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All the Avatar fans on my flist-- go watch the new episode. Like now. It's great.

So much love for this episode. There was cool Zuko v. Aang fighting. I love their fights. When Aang is just doing airbending Zuko's an equal match, but if Aang were to really start throwing in some water and earth Zuko would be done for. Luckily, Aang doesn't think that far ahead.

I liked the bounty hunter, Jun. I liked how Iroh was being such a dirty old man to her. I loved the delivery of her line "So this is your girlfriend? No wonder she left. She's way too pretty for you." And I love how Zuko completely ignored her because he just completely ignores everything that's not relevent at the moment. On principal or something.

I liked the friend of their father, Bato. And yeah-- the sailing geek in me now is torn:

On the one hand, I want to worship the Avatar writers forever for including the phrase "Helm to lee!" (or as I've been taught to say it, "Helm's to lee!"). That's awesome and something the captain (person steering at the time) really does shout when you're about to tack [turn by crossing the bow in front of the wind.] But it's not an order of direction so much as a warning to everyone on the boat, so that the person holding the main sheet (on this boat, that would be Aang, and I'll get to that in the other hand) which is connected to the mainsail will release the sail and not get knocked overboard when it shifts across to the other side of the boat. It also warns everyone else to expect an imminent sharp turn so they don't fall overboard.

On the OTHER hand... dude. Sail names. The jib is the secondary sail in the bow of the boat. Katara had that one, not Aang. The mainsail is the sail in the middle of the boat, in front of the person at the tiller (Sokka), and Aang had that sail. Yes, the position does require trust because the mainsail is the most important sail. But it's not called the jib. The jib is the OTHER sail.

Still, I think I forgive them. Even if they mixed them up, at least they used actual sailing terms, instead of making something up.

All in all, good episode.

EDIT: But even with the fight, it's just not the same without ANBU!Zuko and his superior out-of-nowhere ninja skillz. I want more ANBU!Zuko.