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*Begrudgingly re-types this whole post...  (>:() *

Anyone seen it?

'Tis a new show made and produced by Nicklelodeon, with the plot as follows.

In a lost age, the world is divided into four nations: Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. Within each nation, there is a remarkable order of men and women called the "Benders" who can learn to harness their inborn talent and manipulate their native element. Bending is a powerful form combining martial art and elemental magic.

In each generation, only one Bender is solely capable of controlling all four elements. That Bender is the Avatar. The Avatar is the spirit of the world manifests in human form. When the Avatar dies, it reincarnates into the next nation in the cycle. Starting with the mastery of his or her native element, the Avatar learns to bend all four elements. Throughout the ages, the countless incarnations of the Avatar have served to keep the four nations in harmony.

Then, the Firebenders attacked. Just as the world needed the Avatar the most, he mysteriously vanished. A hundred years later, the Fire Nation is near final victory in its ruthless war of world domination. The Air Nomads were destroyed, the Air Temples ravished, and all Airbender monks eradicated. The Water Tribes were raided and driven to the brink of extinction. The Earth Kingdom remains and fights a hopeless war against the Fire Nation. Many believe the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and the cycle is broken.

In the desolated South Pole, a lone Water tribe struggles to survive. It is here that the village's last remaining Waterbender Katara and her warrior brother Sokka rescue a strange 12-year-old boy named Aang who has been suspended in hibernation in an iceberg. The tribe soon discovers that Aang is not only an Airbender--the extinct race no one has seen in a century--but also the long lost Avatar. Now Katara and Sokka must safeguard the child Avatar in his journey to master all four elements and save the world from the Fire Nation.

Sounds complex...yes...yes..yes..

 I'm quite attracted to this show. IMO, it has quality writing, a great cast of characters, and the animation is superb. It has a sort've anime/Asian style to it, though not to the point whereas the characters are completely doing outrageous [yet funny] anime expressions.

[ Mwaha. Video clips. ]

http://avatarfans.net/clips/Book1-Opening.zip (http://avatarfans.net/clips/Book1-Opening.zip)
http://avatarfans.net/clips/Book1Chapter2-SOTW.zip (http://avatarfans.net/clips/Book1Chapter2-SOTW.zip)
http://avatarfans.net/clips/Book1Chapter3-SOTW.zip (http://avatarfans.net/clips/Book1Chapter3-SOTW.zip)
http://avatarfans.net/clips/Book1Chapter6-SOTW.zip (http://avatarfans.net/clips/Book1Chapter6-SOTW.zip)

As soon as I read "Nicklelodeon" I stopped reading this post.

Burkey

*Shrug* Well hey, I dislike Nickelodeon too; but that didn't stop me from taking a look. I originally thought it was gonna be like another anime-wannabe show with degrading characters and such...something thats' become a moreso tradition with Nick [Only the bit of the 'degrading' part...- I don't know if they ever really tried an Asian-influenced toon before...until this, that is.] I watched a few episodes of it, and I must say; I've grown rather fond of it...I, personally, think it's a great show. But, if you want, feel free to hate it.

*Feels free to hate it.*

Awesome, I get to hate things without justification!

I love this world.

Burkey

Good. I'm glad you do.

Why thank you ^.~

Burkey

I don't hate the show, but I wouldn't call it 'Anime Inspired'.  But then again, no US show can tuly be called that.  But it's close...  Oh, is it close...

Ren and Stimpy, Rocko modem life, Invader Zim and Fairy godparents, you missed all that?. Avatar is ok, lacks what I want in a Tv series(Lots  and lots of fighting) but is not bad.

at least, it's not a cheap imitation like Marvin Mystery, Totally Spies, and W.I.T.C.H. Avatar is actually part Korean, and the two creators did a good deal of research to make this show interesting, and to implement all the Kung Fu-based motions that elemental benders use throughout the series.

well, i wouldn't say it's an anime imitation. but, i wouldn't call it actual anime, either. you see, Avatar was animated by a top-rated Korean studio, DR. MOVIE. they've been involved in several anime projects, and they've made their own anime-like Korean animation as well.

ive seen a couple of episodes, its pretty good actually.

Ok, here's how I feel about all of this.

