After a Big Storm Two Brothers Get Separated and Then They Find Each Other Again

This article is about the episode. For the location, see Corking Divide.

"Harsh words won't solve problems; action will."

— Aang trying to settle a feud.

"The Great Dissever" is the 11th episode of Volume One: Water of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the 11th of the overall series. It debuted on May 20, 2005.

Contents

• 1 Overview
• 2 Synopsis
• three Credits
• iv Product notes
  • 4.1 Transcript
  • four.2 Avatar Extras
  • four.iii Goofs
  • 4.four Trivia
• 5 References

Overview

The gang arrives at the Peachy Separate, the world's largest canyon. Two Globe Kingdom tribes bicker with each other about how to cantankerous the coulee, having been enemies for a century. Aang helps them cross the canyon together and is able to stop the feud past fabricating a story about their ancestors.

Synopsis

Aang tries to mediate the tension between Katara and Sokka by telling them that action volition solve their issues instead of harsh words.

Katara and Sokka are arguing over how to set up their military camp, with Aang catastrophe the fight and gloating almost his ability to solve issues as the Avatar. Before long afterwards, they travel to the Great Dissever, the largest canyon in the entire world. While Katara expresses awe at seeing the yawning chasm before them, Sokka is bored past the sight, viewing it every bit somewhat lackluster, and expresses his intent to fly over it on Appa. Before they can leave, however, a human being runs up to them and warns them not to get out with a guide to cross the coulee because he was there first. The man angrily says to the squad that he is holding a spot for the residue of his tribe, the Gan Jin, until they arrive. While waiting, the Zhang tribe arrives, whom the homo claims has been an enemy of his tribe for a hundred years. The 2 tribes' differences are immediately visible: while the Gan Jin tribe appears cracking, well-mannered, and clean, dressed in clothes of white material, the Zhang tribe seems unkempt, aggressive, and archaic, dressed in garments fabricated from beast skins. The earthbending canyon guide afterward arrives, prompting both tribes to brainstorm arguing over which should be escorted first: the Zhangs claim that some of their members are ill, while the Gan Jins affirm that their elderly are weary from their travel. As the ii tribes bicker, Katara wonders if Aang is ready to examination his role every bit a mediator. Despite Aang's reservations well-nigh his possible success, Katara alerts the tribes of Aang'due south status as the Avatar, giving him the chance to propose that they all travel together. When the tribes dismiss the suggestion and resume their argument, Aang ends the exact fight by shouting over the chaos that Appa will deport their sick and elderly while the two tribes cross the canyon together, conditions to which both tribes agree.

The coulee guide is rendered unable to earthbend after a canyon crawler broke both his arms.

The canyon guide warns them not to take any food into the canyon, every bit food attracts dangerous predators in the canyon. The two tribes, the gang, and the guide brainstorm their descent to the canyon floor. Afterwards the guide breaks a rock shelf so that potential Fire Nation soldiers cannot follow them, a canyon crawler assaults them. Aang and his friends fend it off, but not before information technology attacks the guide, breaking both of his arms and rendering him unable to earthbend. With no other earthbenders in either of the groups, Aang realizes that they are now imprisoned in the coulee. Both tribes begin to fence over again and finally make up one's mind to split upward. As the tribes each arraign the other for the assail, Aang furiously orders them to separate and travel in two separate groups. As they dissever, Aang, curious as to why the two factions concord such animosity toward each other, asks Katara and Sokka to accompany the Gan Jins and the Zhangs, respectively, and try to notice the reason for their feud.

That dark, both sides, unaware of the conversation of the other group, discuss the employ of tarps; while the Zhangs feel it unnecessary to use them as rain protection during the dry out season, the Gan Jins dutifully hang the tarps over their tents anyway, reasoning you could never be as well careful. Their respective opinions cause Katara and Sokka to sympathize with the groups they are accompanying. Also effectually the same time, both tribes reveal that they brought food into the coulee against the orders of the guide, justifying their actions by stating that they should not become hungry while the other tribe, which they both believe to have brought food with them, eats. Both tribes soon tell their guests their version of the story behind their feud.

According to the Gan Jins, Jin Wei was ambushed and robbed by Wei Jin, a Zhang.

The Gan Jins tell Katara of their tribal forefather, an earthbender named Jin Wei, who was tasked with the job of taking the sacred crystal orb from a gate in the east to a gate in the west as part of a redemption ritual. They claim that, as he neared the western gate, Jin Wei was assaulted past a thief, a Zhang named Wei Jin, who stole the orb out of greed. The Zhangs, on the other manus, tell Sokka that their antecedent, Wei Jin, found Jin Wei passed out on the basis well-nigh the western gate. Wei Jin stopped to aid the man and was told most the redemption ritual and the orb'due south importance. Rejecting assistance, Jin Wei asked Wei Jin to take the orb dorsum to his tribe, which Wei Jin did. Upon arriving at the Gan Jin's village, however, Jin Wei'southward tribe arrested him for stealing the orb and imprisoned him for twenty years. Both sides merits that they will never forget the terrible injustice dealt to them by the other.

Aang spends the night with Momo and the guide, away from the tribes. When Aang sadly states that getting the 2 factions to cooperate is nigh impossible and that the nigh important event before them is escaping the canyon, the guide wonders if the two problems are connected.

Cornered by coulee crawlers, the Gan Jins and Zhangs work together to save everyone.

