Calling All Avatar Fans to A Month in Ba Sing Se!

Back in April we released an article looking at how Avatar: The Last Airbender mastered their fillers. We dove into the classic episode The Tales of Ba Sing Se: positioned in the very center of the series and featuring a series of mini stories featuring each of the characters. The writers took the “extra” episodes like these between the more “important” points to the plot and made them integral parts of each character’s arc, relationships, or backstory. But as always with Avatar there is so much more to cover than what we could look at in only one article. (And that article had already broken our word count record on the blog…)

That’s why we are thrilled to announce that for the month of September, we’re launching an event called A Month In Ba Sing Se. Each week we’ll look at one of five of the Tales of Ba Sing Se and investigate what made each of these ministories indispensable to the overall plot, character arcs, and story structure in Avatar, even as a filler. And because there are only four Fridays this September, that means you get a bonus article at the end of the month — just an extra article we’ll post on the last Friday of the month along with our usual schedule.

We are so excited to embark on this journey and launch our very first article series on the blog starting tomorrow. If you love all things Avatar and are ready to bring your fillers to the next level, then let me be the first to welcome you to a Month in Ba Sing Se!