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Post by nuemilee on Jun 27, 2009 8:08:56 GMT -5
When I first saw previews for it, to me it was just another Nickelodeon show aimed towards young children and had no real plot much like Spongebob Squarepants. (At the time I was also very Anti-Nickelodeon, so I wouldn't watch anything on it...Can't remember why, though.) Took me about a year to give it a chance; and I was lucky to catch it from 'The Boy in the Iceberg'. There was just something really unique about it, that wasn't in any cartoon I'd seen at the time. So I watched the next episode, became hooked and the rest is history.
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Post by mattzilla on Jun 29, 2009 8:55:12 GMT -5
Like many of the others who have posted here I had heard of avatar dismissed it than i got into it when they had thanksgiving marathon.
turkey+avatar=win
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TheRoyalWe
Aang
Toph objects to the casting of The Last Airbender.
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Post by TheRoyalWe on Jun 29, 2009 17:07:48 GMT -5
I saw the ads, and for some strange reason I thought it was supposed to be a movie. I was really into Teen Titans at the time, and I noticed that Avatar had the same drawing style (back in 5th grade, I had no idea what "anime" was). So, I planned on watching it. Unfortunately, my parents were in this weird phase where they thought TV was the devil or something, so they blocked all the channels except for the History Channel. Thus, I missed the first 3 episodes. My two best friends summarized the episodes for me (one of them thought that the Kyoshi Warriors were Earthbenders for some reason. I remember that distinctly) until I finally got to see an episode: The King of Omashu. I think that might be why Earth's my favorite element. That, and because Earth is just plain kick butt. Eventually I got around to watching the first 3 episodes, and never missed an episode since.
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Post by KyoshiWarrior on Jul 2, 2009 0:33:18 GMT -5
I thought it was going to be a lame show at first so I didn't pay any attention to it. One saturday morning, I had nothing better to do and it was The Warriors Of Kyoshi. I watched it and fell in love with it because of the characters personalities and the martial art movements they used.
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Post by airnomadlaker on Jul 12, 2009 13:56:02 GMT -5
I was just sitting around in the summer, bored. When I first started watching, the episode that Nick was running was running was the Desert-Library one hour movie. I was hooked, so I watched the earlier episodes until I was on track.
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Post by renoa123 on Jul 15, 2009 14:40:33 GMT -5
I saw the previews, and then I watched it because it looked interesting. At first I didn't really like it, but as the show went on, it grew on me. And now I'm hooked!
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Sakura
FN Sokka
Sakura. Just Sakura.
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Post by Sakura on Jul 16, 2009 18:20:16 GMT -5
The "Cine-manga". Y'know, that crap they pass off as manga? Also, my friend had before ((sort of offhandedly)) told me about being trapped in an iceberg for 100 hundred years. I think I was also going to give the "manga" ((pfffht)) to that same friend, too, but I decided to keep it. Hah.
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Post by awhitemothflew on Jul 18, 2009 9:27:52 GMT -5
Well frankly, nothing first attracted me to Avatar. it looked stupid, so i never watched it. my sister's boyfriend likes it a lot, and when she went to visit him, he got her hooked. she borrowed his DVDs and got me and MY boyfriend into it. we watched all 3 seasons in just a few days. all at once. that was this month. i've never watched before that. and now, i'm avatarded.
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Post by facestealer on Jul 20, 2009 3:07:42 GMT -5
The Asian theme it has, since I was big into samurai and kungfu movies at the time.
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Post by isabella <3 on Dec 19, 2009 23:04:01 GMT -5
i was attracted to avatar when the first episode came on. me and my older brother are into things like that. when i first saw the first episode i just wanted to watch more. then when i saw the second one i knew i was attached. as the show went on i was so attached. I was upset when the last episode came to a end though. i still watch the series over and over again. i think the thing that pulled me in was the action, love, and the structure and feeling of the story line and show.
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asian malaysian
Avatar Kyoshi
Let me hear you say this ship is bananas! B-A-NA-N-A-S!
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Post by asian malaysian on Dec 22, 2009 4:40:15 GMT -5
I was first attracted by the asian aspect of the series. I really think that Avatar is still really unique when it comes to this point for a cartoon from a major network.
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Post by astroanna on Feb 20, 2010 23:27:21 GMT -5
I remember 2 moments that drew me in and hooked me completely... The first time I saw the series was on demand...I started with the pilot, and the moment that Aang said to Katara... Aang: "Come...closer..." Katara: "What is it?" Aang (spazzing out): "Wanna go penguin sledding with me?" I was simultaneously confused and cracking up, I didn't know what to make of it, but it caught my attention from that moment on... When the episode "The Storm" aired for the first time I was already watching regularly and enjoyed the show. Once that episode was over and it explained the back story and the parallel between Aang and Zuko and everything those two had been through, well... I knew this show was something special...I knew it was more than a typical Nickelodeon cartoon. This was a hero quest, no question.
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Post by nymphadora on Feb 21, 2010 23:27:01 GMT -5
When it started in February, my brother would watch it but I didn't want to. Then soon enough we were on summer vacation and had nothing to do. My mom worked till 2 and before then we had to wait for her to come home and bring us somewhere. So in the early day we'd watch normal kid channels. Avatar was on a lot (hard to remember those times, huh?) and after begrudgingly watching a bunch of episodes, I just became engrossed in the storyline.
I think. It was a long time ago. ^_^
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mrfluffypuff
penguin
Im just a simple guy, with simple needs.
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Post by mrfluffypuff on Feb 22, 2010 0:49:16 GMT -5
I just thought the advertisements looked cool. And I was right. No big revelation like some of you seem to have had.
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Post by lotusprincess on Mar 8, 2010 2:19:55 GMT -5
Actually it was an old friend that tipped me about it while it was still in the making of first season - three episodes out or something like that. So I went through the painstaking episode of having to wait for every new episode... Well worth it now, but ahhh, back then it drove me crazy!
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