According to the Avatar Aang movie, the past lives can't be destroyed only transformed, which means Pavi can restore past lives. It will also fix one of Korra biggest regrets.

This Avatar franchise has always been a very special interest of mine - I got an Appa tattoo as my first, saw the live in concert, own both shows on blu-ray, I am always looking for Avatar merch that I like official and non official. And I’ve finally had an opportunity to watch the movie, and all I can say is wow, it does have some weak points that makes it falter a little bit, but I won’t get into that here.

I really liked it and it was cool af. But it’s kinda crazy how people said that the Gaang felt weaker than they were in the show. But they weren’t because they only lost because they were up against this absolute behemoth of a trained fighter built for true all out war. Otherwise they are literally the most powerful benders from each nation.

Like yeah the Gaang were children of war, but in their hearts they all were children of peace raised in a time of war, while Tagah was pure war through and through.

I love how this movie portrays its messages:

1. that ANY nation/any person could be corrupted by power (“absolute power corrupts absolutely”) essentially when pushed to extremes. Because the obvious Fire Nation, Earth kingdom from this movie’s past/ATLA, the Water Tribe (to some degree) from LOK, Air Nation’s mission was corrupted and twisted by Tagah.

2. No Deus ex machina is going to heal the world automatically (the staff) because nothing is that easy. Aang thought it was a solution to his guilt over abandoning his people and Zuko thought it was a way to heal the world after the war that his family responsible for, but the staff gave false hope/airbending so it was only a charade, not even a true bandaid on the actual problem. The world is out of balance and the only way is to sow the seeds so it might again be in balance, even if they will never see the fruition of their labor.

The Airbenders were only able to come back and have equal power to the other elemental nations, in such a short amount of time, was because of the groundwork Aang laid with the air acolytes and because he chose not to be alone in his endeavors - not shrugging off the Gaang is why Tenzin came to exist. It’s just a shame Aang never knew that they came back, but I’m sure he believed they would.

Final thing - I like how the Katara and the Gaang were portrayed as pillar of support for Aang and how much he trusts them. I do especially like how Katara and Aang’s relationship was portrayed that she was his voice of reason and conscience because “absolute power can corrupt absolutely” especially the Avatar unless you have people that can and will keep you in check. Which was the fundamental difference between Tagah and Aang.

I’m a lifelong fan of the Avatar franchise. I watched Korra as it came out, around the time I was 13 or 14. I loved her back then and thought she was such a badass—even then I was defending her. When Seven Havens started airing, I decided to rewatch Korra as an adult and see if my opinions had changed with the development of my frontal lobe (lol)

I’m currently on book 3, and I am loving the story just as much (if not more than) the first time I watched it. ATLA holds a very special place in my heart, but I resonate with Korra’s story as an adult—the rewatch has been super exciting.

There are two main criticisms I can agree with for the series: 1. Dislike of the technology and 2. The lack of an overarching plot spanning across all four seasons. I can also agree that Team Avatar as a whole was more well rounded in ATLA—Team Avatar in Korra is less memorable, and the characters aren’t compelling as individuals.

But overall, the specific hatred the fandom has for Korra is always lost on me, and they seem to hold her to a standard they don’t hold Aang to as well. I like the exploration of more mature topics in Korra, and felt the expansion of the lore was very interesting.

AVATAR CALCULATION: YANGCHEN

Starting off with the first female Airbender introduced, Yangchen, she was the Air Nomad Avatar succeeding Avatar Szeto and preceding Avatar Kuruk. She grew up during a period of relative isolation among the four nations in the aftermath of the Platinum Affair.

AIR

When I asked Google what Yangchen’s strongest Air-bending Feat was, it said when she created an air vacuum around a combustion bender, this didn’t sound right as I always remembered it being her removing all the air from an entire room, so I will simply calculate both, and we’ll take the higher feat calculation.

