See my icon?
That's taken from a promotional picture for the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, which has been given a go. The new avatar is a water tribe woman named Korra. From the interview I just linked:
So far the details are quite vague, but we know that Korra lives some sixty or seventy years after the original show is set, and is taught airbending by Aang and Katara's son. A large part of the show will take place in a city that is inspired by Shanghai and Hongkong in the 1920's and 30's. There will be tension between benders and non-benders.
I can't wait.
High-res version of the image in my icon. The creators say it won't entirely look like this, but look at the city. Awesome.
That's taken from a promotional picture for the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, which has been given a go. The new avatar is a water tribe woman named Korra. From the interview I just linked:
The new “Avatar” is a woman. What inspired you to change the sex of the protagonist of the series?I plan to support this show with my real money if I'm given a chance.
Michael DiMartino: It’s not so much about changing because we had Avatar Kyoshi before Aang. We’d established that the Avatar can be male or female and we just thought let’s explore one of those more in depth, because Kyoshi was a popular character with a lot of fans and it seemed like a great opportunity to not retread what we’d done with Aang, who was a great hero, we all loved him, but we really wanted to try something different. And we have so many great female fans out there, who really responded to Katara in the first series, we thought we have the fan base who are really going to enjoy seeing the Avatar be a female.
Konietzko: Mike and I, we love those characters too, and we’ve encountered countless fans who are male who really like those characters too. We just don’t subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can’t have an action series led by a female character. It’s kinda nonsense to us.
So far the details are quite vague, but we know that Korra lives some sixty or seventy years after the original show is set, and is taught airbending by Aang and Katara's son. A large part of the show will take place in a city that is inspired by Shanghai and Hongkong in the 1920's and 30's. There will be tension between benders and non-benders.
I can't wait.
High-res version of the image in my icon. The creators say it won't entirely look like this, but look at the city. Awesome.
