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The live-action adaptation of beloved animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender has arrived on Netflix. For the uninitiated, Avatar, which aired on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008, is an epic tale about Aang, a 12-year-old with the power to manipulate, or “bend,” air, living among other airbenders during a time of great peace between the four separate elemental kingdoms — I bet you can guess what earthbenders, firebenders, and waterbenders can do — all unified under the avatar, a master of bending in all four disciplines who is reincarnated after they die. That great peace, however, ends abruptly when the Fire Nation decides to wage war in an effort to take over the entire globe. The very day that Aang…
