Absolutely but the show did push some limits as it currently is. Genocide, war, corruption, propaganda, domestic abuse (Zuko’s scar), lives and homes destroyed, trauma, disability, sexism
Considering how far they already pushed it as a kids show, you'd probably have to the upper age group Japanese Anime genre to get a good idea. Hell, we already had death (though off screen, or skeletal such as Gyatso), varying forms of chronic trauma and deteriorating mental health, maiming and torture, the suffering of civilians in wartime, we even had a beach episode somehow! Plus my head cannon always had Toph cursing like a sailor every other word already.
Sure, though it didn't necessarily need to be darker or edgier, these are not always recipes for success. Just look at Korra. It was fine as it is and had some heavy subjects anyway.
I am 100% sure this is the Air Chakra. Blocked by grief and deals with love. In the actual episode Aang sees all of the Air Nomads who were eliminated by the Fire Nation during the Air Nomad Genocide, with Gyatso being the first among them. They fade away and become smoke. This is likely an alternate version, but to be honest, I like the one they used in the actual episode better. It really shows the scale of an entire nation's massacre. Edit: This could also be the chakra blocked by guilt. Aang feeling guilty for leaving and guilty for the death of Gyatso. In that case, I think this is a cool one.
The water chakra (which is the one blocked by guilt) deals with happiness. The dichotomy of guilt and happiness still kind of fits the scene, but given the prevalence of air bending in it, I still believe it is the air chakra due to the focus on air bending in the scene. When Aang and Guru Patik treated the fire chakra, we saw Aang hurting Katara with his careless fire bending. So it makes more sense to me. Then again, the air chakra deals with love, and it wouldn't make sense to me that Katara wouldn't be part of that segment somehow.
I really wish we got more flashbacks of Gyatsos past in the show, kinda like how we did with Roku, I understand why we didn’t cause Aang isn’t connected to Gyatso and his memories but it would’ve been really cool to see I think
1:55 correction: I don’t think that arrows is to point at the luggage. It’s an indication of movement usually used in storyboards to give an idea of where things are moving. There’s another arrow around the monk too and it tells what direction they were rotating.
Even with this scene cut out, the show's creators had guts. I cannot think of another cartoon that portrayed the genocide of a peaceful group of humans and had you think about the consequences and emotional scarring. Edit: Wow thanks for the likes. This is a truly remarkable show and I'd love to have more of those. Nickelodeon let the authors have some 'risky' scripts and look at how it paid off.
As a kid I didn't grasp the gravity of that stuff but now as an adult I get to appreciate the show in a whole new way. Just another example of how great this show is.
A lot of dark themes in Avatar, are only depicted in words and not scens. Imagine the brutality of the genocide of killing every airbender, including the kids who were playing food fights here.
To be honest, I really prefer the theories that say alot of the air nomads actually escaped and went on to live their lives sacrificing a few of their own in a last stand of sorts.
@@eonsinfinity534 I disagree. I prefer how the story goes right now, all of the air nomads being wiped out and Aang seeing all of this. It's depressing that they all die however it just shows how dangerous the fire nation is and shows the reality of life and that they can't all just escape. But yes, some of them did escape however were later wiped out by traps set by the fire nation (Comics)
@@eonsinfinity534 I've always hated this theory because it takes away from how tragic this all is. Whats the point if nsming the shoe the last Airbender if the writers had some of them survive? People who make this theory completely disregard the impact being the last Airbender has on Aang and just want a twist for the sake of a twist.
@@eonsinfinity534 Doubtful. The Air Nomads were peaceful and detached from worldly wants. But, that doesn't mean they wouldn't defend themselves. People often equate nice and peaceful with weakness. Not true. I trained with a very effective style of Japanese karate for many years. It not a flashy style. It's direct and gets the job done as it contains techniques used in actual combat for generations. I felt pretty well able to defend myself. But, at the same time I kept myself for getting into fights on numerous occasions. I had nothing to prove and I decided beating up this guy wouldn't change a thing. My ability to defend myself kept me from wanting to fight. I think the Air Nomads were extremely powerful, and that's why the Fire Nation took them out first. And, it's also why they attacked when Sozin's comet was nearby. They need the power boost to wipe them all out.
Zuko’s backstory was so dark and detailed, though. He was Aang’s age when his own father disfigured him. I actually wish we’d seen more of Aang’s memories and backstory. I think how the different philosophies of their nations shaped their outlook is so fascinating. I’m not sure I would have needed to see more of the same pie-throwing stuff, so they were probably right to cut this scene, but I’d love to know more about how the air nation raised their children. Maybe the live action show will delve into that.
@@Blue-wt9qi yeah some of the creators of the cartoon are working with Netflix to make a full remake of the original show. They apparently want to keep it faithful to the original and plan to copy 1-1 most of the elements. Changing only what needs to be changed to keep the live action format moving smoothly.
@@daahorse1652 I'll watch as well, because I just love the story and would love to relive it, but at the same time won't have the highest hopes. Quite a few charms from the show cannot be 1-1 put to live action, or at least I've yet to see it done. At the very least I'll probably enjoy it unless it's an absolute disaster and maybe they'll positively surprise me.
This got me split: On the one hand I get why it was cut, especially for a kids show. I feel like it gives Aang more character on the other hand and that is perfectly reflects the stuff he mentally goes through as well that it represents death really well, since death can be very sudden and unpredictable. Of course it would be healthy to show how Aang handled this tho, just leaving the scene as it is presented here is indeed not the way to go.
This is so impactful to watch now as an adult - it would be dark for kids, but it's also exactly how it was for Aang - one moment he's living happily with his mentor, playing pranks, then in a moment he's taken away without a word - he saw his literal skeleton, when in his mind he was alive yesterday. Imagine what that would do to a 12 yr old with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Heavy.
@@ch3m1c4l_c0ff1n I would agree if the show had been of a perpetually darker note than it had been. Just imagining it suddenly floored me to the point of losing my breath. If the show had always been on a somewhat more sombre note than it was, say, for example, like FMA and FMA:BH where there's always this slight dark note to everything, then it wouldn't be quite as hard of a sucker punch. As it stands though, the show is so light - despite its darker moments - up until that point that a scene like that would probably be too jarring to enjoy.
The version in the show is much, much better. Seeing the air nomads fade away slowly while the Guru is speaking about loss hits much harder than a cheap scare IMO, and the section on grief they went with is one of the best moments of the series. "Love is not lost, it lives on in you, and is transformed into new love".
The arrows you see that point to the bison's luggage aren't meant to be showing a focus on anything. In this type of animation storyboard, arrows are drawn to show the motion of something within the scene. The arrows around the bison just show the direction that it is flying, and just happen to be pointing towards the luggage. You can see arrows again at other parts of the storyboard, like when it shows the cakes flying or the monks airbending, and even Aang's head turning so he can face Gyatso at the end.
