Why did the first Avatar movie fail ?

not an eskimo.

>In countries were Nick was more widely available, Avatar was a consistently high-ranking program
No not in all countries.

the world was not ready

This looks really cool, wow. I know everyone likes Psycho Yes-Man Azula, but her pity here is really interesting.

>The legit fucking hate it because of ww2 allegory and bad story.
Which ones? It did pretty good in Korea, decent in Taiwan and Hong Kong (I think, memory is spotty since I read it years ago) and was virtually unknown in Japan because of limited broadcasting.
I have never read of anyone from East Asia hating it because of WW2 symbolism. If you want an extra kick, go to NicoNico and find the Nostalgia Critic's Last Airbender review. There's a moment where he says the Fire Nation are meant to be Japanese, and nearly every comment is "lolol the Fire Nation doesn't resemble Japan what is he talking about lolol"

He didn't say they were

Are people retarded? They don't see the obvious parallels between early war Japan and the fire nation? The long largely stalemated war with China/earth kingdom? Evoking the rape of Nanking via endangering ba sing se with genocide? Could go on but Jesus.

Oh, Japan does not educate its citizens about their own war crimes.

now you're just being autistic

The Fire Nation does not resemble Japan culturally, which is what people usually argue for. Some of its war efforts are taken from WW2 Imperial Japan, but it's done subtly enough that it could be passed off as an evil fantasy empire too. That and .
>Evoking the rape of Nanking via endangering ba sing se with genocide?
That was the whole Earth Kingdom, not Ba Sing Se specifically, and I fail to see how the clearly cartoonish "Use a firepower boost from a celestial body to incinerate a continent" is anything close to the Rape of Nanking outside of intent, which is a more broad subject than that specific comparison.