This series has brought out the child in me. I have been watching a series of TV marathons, and started to grow tired of the situation comedies which are there for humour and the serious dramas where everything is so dark and real. I wanted an adventure that is fun and I don't have to see all of the dark, realistic moments. This show was perfect for that. It brought out my inner child with its silly, fun and happy nature, yet still had an exciting, well rounded and intense story. It hit almost every mark.

I disagree with people who say that if you dislike the first season, you'll dislike the rest. No, this series does change. I actually didn't really like the first season. It was too childish and relied on childish humour too much. The characters felt rather two dimensional and the story didn't appeal to me. But as the series progresses, the characters have turning points. You don't know when they change, but you can see that they're growing up. I didn't even know Aang (voiced by Zach Tyler) had changed until the last episode, where I realised that he had gradually became grown up and was no longer a naive child.

You do gradually find yourself getting attached to the characters. They begin to feel three dimensional, which is a sign of a brilliant show. I even grew feelings for and felt sorry for who I assumed would be the main antagonist of the show. Zuko (voiced by Dante Basco) gradually gets his own back story. He's in his confusing hormonal year, sixteen. He can't tell right from wrong and is becoming his own person. Throughout the series, we see him gradually evolve until he makes a big change in the final season.

Not only this, but for once I straight away warmed to a newly introduced character. 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is certainly great with new additions. Toph (voiced by Jessie Flower) quickly became my favourite character due to how bad-ass and adorable she is in her own way. So 'Avatar' certainly succeeds with its characters, which is what I mainly look for in a show. Each character undergoes changes, which also changes the show from being extremely childish and rather boring to more of an intense, family show.

Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have both created an amazing, well rounded show. Not just these two deserve credit, though, as I believe each of the crew did an amazing job. Many writers and directors have contributed. It has a somewhat Japanese feel too it. I believe the writing in the show is Japanese, as well as parts of certain beliefs and lifestyles. It also looks very much like an anime. It's sort of like an American, children's anime. The Japanese influence is definitely noticeable.

Quite possibly the best thing about the series is how well-rounded it is. There's a sense of accomplishment when you reach the end. The entire journey that the characters must undertake is explained at the beginning, and that journey is what happened throughout the show. We had the structure of the entire series right from the beginning, and that's what we got. We waited patiently, watching Aang on a long adventure with his friends, Katara (voiced by Mae Whitman), Sokka (voiced by Jack De Sena), Appa (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) and Toph, until the huge, climactic finale which ended everything satisfyingly.

So, as you can tell from my review, this is a brilliant series. Rounding my votes up (adding the ratings together and dividing them by the number of episodes), I got an average of 7.9/10. That's mainly due to the series being rather slow, in a way. It's well-rounded, but not all of the episodes are great. I would still give the series an 8/10, though, because I wasn't satisfied with the first season. The reason it got a 9/10 is because it is a children's show. I would have loved all of it as a child. So it isn't perfect, but it's better than an 8/10.

This series brought out the inner child of me. It was fun, and adventurous and reminded me to enjoy certain things which I have forgotten about. I even began to find certain bits of child humour funny, such as Sokka's jokes at times. It deserves the attention is gets as it should fully satisfy both children and adult alike. Technically, I'm still a child, but I'm close enough to an adult to enjoy the stuff adults do. This series got everything right, and I enjoyed it more and more as it progressed. I look forward to one day seeing this series' successor, 'The Legend of Korra'.

Edit: I finished the series earlier and I now, for some reason, extremely miss it. I'm considering giving it a 10/10 instead...