Avatar: The Last Airbender

1260 readers

125 users here now

A community for all things related to Avatar: The Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, cartoon or live action TV, movies, comics, novels, etc.

Rules:

Be kind, regardless of nation or tribe
Credit artist(s) when possible
Post relevant content
No spoilers in title, mark spoilers
No spamming or trolling
Only relevant posts
Let people like what they like
Follow all Lemmy.world rules

Please report any rule violations.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

ahimsabjorn

[email protected]

763

Still is quite remarkable how small the pop culture impact of the other Avatar is (discuss.online)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/avatar

113 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] themeatbridge 18 points 9 months ago

I disagree.

Many of the manga-based anime were produced in parallel with the manga, so they would need those filler episodes to kill time. They were also adapting a fixed media with iconic images, so frozen poses of each character reacting to something "needed" to be included. Same thing with freeze-frame fight sequences, or extended power-up poses. That sort of filler could stretch a single chapter into three or four episodes. And then sometimes they would just make up some crazy shit for a few episodes. Oh no, the heroes have to fight a dinosaur somewhy.

With Avatar, there was no manga, and no need to fill time. The episodes were planned as part of the series, written and storyboarded for television.

Maybe the pacing wasn't always great, and there are some less exciting episodes. Appa was lost for way too long. But that's not the same sort of filler problem that anime struggles with.