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Absolutely Top Notch Entertainment - a review of Avatar, Volume 2
It is hard to believe but Volume II is even better than Volume I. How? Well the humor is even funnier - though young children probably won't 'get' all of it - and the drama is increased. Particularly striking are the flashbacks of Prince Zuko as he looks back on his childhood, the loss of family members, and the craziness of his sister. <
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>Five Stars. Still one of the best family series out there. Humor, drama, friendship and adventure. The story becomes more layered and the characters more developed. Who would have thought it could have gotten even better!

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I Actually Give it Six Stars!
With the brainless programming on network and cable television alike, it is a shame that a cartoon, which could easily be overlooked, is quietly setting the standard for quality entertainment. Avatar is the most universally entertaining program of any kind to be broadcast on any channel. Avatar has a big heart and wears it on its sleeve as prominently as Aang's head arrow or Katara's "hair-loopies." (Watch the show to understand.) I am 36. My wife is 28. We watch a lot of series on DVD since we bailed out on commercialised television. Avatar shows that something moving, meaningful and worthwhile can come out of a medium that is so abused by a sea of "johnny-come-latelys," horrible writers, and network puppets who churn out the daily gruel for the masses. I am so impressed with this new mythology, the exemplary voice cast, the animation, and worldly scope of the creator's universe, that I tell everyone I know to "just watch it." But be ready: you'll likely get hooked. Avatar will invade your life with its wit, drama, and linear-type story. Avatar also provides the action-hungry youth with a great new hero while impressing adults with complex and intriguing characters, plots, and settings. With each episode running in a conservative time, I would say it is time well spent regardless of your "tastes." Get ready to engage your feelings, because Avatar will take you into places within your own heart and mind otherwise unrealized. Just watch it!

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Flat out the best cartoon in America
This is literally the best serialized cartoon made by Americans in the past 10 years. Michael Dimartino & Bryan Konietzko have created a fantasy world modeled after Asian nations and culture, full of martial arts magic. <
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>Aang is the Avatar, the last of his race (the Airbenders). As Avatar he is capable of harnessing the four elements that govern their world and keep the peace between the four races (one per element) that populate the world. Shortly after learning his destiny as Avatar, Aang runs away from the responsiblity. Near to death after a becoming lost in a seastorm, Aang becomes sealed in ice for a hundred years. <
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>He is set free by Katara and Sokka, who eventually become his traveling companions. Katara is a young untrained waterbender that is a driving force for Aang's change towards responsibility. In turn, Aang helps Katara to have more fun. After a time, Katara becomes his waterbending master. Sokka is responsible in his own way as well, but ends up as almost comic relief for some of the more emotionally charged scenes. <
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>Additional characters appear and stay with the series. Prince Zuko is almost a foil for Aang at first before being shown as a more parallel character. He travels with his Uncle, Iroh. Zuko's sister and father, Fire Lord Ozai, tend to be the antagonists in the second book. All are fire nation (the bad guys) but we see in both Zuko and Iroh that that fact does not automatically make them evil heartless killers. <
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>In book two we meet Toph, a blind earthbender girl who doesn't want her family to know that she's a capable bender. She becomes Aang's earthbending master, and is quite a tough teacher despite her apparent handicap of blindness. <
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>The characters are memorable and well-developed. The plot line is terrific with many different possiblities of how things could turn out. This is not a cartoon that cops out on sadness or death. Avatar is not like some of the magical girl cartoons from Japan where people die and then in the next season or episode are right back up and kicking. Avatar is a better reflection of real life. When people die (and it's not always bad guys doing the dying) they do not come back. And sometimes the good guys do bad things either because they didn't have all the information or because there didn't seem to be any other alternative. Hard lessons like truth, justice and good triumphant aren't always learned the first time. <
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>It's really a great cartoon for people of all ages and every stage of life. <
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