Was this a good backstory?

It was faggy and retarded. They look like lesbo tramp stamps fighting eachother.

Was it a good backstory? Debatable.
Were they the best episodes of that season? Undoubtably. Removed from context they make a fun short film.

I don't get what they were going for with them. Like if it was a whole Yin-Yang type system they were trying to do, then it means Vaatu and Unalaq were completely in the right.
Raava and a human being fused to be the Avatar isn't balance, its just pure good, it would need a Dark Avatar to balance it out.

I still think it would have been better if Amon took off the mask and there was no one there and it was a spirit that wanted to remove bending from the world because it presented a greater danger than benefit to humans. At least then there would have been some kind of "shit, maybe he's right" to it all.

Despite the Wan episodes being the best of S2, they were also the worst on the lore of the show
Making them Good vs Evil was a dumb move

And that's a good thing.

No. Creating a literal manifestation of good and evil breaks the entire personage of worldly morality that the series rightly showed Aang struggling with.

The only good that might've come from the concept would be to have everyone believe that it was a struggle of good vs evil but actually was different abstract concepts. Yin/Yang would be fine for that. Which would help if they got Yin and Yang right. But hey even just call Vaatu the spirit of death or something. Then show that it's when they're when not in balance it causes havoc, and the ultimate goal would not be to have one win over the other: but to bring balance.

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I don't think it was a bad story in itself, but it was completely unnecessary as the origin of avatar. When you've got a world that relies heavily in magic and mysticism, more often than not it's better to not give a definitive answer on how things came to be.
We would've been fine not knowing the story of the first avatar.

Spirit of ULTIMATE EVIL
>black and red color scheme
>deep male voice
Spirit of ULTIMATE GOOD
>white and blue color scheme
>female voice

Such a pile of hacky cliches.

It missed the mark really hard.
The Matrix did it well with the Architect and the Oracle; one maintains balance, the other upsets it.
One grants stability and familiarity, the other grants change and the unknown.
None of that really shows up in LoK.
It's just "order good chaos bad"

Was watching Reloaded last night, the Architect is funny when you know he's speaking loquaciously just to fuck with Neo.

>the avatar between worlds was just an accident and had no place in the original cosmology.
I will never not be mad

>Ying and Yang and Light and Dark and Good and Bad
Im tired of that to be honest

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Sorry I could hear you, Order what?

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Since we're shitting over how bad Raava and Vaatu are at being bootleg Chinese philosophy (and rightfully so) I would like to point out that Yin (which would be Vaatu) is passive and female while Yang (which would be Raava) is active and male. So both of them are conceptually wrong at a basic level of how they are portrayed.
Also I'd like to add that Tui and La suffer from this same western "lol dude YinYang, get it?", since Tui, which is the moon, is color coded as Yang. Now Yang (white with black dot) comes to represent day, light and the sun, while Yin (black with a white dot) represents more night, shade and the moon.
Does this mean La should have been the moon? Not really. The thing is that Yin also represents cold and water/moisture. The Yin Yang theme on Tui and La means nothing, is just recognisable aesthetics.
If they wanted to really use the concept they should have had Tui and La colored as Yin. And the thing is that it would have made sense. The entire Water Tribe can be easily fit into a Yin dominant theme much the same way as the Fire Nation can be fit into a Yang dominat theme.
But hey, all the slanted-eye stuff in this show is window dressing to feel distinctive, so it doesn't matter.

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No, it was the Avatar equivalent of midichlorians

No, they and Wan were poor answers to questions nobody asked.

They look like bacteria

No and Wan was a faggot the lion turtles where a mistake

i loved wons back story hes the best avatar

If they ever make another Avatar show, they should make a second avatar controlled by Vaatu who is a good person, while the Raava-Avatar is morally ambiguous.