For those of you who don’t know what it is, here: http://www.avatarchapters.org/

They’re also making a movie: http://www.themovieinsider.com/m3931/5/the-last-airbender/

I personally think the movie will be meh, the show was pretty good, but I think the movie might ruin it. :P

Love the show—it was incredibly cohesive and thoughtful for a “children’s” series, not to mention beautifully animated. I’m wary for the movie, but the teaser trailer gave me a shred more optimism; at least in those few seconds, Shyamalan seems to have gotten the tone and scale of the series down nicely. The little CGI they showed of the airbending was excellent, and the logo looks great too, especially with the flags of the four nations hanging from the bottom.

This doesn’t mean that the movie will be good, obviously, but it eases my anxiety a touch.

Ohhhhh… I am so pumped for this movie.

I like this series.
And also these.

Yeah, I hope the movie has Azula in it, and I hope the movie doesn’t make her look stupid. If you haven’t noticed she’s my favorite character in the series. :P

Yeah, she is pretty awesome! I don’t know if she’ll be in the movie though, since she’s only in the last two seconds of season one. Toph will probably be missing too, but hopefully the first movie will do well and we’ll get a second with all the missing pieces.

They needed to leave that unanswered to give them an excuse to make his spin-off series.

REPEAT TOPIC :P

I won’t clutter this one up :D

Avatar is a amazing show, compared to all the other stuff Nickelodeon has produced, and it’s a amazing show for a children’s TV series.

Yeah, I like the animation in all the fights, but with real people I think the stunts are just going to be silly.

I heard the movie is going to be 3 hours long, so maybe they will do all three seasons or something.

Ah.

Well, then, too sum up my previous rantings, I believe Aang should have died at the end of the Finale. Loved almost everything else about the show, though.

I didn’t want Aang to die, but I thought it would make the story more interesting if Katara fell for Zuko at the end. :P

The Spiritbending stuff was a bit random, but the fire-jets, airships, firebending duels and suchlike were sufficiently epic to make up for any shortcomings.

Fire Nation machines are so cool, and I liked how the Fire Nation stole the War Balloon.

I like the tanks. And the Earth Kingdom millipedey ones, two.

Mmm. They most certainly were.

I thought they were planning to make it a trilogy, and let the first movie deal with season 1. Azula didn’t appear until season 2, so… wait for the sequil?

I actually think this is going to be decent. MNS isn’t that bad of a director; the majority of his movies just had a stupid premise. I’m optimistic because Michael DiMartino is one of the writers. And the trailer doesn’t look half bad either.

I just love all the fight scenes. They’re so very well done! They combine melee combat and magical/equivalent powers so seamlessly.

The Chocobos were surprising. I kept wondering why Square hadn’t sued yet.

I’m more worried about that happening to Ghost in the Shell and Death Note.
American actors? In an American setting?!

This is truth. And the music just makes it better!

Puppet— It’s apparently a trilogy of movies. One season per movie. Three hours, though, is sort of getting into the risky zone— it’d better be good if it’s that long.

Also has anyone seen or heard about this crappy cartoon series that sort of rips off avatar a bit called ‘Legend of the Dragon. The main character is called Ang (hmm sounds familiar) and he has a sister called Ling (because Ling and Ang sound like Ying and Yang) and they use bracelets that can transform them into a super strong being with the powers and strength of all the previous owners of the bracelet (also familiar).

Actully, I think that was made before Avatar.

Wrong. Avatar first aired Feb 2005, and Legend of the Dragon first aired Oct 2006.

Okay, then ignore what I said earlier. At least the show isn’t a complete copy, if I made a show, I would probably copy a crapload of things from other successful shows.

Anybody else think that the Bloodbending episode was pure win?

Besides the baldness and the constant ‘death and rebirth’ going on, Aang and Krillin aren’t that much alike.

I loved the beach episode. It was made of hilarity.

