Another Airbnder restores Western classic

It is difficult to find a more loved TV series “Avatar: The Last Airbinder”. Unlike some Vandum there, the “Avatar” audience lives in the common love of the show – although it is harmonious, such as water, land, fire, and air. There are 61 “Avatar” episodes divided through three seasons (or “books”). From these, season 2 “Zuko alone” is often distinguished as one of the best, if not the better, From the entire offer. “Avatar”, “Korra Legend” until she followed a spiritual follow -up: “Korra alone”. The exile prince was presented to The Fire Nation, Zuko (Dante Basco) in the first season (Zach Tyler Eceen). In the second season, Zoku falls even minimumLosing even the small resources he had previously. He has to put his picture on the avatar on stopping because the nation of fire hunts for him also.

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“Zuko alone” (directed by Lauren McM McMoula, which was written by Elizabeth Walsh) is an independent and one episode Not possible skip. It is a pivotal matter for Zoko’s past and future. According to her name, he is the only main character that appears. Team Avatar no shows, Zuko had separated from ways with his uncle IROH (Mako) in a previous episode, “Avatar Day”.

Traveling alone on the ostrich hormone, Zuko comes to the village of the small kingdom of the earth. He saves a boy named Lee (Ruby Bruce) from a gang of soldiers who create the city. This gives him an invitation to the Li Family Farm, where Zoko remains and reflects his past. The episode confirms how Zuko is a good person in his essence, but also scars Through his violent culture and his abusive family.

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If Zuko’s story looks familiar, then it must, as it leads to the rehabilitation of the Western “Shen” of 1953. In the 1980s of the nineteenth century and Wyoming, the firearms fighter (Alan Lad) is looking for a new life as a farm of a farm for the local Starit family. Local property, though, opposes Shane to choose his reserve weapon. In “Shin”, Little Joy Starrett (Brandon Diwelde) admires Shin more than his father does, in the same way that Li Zoko admires. In both stories, this is not a friendship made.

“The Last Airbnder” similar to building the world on the culture of Southeast Asia (Various bending patterns depend on true martial artsFor example). Creators’ love of anime and wuxia films leaks through each framework. But “Avatar” He is An American series, full of American cultural references. “The Chase,” the next episode “Zuko alone,” is characterized by an uncompromising pursuit directly from the different Western classics: “Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.”

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“Zuko alone”, however, there is no doubt that the “Avatar” episode resembles the western image. The episode opens with Zuko riding a horse across meadow like the only cowboy. Even the straw hat indicates a cowboy hat. Then the last snapshot of the loop is Zuko, again on horseback, riding it and turned into a silhouette by sunset. Between that, Zoku faces the gang of the Kingdom of the Earth in the middle street of the city – the original model of a Western match, even if Zoku is fighting with swords, not guns.

Now, there is a big structural difference between “Zuko alone” and “Shin”. Previous discounts between the present and the panic to the childhood of Zoko. Shin has no such memories, or even the exhibition, when Shane did in the previous days. we no Learn the Shane’s past, while the episode revolves around the exploration of Zuko. For me and other villagers, Zoko is a mysterious man like Shin, but the audience knows differently.

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What unites the stories again is similar topics about violence and how they are transferred. Before leaving the Li family, Zoko gives the boy a knife. An inscribed “never give up without a fight,” Zoku carried the knife as a reminder of his determination. But after leaving, he tries to use the knife to fight some soldiers and kidnapped. Zoko returns to save me, is he cleaning his mistake.

Throughout “Shen”, Shen warned of Joy, who liked it too much. After (what appears to be the old) again to rid the valley of some black hats, he leaves Shen, and his last words to Joy a warning: “There is no living with killing. There is no return from one. Right or wrong, it is a brand.

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In the movie “Zuko alone”, Zoko reveals himself and himself in a moment of pride in his victory. This fact makes the town’s residents, including me, rejects it. He was riding as Shin did, but I did not plead until he returned. Zoko still does the best of his power and which was, like Shin, is to leave and take violence with him. The people of Zuko are the ones who started the cycle of violence; Unlike Shin (who may die or not die when the credits are rolled), Zoku still has enough time to become a better man, and he ultimately does so. His experience with Lee was a small step on that journey that became big.

The legacy of “Shin” is waving on the horizon. Clint Eastwood was almost almost made in 1985 as a “pale passenger”. You can also see its effect on “unwanted” in Eastwood. Compare Shin’s recent words with William Money (Eastwood), saying: “He is a hell for something that kills a man.”

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James Manguld “Logan” Huj Jackman and Wolfirin in 2017 sent a story designed after “Shin”. (Logan Watch “Shane and then associated with them.)