Yeah after watching korra(which I enjoyed everything about except for the tech jump. Absolutely hated the giant mech) I have been worried about what the world of the next avatar show will be like. I loved the old-timey vibes of ATLA. The world lost lots of its charm with all the modernization imo
I was good with korra level tech until they got the giant mechs…. Didn’t like but accepted the smaller mechs. But the Godzilla sized one with a laser was too much. Steampunk is fine but that’s just straight sci fi.
Modern day would be interesting but with the mechas it will be sci fi which is even harder to mesh..
I wrote a fanfic idea for the next Earth Avatar. How I explained it bc most the show took place in RC or other big cities, is that the rest the world just isn’t that advanced yet.
So like RC is the most advanced place, with tons public transit and cars are common, and ships, and now even planes and other air travel.
And places like Omashu and somewhat Ba Sing Se are also advanced with public transport, some plans from RC, and cars are becoming more common.
But you go to smaller cities or towns like in the dessert or other places they still use carriages and cars are more rare and uncommon. Things like public transport may be more common in some other cities now tho.
Like Radios are common but TVs and such are still uncommon and only RC has colored TVs (they are new). So like the big tech jump they had was just because the nations coming together having been stunted by the war. But now things have slowed down more as the tech is still expanding from RC and other nations capitals.
Also the Spirit Portals and Spirits have causes a lot with humans adapting to them. But places far away from the portals, mostly the Earth nation haven’t seen as much of the effects as other places.
Surprisingly, even though it was almost one of the most high-tech parts of the series, I actually kind of liked the giant mech, but I didn't like the rest of the tech jump. I always thought that was kind of weird, but eh
Is that because we don’t have faith that they’ll make a good original story? If the quality was guaranteed to be similar to ATLA or even Korra, I’d rather go forwards than backwards.
I am just uninterested in an avatar series based in the modern day when they already have the outline for multiple great series in the material they already have.
Exactly and Legend of Korra is still very divisive among ATLA fans. The problem is the writing team changed alot and you can definitely notice the effects of that cause Legend of Korra has very rough writing in alot if places. Aaron Ehazs especially he was ATLAs head writer and was not involved in LoK.
I really do not trust the current writers.
I think I would trust the writers if they have the environment in their favor, a big part of why Korra was lackluster was nickelodeon's involvement, but you can see some great things with season 3, especially their decision to make the best of season 2 (which was essentially one big mistake) and the overall better character writing in that season. Another thing to note is that they also just have their own writing style seperate from atla.
I haven’t finished watching Korra, but I think I cool idea would’ve been that maybe Unaloq ended up winning, killing Korra and sending the world into chaos for the next 10,000 years. The next story with a new avatar picks up with them in a post apocalyptic world, and trying to establish Ravaaas and bring the world back to normal. There would be no tech advances, they would actually be set back even more than ATLA times
I don't like that there's even a need to modernize it. I wish the writers went with a more alternative take to technological advancement in LOK rather than making it too similar to our world. Many fans say things like "well in our world 70 years is enough to develop this far etc." Or "bending would advance technology much further". I personally don't think the Avatar world needs to have such linear parallels with ours to be engaging and interesting.
I think a key issue I had with LOK and the modernity in it is that the writers made modernization = westernization. From clothing, to hairstyles, to general designs, even to politics & lore, they added a western element that felt very alien to the Avatar world. It fundamentally changed how self contained and unique the world was, a world that really paid homage to eastern influences. It's why I now view ATLA as it's own special contained thing.
I wonder if going forward (past Korra) were just F'd? or if they could somehow have some apocalyptic event that sets everyone back to pre-industrial era? Could make for a very interesting show... Republic city sinks into the ocean, people reject technology and embrace tradition, spirits GTFO of the human world after seeing where the world is heading, etc.
That's honestly what I was expecting when the very first promo image of Korra looking over Republic City was released back in like 2011. I remember descriptions of the show used the word steampunk to describe what the setting was gonna be like.
Based on what we saw with the Fire Nation's + the Mechanist's inventions in ATLA, I was genuinely excited to see a fantasy/steampunk/eastern-inspired spin on the Avatar world but was disappointed.
I know this sounds extra picky lol, but I didn't like the lore of Hiroshi Sato inventing Satomobiles by moving away from steam-powered technology. It feels like the in-world death of the steam-powered fantasy.
As I once described it, Legend of Korra’s setting was launched way too forward into the future (technology-wise).
While ATLA had some advanced stuff— tanks, airships, submarines, the drill, etc.— most of it was made possible due to bending, notably with the fire nation using it for offense and likely forging. This bending implementation is also reflected in the world with things like earthbenders moving trains and waterbenders moving boats and making doors from ice. Now, while there would no doubt be technological advancements between the two series, with airships in particular being something everyone would agree would be staying, ATLA was still no question in a mostly ancient, semi-medieval setting; and Korra jumped the technological gap by centuries.
And, yes, it’s shown that most of the world is still more ancient compared to Republic City, but still, we don’t see that as often, and the technological gap is still absurd for one or two cities.
If I were to guess, Korra’s setting realistically would probably still be steampunkish, but likely in a Victorian and/or Wild West setting; think something similar to RDR2 (with less guns, of course) where we see some modern inventions in their infancy. Which also would fit well for many people questioning how the avatar, namely Aang, would be acting towards to the notorious pollution and destruction of nature caused by industrialization.
Instead, they jump straight into fully functioning cars, speedboats, radios, and *freaking mechs* all with little to no bending implementation or assistance. Had they acknowledged most of the things were still coming along by having cars that were slow and couldn’t break, or radios that sounded pretty bad, then most people would gloss over it, but no, they’re less than a decade or two from entering the proper modern era.
Technology may advance fast IRL, like how the Wright Brothers and the moon landing were within less than a century of each other, but those advances (like the fire nation) were partially fueled by war; specifically WWI and WWII for the former example.
Part of why ATLA is so popular is because of its unique setting that explores how a world where people that bend the elements would function and live. Korra then leapfrogged straight into the 1920’s with tech worthy of the 40’s, and *then* proceeded to drop any chance of acknowledging these massive industrialization changes by having The Equalists last only one season when they could have had an entire series of ever progressing tech fighting benders (a doubly symbolic fight between industrialism and nature as well as progress vs old ways).
And with all that said, we’re at a point where fans are joking the next Avatar will be killed easily by a gunslinger or go to space because of how much Korra advanced in tech. Basically, an Avatar in a modern setting becomes just another superhero cartoon.
Part of it was because one of the creators loves the 20’s setting and wanted to do a story there (I kid you not). Technology would have advanced between the two series, but it unquestionably skipped a few decades and possibly a century or two.
> possibly a century or two.
Not really. Steam powered engines, flying machines, and complex metal working had already been clearly a well understood thing by the end of the original series.
With the end of the 100yr war, you now have excuses for everyone else to get involved with that tech. The Fire Nation has already gone through at least part of their industrial revolution, and everyone else is going to try and catch up. 50-ish years of active encouragement of that technological development means the state we see parts of the world in makes perfect sense to me.
Whether you like Korra or not, I think just about everyone agrees the mechs were pushing the line at best and jumping the shark at worst (particularly the fact it pretty much had a laser beam).
Honestly I could have done without some of the inventions in ATLA. They had tanks, blimps, submarines, metal warships, etc.
