"The Great Divide" in Black Swan Green
My favorite piece of media to ever grace my screen is Avatar the Last Airbender, an animated TV show where characters have the ability to “bend” four elements: water, earth, fire, and air. One episode, titled “The Great Divide,” reminded me heavily of the chapter “Knife Grinder” in Black Swan Green : specifically the back and forth between the Romani people and the rest of Black Swan Green. I’ll go through the similarities shortly, but what most captivates me on this subject is the fact that “The Great Divide” is the worst rated episode in the entire ATLA franchise. Why is this? Does this reflect on “Knife Grinder”’s quality as well? And how bad can the worst episode of a perfect show even be? In “The Great Divide,” Aang, the protagonist and og peacemaker, and his friends, Sokka and Katara run into two feuding tribes, the Gan Jin and the Zhang. Both tribes need to cross a giant canyon, and Aang and his friends decide to help them out. Wow! Just like Black Swan Green ! Eh…there’s a...