The next day, the two tribes reunite and reach the end of the coulee. When Aang asks Katara and Sokka if the tribes might work together at all, the siblings begin to contend, both siding with their assigned tribe. The tribes themselves also begin arguing again and when Aang tries to pacify them with his belief that "harsh words won't solve problems, action will". Realizing that the Avatar may be correct, the tribal leaders prepare to fight to the expiry in gild to end the feud. Aang, angry, uses airbending to carve up them; as the people tumble astern, the food they carried with them is discovered. Not believing what he is seeing, Aang scolds the tribes for disobeying the canyon guide's warning not to bring food, but is speedily distracted by an egg custard tart since he has non eaten in a day. As he speaks, a horde of canyon crawlers, attracted to the abundance of food, approach the refugees. Later an initial skirmish with the beasts, Aang realizes that the crawlers want the food more than they want to attack the tribes and convinces the tribes to cooperate; by working together and throwing bags over the crawlers' heads, anybody is able to mount the beasts and, guiding them with food, ride them up the wall and out of the canyon.

The Gan Jin and the Zhang tribes resolve their dispute thanks to Aang'south lie.

Prophylactic and out of danger, the two tribes compliment each other's ability to take on the crawlers merely afterwards pick upwards their feud right where they left off and are on the verge of a physical altercation when Aang, upon hearing the names of the two tribes' ancestors for the first fourth dimension, suddenly pipes upward that he knew the two men personally long ago. He begins to tell everyone that he had met them a hundred years prior, though notes that a lot of confusion rose in regards to the details of the story. The men had not been enemies, just eight-year-old twin brothers, who played a game called "Redemption", clarifying that the sacred orb was simply a regular ball they played with and the gates the corresponding goals. As Jin Wei was running with the ball, he cruel, fumbling the brawl in the process; Wei Jin recovered it and started running to the other end of the field, though stepped out of bounds and was put in the penalty box for two minutes, not 20 years. He concludes his story by pointing out that while Wei Jin was "kind of a slob" and Jin Wei was "a little stuffy", they respected each other's differences enough to share the aforementioned playing field. Convinced by Aang'southward tale, the tribes make amends and continue their journeying to Ba Sing Se, the Globe Kingdom capital, as i tribe, followed by the guide, who expresses his intention to never again render to the Not bad Divide.

As the tribes depart, Sokka tells Aang how convenient it was that he knew the twins. To Katara and Sokka's shock, however, Aang reveals that the story was a complete fabrication. Still hungry, he asks where the egg custard tart is, every bit they make their way to Appa in society to proceed their journey.

Credits

• Written past:
  • John O'Bryan

• Directed past:
  • Giancarlo Volpe

• Starring:
  • Zach Tyler Eisen - Aang
  • Mae Whitman - Katara
  • Jack DeSena - Sokka
  • Dee Bradley Baker:
    • Appa
    • Momo

• Also starring:
  • Roberta Farkas - Zhang leader
  • Rene Auberjonois - Gan Jin leader
  • Leonard Stone - Coulee guide
  • Scott Menville - Sentry

• Additional voices:
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Dee Bradley Baker
  • Roberta Farkas
  • Scott Menville
  • Leonard Stone
  • Mae Whitman

Production notes

Transcript

Main commodity: Transcript:The Great Dissever

Main article: Avatar Extras for Book Ane: Water

Goofs

• When the coulee guide gets attacked by the canyon crawler, the canyon crawler picks him upward using its leg, only in the next scene it is holding him with its oral fissure.

Trivia

• In the real globe, the "Great Divide" virtually ordinarily refers to the Atlantic/Pacific continental divide, a mountainous ridge that separates the watersheds that drain into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The "Peachy Divide" of the Earth of Avatar is the exact opposite—a canyon analogous to the real-world Grand Canyon.
• When the coulee guide'due south arms are broken past a coulee crawler, he states that he can no longer bend., which is significantly different to other earthbending styles seen in later episodes. Toph Beifong, on many occasions, uses but her legs, likewise as Bumi notoriously earthbending with just his head. In add-on, the earthbender in the opening sequence is seen performing the art with only his legs.
• This episode was unpopular with fans due to its relatively insignificant plot and is the everyman rated episode on IMDb.^[1] This fact did not go unnoticed past the creators and in the play in the episode "The Ember Isle Players", the characters chose to wing right over the canyon without stopping, highlighting the inconsequential nature of the episode's events. Avatar Extras references it by saying, "This references an episode called 'The Great Carve up'", immediately followed past, "That episode was non a fan favorite."
  • Additionally, in the third episode of the podcast Avatar: Braving the Elements, Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino admitted that the episode was terrible and that they were not happy with it.^[2]
• According to Giancarlo Volpe, the episode contains several art styles, some of which were inspired past Vampire Hunter D and Dead Leaves.^[3]
• The episode title refers not just to the geographical feature, merely also to the great divide that has grown between the two tribes and the literal pregnant of Wei Jin's name.
• This is the outset episode in the series to not be seen again in "Previously on Avatar ..." The others are "The Fortuneteller", "The Northern Air Temple", "The Painted Lady", and "The Puppetmaster".
• On the old Nick website, the episode was incorrectly titled as "Bitter Work".
• This is the only instance in the unabridged Avatar franchise in which "earth spirits" are referenced.

References

1. ↑ Episodes Rated by IMDb User Rating. IMDb.
2. ↑ Basco, Dante (host), Varney, Janet (host), DiMartino, Michael Dante (invitee host), Konietzko, Bryan (guest host). (June 29, 2021). "Origin Stories with Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko Pt. 2". Avatar: Braving the Elements. Episode 3. iHeartRadio.
3. ↑ Basco, Dante (host), Varney, Janet (host), Volpe, Giancarlo (invitee host). (February 22, 2022). "Meet the Manager: Giancarlo Volpe". Avatar: Braving the Elements. Episode 38. iHeartRadio.

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