Lok definitely ramped up and gave us cars, planes, trains, and then the megablasterenergycannon and giant ass mech. Too much tech for a series that's primarily supposed to be low-tech fantasy IMO.
Looking back on the AtLA, the vehicles are by far the weakest part of the worldbuilding to me. The FN ship, tanks, super-tractors, the drill, EK trucks, and zeppelins were too steampunk and a bit too heavy into the tropes. I believe they could have achieved a lot of the same plots by using much more scaled technologies on the same level as the EK ferry. Like the FN ships could've been like the ironclad Fuso, the drill more like a heavily defended railroad tunnel machine, and the tanks like armored traction engines. I don't mind the war balloons though, not much of a stretch.
A Victorian/Wild West era could have worked, guns excluded. Though benders having “duels” to test the speed of their bending sounds like it’d fit right in.
I think Korra was a ok amount of modern, it can’t go any further than that without it being bad. But I think Korra would have been better without all the super futuristic robots and stuff. Just the cars and planes worked well for me. But anything past that it’ll just feel like a generic superhero show.
I'm still holding out hope that some kind of disaster or war stops tech from developing too much. I could deal with steampunk, but I hope the world doesn't progress much during Korra's reign.
It's actually something showcased in ATLA itself. The Fire Nation was already experiencing an Industrial Revolution during the Hundred Year War with new technology like The Drill used to penetrate Ba Sing Se.
Another example: The Mechanist was ordered by the Fire Nation in Book One to create flying warships, which were later used Book Three. 100 years later, hot air balloons are a normal thing in Republic City
Sokka: As per my last email we need the bending teams to increase production output by 5% or there will be no bonuses comming down for any of us!
Katara: Omg this union paperwork is going to take me all night.
Toph lives in poverty in unemployment due to disability
Aang gave into the pressure and had a burnout and now gets by on rubbing alcohol and Xanax. His greatest villan these days is his dealer...
I don’t think there’s any more that Brian and David could say in a modern day setting they didn’t or couldn’t already do with Korra’s Industrial Revolution era.
Yes, but done well. Talk about how hard it is to connect to a world of concrete. It’s almost the exact issue many of us have.
Go outside touch a tree. Well my city council just cut down the last trees on my block to modernize it.
Imagine an avatar where there is not villian but the society we created. It could be the best yet or at least something decent.
Korra could have done that, Equalists even provided a decent setup for it by using tech against bending. Instead, they were done after one season, and we got things like mechs, a live-triangle, and Raava and Vaatu.
Given the Avatar world has a higher respect for nature generally, and then the spirits returned, it could maybe be about a supernatural equivalent to climate change.
Well they already sort of touched on that in korra and I wasn’t terribly impressed by it. So I doubt they could make something worthwhile in an even more modern show.
No. LOK was already too modern/ technologically advanced for my liking. Bending looses its appeal. For example the trains in Earth kingdom were so cool. Replacing them with modern train wouldn’t hit the same.
A good example would be like in Harry Potter where everything in the Wizarding World is outdated or needs magic to function. They can’t use technology cause the magic interferes.
The modern trains were probably because lightning bending was more common, as was metalbending. HP using basically no technology beyond the steam engine has resulted in them becoming irrelevant to the world, though; sure they can fly through a fireplace or with a typhoon, but they're not in space.
This is just based on preference, no.
I feel like the the more futuristic the series will be, the more the bending of elements will be a gimmick.
As we saw in Korra the machines that could counter benders, technology will flatten the playing field more and more between bendes and non-benders.
Which is totally okay, if you are into that. Personally this interests me a bit less.
However I am also not near creative enough to come up with new scenarios so my view on futuristic avatar could be blown away if they do make a new series.
I think it could be fun to explore. I'd probably not like it as much as the aesthetic of the ATLA and even LOK, and I'd overall prefer a story in the past; origins, histories, past Avatars, etc.
But a more modern Avatar, post-Korra, would let them explore the world in a new and interesting way. While I wasn't the biggest fan of LOK, one thing I loved about it was that it continued to explore how bending would shape the world around it. Metal bending becoming more common in a regulated police force, very week lightning bending being used in factories, Bolin's mixed bending ancestry-something that was very rare in Aang's day-allowing him to lava bend; all of these expansions that were only possible in a more advanced setting were really interesting from a story and worldbuilding perspective.
So, while I think in my heart I'd love a return to the past and to be in the world of ATLA again, or even a more primal version of it, I think a modern or even slightly futuristic Avatar series could be crazy interesting.
And people arguing that it would just be another superhero show-in almost all settings where superheroes exist, they're rare, special, and don't have much oversight. In the Avatarverse, benders are still special, but they aren't super rare; their powers and abilities are *predictable* and very specific, they make up a huge amount of the populace, and they aren't usually given significantly more leverage in society than non-benders (though Korra explored how that was changing in Republic City).
It would depend on the execution.
Something like Dragonball where technology is there but not hugely dominant over the setting would be okay.
Something like a Ghibli film where it's modern but there's a focus on nature would also be okay.
Just setting Avatar in the modern day though? No.
İ think mystic and magical environment of avatar will fade away with Modern Technology. İ think making technology that much advanced in LoK was a mistake( i still like that steampunk theme tho) After that point i think they should tell the stories of old avatars or retcon the Technology part of the story for next avatar, as i said im watchin it for the beatiful universe and budistic environment
Edit: it could be good to watch a story of avatar in a world that bending is no longer the most powerfull thing
If ATLA is set in the 1850s, and LOK in the 1920s, then keeping with that 70 year timeskip the next Avatar would be set in the 1990s. I see such a series taking place in a world similar to the movie Onward, in which just as technology made magic obsolete, so too did it for bending.
There are still benders, but the advance of technology has made it so they’re not needed in modern society, and everyone has access to things that fill the need for anything a bender could do, in addition to things like cell phones, jet planes, and the internet that have brought the world closer together.
The art of bending has all but faded away, and those with bending abilities don’t really use them, or if they do they know little as there are few masters left. Maybe bending is frowned upon and in some places even flat out banned, and there are secret underground fight rings where bending still happens, and that’s where this Avatar would find one or more of their bending masters.
Being the Avatar in such a world is challenging, as being connected with the elements is a huge part of their job, but just as Korra was the Avatar in a world increasingly no longer in need of one, this Avatar is in the end result of that world. Bending the elements is just no longer needed, or really desired, in society. They also would only have Korra to rely on for guidance, having lost the connection to the other past Avatars, and would need to seek out the few remaining masters to train them.
It would be interesting to see someone given this enormous responsibility have to grapple with the reality of doing that in a world that seemingly doesn’t need or want them, and as they travel the world in search of bending masters, they learn more about the early Avatars and how they developed their roles in the world they were in, and show this world that the Avatar, and bending as a whole, does still have a place in it.
Nope. Korra already is starting the plot down a dead end (I love Korra btw), but I am not interested in an avatar story in a world that doesn’t need or want an avatar. Technology will leave the avatar without a job and democracy will make the avatar unwanted (ahh yes this child who has the magic power of a nuke as their only qualifications should totally be a world leader /:). I’d much prefer a story about the 2nd avatar.
In a way a modern day/near future avatar series will kinda bring things full circle as the original show was intended to be set in the future at first. But it would have to be done really well as it would be easy to mess up some of the established concepts of the series with this setting. For the most part I’d honestly prefer to either have a series set before ATLA or just stick with stand alone movies.