Same thing I was thinking. I just didn't want to re-iterate the same thing someone else said. So thank you for confirming what I initially thought. It had to be the heart chakra since it deals with love, and is blocked by grief.
It would be an accurate display of trauma, though, I'm sort of sad they cut it. I get *why* they did, but it would've made me feel less alone as a kid, because it really does that, it distorts your happy memories into flashbacks of your most painful events
I could imagine everything animated and it really is dark. 😳 I turned from Aang and him talking and joking around, to laughter at the food fight and then to silence. It gave me shivers
It's the one that deals with loss and grief. He is remembering all the good times he had with monk Gyatso and ending on how he found out and felt when he is gone. I'm currently going through that myself over the loss of my sister so I was immediately able to notice the pattern.
I feel that too because of the death of my father. It was so suddenly, almost like aang found about Gyatso. I feel for you bro, It is really hard losing someone we love
@@Honorio-nz4ts Sudden deaths are such a weird feeling. Like the denial is so much stronger, and the wave of grief happens all at once, at least in my experience. So sorry to hear about your dad
@@tigergirl305 Thank you. I could always use prayer. She was more of my step sister but her and I was really close. Especially since we both aren't really that close to our blood siblings. But her depression became more then she could bare. Leaving behind a 4 year old little girl. I've been having a hard time ever since. Grief counseling has been helping a lot though.
It's likely the class is actually all girls, since while most air nomads did choose to shave their heads, it was considered a personal choice (at least, the modern air nomads in LOK had the choice). And while most girls chose to only shave part of their head, when they actually get the tattoos they shave the entire head and just let the hair grow back later. It looks like the bald students do have their tattoos, so they likely only recently became masters. As for what chakra, it's almost certainly the air chakra, that's the one that dealt with aang's grief for the air nomads in the show.
@@whirl3690 the two bald students have their tattoos already and the rest of the students have long hair, and we know all of the male students at least shave their heads from Aang's other flashbacks to the temple.
@@whirl3690 and while yes he was young, this is a storyboard, they either hadn't nailed down that aspect of his character yet or the students depicted are older than Aang was
I understand why this was cut but I think it’s a beautiful scene that would have helped young people connect with the concept of mortality and death. I would have been interested to see how Aang was guided to process this. Grief is such a complicated thing to deal with and unfortunately children aren’t immune to experiencing loss and often have little to no guidance in how to handle it
@@UncleYakuza No, all female airbenders had hair but just at the back of their heads, regardless of being a master or not. Unless you mean they had to go fully bald in order to get their master tattoos, which I can kinda understand but I still doubt since what makes Aang so special is him being the only master at his age.
Most likely the water chakra that deals with pleasure but is blocked by guilt. The joy aang felt being an air nomad is overshadowed by the guilt of losing those people.
@@fazedproductions4132 Kids always know more than they should. And although I'm not personally a Hunger Games fan, the author had a point about wanting kids to know the horrors of the world. It can be scary and it can be a bad place, but the point is to get past it all and still being able to see and enjoy the good. When you can identify the bad early on, there's a better chance it can be prevented, fixed or avoided.
I don't know why I got emotional. I imagined aang laughing with all the sounds of the kids and the wind. And then all the sounds slowly fades until his laugh is the only thing left that you're hearing
3rd episode, actually. 1st and 2nd episode was the introduction to our characters (1st) and established Zuko's antagonistic role in Season 1 (2nd) when Aang escapes his ship with Sokka and Katara
I wish we got an Avatar movie/series released under AdultSwim one day. It's a great show as it is now so just imagine how epic it would be if the producers were not bond by the "kids-friendly" label.
Oh fuck this!!! ATLA has some very psychedelic aspects which should be explored further. Even nonlinear narratives as in Xavier Renegade Angel could be done.
I think it would be so cool to see one of them cussing, I feel toph would casually drop it and everyone else would be shocked and then aang would say it and everyone would like go crazy and toph would congratulate him on finally breaking past the "innocence" barrier. idk I'm just taking ideas out of my ass rn
Yeah but see Korra was far less "kid-friendly" and it turned out being an absolute disaster. I think the idea that cartoons aren't as good if they're aimed at children is a really common, false, narrative. That's just my opinion though.
@@elenamichaels159 the case with atla is that they had to smooth out edges, but this eventually made edges that remained far sharper. For example, they tried not use the word kill so often, but once they did, it felt much heavier.
I feel like this was an alternative moment for the Chakra point that deals with grief. Aang never truly got over the grief of loosing his people. This seems to represent it well, at first it starts off as happy because Aang was having fun with his fellow Air Nomads but then Gyatso’s skeleton appears and that represents the loss and sorrow he feels for both his father figure and his people. But that’s just my point of view.
I remember reading a theory somewhere that from early in the season when Aang first visits his old temple post-genocide. The skeleton of Gyatso is surrounded by corpses of firebenders. Someone theorized that he must have emptied out all the air in that room in an attempt to save everyone. I wonder if this guy could confirm...
To stop and think of the pain and struggle Aang endured seeing Monk Gyatso dead with the firebenders around him is wild. I can't imagine have that level of reserve and compassion for human life to not kill every firebender i see or at the very least the fire Lord. Aang could have easily snapped and unleashed a catastrophic tornado at the fire nation's island. This was a nuanced show that perfectly captured loss, forgiveness and duty.
This is why I love LOK so much, the writers were able to make it dark as hell because the last 2 seasons weren't on Nickelodeon. I love ATLA and I'm glad it isn't as dark as LOK.
This must be heart chakra. Avatar Aang souly connected to Gyatso, and learning things with joy, whenever he think of family, he remembers gyatso first, he had all his happiness until he knows that he is the avatar. Bcoz of that, he runaway, lots of things happened in his absence, he has guilt but he lost everything and everyone, it gives deep grief towards his loss...heart chakra reminds him of past love and present grief.
The scene showing Gyatsu was way darker than this. I think they just went with a different scene because they didn't know where to go with this one. It just played out like a jumpscare to remind him Gyatsu is dead. Even Zuko getting fire blasted in his face by his daddy was darker than this..
I think it has to be how it is represented. In episode 3 we just see a skeleton of him but we never see any action done by him in the same scene. While here it is a much different vibe happy and all and suddently his teacher/friend is a dead skeleton in the same scene. I personally found this way more disturbing than the ep 3 scene, since in ep 3 there is not too much connection to him other than flashbacks. But here it is shown directly in the same scene when characters are having fun with their friend, but then the friend is dead and that makes things going from happy to sad which is a massive shocking contrast.
