{"id":3450,"date":"2025-09-24T22:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:06:19","slug":"avatar-the-last-airbender-finally-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2025\/09\/avatar-the-last-airbender-finally-watched\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar: The Last Airbender Finally Watched!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only twenty years after the premiere, but I finally watched (and finished) Avatar: The Last Airbender&#8230; cue Jim Gaffigan&#8217;s <a title=\"Feel free to check out his stuff on Hot Pockets... classic.\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Imhcq5s9OLs?si=_TJdG2Q2x29aTYzv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heat bit<\/a>. I watched a few episodes 10 or 15 years ago, but it fell off the plate. This time it stuck, and I saw it through.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/avatar-the-last-airbender.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3451 size-medium\" title=\"Let's not pretend M. Night Shyamalan didn't butcher the theatrical release.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/avatar-the-last-airbender-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"A promotional thumbnail for Avatar: The Last Airbender, featuring Aang, Katara, and Sokku\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/avatar-the-last-airbender-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/avatar-the-last-airbender-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/avatar-the-last-airbender.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, I very much enjoyed it. Obviously the anime inspired aesthetic appealed to me, but I also liked the world the show was set in. Being a kids show on Nickelodeon made some of the storylines a bit simplistic, and they would occasionally wrap things up a bit to quickly (and cleanly). However, the story really picked up during the latter half of the series. <\/p>\n<p>The one thing I think Avatar did incredibly well was character development and their arcs. They also had several strong female characters. In fact, there are numerous video essays on YouTube covering these topics. I recently found out about The Legend of Korra, a sequel to the series set 70 years later. It looks solid but sadly is on Paramount, which means I won&#8217;t be watching it anytime soon \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only twenty years after the premiere, but I finally watched (and finished) Avatar: The Last Airbender&#8230; cue Jim Gaffigan&#8217;s Heat bit. I watched a few episodes 10 or 15 years ago, but it fell off the plate. This time it stuck, and I saw it through. Overall, I very much enjoyed it. Obviously the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157,156],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avatar","tag-crunchyroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}