They were fairly good. There was a bit on the martial arts used for the bending choreography. This was actually covered some in the special features of the first season but they add a bit to it. There were also three cute super-deformed cartoons; the best was shipping school which put all the characters in a school setting and screw with the shippers. Good times.
Third feature was an “animated graphic novel.” The animation was just transitions between stills but I’ll take that over manual page flipping No voice acting but does have some back-story for the past four Avatars.
Finally there was an interview with M. Night Shyamalan about the live-action film. It doesn’t address the casting controversy, namely that despite the Asian martial arts and cultural touchstones they went Caucasians for the heroes and Asians for the baddies (although not all the supporting Fire nation characters are necessarily villains or extras). Apparently there’s an intention to do three films, season 2 does have an additional hero so that will be a chance to partially remedy things. Here’s hoping they take it. For now, I’ve still got an attitude of deep skepticism towards the film.
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