Definitely the delivery of it. There's plenty of hints and build up for the discovery of the skeleton. Here its very abrupt from light hearted, fun, joy, with your loved one, to suddenly seeing your loved one lifeless and a skeleton. Though both morbid, the first is like when you walk into a graveyard, you know is solemn and has represents death and mourning, here, the story board hit you with Aang's stress of guilt, fear, loss, and trauma- it turns from a happy dream into jump scare nightmare. Though...why they choose to actually pull.it since the show was full of jump scares and sudden mood changes is beyond me.
@silent night I agree In a way. I was talking mostly about how the show creators/people at nickelodeon was thinking, and it is an understandable argument since every child take dark scenes differently.
It's things like this that make me wonder what avatar could have been if it weren't for nickelodeon bringing it down. Just imagine how much more mature and darker the show could have been if they didn't have to try to appeal to "kids". Fights probably could have been a lot more intense and gruesome too.
Yeah but the thing is, ATLA didn't need to be more intense and gruesome. A lot of what made it so good is that it wasn't unnecessarily convoluted due to it being meant for a younger audience. LOK was a dumpster fire, and in my opinion part of that was trying to make it more mature and grown up than the story allowed. I've found that media is often at its best when its aimed towards kids
@@elenamichaels159 I have to disagree lol I think what made avatar so good in the first place is because of its mature themes. Genocide, war, poverty, internal struggles (when aang didn't want to kill), revenge (when katara did want to kill her mother's killer), etc. Yeah the show was aimed at a younger audience but it's because the show had themes that are not typically seen in kids shows that is what made it so good in my opinion.
@@Sandrogrt910 It's not the themes I'm talking about. Having mature or dark themes isn't what gets a show an adult rating -- it's how they're presented. Making ATLA "not for kids" really wouldn't change the depth of the mature themes (as they're already nuanced and vast) it would just make things more graphic. And I agree, the depth of the themes in ATLA as a kids show is what made it good. I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm saying that veering it away from the child audience wouldn't have improved it. That's just my 2 cents though.
@@elenamichaels159 I see what you're saying. But at the end of the day, I do think that appealing to kids made the show lose out on the potential of being better. But that's just me. Kids ruin everything lmao
@@Sandrogrt910 I think ATLA is good for what it is. Otherwise, it would not be anywhere near as popular today without getting that early childhood exposure.
I think it was supposed to be the chakra that focused on love and was overcome buy dealing with grief. I’m glad we got the version we did get, it’s probably the most memorable moment of the whole show for me. When the guru explains that love is a form of energy and that the love once felt between people is reborn into new love, gets me teary every time.
It is dark but it does make sense. One moment, Aang was playing around with Gyatso, the next one over a hundred years have passed and Gyatso is nothing more than a skeleton.
Truly amazing I never knew that there were deleted scenes. Thank you for sharing. The bonus of rewatching avatar for me is that the fifebemders use the same karate martial arts as I have in mine so maybe you can do a video on different martial arts used in avatar. My martial art style is "SHOTOKAN KARATE" and again firebensers have the exact same "kata" movements that we use. (Also toph uses alot of the same movements) Ps : subscriber since 10k 💖
I could be wrong but I thought all the bending styles were based on Chinese martial arts. Airbending is Bagua, Waterbending is TaiChi, Earthbending is an amalgam of Southern Chinese martial arts like Choy Li Fut and Hung Ga (though Toph, and later Lin and Suyin, use Southern Mantis), and I think Firebending was based on an amalgam of Northern Chinese martial arts like Chaquan and Huaquan styles.
Apparently, much like the dragons in season 3, grammar has hidden itself from countless people due to the ruthless butchering of the basics. These truly are dark and sad times. Thank you for your contribution bro
Going to the temple and finding his people all dead was so traumatic seeing his mentor as a literal corpse it would make sense that that traumatic image would be cemented in his brain and superimposed itself on top of his happy memories the struggle to remember the good times without being consumed by the grief of what you've lost or the fear of how you lost it
Likely because of the suddenness of it. Remember: with Gyatso's skeleton, that hasn't been built up over several episodes with world building. This one, in contrast, is a sudden skeleton.
Reliving a pleasant memory just for it to turn into a nightmare is a really good depiction of how loss and trauma work. Reminds me of "Inside out" where all the former happy memories turn into sad ones.
I think it makes perfect sense that Aang would experience a vision this dark, and I kinda wish they went there on screen - but I completely understand why they didn't. I deeply appreciate when the characters work through their trauma/PTSD because I personally suffered badly from that for 10 years. My favorite part of LOK is when Korra was overcoming her PTSD, too. It makes me feel much less alone, and the creators/writers were incredibly brave for even broaching this subject at all.
I’m pretty sure the class is all female, since the western and eastern temples were were the female monks resided. They could still get their tattoos and have hair or choose not too, thus why we probably see different hair lengths and some who are bald.
Honestly, I imagine this isn't the only dark thing that was cut from the show, if it had started as a youtube series or a Netflix/Hulu series, I wonder if that dark stuff would have still been cut from the show or not.
I love that this is considered dark. What about bloodbending, what about sucking the air out of people? What about all the trauma the characters go through? What about all the actually on-scene deaths from this franchise?
I seriously doubt it was cut for being too dark considering they showed Gyatso’s skeleton multiple times. MAYBE the transition from living Gyatso to a skeleton was over the line but if I had to guess this was just one of probably many scenes that got cut for time or because they went a different direction creatively
That's so traumatic. Imagine waking up from an ice prison just to see your best teacher as bones. He's only 12 for crying out loud. That's some nightmare fuel.
1:53 just for your information. Those arrows are used to give a direction for the motion. Basically saying character moves that way. The luggage earlier was more part of the last shot.
This is definitely the Air Chakra dealing with love and is blocked by grief. This Chakra is located in the heart which I think is very poetic considering the heart is the ultimate symbol of love. This Chakra point was blocked by Aang's grief over the loss of his people the Air Nomads. It was healed by his love for his future wife Katara. PS: To this day I feel that Aang made the right choice by keeping his earthly attachments when it came to the final Chakra point of Thought.
Iroh agrees, and the show agrees, given that when he *does* let go azula *immediately* shoots him down. It's a subtle message, but the show clearly presents it as thr correct choice
Short, sweet, and to the point, with the courtesy of having the thumbnail not being clickbait, but rather exactly what the gruesome cut scene was. Great video man. I hate it when content creators beat around the bush or overhype something minor so you keep watching a long ass video that could’ve been condensed to a few minutes.
