@greg2b I started off watching it as a cartoon that I really liked. I put cartoons into sections in my mind, and if I like it, I’ll continue to watch it. As I grew up, I started to realise just how awesome this cartoon actually is. It then cascaded from the cartoon that I really like, to one of my main hobbies and family entertainment.

I guess the Avatar world having asian influences helped.

The Last Airhater article really puts the point across.
Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.

before i forst watched it i thought it would be a terrible show but after the first episode i was hooked.

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@airspeed It is a very nice trailer, but it has one major flaw. It shows parts of the ending and some very big spoilers.
A trailer needs to be able to capture the viewer and make them hooked for more, which this does well. But is also needs to leave out the major twists and not spoil the show. If you see many of the movie trailers, or even the ALOK mini-spoilers for every episode, they all feature only clips that are near the start.

@midnight0094
But you only know that they are spoilers because you have seen the show. Someone seeing this before they have seen the show would not know that some parts are spoilers.

You can say any trailer spoils parts of whatever it is a trailer for. Though that is sort of the point of a trailer to make someone want to watch something.

@airspeed said:
But you only know that they are spoilers because you have seen the show. Someone seeing this before they have seen the show would not know that some parts are spoilers.

@airspeed True, but take season 3 trailer for example. It only shows the first few episodes of season 3, and then only various clips. Just with only those few clips, it manages to hook the audience. When the viewer does then watch the first few episodes, it’ll have realised that it has seen everything in the trailer, and it now hungry for more. Thus, will finish watching season 3 and being completely surprised with the outcome, since they don’t know anything further than the first few episodes.

If someone watched the trailer above, they would have thought it was an epic cartoon, and would be completely hooked. By the end of book 1, they would have a rough idea of what’s coming in book 2, and similarly by the end of book 2, they’ll know a few things of what’s in book 3. It doesn’t spoil the entire show, since it shows the clips fast, and without dialogue. But it gives the viewer an idea of what to expect, and that ruins the suspense, and surprise.

@airspeed said:
You can say any trailer spoils parts of whatever it is a trailer for. Though that is sort of the point of a trailer to make someone want to watch something.

@airspeed Yes, this is absolutely correct. But the scenes that the trailer spoils mustn’t include scenes near the end of what the trailer is for.

@airspeed said:
To be fair it is a trailer to 61 episodes (1342 minutes) of a show and not a 2 hour movie, so a 3 minute trailer is not that bad.

I agree, but it could have done with more longer clips (longer than 2 seconds, since that’s what all the action clips in this trailer are like), and more actual dialogue that capture the atmosphere and feel of the Avatar world.
Instead of just showing nearly every action scene and character imaginable, it even had Huu… O.o