5 Reasons You Should Be Watching 'Avatar: Seven Havens'

Image via Paramount+ Published Nov 11, 2026, 10:19 PM EST Eddie Possehl is a dynamic and driven writer/director with a passion for the written word and all things film, television, comics, and games. His passion for storytelling led him to establish his own production company in hopes of achieving his dreams. His dedication to his craft has attracted renowned talent like Yuri Lowenthal to collaborate with him on his projects. As he grows and improves, Eddie is a shining example of a self-starter. Sign in to your Collider account This article contains mild spoilers for Avatar: Seven Havens. Tread carefullyThe franchise that began with Avatar: The Last Airbender all the way back in 2005 is one of the most beloved television series out there. It serves as the perfect example of how to blend being a show for all ages with mature, deep storytelling. But, in recent years, the likes of Paramount haven't exactly been treating the franchise well—perfect example being the treatment of the recent movie, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender—which has led to people being worried about the release of the newest series, Avatar: Seven Havens. A fact many may not know is that the newest show has the lowest budget of any Avatar project ever made. Reported budget numbers estimate that Avatar: Seven Havens works on a budget of under $1 million per episode, while the previous two worked on about $1+ million per episode. It's a real shame, and led to people believing this series wouldn't be good. That, however, is beyond false. Avatar: Seven Havens is actually such a good ride so far, and everyone who's been watching it is excited about what's to come next. If you're not watching the show, here are a few reasons you really should be. 5 The Importance of the Chakras Image via Paramount+ The chakras of the Avatar cycle haven't been super important to the series since Avatar: The Last Airbender, when the protagonist, Aang (Zachary Tyler Eisen), actually blocked his seventh chakra—the "thought chakra"—with his earthly attachments. Since then, they haven't had as much impact on the show. In Avatar: Seven Havens, though, the chakras actually seem to be the main conflict. While people originally believed the "Anamoly" plaguing the location of Ellora to be the menacing Vatu (Jonathan Adams)—seen last in The Legend of Korra—many now think that it's the manifestation of the root chakra, which is blocked by fear. The world of Avatar: Seven Havens is filled to the brim with fear, especially when it comes to the Avatar. After the most recent episode, as of writing—Avatar: Seven Havens Season 1, Episode 9, "The Envoys: Part Two"—showed Pavi (Saheli Khan) seeing the root chakra being blocked, it's more clear than ever that the Seven Havens of the world are going to be representing the seven chakras. The chakras being so important now makes Avatar: Seven Havens incredibly unique compared to the other projects in the series. This has drawn everyone in and has people truly guessing what could come next, defying everyone's original expectations regarding the story. 4 The Worldbuilding Image via Paramount+ The worldbuilding of the Avatar franchise has always been one of the best aspects of the entire series. The original vision of the world seen in Avatar: The Last Airbender, then the evolution of it in The Legend of Korra both allowed this universe to become one of the most beloved fantasy realities out there. The lore behind bending, the Avatar, the socio-political effects something like bending has on the world, and more, all give this franchise some of the best worldbuilding in the game. This trend continues in Avatar: Seven Havens with grace and prowess. Rather than do what they did with The Legend of Korra, the creators decided that this time, they would set the world back. After Avatar Korra (Janet Varney) caused what is known as "The Cataclysm," the world, as everyone knew, was completely destroyed. 200 years later, Avatar: Seven Havens shows how said world came back from the destruction of it. The Seven Havens of the planet are separated and almost blocked off from each other by a giant storm from said Cataclysm. This has people beyond excited to explore these Seven Havens. 3 The Stakes Are Higher Than Ever Image via Paramount+ Much like the name of the first book—season—"Survival" states, the people of the world in Avatar: Seven Havens are merely trying to survive. The Cataclysm may have been 200 years prior to the modern day in the show, but society hasn't fully come back from the destruction just yet. Humanity is still hanging by a thread, trying to push through the effects of the Cataclysm. Stakes like this are some of the highest in the franchise. The stakes are as high as the world quite literally being at stake. Society isn't threatened by a tyrannical regime this time around. They're at risk of genuinely being decimated by the horrors of the planet itself—supposedly all thanks to Avatar Korra (more on that later). To make matters worse, with the stakes being this high, it doesn't make it any better that the new Avatars, Pavi and Nisha (Aishu Devan), are the youngest audiences have seen so far, being only 9 years old. How they're going to stop humanity from being erased from existence . . . no one knows, but it gives viewers a dang good reason to keep watching. Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Fantasy World Do You Belong To? Middle-earth · Grand Line · The Continent · Camp Half-Blood Pick your magic, your crew, where you want to wake up and who you would rather be fighting, and we will tell you which world you actually belong in. Four are open to you: an ancient kingdom living through its last good age, an endless sea full of pirates, a continent that pays people to kill monsters, and a summer camp where the Greek gods are extremely real and mostly a nuisance. 