If you're gonna knock Avatar immediately because it's shown on Nickelodeon, or because you think it's trying to look like anime, or because there isn't any bloodshed and people getting torn apart in every episode, then be closed-minded like that, it's alright, I don't care. But if everyone keeps thinking that way they're gonna miss out on a lot of great stuff.

Keep in mind that when SPC came out anime was starting to get popular in the US (ex: Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z). It wasn't shown on a revered cartoon channel like CN. And there isn't any bloodshed or characters getting torn apart, despite the use of Samurai/Ninja weaponry. Not only that, the animation at times is downright bad compared to some, since there are a lot of still frames where only certain things like their mouthes are moving. (Please don't give me crap about these comments, you all know I LOVE SPC...I'm just trying to make a point.)

If you watch Avatar and don't like it, then at least you were open-minded enough to give it a try. My salute.

I watched the first episode by chance one night and instantly became addicted. I happen to love the animation, I love the history, the style, sweet animated effects and fighting techniques. I love the characters and I love the tension between them.

I see everywhere that people immediately turn it down because of Nick... but to those I say take it as it is. I think Nick doesn't deserve Avatar: The Last Airbender, and I won't be surprised if sometime in the future you catch it on Cartoon Network.

I never heard nor seen the series. But, when I have the chance to see I will figure it out whether I like it or not. In other words, I have no opinion on this.

Andy (The one who hasn't seen the show yet.)

Yeah, one of my friends is a hard-core addict of this and to her, it's the greatest thing ever.
So I don't know for myself either.

Avatar is a great show and one of the few things I really look forward to seeing every week.
I almost missed it due to it being on Nickelodeon, but thanks to YouTube I'm all caught up. ^^

Good ole youtube, for when my torrenting sucks. I hate missing Avatar now, hehe...

I'm still a kid but I think like an adult so it's safe for me to say, this is probably the best and most sensible show on Nickelodeon. The rest all seem to be meant for ADHD kids with no lives. I guess it's what people like these days.

FK

I'm reviving this thread because I wanted to say that....

Nickelodeon just announced that starting July 14th, there will be a new episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender every night up to July 19th, which will end in a 2 hour series finale.

That gives everyone just under a month to catch up on all the episodes they haven't seen yet! ;)

This is hands-down one of my all time favorite animated shows, ever. Such good animation, great story, awesome characters..I could go on, but I'll sound like way too much of a fangirl. ^_~

ALSO: Shyamalan has joined efforts with the producers of Avatar, and it looks like they're gonna be making a live action movie (or movies). o_o

Gah.. After seeing "The Happening" I dunno if that's a good idea or not. O_O

May god have mercy upon your souls.

Avatar rocks.

~Burkey

I've known this for quite some time. They've been fighting with James Cameron over the name. He's been looking to use Avatar as the title of his next big Sci-Fi movie.

I've been interested in getting into Avatar, based on what I've heard from some very credible sources, and I would welcome the creation of a live action movie. But can you guess where my loyalties lie?

I'm not completely excited about the idea of live action Avatar movies, but I'm wicked psyched about the season finale :D

*Notices 3 years difference between posts*

Some people change, others don't, it seems.

~Burkey

The only thing I really like about it is the Fire Nation.
I like their society, their government, and fire-benders tend to be the only characters that don't annoy me.

*high-fives Harm for such an amusing observation*

*pauses for the distant sound of a cracking whip*

The Alien in the first movie had six. Two opposable thumbs. Other variations have had 3 or 4 fingers. None have had five.

*holding the whip* ^_~

Clever girl.  ;-)

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There's a TF2 comic about that scene. The scout and sniper are in the bushes:

Scout: I can see the Intel from here.. We can make it if we run..

Sniper: No we can't...

Scout: Why not??

Sniper: Because we're being hunted. Go! Run!

The scout takes off and grabs the intel while a Spy jumps from the bushes wearing a raptor mask and stabs the Sniper in the back.

Classic.

