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.
With four nations all based around the elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, Air) and "benders," masters of their element able to control its very movement, and one Avatar, the master of all four, the show sets up an intriguing universe. 100 years before the beginning of this show, when the Avatar cycle came around to the Airbenders, a young boy named Aang became the Avatar. With the Fire Nation attacking the others, he at some point vanished, freezing himself into the sea until being discovered a century later by two siblings of a Water tribe, named Sokka and Katara. With Fire Prince Zuko and his Uncle Iroh in pursuit of the Avatar (Zuko doing so to regain lost honor), this sets up a truly unique premise of the show. Every character is fleshed out well, and while there are some growing pains and awkward moments it's a good beginning. The fun (the delightful penguin racing), humor ("Call me Gran-Gran"), and heart (Sokka and Katara's missing of their father away at war) are all in place and set up the show's premise and characters well. While the show would obviously achieve much more spectacular highs, this is a solid starting point for one of the greatest television shows ever made.
- hornsbyhavoc
- Aug 13, 2017
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Details
- Runtime23 minutes
- Color