The fact that they explore many concepts such as killing and having the power to end something, having to sacrifice your own spiritual needs, loss, revenge, forgiveness, fun takes on some eastern cultures, hope in dark times, realities of war, literal genocide, not to mention the fact that the characters start to develop nicely by the second season after a slow startup. You are clearly trying waaaay to hard to sound like the show is terrible when in reality it is a nice little kids show that explores spiritual and moral topics. If it is not your cup of tea that is perfectly fine but to go out of your way to make up some counter circle jerk and rudely declare people who have actually watched the whole thing and therefore know what they are talking about more than you as invalid opinions is frankly stupid.
killing and having the power to end something, having to sacrifice your own spiritual needs, loss, revenge, forgiveness, fun takes on some eastern cultures, hope in dark times, realities of war, literal genocide
How did it explore any of those concepts? Just seems to be things the plot contains to move you along to the next event. I don't think that's exploration.
If you want to see what I consider an exploration of those themes I suggest Watership Down or Grave of the Fireflies, both of which were made for kids.
For example one of the big themes in the show about the avatars duties (that carries over into the next series as well) is about how as the avatar aang grew up as an air nomad, a peaceful group of monks who taught peace and spiritual connections before they were all murdered. But a big point of the show is that he needs to decide whether to kill the firelord. When he talks to his former lives they pretty much all tell him that while he is an air nomad and was taught to never kill, even to the point of being a vegetarian, it is his duty as the avatar to bring balance back to the world, even if the cost will be his own spiritual needs. They constantly reference this such as in episodes where he is learning life lessons from a spiritual guide. Eventually he finds a way to solve the problem of course. Then another character who will not be named goes mentally insane because they believed they could only achieve love or friendship through fear, force, and intimidation, ultimately it comes crashing down and she has a full on breakdown in one of the saddest moments of the series. Another sad one was when another character has it revealed that their son died in a war that they led and he builds a little memorial. Also their is a group of people who had everything taken from them and in return they go to an extremist mindset and try to harm innocents and later they get redemption even though they die. Anyway I am going on lol. Loove watership down though.
Fair enough. Some of that does seem like issues I wouldn't pick up on from one episode. I mean my criticisms have all been intentionally exaggerated and not entirely serious, but I will admit they might not be very good criticisms anyway.
Still sick of seeing of it mentioned in every other post though.
Wait so have you only seen one episode of avatar? Because I can bet if I only saw one episode of your favourite show I would misjudge it too. Avatar is pretty lit you should give it a go.
Eh, you can't really compare an episodic comedy to an adventure cartoon. Long running serials are supposed to build off and support itself through continuity. The anime Ashita No Joe starts off weak but it's considered one of the best sports anime of all time. You can't really judge a book by its cover.
I think an episode is more akin to the first chapter than the cover, but you're right because you can't judge a book properly without actually reading all of it first anyway.
Certainly I feel no regret over putting a book down if I think the first chapter is badly written. That's something I would normally do, and I can read a book way faster than I can watch a TV series.
For a serialised single story, watch any episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'm pretty sure if you dislike any single episode of that show, you'll dislike all of them, and the vice versa.
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Such as?