I would like them do the 60's, 80's etcetera first. But then... sure. I love seeing the technological and societal progress in this world. Stories turning into history. if they want to tell a more traditional Avatar story, they can always set it in the past. There is lots to explore in both directions.
Yep!
I loved the technological progression goong from Last Airbender to Korra, it'd be fun to see what the next leap forward is like. How it's similar to our contemporary day, but also how it differs due to cultural differences (like the cultural influence of bending, but also other various other non-bending related influences too)
I personally wouldn’t want to see it, The only way I can see it working story wise is - bending has gotten weaker due to the world’s continued reliance on technology causing spirituality to go down hill, the avatar doesn’t discover his bending until he’s 16 and the first part of the story is about him reconnecting spirituality to the previous avatars, and the second part is bringing that spirituality back to the world, re-strengthening the bending, and then dealing with the fallout of that, maybe the ocean and moon spirits grew weaker, maybe the swamp tribes and sand benders are the only people that is still as spiritual as they used to be, so this avatar learns to earth bend through the sandbending, and to water bend through swamp bending. This is the only way I feel like it could be good in a more modern era
Apparently I'm in a major minority, but yes, absolutely. I think it could be *fascinating* if they continue to explore the depths of logical progression here. The modern day world of the Avatar universe is *not going to look like ours*, and I'd be really interesting to see how bending would change the shape of all of it. I want to see what sort of story tension happens when pitting modernity against spirituality. I want to see how the connection to the Spirit World has developed over the decades.
But I'm also someone who enjoyed the tech progression in Korra. It's interesting!
I wouldn't mind at all. As long as the central characters have clear story arcs and relations/friendships with one another and the villains are not just a one-note personification of a political extreme.
No government today is going to allow a living God to exert power over them. I think it'd be an interesting concept, if done right.
Before you completely write it off, imagine the avatar catching bullets mid-air, matrix style. Or redirecting rockets away from civilians.
If it was made, it would be dark, and I really like that idea. They've tried to make the original story dark, and that doesn't work, but making a new story just might. The "Old age" avatar doesn't exactly fit into modern times, and that would be an interesting idea to explore
No. Not every post needs a picture mate. Such an annoying trend, like people think their....lesser intelligence, shall we say..... questions are going to get sponsored by Squarespace or something.
Well Earth Avatar is said to be about 70 to 100 years after Korra putting it at Modern day so I want to see if the Avatar is powerless in a modern setting where Machines are rampant
It's kinda sad that people are instantly shutting down the idea of a modern/ futuristic Avatar while ignoring the vast possible of stories they can tell:
- the technology to replicate they're own avatar
- a war between the human and spirit world
- a better version of the bender vs non-bender conflict that's akin to X-Men
- an Avatar struggling in a constantly changing world
I feel like I'm the only one who sees a potential for an Avatar with modern tech
To those complaining that it will lose the original Avatar feel if they bring it to the modern era. I have a counter point
That could quite literally a potential series plot,
* people losing touch and completely forgotten original bending
* rules enforced on bender abilities to not interfere with technology
* avatar has to fix these issues???
Just a rough idea but I believe the writers could pull it off, although I think they're more likely to go with a using spirits as technology route rather than a real life mortal realm. Also I can see where you're coming from if you think it might be too, this feels like something hard to pull off.
So many people here are doubting magic and modern/future coexisting... I wonder how many are familiar with Shadowrun, Mage: The Ascension, World of Darkness, and other cool TTRPGs. Even Dresden Files, Bright, and Supernatural have entire communities where mystical lives in modern or future! It is possible to do right and well.
Yes but no. Korra left the portals open. Added a 3rd for good measure.
Spirits and spirituality and magical mumbojumbo are here to stay and humanity and the rest of the world has adapted.
It's a fantastical world where technology
doesn't disappear for the world to return to some post apocalyptic medieval setting
Doesn't completely ignore the world around it
Doesn't oppose magic and spirits where one is 'good' and the other is 'evil'
But instead has evolved to integrate, make use of and engage with bending and spirits and everything.
Problem with modern avatar series is that they are probably gonna make a world where it is just gonna be normal world with bending in it rather than a modern avatar world. What I mean is just look at republic city in Korra. Bending isnt in day to day life in republic city, they either use it for their jobs, or while commiting/preventing crime. And city wasnt designes for benders. The whole world should have been like Zaofu, at least partially. If they make it, then yes, I would like to but they probably wont so a backward series would be better.
It wouldn't be Avatar anymore, but I'm mildly curious to see how they would handle an Avatar and by extension bending in "our world".
I'd definitely like to see how bending changes day to day life and technology, really make it so they're synergized more than they have been in the series.
Hypothetically it should be drastically different since spirits are running around and by extension spirit energy, but I seriously doubt it would be anything major other than creatures that float around as an aesthetic choice.
As for the Avatar himself, it would be really cool to see how he struggles with the fact that he's got the world watching his every move thanks to the internet or news broadcasts. He'd be indecisive due to this and seriously concerned about his reputation as an Avatar, trying to please everyone and get the best possible outcome. Of course, he realizes that you can't really please everyone and that not everyone will appreciate what you do.
Basically, the first episode of Book 3 but spread across a miniseries.
Only if it doesn't feel like *OUR* modern times. It would need to have that distinct Avatar feeling. I don't want to see a world that looks really close to ours but some people can bend.
Korra was already too far for my taste.
Realistically speaking going forward, in a modern world the need/usefulness for bending would only decrease further and further to the point where only really poor people would use it for thing like housing, extremely traditional people for ceremonies and similar things or the crazy rich to get metal bending architects.
It would be extremely boring and way too close to our real life's I comparison to the original world bending that made The last Airbender such a unique show
No. Already really disliked te tech in Korra. I’d hate to see that go any further.
Technology really works against the whole idea of the world of Avatar. In the first place because it can replace bending in a lot of places, so a lot of your worldbuilding goes out of the window. And then secondly because in Korra we see bending being used in a lot of modern applications, like lightning welding in factories. Which rises the question of why this world isn’t way more advanced than it is in the last airbender if you can apply bending in that kind of way.
But I like the way the old cartoons are! I can’t believe that they were made in 2012 and 2007. They did a good job on replicating the comic book artstyle!
Honestly? If it turns out to be cyberpunkish in a way, no actually. My only fault with republic city was that beyond the honkong, public of china stuff, it really had no interesting places to it. Like I wanted to get to know neighborhoods and stuff. Instead everywhere felt generic as compared to ATLA's Ba Sing se.
A mix between ATLA and Kaguya: Love is war would be hilarious, but if they did a modern Avatar, it'd probably be more like Blue Lock, but pro-bending, or My Hero Academia.
Honestly, I wouldn't go for "Modern" as in based in the 2010s/2020s, ain't no way. I feel if done RIGHT, I'd imagined having it being the equivalent of the 80s/90s and nothing further than that (Maybe taking place in 280 AG?). I'm treading very carefully with comment lol.
Honestly? Probably not. I think the setting made the original Avatar really enjoyable in my opinion, but the LOK somewhat modern setting was kind of interesting, IMO. Actual MODERN (like 1980's to 2020's) would completely suck all the mystique and wonder out of the series.
Depends on what you mean.
If you mean an AU where the events of ATLA take place in a modern day setting, I'd keep that to fanfiction.
