Netflix’s The Last Airbender is looking better and better each time the streamer releases new images from the series, and this batch of images raise the stakes even higher. As part of Netflix’s Winter Solstice celebration, the streaming service released a batch of new images featuring fan-favorite characters such as Jet (Sebastian Amoruso), June (Arden Cho), The Mechanist (Danny Pudi), Yukari (Tamlyn Tomita), Gran Gran (Casey Camp-Horinket) and of course, Aang (Gordon Cormier). The series has been slowly gaining fandom appreciation due to the cast being primarily of Asian and Indigenous descent, much like how the characters from the original series were in their design. Fans were slow to accept Netflix’s series when it was first announced because they had been burned by M. Night Shyamalan’s 2010 film adaptation, which, despite featuring Asian actors such as Dev Patel, also miscast actors and starred some who were not of Asian or Indigenous descent in Asian or Indigenous roles. In...
