#age range

Hi guys - I love research and polls and I know people are senti about age, but I'm just asking for a range I promise!

It's the real elephant in the room, isn't it? I love to keep pointing out that the comics are being written for an age-range that is literally younger than for how long the comics have been published, so a properly-aged fan who read 'The Promise' when it first came out is now behind on her mortgage payments and can't get any sleep because her baby is up all night.

Of course, lots of franchises keep targeting a childhood age-range over the course of decades. I shudder to think what it would look like if Mickey Mouse was being written exclusively for the first generation of fans of the character. And Avatar is a bit "evergreen" in that it isn't obviously tied to a certain modern time and place, so you can show a current child the original AtLA cartoon and they won't ask why everyone's cell phones look like that. And for a while the wisdom was that the biggest spenders for franchise tie-in junk were parents buying it for the their children.

(Although that's changing. I presume the kids these days just want Fortnite skins.)

So I have no problem with Avatar Studios continuing to target the original age range for AtLA. I was already 25 when I discovered it during its run, so my being middle-aged now isn't going to stop me from watching Seven Havens if I have the streaming service it eventually airs on. (I don't see myself ever paying for Paramount Plus.) And something being appropriate for younger ages doesn't mean it can't be satisfying for adults. I mean, Pixar has been going for 30 years now making 'family' movies aimed at fathers having a midlife crisis. Heck, the most recent Ninja Turtles movie seems to have been solidly aimed at fathers of teenagers.

My big problem is when new Avatar stuff is written for younger ages than the original AtLA cartoon, and I'm not talking about that novelty Little Golden Book which I don't think any actual children have ever looked at. Gene Yang admitted he was forced to have characters in 'The Promise' say "We're doomed!" instead of "We're dead!" because of the young audience. Because we all know the AtLA cartoon never mentioned death by name. And how does it make sense to have the sequel to AtLA target younger audiences than the original? If you want to sell Avatar to tots, do spin-offs like that Aang Birthday comic.

It does help that the YA Novels have so far been written at or above the original age range of AtLA. I honestly don't feel like I need anything more adult that the Kyoshi and Yangchen books already are. At that point, you risk getting into the same territory as the Star Wars Expanded Universe, where pain-worshipping aliens from another galaxy are filling battlefields with gore, which I found more silly than anything. Honestly, I feel like LoK started to get into this territory, with the Earth Queen being asphyxiated on-screen and then we cut to Bolin and Bumi II doing slapstick comedy that even an eight-year-old would find a little tiresome. If something is going to be filled with mature content, it should also be written maturely; no one complains that 'The Godfather' is try-hard edgy (at least, not the movie- I've heard things about the original book) because the character work and dialogue is just as maturely written as the violence.

So yeah, I guess I can say my feelings on the matter are mixed but I wish Avatar Studios was just better at aiming at its chosen target audiences. The continuing AtLA story should be at least as mature as the original cartoon. Stuff can be written for young children or for adults, but mixing is going to require a defter hand than we typically get writing franchise fiction, or at least something as non-prestige as this franchise. Because as far as I know, while Avatar is respected and beloved by many, it's never been a big moneymaker for Nick, so you can't exactly throw a lot of cash at someone with talent and they'll slum it so they can pay their bills.

please remember that you can be a fan at ANY AGE !! there is no limit, we're here to love. 💓

Hot is perspective. LOL! Because I personally don't find a few of them attractive. It's just what I've always had in my head. Objectively I think they are nice to look at though. And as for young? Oh, looks are deceiving. :) The youngest out of all of them, aside from Ibby, is Turner. He clocks in at late twenties.

The rest? Hundreds? Kimber is a little unsure. Sawyer can't remember. And Malachi is probably the oldest.

In the Night Market, I tend to base age more on the experience that the character has had in life. Because we got a few immortals running around and the age gap is going to look rather problematic if paired with someone that isn't an immortal.