Avatar Season Three Conclusion - Starting July!

I am one of those people that will find a brilliant cartoon (or anime, depending) and follow it to the end. I did that for Cowboy Bebop when they replayed it on Adult Swim, and also with Full Metal Alchemist, which I probably watched through three times. (I even own one bootleg copy of the movie- Conquerer of Shamballa, with horrible subtitles galore, plus the REAL copy, with english dubbing.)

But it’s not often that I really regarded any children’s show on nickelodeon to be any good. I grew up watching Rocko’s Modern Life and Ren and Stimpy and Kablaam and all that, but when I got older I just didn’t see any merit in after-school programming. Every show premise seemed dumber than the last.

Then my boyfriend made me sit down and watch Avatar: The Last Airbender. It was halfway through it’s first season, and I never gave it much thought. But soon enough I was hooked. The characters were well-developed and believable, the environment was engaging, and it was such a wonderful, epic idea of one 12-year-old (112-year-old, actually) badass who has to save the world before time runs out. And I instantly fell in love with the idea of bending elements, and especially later on when one of the characters, Toph (An earth bender), learns to bend metal and even meteorite rock.

If you haven’t given it a chance yet, please do. Catch the old episodes sometime, because I’m sure they’re going to do a re-run marathon soon. It’s so much more than a kid’s show. It’s so epic and engaging, and you really begin to care about the characters on a deeper level. :)

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