This is dark and a good sketch. It sounds like looking past denial. Surface level joy revealing dark terror underneath. Maybe they didn't want to explore that theme in this episode.
i think this is the chakra that deals with guilty becouse that is how aang's life life would be if he didn't escape from the timple and this shot would be before the scene where he put the latter on the disk also the air benders are females becouse you can see that some of them had pony tail cut or short hair and also female air benders take care of the flaying bison like we see in the same epocide amd this shot could be aang learni g how to ride aaba because of its small size. what my father is a detective
1. It was not a mixed gendered class. The students in the foreground had hair and the ones that didn't just didn't have as much detail in general. This is because it's a story board. 2. The arrow wasn't pointing to the luggage, it was a motion line to help animators understand which direction the sky bison was going.
The weird thing about is that we actually saw Gyatso's skeleton in Season 1. In fact, that's what confirmed for Aang that the Fire Nation did attack and kill his people.
The scene in one of the first few episodes where aang went back to the air temple and saw the skeleton of monk gyatso was already so scary when i first watched it as a kid, i really wonder how i would’ve reacted to this
2:48 eh not too dark for TV but definitely too dark for Avatar. I feel like Avatar only got away with the skeleton because of doing it only once. If avatar was TV 14 they could get away with more intense scenes like that. Not necessarily gory, but still a more intense way of showing death
my best guess is thats love chacra blocked with grief. Showing Aang how great time he had with his teacher and now fully laied before him, was fact the teacher is dead.
I want to say the idea was recycled in Korra…for a very dark gag. When Jinora finds herself in the Great Library and tells Wan Shi Tong that she could spend a lifetime reading and Wan Shi Tong says, “the last person that said that is still here” and they actually cut away to the decomposing corpse of Professor Zei. That was dark.
could have been grief or attachment but since Kitara being his reason for attachment is an important plot device and the grief part always seemed to be to brief I would say it was there
Even after 17 years everyone's talking about hidden features in this show and it shows how great it is, I would sacrifice my older sibling for another season ❤
I think that gyatso is based of the dalai lama beacuse his real name is tenzin gyatso and he looks like gyatso seach im up on google he lloks like gyatso
@@Ejaz100 right? I mean it’s not like we were spared seeing the ACTUAL skeleton of Gyatso when Aang realizes what happened to his people (genocide) as a result of him running away. I think that reality faced in real time is deeper than a flashback-guilt chakra. It’s just revisiting what we already knows he blames himself for. And realistically, he probably always carried that image of Gyasto’s corpse silently…
It would've definitely been the heart chakra. In the show, he remembers the love his people had for him, and vice versa. And it transforms into his love for Katara. Gyatso was like a father figure to Aang, so going from his guardian to his future wife would've been a strange transition. The official episode was probably trying to convey Aang's dream to rebuild the air nation, via the new love of his life. Therefore led to the existance of Tenzin and Bumi (and Kya).
They showed all of the firbenders skeletons and broken body parts with gyatso skeleton in the middle on Book 1 Water Chapter 3 so this deleted scene here probably couldve got away with if they did decided to keep it in the show
Giancarlo Volpe was the *Director* of many Avatar episodes, not just assistant director… Also storyboards are the blueprint for animation so they have to show camera moves and arrows are used to indicate flow of movement, so the arrow isn’t pointing at the luggage, it’s just indicating the direction of movement.
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Just imagine how much darker the writers and animators could have gone had this not been a kids show.
Absolutely but the show did push some limits as it currently is. Genocide, war, corruption, propaganda, domestic abuse (Zuko’s scar), lives and homes destroyed, trauma, disability, sexism
To the detriment of the tone, imo. It's some really heavy topics with real consequences, and making it that dark would make it a slog to watch
Considering how far they already pushed it as a kids show, you'd probably have to the upper age group Japanese Anime genre to get a good idea. Hell, we already had death (though off screen, or skeletal such as Gyatso), varying forms of chronic trauma and deteriorating mental health, maiming and torture, the suffering of civilians in wartime, we even had a beach episode somehow!
Plus my head cannon always had Toph cursing like a sailor every other word already.
Man if atla could be for adults/older teens only omg imagine what kind of stuff we could get.. momo with a fucking gun
Sure, though it didn't necessarily need to be darker or edgier, these are not always recipes for success. Just look at Korra.
It was fine as it is and had some heavy subjects anyway.
I am 100% sure this is the Air Chakra. Blocked by grief and deals with love. In the actual episode Aang sees all of the Air Nomads who were eliminated by the Fire Nation during the Air Nomad Genocide, with Gyatso being the first among them. They fade away and become smoke.
This is likely an alternate version, but to be honest, I like the one they used in the actual episode better. It really shows the scale of an entire nation's massacre.
Edit: This could also be the chakra blocked by guilt. Aang feeling guilty for leaving and guilty for the death of Gyatso. In that case, I think this is a cool one.
I agree
Thats the one where Guru Patik tells Aang that he needs to forgive himself right?
Well said fellow air acolyte
The water chakra (which is the one blocked by guilt) deals with happiness. The dichotomy of guilt and happiness still kind of fits the scene, but given the prevalence of air bending in it, I still believe it is the air chakra due to the focus on air bending in the scene. When Aang and Guru Patik treated the fire chakra, we saw Aang hurting Katara with his careless fire bending. So it makes more sense to me.
Then again, the air chakra deals with love, and it wouldn't make sense to me that Katara wouldn't be part of that segment somehow.
@@inspectorbutters166 It's possible that Katara is in that segment, just after Gyatso fades away, like in the actual episode.
I really wish we got more flashbacks of Gyatsos past in the show, kinda like how we did with Roku, I understand why we didn’t cause Aang isn’t connected to Gyatso and his memories but it would’ve been really cool to see I think
if they do, it will not be written by bryke
momo is gyatso’s spirit so he’s with aang by his side maybe not in all the ways
I feel like it’d be depressing given the circumstances of his death
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@@makubegysman6160 Jesus Christ, no one cares.
1:55 correction:
I don’t think that arrows is to point at the luggage. It’s an indication of movement usually used in storyboards to give an idea of where things are moving. There’s another arrow around the monk too and it tells what direction they were rotating.
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Yes lol it’s not the luggage
Came to say the same
Arrows in story boards are usually used to indicate movement. EI “this thing is going in this direction”
Yes it has nothing to do with the luggage but the direction the bison was moving
Even with this scene cut out, the show's creators had guts. I cannot think of another cartoon that portrayed the genocide of a peaceful group of humans and had you think about the consequences and emotional scarring.
Edit: Wow thanks for the likes. This is a truly remarkable show and I'd love to have more of those. Nickelodeon let the authors have some 'risky' scripts and look at how it paid off.
As a kid I didn't grasp the gravity of that stuff but now as an adult I get to appreciate the show in a whole new way. Just another example of how great this show is.
In Star Wars Rebels Geonosians are wiped out. But they were not peaceful race
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Code Lyoko is the closest we got that does that.
