With Aang and the Gaang back from the Spirit Library, Jet dead, and Appa taken, things are bleak for Team Avatar. Fans will know that because things played out so differently in the Netflix show, with Long Feng directly kidnapping Appa and putting him directly in Lake Laogai, there is no Appa’s Lost Days anymore. This … Read more
When we last left our heroes in Episode 3, “City of Walls and Secrets”, the story of the live action adaptation had begun to very fully divert from the source material in Ba Sing Se. I’ve been saying throughout this season that drastically altering from the original story isn’t inherently bad, and in fact it’d … Read more
City of Walls and Secrets, the third episode of Season 2 of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is interestingly the only one of the seven episodes in this season that shares an episode title with its source material. In the original cartoon, this episode brings the Gaang into the Earth Kingdom capital of … Read more
Despite my great disappointment in Season 1 of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s beloved animated show, the first episode of Season 2 was so shockingly different under the new showrunners Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani that it has made me hopeful that this version has a reason to exist. Episode … Read more
As a mega fan of Nickelodeon’s Avatar: the Last Airbender, it is probably of no surprise that I was disappointed with the first season of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s show. I was there on day one as an 11-year-old, and since the show finished in 2008 my love for the universe has only grown. … Read more
I had the amazingly good fortune as an 11 year old boy to be seated in front of the television in our basement on February 21, 2005, for the long-awaited premiere of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Over the past few months, the ads for the new fantasy series had played on Nickelodeon, over and over, … Read more
The first Avatar sequel has its title, and we can expect to see the first teaser trailer. Avatar: The Way of Water will be released on December 16, 2022, over a decade since the first film. As for the first teaser, Marvel fans will be pleased to hear that they can catch the debut trailer alongside Doctor Strange in the … Read more
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when the fire nation attacked. These words echo through the collective unconscious of late millennials, marking a time of innocence long-past for many of us. Avatar: The Last Airbender was a critical and commercial success when it ran from 2005-2007, … Read more