship advice for any of you animated characters out there reading this. Close. The real star of this episode for the adult me is Sokka, who for all of his silliness is the voice of reason in this episode. But can I request that we stop calling it “shipping”? Wash that thing off first at least before you go snuggling with it and taking a big whiff. They’ve never even had a conversation! Aang attempts to make Aunt Wu’s predictions justify his budding affections for Katara. The relationship between Aang and Katara is quite familiar to me, as I have been on both sides of that relationship more times than I care to remember. Many of my favorite laughs revolved around Sokka being fed up with the townspeople’s blind acceptance of Aunt Wu. It's not known when they, or Ikki or Milo, have kids but it would probably be another 15 years before having their 3rd child. Skepticism, logic, and science are themes rarely explored in stories where people can shoot fire out of their fingertips, and snap stone walls in half with a wave of their hands. She finally … I think Aang’s interactions with Aunt Wu are actually quite telling. I always liked that Aang was an Avatar who loved someone. For a while I wondered if part of being the Avatar meant that you couldn’t love anyone too much. So I completely accept on episode where Katara spends most of her time asking inane questions about her future and what to eat in the morning. Sokka has always been quick to trivialize bending, but he really shines here, making out fortunetelling to be the farce that it is. She just loves him from the first moment she made googly eyes at him, all because Aunt Wu told her her future husband would have big ears. As Matt mentioned, even boys care about who likes them and who they might end up with. Can’t they waterbend fish out of the water? I mean, that’s why there’s such a thing as spoiler alerts, amiright? We wanted to keep the comment threads future-spoiler-free as well, but it will likely prove impossible and it would impede our ability to analyze the series in retrospect. Half the Lost fanbase goes wild. When Mako met up to have lunch with Korra and Asami, Wu insisted on accompanying his bodyguard and promised to be on his best behavior. So even if the amount of romantic hullabaloo in this episode is a tad overwhelming, props to the Avateam for addressing the issues that pre-teens are coping with. Did Meng’s voice sound familiar to you? It’s okay though, he’s got a Kyoshi Warrior waiting around for him. Someone really gets me.”. This is the subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Netflix live action ATLA series, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. She tells him he can make his own future. Sounds like Doc Brown to me. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. 27 comments. So with a few exceptions, the romantic aspects of the Avatar series take a back seat. I’ve enjoyed that aspect of the show all along. As Matt pointed out, while this episode may seem a bit schlocky to the adults watching, I think the idea of a fortune teller to a 12-year-old is highly appealing. This happened like 3 times just in that episode, Just watched this episode and thought exactly this, Source: http://allatlagifs.tumblr.com/post/42555818519/atla-season-1-episode-14-the-fortuneteller-aunt/amp. In "The Fortunteller", Aunt Wu predicts that Katara witness the birth of her third great-grandchild before passing away. !”, One fun piece of info for those rewatching with us. I’ve been in the same shoes as Aang too—the unrequited love thing, not the world-savior or reincarnated chosen one thing—so I identify with his struggle, as I’m sure a lot of other people do (and not just the target audience for the show). 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In this episode… When the gang arrives at a village practically governed by the predictions of one Aunt Wu, Sokka refuses to be taken in. Sokka would get overly mad at other and kick a pebble on the ground, and then the pebble would bounce of from somewhere and hit his head. I mean, she did predict Katara would marry a powerful bender. She may have been wrong about the volcano, but she was right about Sokka. It should have! That’s a perfect solution and I never would have thought of that. I think Guru Pathik, Bumi (of Omashu) and the Avatars were the only freaks who lived very long. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, I have argued a thousand times in a thousand lifetimes. When Aunt Wu's cloud readings predicted the nearby volcano would not destroy the village, Katara and Aang accepted the reading, while the skeptical Sokka grew frustrated with the populace's blind faith in the fortuneteller. Archived . How possible is this? But what stands out as a unique and baffling moment in “The Fortuneteller” is when the heroes use magic to bend clouds into any shape they choose, proving that fortunetelling is a sham. Posted by 1 year ago. Discussion. This thread is archived. Sokka, on the other hand, was a miserable oaf who spent the episode disproving Aunt Wu. Aunt Wu was wrong,Katara should compla-Oh wait. Aunt Wu also predicted that Sokkas life would be plagued by self inflicted misery, so not sure why we would take her prophecies for granted. Why would anyone want their fortune told anyway? It certainly impresses Sokka, anyway, leading him to utter the line that sets up Katara’s newfound realization about Aang possibly being the person Aunt Wu was talking about, making for a nice ending for the episode. I suppose, then, that I shouldn’t complain about episodes like this, where the Aang gang is allowed to take a break, and the romantic subplots come to the fore. The creators are careful not to jump the shark with the Aang/Katara relationship, and watching the slow and delicate evolution is a rather pleasant aspect to the series. To withdraw your consent, see Your Choices. Kai and Jenora are about 13/14 by this point. As the resident shipper of the recappers, I will say that I got into this episode. He is also currently the fiction editor of Lightspeed Magazine, which launches in June 2010, and the co-host of Tor.com’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.