The Last Airbender: Grief, Restoration, and the Burden of Being the Last

Plot Summary (Spoilers Ahead) Thirteen years after Aang and his friends defeated Fire Lord Ozai, Republic City stands, peace holds, and Team Avatar are adults. The new Last Airbender film begins as a mystery about a forgotten Avatar and becomes a sustained inquiry into what would remain of the Air Nomads if restoring them required conquest and the abandonment of their own values. After being…