@@mike.94 you could also point to the Jedi themselves
A lot of dark themes in Avatar, are only depicted in words and not scens. Imagine the brutality of the genocide of killing every airbender, including the kids who were playing food fights here.
To be honest, I really prefer the theories that say alot of the air nomads actually escaped and went on to live their lives sacrificing a few of their own in a last stand of sorts.
@@eonsinfinity534 I disagree. I prefer how the story goes right now, all of the air nomads being wiped out and Aang seeing all of this. It's depressing that they all die however it just shows how dangerous the fire nation is and shows the reality of life and that they can't all just escape. But yes, some of them did escape however were later wiped out by traps set by the fire nation (Comics)
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@@eonsinfinity534 I've always hated this theory because it takes away from how tragic this all is. Whats the point if nsming the shoe the last Airbender if the writers had some of them survive? People who make this theory completely disregard the impact being the last Airbender has on Aang and just want a twist for the sake of a twist.
@@eonsinfinity534 Doubtful. The Air Nomads were peaceful and detached from worldly wants. But, that doesn't mean they wouldn't defend themselves. People often equate nice and peaceful with weakness. Not true. I trained with a very effective style of Japanese karate for many years. It not a flashy style. It's direct and gets the job done as it contains techniques used in actual combat for generations. I felt pretty well able to defend myself. But, at the same time I kept myself for getting into fights on numerous occasions. I had nothing to prove and I decided beating up this guy wouldn't change a thing. My ability to defend myself kept me from wanting to fight.
I think the Air Nomads were extremely powerful, and that's why the Fire Nation took them out first. And, it's also why they attacked when Sozin's comet was nearby. They need the power boost to wipe them all out.
Zuko’s backstory was so dark and detailed, though. He was Aang’s age when his own father disfigured him. I actually wish we’d seen more of Aang’s memories and backstory. I think how the different philosophies of their nations shaped their outlook is so fascinating. I’m not sure I would have needed to see more of the same pie-throwing stuff, so they were probably right to cut this scene, but I’d love to know more about how the air nation raised their children. Maybe the live action show will delve into that.
Wait there will be a live action?? Aside from that crap they made last time?
@@Blue-wt9qi yeah some of the creators of the cartoon are working with Netflix to make a full remake of the original show. They apparently want to keep it faithful to the original and plan to copy 1-1 most of the elements. Changing only what needs to be changed to keep the live action format moving smoothly.
A:tla is perfect. We don't need this unoriginal stupid live action cash grab bullshit. It sure as hell didn't work with cowboy beebop
@Dural Desgraçadão Virado na Cachaça Meh. As long as it isn't the movie then I'll watch it. I'm curious on what they'll do.
@@daahorse1652 I'll watch as well, because I just love the story and would love to relive it, but at the same time won't have the highest hopes. Quite a few charms from the show cannot be 1-1 put to live action, or at least I've yet to see it done. At the very least I'll probably enjoy it unless it's an absolute disaster and maybe they'll positively surprise me.
This got me split:
On the one hand I get why it was cut, especially for a kids show.
I feel like it gives Aang more character on the other hand and that is perfectly reflects the stuff he mentally goes through as well that it represents death really well, since death can be very sudden and unpredictable.
Of course it would be healthy to show how Aang handled this tho, just leaving the scene as it is presented here is indeed not the way to go.
Okay but they already have a scene where he finds Gyasto's actual skeleton so how is this that much darker? I genuinely don't understand
@@lucidthomas4402 The buildup and reveal are handled differently
This is so impactful to watch now as an adult - it would be dark for kids, but it's also exactly how it was for Aang - one moment he's living happily with his mentor, playing pranks, then in a moment he's taken away without a word - he saw his literal skeleton, when in his mind he was alive yesterday. Imagine what that would do to a 12 yr old with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Heavy.
I understand that they decided to keep this one out, I get chills down my spine..
I think they should of added it if it wasn't a kids show
@@ch3m1c4l_c0ff1n Yess indeed
@@ch3m1c4l_c0ff1n I would agree if the show had been of a perpetually darker note than it had been. Just imagining it suddenly floored me to the point of losing my breath. If the show had always been on a somewhat more sombre note than it was, say, for example, like FMA and FMA:BH where there's always this slight dark note to everything, then it wouldn't be quite as hard of a sucker punch. As it stands though, the show is so light - despite its darker moments - up until that point that a scene like that would probably be too jarring to enjoy.
@@Luscinia_Nightengale Yeah you've got a good point there
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The version in the show is much, much better. Seeing the air nomads fade away slowly while the Guru is speaking about loss hits much harder than a cheap scare IMO, and the section on grief they went with is one of the best moments of the series. "Love is not lost, it lives on in you, and is transformed into new love".
Idk if i would say "cheap" scare, that would absolutely be shocking to me. I legit gasped at the reveal, despite the thumbnail spoiling it XD
Agreed
Yea I agree
this isn't a jumpscare it's just ripping at your heartstrings
Yeah it kinda feels a little goofy. And meme worthy so I'm glad it got cut
The arrows you see that point to the bison's luggage aren't meant to be showing a focus on anything. In this type of animation storyboard, arrows are drawn to show the motion of something within the scene. The arrows around the bison just show the direction that it is flying, and just happen to be pointing towards the luggage. You can see arrows again at other parts of the storyboard, like when it shows the cakes flying or the monks airbending, and even Aang's head turning so he can face Gyatso at the end.
This would have been a heart chakra blockage, because that's the chakra where Aang heals his grief over the lost airbenders.
Same thing I was thinking. I just didn't want to re-iterate the same thing someone else said.
So thank you for confirming what I initially thought.
It had to be the heart chakra since it deals with love, and is blocked by grief.
It would be an accurate display of trauma, though, I'm sort of sad they cut it. I get *why* they did, but it would've made me feel less alone as a kid, because it really does that, it distorts your happy memories into flashbacks of your most painful events
I could imagine everything animated and it really is dark. 😳
I turned from Aang and him talking and joking around, to laughter at the food fight and then to silence. It gave me shivers
It's the one that deals with loss and grief. He is remembering all the good times he had with monk Gyatso and ending on how he found out and felt when he is gone. I'm currently going through that myself over the loss of my sister so I was immediately able to notice the pattern.
Sorry to hear that man, my heart goes to you
I feel that too because of the death of my father. It was so suddenly, almost like aang found about Gyatso. I feel for you bro, It is really hard losing someone we love
That's really awful.. Praying for your healing process
@@Honorio-nz4ts Sudden deaths are such a weird feeling. Like the denial is so much stronger, and the wave of grief happens all at once, at least in my experience. So sorry to hear about your dad
@@tigergirl305 Thank you. I could always use prayer. She was more of my step sister but her and I was really close. Especially since we both aren't really that close to our blood siblings. But her depression became more then she could bare. Leaving behind a 4 year old little girl. I've been having a hard time ever since. Grief counseling has been helping a lot though.
