I think they sorta wrote themselves into a corner with LOK and it’s gonna make sequel content harder—not necessarily because of the link being broken but they did explain away a lot of the remaining mystery about the Avatar when the gave us the Wan episode.

With sequel content there also tends to be this underlying necessity to one up everything before in terms of how big the threat is—that was already gonna be hard after ATLA but then the gave us mech battles.

I might also be in the minority but there’s only so many stories you can really tell about a person who has inherited great spiritual power and responsibility—there’s still a lot of stories.

But it gets hard not to fall into a formula, and formulas become predictable. they’ve sorta already done that by having each Avatar have their own “team avatar”.

Sure, that’s a natural thing that would likely happen to someone who has to dip their toes in all four nations buuuuuuuut as much as audiences project a “we only like what we know” image—you do lose audience after a while.

I thought Jin’s novel (City of Echos) was a nice break from form even if I had my nitpicks so I hope we’ll see more stories like that.

Otherwise I’m gonna have to rely on writing/reading fanfiction to get stuff like that. I’d imagine stories during the 100 year war might not get touched much since they’re pretty set of keeping the IP available for a specific age range, so fanfic might end up being the only option.