Beginnings Parts 1 and 2 completely blew me away. I knew beforehand that Wan's story was going to be impressive and animated differently, but I had no idea that it would be quite so developed and captivating! A post I saw on tumblr put it quite nicely: "You know the writers on a show are really talented when you feel emotionally attached to a character that you just met 40 minutes ago"
My friends and I agreed, Wan could quite easily have his own show going more in-depth on his journey to become the Avatar and the events between his journey and his death that we saw near the end of Part 2. And speaking of the scene involving his death, did anyone notice anything familiar, because tumblr sure didn't:
This gif is from Wan's death, among the burning rubble of a human vs. human warzone.
Compare to this image from the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "Zuko Alone" in which Zuko travels to this location:
This connection is really exciting, but it gets even better because when this post reached Sifu Kisu (fighting instructor and consultant for the Avatar franchise), he simply commented, "It's deeper than you know."