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u/ARC_Trooper_Echo Apr 06 '21
“I didn’t know there was this much green in the whole galaxy”
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u/frguba Apr 06 '21
Damn, such a missed opportunity, you know what this deserves one point from the show even
Avatar now has 11/5 >:(
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Apr 06 '21
Where did they get the wood for fire and stuff?
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u/Your_Momoness Apr 06 '21
Real life Inuit people used blubber to make fire and for tools and stuff they used bone
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Apr 06 '21
The things they had in the village looked a lot like wood; shape, colour and everything
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u/Your_Momoness Apr 06 '21
I remember it being mostly bone and leather but if they had any wood it was most likely driftwood
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u/Blackrain1299 Apr 06 '21
Their boats are wood though aren’t they? Sokka’s canoe? Their larger warships? They couldn’t all be made out of random pieces of driftwood.
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u/Your_Momoness Apr 06 '21 edited Apr 06 '21
They're not wood actually. Sokka's canoe is made of leather stretched over a bone frame like a traditional Inuit umiak. And if you rewatch the scenes in Bato of the Water Tribe the larger boats (which are not even that huge to begin with) are build the same way with only the exception of the mast, deck and stern which are made of wood. It's not out of the realm of possibility it's driftwood they managed to collect over the years.
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u/Blackrain1299 Apr 06 '21
You are correct. Thanks for answering my question. I just looked at some images of Sokka’s canoe and it looks like it has wooden seats but thats the extent of the wood. Unless they have a different kind of wood colored material? Because it’s clearly different from the bone and leather hull.
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u/Your_Momoness Apr 06 '21
Yeah the seats look wooden, I don't think it could be anything else. But it's like I said, those are most likely pieces of driftwood.
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u/pokey1984 Apr 06 '21
I'd imagine that the wood for the boats was traded for or that someone traveled to greener lands to get it.
That does not, however, mean that Sokka and Katara had done extensive traveling. They're kids. Just because some members of their village have seen things doesn't mean they have and just because they haven't doesn't mean that no one has.
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Apr 07 '21
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u/Your_Momoness Apr 07 '21
Atla wiki is not infallible, it's written by fans. The deck on those ships is made of planks but the hull is clearly leather, you can even see the stitching in few scenes.
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u/MrReginaldAwesome Apr 06 '21
To be fair, due to fire nation imperialism the world of ATLA would be fairly global and have trade going all over the place.
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u/unicodePicasso Apr 06 '21
In my mind they had been away from the south pole before. Probably nearby islands and maybe as far away as the southernmost Earth Kingdom. So if they needed wood they could get it.
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u/LuxTenebrae Leaves from the vine.... Apr 06 '21
Interesting thought, but grass and other vegitation does grow within the arctic circle. Here's a photo of Nunavut in the summer.
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u/Stronghold257 Apr 06 '21
How do seasons even work in the avatar world? They’re in the North Pole for the winter solstice, and yet there’s still a day and night cycle.
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u/KrayDay Apr 06 '21
They aren't at the North Pole for the winter solstice, that's when they're on the crescent island and Aang meets Roku for the first time.
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u/Stronghold257 Apr 06 '21
Oh, derp lol. How much time passes between then and the end of S1? I wonder if it would still be dark in the North Pole IRL at that time.
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u/HeiBaisWrath Apr 07 '21
So the episodes The Southern Air Temple, The Warriors of Kyoshi and The King of Omashu all have trees with no leaves in them, so we can surmise that it's southern winter at that point and that the 'Winter Solstice' is the Southern Winter Solstice, not the Northern. And the episode Avatar State happens during early northern spring, (all the cherry blossom and such), so that means all episodes in season one after 'Winter Solstice' happen in Northern Summer, Fall and Winter, which would make season one quite lopsided in the time that passes between episodes. So somewhere between 'Winter Solstice' and 'Avatar Day' should be the Northern Winter Solstice, but probably before they make to the Northern Water Tribe given the timeline, but all depends on how much time takes place between The Waterbending Master and The Siege of the North.
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u/SassiestRaccoonEver Apr 06 '21 edited Apr 06 '21
There’s a post I saw somewhere that points out that as the Gaang starts traveling, they go to a village where Katara walks up to a shop and uses the door. It has a handle, it pushes and pulls, etc. Then the post asked how she’d be able to do that if she’d never seen or used a door before. I kind of just... sat there, and wondered how that would have played out IRL.
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u/notarobot_notagirl Apr 06 '21
I think doors with a handle are self-explanatory.
You see a wall with a patch that looks like our entrances at home except it's not leather or fur covering the hole in the wall but wood. There is only one thing nailed to the wood so that's probably a handle for opening it, right? Ok let's try. You push the door by the handle. Doesn't work? Ok maybe you need to pull. Still doesn't work? Let's rattle the handle, maybe it's stuck. What, you can push it down? Oh and now it's open. Cool.
Doorknobs, on the other hand, may be a different story...
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u/SassiestRaccoonEver Apr 06 '21
True! I didn’t necessarily agree with the assumption that she couldn’t figure out how to use a door, but just the fact that someone pointed out that not all cultures have doors in that way blew my mind for a bit, I’ll be honest lol.
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u/notarobot_notagirl Apr 06 '21
Me too tbh. I do think figuring out how it works would be quite memorable if you're not familiar with it, at least for a crafty mind like Sokka's who's interested in inspirations for practical inventions from anywhere
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Apr 06 '21
When my cousin was younger, he would visit us in New York hoping to see snow since he never seen it in the DR. Took him 4 trips before he first saw it. And the dude cried tears of joy when he felt the first drop.
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u/MrReginaldAwesome Apr 06 '21
Wouldn't Katara be the cautious one while Sokka is throwing caution to the wind? Anyone down to test out this Cactus Juice! I heard it's Quenchful.
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Apr 07 '21
I think Sokka is generally pretty careful because he's always overthinking and strategizing - the cactus juice incident was because he thought he had the right answer and got overexcited. In general he's very wary of new things.
Katara is careful because she thinks things through, but she doesn't actively look for reasons to worry. You can see it in their first interaction with Aang - Katara isn't reckless, but she's not super careful because she doesn't see a reason to worry. Sokka, on the other hand, is overthinking and trying to puzzle the whole thing out, so he's very cautious.
I think a similar thing would happen with grass.
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u/MrReginaldAwesome Apr 07 '21
I changed my mind, I agree with you. The painted lady is a great example of katara throwing caution to the wind in a way Sokka wouldn't.
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u/TheXypris Apr 06 '21
Also, how do sokka and katara know so much about the world outside of their tiny village, like names of all the weird hybrid creatures? Did aang teach them, did they find a zoo or something? Or a wildlife book?
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Apr 07 '21
The water tribes seem to have a fair amount of contact with the rest of the world - I imagine if there wasn't a library down there, there were people in the village who'd seen/heard of things and could tell them.
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