The TV Show
Avatar The Last Airbender is an AMAZING show that has won an Emmy Award. Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko created Avatar and are exectutive producers along with Aaron Ehasz. The first episode made it's debut on Febuary 21, 2005 and the last episode was showed on July 19, 2008. There have been three seasons of Avavatar.
Basic Premise-
Avatar: The Last Airbender takes place in a fantasy world that is home to humans, fantastic animals, and supernatural spirits. Human civilization is divided into four nations: the Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and The Air Nomads. Each nation has its own natural element, on which it bases its society. Within each nation exists an order called "Benders," who have the ability to manipulate the element of their nation. The show’s creators assigned each Bending art its own style of martial arts; inheriting both the advantages and weakness of the martial arts it was assigned. The Bending types are Waterbenders, Earthbenders, Firebenders, and Airbenders.
Each generation yields one person who is capable of Bending all four elements. This being is referred to as the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. When an Avatar dies, he is reincarnated into the next nation in the Avatar Cycle. The Avatar Cycle parallels the seasons: autumn for the Air Nomads, winter for the Water Tribe, spring for the Earth Kingdom and summer for the Fire Nation. Legend holds the Avatar must master each bending art in order, starting with his native element. This can sometimes be compromised when the situation requires it, as Aang demonstrates in the show. For the Avatar, learning to bend the element opposite his native element can be extremely difficult. This is because opposing Bending arts are based on opposing fighting styles and disciplines. Firebending and Waterbending are oppistites ,as are Earthbending and Airbending.
Through the ages, countless incarnations of Avatar have served to keep the four nations in harmony, and maintain world order. The Avatar serves as the bridge between the physical world and the Spirirt World, allowing him or her to solve problems that normal benders cannot.
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