Much ado has been made about Avatar: Seven Havens. At the start of the show’s weekly batch releases, much of the early online conversation about the Paramount+ animated series wasn’t about what it was, but what it wasn’t. It wasn’t Avatar: The Last Airbender, nor was it its unfairly criticized predecessor, The Legend of Korra, in either the narrative or animated fight choreography department. What it is is a wildly different take on Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko‘s fantastical universe that carries the baggage of being a legacy sequel, sure, but is less concerned with the ghosts of its past and more concerned with standing on its own feet and marching to the beat of its own drum.

While the first leg of the four-book journey certainly had its fair share of growing pains, the book one finale of Avatar: Seven Havens did the work in setting up an adventure worth sticking around for.

Avatar: Seven Havens , animated by La Chouette Compagnie, began as a show whose main point of entry seemed to be raising the eyebrows of fans with decades of investment in the Nickelodeon franchise rather than genuine newcomers. Unlike past series, the show has twin avatars, Nisha and Pavi, two nine-year-olds with the fate of the world (that wants them dead) on their shoulders. Gone are the days when humanity welcomed the avatar as its savior with open arms; now it sees them as its ruiner. Likewise, the delicate balance the avatar once facilitated, uniting humanity and the spirit world, is steeped in centuries-long chaos.

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