Let's Discuss Avatar: Seven Havens! | S05E28

So first up, let's talk about the art style.

Now, some people are concerned that Paramount hasn't put as much effort into this as they have with previous projects regards Avatar, or as in comparison to, obviously, the previous, um, shows in general.

And, um, I, I- look, don't get me wrong, I think this is definitely a simplistic art style compared to many other art styles out there.

I don't think it's a great dispari- uh, dispatcher, departure from what Avatar has done previously.

Um, and I would say I enjoy it, and I think actually some of the coloration and some of the, the kind of matte backgrounds look really good, in my opinion.

Matte's probably the wrong word, but you know what I mean.

The, the backgrounds, the backing of the area, the, the, the landscape shots are really, I really enjoyed those, actually.

Do the characters have some simplist in their models? Yes, but I think there's a reason for that, in, in my opinion.

I don't know if this is necessarily what the directors think or, or were thinking, and, and I'm not saying that there wasn't a sense of, "Let's make this cheap by making it simple as possible." We all know that's happened with other, um, animated shows out there, and we also know that's kind of how animation works, right? To get stuff out the door, you make it simple.

And, and I, and I, I get that.

So that's, that's part of it.

But I, the way I see it is the world is kind of, of Avatar, is in a k- kind of point of almost mythology again.

And what I mean by that is, um, you have a time in the world that they've, they've went through, they've basically gone through an apocalypse, apocalypse, and they're kind of coming out the other side.

It's very, like, humanity after an apocalypse.

What, how do you survive? And so they've got these small pockets of, of, of life, essentially.

And it really reminds me of the first Avatar, and I'm forgetting his name off the top of my head.

Um, but the idea that he went to these, the, the, the lion turtle cities and gained the, um, the blessings of the, the lion turtles.

But not, but everything in between was dangerous to the humans.

And I feel like that is very much what's happening here.

I think this is almost like a rebirth.

Obviously, the Avatar cycle has already restarted with Korra.

But I th- it almost feels like there's some kind of indication that this is kind of a restart of the world in a similar way.

Uh, and also there's obviously a lot of theories online regards the Seven Havens being linked to seven chakras.

There's also, of course, as well, Vaatu's kind of being around.

So what, what I want to kind of suggest is that actually this simplistic art style is kind of meant to hark back to the first, like, first, first Avatar, where we're back.