~Burkey

I love this show, The episode where The avatar had nightmares was funny....

that episode made me laugh the entire time.  :D

man was that a good series... time to watch it all over again! ^^

Have yet to buckle down and watch this, but it's on my to-do list. It looks like a good show 8)

definitely worth the watch, from start to finish. the end of the series was so... amazingly good. The last two hours of the series compares really well to the Great Comet Caper, now that I think about it...   :O

Now that I've found links to all the eps, it's watching time for me, having only seen a few out of each chapter/book/whatever

I have most of the third season downloaded as AVI. I have almost all of the 1st season on DVD. I have 1 or 2 second season DVDs, and one 3rd season DVD. What a finale! Too bad they aren't continuing. The fan boys and girls are pissed about it. :p

FK

*Ahem*

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/26/three-high-resolution-photos-from-the-last-airbender/

what the.....
1st dbz now avatar??

......

as an avid fan of this show.. i will refrain from making negative comments until after i've seen this movie.

...but it's going to be extremely difficult. >_<;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-hrsOn8j-w

I try to remain skeptical... but damn this is impressive.

It's a Shymalan film? That seems odd...

I think this would be a better film then that DBZ one... I hop they're going to make a second :D

Unlike the DB movie however (which I have yet to seen), this looks like it's going to be a more faithful adaption to the animated series.

from what i've heard, shyamalan is a huge fan of the show. his kids got him addicted to it, and whenever the show was on, it became a family gathering. he said he's always wanted to do a live-action movie because he has a lot of good ideas... but we'll see. it's gonna be hard to beat the original because it was so well done, but i'm sure he's aware of that.

i still remain on the skeptical side.

(http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7491/20090624k.jpg)

Thing is... I was a long time fan of Shamalamadingdong's work for a while, but then the Village came out.... Sucked... Then Lady in the Water.... Sucked... Then the god awful, gouge my eyes out The Happening... TERRIBLE.

I mean, my god, this guy has started out awesome with Signs and Unbreakable, then slowly went down the shitter into the abyss.

So my faith in this movie is kinda... Yeah, no further comment.

~Darc

Really? I thought The Village was all right.... definitely agree about Happening though.

I don't know, unlike the DB movie, this one actually shows promise. Either this movie really does look terrible to some or I believe that loyal fans just don't want there to be a movie of a series. These days, it's like a movie adaption of a cartoon/game series is considered "uncool" just because of failed attempts in the past. The movies got to have some differences from the show otherwise it'd just be way too similar. At least, that's how I see it.

I will definitely not be seeing or supporting this movie, and I hope some other members here will back me up. As for why, aside from the usual bad changes that get made when adapting something for the silver screen, Hollywood's racial bias is showing once again. Go here for more info:

www.racebending.com

wait, you're telling me that katara and sokka are played by white people and suko by a black?...thats pretty sad... still don't know why racism exist, to me its just I like someone or I hate someone, its not about where it's from

I don't care about race... but that is just BAD casting for those characters...I'll agree on that. None of them have any similarities to Katara, Sokka or Zuko.

Fail.

You can't make Ang white! that's horrible! And... dumb.

Too late. It's not really the worst of the casting though, I could see a white kid playing Aang...but Sokka and Katara?


It could probably be worse...


Hollywood. 'nuff said...

I'm posting this here just because I'm a HUUUUUGE jerk.  =]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/teaserlarge.html

For the few who have heard me ranting and raving on this movie; I bloody well told you so...

Now you may be thinking "wait a minute", how could I be taking credit on a prediction based on little-to-nothing? And you would be right to ask that. Scarce screenshots, and descriptive accounts of specialized screenings don't normally cut it for me getting excited for anything. I'm more of a seeing-is-believing guy. But this is twice that a gut feeling of mine has paid off (or at least promises to) this year. First with District 9, and now with this. Besides, this is coming from the director of my favourite Sci-Fi flicks. Take my *ahem* avatar as evidence. With the exception of Michael Bay waving is c*ck on the big screen and taking our money for it, this is proving to be a great year for science fiction.


..and don't worry, Air Bender; you'll have your turn. Not that I don't have faith in you, but you don't stand a ghost of a chance of attaining this quality. In other words: I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathy.  :)

Wow, that is really cool. I wondered why the Last Airbender lost out on the title "Avatar" but now I know...

I HAVE to see that! That movie might just be worth the ticket I pay for to go and see it with!