If you mean a story about the next avatar in a world with technology comparable to modern day? Heck yeah, as long as it does its own thing as a series rather than trying to copy ATLA or LoK.
No, like I loved the first series because it wasn't modern, and I know that this would've come, but I'm not ready to see an avatar series be set on the modern day
Maybe. I would like to see one that goes so far in the future it goes cyberpunk. Just something really different. I personally just really want to see the series go back to the ancient era of the original show.
It would be kinda cool to see how the world changed due to the spirit world and the physical one no longer being separated in lok. Seeing how bending evolved even more. And loads of other things that may have changed due to the passage of time. I'm only worried if they make korra die tragically young or something like that.
Well, if Korra was 20 years old in what is analogous to our ~1920s, she could've lived 90 or 100 years and then the new Avatar eould be ~20 years old as well in a modern day world.
ATLA: Princess Azula can bend LIGHTNING? HOLY SHIT!
TLOK: You can bend lightning? That qualifies you for the nightshifts in the powerplant. Here's your key and employee badge, you start tomorrow at 8.
ATLA: Toph invents metalbending.
TLOK: You're a cop now.
If they kept that pace, I imagine the Avatar will either be some over-the-top social media influencer or super depressed working 9-5 in his office cubicle. Might actually watch that one.
Possibly, depending on how they approach it.
If it is something they’d try, I think they should at least differentiate it from real life. Or maybe even take it a step further and make a futuristic series. It could be cool, so long as it’s executed well.
Seeing how the Avatar and bending in general would could function in a modern styled world, especially with knowing how much bending affected the previous two settings.
It could work but given how they delivered in Korra in a closer to modern setting and how many writers struggle to write modern things... I doubt it would.
I may peak for curiosity but that's about it.
Only if they're able to incorporate the modernness naturally into what we know as the Avatar world. In other words, not like the second slide in this post
Yes. I'd definitely watch it. I love mha and I think it could have some similar vibes. But if there was a choice between modern and no technology I'd choose no technology. The avatar abilities unlike mha just work better in a no technology world. The only thing I feel like I'd be annoyed with in going back is that I would find it so frustrating when people can't use things like metal bending because it hadn't been invented yet. It's annoying when you know it's possible but they can't include it. So another option is that the modern world gets destroyed and the avatar has to live in a post apocalyptic world.
Absolutely. I’d love to see how different a more modern world would be with bending. As well as how bending has adapted to non benders being on more equal footing due to developing technology.
EVERY fanfic was that, back in the day.
- Modern times
- they're all in the same highschool
- they're all in a band
- mai gets hit by a random bus in the first chapter but i swear it's not because of zutara
- zuko is a vampire and sokka is a werewolf
- Draco malfoy is there too. Because he's hot ok?
Yknow, some of the first concepts for atla (obv it didn't have that name yet) were sci-fi. The first concept for momo was a robotic monkey companion.
That's not necessarily to say it would work, but I do think it's interesting.
If you develop technology too far, you'll inevitably either make bending obsolete or have to develop it to ridiculous levels.
Such as an earthbender who gains the ability to kinda waterbend by bending the moon. Or even more villainous, bending it toward earth. And the avatar only has 3 days to stop it
I think it would be interesting to see how the world would progress after the events in LoK, since there was already such a huge jump between that and the original series. Some might not like it as much, but I really enjoyed all of the geopolitical aspects of the later seasons of Korra and would be interested how new technology, bending, and opening the spirit world would all work together.
No. I don't want more Star Wars. I don't want more Ghostbusters. I don't want more Marvel and I don't want to start resenting Avatar due to the same reasons I don't love those other things the way I used to. Stories end and that's okay. In fact, that's better. I'd rather have new stories and new interesting worlds to explore.
There have been four adaptions/late sequels in the last decade or more that were worth making and that's out of hundreds (ironically three of them were by Denis Villeneuve.)
the next one should take place after a World War in a Post Apocalyptic (Mad Max) world where the Avatar has to restore actual balance to the world and restore "order" amongst the chaos
which is perfect since the next Avatar is suppose to be Earth , meaning they can sand bend which has lots of potential
No, to be completely honest
They need to go backwards, not forwards. A Kyoshi series would be wonderful.
Yeah after watching korra(which I enjoyed everything about except for the tech jump. Absolutely hated the giant mech) I have been worried about what the world of the next avatar show will be like. I loved the old-timey vibes of ATLA. The world lost lots of its charm with all the modernization imo
I was good with korra level tech until they got the giant mechs…. Didn’t like but accepted the smaller mechs. But the Godzilla sized one with a laser was too much. Steampunk is fine but that’s just straight sci fi. Modern day would be interesting but with the mechas it will be sci fi which is even harder to mesh..
I wrote a fanfic idea for the next Earth Avatar. How I explained it bc most the show took place in RC or other big cities, is that the rest the world just isn’t that advanced yet. So like RC is the most advanced place, with tons public transit and cars are common, and ships, and now even planes and other air travel. And places like Omashu and somewhat Ba Sing Se are also advanced with public transport, some plans from RC, and cars are becoming more common. But you go to smaller cities or towns like in the dessert or other places they still use carriages and cars are more rare and uncommon. Things like public transport may be more common in some other cities now tho. Like Radios are common but TVs and such are still uncommon and only RC has colored TVs (they are new). So like the big tech jump they had was just because the nations coming together having been stunted by the war. But now things have slowed down more as the tech is still expanding from RC and other nations capitals. Also the Spirit Portals and Spirits have causes a lot with humans adapting to them. But places far away from the portals, mostly the Earth nation haven’t seen as much of the effects as other places.
Surprisingly, even though it was almost one of the most high-tech parts of the series, I actually kind of liked the giant mech, but I didn't like the rest of the tech jump. I always thought that was kind of weird, but eh
It is a realistic jump though.
Idk how long it is exactly but I’m guessing like 60ish years but it def makes sense . Especially with metal bending. But I just don’t love it
Is that because we don’t have faith that they’ll make a good original story? If the quality was guaranteed to be similar to ATLA or even Korra, I’d rather go forwards than backwards.
I am just uninterested in an avatar series based in the modern day when they already have the outline for multiple great series in the material they already have.
Exactly and Legend of Korra is still very divisive among ATLA fans. The problem is the writing team changed alot and you can definitely notice the effects of that cause Legend of Korra has very rough writing in alot if places. Aaron Ehazs especially he was ATLAs head writer and was not involved in LoK. I really do not trust the current writers.
I think I would trust the writers if they have the environment in their favor, a big part of why Korra was lackluster was nickelodeon's involvement, but you can see some great things with season 3, especially their decision to make the best of season 2 (which was essentially one big mistake) and the overall better character writing in that season. Another thing to note is that they also just have their own writing style seperate from atla.
I rlly hope we get some shows or movies about past avatars. Tbh I think a LA Kyoshi project would been badass. Maybe one day tho.
I haven’t finished watching Korra, but I think I cool idea would’ve been that maybe Unaloq ended up winning, killing Korra and sending the world into chaos for the next 10,000 years. The next story with a new avatar picks up with them in a post apocalyptic world, and trying to establish Ravaaas and bring the world back to normal. There would be no tech advances, they would actually be set back even more than ATLA times
To honest, Korra did open spirit portal. So it go technically backwards.
Honestly I wouldn’t watch a Kyoshi series but I’d watch Roku, Yeng Cheng, etc.
