avatar - the last airbender

so i was spending my weekend as a couch potato ..again! well, that's not a new story. anyway, i was watchin' this animated movie "Avatar - The Last Airbender" on dvds. i started watching it like months ago with my nieces (yes, they are 5 and 2 years old ..so what?). and i instantly fall in love with this movie. sadly, i always missed the series whenever it's on tv. and i never think about it again 'till last week. i found out that one of my friends has the complete collections (1-3 books). so i borrowed her dvds and spent hours in my room watchin' it.

here's the premise quotation from wikipedia about this movie: The Last Airbender fantasy world, home to humans, fantastic animals, and supernatural spirits. Human civilization is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Air Nomads, and the Fire Nation. Each nation has its own natural element, on which it bases its society. Within each nation exists an order called "Benders", who have the ability to manipulate the element of their nation. The show's creators assigned each Bending art its own style of martial arts; each Bending art inherited the advantages and weaknesses of the martial arts it was assigned. The Bending types are Waterbending, Earthbending, Firebending, and Airbending.

the four nations were living in harmony until the Fire Nation started a war to control all nations. each generation has one Avatar, which is the master of the four elements (water, earth, fire and air). when an Avatar died, they will reincarnated to the next cycle of the elements. the last Avatar was from the Fire Nation (Avatar Ruko) and when he died, the next Avatar will be from the Air Nomads. the Fire Nation began the war but the next Avatar (Aang) disappeared when the world needed him the most. the reason is ..he's only 12 years old and he was not ready to carry such burden to become the Avatar. usually, the Avatar was told that he/she is the Avatar when they reached the age of 16. but the monks in the Air Nomads decided to tell him earlier since the war has already started and they needed him to master the other elements as soon as possible ..so he ran away and frozen into a state of suspended animation for 100 years.

after being awoken by 2 kids from the Water Tribe, he found out that the world is in war, partly because of him. he then decided to travel around the world to master the four elements and to defeat the Fire Lord. and so the story began ...

- Aang and his pet Momo -

i've got 2 other favourite characters, beside Aang (of course). the first one is Prince Zuko. in the first book, Prince Zuko is obessed with capturing the Avatar to get his honor back. he was exile from the Fire Nation when he refused to fight with his father who happens to be the Fire Lord. the Fire Lord promised him to get his honor back if he is able to get and kill the Avatar. he literally travelled around the world to catch the Avatar. during those times, he found out that the war has brought terrible life to the other nations. after painful struggle with himself, Prince Zuko finally decided to help the Avatar in becoming the firebending teacher and defeat his father.

- Prince Zuko -

the other character is Sokka. he and his sister, Katara, were the kids from the Water Tribe who "found" the Avatar. he doesn't have the ability to bend the water like his sister. he doesn't even know how to fight ..at first, but he's very smart. he planned the whole thing ..from the little things such as how to spend the day until the plan for the invation to the Fire Nation. what i love about him is ..his sarcastic wittiness. he always complains just about everything and he never satisfy. but he's very down to earth ..in a strange way.

- Sokka "the thinker" -

anyway, i have finished the 3rd season (or book - that's what they call it) and it still continues.