It's not one of those shows that's great because it has some incredible plot twists or did anything really avant-garde for a kid's show, but what it does excel at is being consistently high quality in pacing, writing, storytelling, etc. In other words, there's no 10/10 moments that I can remember but each episode feels like a solid 8/10 throughout. Any moment that you could consider "filler" just feels comfy.
If you're under 18 and/or you really like shounen anime you'll like it.
Yeah what else is on your list? Let me guess - Death Note i bet, and Fullmetal Alchemist
Good: >Quality fight scenes. Actually good choreography for a kids show >Original setting and lore >Improves with each season >Its a kids show where they go on an actual adventure. No status quo bullshit, they’re actually traveling the world and working towards a goal >Few 10/10 jokes >Well-written characters: Zuko, Iroh, Aang >Combustion Man >features my original waifu Toph
Bad: >First season is shaky >Ozai is a little bland next to Azula and even some minor villains like the bloodbender lady >Few very bad episodes (The grand canyon episode jesus christ) >Lion Turtle gets one (1) five second scene of foreshadowing >Said foreshadowing doesnt even hint at what he can do. I.E. writers wrote themselves into a corner >Zuko’s mom cliffhanger was a little weak >Toph gets sidelined in a major way Pretty good show. Everything afterwards, Korra, the comics, the movies, has all been total trash.
Its kind of sad Avatar gets so much praise. This should be the bare minimum for children’s entertainment in America. Meanwhile Japanese kids get to watch Lupin III while we were stuck with Scooby Doo. No wonder we have so many gays
Your "Good" list sounds like a teenager whose only experience with media is through cartoons wrote it.
>But not much there if you're over the age of 15 or aren't riding nostalgia.
Watched it at 30. Loved it.
I bet you have a funco pop collection and a baby yoda t-shirt.
It's the best western animated show for sure but that's a low bar. It gets hyped up a bit too much. the pilot is childish and the middle of s1 is trash. I don't know how any adult got into it. S2 and up is as good as anime shonen anime. The ending is exactly how you should end a show.
The energy bending turtle resolution to the fire nation question is an awful cop out. Shows how limited kids media is in the US if you couldn't just off Ozai.
Aang never kills a single person in the entire show. Yeah its ridiculous that Sokka or “You killed my mom!!” Katara never offs a few fire nation footsoldiers, but with Aang it makes sense. He’s a pacifist.
It's pretty much reddit meets netflix meets globohomosexual feminism. Basically it's feminism the show made to hypnotise the viewer into thinking "white men bad" and "POC women good". There isn't really much more to this dreary show than that.
Aang and Sokka aren't really led around by the female characters and it's arguable whether the girls are any more competent than them. Katara's "competence" is portrayed as her being an uptight busybody who needs to chill out. She also gets drunk on power in a way that none of the others do. And Toph is a rebellious brat and something of a bad influence.
And while Zuko did start out weaker than Azula, it was treated like a dark side of the force type thing where being a murderous bastard is easy mode. Zuko took the more difficult road and wound up stronger for it. Really, Zuko and Azula are, if anything, anti-SJW pandering. The boy is so innately righteous that being raised as a villain causes him mental anguish while the girl is psychotically evil and is never redeemed.
Really it is Zuko grows stronger as Azula grows weaker.
At peak, she's above him.
But isolation and untreated mental illness left her sloppy and frail, while he got healing and came out better for it.
Ursa I think is one of the most under-hated characters in animation.
I'm still as racist as I was before watching this. And I watched it as both a kid and an adult. Although to be fair, I wasn't really into it as a kid, so it didn't have an impact on my life.
Probably the GOAT western cartoon.
Had a story in mind, went in and executed it, then ended. No true filler, no pushing agenda, no running too many seasons too long - just good fun times through and through. Pretty much all stuff I hear the sequel thing fell victim to which is why I won't bother with it
It has some wokeshit, but it could be worse. It's pretty fun all things considered. Wasted potential. Not a lot happens in a season. The elf waifu is cute.
You know how people complain about how Buffy or whatever it's called spawned the turbo quipspeak everyone hates? It's bullshit, it was Avatar. Also, the protag is wet paper being pushed around by the unlikeable girlboss.
Good: >Quality fight scenes. Actually good choreography for a kids show >Original setting and lore >Improves with each season >Its a kids show where they go on an actual adventure. No status quo bullshit, they’re actually traveling the world and working towards a goal >Few 10/10 jokes >Well-written characters: Zuko, Iroh, Aang >Combustion Man >features my original waifu Toph
Bad: >First season is shaky >Ozai is a little bland next to Azula and even some minor villains like the bloodbender lady >Few very bad episodes (The grand canyon episode jesus christ) >Lion Turtle gets one (1) five second scene of foreshadowing >Said foreshadowing doesnt even hint at what he can do. I.E. writers wrote themselves into a corner >Zuko’s mom cliffhanger was a little weak >Toph gets sidelined in a major way Pretty good show. Everything afterwards, Korra, the comics, the movies, has all been total trash.