Am I the only person who likes Kataang (Aside from the creators)?

I really like the Ember Island Players Episode. It came so hilariously close to breaking the fourth wall.
“So… does that mean [Jet] died?”
“...It was a little vague.”

I was really nervous that that episode would be awful, but it was truly hilarious. I liked that they took a beat to recap right before The Big Ending, and acknowledged a lot of the fan perceptions about the show. Plus, the character’s reactions to themselves were just golden :-D

In terms of shipping, I went for Zutara at first, but it became pretty clear that that wasn’t where they were going, and I like Mai a lot, so I weaned myself off the idea. (Darned if it wouldn’t have been awesomely symbolic, though; the whole fire/water thing, “You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun”, etc.) Kataang is fine, but it never seemed particularly compelling to me.

Anybody see this?

The first episode of that series is completely horrible but the rest are much better. Thanks for the link!

Anybody see this?

Uhg, the voices are just plain annoying, they aren’t even funny.

Instead of clogging up the Movie Thread, let’s just discuss it here. For those who haven’t seen it, here’s the new trailer.

I’m cautiously optimistic about the movie, M. Night Shyamalan seems to be sticking to the show, but I’ll just have to wait and see…

He got this part right at least…

The Last Airbender Theatrical Trailer HD OFFICIAL

Some of the acting seems a bit mehhh… :/

Also, Aang’s cheeks are far too chubby.

Still cautiously optimistic, and will remain cautiously optimistic until it actually drops and I can confirm for myself that it sucks. Which it probably will. But maybe it won’t!

Ditto.^^

After watching the Superbowl TV Spot I thought it might turn out okay… after watching the Full Theatrical Trailer… no, just no.

The acting just seems terrible, there’s no emotion at all. The whole movie is probably just going to be flashy speshul effects.

It probably won’t be that hard to cut things out, since let’s be honest, there were a lot of primary-plot irrelevant episodes anyway. I’m not saying they were bad episodes, but it won’t change things dramatically to cut some of the very special life lessons out.

Zuko+Katara=MADE OF WIN. I also like Saka(Is that how his name is spelled?)+Toph.

Just sayin’.

I just think that Zuko + Katara would have been far more interesting. Which is why I loved The Southern Raiders ep so much. I think they should have gone deeper into Bloodbending, but that’s just me. And if they do end up making 3 movies for each season, Azula better be AWESOME.

Aang is like 12 years old/112 years old. Either way it’s just wrong.

Yeah, we do. The same could be said for a book you like, Dan Lock. You do realize the characters are just paper and ink, right?

@Muppet

Yeah, we do. The same could be said for a book you like, Dan Lock. You do realize the characters are just paper and ink, right?

I do, indeed – which is exactly the reason for why I find “shipping” and its associated drama to be so comical.

@Jeni Riefenstahl

Hahahah, ohmygosh, Dan, are you actually complaining about decent characterisation?

No; and I don’t understand what prompted that response – as far as I can tell, I wasn’t complaining about anything, and certainly not characterization. I just find it funny that people make such a big deal about hypothetical relationships between these fictional characters, as if they’re actual relationships between real people. Liking characters as characters is one thing (Deckard and Ripley are very well-executed, and are by far my two favorites), but this just takes it to another level, and a humorous one, as far as I’m concerned.

No; and I don’t understand what prompted that response

Because everyone seems to pretty enjoy these characters, and want to discuss them and any relationships they may or may not have.

Then you come in and imply that people who are discussing it are drooling retarded fangirls.

I just think that it’s funny that people put so much thought into developing hypothetical relationships between fictional characters.

So hilarious that you seem to think they can’t tell the difference between Real and Fiction.

nonexistent complaint about how good (?!) Avatar‘s characterization is

Because the characters are obviously strong enough to be discussed on their own terms rather than resorting to “because that’s what the writers wanted”. It sure makes me want to (eventually) watch Avatar.

Just hug it out, you two.