The explosive finish of season 1 of the live-action Avatar: The Final Airbender wasn’t only a visible feast, however arrange a complete lot of essential storylines for the upcoming second season. Not solely did we see Aang faucet into the immense energy of the spirits, however viewers have been additionally given a glimpse into the dastardly plans of Daniel Dae Kim’s unreasonably handsome Hearth Lord Ozai.
Viewers unfamiliar with the intensive lore of the present might need been left a bit of confused with what occurred, however fortunately Avatar nerds like us are very happy to develop into annoying males on first dates and clarify all the pieces in painstaking element.
Ozai’s dastardly plans and the return of Sozin’s comet
After watching the Northern Water Tribe handle to fend off a fireplace nation assault on the North Pole (with some assist from the Gaang and an indignant ocean spirit), and Princess Yue sacrificing her life to switch the moon spirit (I promise this all is smart within the present), viewers have been transported again to the Hearth Nation, the place we noticed the chisel-jawed Hearth Lord Ozai listening to information of the defeat.
The duplicitous and ruthless Hearth Lord didn’t appear too fussed in regards to the heavy losses he incurred, nor the truth that his exiled son Prince Zuko could have been amongst them. It was then revealed that the unlikely try and overthrow the Northern Water Tribe was truly a canopy, and the actual mission had been led by Princess Azula to lastly take the Kingdom of Omashu. This mirrored the very begin of the season, the place Ozai’s grandfather Sozin leaked plans of an assault on the Earth Kingdom in order that he would have a transparent run at massacring the Air Nomads.
We have been handled to victorious Azula addressing her military, which units us up properly for her being the primary season 2 villain. Ozai additionally talked about the Earth Kingdom capital of Ba Sing Se being the one metropolis left that isn’t underneath Hearth Nation management, which suggests we’re positive to see the magnificent walled metropolis in all its glory in season 2.
His point out of Zuko may very effectively result in a distinct function for the exiled prince and his companion, Uncle Iroh, than we noticed within the animated model. Within the cartoon authentic, season 2 noticed Iroh and Zuko go into hiding within the Earth Kingdom by pretending to be refugees, as Ozai felt the failure on the North Pole was on their shoulders, so he despatched Azula after them. Nonetheless, right here evidently Zuko and Iroh aren’t the Hearth Nation’s main goal. Nonetheless, it’s unlikely that storyline will change an excessive amount of, given how essential it’s to the remainder of the plot of the collection, in addition to a possible Zutara ship.
Nonetheless, all of this isn’t the primary factor to remove from the ending. That honor falls upon the truth that Ozai’s sages seem to have found out the right way to learn the celebs, and realized that Sozin’s Comet is about to return.
The comet, which in Avatar lore comes spherical each century, bestows an superior energy upon fireplace benders, a lot in the identical means that the complete moon offers water benders a better energy. When it final got here spherical Ozai’s grandfather Sozin used it to assault the Air Nation to nice impact, so there’s no telling what a bloodthirsty Ozai will do when it returns (effectively, there may be in the event you’ve watched the unique, and it’s not good for the remainder of the world).
Aang the water and earth bender
On a lighter be aware, the season additionally ended with the Gaang leaving the Northern Water Tribe in order that Aang might lastly start mastering the opposite parts, particularly water and earth. Katara seems set to be his waterbending grasp after she confirmed prodigious expertise, however who will train him earthbending is up within the air.
One candidate could have been King Bumi, however as we noticed he’s underneath lock and chain in a newly captured Omashu. If the group heads again there, they’re positive to should put up a combat. After which there’s the matter of discovering a firebending instructor in a world through which the Hearth Nation sees all outsiders as an enemy…