The Last Airbender’s New Toph

We’ve recognized just about because it grew to become a right away 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 Final Airbender, however now Netflix is able to offer you 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 primary forged as beloved Final Airbender character Toph Beifong. Equally launched early on within the second season of the animated collection (initially in a short imaginative and prescient earlier than making her full look in “The Blind Bandit”), Toph is a younger blind woman who makes use of her earthbending skills to connect with the world round her and prolong her senses. Initially becoming a member of Aang, Katara, and Sokka on their journey to show the younger Avatar how one can hone his personal earthbending abilities, Toph ultimately turns into one of the highly effective and well-known earthbenders round, occurring to find its sub-type metalbending and ultimately assist to coach the subsequent Avatar, Korra, through the collection’ successor, The Legend of Korra.

Cech, who’s of Chinese language and Japanese American descent, will not be blind, however will work “with a producer and guide, who’s blind and knowledgeable from the blindness group, to verify the blindness group is represented appropriately” in portraying the character, in accordance with a press launch supplied 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 spite of everything, Netflix is asking the present’s second season “Earth” very similar to the animated collection 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 collection. 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 collection has discovered to deal with a bit higher this time spherical.

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

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