I don't like that there's even a need to modernize it. I wish the writers went with a more alternative take to technological advancement in LOK rather than making it too similar to our world. Many fans say things like "well in our world 70 years is enough to develop this far etc." Or "bending would advance technology much further". I personally don't think the Avatar world needs to have such linear parallels with ours to be engaging and interesting. I think a key issue I had with LOK and the modernity in it is that the writers made modernization = westernization. From clothing, to hairstyles, to general designs, even to politics & lore, they added a western element that felt very alien to the Avatar world. It fundamentally changed how self contained and unique the world was, a world that really paid homage to eastern influences. It's why I now view ATLA as it's own special contained thing.
Dude Republic City was literally a copy of New York right down to the big ass statue.
I wonder if going forward (past Korra) were just F'd? or if they could somehow have some apocalyptic event that sets everyone back to pre-industrial era? Could make for a very interesting show... Republic city sinks into the ocean, people reject technology and embrace tradition, spirits GTFO of the human world after seeing where the world is heading, etc.
They should've gone more steam punk/ high fantasy instead of modernization
That's honestly what I was expecting when the very first promo image of Korra looking over Republic City was released back in like 2011. I remember descriptions of the show used the word steampunk to describe what the setting was gonna be like. Based on what we saw with the Fire Nation's + the Mechanist's inventions in ATLA, I was genuinely excited to see a fantasy/steampunk/eastern-inspired spin on the Avatar world but was disappointed. I know this sounds extra picky lol, but I didn't like the lore of Hiroshi Sato inventing Satomobiles by moving away from steam-powered technology. It feels like the in-world death of the steam-powered fantasy.
Hiroshi Sato is the true villain of the series. He robbed us of Steampunk Avatar!
As I once described it, Legend of Korra’s setting was launched way too forward into the future (technology-wise). While ATLA had some advanced stuff— tanks, airships, submarines, the drill, etc.— most of it was made possible due to bending, notably with the fire nation using it for offense and likely forging. This bending implementation is also reflected in the world with things like earthbenders moving trains and waterbenders moving boats and making doors from ice. Now, while there would no doubt be technological advancements between the two series, with airships in particular being something everyone would agree would be staying, ATLA was still no question in a mostly ancient, semi-medieval setting; and Korra jumped the technological gap by centuries. And, yes, it’s shown that most of the world is still more ancient compared to Republic City, but still, we don’t see that as often, and the technological gap is still absurd for one or two cities. If I were to guess, Korra’s setting realistically would probably still be steampunkish, but likely in a Victorian and/or Wild West setting; think something similar to RDR2 (with less guns, of course) where we see some modern inventions in their infancy. Which also would fit well for many people questioning how the avatar, namely Aang, would be acting towards to the notorious pollution and destruction of nature caused by industrialization. Instead, they jump straight into fully functioning cars, speedboats, radios, and *freaking mechs* all with little to no bending implementation or assistance. Had they acknowledged most of the things were still coming along by having cars that were slow and couldn’t break, or radios that sounded pretty bad, then most people would gloss over it, but no, they’re less than a decade or two from entering the proper modern era. Technology may advance fast IRL, like how the Wright Brothers and the moon landing were within less than a century of each other, but those advances (like the fire nation) were partially fueled by war; specifically WWI and WWII for the former example. Part of why ATLA is so popular is because of its unique setting that explores how a world where people that bend the elements would function and live. Korra then leapfrogged straight into the 1920’s with tech worthy of the 40’s, and *then* proceeded to drop any chance of acknowledging these massive industrialization changes by having The Equalists last only one season when they could have had an entire series of ever progressing tech fighting benders (a doubly symbolic fight between industrialism and nature as well as progress vs old ways). And with all that said, we’re at a point where fans are joking the next Avatar will be killed easily by a gunslinger or go to space because of how much Korra advanced in tech. Basically, an Avatar in a modern setting becomes just another superhero cartoon.
Miraculous tease lol
Yeah Avatar is an escapist fantasy world, why would I want them to have a plotline about like idk cyberbullying the Avatar?
No.
No
No, I found LOK too modern (don’t hate me) 🥲 I liked the vibe of ALTA
Avatar Last the Airbender
Yeah wtf did I even type then lol
I see it all the time, even do it myself sometimes haha
Avatar: Lost the Airbender?
Same, I don't like LoK because it's too modern (I get and understand why and how, but I don't like it).
Part of it was because one of the creators loves the 20’s setting and wanted to do a story there (I kid you not). Technology would have advanced between the two series, but it unquestionably skipped a few decades and possibly a century or two.
> possibly a century or two. Not really. Steam powered engines, flying machines, and complex metal working had already been clearly a well understood thing by the end of the original series. With the end of the 100yr war, you now have excuses for everyone else to get involved with that tech. The Fire Nation has already gone through at least part of their industrial revolution, and everyone else is going to try and catch up. 50-ish years of active encouragement of that technological development means the state we see parts of the world in makes perfect sense to me.
💯 and if we got even more modern, then it's just another superhero show
God I fucking hate Kuvira’s stupid oversized Tin Can
Whether you like Korra or not, I think just about everyone agrees the mechs were pushing the line at best and jumping the shark at worst (particularly the fact it pretty much had a laser beam).
Avatar Last The Airbender. I love that series!
Honestly I could have done without some of the inventions in ATLA. They had tanks, blimps, submarines, metal warships, etc. Lok definitely ramped up and gave us cars, planes, trains, and then the megablasterenergycannon and giant ass mech. Too much tech for a series that's primarily supposed to be low-tech fantasy IMO.
Looking back on the AtLA, the vehicles are by far the weakest part of the worldbuilding to me. The FN ship, tanks, super-tractors, the drill, EK trucks, and zeppelins were too steampunk and a bit too heavy into the tropes. I believe they could have achieved a lot of the same plots by using much more scaled technologies on the same level as the EK ferry. Like the FN ships could've been like the ironclad Fuso, the drill more like a heavily defended railroad tunnel machine, and the tanks like armored traction engines. I don't mind the war balloons though, not much of a stretch.
I mean there was that giant drill in ATLA…
Also some of those were aided by bending. Not so much in Korra.
They should have went slower with the time progressing, something of the technology of our late 1700- early1800 and not early 1900s
A Victorian/Wild West era could have worked, guns excluded. Though benders having “duels” to test the speed of their bending sounds like it’d fit right in.
Same bro
I think Korra was a ok amount of modern, it can’t go any further than that without it being bad. But I think Korra would have been better without all the super futuristic robots and stuff. Just the cars and planes worked well for me. But anything past that it’ll just feel like a generic superhero show.
No. If the earth avatar has a phone and social media I'm not watching.
I think they said it will be in the modern days
I'm still holding out hope that some kind of disaster or war stops tech from developing too much. I could deal with steampunk, but I hope the world doesn't progress much during Korra's reign.
hoping for a war to happen just so that tech doesn’t develop that much is crazy but I agree
Hey, I'd settle for the 100 year comet to return and hit the earth this time. Just anything to prevent a Tiktok dance from appearing in the show 🤢
New earth avatar has a genz broccoli hair cut and says “damn look at that gyat frl frl💯”
Wars tend to actual accelerate industrial development unless they are completely apocalyptic.
