The Boy in the Iceberg
- Episode aired Feb 21, 2005
- TV-Y7
- 23m
The legend of the Avatar is told. Katara and Sokka find a strange boy within an iceberg.The legend of the Avatar is told. Katara and Sokka find a strange boy within an iceberg.The legend of the Avatar is told. Katara and Sokka find a strange boy within an iceberg.
- Aang
- (voice)
- Katara
- (voice)
- Sokka
- (voice)
- (as Jack DeSena)
- Prince Zuko
- (voice)
- …
- Appa
- (voice)
- …
- Gran Gran
- (voice)
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBased on all the group shots, the Southern Water Tribe's village has a population of twenty two people who are not away due to the war: nine adults (all women), eleven children (six boys and five girls), and two teenagers (Sokka and Katara, of course). However, one of the six boys is missing when Katara introduces "the entire village" to Aang. There is also a single pet animal (confirmed to be a polar bear-dog in Legend of Korra) present in some shots.
- GoofsKatara tells Aang that the frozen Fire Nation battle ship in the ocean has haunted the Southern Water Tribe ever since Kanna (her grandmother) was a little girl. In Hama's flashback however (a character introduced in season 3), during a Fire Nation raid where she and other waterbenders froze said ship, Kanna is not a child but a young adult.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Katara: [voice-over] Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace, when the Avatar kept balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar mastered all four elements. Only he could stop the ruthless Firebenders. But, when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years have passed, and the Fire Nation is nearing victory in the war. Two years ago, my father and the men of my tribe journeyed to the Earth Kingdom to help fight against the Fire Nation, leaving me and my brother to look after our tribe. Some people believe that the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and that the cycle is broken, but I haven't lost hope. I still believe that somehow the Avatar will return to save the world.
So did the show start off well? The first episode is good enough to continue watching the show as a whole (and significantly better than The Great Divide) but despite being a good pilot, it's a weak episode (relatively speaking.)
The Good: It introduces Aang, Sokka, Katara, Zuko and Iroh, establishes the show's premise and semi-comedic tone and sets up the conflict of the second episode quite well.
The Bad: It's so devoted to character introductions that the story doesn't really take off until the scenes at the very end of the episode (which are admittedly quite good.)
So this episode is serviceable as an introduction to the series but nothing to write home about (especially given how great the rest of the show was). It's an underwhelming start to a great series.
- matitya-33937
- Feb 9, 2024
Details
- Runtime23 minutes
- Color