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Nov 30, 2007 · The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse: Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos. With Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack De Sena, Michaela Jill Murphy. The invasion seems to be succeeding until Aang learns that their arrival was anticipated. Zuko confronts his father.
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- Joaquim Dos Santos
- 2007-11-30
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"The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse" is the 11th episode of Book Three: Fire of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the 51st of the overall series. It debuted on November 30, 2007.
Aang rejoins the invasion force and reveals that the whole city has been abandoned, much to the surprise of the gang. Sokka concludes that the Fire Lord must have expected the invasion and is likely hiding in a secret underground bunker. After some deliberation, they agree to continue with the invasion: the invasion force will continue toward the palace while Aang, Toph, and Sokka search for Fire Lord Ozai.
With the help of Toph's ability to see underground, she locates the secret bunker inside a nearby volcano. They pass through tunnels of gas and magma until they reach the metal bunker, which Toph opens using her metalbending ability. They corner a Fire Nation noble and he tells them where the Fire Lord's chamber is. As the total eclipse begins, Aang blasts open the door of the chamber, and to their great surprise, finds Azula waiting for them instead. Azula reveals she has known about the invasion for months and is not surprised to find Aang alive. Meanwhile, Zuko enters the chamber where his father is hiding.
Zuko approaches Ozai and explains he is there to tell the truth. Amused and impressed that Zuko chose the moment of an eclipse to face him, Ozai dismisses his guards. Zuko explains that it was Azula who supposedly killed the Avatar in Ba Sing Se, not him. When Ozai wonders why she would lie, Zuko reveals the Avatar is still alive and probably leading the invasion. Enraged upon hearing this news, Ozai orders his son to leave. However, Zuko refuses to leave and disregards his father's orders. Ozai threatens Zuko for his disobedience, but the latter pulls out his swords and determinedly demands that his powerless father sit and listen.
Azula refuses to tell Aang, Sokka, and Toph her father's location. Toph's lie-detecting ability proves ineffective on Azula, since she is an expert liar. Two Dai Li agents, whom the princess brought back from Ba Sing Se, drop from the ceiling and use earthbending to protect her as Aang and Toph attack. The invasion forces start to take the capital city as all the firebenders are surrendering at the loss of their power.
Zuko tells his father that all he had ever wanted was for Ozai to love him, and that he had spent his whole time in exile trying to regain what he believed was his honor, but was really just trying to please Ozai when he did not deserve it. He angrily berates Ozai for cruelly challenging him to a duel when he was only a child, before banishing him from the Fire Nation for simply speaking out of turn. Ozai claims the act was to teach Zuko to respect his superiors, but the prince retorts it was cruel and wrong. He reveals his beliefs that the Fire Nation is doing nothing but wrong in the world, and that they lie to themselves into thinking they are benefactors spreading their greatness to other nations. Zuko explains the Fire Nation has a responsibility to bring about an era of peace if the world is not to destroy itself. Ozai, still thinking kindness is weak, laughs and mocks Zuko, realizing that his older brother must have influenced him. Zuko proudly confirms this, aggravating Ozai.
Aang, Sokka, and Toph continue to fight Azula and her Dai Li agents, both of whom they eventually incapacitate. Though powerless, Azula proves far too agile for Aang or the others to take down. Sokka stops Aang and Toph from pursuing Azula any further, realizing she is just baiting them into wasting all their remaining time. As they attempt to leave, Azula taunts Sokka by hinting that she has captured, imprisoned, and possibly tortured Suki, which enrages the warrior, making him rush toward her. Azula prepares to stab him with a concealed dagger, but Toph senses her movement, promptly disarms her, and pins her against the wall with a rock. Sokka seizes Azula and demands she tell him where Suki is, but Azula malevolently refuses to comply.
