Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV Series) The Northern Air Temple (2005) User Reviews

"Did those firebenders just... die?"

[poseyfan · 7/10 · 5 July 2022]

"You know it was really unclear!" When Aang knocks the avalanche off the cliff it's hard to believe those people lived lol. Aang has this no kill rule, so they probably survived, but it's inconclusive lol.

This has never been my favorite episode but it's aight.

Decent but forgettable

[matitya-33937 · 7/10 · 13 February 2024]

I love the revelation that Sokka's a technical genius, it shows that he's not simply someone who scorns magic but a man of science (like he claimed to be in the fortune teller.) Building him up as a strategist also made a lot of sense given his role as Aang and Katara's protector makes a less sense the more skilled and powerful the two of them grow. And the fact that they defeat the Firebenders by triggering an explosion which wipes out huge numbers of tanks works for me because it means that the show can acknowledge that it's sometimes necessary for the good guys to kill their antagonists.

I like Teo as a new character. The Mechanist is an honestly annoying character and I don't blame Aang for being so angry throughout the episode though I do like The Mechanist's Wernher von Braun style character arc.

The comedy in the episode is pretty funny and there are some neat action scenes. While "this defeat is the key to many victories" was nice ominous foreshadowing. So this episode is good but it isn't great (at the very least in comparison to other episodes of the show.)

My least favourite episode

[ionutcosmin-10252 · 3/10 · 13 February 2023]

The great divide is probably objectively worse, but that is basicaly a filler episode. This episode is a key episode in the overarching story and introduces many reocurring characteres.

In this episode Aang visits an airbender temple but discovers it is now populated by refugees from the earth kindom. The earth nation people don't have any respect for the air temple and destroy heritage that must be millenia old and Aang just accepts them becaus they use some gliders and are poor refugees.

Also, in this episode, Aang and the people on his side do things that would lead to fire nation soldiers dying and that I can't suspend my disbelief for. I can accept that they can take some bending to the face and be fine, but I can't accept people inside tanks being blown up and falling off mountain tops and being fine. None of this would be a problem, but considering the how the show ends, it just makes Aang a hypocite.