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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago

Oh, thank goodness. It'll cover book 2, right?

Since we already have a perfect film adaptation of book 1?

I'll see myself out.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Did the name “avatar” make sense in the context of the show? I didn’t think so.

[–] AnExerciseInFalling@programming.dev 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

From the avatar wiki:

The term "Avatar" comes from the Sanskrit word avatāraḥ (अवतारः), which means "descent". In Hinduism, Vishnu manifests himself as an avatar to restore balance on earth, during a period of imbalance.

And there's a lot of overlap with Hindi Avatars in general: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar.

So pretty apt if you ask me

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Gotcha. I was only familiar with the avatars if the digital form.