Saturday Morning Cartoon Drama! BPD nutjobs () flip out about people posting mean things on the internet about Korra from that Avatar sequel that no one watched

Book 1 and 2 of original series are actually good. Like it's a children's cartoon sure but there are themes touched on in a complex and mature way. It is a good introduction for a child into more adult concepts and stories.

Early in the first season Aang (main character frozen in ice for 100 years) explores his old home which is basically a Buddhist temple full of monks. All of the people of his culture in the southern hemisphere live there. He eventually discovers that they were all killed, his entire culture wiped out, everyone he ever knew dead. He finds the skeleton of his father figure surrounded by skeletons of enemy soldiers and is thrown into intense grief and rage and guilt for not being there, triggering a supernatural chimpout that his new qt3.14 waifu has to talk him out of. She holds him while they silently mourn for their dead and the episode ends.

Honor, duty, guilt, hate, loss are all explored in complex ways that aren't just the safe lazy obvious route you would expect from a kids action-drama.

All I'm saying is this isn't SpongeBob. I think it's a good show to watch with your kid when they are like 7-11. I watched it as a kid and rewatched it like last year with my nephew to see if it held up and only the last season really feels particularly childish. The writing just seems different. The change in tone was so apparent I went searching online for some behind the scenes changes that would have caused this. Apparently Nickelodeon told the show runners to tone it down a bit because parents were complaining about the show being too idk intense or something for their little r-slurs.

Anyways I wouldn't recommend it to an adult alone but it's a good watch with a kid compared to the brainrot cartoons that are out there corrupting the youth.