Its kind of sad Avatar gets so much praise. This should be the bare minimum for children’s entertainment in America. Meanwhile Japanese kids get to watch Lupin III while we were stuck with Scooby Doo. No wonder we have so many gays
>Few very bad episodes (The grand canyon episode jesus christ)
The grand canyon episode was bad but what made it worse was the fact nick would play it all the time on rereuns. It was always the go-to rerun episode for whatever reason.
If I had to guess they did reruns because it wasnt a plot essential episode. Very few of their shows had ongoing stories, they were self-contained Spongebob type shit
Didn't you have dragon ball Z?
Here we had plenty of japanese shit ever since Grendizer. The dubs were absolute cancer tho, you could tell the translators and VAs had nothing but disdain for japanese cartoons.
Really?
I think it is a bit janky and facile, imo.
The animation is generally only 'okay' and sometimes it can just be ugly.
The character writing is decent, but very obvious. There are only a handful of moments that come to mind that were really good. The flashback to the older Avatars talking about how they dealt with life-and-death struggles (the water guy not having any, Kyoshi killing her enemy, Roku failing against his) was about the best moment, imo.
Great for kids, but I think if you're older it is too basic for most.
A show I'd love for my daughter to watch, but would be weirded out if my girlfriend loved it.
The ending is pure trash. The fact that he should have been forced to kill in the end and live with it, or his refusal to cost him nearly everything would have been a better ending.
I watched it when I was 30 and it was okay because it's obviously a kid's show but I know I probably would've loved it when I was younger. I'd definitely recommend it to kids. The adult fans are certainly carried by nostalgia but that's alright.
Even if you don't like season 1, season 2 kicks it into overdrive
The best
It’s pretty good.
If you can stomach the padding, it's pretty good.
There is barely any. Each season is 20 20 min episodes.
Yes. Easily the best kids show of all time
one of the best TV shows of all time. there's like 1 meh episode per season and its always the self-contained staff writer ones.
Just watch it
gugu
It's good, hope you have fun
ok
I love water tribe girls
Good taste.
I watched it for the first time at the age of 33 during the second forsen ban on twitch. It is fun watching while chatting with other autists.
It's not one of those shows that's great because it has some incredible plot twists or did anything really avant-garde for a kid's show, but what it does excel at is being consistently high quality in pacing, writing, storytelling, etc. In other words, there's no 10/10 moments that I can remember but each episode feels like a solid 8/10 throughout. Any moment that you could consider "filler" just feels comfy.
True enough, but i'd like to say that the storm was pretty close to 10/10. The first duel between zuko and jao was top tier as well.
Too Asian.
It's very good and they will forever be trying to make new entries in the franchise, which don't match up to it.
It is literally one of the best shows ever created
If you're under 18 and/or you really like shounen anime you'll like it.
Yeah what else is on your list? Let me guess - Death Note i bet, and Fullmetal Alchemist
Your "Good" list sounds like a teenager whose only experience with media is through cartoons wrote it.
I bet you have a funco pop collection and a baby yoda t-shirt.
Black person.
I love fire Nation girls
Essential zillennialcore
It's the best western animated show for sure but that's a low bar. It gets hyped up a bit too much. the pilot is childish and the middle of s1 is trash. I don't know how any adult got into it. S2 and up is as good as anime shonen anime. The ending is exactly how you should end a show.
Was this entire post meant to be ironic? It’s completely wrong.
He's right. At the end of the day it's a childrens cartoon, and the first few episodes really reflect that.
You'd be hard-pressed finding a better kids show.
The energy bending turtle resolution to the fire nation question is an awful cop out. Shows how limited kids media is in the US if you couldn't just off Ozai.
Aang never kills a single person in the entire show. Yeah its ridiculous that Sokka or “You killed my mom!!” Katara never offs a few fire nation footsoldiers, but with Aang it makes sense. He’s a pacifist.
It is. Literally the best animated series made by westoids (ok I think the animators were Koreans, probably the same guys who animate Japanese anime).
The only problem (besides the awfulness of canon ships) is that the hero doesn't kill a genocidally evil opponent.
It's pretty much reddit meets netflix meets globohomosexual feminism. Basically it's feminism the show made to hypnotise the viewer into thinking "white men bad" and "POC women good". There isn't really much more to this dreary show than that.
>it's feminism the show made to hypnotise the viewer into thinking "white men bad" and "POC women good"
You sure we watched the same show?
Aang and Sokka aren't really led around by the female characters and it's arguable whether the girls are any more competent than them. Katara's "competence" is portrayed as her being an uptight busybody who needs to chill out. She also gets drunk on power in a way that none of the others do. And Toph is a rebellious brat and something of a bad influence.