Right now I'm 2/3 of the way through Avatar The Last Airbender again... and I still just love this series SO much. I even noticed a couple things that I completely missed before... it's like they threw it in there so you wouldn't get it unless you re-watched all the episodes.

Burkey is enjoying it very much, also ^^

I also just re-watched it and then I was wondering again if they ever wanted to continue the story, but I red that they didn't want to continue the story anymore but probably will make a new avatar story. strange though that they didn't finished this one, I mean, suko still didn't find his mother

Thanks for spoiling something major AND spellling the character's name wrong.

Double fail.

~Darc

I heard something about them wanting to do a prequel to the series about Avatar Roku (which would be book: air) but it was just a rumor.

I'm crossing my fingers for "The Lost Tales of Sparky-Sparky Boom Man".

Yes! I would watch that in an instant!

I still remember the first time I saw that guy attack the main group. Sure, there have been characters that exhibit advanced bending techniques before; but with each one we saw a gradual evolution of their techniques and the logic behind them. Example: Blood Bending. It's a form of water bending. Then we see that water is inside things such as vines in a swamp and thus the vines can be controlled. Then we saw how a persons sweat could be effectively collected to control. We we're reminded that water is inside people as well; furthermore, not just in our sweat but in our blood. So a person's body could be moved by bending the blood inside them. So that's Blood Bending.

But what Combustion Man did, came outta nowhere. I nearly fell out of my seat when it happened. Like: "Holy sh*t!!! WTF was THAT!!?"  8O
I never expected to see anything like it coming from Avatar. The general concept isn't completely original. Someone blowing sh*t up with their mind is more like something out of Fullmetal Alchemist. But the visual (and astounding audio) effect of the attack is mind blowing. Something that emits a sonic boom is exceptionally more alien in a world like Avatar's.

I just enjoy the fact that he's shooping from his forehead all the time. Ultimate pwnage for the Gaang!

(http://temple.fpsbanana.com/ico/sprays/shoop-da-whoop.png)

Such a shame he never came back...  :'(

It's, like, the only time we see someone die in the show.

What about Jet...?

Oh right, as Sokka said during the play, "I don't know, it's kind of ambiguous"...

Zhao also died...

um...and Princess Yue?

and if you want to get technical, Aang, too.

oh yeah.. I was only thinking about the bad guys XD

Pheh, technicalities. What a twist it would have been if Aang had died...period.

I'd like to point out that there is a whole nation of fire throwing people wagging war against the whole world. And yet nobody is ever set on fire...

Yes, I can probably guess that someone here's going to find a screenshot of someone on fire and I'll look like a moron ...again.

that's because they don't want to show people running around engulfed in flames in a pg-rated animated series.

you do, however, see multiple people in the series with burn injuries, or burned clothing.

there's a scene where Aang is falling out of a ball of fire from the sky in the final combat, and the fire is burning his clothes off...but i couldn't get a screenshot, so i'll just leave you with this.

Okay, guess it's time to put my blood thirsty rants to rest. I am getting nit-picky with my objections. The show excels more than others with the mature themes it tries within it's target audience. I actually thought Zucko's injury was a bit gruesome when he was introduced.

Ah... Iroh. The disco inferno himself.

Yeah, I tried remembering if it ever showed anyone actually being inflicted (on screen) with a fire-type injury. The closest we get is right before Ozai gives Zuko his scar in the flashback of awesomeness...

I shouldn't matter though...

Anticipating gratuitous injury and death is not the spirit of the show.

I was just being a jackass as usual.

Who the hell is Zucko?

Sounds like a Jam and Jelly type company.

Don't remember that from the series.

~Darc

zuko...only a c to much X3
btw I've been thinking and also forgot that katara's mother died...though that happened before the whole story

It was a typo. "c" is so close to "k".

Well it's forever immortalized in forum history as being the Jam and Jelly guy.

Instead of him having a deep, rich background with awesome character development (plus a wicked scar). He is.. The Jelly guy... I am disappoint.

Way to ruin his image.

~Darc

I don't know how Zucko got confused for Smucks all of a sudden, but Zuko is definitely an interesting character...minus the constant brooding and obsessive personality throughout the first season. *shudder*

Yah... Shyamalan totally screwed it up... again.

