In episode 5 of the live-action “Avatar: The Final Airbender,” Aang and his associates are pressured to enter the spirit world in an effort to discover out why an indignant spirit is attacking a small city. Whereas there, they meet a large owl spirit — Wa Shi Tong, who exhibits up in season 2 of the animated collection and once more in “The Legend of Korra.”
Within the animated collection, the spirit world was an enormous deal, important to the story, and in addition a part of what made the “Avatar” universe distinctive, seeing as its fantastical parts have been grounded in spirituality. In Netflix’s “Avatar: The Final Airbender,” the spirit world is proven sooner than followers could also be anticipating and we see extra of it, together with a subplot the place Sokka and Katara get kidnapped by Koh the Face Stealer and brought to a spirit jail. That jail just isn’t from the unique cartoon however as an alternative from the sequel present, “The Legend of Korra.”
The Fog of Misplaced Souls is a jail for people throughout the spirit world, presided over by a fog spirit that slowly pushes people in direction of having a psychological breakdown by holding them of their reminiscences. This occurs within the live-action remake, the place Katara and Sokka are pressured to alleviate their most painful reminiscences. It’s on this very jail that Zhao spends eternity within the sequel collection after his defeat. Connecting Koh to the spirit jail is a cool manner of linking each “Avatar” collection and increasing the world with out utterly making new issues up.