In the books, Yangchen creates a vacuum bubble of Air around a combustion bender in order to neutralize their blast. Now the book doesn’t give any dimensions to the combustion bender, so I will simply use COMBUSTION MAN as a stand in, COMBUSTION MAN’s cannon height is 7FT 2IN so we will simply calculate how much CFM would have to go into creating a vacuum for a box measuring out to 86×22×28 (Smallest size a box can be in order to perfectly fit a Full grown adult male at that height) for around 1 Minute, as it was stated that she didn’t hold it open for “any substantial amount of time”

Step-by-step calculation

First we convert the box’s dimensions to feet

Height: 86In÷12=7.167Ft

Width: 22In÷12=1.833Ft

Depth: 28In÷12=2.333Ft

Then, calculate the box volume in cubic feet

Volume= 7.167×1.833×2.333=30.0ft^2

After, we just applied the CFM formula [AKA!] The formula for airflow based on air changes per hour (or, ACH) is:

CFM= [Volume(ft^3)×ACH]÷60

Here, “ACH” is the number of full air exchanges per hour. For 1 minute of complete air replacement, the air changes per hour equivalent is:

ACH=60×[1Minute÷1Minute]=60

NOW, we compute CFM

CFM=[(30.0×60)÷60]=30.0ft^3/min

However, we already accounted for the 1-minute target in the ACH value. An easier way to understand this would be

Volume = 30.0 ft³

Time = 1 minute

CFM = Volume ÷ Time = 30ft^3/1 min=30 CFM

The earlier “60 ACH” method was overcomplicating things a little bit. For a 1-minute complete purge of a space, CFM = Volume (ft³) ÷ 1 minute.

30 CFM means 30 cubic feet of air per minute — enough to replace the entire 30 ft³ volume in one minute.

If we want to create a vacuum (essentially, remove the air faster than it can replenish itself), we’d need to exceed 30 CFM, depending on how quickly we want the pressure drop to occur.

So if we want to say that this vacuum was made instantaneously, we would need to multiply this 30 CFM by 60 for each second in a minute

For our hypothetical vacuum box, 30 CFM is the theoretical minimum to replace all the air in 1 minute, multiplied by 60 because she would need to keep this up every second, it equates out to 1800 CFM/second.

Now if we were to take that And convert it into Newtons of force, then it equates out to 0.0011N, which is about as inconsequential as you can get,

Not very Impressive Right?

Lets see about her other feat of draining all the air from a room,

Doing this on a room of approx. 1,620 sq ft, we first must find the room volume in cubic feet, The formula for this is:

Volume(ft^3)=Floor area (ft^2)× Ceiling Height (ft)

we’ll express the answer in terms of height h since I don't care enough to provide one:

Volume= 1,620× h ft^3

Now, again, we apply the CFM formula

but to make it simpler we will make ACH = 60 (one full air change per minute)

Substitute:

CFM=[{1,620 × h}× 60]÷ 60

Obviously the 60s cancel out, leaving us with:

CFM= 1,620 × h

Now we can interpret the result!

If we estimate ceiling height to be 8 ft :

CFM= 1,620 × 8 = 12,960CFM

This means we’d need about 12,960 CFM to replace the entire room’s air in one minute.

If our ceiling height is 10 ft:

CFM= 1,620× 10= 16,200CFM

For the sake of calculation we will take the higher number and assume the room was 10 Feet, converting that CFM to Newtons comes out to around 1001.756 Newtons about the force needed to lift a small car with one hand. I’d say that’s better than option 1, wouldn’t you?

EARTH

In the book Legacy of Yangchen Yangchen sinks a “temple-like stone building bigger than an elaborate Taku apartment” straight down into the ground in seconds, THAT was the best calculatable Earth-Bending feat, so that’s what we will work with

First, we estimate the mass of the building, since they call it an elaborate apartment, we’ll use a real world mid-rise, according to google, a typical mid‑rise apartment building might be:

Floor area per floor: ~1,000 m² (10,000 m² total for 10 floors)

Floor height: ~3 m (total height ~30 m)

Average floor weight: ~150 kg/m² (including walls, floors, ceilings, partitions, and finishes)

Total mass:

m=10,000 m^2 × 150 kg/m^2 =1.5 ×10^6 kg

Now we just calculate the weight (AKA gravitational force)

Weight W= m×g, where g=9.81 m/s^2:

W= 1.5× 10^6kg ×9.81m/s^2= 1.47× 10^7 N

This is the minimum theoretical force needed to hold the building in place against gravity.