Story was nothing like the show. Look what they did to Zuko... they made him into a white colonel with the wrong type of scar on the wrong side of his face!!! They turned Ba Sing Se into a giant tree and gave the Fire Nation a bunch of helicopters!!! Good thing they fired his ass and let Cameron make something out of what they had left.

Me neither

The brown-haired girl is a fan of "Avatar: The Last Airbender", while the blonde girl was referring to Cameron's Avatar movie. This depicts a common scenario ATLA fans are running into now. I thought it was pretty self-explanatory.

That's what happens some times when we think.  :O

I got a kick out of it, I thought it was witty.
In Cameron's defense though... He supposedly has had this "Avatar" idea floating around for a while.
... Whether or not this is true... Meh.

I think you'd have to be an Avatard to get it...

Seeing how this whole thread itself is about the Avatar animated series, which "Girl A" clearly isn't talking about, I found the joke pretty straightforward.  :O

That's kind of the point of the whole comic. Us ATLA fans have been used to saying "Avatar" by default to refer to the series, and now people think we're talking about the Cameron movie unless we clarify.


They're also wearing winter coats and the blonde girl has a scarf. If I had to guess, I'd say it was cold or something..... ;)

Huh. I got that comic/thought it was clever right away. Maybe I'm just weird...

I am buying the DVDs of this...

I didn't know this thread had it's own DVD. I'll have to check it out.

Cleaned up some posts. Don't derail this thread please, at least the comic was halfway relevant.

As long as I'm posting pictures today, have another.

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I always wondered why Sundance had that blue arrow on his forehead. Now I know why.

Nice one Tigriss. I'd say he bends bullets. And speaking of bending bullets...

Remember this kid? Yah, Turns out he's Aang's unknown brother, and also the Last Spoonbender.

(http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/6216/matrixspoon.jpg)


...

 :bigcheese: : Last Gender Bender

Did somebody say...Gender Bender!!?

(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs19/300W/f/2007/227/b/5/Gender_Bender_by_eviltt.jpg)

Art made by eviltt on DA...

Raz, I am disappoint.

~Darc

All right, this may sound weird coming from me, the die-hard Pizza Cat fan who seldom discusses other shows, but I really love Avatar. I love everything about it, and more than I thought I would. It's great for older fans to watch too, so if you haven't seen it before, I suggest you give it a chance. ;)

As much as I love this show, I am also terribly disappointed and saddened about the movie, which is being released on Thursday. I already briefly mentioned my feelings about this, and as you can see, I have a banner for the official boycotting site in my sig, which is going to remain there until this thing is out of theaters. Or whenever, I might decide to keep it there til after the DVD release. While it's not my place to tell anyone what they should or should not watch/enjoy, I'd like to try one final time to ask any of you who were planning on seeing this to reconsider. It is a horrible, twisted mockery of everything that was beautiful about the animated series. Racially insensitive casting aside (which is my biggest problem with this thing) are the following senseless changes.

• The show had beautiful examples of Eastern (and other) cultures blending in harmony, whereas the movie is a mishmash of fake, forced "diversity" with Caucasians being given all the important, lead, heroic roles. The show was also filled with Eastern philosophy and spirituality, most of which has been removed in favor of a generic "magic" feel, and more offensively, the part of Aang's tattoo on his back has been made to resemble a cross and other characters (even the monks) bow down to him, call him the chosen one, and say his existence was in doubt. There is also talk of the "gods" whereas they were never mentioned on the show, only spirits. There's so much wrong with all this that I don't even know where to begin.
• Early on, it was mentioned that the movie would do away with the show's authentic Chinese calligraphy in favor of a "fake gibberish" made up language. What did they do? Created a FAKE CHINESE writing system. Words cannot express how offensive that is or how angry that makes me.

• Many of the names have been changed for "authenticity" despite the fact that this is NOT the correct way to pronounce most of them (a lot were made up) and the actors are no longer Asian/Inuit anyway.
• The removal of strong heroines. Katara is a shell of her former self. Anything important that she actually did in the series is cut out or HEAVILY toned down. For instance, Aang gives the inspiring speech to the Earthbenders, and there's no fight with Pakku. Her fight with Zuko lasts less than a minute, and she's quickly defeated without once ever gaining the upper hand. Also, Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors have been cut from the final film, despite the fact that they were in it earlier (albeit in an unimportant and reduce role) and that Suki's actress was actively being touted as an example of "diversity".

