Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Ten: The Library" and "Chapter Eleven: The Desert"
In which everything goes wrong
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Seven: Zuko Alone," "Chapter Eight: The Chase," and "Chapter Nine: Bitter Work"
In which the show matures
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Four: The Swamp," "Chapter Five: Avatar Day," and "Chapter Six: The Blind Bandit"
In which I finally figure out who "Toph" is
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter One: The Avatar State," "Chapter Two: The Cave of Two Lovers," and "Chapter Three: Return to Omashu"
In which I love a second season
The Last Airbender (2010, dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Oh God make it stop
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Eighteen: The Waterbending Master" and "Chapters Nineteen and Twenty: The Siege of the North"
In which my inner 9-year-old thinks this is the best show ever made
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter 15: Bato of the Water Tribe," "Chapter 16: The Deserter," and "Chapter 17: The Northern Air Temple"
In which I don't know what to do about Aang
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Twelve: The Storm," "Chapter Thirteen: The Blue Spirit," and "Chapter Fourteen: The Fortuneteller"
In which a fuller picture comes into focus
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Nine: The Waterbending Scroll," "Chapter Ten: Jet," and "Chapter Eleven: The Great Divide"
In which I ponder why I so rarely enjoy shows like this one
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Seven: The Spirit World" and "Chapter Eight: Avatar Roku"
In which we go big picture (and I defend the artistic constraints of ad-supported television)
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Three: The Southern Air Temple" through "Chapter Six: Imprisoned"
Procedural world-building and the Saturday morning cartoon
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter One: The Boy in the Iceberg" and "Chapter Two: The Avatar Returns"
An ambitious series begins with immediately winning characters and lots of bathroom humor