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Last night, I had an Avatar: The Last Airbender dream, where I was watching the last two episodes again. But the episodes were completely different from the actual, real life series finale. Katara and the other Waterbenders seemed a little off-model, but well done, almost as if they were designed by talented fan artists. But the parts with Aang were dead-on, and the animation quality of this dream-animation was as good as Avatar has ever gotten. Like, I got two new, free, high-quality episodes of Avatar in my head at night.
The alternate finale, in brief:
Aang, for some reason, was in his "first half of third season" look, with hair, loose brown pants, and no shirt. He and the others had come up with the plan to stop the Firebenders by appealing directly to the Sun-spirit to take Firebending away. So he had to fly all around the world (again, with spectacular animation of him flying over the oceans) to catch up to the sun. Also, he is flying without his glider for some reason, because he's now that powerful an airbender, apparently. And when he finally closes with the sun, he has to fly up to reach it.
So he flies up and up, and finally comes to some other place that seems to be the spirit-world representation of the domain of the sun. It is a vast ocean, and in the distance are clouds. The sun is hiding behind a cloud on the horizon because he is so bright and otherwise he would be impossible to see. But Aang can tell where he is, because there is a fiery red glow lighting the sky, and bleeding through the cloud. If he looks closely enough, he can make out the vague shape of the sun's face, which looks a lot like the face of the Lion-Turtle. Aang calls out to the sun, but it won't draw any closer; he has to go to it before it will listen to any appeal.
And this is where it starts turning into epic quest--because that's what it's going to take just to get to the sun. Aang takes a small skiff and starts paddling over the ocean, and he paddles for a couple of weeks before he comes to a strange ridge of water, and has to Waterbend to get over it. Then he is crossing over a vast lake amid some ruins, and then these old statues start getting flung at him like bullets, and he has to Earthbend the ruins to block them. The quest then falls into this pattern: Aang traveling across a large distance in a trance-like state, then suddenly must defend himself using a particular element.
Unfortunately, I did not reach the end of this dream before the alarm woke me up :P Still, I thought it was worth sharing.
The alternate finale, in brief:
Aang, for some reason, was in his "first half of third season" look, with hair, loose brown pants, and no shirt. He and the others had come up with the plan to stop the Firebenders by appealing directly to the Sun-spirit to take Firebending away. So he had to fly all around the world (again, with spectacular animation of him flying over the oceans) to catch up to the sun. Also, he is flying without his glider for some reason, because he's now that powerful an airbender, apparently. And when he finally closes with the sun, he has to fly up to reach it.
So he flies up and up, and finally comes to some other place that seems to be the spirit-world representation of the domain of the sun. It is a vast ocean, and in the distance are clouds. The sun is hiding behind a cloud on the horizon because he is so bright and otherwise he would be impossible to see. But Aang can tell where he is, because there is a fiery red glow lighting the sky, and bleeding through the cloud. If he looks closely enough, he can make out the vague shape of the sun's face, which looks a lot like the face of the Lion-Turtle. Aang calls out to the sun, but it won't draw any closer; he has to go to it before it will listen to any appeal.
And this is where it starts turning into epic quest--because that's what it's going to take just to get to the sun. Aang takes a small skiff and starts paddling over the ocean, and he paddles for a couple of weeks before he comes to a strange ridge of water, and has to Waterbend to get over it. Then he is crossing over a vast lake amid some ruins, and then these old statues start getting flung at him like bullets, and he has to Earthbend the ruins to block them. The quest then falls into this pattern: Aang traveling across a large distance in a trance-like state, then suddenly must defend himself using a particular element.
Unfortunately, I did not reach the end of this dream before the alarm woke me up :P Still, I thought it was worth sharing.