• Despite being cast (as a white man in the now dark-skinned Fire Nation) Avatar Roku has been cut and replaced with a stupid, overly-wordy CGI "Spirit Dragon" that talks. Dragons DO NOT talk in the Avatar universe!

• The Avatar is supposedly "never allowed to have a family" which is complete bunk and contradicts the series. Monk Gyatso was like a father to him, and then the rest of his friends became a sort of replacement family to him as well.

• Firebenders cannot create their own fire. Someone please tell me how they managed to launch a genocide on one nation and subjugate three others if a mere gust of wind, splash of water, or puff of dust can eliminate their bending sources? There's a funny picture related to that...
  
  (http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq268/Teyandee/other%20stuff/Firebenders_02_by_rufftoon.jpg)
  
  Anyway, I guess Mr. Shyamalan skipped the episode where Jeong Jeong said the sun was the ultimate Firebender, yet in perfect harmony with nature. Or when the Sun Warriors talked about how fire can bring life and not just suffering. Jeong Jeong is cut now anyway, so I guess that isn't too far fetched.
• Apparently no one is allowed to smile very much or be funny. Gone is the humorous Sokka and the once happy, free-spirited Aang is a morose, gloomy child who looks perpetually pouty.
• Zuko apparently has "friends" whose lives were at stake, which is why he spoke out against the general's plan. Zuko does not have friends, this is why joining the team was so important later on, being Aang's Firebending teacher aside. Does the Fire Nation army recruit child soldiers now, or does a 13-year-old prince hang out with random twenty-somethings in the army often? Also, his scar looks more like he bumped into a wall, not made Daddy angry enough to fry a good portion of his face just to teach him a lesson.

• The Blue Spirit looks absolutely terrible. (I'm aware this one is just a matter of opinion, but look for yourself.)

• There is no Koizilla. I want my Koizilla! =( It was actually important so that it doesn't look like Aang himself personally takes vengeance or kills anyone.

• The movie also makes a huge mistake in being way too wordy (show, not tell!) and short, which doesn't help it at all. A last minute 3D version was also made, but I've heard one person who pre-screened the movie say it was so terrible they would have stormed out and demanded their money back if they had actually paid for it.

Well, I could go on (and on and on) but I think that's enough. If you want more information (that's more coherent and less ranty) please visit the website the banner links to in my sig. Save your money and go see a more worthwhile movie this summer. Or you could rent/buy the series, which is fantastic, or the artbook, which is absolutely gorgeous and totally worth having. If you still want to see this trainwreck, at least do us all a favor and wait til it comes out on DVD so you can rent it. Paramount and Mr. Shyamalan do not deserve money for discrimination and slaughtered storytelling. Thank you all for hearing me out. We now return you to your regular Edoropolis Emporium experience.

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 (http://www.racebending.com)

Found this video interview on /Film. Very relevant to what you are talking about. You might be insulted as well.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/01/video-interview-m-night-shyamalan-on-the-last-airbender/

I can't watch videos right now, but I read something similar to this. That man has a seriously swollen ego and really needs to educate himself. Fortunately, reviewers have shown so far that the movie is a complete disaster, as I knew it would be.  This (http://io9.com/5576076/m-night-shyamalan-finally-made-a-comedy) is my favorite review so far. Be warned, those of you who don't like this sort of thing, there is a somewhat graphic metaphor in the fourth paragraph.

Now it's my turn to vent.

I've had interest in this film for a loooong time. I've followed every step of it's development. I never expected it to meet every standard or hit every que that Avatar fans would like. I've looked past the race bending issue. It's not like the film has an all white cast. It has a mutli-racial cast. It's just that the race of the actors doesn't match the race of the original characters on each one-to-one basis.
All that aside, all this movie had to do for me was to not suck.

But it sucks.

I was looking forward to seeing this movie all year. But now I can't, and it pisses me off. This whole year/summer of movies so far has been a let down. The best was Iron Man 2, and it was just good.