It's likely the class is actually all girls, since while most air nomads did choose to shave their heads, it was considered a personal choice (at least, the modern air nomads in LOK had the choice). And while most girls chose to only shave part of their head, when they actually get the tattoos they shave the entire head and just let the hair grow back later. It looks like the bald students do have their tattoos, so they likely only recently became masters.
As for what chakra, it's almost certainly the air chakra, that's the one that dealt with aang's grief for the air nomads in the show.
I don't think they're masters. Aang was the youngest airbending master in history by that point.
@@whirl3690 the two bald students have their tattoos already and the rest of the students have long hair, and we know all of the male students at least shave their heads from Aang's other flashbacks to the temple.
@@whirl3690 and while yes he was young, this is a storyboard, they either hadn't nailed down that aspect of his character yet or the students depicted are older than Aang was
I got chills when Aang looked at Giyatso's skeleton just from the sketches. This would have been a great scene, I'm sad that it was cut.
I understand why this was cut but I think it’s a beautiful scene that would have helped young people connect with the concept of mortality and death. I would have been interested to see how Aang was guided to process this. Grief is such a complicated thing to deal with and unfortunately children aren’t immune to experiencing loss and often have little to no guidance in how to handle it
1:37 Seems like it could be an all-female class.. with the ones on either side just being unfinished hairstyles.
No way to know for sure of course.
Or maybe they can just be masters
@@UncleYakuza No, all female airbenders had hair but just at the back of their heads, regardless of being a master or not.
Unless you mean they had to go fully bald in order to get their master tattoos, which I can kinda understand but I still doubt since what makes Aang so special is him being the only master at his age.
@@thundermijo yea but these females coulda been older than 12 though
Most likely the water chakra that deals with pleasure but is blocked by guilt. The joy aang felt being an air nomad is overshadowed by the guilt of losing those people.
Yeah, definitely not for a kids show... Just explaining it gave me chills
Lol, kids could most definitely handle it. Children are much stronger than they're given credit for.
@@BabsChannel Right. Just some shows are too cautious when kids are already being matured by older siblings or the internet’s exposure.
@@fazedproductions4132 Kids always know more than they should. And although I'm not personally a Hunger Games fan, the author had a point about wanting kids to know the horrors of the world. It can be scary and it can be a bad place, but the point is to get past it all and still being able to see and enjoy the good. When you can identify the bad early on, there's a better chance it can be prevented, fixed or avoided.
Yeah same
@@BabsChannel yeah.
2:00 those arrows are not pointing to the luggage, they are motion arrows to show the animators how the stuff is moving.
I don't know why I got emotional. I imagined aang laughing with all the sounds of the kids and the wind. And then all the sounds slowly fades until his laugh is the only thing left that you're hearing
bro literal chills. and this is straight up fucked, we established gyatso's death in the 2nd episode i think, and it was still traumatic.
3rd episode, actually. 1st and 2nd episode was the introduction to our characters (1st) and established Zuko's antagonistic role in Season 1 (2nd) when Aang escapes his ship with Sokka and Katara
Who cares I wish this was animated in the show.
I wish we got an Avatar movie/series released under AdultSwim one day. It's a great show as it is now so just imagine how epic it would be if the producers were not bond by the "kids-friendly" label.
Oh fuck this!!! ATLA has some very psychedelic aspects which should be explored further. Even nonlinear narratives as in Xavier Renegade Angel could be done.
I think it would be so cool to see one of them cussing, I feel toph would casually drop it and everyone else would be shocked and then aang would say it and everyone would like go crazy and toph would congratulate him on finally breaking past the "innocence" barrier. idk I'm just taking ideas out of my ass rn
Yeah but see Korra was far less "kid-friendly" and it turned out being an absolute disaster. I think the idea that cartoons aren't as good if they're aimed at children is a really common, false, narrative. That's just my opinion though.
@@elenamichaels159 the case with atla is that they had to smooth out edges, but this eventually made edges that remained far sharper. For example, they tried not use the word kill so often, but once they did, it felt much heavier.
My first thought is that the blood bending scenes (already pretty dark on their own) would get more "deadman wonderland"-ish.
I feel like this was an alternative moment for the Chakra point that deals with grief. Aang never truly got over the grief of loosing his people. This seems to represent it well, at first it starts off as happy because Aang was having fun with his fellow Air Nomads but then Gyatso’s skeleton appears and that represents the loss and sorrow he feels for both his father figure and his people. But that’s just my point of view.
I think he got over it. He understands that they are now in spirit realm and they will meet at least some again in next reincarnation.
I remember reading a theory somewhere that from early in the season when Aang first visits his old temple post-genocide. The skeleton of Gyatso is surrounded by corpses of firebenders. Someone theorized that he must have emptied out all the air in that room in an attempt to save everyone. I wonder if this guy could confirm...
To stop and think of the pain and struggle Aang endured seeing Monk Gyatso dead with the firebenders around him is wild. I can't imagine have that level of reserve and compassion for human life to not kill every firebender i see or at the very least the fire Lord. Aang could have easily snapped and unleashed a catastrophic tornado at the fire nation's island. This was a nuanced show that perfectly captured loss, forgiveness and duty.
Aang's life was just so sad he handled all that while being just a kid he was for sure the best avatar ever
This is why I love LOK so much, the writers were able to make it dark as hell because the last 2 seasons weren't on Nickelodeon. I love ATLA and I'm glad it isn't as dark as LOK.
Kudos to Aang for not seeking revenge on the fire nation and even choosing to spare Oozai and befriend his kid.
I wish they had this scene in the series. I mean there is a lot of even Darker stuff in this series but I guess they had to cut it out
@josh raid I know it doesn’t make that much sense.
The "Giant arrow pointing straight at it" is a motion arrow to imply the animation will be moving in that direction. It isn't pointing at the luggage.
This must be heart chakra. Avatar Aang souly connected to Gyatso, and learning things with joy, whenever he think of family, he remembers gyatso first, he had all his happiness until he knows that he is the avatar. Bcoz of that, he runaway, lots of things happened in his absence, he has guilt but he lost everything and everyone, it gives deep grief towards his loss...heart chakra reminds him of past love and present grief.
I have a theory that this is the chakra for guilty because deep inside Aang knows that if he didn't run Gyatso could survive
Agreed
Aang basically has survivor's guilt
@@xoyuri_art i don't know what this is
@@Eric-py8yy it's like when you get in an accident and youre the only one who survived
The scene showing Gyatsu was way darker than this. I think they just went with a different scene because they didn't know where to go with this one. It just played out like a jumpscare to remind him Gyatsu is dead. Even Zuko getting fire blasted in his face by his daddy was darker than this..
