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| "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" | |
|---|---|
| Avatar: The Terminal Airbender episode | |
 The episode'south title menu | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Ethan Spaulding |
| Written by | The Tale of Toph and Katara Joann Estoesta and Lisa Wahlander The Tale of Iroh Andrew Huebner The Tale of Aang Gary Scheppke The Tale of Sokka Lauren MacMullan The Tale of Zuko Katie Mattila The Tale of Momo Justin Ridge and Giancarlo Volpe |
| Product lawmaking | 215 |
| Original air engagement | September 29, 2006 (2006-09-29) |
"The Tales of Ba Sing Se" is the 15th episode of the second season of the animated goggle box series Avatar: The Last Airbender. It features half-dozen short vignettes of several master characters as they go about an boilerplate day in the World Kingdom city of Ba Sing Se. It serves equally a filler episode and does not focus on the main plot, except for the winged lemur Momo's tale.[1] "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" is a break from the previous dark, plot heavy episodes, and instead focuses on character development.
The get-go tale is of Katara and Toph, who spend a day at the spa. The sage, yet comedic Iroh's tale is next; he helps various residents of Ba Sing Se, before making a bawling tribute to his son, who died in combat trying to take the urban center of Ba Sing Se. Aang helps a zookeeper, though non without causing some trouble. Sokka inadvertently enters a Haiku contest. The generally brooding Zuko goes on a date. The last tale centers on Momo, who searches for Aang'southward lost pet skybison, Appa.
"The Tales of Ba Sing Se" received widespread critical acclaim, with reviewers considering information technology to be i of the serial' best episodes. The tale of Iroh has been especially well-reviewed, and is a fan favorite. The episode was defended to Iroh's voice actor Mako Iwamatsu, who died before the episode's airing.
Plot synopsis [edit]
The Tale of Toph and Katara [edit]
The story opens at the location of the protagonist's house in Ba Sing Se, the whole group cleaning themselves up for the 24-hour interval bated from Toph who has withal to wake upwardly. When Katara wakes her, Toph presents herself with messy hair and covered in dust, because herself ready. Katara suggests they accept a "Daughter'southward Day Out," and takes her to the Fancy Lady Day Spa. Toph agrees, as long as they don't bear on her feet. This asking is denied and Toph sends one of the attendants through the wall during a pedicure. The girls then have a mud bath where Toph uses her Earthbending to make creepy faces with the mud and scare away the attendant. The two then relax in a sauna, using their Bending to both feed the burn down and create the steam.
The girls leave the sauna now with make-upwardly on their faces. As they cross a bridge, three older girls make fun of Toph's brand-upward. Toph is upset by these remarks and Katara tries to urge her to ignore them. Toph, however, laughs back at the girls and and then Earthbends the rock of the bridge from under them, dropping them into the h2o. Katara finishes with her own departing shot by waterbending the girls downstream.
Katara tries to console Toph as they continue walking on. Toph claims that because she is blind, she does not have to worry so much about personal appearance or the blessing of others, the words of the girls still hurt her even so, and she sheds a few tears. Katara compliments that Toph is non only confident and self-assured, but also pretty. Toph proclaims she would like to return the compliment only has no idea what Katara looks like. Katara laughs at this and the story ends with Toph giving her a friendly punch on the arm.
The Tale of Iroh [edit]
While strolling through a market, Iroh stops and buys a few things at a street stand. Iroh purchases a picnic basket and when the possessor asks, Iroh claims that it is for a special occasion. He then aids the shopkeeper by helping a Moon Flower bloom by moving information technology closer to the shade. Standing his walk, he sees a pocket-size boy crying and his mother struggling to calm him. Iroh borrows a liuqin from a nearby shop and sings a song to the weeping child. The song tells the tale of a young soldier boy marching home from war. The boy stops crying equally Iroh sings to him and he then proceeds to thank Iroh by pulling his bristles and laughing.
