AtLA: The Downsides of a Story Directed at Children

[itsnotmymind]

 

Avatar the Last Airbender is a kids' show that is very appealing to adults. In fact, there are only two major aspects of the show that I can think of that suffer from being aimed at juveniles:

 

1. The fact that the world can only be saved by a bunch of preteens and teenagers traveling around together. In reality, Aang would be exploited by the adults around him. But on the show, when General Fong attempts to do so, the kids just…leave.
2. The kids do things like sink ships and crash airships, but the possibility that they've caused human death is never addressed. It's one of the things that makes Aang's moral conflict about killing Ozai kinda hollow.

Comments

[ragnarok_08]

I agree with you on that.

[itsnotmymind]

:)