•Written by:
•Aaron Ehasz
•Directed by:
•Joaquim Dos Santos
•Starring:
•Zach Tyler Eisen - Aang
TranscriptAvatar ExtrasSeries continuity•When Zuko is walking away from Ozai after his confrontation, only half of his face, the unscarred side, is shown. This bears a very close resemblance to when Zuko entered the throne room in "The Awakening", where it showed the scarred side of Zuko's face. During the eclipse when he betrayed his father and made the right decision, the good side was shown and when Zuko was still loyal to his father just before the meeting, the scarred side was shown. •The way Zuko walked out of the room after "confronting" his father mirrors the way Ursa walked out of his room after bidding him a goodbye after she was banished. •Azula states that she has known about the invasion for months. She found out about it in "The Guru" through Kuei, when she was disguised as a Kyoshi Warrior. •Toph interrogates Azula and adds that she can tell if she is lying. This "lie-detector" ability was revealed in "Lake Laogai". Azula appears immune to it, able to lie without any sort of bodily reaction. •In "Zuko Alone", part of the story of Zuko's childhood is revealed, specifically the disappearance of Zuko's mother, Ursa. In this episode, it is revealed that she may still be alive after being exiled for "vicious, treasonous things". •The war balloons, the smaller Fire Nation airships, in this episode were copied from the war balloon originally built by the mechanist and improved by Sokka that was captured by the fire soldiers at the end of "The Northern Air Temple". •The crest on Hakoda's uniform is the same on Princess Yue's engagement necklace. •This is the first time Azula has said the name of an original Team Avatar member out loud: Sokka's. She would later call Katara by name in The Search Part One. •In "Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters", Bumi asks if they did anything interesting on the day of the eclipse, and Zuko and Sokka sarcastically say they did not. •This episode continues to emphasize the fact that Azula lets events unfold by themselves up until the last minute before she strikes, as first seen in the "The Avatar State". •This is the second time an invasion has been planned, including a part one and part two sequel. The first one was when Admiral Zhao invaded the Northern Water Tribe. The end of the invasion of this episode is also the same as the "The Siege of the North, Part 2" when the invasion failed. •Azula reveals her capturing of Suki, who would later be seen imprisoned in "The Boiling Rock, Part 1".Goofs•Aang arrives at the throne room long before the eclipse begins. This seems to contradict the original plan of taking the Fire Lord down when he is powerless. However, Aang probably expected a little resistance to slow his arrival, or to have to sneak around the city full of people. When it turned out to be empty, he arrived more quickly than expected. •The Fire Nation was under a total solar eclipse. As the sun was completely blocked out, it should have been very dark. Instead, the lighting is barely darker than normal; in fact, it is lighter than it is normally used for evenings in the show. •As Aang, Sokka and Toph run through the tunnels of the volcano they walk past Qin who notices them before they notice him. It seems unlikely Toph would not sense him, given that they are in tunnels of earth. •Toph also failed to notice that Qin was lying, given that they ended up at Azula's chamber rather than Ozai's as he had claimed. •After Azula reveals she brought Dai Li agents from Ba Sing Se and Aang air swipes at her, the two doors Aang knocked down are missing. •In chapter thirteen of Book One, "The Blue Spirit", and chapter thirteen of Book Two, "The Drill", it is shown that Aang can run "faster than wind". Here, however, Aang cannot keep up with Azula despite his running abilities. •When Azula taunts Sokka to the point that he runs toward her, Toph pins her left hand to the wall at her left side. However, in the next shot, she has both hands pinned to the wall above her head. •A hot air balloon is lifted by hot air. This hot air would most likely burn a person, yet Aang flies through one and emerges safely without any burns.1.Acastus (November 24, 2007). "Day of Black Sun" Airs First in The Netherlands & Belgium. AvatarSpirit.net. Archived from the original on January 28, 2020. Retrieved on January 30, 2019.
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•The Day of Black Sun promotional website, as archived at the Wayback Machine
The Day of Black Sun, also known as a solar eclipse, is a recurring celestial event during which the sun is entirely blocked out by the moon, rendering all firebenders powerless. The event is only known to have occurred twice during recorded history.
Katara and Hakoda, wearing eclipse glasses, turn to watch the eclipse. The camera zooms out, the eclipse having officially begun. The scene changes to where Zuko is confronting Ozai.
Feb 9, 2024 · In some sense, the invasion is really Sokka’s plan. He’s the one who instigated Team’s Avatar’s visit to Wan Shi Tong’s library for intel, suggested an attack on the day of the eclipse, pushed to win the support of the Earth King, and ultimately assembled everyone here today.
The show follows Aang (Zach Tyler Eisen), the last airbender and the “Avatar”, on his journey to bring balance to a war-torn world by mastering all four elements: air, water, earth, and fire. On his quest, he is joined by companions Katara ( Mae Whitman ), Sokka ( Jack DeSena ), and Toph Beifong ( Jessie Flower ).
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Nov 30, 2007 · Aang reunites with many of his old friends in a full-scale invasion of the Fire Nation capitol to coincide with an eclipse which will remove the Fire Nation's powers. Zuko makes a decision about his future.
