It is difficult to find a more beloved TV series than "Avatar: the last air traffic". Unlike some phandomes there, the audience Avatar lives in joint worship on the show - just as harmonious as the four nations of water, land, fire and air they once were. There are 61 episodes "Avatar" divided through three seasons (or "books"). Of them season 2 "Zuko alone" often stands out as one of the best, if you do the best, on the whole show. "Avatar" sequel "Legend of Cora" even made a spiritual monitoring: "Only Peel". The exiled prince of the fiery nation, Zuko (Dante Basco), is introduced in the season 1 hunt Avatar Aang (Zack Tyler Eisen). In Season 2, Zuko falls evenly lowerLosing even the weak resources he had previously had. He must put his hunt on the avatar on a break because the fire nation hunting him Also.

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"Zuko Sam" (directed by Lauren McMulan, written by Elizabeth Welch) is both an independent episode and the one who can't to skip. It is crucial to Zuko's past and future. True to his name, he is the only main character that appears. The Avatar team is not a play, and Zuko split in ways with his uncle Ioo (Mako) in the previous episode, "Avatar Day".

Traveling alone on ostrich-hins, Zuko comes to a small village of the kingdom. He saves a boy named Lee (Robbie Bruce) from a gang of soldiers who extort the city. It earns an invitation to Lee's family's farm, where Zuko remains and is thinking about his past. The episode emphasizes how Zuko is a good person in his core but also scars from its violent culture and forcibly family.

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If Zuko's story sounds known, he should, because he returns to the western Jane since 1953. Set up in the 1880s Wyoming, the titular pistol (Alan Lad) is looking for a new life as a farmer's farmer Egg. However, disputes with local property are forcing Jane to collect his gun. In "Jane", little Eyoi Eggi (Brandon Devilde) admires Jane more than his father does, in the same way as Zuko admires. In both stories, this is not a friendship done to last.

"Avatar: The last Airbender" modeled its world -class culture in Southeast Asia (Different bending styles are based on true military skillsfor example). The creators' loveee to the Anime and Wuxia movies breaks through every frame of the show. But the Avatar is American series, and filled with American cultural references. "Chase", the episode of "Zuko Sam", has a relentless search for a different western classic: "Butch Cassidi and Sandans Child".

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"Zuko Sam", however, is no doubt the episode "Avatar" which is mostly as a western picture. The episode opens by driving a horse through a prairie like a lonely cowboy. His straw cap even suggests a cowboy hat. Then the last shot of the episode is Zuko, again on horses, driving and turning into a silhouette beside the sunset. Between it, Zuko faces the gang of the Kingdom of the country on the city's middle street - the archetypal environment for the Western duel, even if Zuko is struggling with swords, not with guns.

Now, there is a large structural difference between "Zuko Sam" and "Jane". Former cuts between the present and the retrospective to Zuko's childhood. "Jane" has no such retrospective, and even an exhibition, what Jane did in the previous days. We No Know Jane's past, while the episode is for Zuko's research. For Lee and other villagers, Zuko is just as mysterious as Jane, but the audience knows differently.

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What reunites stories is similar topics for violence and how it is transmitted. Before leaving Lee's family, Zuko gives the boy a knife. Written with "Never give up without a fight", Zuko wore the knife as a reminder of his determination. But after leaving, Lee tries to use the knife to fight some soldiers and be abducted. Zuko will come back to save him is to clear his mistake.

During Jane, Jane is cautious to be too admired. Once he (which seems) is his old self to free the valley of some black hats, Jane leaves, his last words to Eyoi are a warning: "No living with killing. We will not come back from one right or wrong, it's a brand. The brand holds. It won't come back."

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In "Zuko Sam", Zuko reveals his fiery and true self in a moment of pride for his victory. That truth makes the inhabitants of the city, Lee, to reject it. He drives as Jane did, but did he not say he was back. Zuko is still doing the best thing he could, as, like Jane, had to leave and take the violence with him. Zuko's own people are those who started the cycle of violence; Unlike Jane (who may or may not be dead when the loans roll), Zuko still has time to become a better person, and he eventually does. His experience with Lee was a small step on that trip that became great.

Jane's inheritance is a big one. Clint Eastwood has already semi-quiet in 1985 as a "Pale Driver". You can also see its impact on Eastwood's "Unforgiven". Compare Jane's last words with William Muni (Eastwood) saying, "It's a hell of something that kills a man."

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Jamesesheims' Logan Mangold sent Wolverine to Hugh Jackecman in 2017 with a story modeled on "Jane". (The characters in "Logan" see "Jane" and then quote it.) "Logan" introduced "Jane" to a younger generation of film films, but many of that generation have already seen the story of "Jane" playing a decade earlier in "Only Zuko".