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I have to say I'm constantly disappointed that he decided to do Avatar as big chunks instead of as individual episodes. I have to listen to episode after episode of Nelix but a good show like Avatar gets glossed over?

I don't really mind Avatar being done by seasons. A lot of the show's story arcs are really done in chunks within otherwise mostly standalone episodes instead of each episode directly connecting to the next the way Korra does, and it's not like much would be changed from making a point of giving a direct spotlight to Painted Lady or something.

Certainly in the case of Season 2 I don't mind.

On the whole I still feel Wan was a mistake. Being able to reduce the Avatar to effectively killing time until the next Harmonic Convergence cheapened the concept, I feel. Maybe it would have been better if I could connect to Wan as a character but I mostly found him insufferable and not as clever as the show insisted. It hurts the big dramatic moment when your heart wrenches watching the past lives we know die, but then it gets to Wan and your first thought is "good riddance".

I do like the change at the end of the season, I've always been a strong proponent of Korra turning more from living god into the Dalai Lama, but I do agree with Chuck that the show did not display the NEED for that very well.

I think that's why Season 3 and 4 feel like the "mulligan", they go through the work of justifying that movement, but the biggest event, the spirit portals, already happened, so it's a pretty weak lampshading on that piece.