And while Zuko did start out weaker than Azula, it was treated like a dark side of the force type thing where being a murderous bastard is easy mode. Zuko took the more difficult road and wound up stronger for it. Really, Zuko and Azula are, if anything, anti-SJW pandering. The boy is so innately righteous that being raised as a villain causes him mental anguish while the girl is psychotically evil and is never redeemed.
>the girl is psychotically evil and is never redeemed
I can fix her
Wow, that was a pretty good analysis/interpretation, Anon.
Go and get yourself a cookie. You deserve it.
Really it is Zuko grows stronger as Azula grows weaker.
At peak, she's above him.
But isolation and untreated mental illness left her sloppy and frail, while he got healing and came out better for it.
Ursa I think is one of the most under-hated characters in animation.
I'm still as racist as I was before watching this. And I watched it as both a kid and an adult. Although to be fair, I wasn't really into it as a kid, so it didn't have an impact on my life.
we aren't talking about a gay ass Black personhomosexual sequel series that doesn't really exist though
Probably the GOAT western cartoon.
Had a story in mind, went in and executed it, then ended. No true filler, no pushing agenda, no running too many seasons too long - just good fun times through and through. Pretty much all stuff I hear the sequel thing fell victim to which is why I won't bother with it
How's the Dragon Prince thing? Shitty animation aside, it looks too woke.
It has some wokeshit, but it could be worse. It's pretty fun all things considered. Wasted potential. Not a lot happens in a season. The elf waifu is cute.
You know how people complain about how Buffy or whatever it's called spawned the turbo quipspeak everyone hates? It's bullshit, it was Avatar. Also, the protag is wet paper being pushed around by the unlikeable girlboss.
The quipping in Avatar is not even close to whedonshit.
I gained an incest fetish because of it
Ty Lee's tummy
I wouldn't say it's the best show ever made... but I will say I've never had more fun watching a show
Good:
>Quality fight scenes. Actually good choreography for a kids show
>Original setting and lore
>Improves with each season
>Its a kids show where they go on an actual adventure. No status quo bullshit, they’re actually traveling the world and working towards a goal
>Few 10/10 jokes
>Well-written characters: Zuko, Iroh, Aang
>Combustion Man
>features my original waifu Toph
Bad:
>First season is shaky
>Ozai is a little bland next to Azula and even some minor villains like the bloodbender lady
>Few very bad episodes (The grand canyon episode jesus christ)
>Lion Turtle gets one (1) five second scene of foreshadowing
>Said foreshadowing doesnt even hint at what he can do. I.E. writers wrote themselves into a corner
>Zuko’s mom cliffhanger was a little weak
>Toph gets sidelined in a major way Pretty good show. Everything afterwards, Korra, the comics, the movies, has all been total trash.
Its kind of sad Avatar gets so much praise. This should be the bare minimum for children’s entertainment in America. Meanwhile Japanese kids get to watch Lupin III while we were stuck with Scooby Doo. No wonder we have so many gays
>Few very bad episodes (The grand canyon episode jesus christ)
The grand canyon episode was bad but what made it worse was the fact nick would play it all the time on rereuns. It was always the go-to rerun episode for whatever reason.
If I had to guess they did reruns because it wasnt a plot essential episode. Very few of their shows had ongoing stories, they were self-contained Spongebob type shit
That makes a lot of sense, never thought of it like that.
Didn't you have dragon ball Z?
Here we had plenty of japanese shit ever since Grendizer. The dubs were absolute cancer tho, you could tell the translators and VAs had nothing but disdain for japanese cartoons.
No it's a fricking kids show adults will meme you as being a masterpiece of character writing
No.
>feminism
>if you kill your enemies they win
>villain has zero development
It is okay.
Better than like Naruto or whatever.
But not much there if you're over the age of 15 or aren't riding nostalgia.
Azula still is the best, regardless.
>But not much there if you're over the age of 15 or aren't riding nostalgia.
Watched it at 30. Loved it.
Really?
I think it is a bit janky and facile, imo.
The animation is generally only 'okay' and sometimes it can just be ugly.
The character writing is decent, but very obvious. There are only a handful of moments that come to mind that were really good. The flashback to the older Avatars talking about how they dealt with life-and-death struggles (the water guy not having any, Kyoshi killing her enemy, Roku failing against his) was about the best moment, imo.
Great for kids, but I think if you're older it is too basic for most.
A show I'd love for my daughter to watch, but would be weirded out if my girlfriend loved it.
Almost, which is pretty good.
The ending is pure trash. The fact that he should have been forced to kill in the end and live with it, or his refusal to cost him nearly everything would have been a better ending.
Its one of the few shows you can watch with your family, and your family will actually enjoy.
I watched it when I was 30 and it was okay because it's obviously a kid's show but I know I probably would've loved it when I was younger. I'd definitely recommend it to kids. The adult fans are certainly carried by nostalgia but that's alright.