All that's left is what?... Inception. Christ.  :/

Obviously you haven't seen Toy Story 3, so your opinion isn't valid right now.

Heathen scum!

~Darc

Zomg!!!! I haven't seen TS3!!! Oh snap. Thanks for the reminder.

Well, maybe you're willing to ignore the most important issue, but many of us aren't. Paramount and Mr. Shyamalan can claim all they want that the film is "diverse", even going so far as to laughably and insultingly say that it's even "more diverse than the show", but they aren't fooling anyone. It's a blatant lie. You can't put white actors in the spotlight as the heroes, change all the villains and antagonists to having dark skin, and place everyone else in secondary roles or as extras, and then try to call that "diversity" because it just doesn't work that way. Why switch them in the first place? They can't say there were no talented Asians or Inuits, obviously that was proven wrong when they hired them to be background decoration. They can't say they hired the best actors for the job when so many critics are ripping apart the performances of the lead actors. And honestly, when was the last time you even saw an Inuit in the starring role of a film? This was the perfect opportunity to give to actors of color and to have some REAL diversity, but they blew it. They ignored it, brushed it off, and finally, tried to blame someone else for the problems and put a spin on it when it became evident that no one was buying their excuses.

I know race is a sensitive issue, that's why I haven't said very much about this here, even though it's important to me. It's sad for me to see how unimportant this is to some people. Throughout my protest of this movie, I've been accused of being racist myself, called names, been told I'm not a "true fan", been told I'm making a big deal over nothing, and all kinds of other crap. There are a lot of ignorant people in the world, some willfully, and I guess I'll just never understand it, but in the meantime, I'm going to do my part to see that studios and companies aren't rewarded when they try to pull this kind of stunt. The only way they'll learn is through negative publicity and to hit them where it hurts: the wallet.


And it certainly failed there, didn't it? This thing better not get a sequel or I'll be pissed.

Tigriss, how many times has anyone told you that you've actually managed to change or sway their mind on an issue?

Well you can hang this on your wall, because you've managed to change my mind.

You're absolutely right. (Though you didn't need me to tell you that) You've touched on a grander issue with this, and that is the "focus group" mentality of the current film industry. Art shouldn't have to be made to appeal to everyone, or what is thought to appeal to everyone. It's an absolute insult to an audience to change things because "we think some of you won't understand this".

2 days ago I tried to watch this movie but.....it just didn't got my interests, maybe it would have if it was 2D

I would like to apologize to everyone here... but... I saw this film in the theater. I am such a fool!!!
Please forgive me.
Incidentally, Soaka and Aang... dude, seriously? It's like calling Frodo "Bobo"!
Apparently, no good actors were available to Shyamalan for this effort. Too bad.

*Hits Blind with a newspaper on the nose* No. No. Bad Blind. No.

~Darc

You are forgiven.

Forgiveness breeds love.

Love defeats fear.

This ought to cheer everyone up.

http://tv.ign.com/articles/110/1107556p1.html

And at the end of the dark dark tunnel, a small speck of light shines forth to illuminate the shadows!  :D

for a moment I thought they wouldn't start the new one anymore

Well, I tried to warn you. I guess some people just need to find out the hard way.


This makes me very happy, to tell you the truth. If I can get even one person to understand why these issues are important, then I can feel like all the trouble and headaches have been worthwhile. Thank you.

It looks like you beat me to making the announcement about Korra, too. I'm very excited for this! And I've just read that The Track Team will once again be doing the music. I hope this new series will save the franchise from the trainwreck that is that awful movie. There's already a ton of fanart for it and they haven't even revealed her face yet! Avatar fans are pretty hardcore.

Got first season on DVD, I hope they start to release the second season on DVD soon here, been waiting for months...

I lent my Season 1 to my friends.

They never watched it.

Then they moved to a new apartment.

I'll never see it again.

 (>:()

My copy was stolen for a while, though I finally got it back. You have my sympathies.

Finally got season 2...

