By Nickelodeon’s universally acclaimed animated series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” ran for three seasons back in the mid-2000s, so theoretically, the Netflix live-action series will do the same.
Possibly, according to the live-action series creator Albert Kim who has spoken with THR about how the series has incorporated some elements from later seasons of the cartoon into the first season of this series – most visibly with the introduction of Azula.
Kim says despite the “borrowing” of some latter season elements, he and the team made sure they stuck to the story of the first season as it is:
“We pulled certain elements from season two into season one, say like Azula and a couple of understory elements that fans will recognize.
So, we were borrowing a little bit there, and there’s nothing to say that that process can’t go both ways. There’s nothing to say that we can’t use things that we left out of season one in later seasons.
But there was no deliberate plan to do that, there was no, ‘well, we’ll leave this story out of season one and use it in a later season.’ We left the door open for that possibility because we have the benefit of hindsight, where we know the overall gameplan of Avatar, so we can use the elements as we see fit.
He adds that they didn’t really focus beyond season one as it was a big enough challenge to get that done as is:
“We really don’t want to look ahead, I mean for nothing else if not to change its success so, that’s why the focus has just been getting to this finish line.
Critical reviews for the series, though vastly superior to the M. Night Shyamalan film over a decade ago, were still mixed overall for the show. Audience approval sits higher but still lags well behind the source material.
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