If you’re not familiar with the shows Avatar: The Last
Airbender or its spinoff The Legend of Korra, you are missing out on a really
entertaining animated kids show. Avatar
centered on a world where there are four nations, each based around one of the
four elements. And in this world certain citizens in each nation can manipulate
the particular element of their nation. Except for the Avatar who is a special
individual who can manipulate all four elements. But more than just being a fun
show about people with magic powers, it is a show with a strong environmental
message at its core.
The core conflict of The Last Airbender (the show, not the
terrible M. Night Shyamalan adaptation) is that the Fire Nation has decided to
declare war upon all the other nations. This conflict is initiated by wiping
out all the citizens in the Air Nation (who are traditional portrayed as
nomadic monks) since that is where the next Avatar is supposed to be born (the
Avatar role is based on reincarnation, with each Avatar being reborn into a
different nation in a never ending cycle).
It is within the Fire Nation that the environmental message
of the show is best portrayed. The Fire Nation seem to be the only industrious
civilization in the Avatar society. As I said, the Air Nomads are peaceful and
meditative. The Earth Nation seems to be based mostly around an Agricultural
Economy. And the Northern and Southern Water Tribes are made up primarily of
hunter-gatherers. The Fire Nation is the only people who develop complex
machinery and weapons of war. And they
are the bad guys.
People who use machinery are bad in the world of Avatar.
This theme is carried over into the sequel series, The Legend of Korra. Korra
is the next Avatar after Aang (the main character in The Last Airbender).
Apparently during the period in between the two series, Aang and his friends
have united the four nations into one unified republic where all benders
(people who can manipulate elements) and non-benders can live together in
harmony. This is where the new conflict
of the series arises. Members of the non-bending population feel as if they are
being oppressed by the bending minority. The ruling council of the capital city
is made up entirely of benders. And so a cult like terrorist group begins to
grow among the population.
Once again, it is machines that become the tools of the
enemy. Since the targets of these attacks can all control water, fire, earth or
air, with specialists who can even control metal and electricity, the normal
population has to compensate somehow. The answer of course is technology.
Planes, tanks, tazers, all manner of weapons that can counteract the abilities
of any bender the Equalists (the name the cult uses for themselves) encounter. The
good guys, primarily, do not use any weapons at all, relying primarily on their
natural born abilities. Military forces of the Republic are all bender based.
The Avatar (in several incarnations) has always described a
philosophy of balance with and reference for nature. When people go against the
way the world is and try to change things and alter it for their own selfish
wants, there is a negative effect on the world. The very nature of technology
is manipulating the natural world in ways it was not meant to be used. While
there are a few exceptions in the series where technology is used for good
(Sakka, Aang’s non-bending companion is an inventor; Asami, Korra’s romantic
rival and friend, is a mechanical genius) but primarily the technological
inventions in the Avatar world is all used for evil. In the history of the real
world, so many technological innovators forewarned the terrible abuses that
their inventions could be used for.
If you’re not familiar with the shows Avatar: The Last
Airbender or its spinoff The Legend of Korra, you are missing out on a really
entertaining animated kids show. Avatar
centered on a world where there are four nations, each based around one of the
four elements. And in this world certain citizens in each nation can manipulate
the particular element of their nation. Except for the Avatar who is a special
individual who can manipulate all four elements. But more than just being a fun
show about people with magic powers, it is a show with a strong environmental
message at its core.
The core conflict of The Last Airbender (the show, not the
terrible M. Night Shyamalan adaptation) is that the Fire Nation has decided to
declare war upon all the other nations. This conflict is initiated by wiping
out all the citizens in the Air Nation (who are traditional portrayed as
nomadic monks) since that is where the next Avatar is supposed to be born (the
Avatar role is based on reincarnation, with each Avatar being reborn into a
different nation in a never ending cycle).
It is within the Fire Nation that the environmental message
of the show is best portrayed. The Fire Nation seem to be the only industrious
civilization in the Avatar society. As I said, the Air Nomads are peaceful and
meditative. The Earth Nation seems to be based mostly around an Agricultural
Economy. And the Northern and Southern Water Tribes are made up primarily of
hunter-gatherers. The Fire Nation is the only people who develop complex
machinery and weapons of war. And they
are the bad guys.
People who use machinery are bad in the world of Avatar.
This theme is carried over into the sequel series, The Legend of Korra. Korra
is the next Avatar after Aang (the main character in The Last Airbender).
Apparently during the period in between the two series, Aang and his friends
have united the four nations into one unified republic where all benders
(people who can manipulate elements) and non-benders can live together in
harmony. This is where the new conflict
of the series arises. Members of the non-bending population feel as if they are
being oppressed by the bending minority. The ruling council of the capital city
is made up entirely of benders. And so a cult like terrorist group begins to
grow among the population.
Once again, it is machines that become the tools of the
enemy. Since the targets of these attacks can all control water, fire, earth or
air, with specialists who can even control metal and electricity, the normal
population has to compensate somehow. The answer of course is technology.
Planes, tanks, tazers, all manner of weapons that can counteract the abilities
of any bender the Equalists (the name the cult uses for themselves) encounter. The
good guys, primarily, do not use any weapons at all, relying primarily on their
natural born abilities. Military forces of the Republic are all bender based.
The Avatar (in several incarnations) has always described a
philosophy of balance with and reference for nature. When people go against the
way the world is and try to change things and alter it for their own selfish
wants, there is a negative effect on the world. The very nature of technology
is manipulating the natural world in ways it was not meant to be used. While
there are a few exceptions in the series where technology is used for good
(Sakka, Aang’s non-bending companion is an inventor; Asami, Korra’s romantic
rival and friend, is a mechanical genius) but primarily the technological
inventions in the Avatar world is all used for evil. In the history of the real
world, so many technological innovators forewarned the terrible abuses that
their inventions could be used for.
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ReplyDeleteI thought that Avatar when it first came out was gonna be another Nick Show flop. When the first episode came out I watched it for about 10 mins. and I thought wow and couldn't stop watching. The show I think keeps you involved. Nick has picked some bad shows but not this one. The plot is very well designed and characters are thought out and are dynamic. I think thats what makes a show good. Also the fact that when a show ends then next time then it carrys on what happened in the next episode rather than acting like it never happened. The show captures a sense of reality and makes the audience more into it. The writers write some pretty decent material. Classic comedy and new moral comedy with good values. All in all I give the show a perfect score of 10/10 stars with both thumbs way up.
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