Really, you had me at Lance Henriksen

http://www.slashfilm.com/the-airbender-legend-korra-cast-announced/#more-99808

Well, I think it's time to remove the Racebending banner from my sig, since I never did like huge signatures anyway and I already have the banner Aster made for me. I'll just put it here in case anyone wants to visit the site. It's very educational. And in the event that hell freezes over and there is a sequel to that horrible movie, I'll put the banner back in my sig.

ATTENTION AVATAR FANS: A *trailer (http://media.mtvnservices.com/player/prime/mediaplayerprime.1.9.1.swf?uri=mgid:cms:video:nick.com:933818&type=normal&ref=None&geo=US&group=kids&&CONFIG_URL=http%3a%2f%2fmedia.mtvnservices.com%2fpmt%2fe1%2fplayers%2fmgid%3acms%3avideo%3anick.com%3a%2fconfig.xml%3furi%3dmgid%3acms%3avideo%3anick.com%3a933818%26type%3dnormal%26ref%3dNone%26geo%3dUS%26group%3dkids%26) for the new series, "The Legend of Korra", has just been released!

I may look calm on the outside, but on the inside I'm spazzing out in a manner worthy of the Foaming Mouth Guy. My brain is on Korra overload right now. But unfortunately, my internet is being stupid too (I think it got broken from the sheer awesomeness of the trailer alone), so I'll save my replies to other topics for another day. I just thought I'd stop by and alert any Avatar fans here who might be out of the loop.

*FYI, this is a large, HQ version

Yessss  :-*

I can't wait to see the animation, it looks absolutely amazing so far.

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Ohhhhhhh, man. THIS IS GONNA BE EPIC!!!!!!!1!!!111!

Here's the /Film update on it.

http://www.slashfilm.com/the-airbender-legend-korra-trailer/#more-108319

OMG J.K. Simmons is voicing this as well. This just keeps getting better.

Also, thanks Tigriss for posting a much better quality video.

I cant find season 3 anywhere, and I know it had been released here -_-

I can't say I've followed the series, so would someone be so kind to point out if this is supposed to be a sequel to the original series?
I'm currently interested from the story & chronology aspect.


As far as everything goes, it looks pretty decent at this point in time.
I'm glad you fans have something nice to look forward to especially after the movie letdown. ^_^

Yes, this is a direct sequel to the original series. It stars the next in line Avatar.

The creators of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” say that the new spinoff series “The Legend of Korra” will be more mature than the original show, but will still have the same sense of fun and adventure.

The first series took place in a world in which supernatural “benders” have the ability to manipulate the elements of air, earth, fire and water, and focused on Aang, a young airbender who turned out to be the Avatar, a person capable of controlling all the elements. The new series takes place 70 years later in the same world and follows the new Avatar, a teen girl named Korra who has learned to bend earth, water and fire and seeks to master air under the tutelage of Aang’s son, Tenzin.

Copied from this article, which is a little old, but has some nice dialogue with Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the creators. http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/07/21/legend-of-korra-the-creators-of-avatar-the-last-airbender-on-the-new-spinoff/ (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/07/21/legend-of-korra-the-creators-of-avatar-the-last-airbender-on-the-new-spinoff/)

Alright... found this, it made me laugh, and I wanted to share XD

(http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24500000/Korra-avatar-the-legend-of-korra-24502470-800-856.png)

link: http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24500000/Korra-avatar-the-legend-of-korra-24502470-800-856.png (http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24500000/Korra-avatar-the-legend-of-korra-24502470-800-856.png)

The series has been delayed till 2013...

I assumed it would be, since they were originally only going to have 12 episodes but Nickelodeon got them to tack on a bunch more (24+?).

Having the series be delayed isn't such a bad thing... that gives the animators and writers more time to do a good job, instead of rushing through and settling for lesser quality.

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Good point. And they make more hype that way, more hype, more viewers.

Slow Aster is slow. ;] But that's okay, anything by Booter-Freak is always good for a laugh.


I don't think that's been confirmed at this point, but I'm going to be ticked if it is. I could handle waiting til 2012, but 2013 is just crazy. And from the way they were talking about the show earlier, it didn't sound like there were any causes for a major delay like that, unless Nickelodeon is being stupid again.

Today I served a lady with her own custom made avatar shirt. She had hand-stitched tiny representations of katara, sokka, ang, toph, and zuko. Looked almost like game sprites.