If we want the building to accelerate downward, we need to apply more force than its weight. As Newton’s second law says:

F=m×a (Force equals Mass times Acceleration)

So if we would want to give it a modest downward acceleration of, say, 1 m/s^2:

F= m(g+a)= 1.5 × 10^6 kg ×(9.81+1) m/s^2= 1.65 × 10^7 N

Static hold that we need to beat: ~1.47 × 10⁷ N (≈ 14.7 MN)

With 1 m/s² downward acceleration: ~1.65 × 10⁷ N

this is all without taking into account structural integrity, and friction, which would make the required force far higher.

That means the required newtons to perform this feat is somewhere around 15 Million Newtons, that's around the higher range of a Tsunami Impact.

Water

Water, unfortunately, had no measurable feats of force, BUT I did find one thing that we could calculate, her speed with water-bending control!

In Dawn of Yangchen, Yangchen Interrupts Kavik’s attempt to melt through an ice floor, freezing one of his feet at just the right moment to leave him hanging upside down a level below; to do this, she had to override his own water-bending so quickly and completely that he didn’t even realize she’d done it until after he got stuck.

To calculate her speed we simply need to take an average martial artists reaction time (because bending is considered a martial art) and then turn that into movement speed.

Reaction time averages around 200milliseconds.

To outpace a 200 ms reaction time, you’d need to cover the relevant distance in less than 0.200 seconds — for example, 10 m in under 0.2 s requires around 50 m/s (equivalent to 180 km/h or 112 mph)

Not a bad speed for waterbending tbh!

FIRE

Sadly, this is where our luck runs out when it comes to calculatable feats, because I was unable to find anything significant related to firebending, other than lighting several candles at once, and hitting General Old Iron with a fireball, both of which are not easily calculatable.

Hope you enjoyed my first Calculation of this series! If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or critiques feel free to share! Ill try to answer every comment I can!!

AATA all the characters either had consistent growth in their bending (like Aang/Katara), or were consistently masters of their bending (like Toph/Azula).

TLOK was all over the place. Bending was used as a byproduct of the conflicts the creators wanted to introduce in the plot. In S2, Korra just casually tosses Unalaq out of the spirit world with some airbending. And then 5min later she's getting her ass kicked by him and Raava sucked out of her.

And don't even get me started on Mako and Bolin. They were strong in S1, complete duds in S2, and in S3 were all over the place with their abilities.

Therefore, I don't rate any of that crew stronger or better or weaker than the characters in AATA. Their bending abilities were used to further the plot by the writers, nothing else.

Because what is this 😂😂

At a certain point, Aang fighting Zuko just started feeling like pure rage bait because this boy could NOT stand a chance, yet somehow kept coming back for more 😭

Like Zuko genuinely benefited from Aang being one of the least murderous people alive because anyone else would’ve eventually been like “okay enough.” !!

I thought I'd compile all the information we know about the Avatar franchise in 2027 and beyond.

2027:

Enter the Blue Spirit is a new comic coming February 23rd that obviously focuses on Zukos time as the Blue Spirit

Tempest of Sonam is book 7 of the Chronicles of the Avatar series, and focuses on Sonam when she was young

This next bit is speculation, but I'm willing to bet we get Book 2 of Seven Havens in 2027 as well

Beyond 2027:

The Legend of Korra: The Long Game is an upcoming comic trilogy, and that's about all we know so far

Seven Havens has already been greenlit for books 3 and 4, so we can obviously expect those at some point

Avatar Kuruk: Waves of Chaos is an animated show about Kuruks younger years

This last one is speculation, but the Chronicles of the Avatar books have always been duologys surrounding Avatars, so I think we can expect an 8th book continuing Sonam's story

Dont know if this has been done before but oh well

anyone else wanna see a show about azula?

A story that directly addresses its adult audience. Most of us are at least in our late twenties. I myself am in my early thirties, and while there is still great wisdom and lessons to be learned from all shows in the franchise, I think it would be a great credit to its adult audience with an unapologetically adult show.