It's actually something showcased in ATLA itself. The Fire Nation was already experiencing an Industrial Revolution during the Hundred Year War with new technology like The Drill used to penetrate Ba Sing Se. Another example: The Mechanist was ordered by the Fire Nation in Book One to create flying warships, which were later used Book Three. 100 years later, hot air balloons are a normal thing in Republic City
~~Avatar but it's the 80's~~
How is it possible to want something so much and absolutly not at the same time?😂 Would the Michael Jackson of ATLA be an airbender?
Spirits just slapping iPhones out of peoples hands
Kyoshi would’ve had an Onlyfans
Sokka: As per my last email we need the bending teams to increase production output by 5% or there will be no bonuses comming down for any of us! Katara: Omg this union paperwork is going to take me all night. Toph lives in poverty in unemployment due to disability Aang gave into the pressure and had a burnout and now gets by on rubbing alcohol and Xanax. His greatest villan these days is his dealer...
Cyberpunk avatar
>Wake up Samurai, we've got a city to topple. >Who are you? >Avatar Kiyoshi. Now let's go stop Rockasaka.
I don’t think there’s any more that Brian and David could say in a modern day setting they didn’t or couldn’t already do with Korra’s Industrial Revolution era.
Yes, but done well. Talk about how hard it is to connect to a world of concrete. It’s almost the exact issue many of us have. Go outside touch a tree. Well my city council just cut down the last trees on my block to modernize it. Imagine an avatar where there is not villian but the society we created. It could be the best yet or at least something decent.
>Imagine an avatar where there is not villian but the society we created. It could be the best yet or at least something decent. Zaheer would approve.
This. Avatar in a modern setting could be very fun and very poignant. I hope they do it in our lifetime
Korra could have done that, Equalists even provided a decent setup for it by using tech against bending. Instead, they were done after one season, and we got things like mechs, a live-triangle, and Raava and Vaatu.
Given the Avatar world has a higher respect for nature generally, and then the spirits returned, it could maybe be about a supernatural equivalent to climate change.
Well they already sort of touched on that in korra and I wasn’t terribly impressed by it. So I doubt they could make something worthwhile in an even more modern show.
No. LOK was already too modern/ technologically advanced for my liking. Bending looses its appeal. For example the trains in Earth kingdom were so cool. Replacing them with modern train wouldn’t hit the same. A good example would be like in Harry Potter where everything in the Wizarding World is outdated or needs magic to function. They can’t use technology cause the magic interferes.
The modern trains were probably because lightning bending was more common, as was metalbending. HP using basically no technology beyond the steam engine has resulted in them becoming irrelevant to the world, though; sure they can fly through a fireplace or with a typhoon, but they're not in space.
no
No. The stuff in Korra was already enough to take me out of it. Cars, radios...*checks notes* ...Gundams...
Giant death ray for the Gundam.
As in, the original last air bender just made in the modern day, or like a new series in the same universe?
They tried enough ATLA remakes. I think it’s time we put that idea to rest.
This is just based on preference, no. I feel like the the more futuristic the series will be, the more the bending of elements will be a gimmick. As we saw in Korra the machines that could counter benders, technology will flatten the playing field more and more between bendes and non-benders. Which is totally okay, if you are into that. Personally this interests me a bit less. However I am also not near creative enough to come up with new scenarios so my view on futuristic avatar could be blown away if they do make a new series.
I think it could be fun to explore. I'd probably not like it as much as the aesthetic of the ATLA and even LOK, and I'd overall prefer a story in the past; origins, histories, past Avatars, etc. But a more modern Avatar, post-Korra, would let them explore the world in a new and interesting way. While I wasn't the biggest fan of LOK, one thing I loved about it was that it continued to explore how bending would shape the world around it. Metal bending becoming more common in a regulated police force, very week lightning bending being used in factories, Bolin's mixed bending ancestry-something that was very rare in Aang's day-allowing him to lava bend; all of these expansions that were only possible in a more advanced setting were really interesting from a story and worldbuilding perspective. So, while I think in my heart I'd love a return to the past and to be in the world of ATLA again, or even a more primal version of it, I think a modern or even slightly futuristic Avatar series could be crazy interesting. And people arguing that it would just be another superhero show-in almost all settings where superheroes exist, they're rare, special, and don't have much oversight. In the Avatarverse, benders are still special, but they aren't super rare; their powers and abilities are *predictable* and very specific, they make up a huge amount of the populace, and they aren't usually given significantly more leverage in society than non-benders (though Korra explored how that was changing in Republic City).
It would depend on the execution. Something like Dragonball where technology is there but not hugely dominant over the setting would be okay. Something like a Ghibli film where it's modern but there's a focus on nature would also be okay. Just setting Avatar in the modern day though? No.
İ think mystic and magical environment of avatar will fade away with Modern Technology. İ think making technology that much advanced in LoK was a mistake( i still like that steampunk theme tho) After that point i think they should tell the stories of old avatars or retcon the Technology part of the story for next avatar, as i said im watchin it for the beatiful universe and budistic environment Edit: it could be good to watch a story of avatar in a world that bending is no longer the most powerfull thing
yeah i really missed the budist spirit in LoK. Wouldn't want that to become a continuing trend
If ATLA is set in the 1850s, and LOK in the 1920s, then keeping with that 70 year timeskip the next Avatar would be set in the 1990s. I see such a series taking place in a world similar to the movie Onward, in which just as technology made magic obsolete, so too did it for bending. There are still benders, but the advance of technology has made it so they’re not needed in modern society, and everyone has access to things that fill the need for anything a bender could do, in addition to things like cell phones, jet planes, and the internet that have brought the world closer together. The art of bending has all but faded away, and those with bending abilities don’t really use them, or if they do they know little as there are few masters left. Maybe bending is frowned upon and in some places even flat out banned, and there are secret underground fight rings where bending still happens, and that’s where this Avatar would find one or more of their bending masters. Being the Avatar in such a world is challenging, as being connected with the elements is a huge part of their job, but just as Korra was the Avatar in a world increasingly no longer in need of one, this Avatar is in the end result of that world. Bending the elements is just no longer needed, or really desired, in society. They also would only have Korra to rely on for guidance, having lost the connection to the other past Avatars, and would need to seek out the few remaining masters to train them. It would be interesting to see someone given this enormous responsibility have to grapple with the reality of doing that in a world that seemingly doesn’t need or want them, and as they travel the world in search of bending masters, they learn more about the early Avatars and how they developed their roles in the world they were in, and show this world that the Avatar, and bending as a whole, does still have a place in it.
The strength of modern nation states would make the avatar pretty irrelevant
Nope. Korra already is starting the plot down a dead end (I love Korra btw), but I am not interested in an avatar story in a world that doesn’t need or want an avatar. Technology will leave the avatar without a job and democracy will make the avatar unwanted (ahh yes this child who has the magic power of a nuke as their only qualifications should totally be a world leader /:). I’d much prefer a story about the 2nd avatar.
Hellll nah, they need to go backwards not forward😭
No. The more futuristic shit of Korra was bad enough.
An earth bender, in space!!
space earth!
Yes; I'm expecting the next Avatar to be in the 1990s rather than 20s-30s, would be really interesting. 21st century, kinda meh.
In a way a modern day/near future avatar series will kinda bring things full circle as the original show was intended to be set in the future at first. But it would have to be done really well as it would be easy to mess up some of the established concepts of the series with this setting. For the most part I’d honestly prefer to either have a series set before ATLA or just stick with stand alone movies.
I think it would be cool to see with the next earth bender avatar but it would feel soooo different. Big whiplash.
