Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender has passed at least one (low) bar

Avatar: The last airbender fans have every reason to be skeptical about Netflix’s new show. Even though they hadn’t been burned in legendary fashion by a live-action production before, there’s the departure of the creators of the original series into their own sandbox of upcoming animated films. Avatar attempts.

But we can safely say that it is from Netflix Avatar: The last airbender from showrunner Albert Kim has cleared at least one beam. It may be a low bar, but it is an important one.

Their Appa doesn’t look like a damn sleep paralysis demon.

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For years, my work was one of the quotes in the Wikipedia article “Appa (Avatar: The Last Airbender),” which contains everything you need to know about Aang’s companion animal, the enormous flying bison known as Appa. This isn’t necessarily a badge of honor, it’s just an inevitable consequence of writing a lot of words on the Internet that they end up being cited on Wikipedia. But it does give me the opportunity to provide an explanation for the fact that I’ve never been able to forget that in M. Night Shyamalan’s Avatar: The last airbender Appa had a human face.

His nose became thinner and longer; his round, wet eyes shriveled into piercing pins; his snout flattened down to his mouth – full of strange human teeth! – was just a coin slot with thin lips on the front of his head. To quote Reddit user Explosive ass fartsβ€œThey slaughtered my boy.”

Aang, Katara and Sokka ride Appa through the sky in Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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Live action Appa will never look as cute, soft and pillowy as the animated one. But at least Netflix’s Airbender has already proven, he doesn’t have to look absolutely cursed.

Live action Avatar: The last airbender It may never be as endearing, or perhaps even as beautiful or cool, as the animated one. But at least fans can hope that this new one won’t be absolutely cursed.