#the firebeding masters

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Reblog for a bigger sample size.

#zuko #atla #katara #aang #sokka #the boiling rock #the southern raiders #the firebeding masters #atla zuko #atla sokka #atla katara #atla aang #zukka #zutara #zuko x katara #katara x zuko #zuko x sokka #sokka x zuko #aang and zuko #zuko and aang #yon rha #hakoda #suki #azula #mai #ty lee #maiko #mai x zuko #zuko x mai #atla book 3

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I'm in my fourth rewatch of ATLA and remembering the first one almost 15 years ago and it's funny how my feelings towards it remain the same "It is perfect as it is, doesn't need a live-action or any other adaptation".

It's exhausting how animation is always treated as something incomplete, that needs a "real" adaptation to be complete and reach a larger audience. Avatar: The Last Airbender is the perfect example of something so complete and that works so well it makes any other adaptation not worth it.

My favorite thing about ATLA is how naive it is, how it handles things so innocently that if you think about it too much it's more unreal than human airbending, earthbeding or firebeding. A master would never train Sokka just because... reasons. Zuko would never beat Azula and probably would never be a good leader as he was fooled by pretty much every character on that show, Katara is amazing but a year of training would never make her beat trained guards from the Earth Kingdon Royal Palace, and Toph, well she would be amazing anyway.

But the point in all of this is: IT DOESN'T MATTER, for ATLA to work it doesn't matter if friendship and love will be the reason all the trained bad guys will lose the war fine! If found your people, your family, your identity, and travel the world to learn things by doing it will make you beat all the challenges ahead of you perfect! In the end it is a fantasy about fighting for what you believe and finding out who you are and who you wannabe along the way. That said, ATLA doesn't need a live action.

ps.: Azula would also be amazing anyway!

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar aang

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A simple fact I like is that “The Blue Spirit” and “The Firebeding Masters” are the episode 13 of their respective seasons.  Actually, both 12 and 13 of the first and final season thematically line up really well in my opinion. We get Aang and ZUko’s backstories and their first time working alongside each other, and then by season three, it all comes together really nice.

It’s not super important, but it just demonstrates how we’re come full circle with Aang and Zuko’s relationship from them being enemies to them being full on allies. The Blue Spirit, after all, foreshadowed where we’d end up in season three. 

#aang #zuko #atla #atla book 1 #atla book 3 #the firebending masters #the western air temple #the storm #the blue spirit #commentary #commentary: aang #commentary: zuko #parallel #parallel: atla general #themes #commentary: themes