“The Tales of Ba Sing Se” and “The Beach” are both among the select few best episodes ofÂ Avatar (Mattila wrote the latter and contributed “The Tale of Zuko” to the former). And if you go back and look at her list of writing credits, that’s very apparent. Katie Mattila’s major contributions toÂ Avatar: The Last Airbender andÂ The Legend of Korra have been sparse but phenomenal in the purest sense of that word’s otherworldly connotations. In the case of theÂ Avatar franchise, there is someone who simply cannot go under-recognized and -appreciated, because to do so would be a travesty.

The showrunners and voice actors are somewhere out there floating on the periphery not-so-secretly pulling the strings, but acknowledging them is a secondary task to appreciating and analyzing the show they’ve created. More often than not, though, the show is so engrossing that it exists in its own world. Maybe in special cases like this one, the animation or scoring is just so superb that you wind up buying official art books or OSTs. When watchingÂ The Legend of Korra–or any TV series, for that matter–it’s hard to view the product from outside the context of the story itself.

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