I actually wrote a poem.
Yeah, it's a Zutara Poem.
I don't know...
It's really short.
Whatever, we talk about it online.
The fans, and the interwebs. Consider me the Captain of the Zutara Ship.
So I have this poem.
The Poem goes.
sometimes the memory of what could have been is so much stronger than what actually
happened because the memory of perfection lasts longer
And even though we didn't end up together
it will never change the fact you changed my life forever.
Zutara forever.
I don't know, what do you guys think?
I'm Kataang, because I...
I relate to Aang.
I want the nice guy to get the girl
I was Zutara.
There you go!
Of course, I must capture the Avatar.
and regain my honor
all day every day.
Simple lines. That kind of became memes.
And Craziness.
Uh, hello. Zuko here!
Welcome back everyone is Charlie happy 15th anniversary to Avatar The Last
Airbender so Nickelodeon and the avatar people did
a special 15th anniversary panel recently so I'll break that down they
talked a lot about what's going on with the future of Avatar The Last Airbender
and even the idea of more animated sequels to Avatar The Last Airbender as
in the idea that Legend of Korra was a sequel to avatar the last airbender
would they ever do more animated series now it sounds like that might actually
be a reality so if you're new to the channel be sure to subscribe to get all
the videos obviously I'll be doing videos for the new Netflix avatar the
last airbender series so I will do an update on what's going on with
production on that during the video too we'll just break this down top 5 style
so number 5 the actual 15th anniversary the anniversary itself is for the first
episode that was for February 21st 2005 so Friday was the actual anniversary
that's when this panel was taking place if you consider yourself an avatar the
last airbender historian then you probably know that the first episode
isn't the pilot episode technically there was a test pilot that they did
that they never aired when they did the first DVD home release of the series
they added the unreleased pilot to that but a lot of the panel that they did was
dedicated to talking about the origins of the series everyone from the cast and
crew talking about their favorite memories making the series especially
Dante Basco's favorite Zuko moments favorite Zuko memes like he did the big
Zutara poem in the clip that I attached to the beginning of this if
you're not familiar with the origin of the series Avatar The Last Airbender
started when Mike and Bryan were coming off of other animated series they've
been friends for a while but Nickelodeon asked them to pitch a new series he was
around the very early 2000s like 2000 2001 and we were still in the middle of
the Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies so because those were the most popular
movies in the world at the time as Hollywood studios tend to do they
wanted Mike and Bryan to pitch something that capitalized on something in that
vein very Lord of the Rings the epic adventure series something with a quest
something that felt huge in scale and epic but made for children and because
this is Nickelodeon we're talking about the other major hit that they had at the
time was spongebob spongebob had just started in 1999 so this is just a couple
years after spongebob had started they officially pitched the series in early
2001 so that's when it actually got started it didn't premiere
two thousand five so they spent about four years developing the series Bryan
Konietzko drew this picture of a character hurting bison in the sky then
showed the sketch to Mike who was watching a documentary about explorers
trapped at the South Pole the way that Bryan described it he said there's this
air guy along with these water people trapped in a snowy wasteland and maybe
some fire people are pressing down on them and then they basically pitch that
to Nickelodeon then obviously it evolved from there into the Avatar series that
we all watched in the episodes if you've never watched any of the bonus features
from Avatar The Last Airbender book ones DVD release they have a lot of the
footage of them developing the series in scenes of them with Sifu ki soo trying
to develop the bending styles so the actual origin of the series is very well
documented in bonus features the whole reason why they went with the Eastern
cultural aesthetic overall for the series was because they grown up loving
classic anime and manga and Miyazaki films and wanted to try something unique
that hadn't been done on Nickelodeon up to that point
remember spongebob was Nickelodeon's big hit at the time the specific series that
most inspired Avatar The Last Airbender were a cowboy bebop samurai champloo and
fooly cooly number 4 so as you heard in the clip at the beginning of this
dante basco reading the Zutara poem that he
created a while ago and reciting it for the anniversary i believe he actually
created a long time ago because he's been doing conventions for avatar the
last airbender pretty regularly since the series has ended and he's recited
poems like this in the past like he says the fans consider me the captain of the
Zutara ship but just because they spent a bunch of time joking and talking
about Zutara stuff on the panel doesn't mean they're going to radically
alter the plot of the Netflix Avatar The Last Airbender series the version of
Avatar The Last Airbender that Mike and Bryan are doing for Netflix right now is
