Sorry, I'm just a bit annoyed about all of the discussions going on here about supplementary material, when it really shouldn't matter. If you don't like it, there's no rule that explicitly says you have to accept it as any kind of fact.
Why must there be discussions like this!? If you like something, accept it as fact! If you don't like it, then forget it!
AntcuFaalb said:
Yep. He does it for the coltonlolz.
I'd make a joke about the film Smiley, but I doubt how many of you would get it.
Should this not be in Fan Edits?
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Personally I've also been interested in a project like this. I've imagined a soundtrack done by a different composer (like Leonard Rosenman or Jerry Goldsmith), but never thought of this route.
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Oh, is that not enough to scare you? Might I remind you how Eldon Tyrell's final game of chess ended?
SilverWook said:
Hey! He's wearing a bandolier! ;)
He's right. You ever watch the Star Wars Muppet Show? He didn't wear it there. He was quite naked.
You dare not make another move. You know how this ends.
darklordoftech said:
TFN likes Dark Empire!
Ahem.
ANGLE ON: KATARA turns back to tending AÁNG.
AÁNG
What’s with him?
KATARA
I’ve never been able to find out.
He chuckles.
AÁNG
Thanks for saving me. I could have frozen out there.
KATARA
No problem. You have a bit of a fever. Not much, though.
AÁNG clutches his sides from cold.
AÁNG
Yeah, coats aren’t exactly a commonality where I’m from.
KATARA
We have some extra parkas in here somewhere.
AÁNG begins to scan around the room with his eyes.
KATARA
Where are you from, anyway?
AÁNG
Southern Air Temple.
She stops patting his forehead and locks eyes with him.
KATARA
So you are an airbender.
AÁNG points to the arrow tattoo on his forehead.
AÁNG
This is a bit of a giveaway, isn’t it?
KATARA chuckles (almost in a false, trying-too-hard way), and reaches over his forehead for something, when AÁNG looks between her arms.
CLOSE ON: AÁNG focuses on the necklace KATARA’S wearing, a blue gem with a few water swirls carved into it.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG looks back up to face KATARA.
AÁNG
That’s a nice necklace.
KATARA looks down to AÁNG, clutching it and smiling at him.
KATARA
Thanks. It’s my mom’s.
He smiles back.
KATARA
So, how did you end up down here?
ANGLE ON: AÁNG’s expression turns dark, as he looks around, thinking for what to say.
AÁNG
I, uh… I ran away.
ANGLE ON: KATARA looks a bit surprised by his remark.
KATARA
Oh…
AÁNG
It was all really, stupid, to be honest.
They hear SOKKA calling off-screen.
SOKKA (O.S.)
(panicked)
Katara!!
ANGLE ON: KATARA turns her head to the noise. She faces back to AÁNG.
KATARA
You gonna be alright?
AÁNG
Of course. Go ahead.
ANGLE ON: KATARA nearly exits, but looks back.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG looks at her, a bit confused.
AÁNG
Something wrong?
ANGLE ON: KATARA catches herself.
KATARA
Uh, your… staff thing… is over there.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG looks over to the corner, seeing his staff resting in a corner. He looks back, grinning.
AÁNG
Thank you.
ANGLE ON: KATARA gives a brief grin and walks out.
INT. SOUTHERN WATER TRIBE – HOVEL – DAY
ANGLE ON: KATARA tends to AÁNG on the bottom of a hovel, with a pot and fire next to them. SOKKA stands over them.
SOKKA
We shouldn’t have brought him back.
KATARA
Sokka, I really don’t want to hear this anymore.
SOKKA
So you don’t think there’s anything strange about this whatsoever?
ANGLE ON: KATARA pats AÁNG’S forehead with a rag.
KATARA
I didn’t say that. It is a bit strange.
SOKKA
“A bit strange”? We find a kid frozen under the hulk of a Fire Nation warship, claiming to be the last airbender and that’s all you have to say?
KATARA
We don’t know anything about him yet.
She turns back to AÁNG, who’s starting to wake up.
SOKKA
We know-
KATARA shushes him.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG begins to groggily lean forward.
AÁNG’S POV: SOKKA and KATARA fade slowly into AÁNG’S vision. KATARA smiles at him.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG begins to squirm in panic, but KATARA grips his shoulder and calms him.
KATARA
Aáng! Aáng, calm down! We’re in our village.
AÁNG begins to settle back down, gripping his head.
AÁNG
(groggily)
What happened?
ANGLE ON: KATARA looks for something to say.
SOKKA
(blurting out)
I knocked you out.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG looks to SOKKA, bebewilderedly.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA looks awkwardly around the tent.
SOKKA
I uh… I wanted to avoid the inevitable…
ANGLE ON: AÁNG looks at SOKKA, still quite amazed. KATARA shares his same expression.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA backs out of the tent.
SOKKA
I’ll… just… go… outside.
He rushes out.
EXT. SOUTHERN WATER TRIBE – DAY
WIDE ON: A small surrounding of hovels is seen around a fire pit. Several women are seen working around.
