Watching

I am slowly working my way through Avatar: The Last Airbender, and am on episode 5 of book 1. This is the furtherest I've gotten into a nonreality TV series since Person of Interest (made it to series 2). So far, I like it a lot, with the only caveat being that I am unfond of scenes of (mis) treatment of animals (Aang's fondness for penguin sledding, koi riding etc, Momo the lemur getting stuck in an air vent) and property damage (spree riding through the Earth bender mail tubes) being played as comical, but it's early enough and there's enough other stuff going on that I will see where it goes. On the plus side, they have not delayed at all in revealing that Aang is the Avatar, thus saving me and the characters scenes in which people drop heavy hints about Avatar like figures and airbenders while Aang stares thoughtfully at his hands or similar (there was a terrible scene in the movie Troy where a bunch of Greeks talk loudly about the difficulty of sacking Troy, while Odysseus stares at a guy carving a small wooden horse in a painfully obvious close-up), and they have also made me feel ambivalently sorry for Zuko (the antagonist, so far), which is also promising.