The Final Airbender’s New Toph

We’ve identified just about because it grew to become an immediate smash hit for the streamer that Netflix has been engaged on a second (and third) season of its live-action re-imagining of Avatar: The Last Airbender, however now Netflix is able to provide you with your first tiny take a look at what’s to come back in Aang and the gang’s persevering with adventures… principally within the type of a really acquainted face.

Throughout tonight’s Geeked Week Stay occasion in Atlanta, Netflix confirmed that season two of the live-action Avatar is in manufacturing, with a short teaser saying that Miya Cech has joined the principle forged as beloved Final Airbender character Toph Beifong. Equally launched early on within the second season of the animated sequence (initially in a short imaginative and prescient earlier than making her full look in “The Blind Bandit”), Toph is a younger blind lady who makes use of her earthbending talents to connect with the world round her and lengthen her senses. Initially becoming a member of Aang, Katara, and Sokka on their journey to show the younger Avatar the right way to hone his personal earthbending abilities, Toph ultimately turns into some of the powerful and famous earthbenders around, occurring to find its sub-type metalbending and ultimately assist to coach the subsequent Avatar, Korra, in the course of the sequence’ successor, The Legend of Korra.

Cech, who’s of Chinese language and Japanese American descent, isn’t blind, however will work “with a producer and guide, who’s blind and an expert from the blindness group, to ensure the blindness group is represented appropriately” in portraying the character, in keeping with a press launch offered by Netflix.

For all its tweaks to the supply materials, controversial or in any other case, nobody goes to be too shocked that the subsequent season of Avatar will convey Toph into the fold. In any case, Netflix is looking the present’s second season “Earth” very similar to the animated sequence did. Time will inform, Toph or in any other case, simply what else Avatar will handle to adapt in its sophomore season in distinction to the animated sequence. Even because it shot up the streaming charts to success, one of many constant criticisms of the primary season was its option to condense the story of the animated present’s 20-episode debut season into simply eight episodes. Whereas Netflix has but to verify simply how lengthy both season two or season three of the live-action present will pan out to be, fingers crossed it’s a lesson the sequence has realized to deal with a bit higher this time spherical.

We’ll convey you extra on Netflix’s plans for The Final Airbender as we study them—however with season two solely simply coming into manufacturing, it’s doubtless going to be a very good whereas but earlier than we get to see extra of Toph and her new buddies in motion once more.

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