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In creating Ba Sing Se's complex themes, the crew never had a concern that they would alienate the six-to-eleven year old target audience, with director Giancarlo Volpe stating that: Younger kids don't often fully understand how oppressive governments work, but they do relate to having parents or teachers or other authority figures always ...
"The Tales of Ba Sing Se" is the 15th episode of the second season of the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the 35th episode overall. The episode, directed by Ethan Spaulding, originally aired on Nickelodeon on September 29, 2006. It features six short vignettes of several of the series's main characters as they go ...
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The quartet is eventually found out and greeted by Long Feng, Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se and the head of the Dai Li. Long Feng reveals that the Earth King has no true political power, only serving as a figurehead and is completely oblivious of the war, while he and the Dai Li control the city, ensuring Ba Sing Se remains a utopia.
I also found some discussions on Chinese language internet forums discussing how "Ba Sing Se" could possibly mean anything similar to "City of Impenetrability". Some suggestions are that "Ba Sing Se" is an inaccurate transliteration of "不碎城" in some dialectical variety of Cantonese , that name means literally "City of Non-Shattering".
The first part, written by series co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino and Joshua Hamilton, and directed by Ethan Spaulding, follows Aang and his friends leading a family, including a pregnant woman, through the dangerous "Serpent's Pass" while on their way to the Earth Kingdom capital city Ba Sing Se, while Zuko joins a group of freedom fighters ...
Zuko and Iroh travel to the walled city of Ba Sing Se and find employment at a tea shop in the slums. Zuko reluctantly adapts to his new life until he learns of Aang's presence in Ba Sing Se and attempts to steal Aang's pet bison Appa. However, Iroh convinces Zuko to abandon his quest and let Appa go.
Aang's group travels to Ba Sing Se to seek the Earth King's support for an attack on the Fire Nation timed to an upcoming solar eclipse, during which firebenders will be powerless. Azula instigates a coup d'état, bringing the capital under Fire Nation control, and Zuko sides with his sister. Aang is fatally wounded by Azula, but he is revived ...