Today we deal with the lamest of lame episodes: The Great Divide. An episode about two tribes of people who are feuding with each other abou- ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz…

Enjoy.

What SHOULD have Happened in Avatar the Last Airbender: Book 1: Chapter 11

The sun shined brightly on the cliffs overlooking the Great Divide as the Zhang, dressed in animal hide and brandishing crude weapons, argued with the Gan Jin, who wore elegant clothes and held refined martial tools.

After Katara, her brother, and the Avatar glanced back and forth between the two groups, the young woman turned to her air bending friend. "Well, Aang? Ready to put your peace-making skills to the test?"

The tattooed youth looked down. "I dunno. A… fight over chores is one thing." He raised his head. "These people have been feuding for 100 years."

Hakoda's daughter immediately marched forward. "Everyone, listen up!" She pointed at the Air Nomad. "This is the Avatar! And if you give him a chance, I'm sure he can come up with a compromise that will make everyone happy!"

Aang glanced left and right. "Uh… You could share the earth bender and travel together?"

The Gan Jin's leader scowled. "Absolutely not. We'd rather be captured by the Fire Nation then travel with those stinking thieves!" He pointed at the Zhang.

The Zhang's leader narrowed her eyes and pointed back at the Gan Jin. "We wouldn't travel with you pompous fools anyway."

As both tribes began bickering back and forth, Aang's brow began to furrow and he slowly growled. "Alright! Here's the deal! You're all going down together and Appa here will fly your sick and elderly across with me and my friends! Does that seem fair?"

Both tribe leaders nodded and the Avatar smiled. Behind the young boy, Sokka smiled too.

"Man, I'm glad we're flying across."

Aang shrugged. "Well, with the feuding this bad, we'd have to make sure their sick and elderly don't try to kill each other on Appa's back. Plus, I like playing the good Samaritan, but we're in a hurry to save the world and there's no reason we have to go through all this with them."

Sokka's sister nodded. "Spirits, that'd have been a bore."

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Inside the canyon, Aang spun his staff in a circle and created a mini-tornado. The spiraling wind trapped and twirled the vicious black and brown bug at high speeds. Then, the Avatar pulled and swung his staff, turning the cyclone into a whip that smacked the giant insect into the wall.

The bug snarled and snapped as it ran off into a hole in the stone wall.

Meanwhile, the Air Nomad slumped and faced the earth bending-guide. "What was that?"

The guide lay sprawled out with his right arm and leg in awkward positions. "Canyon crawler… oh… ah… And there's sure to be more…"

Kneeling beside the old man, Katara held one of his upper limbs. "Your arms! They're broken!"

The guide cringed. "Without my arms, I got no bending. In other words…"

Aang's eyes widened. "We're trapped in this canyon…" He then snapped his fingers. "Oh, wait, no we aren't!"

Sokka glanced at the bald boy. "We're not?"

"Of course not." The air bender lightly smacked his forehead. "Duh! I'm the Avatar! The guide is an earth bender!"

The Zhang leader raised an eyebrow. "So…?"

"So, he can teach me a few simple earth bending moves and we'll be fine. Spirit's, we're right near the little path way we just walked down and he only broke a small piece of it to keep people from following us. I'll bet, give an hour or two, I'll know enough to at least put that back together. After that, I'll fly across with my glider, get Appa, and we'll just fly everyone over in small groups at a time."

Katara smiled. "Wow, Aang, that's a really good and obvious plan that makes a whole lot of sense."

The leader of the Gan Jin nodded. "I agree. It would be awfully stupid of you to have forgotten that you have the capability to earth bend, seeing as your main identity blatantly revolves around that fact."

The nomad chuckled. "It sure would be."

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The Gan Jin leader kept his eyes sealed as he recounted the story of Jin Wei and Wei Jin to Katara. "…Our people have never forgotten." He opened his eyes. "You can never trust a Zhang."

Hakoda's daughter raised an eyebrow. "Well, that sounds like a really awful story, and I probably would share in your discontent, but I just had a REALLY SIGNIFICANT eye-opening experience with this guy named 'Jet'… He kinda had the same mentality about all Fire Nation, including defenseless old people. So there's really no reason for me to follow a mantra that says that an entire people are defined by the actions of one person."

The water bender shrugged. "If I did listen to such a mentality, it would kinda make an outside observer wonder why I didn't still love that guy. Also,… pretty much discredit that entire events significance."

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The young Avatar led both feuding tribes to the end of the canyon and landed between them as they began to bicker. "Please, everyone. As soon as we get out of here, we can eat. Then go our separate ways. But I need you all to put your heads together and figure out a way up this cliff."

The Gan Jin leader stepped forward and began to talk, but before he could Sokka raised his hand.

"Aang, just use your bison whistle."

The Avatar raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"

"Yeah, your whistle." Hakoda's son began making swooping motions with one of his hands. "Appa will fly down, carry up a few people at a time, then come back down and repeat. It may take an hour, plus/minus a five minute break, but it's a pretty straight forward way to get outta here."

The last air bender smiled. "Wow. Good idea, buddy. That's a very logical and obvious way to get out of this canyon, which anyone who had more than a day to ponder a solution to would obviously have figured out."

Hakoda's son shrugged and smirked. "I do what I can."

A/N: Man, this episode isn't that good to make fun of. Seriously, the most uninteresting chapter is also the one that has the least room for jokes. Cripes, this chapter sucks.

On a semi-related note, this was actually the first episode of AtLA I ever watched, which kinda explains why I didn't watch another one until I accidentally turned on a rerun of the season 1 finale when Aang was talking to Koh.

Ah, memories…

That's all for today, folks. Hope you enjoyed it and be sure to join us next week for: Book 1: Chapter 12

The Storm