We saw Gyatso's skeleton in the third episode of the series and Nick didn't censor that. What makes this any different?
Exactly what I was thinking
I think it has to be how it is represented. In episode 3 we just see a skeleton of him but we never see any action done by him in the same scene. While here it is a much different vibe happy and all and suddently his teacher/friend is a dead skeleton in the same scene. I personally found this way more disturbing than the ep 3 scene, since in ep 3 there is not too much connection to him other than flashbacks. But here it is shown directly in the same scene when characters are having fun with their friend, but then the friend is dead and that makes things going from happy to sad which is a massive shocking contrast.
Maybe the mood?
Definitely the delivery of it. There's plenty of hints and build up for the discovery of the skeleton. Here its very abrupt from light hearted, fun, joy, with your loved one, to suddenly seeing your loved one lifeless and a skeleton. Though both morbid, the first is like when you walk into a graveyard, you know is solemn and has represents death and mourning, here, the story board hit you with Aang's stress of guilt, fear, loss, and trauma- it turns from a happy dream into jump scare nightmare. Though...why they choose to actually pull.it since the show was full of jump scares and sudden mood changes is beyond me.
@silent night I agree In a way. I was talking mostly about how the show creators/people at nickelodeon was thinking, and it is an understandable argument since every child take dark scenes differently.
Nothing dark about lol.. we already saw a skeleton version of him
It's things like this that make me wonder what avatar could have been if it weren't for nickelodeon bringing it down. Just imagine how much more mature and darker the show could have been if they didn't have to try to appeal to "kids". Fights probably could have been a lot more intense and gruesome too.
Yeah but the thing is, ATLA didn't need to be more intense and gruesome. A lot of what made it so good is that it wasn't unnecessarily convoluted due to it being meant for a younger audience. LOK was a dumpster fire, and in my opinion part of that was trying to make it more mature and grown up than the story allowed. I've found that media is often at its best when its aimed towards kids
@@elenamichaels159 I have to disagree lol I think what made avatar so good in the first place is because of its mature themes. Genocide, war, poverty, internal struggles (when aang didn't want to kill), revenge (when katara did want to kill her mother's killer), etc. Yeah the show was aimed at a younger audience but it's because the show had themes that are not typically seen in kids shows that is what made it so good in my opinion.
@@Sandrogrt910 It's not the themes I'm talking about. Having mature or dark themes isn't what gets a show an adult rating -- it's how they're presented. Making ATLA "not for kids" really wouldn't change the depth of the mature themes (as they're already nuanced and vast) it would just make things more graphic. And I agree, the depth of the themes in ATLA as a kids show is what made it good. I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm saying that veering it away from the child audience wouldn't have improved it. That's just my 2 cents though.
@@elenamichaels159 I see what you're saying. But at the end of the day, I do think that appealing to kids made the show lose out on the potential of being better. But that's just me. Kids ruin everything lmao
@@Sandrogrt910 I think ATLA is good for what it is. Otherwise, it would not be anywhere near as popular today without getting that early childhood exposure.
I think it was supposed to be the chakra that focused on love and was overcome buy dealing with grief.
I’m glad we got the version we did get, it’s probably the most memorable moment of the whole show for me. When the guru explains that love is a form of energy and that the love once felt between people is reborn into new love, gets me teary every time.
1:53 The arrow is meant to convey the direction of Appa's movement.
It is dark but it does make sense. One moment, Aang was playing around with Gyatso, the next one over a hundred years have passed and Gyatso is nothing more than a skeleton.
Truly amazing I never knew that there were deleted scenes. Thank you for sharing. The bonus of rewatching avatar for me is that the fifebemders use the same karate martial arts as I have in mine so maybe you can do a video on different martial arts used in avatar.
My martial art style is "SHOTOKAN KARATE" and again firebensers have the exact same "kata" movements that we use. (Also toph uses alot of the same movements)
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I could be wrong but I thought all the bending styles were based on Chinese martial arts. Airbending is Bagua, Waterbending is TaiChi, Earthbending is an amalgam of Southern Chinese martial arts like Choy Li Fut and Hung Ga (though Toph, and later Lin and Suyin, use Southern Mantis), and I think Firebending was based on an amalgam of Northern Chinese martial arts like Chaquan and Huaquan styles.
“Too Dark bro” 😅
No one uses this anymore man it kills me 🥲
thank you bro
Apparently, much like the dragons in season 3, grammar has hidden itself from countless people due to the ruthless butchering of the basics. These truly are dark and sad times. Thank you for your contribution bro
I clicked the link to the video just to see if someone mentioned this. Props.
@@markrude9489 same 💀
Going to the temple and finding his people all dead was so traumatic seeing his mentor as a literal corpse it would make sense that that traumatic image would be cemented in his brain and superimposed itself on top of his happy memories the struggle to remember the good times without being consumed by the grief of what you've lost or the fear of how you lost it
How was it cut? We've seen the air nomads as skeletons before.
Only one
Likely because of the suddenness of it. Remember: with Gyatso's skeleton, that hasn't been built up over several episodes with world building. This one, in contrast, is a sudden skeleton.
We only saw gyatsos skeleton because alot of kids were watching it
I saw it too, my cable was asia so i litterly saw this scene
Reliving a pleasant memory just for it to turn into a nightmare is a really good depiction of how loss and trauma work. Reminds me of "Inside out" where all the former happy memories turn into sad ones.
I think it makes perfect sense that Aang would experience a vision this dark, and I kinda wish they went there on screen - but I completely understand why they didn't.
I deeply appreciate when the characters work through their trauma/PTSD because I personally suffered badly from that for 10 years. My favorite part of LOK is when Korra was overcoming her PTSD, too. It makes me feel much less alone, and the creators/writers were incredibly brave for even broaching this subject at all.
"It's just a bit much for a kid's cartoon" to think this was in the era of grim adventures of billy and Mandy and courage the cowardly dog
I’m pretty sure the class is all female, since the western and eastern temples were were the female monks resided. They could still get their tattoos and have hair or choose not too, thus why we probably see different hair lengths and some who are bald.
"It's a bit much for a kid's cartoon."
I've seen much darker stuff recently in kid's cartoons.
*Infinity Train intensifies*
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@@Mediados yes
Centaur world shouldn't even be on kids
Wow I love your vids! And avatar is my favourite show
Honestly, I imagine this isn't the only dark thing that was cut from the show, if it had started as a youtube series or a Netflix/Hulu series, I wonder if that dark stuff would have still been cut from the show or not.
If ATLA aired on cartoon network, they probably would have allowed that scene to stay.
