I know there are a handful of us who are fans of this series. I just read on AvatarSpirit.net that Avatar’s final episodes will be aired in a blockof daily (nightly?) episodes from July 14th through the 19th. The series finale will be a “two-hour finale special” airing on Saturday, July 19th.
While I’m excited to get all the episodes back to back, without waiting for a week (or more) between them, I’m really sad that this is it for the series. I’m not overly optimistic about the M. Night Shymalan directed live-action movie. I’m not usually pessimistic about a franchise like this being brought to the big screen, but the choice of director has be really worried. Since The Sixth Sense, I haven’t been overly impressed with anything Shymalan has done. In fact, I can say I’ve been disappointed by most of them.
I don’t feel that Nickelodeon has done this series justice, airing it all over the place and taking it off the air altogether for long stretches of time (hey, wait a minute…Nick is the Skiffy of kids’ programming ;)). I think they could have promoted it much better than they did. It was a higher quality of show than most of what is on the network. Maybe they just didn’t know what to do with it. I hope this isn’t the last we hear from Avatar’s creators; though, I do hope they get out from under the thumb of Nickelodeon.
He is broken but I guess the boy part expired years if not decades… or even centuries ago… but hey! the old guy ain’t shooting blanks yet! hehe