WATER TRIBE BOY #1 (V.O.)
So, who do you think it is?
ANGLE ON: Three ten-year-old children (one girl, two boys) are seen sitting in front of one of the hovels.
WATER TRIBE BOY #2
Whoever it is, they don’t want anyone knowing about him.
WATER TRIBE GIRL
Well, of course not! Can you imagine what Kanna would say?
WATER TRIBE BOY #1
You think it could be a flamer?
WATER TRIBE BOY #2
I don’t think so. Katara wouldn’t even let one of them set foot in the village.
WATER TRIBE GIRL
Well then who is it?
EXT. ZUKO’S SHIP – MAIN DECK – DAY
WIDE ON: ÏROH sits at a SHOGI TABLE, playing against another crewman. ZUKO comes bursting onto the deck.
ZUKO
Captain, set our course for the Southern Water Tribe.
CLOSE ON: ÏROH looks up at ZUKO, confused by his order.
CAPTAIN (O.S.)
Yes, sir.
ÏROH
What brought this on?
ANGLE ON: ZUKO approaches his uncle.
ZUKO
Uncle, I’ve seen him! The Avatar!
ÏROH
Where?
ZUKO
That light! The source has to be one of immense power!
ÏROH
You don’t know what it was.
ZUKO
(angrily)
What else could it have been?
ÏROH
An apparition caused by the celestial lights. A simple figment of our racked minds.
ANGLE ON: ZUKO groans and walks away from his uncle.
ANGLE ON: ÏROH looks after him as ZUKO walks off to the railings.
ÏROH
It was only a light.
ZUKO
No! It was more than that. It was him. We’re going after it.
ANGLE ON: ZUKO approaches ÏROH’S SHOGI TABLE.
ZUKO (CONT’D)
I need to start training again.
ÏROH
Then go back inside and finish your meditation!
CLOSE ON: ZUKO stares angrily at ÏROH.
ANGLE ON: ÏROH holds up a small pocket clock.
ÏROH
Fifteen minutes. At least.
INT. FIRE NATION – WAR ROOM – DAY
ANGLE ON: A general, ZHAO, paces back and forth in front of OZAI, his fist on his chin.
OZAI
We cannot act as if we did not see this coming. For decades we’ve received the yearly warning about ‘the return of the Avatar’.
ZHAO
We’ve been caught entirely unprepared.
OZAI
What do you mean?
ZHAO
He’s had a century to master his bending, wherever he is. If he were to find us, he would surely destroy us as swiftly as he returns.
OZAI
You think I don’t know that?
ZHAO stops and looks at OZAI.
OZAI (CONT’D)
Now, all we must do is find this Avatar. Sozin killed Roku with no great difficulty, we can do the same to this one, wherever he may be.
ZHAO
Well how do you submit that we find him?
OZAI
We do have one way…
INT. FIRE NATION – OZAI’S THRONE ROOM – DAY
WIDE ON: OZAI is seen against a decorative window, staring at it with a cup of tea. The sage runs up to him, panting heavily. OZAI barely turns his slightly to the noise.
OZAI
Yes?
SAGE
Sir…
ANGLE ON: The SAGE hesitates before continuing.
OZAI
Well? Get on with it.
He closes his eyes and exhales, before explaining.
SAGE
My lord. The Avatar… has returned.
CLOSE ON: OZAI’S teacup clatters to the ground.
AÁNG hops to his feet and screams as he is pinned against the wall of ice.
SOKKA
(demandingly)
Who are you?
AÁNG
My name’s Aáng. I don’t want any trouble.
SOKKA
All right. How did you get out here? And why aren’t you frozen?
AÁNG
I don’t know. I think I was caught in a storm.
SOKKA lowers his spear in utter disbelief in what he just heard.
SÔKKA
Must’ve been some storm.
KATARA
Sokka, just leave him alone.
AÁNG starts to calm a bit.
AÁNG
Who, exactly, are you two?
KATARA
My name’s Katara, and the angry one’s Sokka.
SOKKA shoots her a brief glare.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG steps away from the wall and faces KATARA. He almost inadvertently puts his hood down.
CLOSE ON: KATARA stares in amazement at the boy’s tattoos.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG looks confusedly at her. He begins to move toward her.
AÁNG
What’s wrong?
He then falls from a sharp blow to the head. As he falls we see it was SÔKKA, who grips his spear guiltily.
ANGLE ON: KATARA stares at AÁNG’s once again lifeless body. She then looks, appalled, to SOKKA.
EXT. ICE PLAIN – DAY
CLOSE ON: SOKKA and KATARA remove their hands from their eyes. KATARA begins to lean forward.
SOKKA
Great. Amongst everything else I think I’m flash blind now.
KATARA breaks his grasp and heads over to the ice.
SOKKA
Katara! Why do I even bother?
