I will be the first to admit that I had completely ignored this show, as I pretty much stopped caring about Nickelodeon by the time I was 15. I am now 19 and it is only within the past few months that I became interested, and decided to give it a go. And boy oh boy was that one of the greatest ideas of my life.

Oddly enough, what got me interested was the trailer for the film, which I will not even comment on here, but you can read my review of that on The Last Airbender (2010) page. Anyway, I decided to watch the show, thinking that the trailer made it look pretty epic. "Even if it's annoying, maybe at least the battles will look cool," I thought.

I should go back in time and slap myself in the friggin face and screamed: "STOP THINKING YOUR TOO COOL FOR NICKELODEON! WATCH THIS AWESOME SHOW!" and then the slapping would commence.

Seriously, this is without a doubt one of the greatest television shows ever. Not just "greatest cartoons" or "greatest Nick shows," no, no, no. This is ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOWS OF ALL TIME. Never before has traditional animation had such three-dimensional characters. There hasn't been action sequences this cool since "Samurai Jack." Not to mention the gut-busting humor that never resorts to pop culture or just utter annoyance (eff you, Spongebob) for a good laugh...an occasional fart joke maybe, but never annoying.

Not to mention I'm a 19 year old guy who digs "Saw" and Rob Zombie and stuff... and this show managed to sometimes shock me or even tug at my heartstrings. Especiialy the episode that pays homage to Mako, the late voice actor who portrays the utterly awesome Uncle Iroh. If you don't well up a little during his segment in The Tales of Ba Sing Se, you have NO SOUL.

This review is for all those people my age who have overlooked this show because of that unfortunate Nickelodeon thing. Give this a shot like I did. You will not be sorry. If this be Nickelodeon's swan song to excellent programming, then they went out with a bang. A super gigantic mega huge bang that completely and totally rocks, full of rock and roll and dragons and other stuff too awesome to be described.