Friday, June 5, 2009

AVATAR- The Last Airbender.



Now, the Avatar series has got to be one of the most successful cartoons ever made. It had the capabilities of attracting not only the children but the adults as well. This cartoon had me and my friends hooked and we didn’t want to miss even a single episode. It was so captivating that we would wanna watch it over and over again.
But apart from fun and action this cartoon is renown for its violence as well. Al though not on a large scale but it still had some scenes that was really not suitable for kids. There were fight scenes and scenes of Aang and other using fire to fight. Now this could seriously result in fires if kids who watch this cartoon are monitered on a regular scale but apart from that this cartoon was excellent. Keep in touch for more info on the Avatar movie to be made soon.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang),[1] is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network. The series was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who served as executive producers along with Aaron Ehasz. Avatar is set in an Asian-influenced world[2] of martial arts and elemental manipulation. The show drew on elements from East Asian, South Asian, and Western culture, making it a mixture of what were previously traditionally separate categories of anime and US domestic cartoons.
The series follows the adventures of the main protagonist Aang and his friends, who must save the world by defeating the Fire Lord and ending the destructive war with the Fire Nation.
One hundred years before the start of the series, a 12-year-old Airbender Aang learns that he is the new Avatar. Fearful of the heavy responsibilities of stopping an impending world war and with the impending separation from his mentor Monk Gyatso, Aang flees from home on his flying bison Appa. During a fierce storm, they crash into the ocean, and Aang's Avatar state freezes them in a state of suspended animation inside an iceberg.

Aang and Appa are awoken a hundred years later by two siblings of Southern Water Tribe origin, Katara and Sokka. Aang learns that the Fire Nation started a war a hundred years ago, just after his disappearance. The Fire Nation's opening move in its campaign for global conquest was to launch a genocidal attack on the Air Nomads which drove Aang's entire race to extinction, thus making him "the last Airbender" left alive. He realizes that he must fulfill his destiny of becoming the Avatar and return balance to the world by defeating the Fire Nation. Aang sets out to master the three unlearned elements: Water, Earth, and Fire. With Katara and Sokka, Aang decides to head first to the North Pole to find a Waterbending master.
Aang soon discovers that Sozin's Comet, which Fire Lord Sozin used as a power supply to start the war, will return in the coming summer, giving the Fire Nation enough power to ultimately accomplish victory. Aang realizes that he must master all four elements and end the war before this time. For most of their journey to the North Pole, the group is pursued by Zuko, a banished Fire Nation prince and son of Fire Lord Ozai who is obsessed with capturing Aang to restore his lost honor
After leaving the North Pole and mastering Waterbending, Aang travels to the Earth Kingdom to master Earthbending. There, the group meets Toph, a blind Earthbending prodigy who becomes Aang's second teacher. The heroes discover information about an upcoming solar eclipse which would leave the Fire Nation powerless and open to invasion. They struggle to reach the Earth King with this vital information, but are detoured by Appa's kidnapping. The psychologically self-tormented Zuko, his sister Azula, and her two friends Mai and Ty Lee chase the group as they struggle to reach Ba Sing Se. Azula engineers a coup from within that topples the Earth King and destroys any hope of a large-scale invasion of the Fire Nation.

The group recovers from the fall of Ba Sing Se, and travel to the planned invasion site. On the day of the solar eclipse, Aang's group and a smaller band of warriors launch a smaller invasion, which ultimately fails. Zuko confronts his father and defects from the Fire Nation. After a series of events, he manages to gain the trust of the protagonists and becomes Aang's firebending teacher. Aang and Zuko unlock the firebending secrets of the "Sun Warriors" and Sokka and Zuko travel to a Fire Nation prison to rescue Sokka's father and Suki.
On the day of Sozin's Comet, Fire Lord Ozai harnesses the comet's power to start a genocidal campaign to destroy the rest of the world. Aang and his friends face the self-proclaimed "Phoenix King" Ozai, Azula (now crowned as the new Fire Lord by Ozai), and the Fire Nation army. Aang confronts and defeats Ozai while the Order of the White Lotus takes back Ba Sing Se from the Fire Nation. At the same time, Zuko is incapacitated by Azula, whom Katara then defeats. Zuko becomes the new Fire Lord and promises to help re-build the world alongside Aang.

For more info on the Avatar, cut and paste the following sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_The_Last_Airbender

http://www.tv.com/avatar-the-last-airbender/show/28841/summary.html

http://www.avatarchapters.org/

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=avatar+episodes&revid=702766660&ei=564pSr3JEpiNkAWviuWHCw&resnum=0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=B7ApSoXeM8mMkAXqlfX4Cg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JThd2WDKSqk

4 comments:

  1. am not a cartoon fan but have to admit this is a cool cartoon! thanks mana.

    btw which season or episode are you up to??

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  2. I LOOOOVE CARTOONS! and I am a fan of this one in particular!! It combines reality with a child's imagination and I must say, compared to other lame cartoons (Power rangers - cartoon version)made by pathetic artists, this one is totally cool!

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  3. m also not a cartoon fan...but thanks for the interesting infor....

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