TV Review: Avatar – The Last Airbender Series
1 Comment// Posted in Reviews by Sean on 08.25.09.
I recently completely finished the Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender in it’s entirety. It is 3 seasons long, and I watched all but the last few episodes all in a row, and recently finished the last few finally. Those who haven’t seen it are probably asking why I, a 21-year-old college student would be watching a Nickelodeon cartoon. Well, Avatar is serialized and very serious. It is not a children’s cartoon, all about action and dumb puns. It is full of action, some genuinely funny moments, tragedy, and so much emotion. People die, there’s love; it has everything. Avatar: The Last Airbender is much closer to your average prime-time medical drama (but better) than any Nickelodeon cartoon.
But what exactly is Avatar about?
Avatar is a tale of 4 nations (the air nation, water, earth, and fire), each nation having benders (people with the ability to bend, or use that particular element to fight or do whatever). The avatar is a person who knows how to bend each element, and his/her job is to bring all of the nations together and keep peace. The current Avatar freezing himself in ice for 100 years (sort of accidentally) because he is afraid of taking the responsibility. During this time, the fire nation begins its conquest to take over all of the nations. Two kids find and wake up the Avatar, and they begin their journey to defeat the Fire Lord and restore peace to the world, making friends and enemies along the way.
After watching the entire series, I have to say this has to be one of the greatest television series ever created. There are maybe 4 episodes that are pretty poor and nothing really happens in them, but every single other episode is packed full of emotion. And that is what I love so much about Avatar. There is such raw emotion in this series, especially the love between father/mother and son/daughter. A good chunk of the series is solely focused on the son of the the Fire Lord trying to restore his honer to his father, because his father was forced to kill his son to become the fire lord, but his son refused to fight and was kicked out of the nation for not having honer. There is a part near the end of the series between two family members that nearly made me cry. Yes I’ll admit it, and it’ll make you cry too if you watch the whole series through. Do it. Now.
I’m incredibly upset that the series ended, but I’m also excited for M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming movie adaption of the show. If you heard this news then you might have wondered why in the heck Shyamalan would do an adaption of a children’s cartoon. Well now you know why.
So once again, watch the whole series from beginning to end, preferably all at once (roughly at once, you know what I mean). But it’ll be spectacular either way.
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