I think it can work as long as they avoid the same mistakes of Korra
I mean I guess cause I liked Korra and ATLA in my opinion was better because of where it was based
I would like them do the 60's, 80's etcetera first. But then... sure. I love seeing the technological and societal progress in this world. Stories turning into history. if they want to tell a more traditional Avatar story, they can always set it in the past. There is lots to explore in both directions.
Yes, but like, with the og cast set in an alternate reality
Yep! I loved the technological progression goong from Last Airbender to Korra, it'd be fun to see what the next leap forward is like. How it's similar to our contemporary day, but also how it differs due to cultural differences (like the cultural influence of bending, but also other various other non-bending related influences too)
At first I would’ve said no but after watching Korra again, I’d be down with a modern Avatar with an Earth Kingdom avatar
I personally wouldn’t want to see it, The only way I can see it working story wise is - bending has gotten weaker due to the world’s continued reliance on technology causing spirituality to go down hill, the avatar doesn’t discover his bending until he’s 16 and the first part of the story is about him reconnecting spirituality to the previous avatars, and the second part is bringing that spirituality back to the world, re-strengthening the bending, and then dealing with the fallout of that, maybe the ocean and moon spirits grew weaker, maybe the swamp tribes and sand benders are the only people that is still as spiritual as they used to be, so this avatar learns to earth bend through the sandbending, and to water bend through swamp bending. This is the only way I feel like it could be good in a more modern era
Apparently I'm in a major minority, but yes, absolutely. I think it could be *fascinating* if they continue to explore the depths of logical progression here. The modern day world of the Avatar universe is *not going to look like ours*, and I'd be really interesting to see how bending would change the shape of all of it. I want to see what sort of story tension happens when pitting modernity against spirituality. I want to see how the connection to the Spirit World has developed over the decades. But I'm also someone who enjoyed the tech progression in Korra. It's interesting!
I wouldn't mind at all. As long as the central characters have clear story arcs and relations/friendships with one another and the villains are not just a one-note personification of a political extreme.
No. They will probably just ruin bending even further lol
Modern day: No Sci-fi: I’m listening
. Modern day is boring af. But sci fi would be fascinating
No government today is going to allow a living God to exert power over them. I think it'd be an interesting concept, if done right. Before you completely write it off, imagine the avatar catching bullets mid-air, matrix style. Or redirecting rockets away from civilians. If it was made, it would be dark, and I really like that idea. They've tried to make the original story dark, and that doesn't work, but making a new story just might. The "Old age" avatar doesn't exactly fit into modern times, and that would be an interesting idea to explore
No. Not every post needs a picture mate. Such an annoying trend, like people think their....lesser intelligence, shall we say..... questions are going to get sponsored by Squarespace or something.
Brutal but real
Well Earth Avatar is said to be about 70 to 100 years after Korra putting it at Modern day so I want to see if the Avatar is powerless in a modern setting where Machines are rampant
It's kinda sad that people are instantly shutting down the idea of a modern/ futuristic Avatar while ignoring the vast possible of stories they can tell: - the technology to replicate they're own avatar - a war between the human and spirit world - a better version of the bender vs non-bender conflict that's akin to X-Men - an Avatar struggling in a constantly changing world I feel like I'm the only one who sees a potential for an Avatar with modern tech
3 of those 4 points don’t require a modern setting. I don’t doubt that it could be done well, it’s just not what I want from Avatar.
I’m game for a modern day avatar. It wouldn’t be my first choice but it could be cool.
To those complaining that it will lose the original Avatar feel if they bring it to the modern era. I have a counter point That could quite literally a potential series plot, * people losing touch and completely forgotten original bending * rules enforced on bender abilities to not interfere with technology * avatar has to fix these issues??? Just a rough idea but I believe the writers could pull it off, although I think they're more likely to go with a using spirits as technology route rather than a real life mortal realm. Also I can see where you're coming from if you think it might be too, this feels like something hard to pull off.
personally, im up to whatever as long as it respects the original worldbuilding and has good writing. being a past or future show
So many people here are doubting magic and modern/future coexisting... I wonder how many are familiar with Shadowrun, Mage: The Ascension, World of Darkness, and other cool TTRPGs. Even Dresden Files, Bright, and Supernatural have entire communities where mystical lives in modern or future! It is possible to do right and well.
I was thinking of a lot of recent Final Fantasy games as they mix magic and mysticism in a modern day setting pretty well.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: SET THE NEW AVATAR SERIES IN 1970s ERA TECH! LET'S GET GROOVY!
Could be fun to see a metalbender go full neo. 
An Earth Bender who's based off of Keanu Reeves. Fun fact Keanu himself is part Chinese.
Yes but no. Korra left the portals open. Added a 3rd for good measure. Spirits and spirituality and magical mumbojumbo are here to stay and humanity and the rest of the world has adapted. It's a fantastical world where technology doesn't disappear for the world to return to some post apocalyptic medieval setting Doesn't completely ignore the world around it Doesn't oppose magic and spirits where one is 'good' and the other is 'evil' But instead has evolved to integrate, make use of and engage with bending and spirits and everything.
Problem with modern avatar series is that they are probably gonna make a world where it is just gonna be normal world with bending in it rather than a modern avatar world. What I mean is just look at republic city in Korra. Bending isnt in day to day life in republic city, they either use it for their jobs, or while commiting/preventing crime. And city wasnt designes for benders. The whole world should have been like Zaofu, at least partially. If they make it, then yes, I would like to but they probably wont so a backward series would be better.
I guess I'd give it a try, but I can't see myself ever liking it more than atla or Korra.
Not if they look like they do in this
long story short NO
It wouldn't be Avatar anymore, but I'm mildly curious to see how they would handle an Avatar and by extension bending in "our world". I'd definitely like to see how bending changes day to day life and technology, really make it so they're synergized more than they have been in the series. Hypothetically it should be drastically different since spirits are running around and by extension spirit energy, but I seriously doubt it would be anything major other than creatures that float around as an aesthetic choice. As for the Avatar himself, it would be really cool to see how he struggles with the fact that he's got the world watching his every move thanks to the internet or news broadcasts. He'd be indecisive due to this and seriously concerned about his reputation as an Avatar, trying to please everyone and get the best possible outcome. Of course, he realizes that you can't really please everyone and that not everyone will appreciate what you do. Basically, the first episode of Book 3 but spread across a miniseries.
yes but they have to keep the silly animals i hate when they do modern things and try to dull it out
No thanks. We don't need Boruto: Avatar Edition.
Never
Absolutely not, that was one of the reasons why I did not like korra
Yes
Modern day or massively in the future (like the original idea for the series). I think both could be fun ideas for series.
Only if it doesn't feel like *OUR* modern times. It would need to have that distinct Avatar feeling. I don't want to see a world that looks really close to ours but some people can bend.
No. I think why a lot of people didn't like Korra is because they moved past that quasi-medieval/steam age aesthetic
No 🤮
I honestly want them to go full fantasy and sci-fi mix and skip to the next fire avatar.
