errr, but that’s exactly what it does. the avatar state is a culmination of
a) the cosmic energy around them all
b) the power and wisdom of all previous avatars combined
thus, her achieving avatar state allows her to energybend because aang had learned it. any avatar after aang that achieves the avatar state can learn how to energybend. it’s kind of a cop out as to how they made her able to achieve the avatar state (“OH YOU ARE SAD NOW THAT MEANS YOU ARE SPIRITUAL HURRR” – which by the way, doesn’t really make sense because she was just as depressed and scared after facing amon on that island), but her learning energybending was absolutely gonna happen at some point. i’m just sad that they rushed through it to such a degree… regardless of what you thought it would’ve been cool to see her struggle to come to terms with her bending a little in season 2. it would provide some character depth that was otherwise shattered due to the silly love triangle.
Since when did a ‘sequel’ series (or a spinoff) become narrowly defined by a fewer number of episodes?
What does that have to do with anything? It’s not like people forgot about the show and even though the movie tanked it gave the show some more views.
A time skip in the story doesn’t determine a season’s length. That’s a flimsy argument.
As much as I hope this isn’t the case you might be on to something there.
When I say “rushed” I mean we get 12 tightly packed episodes without an ounce of filler. Everything is to move the main plot forward and part of what made Avatar so great in the first place is the time spent building the world. In 70 years the world has changed and we only spent our time in Republic City. There is a great cast of characters here, possibly even better than the original series, but we get to know them on a roller coaster.
But see, I trust that the writers did their absolute best with what they were given so again, why were they given so little by Nick when they had given them one of their best shows of all time before? If I had Nick I wouldn’t watch that channel for any other reason by the Avatar series. That’s pretty important to realize, that it’s reaching a demographic that is largely out of Nick’s scope.
And that leads me to another point. Wtf Nick?! Where is the merchandise and other media (cartoon movie shorts or video games) at? And what has come before hasn’t been particularly any good. I should honestly be sick of Avatar but I have to turn over rocks to get more of it. Outside of this franchise I don’t think there has been an ORIGINAL animation that has made as much as an impact. The only good story driven cartoons with great action that come from America are based on comic books. Not to say there hasn’t been any good original American cartoons but few if any in the last decade or so have had quite the same depth as Avatar.
(Our comedic fare is always awesome)
Amon being a fraud is the best possible ending. It doesn’t undermine squat; people like him will lie to get what they want. And this leaves the door wide open for further bender/non-bender tension.
Not sure why people think this is faulty storytelling. Frauds do this shit all the time, in real life too.
but he did care. his father abusing them for the sake of improving their bending sort of instilled that part of his philosophy. i think he really did not like bending, even if he was a prodigy.
i thught it was established that Amon did in fact care about equality. He just lied about his back story because “I was the son of a blood bending criminal” is less sympathetic then “My family was killed, and I was scared by a nutso firebender”
Amon was all about the power of image.
I can’t help but wonder…closing the Chakra in the forhead makes you into a non-bender…can one open the chakra in a non-bender and make them into a bender? Hmmm I wonder.
I dunno, I think that “I was the son of the most powerful blood bender in the world and I was so horrified by what my father had done and what I had learned to do that I decided to quit bending forever and make that decision for people unwilling to do so themselves” would have been a more powerful story. People who’s parents get killed by fire benders are a dime a dozen in this story.
“But there hasn’t been a war for 100 years so that means bending is weak now!”
Episode proceeds to describe how in peacetime a guy who can’t bend trained two kids to master blood bending without a full moon and make everyone who said that look dumb.
Thanks for making all those dumb people look dumb by being dumb show that can be pretty dumb at times.
Pretty cool to have a villain who flaunts all the rules of the previous three seasons about water bending AND is a master of Tai Lee kung fu but loses after finally sealing the bending of the Avatar when she randomly unlocks the element she has been shown the least competent in to a point where she hasn’t even done in the series.
A little Avatar Stating and that scene wouldn’t have been as weird, but whatever, Aang just comes back and fixes it in the end anyway.
That was totally way better than the first series.
Non snark aside, fire bending got some nice play in this episode with some of the Iroh stuff and fire wall parkour. Glad to see Earthbenders still don’t know that they can bend the earth under those tanks. I guess they are the dumbest of the 4 benders or something. That totally must be the reason.
Weird that Katara who first hand was taught the power of blood bending and was the wife of Aang who was almost killed as an adult by someone who could blood bend without a full moon wouldn’t teach the new Avatar any anti blood bending techs.
Still think it’s weird that the water benders can’t take the moisture from the air yet.
Cool beans how a guy can take lightning to the face and get blown through a window and be cool. Dragon Dragon ROCK THE DRAGON, DRAGON BALL Z.
Who you trollin’? By his time Yukon knew blood bending existed and you needed to be a water bender to do it. He could have just tried to learn on living things whenever he had the spare time and realized he could go even further by not needing a full moon or even hand motions. Blood bending in The Last Airbender was discovered by some woman living in some jail or some shit, no? She had no skin in any war. Katara was the one to use it during the invasion and she outlawed it as soon as she could.
He didn’t need blood bending himself in order to help train someone in it. He knew how he did it and how a water bender strong enough could learn it. Although his son sonned him without it.