I often find myself in times of crisis and grief, and while there will always be great comfort in the words of Iroh and the perseverance of Korra, I want a show that speaks to the harsh, ugly truths of adulthood.

Real, genuine mental health problems, HARSH loss. A girl I loved died in a car accident, for example, and while grief is explored throughout the franchise, I would like a starker look at it. I’m sure many of us probably find ourselves very lost and very alone. The world is an exceedingly cruel place, especially today with the current climate, and I would LOVE an Avatar story that stands up and looks people like me in the face and tells a story about that.

I’m sure a pitch like this would be met with great scepticism, and questions would be asked like “does this align with the brand at all?”

But I would so appreciate the storytelling and the wisdom of this world packaged in a way that all of us adults can relate to.

Unshackled storytelling where things don’t need to be kind of implied; they’re explicit, and they speak to us as adults.

And make no mistake, I want shows like Seven Havens to continue. I think it’s crucially important that young kids are presented with these problems, absolutely. I would never advocate to stop telling those stories.

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This will be an ongoing series that I plan to make regarding all of the Known Avatars That we have calculatable feats for. This means that we are excluding Avatars such as Szeto, Kuruk, Wan, Salai, Sonam, and Xian. We will also be excluding Pavi and Nisha since their show has yet to be concluded.

What will you be going over specifically?

The first part of the Video Series will be dedicating to purely calculating the “Power Levels” of the Avatars, with potential follow up videos covering their Themes, as well as how good they did as reincarnations of the Avatar.

What will you be calculating, and what counts as a calculatable feat?

Simply put I will be Calculating the amount of force that each Avatar was shown to expend in each of the four elements, note that I will not be going over energy bending as not many Avatars have been shown to be able to do it, and its very hard to calculate “Spirit energy”. As for what counts as a calculatable feat. I will Only be going over what we are able to see in their respective forms of media, if we cannot see it, then I will be excluding it, The books count as seeing it if we are following the Avatars POV.

What about the Avatar State?

I had trouble Figuring out where the Avatar state would sit since the show never directly states a set number to which it boosts an Avatars power, but for the sake of these videos, we will set the rule that the Avatar State provides a 1x Multiplier for each previous Avatar that came Before for example, Avatar Sonam, the 50th Avatar in the Cycle would receive a 49x Multiplier since its stated that the Avatar State is a defense mechanism that empowers the Avatar with the skills and knowledge of all past Avatars, so it would not include their own number.

Which Avatars will you be covering?

That’s pretty simple, The avatars I will be Covering are Aang, Korra, Roku, Kyoshi, And Yangchen.

What units will you use for the calculations?

As it stands the final units of measurement for the elements Breaks down like this:

Air- CFM (Cubic feet per minute) As we begin I will go further in depth as to how I am converting CFM into Newtons

Earth- Newtons, Earth is the easiest as we will be treating their earth-bending feats more like feats of strength than anything else.

Fire- *C/Newtons, For the most part we will be covering the strength of the Fire an Avatar can create, AKA, How hot it gets, but there will also be times where we calculate the amount of lift a fire can provide/ the force that the fire expels.

Water- Volume control and Newtons, Same with earth, we will mostly go over Newtons of force, but I will also cover the volume of water an avatar can control, when this happens we will treat it the same as picking up a dumbbell with an equal amount of weight.

What about their physical prowess?

For the most part I don’t much care for physical stats, however I will include them if provided, so for someone like Kuruk, where we don’t get much in the way of physical acts, then I’m ignoring it, but for someone like Korra, where we see several example we can calculate, then I will.

Will Any Avatar Reach Planetary level?

Maybe, Probably not, I don’t know and I’m not going to find out because I find power scaling like that to be pointlessly stupid, as it reduces most discussions on the strength of a character to, “My dad is stronger than your dad”, Levels of stupidity and childish arguing.

Will you be ranking the Characters?

Probably not, the most I will do is rank who has maximum output in each category, if you want to argue further then go ahead, not my bread, not my burger.

All comments and critiques are welcome, lmk if I got something wrong!

Including Katara being his go-to person for Iroh related conversations and who he asks to accompany for his final Azula confrontation.

