Interesting...
From an interview with M. Night Shyamalan on the upcoming The Last Airbender movie. Bolding mine:
So the first thing we did was, when I met Mike and Bryan, they hadn't finished season three. And really the first conversation was in my hotel room and I said, "Dudes, I gotta know this. You gotta give me this. This is critical. This has to end. If it doesn't end, I'm not on board. If you don't want to end it, it's all good. But it has to end." And they said they saw it as three seasons and the three elements he has to learn. And at that time, they didn't even know where the movie was going to end, even who Katara was going to end up with. But we all agreed and shook hands on that it was over, it ends, we're going to finish the tale.
Full interview here.
Thoughts? Personally, as someone who thought that Zuko/Katara would probably happen in canon this might explain why---up until the very last episodes of the third season--the setup for a Katara/Zuko and a Katara/Aang romance seemed equally present?
So the first thing we did was, when I met Mike and Bryan, they hadn't finished season three. And really the first conversation was in my hotel room and I said, "Dudes, I gotta know this. You gotta give me this. This is critical. This has to end. If it doesn't end, I'm not on board. If you don't want to end it, it's all good. But it has to end." And they said they saw it as three seasons and the three elements he has to learn. And at that time, they didn't even know where the movie was going to end, even who Katara was going to end up with. But we all agreed and shook hands on that it was over, it ends, we're going to finish the tale.
Full interview here.
Thoughts? Personally, as someone who thought that Zuko/Katara would probably happen in canon this might explain why---up until the very last episodes of the third season--the setup for a Katara/Zuko and a Katara/Aang romance seemed equally present?