just meant to be a live-action version of the original series if you've ever
watched any of Netflix's original series most of them are an hour long per
episode in 8 to 13 episodes per season the most popular ones tend to get 4 to 5
seasons average like stranger things for instance might go past four seasons but
it could stop at four so four or five seasons is a good benchmark for the
really big stuff the original Avatar The Last Airbender series only ran for three
seasons or three books if you want to be technical but it was only sixty one
half-hour episodes just because half-hour animation is the industry
standard so obviously they're going to have to be
some changes that they make to expand for the hour-long format but number
three if you guys didn't know there actually is a lost episode of Avatar The
Last Airbender technically 62 episodes it's called escape from the spirit world
and it's actually a canonical story that was made for a video game but it is
canon - the series meant to take place between the events of book 2 earth after
Azula takes down egg while is in the Avatar State with her lightning attack
he goes into a very deep slumber that's where this episode this lost episode
takes place and then before the events of book 3 pick up the episode is
basically him visiting four of his past lives to reconnect with them come back
to the world of the living while also try to avoid code the face
stealer who's trying to steal his face during the episode number two Dante
Basco has been asked multiple times in the past few weeks in addition to what
was going on with this 15th anniversary panel if he's going to be in the new
avatar the last airbender Netflix series are you going to star in it are you going to
play character he's really happy to talk about it he's been a real bro about it
but of course he's under NDA so he can't really say anything about it his
official response typically has been something along the lines of we'll have
to see like kind of winking behind the camera like yes we all know that I'm
going to be in this but Netflix will sue me if I leak the announcement if you're
really frustrated with Netflix not making any real big news announcements
about what's going on with the new Netflix avatar the last airbender series
is because they like to sit on news like that information reveals because they
want to turn that into big marketing events like when they drop trailers to
create awareness for it create some hype a lot of people had just hoped that they
would have done something some big announcement for the avatar anniversary
and yes they are getting ready to start filming they probably already been
shooting a bunch of test footage and visit X camera tests like they just
released the Batman teaser trailer which was basically a camera test of Robert
Pattinson in his new Batman costume they've been doing that kind of stuff
kind of figuring out what everything is going to look like the costumes the
physical world for about the past year all the story outlines the scripts and
all that started way before that - initially when they pitched Netflix
about developing the project and they announced it back in 2018 that's how
long it's been it's been 2018 since they first announced the project the first
thing they do in situations like that is develop a story outline then start
writing Grips then they start figuring out what
everything is going to look like then they start casting and shooting because
they're expanding the episodes to the hour-long format they did say back when
they first announced the series was going to happen did they'd be using that
extra half-hour to spend more time with each of the characters more character
development so even though we're getting live-action versions of the original
episodes there will be a lot of new material added in that was not in the
original series that they either didn't have time for because it was half hour
animation or that they were censored and they weren't allowed to do because it's
Nickelodeon one of the benefits of going to Netflix is there's no regulation on
censorship or what they can and can't do they can do pretty much whatever they
want in episodes but probably one of the coolest things at this 15th anniversary
panel number one was that it was implied they might also be open to doing
more animated Avatar The Last Airbender sequels in the future keep in mind this
would be in addition to any live-action Avatar The Last Airbender stuff they're
doing because it's also implied that if it's successful Netflix will also want
to do live-action sequels to like do a live-action of Korra after they're done
doing live-action Aang but I think that Nickelodeon is really thirsty to
capitalize on the Avatar brand in the age of streaming networks but usually
situations like that is when they go back to creators like Mike and Bryan and
say hey you have this beloved series we think that fans will buy our streaming
service if we release brand-new animated avatar sequels on it so we'll see if we
hear any news about more animated sequels I will totally do videos about
that too let me know in the comments if you have
any special requests for Avatar bonus videos and everyone post your favorite
memories for the 15th anniversary so while you wait for everything everyone
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thank you so much for watching everyone stay awesome
This is the way!