In a lost age, the world is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. Within each nation, there is a remarkable order of men and women called the "benders" who can learn to harness their inborn talent and manipulate their native element. Bending is a powerful form combining martial art and elemental magic.
In each generation, only one bender is solely capable of controlling all four elements. That bender is the Avatar. The Avatar is the spirit of the world manifests in human form. When the Avatar dies, it reincarnates into the next nation in the cycle. Starting with the mastery of his or her native element, the Avatar learns to bend all four elements. Throughout the ages, the countless incarnations of the Avatar have served to keep the four nations in harmony.
Then, the firebenders attacked. Just as the world needed the Avatar the most, he mysteriously vanished. A hundred years later, the Fire Nation is near final victory in its ruthless war of world domination. The Air Nomads were destroyed, the Air Temples ravished, and all airbender monks eradicated. The Water Tribes were raided and driven to the brink of extinction. The Earth Kingdom remains and fights a hopeless war against the Fire Nation. Many believe the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and the cycle is broken.
In the desolated South Pole, a lone Water tribe struggles to survive. It is here that the village's last remaining waterbender Katara and her warrior brother Sokka rescue a strange 12-year-old boy named Aang who has been suspended in hibernation in an iceberg. The tribe soon discovers that Aang is not only an Airbender--the extinct race no one has seen in a century--but also the long lost Avatar. Now Katara and Sokka must safeguard the child Avatar in his journey to master all four elements and save the world from the Fire Nation.
"Avatar: The Last Airbender is a truly unique comic adventure with rich animation and incredible martial-arts choreography. Creators Bryan Konietzko and Mike DiMartino designed a fantastical Asian world with compelling characters and interesting creatures that will capture kids’ imaginations and spirit."
-- Marjorie Cohn, Executive Vice President, Development and Original Programming, Nickelodeon
General Notes:
Production usually takes about $1 million and 9-10 months per episode. Because of this, the staff will often work on several different episodes at a time. The show is currently in the middle of airing its second season in the US, and Nickelodeon has ordered twenty more episodes for season three already. Talks are reportedly underway to extend the show beyond just three seasons, which was the original plan by the creators. However, if there is a fourth season, it will likely follow a different storyline other than the Fire Lord and Fire Nation trying to take over the world, as both Nick executives and the co-creators have said season three will be when Aang faces the Fire Lord.
SEASON 1
Pilot The Boy in the Iceberg
Pilot The Avatar Returns
3 The Southern Air Temple
4 The Warriors of Kyoshi
5 The King of Omashu
6 Imprisoned
7 The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part 1)
8 Avatar Roku (Winter Solstice, Part 2)
9 The Waterbending Scroll
10 Jet
11 The Great Divide
12 The Storm
13 The Blue Spirit
14 The Fortuneteller
15 Bato of the Water Tribe
16 The Deserter
17 The Northern Air Temple
18 The Waterbending Master
19 The Siege of the North (Part 1)
20 The Siege of the North (Part 2)
SEASON 2
21 The Avatar State
22 The Cave of Two Lovers
23 Return to Omashu
24 The Swamp
25 Avatar Day
26 The Blind Bandit
27 Zuko Alone
28 The Chase
29 Bitter Work
30 The Library
31 The Desert
