"Avatar: The Last Airbender" film gets new title — "The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender”

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• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh, thank goodness. It’ll cover book 2, right?

  Since we already have a perfect film adaptation of book 1?

  I’ll see myself out.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Did the name “avatar” make sense in the context of the show? I didn’t think so.

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  • AnExerciseInFalling@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    From the avatar wiki:

    The term “Avatar” comes from the Sanskrit word avatāraḥ (अवतारः), which means “descent”. In Hinduism, Vishnu manifests himself as an avatar to restore balance on earth, during a period of imbalance.

    And there’s a lot of overlap with Hindi Avatars in general: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar.

    So the original title was about the Avatar, specifically the one who was the last Airbender. Pretty apt if you ask me

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Gotcha. I was only familiar with the avatars if the digital form.

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