What is your favorite couple characters from Avatar?

Context: In the winter solstice episode "avatar roku" it is stated that an avatar can only communicate with another avatar when on the solstice and aang could only do this in the presence of aang's statue. not only that but it is hinted that Roku used the spiritual power of the solstice to manifest in aang's body and freely bend as himself with firebending and lavabending.

Later on, we see that additionally, Kyoshi can manifest fully in her own form and likely could also bend if she wanted to. not only was this not during the solstice nor in a spiritual place but it was on a normal day with aang just wearing her clothes which Tbf could have been the reason why.

But that is highly unlikely since we see in the deserter that Roku could appear to jeong jeong in a vision-like environment without any of the prerequisites.

In matters of communicating with the past avatars, the next time aang does this is during the awakening which is in the middle of the ocean. aand is not even meditating and roku comes to him. he also does this on roku's island which may be a spiritually charged place but it is not on the solstice.

Then in the finale he communicates with 4 previous incarnations of his own willpower, completely ignoring the other requirements previously established

Bottom line: Avatars can freely choose to show themselves to people through the current incarnation and sometimes the can bend. furthermore, aang is able to communicate with avatars freely in any place when it was established he would need 1) the solstice and 2) a spiritual place like a shrine of some sort.

Why I say its a plot hole:

1. According to the requirements set up in the winter solstice, aang should never be able to communicate with the other avatars other than on the solstice and only when in or near a spiritual place.

2. Based on the feat shown in the winter solstice and other episodes, an avatar should be able to fully manifest past avatars as well as their abilities in full form. All it would take is some meditation or a quick request. Aang could have ended the war if he were smart and remembered these things. roku would dominate ozai any day.

Will season two of the netflix Avatar remake have the usual 8 episodes or will they have more than 8 episodes

And should season two of the netflix avatar remake have more than the usual 8 episodes

Racism can be a touchy subject so this is a content warning.

I was recently talking with some people and they said they would never watch ATLA because it's racist. I was taken a back and decided to research on why people thought it was racist. So I kind of wanted to share my opinions here in response to the 2 reasons why people say its racist. Because I don't think its racist.

Reason It's Racist 1: The voice cast is majority not Asian

In the live action Avatar works I will always agree that the characters should be played by actual Asians and Native Americans. But, I disagree with that in terms of voice acting. In voice acting the point is not that your actual body looks like the character, but that your voice fits that character. Tons of anime is not dubbed by English speaking Japanese people. It's dubbed by Americans who were cast because their voices sounded just right. And guess what? Most of the time they do sound right. I can not imagine a world where Richard Ian Cox does not voice Inuyasha. Just like how in ATLA/LOK I can not imagine a world where Grey DeLisle does not voice Azula or where Vaatu is not voiced by Jonathan Adams. Now, I'm not saying there aren't exceptions to the voice actors just have to sound like the character rule. For example, if a story focuses specifically on an African American family like The Proud Family I don't want a white voice actor to play one of them. But, in most cases I'm fine with whatever voice actor fits the part. Now, I just want to make it clear: I am NOT saying that in the future the characters should not be voiced by actual Asians and Native Americans. I'm saying that the OG ATLA and LOK are not racist in my opinion.

Reason It's Racist 2: Cultural Appropriation

Cultural Appropriation is more complicated then people like to think it is. Some people say all forms of it are racist, not realizing that they themselves have probably already appropriated another culture that day. For example, many bagel shops I see are not owned by Jews. People eating from these shops are supporting cultural appropriation. But, am I (a jew) going to scream at them how this is them appropriating my culture and thus antisemitic? No. Of course not. These bagel shops are making good bagels, and the fact that people are eating them gives me a bit of pride that my culture is so well liked in the breakfast department. Another example is yoga or tai chi. Those are also forms of cultural appropriation which everyone has agreed is okay and not racist. Actually. historically cultural appropriation is what shaped almost all modern tech and culture. To me, cultural appropriation only becomes truly racist in a few key ways:

1. You are appropriating something that is very very very very sacred to a culture (eg. bat or bar mitzvah).

2. You are appropriating something in a negative way to mock and demean the people.

3. You actively claim that your appropriation is better (even if sometimes that is admittedly true).

4. Your appropriation is being used to commodify a culture.

Now in terms of ATLA and LOK, I would not say that they fall under these 4 categories at all. ATLA/LOK is inspired by many elements of different cultures (including non Asian or native ones). They manipulate them to fit their needs, and never ever press their made up thing on a real life culture. I don't really think it's racist appropriation.

Now, everyone's allowed an opinion so if you disagree, share. Just be respectful.

I’m trying to find a good Ember Island background (more specifically one from The Beach) however I can’t find one that isn’t the establishing shot and one that’s at a bit of an angle. I could settle for this one but the thing I intend on using it for wouldn’t look very good and I’m a little perfectionist who needs it to look… well… very good.

I’m looking for one a bit like this image (only camera angle wise, not lighting or anything else)

Does anyone have any ones I can use?

Thanks :3