ANGLE ON: KATARA hops over the now destroyed husk of the ice shell and slides down into the resulting crater. She stops cold.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG lies motionless on the floor of the shell, a hood covering his tattoos.
ANGLE ON: KATARA kneels down next to him and begins to try to get him up. SOKKA jumps in next to her. He points bewilderedly at AÁNG.
SOKKA
Who’s he?
KATARA motions him away and returns to lifting up AÁNG.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA turns away, screaming as he sees what lies before him.
ANGLE ON: He walks cautiously towards APPA, who lies motionless on the ground.
SÔKKA
What is that?
ANGLE ON: KATARA props AÁNG against a wall of the sphere, and tries to revive him. First, she tries slapping his cheeks lightly. She looks over to SOKKA.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA stands in front of APPA, whose tail is beginning to swing.
SOKKA
Katara, there’s no way he’s still alive.
He is then nearly pushed over by the force of APPA’s tail hitting him. He turns around to face him.
ANGLE ON: KATARA presses her ear to AÁNG’s chest. Her eyes widen as she detects a heartbeat and faces him.
KATARA
He is alive.
SOKKA (O.S.)
Great. Now let’s get out of here.
KATARA
We’ve got to get him back to the village.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA looks as if it takes all he is to stop from bursting out laughing.
SOKKA
Yeah, I’m sure that’d look great…
KATARA leaps up to face him.
KATARA
We can’t just leave him here.
SOKKA
Yes we can. He’s alive. He can get out of here on his own.
KATARA
We’ve got to take him back.
SOKKA
What would we tell Gran-Gran, exactly? “Hey, check out this kid we found in an iceberg under a Fire Nation shipwreck.” What would we tell her?
KATARA
The truth.
SOKKA
That’s as bad as if we just came back empty handed.
KATARA
Look, we’re taking him back no matter-
AÁNG (O.S.)
Excuse me?
Their eyes both bulge out as they turn to face the before lifeless boy.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG stares at them, a frightened expression on his face.
ANGLE ON: KATARA frantically looks between SOKKA and AÁNG, before breaking an uneasy smile on her face.
KATARA
(perky)
Hi!
ANGLE ON: AÁNG has eased somewhat, but not much.
AÁNG
Would you mind telling me where I am?
ANGLE ON: SOKKA then, without warning, yells and lunges forward with his spear.
INT. ZUKO’S QUARTERS - DAY
MEDIUM ON: ZUKO sits in the lotus position in front of some candles. He suddenly tilts his head when he hears the ringing from his cabin. He immediately gets up from his seat and goes to a porthole.
ANGLE ON: The light extends into the sky, until it eventually disappears.
CLOSE ON: ZUKO is amazed and tantalized by what he just witnessed. He fumbles for a few seconds before he can even get a word out.
ZUKO
Captain!
He runs away from the window.
INT. FIRE NATION TEMPLE – DAY
WIDE ON: A sage passes a statue of AVATAR ROKU, before the statue’s eyes light up. He stops and pauses, looking at the statue.
CLOSE ON: He looks at the statue, enticed. His lip quivers as if he wishes to say something, but doesn’t.
ANGLE ON: A strange blue light is seen in the water. KATARA and SOKKA exchange glances, but turn back when they notice that the water is starting to churn.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA places his arm over KATARA and begins to back up with her as a strange humming noise begins to be heard.
WIDE ON: A huge sphere of ice shoots up from out of the water, bobbing up and down before finally settling.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA starts to cower but KATARA walks closer, beginning to circle the hole of water.
ANGLE ON: She then pauses, and looks closer into the sphere.
ANGLE ON: A silhouette of AÁNG is seen through the light reflecting into the ice.
CLOSE ON: KATARA widens her eyes as SOKKA is seen backing up behind her.
SOKKA
Alright, let’s just head back to the tribe, say we had an uneventful trip and get on with our lives…
KATARA
Sokka, I think there’s someone in there…
ANGLE ON: SOKKA walks up closer to her and attempts to meet her eye-line, but gives up.
SOKKA
I don’t see anything.
KATARA
He might still be alive…
SÔKKA nervously looks over to her.
SOKKA
Don’t even think about it.
KATARA then suddenly grabs a spear out of SOKKA’S backpack. SOKKA fumbles for it and follows her as she moves toward the ice.
ANGLE ON: KATARA drives the spear into the ice, pushing on it, trying to pull away some of the ice.
CLOSE ON: SOKKA looks bewilderedly at her as tries to stop her.
ANGLE ON: KATARA takes another stab into the ice, pushing the spear down even further.
CLOSER ON: The spear is brought down, peeling away a good chunk of the ice. A blue light begins spilling out, as well as gusts of wind as well.
ANGLE ON: KATARA is thrown back by the energy of the opening, and is flung into SOKKA.
CLOSE ON: The two get to their feet, and stare in amazement at the sphere.
WIDE ON: The sphere begins to crumble, with a steady stream of blue light filling the sky. KATARA and SOKKA cover their eyes. A sharp ringing sound comes out as well.