This is the unaired pilot episode from Avatar: The Last Airbender, directed by the creators of the series, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko.
The pilot is fun, fast paced and already showing the great potential of the story, though certain elements from it might come as a bit weird for those used by the different characterization in the actual series.
For starters, Aang is way cockier and more childish here, compared with his much more humble persona in the show. Sokka is also much grumpier and not as likeable as in the series, but these differences are understable as this was an early test of what eventually would become one of the most ambitious series Nickelodeon ever produced.
The mere fact the final product was greenlit and allowed to have a proper conclusion is nothing short of miraculous. (Just see what happened to Constant Payne, another anime-influenced pilot from the early 2000s) Unfortunately, it's extremely unlikely a project like this would be greenlit nowadays by modern Nick, which is more interested in producing endless Spongebob spin-offs.
I had zero interest in the upcoming live-action by Netflix. It just seems as boring as the Shyamalan movie.
I also cannot help but laugh how the pilot basically ends with the prototype Aang apparently falling to his death.
The pilot is fun, fast paced and already showing the great potential of the story, though certain elements from it might come as a bit weird for those used by the different characterization in the actual series.
For starters, Aang is way cockier and more childish here, compared with his much more humble persona in the show. Sokka is also much grumpier and not as likeable as in the series, but these differences are understable as this was an early test of what eventually would become one of the most ambitious series Nickelodeon ever produced.
The mere fact the final product was greenlit and allowed to have a proper conclusion is nothing short of miraculous. (Just see what happened to Constant Payne, another anime-influenced pilot from the early 2000s) Unfortunately, it's extremely unlikely a project like this would be greenlit nowadays by modern Nick, which is more interested in producing endless Spongebob spin-offs.
I had zero interest in the upcoming live-action by Netflix. It just seems as boring as the Shyamalan movie.
I also cannot help but laugh how the pilot basically ends with the prototype Aang apparently falling to his death.
