This new show was first teased on the Avatar YouTube channel on Friday, where it was described as a new Avatar series capping off the channel’s three-day celebration of Earth Day.
The trailer brings up a few specific examples, including which kind of bending is best, and which ships are everyone’s favorites. The series will be called Avatar: Four Nations Forum, and it will feature a panel of Avatar super fans taking on some of the series’ biggest questions in a roundtable format. The new series was officially announced on Monday, along with a short trailer that gave fans a preview of the kind of topics and Avatar-themed arguments the show will be centered on. Currently, without a set cast, and with the absence of the creators, fans remain pessimistic.Avatar: The Last Airbender’s newest series is going to be a discussion show on YouTube.
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Despite such popularity, with the rise of the 2010 movie adaptation that stripped away these important Asian aspects, fans fear that history may repeat itself in Netflix’s 2021 live action TV series. This June, Netflix added the original “Avatar the Last Airbender” TV series to its platform, where it broke the record for being on Netflix’s top 10 most watched list for the longest period of time (61 days). The spirituality that epitomized the entire Avatar world was condensed and simplified to represent vague magical powers rather than the real Asian martial arts that each of the elemental bendings was based on, such as Hung Ga 洪家 (earthbending), Taichi 太極拳 (water bending), Bagua 八卦掌 (air bending) and Northern Shaolin 少林武術 (fire bending). Such animated artwork serves as important representation for young Asian Americans across the globe.Īs a stark contrast, every character in the live action movie, except, ironically, the villain, was cast with a non-Asian actor. The Earth Kingdom’s most well- known city, Ba Sing Se, not only modeled Chinese-speaking citizens but was designed to resemble China’s capital, Beijing. The Fire Nation war attire closely matched Japan’s traditional pre-Westernized samurai armor, while the emphasis of honor in the Fire Nation modeled that of Japanese culture. Avatar the Last Airbender pulled influence from various Asian countries, and accurately portrayed their cultures through displays of native scenery, clothing, and values.įor example, Sokka and Katara’s designs were inspired by the Inuit people, while Aang’s nomadic lifestyle and spirituality closely resembled that of Buddhist Monks.
The characteristically Asian inspired artwork, character designs and storyline drew people into a unique world, even though it was created in America by non-Asians. While addressing heavy topics such as genocide, revolution and war, the original show departed from the normal Western-centric standpoint of many other American cartoons. So fans are left to fear another disastrous adaptation of the well- known, Asian-inspired show once close to many people’s hearts. Now a decade has passed, and a new live action TV series adaptation will eventually appear on Netflix.ĭevastatingly, the creators announced that they would not be working on this new production due to creative differences. But when fans needed them most, they vanished. Only the creators of the show, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko-the true masters of the Avatar world-could have stopped these changes from happening. Then, everything changed with the live action movie adaptation, released in 2010, which was cast with Caucasians. Fans of the hit television show Avatar the Last Airbender loved immersing themselves in this creative, Asian-inspired fantasy world. It followed siblings Katara (voiced by Mae Whitman) and Sokka (voiced by Jack DeSena) on their journey to help young Aang (voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen) save the world from the tyrannical Fire Lord of the Fire Nation. The show was beloved, and ran for three seasons on Nickelodeon, from 2005-2008. In the spirit of the show’s opening: The elements of Water, earth, fire, air can be bent at will by the characters. Many fans agree that the introduction to every episode of the original animated series “Avatar the Last Airbender” is one of the most recognizable and beloved aspects of the Avatar world. Skeptical fans are not optimistic about the outcome. CADY-BREE ABE WRITES - The new Netflix live action “Avatar the Last Airbender” TV series was set for release in 2020, but due to COVID-19, production has been delayed until 2021.
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