When his navy attacks the Northern Water Tribe, Zhao kills the moon spirit Yue, the princess of the tribe, sacrifices her life to revive it, and Aang drives off the enemy fleet. Prince Zuko, the banished son of the current Fire Lord Ozai, pursues them, accompanied by his uncle Iroh, hoping to capture the Avatar to restore his honor.Īang is also pursued by Zhao, a Fire Nation admiral aspiring to win Ozai’s favor.

In the first season, Aang travels with Katara and Sokka to the Northern Water Tribe so he can learn waterbending and be prepared to defeat the Fire Nation. RELATED: Download More Hollywood Action Movies One hundred years later, Katara and Sokka, teenagers of the Southern Water Tribe, accidentally discover Aang and revive him. Knowing that the Avatar must be an Air Nomad, he carried out a genocide against the Air Nomads with the help of a comet enhancing firebenders’ power. Shortly after, Fire Lord Sozin, the ruler of the Fire Nation, launched a world war to expand his nation’s empire. Even The Last Airbender's problems - a highlight reel of lessons for future adaptations - have laid the groundwork for what could become the greatest Avatar: The Last Airbenderstory ever told.He encased himself in suspended animation in an iceberg near the South Pole. By combining long-term storytelling with live-action elements, Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender show has all the elements needed to do justice to the source material, possibly even becoming a more relatable and better version of the original cartoon - depending on the performance of its actors. Indeed, the Netflix adaptation has the distinct advantage of fleshing out Avatar's lore and story through the series format, which is much more appropriate for a story like Avatar Aang's journey. Furthermore, the details revealed by Netflix indicate that, although there will be departures from the original story, it will largely stay faithful to the animated series.

In fact, showrunners already avoided Shyamalan's whitewashing controversy based on Netflix's Avatar cast, which most notably features Gordon Cormier as Avatar Aang, Kiawentiio Tarbell as Katara, and Daniel Dae Kim as Firelord Ozai.

While it seems that even Shyamalan is uninterested in pursuing The Last Airbender 2, the good news for long-time viewers of the franchise is that Netflix's live-action Avatar adaptation seems to be the most promising take on the lore.

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