About a month ago I caught the live action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie, and found it mediocre at best. But I was intrigued enough to look up the animated series on Netflix. Boy was I surprised. I ended up watching all 3 seasons in a matter of weeks. The animation is beautiful, the plot is interesting, and the world is both fantastical and believable. But the characters are the thing that keeps you coming back. All the major characters have great personalities, undergo major changes, and are plain impossible not to get attached to. They deal with some really serious issues too. Only rarely did I feel like I was watching something intended for kids alone. As a 28 year old viewer, the one thing that bothered me a bit was the shortage of real consequences. Adult viewers might expect a brutal war of conquest to be somewhat deadlier than this show makes it out to be. But more realistic violence would of course make the show too dark for its target audience. As it is, I'm just glad there's some quality animated storytelling available out there. We could certainly use more of it.