Recently finished Avatar The Last Airbender for the first time.

[Hargad]

I remember watching some of this when it first came out and never finished it. I also tried again as an adult and stopped somewhere on season 2. Recently I went back and watched through the whole thing and really enjoyed it. I thought the character development was really nice over the series, and while it is still a kids show, I felt that it respected the audiences intelligence, which is one of my big pet peeves of children's action shows.
I also thought the attention to detail of the different bending styles was nice. Water benders used more flowing, fluid movements. Rock benders would use more angled movements with hard stops with wide square stances. Fire benders would be more aggressive using forward punches and kicks to launch fire. Air benders would use more jumping, sweeping, and circular movements.
I know people say this is the best animated childrens show of all time, and now I see why. What are other people's thoughts on this? Does anyone not like it, and why?

 

[Viviana Santos]

Avatar: The Last Airbender is easily the best Nickelodeon cartoon and one of the best Western cartoons of all time.

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A true masterpiece!

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Greatest western animation... Perhaps of all time.

I still watch episodes like "The Avatar & The Fire Lord" and "Zuko Alone" because of how genuinely awesome they are.

 

[ODM]

It's definitely the greatest anime ever made.

 

[shaggi]

Great animation. It's hard to find kid oriented cartoon with such detailed story.

 

[Zeo]

Always a classic when you look for a long story that has a very good mix of everything

Then there is Korra where stuff got way too dark and less funny

 

[Hargad]

Always a classic when you look for a long story that has a very good mix of everything

Then there is Korra where stuff got way too dark and less funny

I only watched the first season after work back when it came out. I’ll probably watch it in preparation of the new show.

 

[Luxfin]

Way too good for Nickelodeon especially back then.

 

[DinoRexMax DinoRexMax]

easily the best Nickelodeon cartoon

That's funny, I didn't think this was an Angry Beavers thread...

 

[Viviana Santos]

That's funny, I didn't think this was an Angry Beavers thread...

I like Angry Beavers, but the best Nicktoon? In a world where Invader Zim, Avatar, Hey Arnold, Rocko’s Modern Life, and the first three seasons of SpongeBob SquarePants exist? Nah