In between the playful jabs at the characters and their world (like its decidedly interesting animals), the video praises Avatar's ability to weave in adult themes among the kid-friendly adventures. After all, as the video points out, Avatar was made for eight-year-olds. It also calls it out for some of its more cartoonish traits, including its liberal use of goofy sound effects. It also casts some shade at the infamous M. Night Shyamalan The Last Airbender movie, and questions why Netflix would try to adapt the series into live-action a second time, though this one will be created with the aid of original producers Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. You can watch the Honest Trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender below.
The video also mentions how the much maligned live-action The Last Airbender movie may have sidelined and doomed a potential fourth season of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Putting aside that "Sozin's Comet" is one of the greatest television finales of all time, one could argue they didn't even need a fourth. The story of Avatar: The Last Airbender does continue in comic books from Dark Horse Comics, and they're great. There's a chance the Netflix adaptation could integrate the storylines that would've been included in the fourth season, but only time will tell. As it stands right now, though, the original Avatar is great, and even the Honest Trailer knows it.
There's also The Legend of Korra, the ambitious successor to Avatar: The Last Airbender that follows the adventures of the avatar that comes after Aang's death. The series, which remains a flashpoint of debate among Avatar fans, is coming to Netflix on Friday (August 14).
The Avatar Honest Trailer even points out what a few people on the internet have already decided: The series is something of a spiritual successor to Star Wars. Not only is Avatar's sequel series The Legend of Korra rather controversial among fans (like Disney's Star Wars sequel trilogy), but the trailer decides to playfully call Zuko "Pyro Ren," drawing attention to the similarities between him and Kylo Ren. Of course, many have noted that Zuko's redemption arc was more effective than Kylo's, but some may feel otherwise.
ComicBook.com spoke to Avatar voice actor Dante Basco, voice of Zuko, in July, not long after the show's Netflix debut. He said the series' sudden re-emergence in the pop culture discourse was palpable.
“Yeah I think it kind of blew up out of nowhere, which is great and unexpected,” Basco says. “But it really goes to show you: A, the power of Netflix, and B, the power of a really good project that kind of lasted over the years now. And it's like you said, it may be more popular than when it was first out.”
He also talked specifically about the popularity of his character, Zuko, who starts as a villain before embarking on a redemption arc. “I mean, ‘That's rough buddy,’ has become one of the most quoted lines. It’s strange that these lines that we don’t think much of them when we do them. It’s just how the project came out. It doesn't strike me why they become a part of the zeitgeist in whatever world we're in,” he says.
“’That's rough buddy…’ and ‘Hello, Zuko here,’ little lines that I didn't think much of when we did and something stuck with how the project came out, become these kind of catchphrases in life for people to use, that they use in their regular life. I get a kick out of all that,” Basco added. “Again, little things that none of us could predict. You know we didn't plan any of these things, these things happened organically. I appreciate, I'm proud of that multiplying, you know.”
Avatar: The Last Airbender is streaming now on Netflix and CBS All Access, and will be airing on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons from Sunday, August 16.
The Legend of Korra is now available on CBS All Access, and joins the Netflix library on Friday, August 14.
Graphic novels continuing both series are available to purchase today.
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Sources: ComicBook.com, ScreenRant; Additional source: Nerd Site.
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