Avatar: The Last Airbender
 

The thing that got me into this show was seeing a little blind girl kick the ground as powerfully as she did, making the earth shake, and I thought "Daggone, that was cool!".

The main characters of the show: Aang, the fun-loving, 12-year-old Airbender of the series.
Toph Bei Fong, a 12-year-old, blind Earthbender who leaves her wealthy lifestyle and home to join Aang on his quest.
Katara, the 14-year-old Waterbender with the mothering nature of the gang.
And Sokka, the sibling of Katara and a goofy, 15 year old Firebender.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in several countries), is an American animated television series that currently airs on the television network Nickelodeon. Set in an Asian-influenced world of martial arts and elemental magic, the series follows the adventures of the successor to a long line of Avatars, Aang, and his friends Katara, Sokka, and Toph along with their animal companions, Appa and Momo, in their quest to save the world from the ruthless Fire Nation, while avoiding capture from Fire Nation pursuers including Prince Zuko and Princess Azula.

I love Avatar: The Last Airbender, but Sokka isn't a firebender! I can already imagine him hissing at the thought. ;P
Toph is the absolute coolest. AND she's the only Earthbender that can bend metal! I didn't actually get into the show until several months ago, when my bro's girlfriend lent us her Book I: Water DVD. I was hooked with the first episode. I had never given the show a chance on Nick before because I thought it was another one of those Totally Spies Japanimation fakes that made my skin crawl. Avatar's animation still isn't the most awesome, but the plot, storyline, and strong influence of Asian myth and martial arts really impressed me. It's addictive, and I can't wait for season 3.

I absolutely love this show, but I don't much watch it unless there's a new episode. The re-runs they show are often the episodes where Spoiler Below
My absolute favorite character is Uncle Iroh. He's the kind of uncle I wish
I had! Not to mention he's the second of the comic relief in the show (next to Sokka) and a powerful firebender.:D

This is one of those shows that has a bad time slot for me to catch. I'd love to watch it but my VCR tapes things... Badly. I might go out and buy the box set when I have some money because this show is pretty darn cool from what I've seen of it :D

Yay for good Nick shows XD

Yes, I really like this show, but I've decided not to watch it on TV. I wanna watch them in order(I'm obsessive like that). So, after I get some money, I'ma buy Book 1.

What really hooked me into this show was the fact that I recognized some of the 'bending moves from martial arts class. It went something like: "OMGIKNOWTHAT!!!" *jumps up and does it* "It's called ___" My friend: "...Right." Hehe.

But yes, Toph is the coolest. Sokka too. ^^

This seems like an awesome show, but sadly, I still haven't been able to properly get into it. I really want to watch this show from the very beginning, instead of just randomly jumping in.

i like it, but i dont watch it all the time, nor try to see every episode in order. i was physiced(i dont think thats how to spell that) about the pilot and really enjoyed it since the beggining, but its on nick, and i spend about half my day on cn. but i still watch it when i see it. cool show. liked season 2 more so far

I love love love this show. I have a DVR so I've been able to watch them from the begining, and still have all of them saved on it. One day I will figure out how to hook it up to my computer so I can burn it to DVD. I love Appa, and wish I had a cool pet like that. My favorite episodes so far were when they were in the northpole learning waterbending. The scenery in those episodes were amazing.

Uh I know I'm not a fan of this show and I've never really seen an episode or gotten into it so I won't say much about the show itself in general. But....I found something that is pretty damn big

I think the Avatar fans would want to see this:

http://www.mania.com/53268.html

OHLORD. ... I'm not sure I'm quite cracked up about this...

...I might warm up to the idea, but right now I'm just not feelin' it. o.o

Indeed they would, Mr. Marshmallow. Much love for sharing that link. I knew Avatar was fairly popular (enough to get BK toys, anyway) but I didn't really know it had gained enough popularity to get a movie deal with M. Night Shyamalan as writer, director, and producer. Hopefully I'll still be a rabid fan of the show by the time that movie is released. :3

EDIT: This'll be someone else's material, thus, we won't be getting anything like The Village and Lady in the Water. Phew.

I too have never really watched Avatar: The Last Airbender (or Legend of Aang as it's called in the UK, as the word "bender" has, uh, connotations in this country 8D ), but from what I've seen of it it's surprisingly well-done for what could easily have been an anaemic anime-lite.

Even so, I couldn't help noticing the M. Night Shyamalan news...a possible movie trilogy from a big-name, reputed writer director? I didn't realise the franchise was that big. Still, the most interesting thing about this project is the fact that it's been announced almost the same day that James Cameron (Titanic, Terminator, Aliens) announced he's finally starting production on his long (long, LONG)-in-gestation new project, a massively expensive sci-fi epic entitled...uh, "Avatar". :wiltshock: If both movie projects go ahead as planned, this could get pretty interesting, because so far both Paramount (who are producing the Airbender movie) and Fox (who are producing Cameron's) are dead-set on using the title "Avatar", and neither seem willing to back down.

The combined forces of Paramount, Shyamalan and Nickelodeon vs. Fox, James Cameron and the most expensive movie of all time...heck, this saga might potentially end up more interesting than either film! I'll get the popcorn in...:P

What? There's no "vs" because the two projects are completely unrelated to each other and there is no competition other than the box office. Apparently, Cameron has been working on his sci-fi/action-adventure project for about 11 years and the name "Avatar" is Fox's deal, not Nickelodeon's "Avatar: The Last Airbender" or Paramount Picture's. There's no tug-of-war style fighting for the name.

