Showrunners: Avatar season 2 cliffhanger was meant to 'feel surprising'

Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender closes season two with a cut-to-black moment that leaves Aang seemingly dead. After Azula strikes him with lightning, the 'lights' go out on him and the lineage of Avatars before him; Katara's water healing appears to do little.

Unlike the Book 2 equivalent in the Nickelodeon animated series, this season ends on the cliffhanger that Aang, apparently, is dead. Co-showrunner Christine Boylan joked, "I want my mom to think, 'Oh no, he's dead!'" She said the series is meant for "rabid fans of the animated series, which all of us are, and also for people who like historical drama, fantasy, and other kinds of anime… It should feel surprising.

It should feel like a serious cliffhanger. We were always going to do that; that was from [the] jump." Fellow co-showrunner Jabbar Raisani called the ending "a really nice, natural break from where we go from [season 2] to where we find [season 3].

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