Discover curious details hidden in the creation of “Avatar: The Last Airbender”, an animation adapted into the Netflix series, “Avatar: The Last Airbender”
“Avatar: The Last Airbender” had its eight episodes available on Netflix last Thursday, the 22nd! The plot is an adaptation of “Avatar: The Last Airbender”, a Nickelodeon animation that also won several comic book titles and a live-action film in 2010.
The franchise holds several interesting curiosities that deserve to be known by those who grew up following the story of Aang, the 12-year-old boy who must learn to bend the four elements (water, air, earth and fire) to end the conflict, known as The Hundred Years’ War, which takes over the Four Nations.
With that in mind, RECREIO brought together 5 things you probably didn’t know about animation, based on information collected by the Screenrant portal; check out!
1. The plot would be set thousands of years in the future
“Avatar: The Last Airbender” premiered in 2005, and in its 61 episodes spread across three seasons, it is possible to discover the magical world made up of humans and hybrid animals, where the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation and the Air Nomads dominate the elements that give their territories names using martial arts.
The curious thing is that in the initial idea developed by Bryan Konietzkoe and Michael DiMartino in 2001, all the events in the Avatar universe would take place thousands of years in the future.
2. Zuko’s saga after his mother’s whereabouts is resolved in the comics
In the animation, one of Zuko’s desires is to discover the truth about the disappearance of his mother, Ursa. The answer does not appear on the screen, but in the comics, as in the title “The Search” it is revealed that the character was granted a new identity by the Mother of Faces after Ursa poisoned Ozai’s father so that her husband could claim the throne.
In this way, Ursa changed her name to Noriko, and as a result, the memories she had were erased, causing her to restart her life from scratch.
3. Momo should be a robot
Momo, the half-bat, half-lemur creature, did not have any hair on her body in the initial version of the script. The character created in the futuristic version of the plot should be a cyclops robot monkey called Momo-3.
4. Uncle Iroh should betray Zuko
The wise and sweet Uncle Iroh was supposed to betray Zuko in the original storyline. It was predicted that Iroh would be a double agent who would hand over his nephew to his enemies at the end of the plot, throwing Zuko’s entire journey of redemption that he helped form into the trash.
5. Lake Laogai is based on a real Chinese labor camp
Remember the episode Lake Laogai? In the plot, Aang and his friends encounter former antagonist Jet, who was brainwashed in a secret underground laboratory led by an Earth Kingdom faction.
The episode’s plot is inspired by a real Chinese labor camp that existed during the 50s and 60s. This is because, in Chinese, Laogai is the abbreviation for Laodong Gaizao, a term that means something like “reformation through work”, and it gave rise to a prison camp where inmates were subjected to forced labor in order to become “law-abiding citizens”, as the Laogai Research Foundation website says.
Source: Recreio