I love that this is considered dark. What about bloodbending, what about sucking the air out of people? What about all the trauma the characters go through? What about all the actually on-scene deaths from this franchise?
I seriously doubt it was cut for being too dark considering they showed Gyatso’s skeleton multiple times.
MAYBE the transition from living Gyatso to a skeleton was over the line but if I had to guess this was just one of probably many scenes that got cut for time or because they went a different direction creatively
That's so traumatic. Imagine waking up from an ice prison just to see your best teacher as bones. He's only 12 for crying out loud. That's some nightmare fuel.
1:53 just for your information. Those arrows are used to give a direction for the motion. Basically saying character moves that way. The luggage earlier was more part of the last shot.
This is definitely the Air Chakra dealing with love and is blocked by grief. This Chakra is located in the heart which I think is very poetic considering the heart is the ultimate symbol of love. This Chakra point was blocked by Aang's grief over the loss of his people the Air Nomads. It was healed by his love for his future wife Katara.
PS: To this day I feel that Aang made the right choice by keeping his earthly attachments when it came to the final Chakra point of Thought.
Iroh agrees, and the show agrees, given that when he *does* let go azula *immediately* shoots him down. It's a subtle message, but the show clearly presents it as thr correct choice
Probably the Heart Chakra. Given the loss of his entire people, before having Katara as a new love.
Thoughts?
Short, sweet, and to the point, with the courtesy of having the thumbnail not being clickbait, but rather exactly what the gruesome cut scene was. Great video man. I hate it when content creators beat around the bush or overhype something minor so you keep watching a long ass video that could’ve been condensed to a few minutes.
bro really went "man im dead"
This is dark and a good sketch. It sounds like looking past denial. Surface level joy revealing dark terror underneath. Maybe they didn't want to explore that theme in this episode.
i think this is the chakra that deals with guilty becouse that is how aang's life life would be if he didn't escape from the timple and this shot would be before the scene where he put the latter on the disk also the air benders are females becouse you can see that some of them had pony tail cut or short hair and also female air benders take care of the flaying bison like we see in the same epocide amd this shot could be aang learni g how to ride aaba because of its small size.
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this just proves how Dark the genocide of the Air Nomads was literally
imagine if it was kept in the show
It should've been.
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We would have filled our pants with chakras
I wish it was
@@newhybrid101 chakras chakras ....
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1. It was not a mixed gendered class. The students in the foreground had hair and the ones that didn't just didn't have as much detail in general. This is because it's a story board.
2. The arrow wasn't pointing to the luggage, it was a motion line to help animators understand which direction the sky bison was going.
Gyatso laughed so much he pulled the 'bruh, I'm dead' card
😭😭😭
I still miss that show, & likely always will, even in death.
The weird thing about is that we actually saw Gyatso's skeleton in Season 1. In fact, that's what confirmed for Aang that the Fire Nation did attack and kill his people.
Gyatso was just laughing, using the skullemoji.
The scene in one of the first few episodes where aang went back to the air temple and saw the skeleton of monk gyatso was already so scary when i first watched it as a kid, i really wonder how i would’ve reacted to this
Bro just imagine if this would be in the series,lol
It probably wasn't the best way to show "letting go of grief". It's more like a dream turned nightmare.
Aang: 😂😂😂
Gyatso: "Man I'm dead" 💀
Those black arrows are symbolizing flow of motion/direction
2:48 eh not too dark for TV but definitely too dark for Avatar.
I feel like Avatar only got away with the skeleton because of doing it only once. If avatar was TV 14 they could get away with more intense scenes like that. Not necessarily gory, but still a more intense way of showing death
my best guess is thats love chacra blocked with grief. Showing Aang how great time he had with his teacher and now fully laied before him, was fact the teacher is dead.
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Indeed Ethan should keep up the good work.
I want to say the idea was recycled in Korra…for a very dark gag. When Jinora finds herself in the Great Library and tells Wan Shi Tong that she could spend a lifetime reading and Wan Shi Tong says, “the last person that said that is still here” and they actually cut away to the decomposing corpse of Professor Zei. That was dark.
always has had great parallels between ATLA and TLOK, but that one was something else lol.
could have been grief or attachment
but since Kitara being his reason for attachment is an important plot device and the grief part always seemed to be to brief I would say it was there
That… Is quite a haunting deleted scene. Would of scared the hell out of kids, but us dark and sick adults would of loved it.
Even after 17 years everyone's talking about hidden features in this show and it shows how great it is, I would sacrifice my older sibling for another season ❤
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I think that gyatso is based of the dalai lama beacuse his real name is tenzin gyatso and he looks like gyatso seach im up on google he lloks like gyatso
I think the air nomads had been known to have great sense of humors amongst the four nations.
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Iroh once mentioned that the Air Nomads do have a great sense of humor.
Isn't there an episode where Aang does find his body as a skeleton? Or is this reference to Aang finding the body in general?
I distinctly remember this happening
I think it is the light chakra, insight, blocked with illusion. Or the air chakra , love, blocked with grief. One of those.
If this was the clone wars this scene would’ve made it in lol
I don't even see how this scene was even dark
@@Ejaz100 right? I mean it’s not like we were spared seeing the ACTUAL skeleton of Gyatso when Aang realizes what happened to his people (genocide) as a result of him running away. I think that reality faced in real time is deeper than a flashback-guilt chakra. It’s just revisiting what we already knows he blames himself for. And realistically, he probably always carried that image of Gyasto’s corpse silently…
@@MRS.TRIPLE-A321 yeah there were darker things in the show like frikcin blood bending
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@@Ejaz100 bloodbending is awesome 🥺
So cool 🥺
conceptually it's very emotionally heavy, but that single shot by itself is hilarious.
"WELCOME TO MR. BONES' WILD RIDE, AANG"
i wish it was never made as a kids show
Woah. The artist did a great job coloring those panels. I'd be extremely happy with that, too!
wow, never been this early
Me too
It would've definitely been the heart chakra. In the show, he remembers the love his people had for him, and vice versa. And it transforms into his love for Katara. Gyatso was like a father figure to Aang, so going from his guardian to his future wife would've been a strange transition. The official episode was probably trying to convey Aang's dream to rebuild the air nation, via the new love of his life. Therefore led to the existance of Tenzin and Bumi (and Kya).
They showed all of the firbenders skeletons and broken body parts with gyatso skeleton in the middle on Book 1 Water Chapter 3 so this deleted scene here probably couldve got away with if they did decided to keep it in the show
Giancarlo Volpe was the *Director* of many Avatar episodes, not just assistant director… Also storyboards are the blueprint for animation so they have to show camera moves and arrows are used to indicate flow of movement, so the arrow isn’t pointing at the luggage, it’s just indicating the direction of movement.