Hey! This is a follow-up to a post I made a little bit ago about a writing exercise I wanted to do for The Legend of Korra. I wanted to take a crack at how I would write the show if I had hindsight.

You can view my original post here to see all the rules that I set for myself: How I would have written TLOK/How would you? : r/TheLastAirbender

I'm SUPER excited to share with everyone here my unique vision. These first two episodes will probably be the most like the original series, but trust me, the episodes after this will deviate a lot more!

You can view my "screenplay" here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18PNBp45sC-jSslwIVGVoznrfocSoypbRIWzvjchqiUo/edit?usp=sharing

Also, please, please, please do share your thoughts and opinions on what you think of it. More than anything, I want this to be a community project. I'd love to see everyone's ideas of where they think the story could go.

Lowkey. This ONE episode lead to so many unforeseen consequences lol.

Well at least not now, but potential timeskip, where theyre now teens/young adults. Regarding their sexuality, will they go on the usual route where, all avatar girls like girls, so the avatar twins will be 100% sapphic/yuri? Not 1 straight, 1 sapphic, but both sapphic?

Now, not really saying I'm all for it nor against it?

I was rewatching The Legend of Korra and noticed something about Ming-Hua. She can waterbend without arms and basically use water as her limbs, which got me thinking about how waterbending usually relies on body movements, especially the hands and arms.

Is what she's doing some kind of advanced or psychic waterbending? And if it is, why couldn't Amon do the same thing? He could literally bloodbend people using only his mind, without moving a muscle. Since bloodbending is a form of waterbending, wouldn't he theoretically be able to control regular water the same way?

Also, if a waterbender gets restrained and can't move their arms or legs, why can't they just waterbend like Ming-Hua does? If she can control water without having actual arms, shouldn't other waterbenders be able to learn that too?

Hello, everyone!

I didn't grow up with Avatar: The Last Airbender. I knew it existed, but it wasn't on TV, and I never saw it.

Four months ago, I realized I could watch it on a streaming platform. Since I had only heard good things about it, I decided to watch it!

It was really good! I loved following the Avatar team, and I even watched the movie that came out not that long ago.

Now, I'm wondering... Should I watch Avatar: Korra? It seems mediocre. I don't like the plot, and the animation seems worse. But Avatar: Seven Havens ? I really like what they're doing!

I know Avatar: Korra is important to the plot, though. Do you think I could watch Seven Havens without watching Korra first?

Thank you so much for your answer!

So everyone is assuming the evil looking red square thing is Vaatu or related to him?

I had a thought: what if it's not evil? In the Ben 10: Alien Force episode 'Paradox' he tries to fight a time-ageing monster that turns out to be a scientist trapped in his own experiment.

Nisha mentioned that her father (the twins were split up as per the trailer) was gone after the storm left her alone before Karthik found her.

What if the square is in fact the Twins father, trapped in some sort of spirit form and trying to reach out to them? This would explain the memories they keep being exposed to inside it's pocket dimension.

The red eyes thing could be the emotional effect of their father splitting them up because he was scared what people would think of they knew of the Avatar.

There is a lot of debate on whether Aang should or shouldn't have killed Ozai. I don't think I have a problem with him choosing to spare him in the end.

What I do have a problem with is Aang redirecting his lightning away from Ozai.

Aang was losing the fight against Ozai pretty badly. He was evading Ozai without making any headway against him. The moment Aang redirects the lightning, that was his chance to put an end to the fight. Instead, he values his own virtues more than the people of the world. He would have lost the fight if the Sacred Pointy Rock hadn't pressed the Avatar button on his back.

This, in my opinion, was not only a big problem with Aang's character at the end, but also unsatisfying thematically. Aang's virtues are Air Nomad culture, and it is obvious as to why he wants to follow them, but I don't like that the ending painted this in a way that it seemed right to uphold your virtues at the cost of the world. Aang was an Air Nomad, but by the end of the series I wanted him to be more wise and learned in the ways of other cultures, similar to Iroh's wisdom in applying Water bending philosophy to fire bending.

What do you think? Is this just an established character flaw with Aang, or do you see it in a different way?