In a small street alley, Iroh watches some boys play a form of soccer that employs Earthbending. When the ball gets repelled off a rock and crashes through a window, he tells them that it is always all-time to acknowledge to mistakes in order to restore honor. Nonetheless, the massive owner appears in the window, and Iroh retracts his comments and tells them to run. After running downward an aisle, he is threatened at knife-signal by a mugger. Unconcerned for his own rubber, Iroh tells the mugger that his stance makes him weak to attacks and proves it by knocking him downwards and stealing his dagger. Iroh demonstrates a proper stance, which the man mimics, and comments that the would-be mugger does not wait similar a criminal. The man admits that he is confused with his life right at present, and as a result has turned to crime. Iroh and the man share some tea as Iroh suggests that the human being would become a expert masseur. The homo, more than optimistic, comments that no i has ever believed in him, to which Iroh comments that help from others tin can be a bully approval. Iroh gave the same wisdom to Toph in the episode "The Hunt."
Iroh comes to rest upon a hill with a large tree. He sets upwards some rocks and pulls out materials from the handbasket he purchased earlier. The special occasion it was needed for was a memorial for the birthday of his deceased son, Lu X. Iroh places a cloth out upon the ground along with a moving-picture show of Lu Ten. He then lights 2 joss sticks with Firebending and places them in a holder. Iroh says happy birthday to the image, and expresses regret over having not been able to aid his son, as he had helped those he met along his way. Iroh so starts singing the vocal he had played earlier for the crying boy, though this time, it is broken upwardly by tears as Iroh mourns Lu Ten'due south absenteeism. A cartoon of Lu Ten, which is a portrait of young Mako Iwamatsu, comes into focus with Chinese writing on the side stating: "To General Iroh: Encounter you after nosotros win the war. Your loyal son, Lu X."
This segment of the episode ends with a dedication to Mako Iwamatsu, Iroh'southward voice role player, who died on July 21, 2006, after a battle with esophageal cancer.[2] [iii]
The Tale of Aang [edit]
Flying loftier over Ba Sing Se, Aang lands at a small zoo looking for Appa. Looking around, he sees a broad multifariousness of animals, all of whom are miserable in their small cages. Many of them are likewise partially starved and hungry. The Zookeeper tells Aang that the zoo is no longer receiving funding from the World Kingdom because it is no longer popular with the children. Still, in a cruel circle, nobody comes to the zoo because information technology does not receive the funding and is quite filthy (i of the cages shows an animal lying nearly multiple piles of carrion). The Keeper would like nothing more than than to let his animals run wild in open spaces. Aang suggests moving the animals outside to an open surface area just outside the metropolis.
The animals prove much more difficult to control than Aang originally idea and they end up running wild over the city, terrorizing the denizens. Hog-monkeys destroy a shop, various animals assail the citizens, and the Cabbage Merchant has his cabbages eaten past a Rabaroo. After trying to restore social club, Aang pulls out his Bison whistle and blows a huge burst of air through it using Airbending. He so hops on an air scooter as the animals run after him.
Meanwhile, the Zookeeper aimlessly tries to go the guards to open up the gate. They refuse until they see the oncoming stampede. Once the gates are open up, Aang reaches the other side and hops on his air scooter once again. Using Earthbending, he creates a wall around the animals. He continues to Earthbend paths, secluded areas, and habitat accessories. The children and their families come flocking to the new Zoo, and the Zookeeper cheers Aang for his help. The Zookeeper tells Aang he should accept a job with animals. Yet, the zoo animals weren't the just creatures that followed the audio of the whistle, equally many cats, dogs, and half cat-one-half-dogs are also inside the animal pens. Subsequently, the Zookeeper decides that Aang should stick to saving people.
The Tale of Sokka [edit]
In the peaceful urban center, Sokka is outside his element of war and battle. His boomerang has become a toy as he walks through the city. Sokka finds a haiku form full of pretty girls. While peeking through the window, enjoying the 'prove', he is shoved from behind by an ostrich horse and winds up inside. While explaining the accident to the girls he accidentally rhymes in haiku. The instructor becomes upset with the intrusion and disruption of the course. She is also disgusted with the common place bulletin his haiku presents and presents the rules of haiku to him in a much more formal tone. Sokka soon gets into a contest with the teacher, (which seems to parody a rap battle) both of whom speak only in haiku.
After each of Sokka'southward, the girls in the class break into giggling. Afterwards several bouts, with Sokka comically winning each one, he eventually messes up and adds an extra syllable to the terminal line, causing the grade to become silent and hard faced. After counting the syllables and realizing his grave error, Sokka is ejected from the room by a very large guard into the street. Sokka inverse his mind about liking poetry in the end.