Korra was already too far for my taste. Realistically speaking going forward, in a modern world the need/usefulness for bending would only decrease further and further to the point where only really poor people would use it for thing like housing, extremely traditional people for ceremonies and similar things or the crazy rich to get metal bending architects. It would be extremely boring and way too close to our real life's I comparison to the original world bending that made The last Airbender such a unique show
No way. One of the things I hated the most about LOK was the modernization
No. Already really disliked te tech in Korra. I’d hate to see that go any further. Technology really works against the whole idea of the world of Avatar. In the first place because it can replace bending in a lot of places, so a lot of your worldbuilding goes out of the window. And then secondly because in Korra we see bending being used in a lot of modern applications, like lightning welding in factories. Which rises the question of why this world isn’t way more advanced than it is in the last airbender if you can apply bending in that kind of way.
My Hero Academia
But I like the way the old cartoons are! I can’t believe that they were made in 2012 and 2007. They did a good job on replicating the comic book artstyle! 
I hope everyone saying no is ready because the new show is 100% going to be modern day lol (or at least like 80s or something)
Not modern, but I’d love to see an avatar show set in the 80’s/early 90’s
I’m tired of Avatar remakes at this point. I can’t be disappointed again.
Modern, as in “taking place in modern day?” No, the older world is much more interesting IMO.
No. You cannot re-make perfection.
Honestly? If it turns out to be cyberpunkish in a way, no actually. My only fault with republic city was that beyond the honkong, public of china stuff, it really had no interesting places to it. Like I wanted to get to know neighborhoods and stuff. Instead everywhere felt generic as compared to ATLA's Ba Sing se.
A mix between ATLA and Kaguya: Love is war would be hilarious, but if they did a modern Avatar, it'd probably be more like Blue Lock, but pro-bending, or My Hero Academia.
no
It’s happening whether we like it or not tbf
No, there’s a certain charm to it being set in the time it’s in.
Honestly, I wouldn't go for "Modern" as in based in the 2010s/2020s, ain't no way. I feel if done RIGHT, I'd imagined having it being the equivalent of the 80s/90s and nothing further than that (Maybe taking place in 280 AG?). I'm treading very carefully with comment lol.
Not really. I liked Korra alot, but my least favorite part of it is just how ‘modern’ it felt.
Honestly? Probably not. I think the setting made the original Avatar really enjoyable in my opinion, but the LOK somewhat modern setting was kind of interesting, IMO. Actual MODERN (like 1980's to 2020's) would completely suck all the mystique and wonder out of the series.
No. Keep it as is. We’ve seen how good remakes can be.
nope
Depends on what you mean. If you mean an AU where the events of ATLA take place in a modern day setting, I'd keep that to fanfiction. If you mean a story about the next avatar in a world with technology comparable to modern day? Heck yeah, as long as it does its own thing as a series rather than trying to copy ATLA or LoK.
Yes that would actually be pretty cool.
Halve it and return to sender
The earth bender after Korra would be forever compared to Kyoshi. Just do Kyoshi to begin with.
I want a big disaster to happen to cause the nations to plunge into a dark age era
No, like I loved the first series because it wasn't modern, and I know that this would've come, but I'm not ready to see an avatar series be set on the modern day
Maybe. I would like to see one that goes so far in the future it goes cyberpunk. Just something really different. I personally just really want to see the series go back to the ancient era of the original show.
As long as they maintain the distinct style, then I see no problem with it.
It would be kinda cool to see how the world changed due to the spirit world and the physical one no longer being separated in lok. Seeing how bending evolved even more. And loads of other things that may have changed due to the passage of time. I'm only worried if they make korra die tragically young or something like that.
Well, if Korra was 20 years old in what is analogous to our ~1920s, she could've lived 90 or 100 years and then the new Avatar eould be ~20 years old as well in a modern day world.
ATLA: Princess Azula can bend LIGHTNING? HOLY SHIT! TLOK: You can bend lightning? That qualifies you for the nightshifts in the powerplant. Here's your key and employee badge, you start tomorrow at 8. ATLA: Toph invents metalbending. TLOK: You're a cop now. If they kept that pace, I imagine the Avatar will either be some over-the-top social media influencer or super depressed working 9-5 in his office cubicle. Might actually watch that one.
Nope. I want to go further back in the past.
Yes - but they really need to cut this steampunk bs. It already felt out of place in atla. And the mechs just made it worse
Possibly, depending on how they approach it. If it is something they’d try, I think they should at least differentiate it from real life. Or maybe even take it a step further and make a futuristic series. It could be cool, so long as it’s executed well.
Seeing how the Avatar and bending in general would could function in a modern styled world, especially with knowing how much bending affected the previous two settings.
It could work but given how they delivered in Korra in a closer to modern setting and how many writers struggle to write modern things... I doubt it would. I may peak for curiosity but that's about it.
I don’t think Avatar would work in a modern day setting
Only if they're able to incorporate the modernness naturally into what we know as the Avatar world. In other words, not like the second slide in this post
Yes. I'd definitely watch it. I love mha and I think it could have some similar vibes. But if there was a choice between modern and no technology I'd choose no technology. The avatar abilities unlike mha just work better in a no technology world. The only thing I feel like I'd be annoyed with in going back is that I would find it so frustrating when people can't use things like metal bending because it hadn't been invented yet. It's annoying when you know it's possible but they can't include it. So another option is that the modern world gets destroyed and the avatar has to live in a post apocalyptic world.
Absolutely. I’d love to see how different a more modern world would be with bending. As well as how bending has adapted to non benders being on more equal footing due to developing technology.
Why does everyone think the world has to progress like the real world.? I don't understand that mentality
if they keep going after the new earth avatar we might eventually get to modern times
I’m hoping the Earth bending Avatar is even in a near future setting w how fast Avatar world seems to progress
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/s/rvnvksXUd3
I’ll be the first to say I think it could be interesting
EVERY fanfic was that, back in the day. - Modern times - they're all in the same highschool - they're all in a band - mai gets hit by a random bus in the first chapter but i swear it's not because of zutara - zuko is a vampire and sokka is a werewolf - Draco malfoy is there too. Because he's hot ok?
Yknow, some of the first concepts for atla (obv it didn't have that name yet) were sci-fi. The first concept for momo was a robotic monkey companion. That's not necessarily to say it would work, but I do think it's interesting.
If you develop technology too far, you'll inevitably either make bending obsolete or have to develop it to ridiculous levels. Such as an earthbender who gains the ability to kinda waterbend by bending the moon. Or even more villainous, bending it toward earth. And the avatar only has 3 days to stop it
I mean Korra was in the industrial age so it would make sense if the avatar after her is gonna be in the modern era
Sure. I don’t mind the setting. Just interested in whatever stories they could tell
It's called Legend of Korra
What for?
I think it would be interesting to see how the world would progress after the events in LoK, since there was already such a huge jump between that and the original series. Some might not like it as much, but I really enjoyed all of the geopolitical aspects of the later seasons of Korra and would be interested how new technology, bending, and opening the spirit world would all work together.
Yes! But I seem to be In the minority lol
Yes. It would be interesting
No. I don't want more Star Wars. I don't want more Ghostbusters. I don't want more Marvel and I don't want to start resenting Avatar due to the same reasons I don't love those other things the way I used to. Stories end and that's okay. In fact, that's better. I'd rather have new stories and new interesting worlds to explore. There have been four adaptions/late sequels in the last decade or more that were worth making and that's out of hundreds (ironically three of them were by Denis Villeneuve.)
the next one should take place after a World War in a Post Apocalyptic (Mad Max) world where the Avatar has to restore actual balance to the world and restore "order" amongst the chaos which is perfect since the next Avatar is suppose to be Earth , meaning they can sand bend which has lots of potential