Well this year sees the 15'th anniversary of the Airing of Avatar the Last Airbender.

[The Great Saiyaman]

It was in 2002 that two young writers working for Nickelodeon got together and started working on a series in which they put in a lot of love and knowledge of cultures, martial arts, the four elements. And a 12 year old tasked with the impossible burden to carry all four of them.

After three years of development and very hard work, the resulting series began to air in 2005, earned itself some well deserved accolades and these days is regarded a classic.

Team avatar: Sokka, Katara, Prince Zuko, Avatar Aang, Suki and Toph Beifong.

I guess we all know the rest of the story, the series ran for three epic seasons, got a spin off series in "Avatar, Legend of Korra" and a very successful ongoing comic book series, which follows our heroes after the series' end as the now 18 year old Aang discovers that even with peace achieved, the wounds from the war run very deep and new conflicts arise. And the latest news is that there's a Netflix live action series in the works.

(Yes, I know there was also this awful movie, where some of the characters were of the wrong race, names being mispronounced and Aang's brave character from the series was completely ignored and they made him into a spineless wimp, so we'll gloss over that.)

We had threads about this series on this forum before and so I know that people are aware of it but here's something special. When the producers of the show got the go-ahead to make a pilot, they knew that they had to make it something spectacular and thus made it as epic as they could.



And here's the full thing

Now there are a couple of differences between this pilot and the series after is was commissioned by Nickelodeon.
- Katara is called "Kya" in the series it was decided to change that name, although the name Kya was later used for Sokka and Katara's mother and in "Legend of Korra" Aang and Katara's daughter is also named Kya.
- Sokka isn't the lovable goofball yet, legend is that the character change came around when the producers heard voice actor Jack DeSena doing funny cartoon voices while warming up his vocal cords and decided to modify Sokka's character to suit those sounds DeSena came up with.

Anyway, enjoy watching.

[turtle1237]

15 years WOW. Shock we have not have some sort of Avatar go series yet lol.

[The Great Saiyaman]

Originally Posted by turtle1237

15 years WOW. Shock we have not have some sort of Avatar go series yet lol.

Actually...

[neatoman]

Here's a debate regarding the actual quality of the series:

[raph27]

One of my all-time favorite television shows. I think I watched it for the first time around four years ago, borrowing a friend's DVD box set. Just rewatched it when the Blu-ray set came out and liked it even better the second time. I need to finish Legend of Korra, only seen the first season of that.

[turtle1237]

Originally Posted by raph27

One of my all-time favorite television shows. I think I watched it for the first time around four years ago, borrowing a friend's DVD box set. Just rewatched it when the Blu-ray set came out and liked it even better the second time. I need to finish Legend of Korra, only seen the first season of that.

I think Legend of Korra gets a bad rap. Was it as great of a show as the last airbender? No, but it was still a fun show in its own right. It would be almost impossible to surpass the Last Airbender. But I did love Korra and gang.

[drgon78]

Well the first three seasons of Korra was great.