Avatar’s Greatest Turning Points with Ijeoma Njaka

Avatar: Braving the Elements

Nickelodeon

Animation & Manga, Tv & Film, Leisure, After Shows

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In our penultimate Season Two episode, Janet and Dante welcome back Ijeoma Njaka to the pod! Who better to explore some of Book Two’s most formative and critical turning point moments than Ijeoma, an academic professor who created a class syllabus highlighting some of the great “big picture” themes of Avatar: The Last Airbender? The trio explores Zuko’s journey, the power of knowledge -- and its risks — and much more, including lots of discussion around fan favorite responses! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, Benders and non-benders alike. Welcome to Braving the Elements, Nickelodeon's
0:24.6	podcast about all things, Avatarverse. I'm Janet Barney. And I'm Dante Bosco, and I can't believe
0:29.8	we're already at the end of book, too, Varney. I know, buddy. I got to say time has flown. I mean,
0:37.1	the second season of Avatar is so incredibly action-packed
0:39.4	with so many cliffhangers. It does
0:41.4	kind of feel like it's over before you know it, like almost
0:43.3	before you're ready for it to be over, which I guess is
0:45.2	that's just a sign of a great show.
0:47.5	Absolutely. And then even just
0:49.3	looking back on our own season two of the podcast,
0:51.7	we've had so many amazing guests, both
0:53.3	new ones and
0:54.3	returning ones. Yeah. And I still feel like we have a million more things we want to cover
0:59.0	outside the scope of just recaps. Yeah. So I'm already getting psyched for season three.
1:05.4	Yes, please. Okay. So for today's episode, before we get ahead of ourselves, we felt like we wanted to do honor to the fact that, you know, every episode of Avatar.
1:16.4	Honor.
1:17.1	Thank you. I'm glad we squeezed that in.
1:19.8	I wish everyone could see Dante's face because he says it almost as an afterthought.
1:23.6	Like it's almost so Pavlovian at this point that someone says honor.
1:27.2	And he's like not even thinking about it. His voice just goes, honor. And then he's almost so Pavlovian at this point that someone says honor. And he's like
1:27.8	not even thinking about it. His voice just goes on her. And then he's like, what? Huh? What happened?
1:32.3	I blacked out for a second. I don't know what it's going on. It'll be on my gravestone.
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