Sokka's Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 Growth Teased By Netflix Star

Summary Sokka's character growth is teased for upcoming seasons, focusing on emotional maturity and relationships.

There is a possibility of exploring darker storylines from the franchise, like bloodbending

The show's success depends on staying faithful to the source material while adding unique elements to keep viewers happy.

Avatar: The Last Airbender's Sokka character growth is teased by actor who plays him. A remake of the acclaimed animated TV show of the same name, Avatar: The Last Airbender is the second live-action adaptation of the franchise, after M. Night Shyamalan's critically derided movie The Last Airbender. The show features four warring tribes, and the coming-of-age of 12-year-old Aang, the last of the air nomads, who is capable of mastering all four elements.

Collider reports that star Ian Ousley joined fellow cast mates at the Calgary Expo, where he spoke about his character's Avatar: The Last Airbender seasons 2 journey, and teases he is very excited about his character's story direction. He discussed how further seasons will create additional storylines that can be explored, and how they will impact his character. Read Ousley's full comments to the audience below:

I think mine is fairly obvious that, you know, we focus in the series on Sokka losing his first girlfriend, originally, and I think that's going to take him a while to kind of emotionally mature and to be ready to open up his heart again, possibly? I think that's going to kind of— just seeing that much war... I think also [it] just messes with him as he's prepared for war so much and seeing the loss of it and how his responsibility was to protect Yue. He didn't accomplish his goal of protecting Yue, which wasn't his decision, but, yeah, I think that's going to open up a lot more reality for Sokka. I'm very excited to see how we focus on his humor, his relationships in the future.

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Ousley seems happy with his character's story so far, and it's very possible Sokka could have a satisfying arc that will please both legacy fans, and newcomers to the live-action show. The character, and his sister Katara, have already had a strong backstory in the show, and season 1 reveals Sokka and Katara's mother was killed before the events of the show, providing a revenge subplot, and this also feeds into Sokka's failure to protect Yue, and what this means for his emotional journey

With two more seasons to go, the show will have the chance to explore some of the other franchise stories in greater detail, and this provides plenty more storylines for Sokka, as well as allowing the show to use iconic plot threads from the animated series. For instance, there is a chance the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender could explore a dark season 3 storyline regarding bloodbending, and the morally ambiguous elements of this.

The future of the show could be bright, and Netflix will be hoping they have a long-term hit on their hands. The challenges of adapting source material as iconic, and detailed, as Avatar: The Last Airbender is not without difficulty, but if the core cast remains in place, and the showrunners can be faithful to the source material, while also putting their own unique spin on the franchise, there is every chance that the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender could be looked on as favorably as the acclaimed animated show in the years to come.

Avatar: The Last Airbender season 1 is available to stream on Netflix.

Source: Collider