Avatar the Last Airbender – Episode 57

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Avatar the Last Airbender - Episode 57

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The Avatar State

This week on the show Johnny and Brian are talking about one of their all-time favorite animated series, Avatar the Last Airbender. The guys will breakdown some of their favorite episodes, discuss where AtLA stands in geek history. And completely ignore the abomination that was M. Night Shyamalan’s 2010 attempt ‘The Last Airbender’.

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Avatar the Last Airbender Summary

The world is divided into four nations — the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation and the Air Nomads — each represented by a natural element for which the nation is named. Benders have the ability to control and manipulate the element from their nation. Only the Avatar is the master of all four elements. The ruthless Fire Nation wants to conquer the world but the only bender who has enough power, the Avatar, has disappeared… until now. His tribe soon discovers that Aang is the long-lost Avatar. Now Katara and Sokka must safeguard Aang on his journey to master all four elements and save the world from the Fire Nation.

History of the World

The backstory of the series (told largely through flashback sequences) extends backward to over 100 years before the time period in which the bulk of the series takes place, but these prelude events are revealed slowly in a fragmented, non-linear manner. More than a century before the opening events of the series, Fire Lord Sozin, ruler of the Fire Nation, planned a world war to expand his nation’s territory and influence, but was prevented from carrying out his plans by Avatar Roku.

After Roku’s death, the Avatar was reincarnated as an Airbender, named Aang, who learned of his Avatar status when twelve years old. Aang, frightened of his new responsibilities and of separation from his mentor Gyatso, fled his home on his flying bison, Appa. The two were forced into the ocean by a storm, with Aang entering the Avatar State and encasing them both in an iceberg, in suspended animation, for one hundred years.

Sozin, knowing the nature of the Avatar’s reincarnation cycle, carried out genocide of the Air Nomads during the passing of a comet that increased the Firebenders’ firepower, with the comet later renamed after him as a result, and spent his remaining days searching for the eponymous “Last Airbender”. As the Fire Nation’s Hundred Year War continued, Sozin was succeeded as Fire Lord by his son, Azulon, who in turn passed the title to his youngest son, Ozai, who becomes the primary antagonist of the series.

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The music in this episodes is Pomade by Silent Partner. The Infamous Podcast is Johnny Pottorf and Brian Tudor, and is produced and edited by Brian Tudor.

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