Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is a superb television show for many reasons. The animation is lush and beautiful, the characters are richly-realized and human, and the action is relentless and thrilling, never giving in to the puritan notions of what “children’s entertainment” can or cannot depict.
There’s another, more underappreciated, reason for Avatar’s success however. The series quite simply knows exactly how much story it needs to tell and how to structure said story. Avatar: The Last Airbender lasted for three brilliant seasons, each one given an appropriate subtitle to complement the “Last Airbender” portion of its name, and each one featuring 20 half-hour episodes (though the final season was generously granted one extra installment).
Avatar: The Last Airbender was primed for success, and perhaps even perfection, through its very structure. Creators Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko were given a wide latitude to assemble the story as they saw fit,...
There’s another, more underappreciated, reason for Avatar’s success however. The series quite simply knows exactly how much story it needs to tell and how to structure said story. Avatar: The Last Airbender lasted for three brilliant seasons, each one given an appropriate subtitle to complement the “Last Airbender” portion of its name, and each one featuring 20 half-hour episodes (though the final season was generously granted one extra installment).
Avatar: The Last Airbender was primed for success, and perhaps even perfection, through its very structure. Creators Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko were given a wide latitude to assemble the story as they saw fit,...
- 6/13/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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