The Tale of Zuko [edit]
Working at the teahouse, Zuko is worried that a young girl has fabricated him out equally being from the Burn Nation. When he tells Iroh about it, Iroh realizes that the girl, Jin, simply has a crush on Zuko. This is quickly proven right when Jin comes to the counter and asks him out afterwards paying. Iroh quickly accepts on his nephew'due south behalf. They meet after sundown outside the shop.
Zuko leaves the store, polished in overnice apparel and slicked hair that took Iroh x minutes to fashion. Jin, however, messes up the hair before they exit. Zuko, not used to something as mundane every bit a date, is more than a little nervous, and makes a few missteps, only Jin seems to take it in step. Such an case is when a waiter comes up and asks if Zuko's 'girlfriend' would like annihilation, he shouts, 'she is not my girlfriend!' causing Jin to start gobbling her food with haste. She asks Zuko near his life, which causes Zuko to make upward a story that he and Iroh were role of a traveling circus before they came to Ba Sing Se. Jin asks him what he performed as, but she stops him, considering she wanted to guess. When Jin guesses "juggling," Zuko flows with it. With encouragement from Jin, Zuko demonstrates and gets himself covered in food challenge a lack of practice equally the problem. Jin pulls Zuko off to one of her favorite parts of the city, the Firelight Fountain. At dark, the fountain is usually lit past lanterns which cause the h2o to sparkle. Only when they go there, the lanterns are nighttime and unlit. Sensing her disappointment, Zuko tells Jin to shut her eyes. Then, making sure no i else is around to sentinel, he quietly lights all the lanterns with his Firebending. Jin and Zuko stare into the fountain and Jin reaches out and holds Zuko's hand. Slyly, Jin tries to give Zuko a osculation, but as she tries, Zuko holds up a coupon for a costless tea between them and gives it to her. Awestruck, she tells Zuko to close his eyes so she could present her gift to him. She and then kisses him lightly and briefly. Zuko kisses her in return, but quickly breaks abroad and leaves. When Jin asks him what was wrong, he only says that it's complicated and continues to leave.
Zuko returns to his flat. Ignoring Iroh'south questions regarding the appointment, he disappears into his room. Iroh looks disappointed until Zuko opens his door and says, "Information technology was nice," before sliding his door shut.
The Tale of Momo [edit]
Momo dreams about eating a peach from a tree in the clouds with Appa, but wakes upwards when he is startled past a loud rumbling of thunder. He leaps into Sokka'due south bag and comes up with a tuft of white fur on his head. Smelling it, Momo realizes that the fur is Appa's. Seeing an Appa-like shadow on the ground, he wraps the fur around his wrist and takes off later on it, but to notice a solitary deject. A similar sighting merely turns out to exist a scarlet tree.
Disappointed, Momo decides to continue searching the city for Appa. Unfortunately, he soon draws the attention of a trio of Pygmy Pumas, which run into him equally a potential repast. Momo tries to escape, but the cats work together to try to bring him downwardly. Momo manages to come across a crowd of people, but he is quickly grabbed by a man, fitted with a hat, and set out with a pair of dancing monkeys. He performs some weird new-age techno sort of dance to a flying lemur theme-vocal remix. The cats chase him out of the crowd and pin him to the ground, simply all four of the animals all of a sudden observe themselves captured.
They are brought to a butcher and the man that captured them begins haggling with the possessor. Momo frees himself using his opposable thumbs and starts to run off. However, upon seeing the three pumas saddened by their fate, he frees them from their cages and all four run off on the rooftops. Every bit they sit on a roof, one of the pumas removes the fur tied to Momo to lure him to follow them and the 3 run off downwardly an aisle. The cats end and identify the fur in a large iii-toed footprint that appears to be Appa'due south. Momo lands in the print and notices the shape. He curls on tiptop of the tuft of fur as rain starts to autumn.
Momo'south tale is the only ane that focuses on advancing the primary plot of the serial, through his search for Appa.[i]
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Guest stars [edit]
- The scene in which Iroh speaks with the Earthbending children about their soccer accident is voiced by Greg Baldwin, who went on to replace Mako as the voice Iroh in Book 3.
