FUUUUUUU... I haven't seen the ending of the Avatar series yet.

Goddamn internet and it's goddamn spoilers. >:(

A NEW AVATAR SERIES

MY DAY HAS BEEN MADE!!!!!!!!!

I just jizzbended in my pants

Fuck Yes I been waiting for a good anime since Gundam 00 that I don't have to read subs for.

A new Avatar series........ set in a world with steam-punk in it? I...... I think I shed a tear of joy.

Thank you Destructoid, for making my day.

*mouths foams*
*drinks cactus juice*
*sings seeeeeecret tunnnneelllllll song*

This could be the greatest idea ever.

OH MY GOD NEW AVATAR SERIES ASKDJGHEKALHLHAGH!!!

Holy shit, I'm so excited right now.

When I saw this earlier today I basically exploded. I mean I knew a new series was coming, but the details are so absurdly great. Such joy I feel.

@lokhe

It's a Nick show so it is aimed at kids/teenagers. But like Disney's Gargoyles and Batman: The Animated Series it's pretty mature.

For example, Aang's people was genocided (except for Aang, of course) before the show begins, and another such attempt occurs later in the series. While the Fire Nation is the villain and the Water Tribe and Earth Nation are the good guys, it's not all black and white. Early on, you meet a Firebender who is good and then an Earth Kingdom guy who wants to kill Fire Nation civilians. There are still more examples of this later on.

Other than that, the art and animations are great and well researched. Any writings and symbols you see in the cartoon has actual meanings and all fighting moves are based on actual martial arts. What more, each bending style is based on a martial art with moves that reflect the 'spirit' of the element.

lokhe: TL;DR: It's a kid's show in the way Pixar makes kid's movies: while the kids will love it for a lot of reasons, older people will get other, more mature themes out of it.

It's actually a Western animation patterned after anime, and it's about as much of a kid's show as Batman Beyond is (I use Beyond instead of TAS because Beyond's atmosphere was a lot brighter and less noir than its predecessor).

There's a complex mythology behind the Avatar world, which gets covered as the series goes by (after all, the main character comes from a hundred years before the storyline starts; the culture between his time and the plot time has changed radically. There are even gags about it in a few episodes). The cultures and politics are well-defined, and completely believable.

It's well-acted and paced, because they went in with three seasonal arcs planned and managed. The storylines and tropes that make up these sorts of cartoons are played with inside and out, and will throw curveballs at you when you don't expect them to, or NOT throw them when you don't expect them to, but you can always understand why it happened.

The people FEEL LIKE PEOPLE. The main and supporting cast are all fleshed out very well, and they will do things not because the plot demands it but because it's exactly what they would do at that point. As a testament to their ability to create actual people, the second season introduces a twelve-year-old blind girl who doesn't feel like the 80's-era "kid with cancer" thrown in for the Very Special Episodes, but a character like all the others who just happens to be blind. Also, she's completely awesome.

... Jaw is on the floor about that series.

@artemus not only did i die of laughter, but i'm completely upset as well XD

Sweet mother of Kierkegaard, First Amatersu, and now more Avatar. Best. Thursday. Evar.

OHYYYYYYEE!

Just finished watching the original series last month. So good.

Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are solid gold, really made that world as rich and vibrant (moreso, obviously) than anything a live action movie could ever dare to dream.

MORE AVATAR THAT'S SO AWESOME I CAN'T STOP TYPING IN CAPITAL LETTERS

Is Avatar worth watching? Do you have to love Anime to enjoy it? It looks interesting but being on Nick and the risk of running into the same old tried and tested devices scared me off.

Ohmygod ohymygod ohymygod. That is AMAZING news. I figured Nickelodeon was completely dead by this point, but hearing this news really gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, Western animation (okay, Eastern-inspired Western Animation) will start to make a comeback.

Now that it's steampunk though, I'm curious. Are they going to retain the Asian influences? I mean, if you look at history, Asian cultures responsded to industrialization in very different ways. Like Japan almost completely abandoned their traditional culture in an effort to industrialize back in the 19th and early 20th century. It'll be interesting to see how they meld the Asian culture of the old show with this new steampunk aesthetic.

Also, now I realized I'm probably the only person who would actually care about this sort of thing.

Wow... I'm glad I just sat through 12 hours of watching the two last seasons BEFORE I read anyones answer :p quite a lot of spoilers in there mind you! :p But I figured it out much like what you said, a kid would see it in one way, and an older person will appreciate it's deeper more mature meaning. I saw the movie adaptation as well but.... I wasn't really convinced at all. The conversations felt so forced sometimes it was awkward to watch, and the guy playing Zuko wasn't doing many things right either.