Hey, I'm just reporting it as I've heard it.

From EmpireOnline, the website of the UK's biggest movie magazine, and a reliable source;
"And what about all this title confusion? The nightmare scenario of little tots going in to see a kids movie only to be confronted with Cameron?s sci-fi epic ? or, even worse, discerning sci-fi fans being confronted with childish derring-do ? looms over both projects. But neither studio is giving an inch. Paramount say that they have registered the title of this project with the Motion Picture Association of America, while Fox (who are producing Cameron?s film) said, ?We own the movie title 'Avatar.' There won't be another film called 'Avatar' coming from anyplace." Oooh, dem?s fightin? words. It looks like someone?s going to have to back down, but it will probably be months or years before this p*ssing contest comes to an end, so keep watching this space."

You might be right, though; after all, slapping the show's subtitle on the Shyamalan movie would be an easy way to provide some disambiguation, so maybe Empire are just stirring a bit. Nevertheless, I'd say that both Fox and Paramount would be very keen to keep these two films as far apart at the box office as possible, because subtitle or no, having two completely different films called "Avatar" coming out at the same time would be a source of huge confusion. The large timescale involved in making Cameron's film might help in that respect.

In any case, it's still odd the way it's happened. ;)

I honestly find it pathetic that there could actually be a legal and publicity tug-of-war over a generic word like "Avatar". I REALLY hope that's just the media stirring things up. :jk:

Probably is, which is why I don't really buy into those two production companies clawing over the title "Avatar".

"It looks like someone’s going to have to back down, but it will probably be months or years before this p*ssing contest comes to an end, so keep watching this space."

That sounds like EmpireOnline's own words. I think whoever wrote that might have blown things a wee bit out of proportion or read more into it as the media typically does, remember? Stirring things up is its sole reason for existing. And anyway, judging by the time Cameron has already spent working on his project, his own sci-fi flick will most likely be released sooner as Shyamalan hasn't done so much as signed a deal for the "Avatar" trilogy. So, all this commotion for nothing. :3 Anyway, a quarrel isn't something I'll be looking out for, but rather the progress of the film. I'm always a little shaky about live-action film adaptations of cartoons, but I think "Avatar" might work out great. Hope that project doesn't fall through.

I also think this "Avatar" name tag battle doesn't hold much water. Copyright laws don't really go at it unless there's a completely and total duplication of a name or character as a whole, which in this case there is no total duplication going on here.

The show is called "Avatar: the last air bender" and Cameron's movie is called "Avatar", BIG difference. The cartoon show's full name is 5 words, 4 more different then the movie "Avatar". Unless the live movie of the show was gonna be called "Avatar", then that'd be a problem, but I doubt it very much so.

I think the problem here is that Shamalyn is doing something risky and possibly dangerous. While a fantasy director is the ideal candidate for this project, his last two movies honestly sucked if you asked me and bringing a TV show to life is a big project to tackle.

If the movie looks interesting enough maybe I'll go see it but I'm not an Avatar fan, but then again i don't hate the show so we'll see where this goes.

The thing is, Shyamalan's two last flicks were his own. Honestly, I'm a little relieved that he'll finally get to work with something different (someone else's work) and we'll see how he cuts it as a director and producer. If he gets "Avatar: The Last Airbender", chances are we won't be getting another movie that'll fall flat like Lady in the Water. I think he might nail it this time. He's probably been going through a dry spell is all, because that man is brilliant.

Ugg, I hope M. Night does justice to it, but not being a big fan of his I'm seriously skeptical about it. I've been skeptical about other movies as well (Interview with a Vampire being one) and I've been happily proven wrong, I hope he does the same.

Yeah, I was quite interested to see what long-term Avatar fans would make of this news actually, because whilst M. Night Shyamalan is quite a prestigious writer-director, he's hardly universally adored; in fact, he's one of the most divisive filmmakers out there, with as many people really despising his body of work as there are that think he's a genius. Combine that with the fact that he's just come off the back of the relative failure of The Village and the absolute failure of Lady In The Water, and I can see why some Avatar fans might be more worried about this than actually pleased about it...

Still, a word of encouragement; do bear in mind that this isn't actually Shyamalan's first stab at adapting a beloved children's story. People tend to overlook it, but even though he didn't direct it, he was the main credited writer on the first Stuart Little movie. You can hardly say that the resulting film screamed "Shyamalan", which shows that he is flexible enough to put his own idiosyncracies aside in order to serve the material, if that's what's required...

I have my doubts about Shyamlan as director but I am kind of dissapointed that it won't be animated. Outside of anime, animated movies are a dying breed and cgi movies are loosing their charm since they have flooded the market.
I do think that this movie, if done right, could be one heck of a ride. I'm actually hopeing that it is something similar to the original Ninja Turtles movie. I really hope that they cast Mako as the live version of Iroh. The man made that role as great as it is and he even looks like him. :bloosmirk:

Sadly, Mako passed away from cancer last year.

Yeah, I found that out on another board after I posted this. It's a real shame.:(

One of my only anime exceptions, I'll watch this when nothing else is on.
Won't see that movie until Nick airs it though.

For a second I though you said "...untill Chuck (Norris) stars in it though." Don't ask me how I did that.8D

Yeah, I know Sokka is not a Firebender NOW. Believe me, I won't trust Wikipedia on Avatar: TLAB ever again either.