Avatar: The Last Airbender

Supposedly for petty personal reasons:

The woman who controls the company, Shari Redstone, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last week as she scuttled a planned merger with David Ellison's Skydance Media.

Redstone had spent six months negotiating a complicated deal that would have given control of Paramount to Ellison and RedBird Capital, only to call it off as it neared the finish line.

The chief reason for her decision: Her reluctance to let go of a family heirloom she fought very hard to get.

The fandom doesn't want to talk about it, but the Avatar franchise is in trouble.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/1dgrkis/my_attempt_at_an_appa_cake/

https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Azula_in_the_Spirit_Temple

I've been doing a lot of reading into various spiritual concepts and practices from around the world and typically light/order/yang is masculine and dark/chaos/yin is usually feminine. Is there another concept that's being referenced or is this just a minor but interesting artistic decision?

I was a little disappointed that they played Raava as "good"; I've always preferred media like Babylon 5 where it turns out the vorlons are fucking with humanity too, but I can see why they might not put all that in a kids show.

Link to the FanArt

Avatar Studios seems to be part of Paramount Media, aka the "pay television channels" that I assume Sony is not interested in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Global

And in light of this article: https://deadline.com/2024/05/paramount-sale-hollywood-studio-takeover-history-lessons-1235910245/

That doesn't look good for Avatar Studios. If they are left behind in a Sony sale, it seems the probability of them getting shut down (or just going down with whatever is left of Paramount) is very high.

The article is a very fast read because it's Axios, but in a nutshell, either:

• Skydance gets Paramount intact, but possibly with financial trouble and selling some IP.

• Sony gets Paramount, but restructures the company and also possibly sells some parts.

• Nothing happens... and Paramount continues its downward spiral, probably accelerated by a failed sale.

The can of worms opened today, as now Paramount is officially open to a buyout from sony.

I don't like this at all. Avatar is a high budget IP, animesque fantasy, and not historically, proveably profitable like Star Trek/Spongebob. Avatar Studios is a real candidate to be chopped off.

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