Translations [edit]
- The characters before each story'south start read, in order, '卡塔拉與托夫的故事' (Katara and Toph's story), '安昂的故事' (Aang's story), '索卡的故事' (Sokka'south story), '艾洛的故事' (Iroh's story), '蘇科的故事' (Zuko's story), and '模模的故事' (Momo's story). For Katara and Toph, the English version is written as "The story of Toph and Katara," only the Chinese translation put Katara'south name (卡塔拉) earlier Toph'southward (托夫).
- The sign on the spa which Katara and Toph visit reads"貴婦美容院", which translates as "Noble Lady's Beauty Parlor".
- The Chinese characters on Lu Ten'due south picture (艾洛将軍得勝再見忠心的兒子路騰), when read in the traditional right and vertical way, roughly translate as "Full general Iroh, I will see you once more when victory is obtained. Your loyal son, Lu 10." '路騰' ( Lù Téng ) means "road to gallop over."
- The sign in front of the zoo Aang visits reads '快樂動物園', which translates every bit "Joyous Zoo".
- The sign exterior of the hall in "The Tale of Sokka" reads '五七五會社', which translates as "Five-7-Five Order".
- In "The Desert", Zuko's proper name was listed on a Fire Nation wanted poster in Chinese as "祖寇" (zǔ kòu) which translate equally 'antecedent robber.' Here, his proper name is written as "蘇科" (sū kè) on his segment's championship card which interpret equally 'resurrect dominion.' The differentiation in writing can be attributed that the former considers him a traitor to his people, aka 'ancestor robber,' while the latter seems to a possible foreshadowing of Zuko'south coronation, aka 'resurrect dominion.' The character 蘇 (sū) is also used in Fire Lord Sozin'due south name.
Reception [edit]
"The Tales of Ba Sing Se" received widespread acclaim, with "The Tale of Iroh" beingness particularly highlighted, and is considered by critics and fans alike to be one of the best episodes of Avatar.[iv] [5] [6]
The Mary Sue described the episode every bit highly emotional.[i]
The Daily Dot reviewed information technology as the "all-time episode of Avatar", noting that it is a much-needed break in an otherwise dark period of the series. The episode falls in the middle of the protagonist'southward search for the skybison Appa, and provided character building in a lighter atmosphere. The Daily Dot picked Zuko, Momo, and Iroh's tales as the best, noting that Iroh'south was "especially memorable". Iroh is often a comedic relief to the brooding Zuko, but the Daily Dot noted this episode provides another, more emotional side of Iroh. The episode besides explains why Iroh is going to such great lengths to try to save his nephew Zuko, so that he will not die in war like his son did.[vii]
CBR noted that "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" was an example of the neat filler episodes in Avatar, and a divergence from the generally bland filler episodes in many television set shows. CBR especially praised Iroh's tribute to his son as an instance of Avatar 'due south character edifice, and described information technology as "the most touching and memorable tale".[8]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c "Avatar: The Terminal Airbender Newbie Recap: "The Tales of Ba Sing Se"". themarysue.com . Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ^ Managing director: Ethan Spaulding; Writers: Joann Estoesta, Lisa Wahlander, Andrew Huebner, Gary Scheppke, Lauren MacMullan, Katie Mattila, Justin Ridge, Giancarlo Volpe (September 29, 2006). "Tales of Ba Sing Se". Avatar: The Terminal Airbender. Season 2. Episode 15. Nickelodeon.
- ^ "Mako, 72, Histrion Who Extended Asian-American Roles, Dies". The New York Times. July 25, 2006. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
- ^ "The Best 'Avatar' Episode to Try Out If Yous've Never Seen 'Avatar'". Observer. May 15, 2020. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ^ "The xv Best 'Avatar The Final Airbender' Episodes, Ranked". /Flick. May 15, 2020. Retrieved July xvi, 2020.
- ^ Avatar: The Last Airbender - "Tales of Ba Sing Se" Flashback Review - IGN , retrieved July xvi, 2020
- ^ "Revisiting the best episode of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'". The Daily Dot. May xix, 2020. Retrieved July sixteen, 2020.
- ^ "Avatar: The Last Airbender Perfected the Filler Episode". CBR. July 10, 2020. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
External links [edit]
- The Tales of Ba Sing Se at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tales_of_Ba_Sing_Se
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