Avatar: The Last Airbender

Okay, so by request of a friend (as I'm sure you would know if you read my chat box -.-), here's the review for Avatar: The Last Airbender.

In their world, it is d i v i d e d into four nations: the Water Tribe, the Fire Nation, the Air Nomads and the Earth Kingdom. Each of these nations specialize in a particular type of element which gave them their names. So:

Water Tribe

Fire Nation

Air Nomads

Earth Kingdom

However, a mediator is needed at all times to protect the balance of the world and the peace between the four nations. Fancily dubbed the "Avatar", this one individual has the ability to bend all four elements. Lifted from Wikipedia, the Avatar is like "the spirit of the world reincarnated into human form". And since one is always in need, whenever the Avatar dies (be it from natural causes or murder), the spirit is once again reborn into the next nation in the Avatar Cycle. 

He/She does, however, have to be careful because should the Avatar die whilst in the Avatar State (which is a brief moment in time when the current Avatar is given all the knowledge and abilities of the previous Avatars), the cycle would be broken and the Avatar lost, forever.

Originally a Nickelodeon broadcast, The Last Airbender follows the story of Aang (pronounced with an "ehng" sound, not the "uhng" like in the movie. Stupid assholes -.-) as he strives to restore the balance in the world which was lopsided because of Sozin, the idiot Fire Lord from that time.

You see, Fire Lord Sozin wanted more than just his nation. He wanted all the nations to be united under his reign. Greedy, right? I know -.- His best friend (who was actually Avatar Roku) did his best to thwart his plans to dive into a world war, but the damage was already done.

Even after Avatar Roku passed away (watch the show if you wanna know how), the war raged on. 

Needing an Avatar, the monks in the Southern Air Temple decided, against Monk Gyatso's (Aang's mentor) better judgement, to tell Aang of his destiny. Told that he was the Avatar prematurely prompted Aang to escape from his responsibilities as the Avatar by running away on his sky bison, Appa. 

However, in his attempt to run, Aang gets engulfed in a storm. Activating some defense mechanism in his Avatar State, though, he is able to bend the water around him and freeze it so that he remains alive throughout the storm.

Shortly after, Fire Lord Sozin orders a massacre on all the Air Nomads so as to completely rid the world of Avatars. This involves the death of every existing airbender save Aang, who was still in the ice cube.

100 years passed till Katara, a 14-year-old waterbender and her 15-year-old brother, Sokka finally broke Aang out of the iceberg when they went out fishing one day and discovered him. Since then, they've been helping him on his conquest to "save the world".

Loved this show a lot. Forced my sister to watch it. She'd know :P

Interest was maintained as the 60-episode show dragged on. Plenty of humour (because Sokka is a naturally funny and intuitive guy) and romance too.

If you like adventure and action where people can bend the four elements, this is definitely the show for you. Alternatively, you could try the movie, but I wouldn't watch it again. EVER.

That's about it, then :) CIAO!!

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