Hello internet, welcome to film theory, the show that's here to reveal your secret power, subscription bending.

Now, I don't often call a lot of things perfect.

Almost anything can be improved upon in one way or another, but up there with Chrono Trigger,

the Lord of the Rings and the sweet delicious burn of Diet Coke is Avatar the Last Air Bender.

If ever there was a perfect animated series, it might just be Avatar.

In case you need a bit of a refresher in the world of Avatar, people live in one of four nations,

each built around one of the four traditional elements. You have the water tribes at the North and South Poles,

the vast Earth Kingdom that covers most of the world's landmass, the industrious and aggressive fire nation,

and the elusive, flighty,

air nomad monks. Some people are born with the ability to bend one of these four elements,

but only one person can master all four of them. That one person is known as the Avatar,

and is tasked with keeping the world in balance. As the very first Avatar, Juan explains,

This is my mission to use Rava's light spirit to guide the world toward peace.

Each avatar is born into a cycle, water to earth, to fire, to air, so that when the previous avatar dies, a new one is born in the next nation.

And over the course of the various seasons, we watch as this exact cycle plays out.

Avatar Kiyoshi from the Earth

Kingdom gives way to Roku from the Fire Nation, who then dies and opens the door

to Ang from the Air Nomads, and finally Avatar Cora from the Water Tribe. It's a great

setup that allows for stories and characters outside of the original series to be explored,

expanding the world even further. I mean, that's basically what happened with the sequel series, The Legend of Cora, and it appears to be Nickelodeon strategy with the franchise moving forward. There have been multiple novels and comic books dedicated to other avatars and supporting characters. They've even established an entire production studio devoted to more avatar content. Rumor has it that a bunch of this new stuff is gonna focus on different avatars too.

Sure, you'll have the OG's Angin Kora, as well as the fan favorite Kiyoshi, but also the next

avatar that we haven't even met yet.

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