💍Middle-earth(Rings of Power) 👒Grand Line(One Piece) 🐺The Continent(The Witcher) 🔱Camp Half-Blood(Percy Jackson) FIND YOUR WORLD → 01 What kind of power do you want? Every one of these worlds runs on a completely different sort of magic. ASomething ancient and half forgotten that came down through my family. BSomething completely ridiculous that works in a fight and gets a laugh. CNo magic at all, just training, potions and a very sharp sword. DSomething I inherited from a parent I have barely met. NEXT QUESTION → 02 Who is travelling with you? Nobody gets through any of these stories entirely on their own. AA fellowship drawn from every corner of the world who barely trust each other. BA crew I picked up one at a time, all of whom would die for me. CTwo or three people I would never describe out loud as friends. DTwo mates from school who are exactly as out of their depth as I am. NEXT QUESTION → 03 Where do you want to wake up tomorrow? The best fantasy is usually just somewhere you would genuinely like to live. AA high city of white stone with the sea somewhere far below. BA ship under sail, with an island ahead that nobody has mapped. CA rented room over a tavern, in a town I am leaving in the morning. DA cabin at a summer camp with everybody else already awake outside. NEXT QUESTION → 04 How are you making a living out there? Even in fantasy somebody has to pay for the horse. AI am not, because somebody far older than me decided this was my duty. BTreasure, and I am not always careful about whose it used to be. CI take contracts, since people will pay well for what they will not touch. DI am fifteen and this is all technically a school trip. NEXT QUESTION → 05 There is something in the woods. What do you do about it? All four of these worlds keep something unpleasant out there in the dark. ASend word to somebody who has seen this before, then hold the line. BWalk straight in, because it is interesting and possibly edible. CAsk what it has been eating and what the village is willing to pay. DWork out which myth it escaped from, then improvise very badly. NEXT QUESTION → 06 Who is the villain of your story? The enemy tells you far more about a world than the hero ever does. AAn ancient evil that has been patient for several thousand years. BA government that has spent a long time calling itself the good guys. CA man who turns out to be far worse than anything I hunt for money. DA god, or possibly my own family, and quite likely both at once. NEXT QUESTION → 07 What do you actually believe in out there? Every world hands its heroes one rule and asks them to hold onto it. ASome things are worth defending even when the odds are hopeless. BNobody gets to tell me where I can go or what I am allowed to want. CPick the lesser evil, and never pretend afterwards that it was not evil. DMy friends come before anything a prophecy has to say about it. NEXT QUESTION → 08 A thousand years from now, how are you remembered? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your world. AIn a song, in a language hardly anybody still speaks. BAs the one who got there first and proved the whole thing was possible. CBarely, and mostly wrongly, in ballads I would absolutely hate. DOn a plaque at a camp, read by kids about to do the same thing. REVEAL MY WORLD → The Map Is Drawn Your World Is…Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in return. Middle-earthYou belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime. This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat, fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends. You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost everything you touch is older than your entire family line. The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight. You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot. The Grand LineYou want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is finding out what is over there. One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together. You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea. The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land harder because of that rather than in spite of it. You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of it. The ContinentYou would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the people are where it all gets complicated. Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept. You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer. The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people. You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story got told wrong. Camp Half-BloodYou want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as everybody kept telling you. Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners, which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse. You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for something nobody thought to test for. The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud every time a prophecy tries to get in the way. Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 2 Pavi and Nisha Are Great Protagonists Image via Paramount+ When it comes to the Avatar franchise, having a good Avatar is everything. The newest entry in the franchise gets the benefit of having two Avatars this time around, though, and both characters are excellently written. With both of them being written like the previous two protagonists—Pavi being like Aang, and Nisha being like Korra—the way they contrast each other is great. Both of them want such different things in life, which both connect and create conflict with them, and keep things engaging. Their character arcs are going in great directions and have people truly wondering if they're going to end up united as Avatars, or end up going against each other (a major theory being that one of them is going to become a "Dark Avatar" by the end). They're also extremely lovable. The two of them are lighthearted and youthful, bringing smiles from scene to scene, while also being emotionally compelling when it comes down to the wire, especially in episodes like Avatar: Seven Havens Season 1, Episode 9, "The Envoy: Part Two". 1 The Korra Mystery Image via Paramount+ As far as audiences currently know, the destruction of the world was allegedly caused by Avatar Korra. The people of Ellora put on plays depicting her death and even celebrate it. This not only causes great internal conflict for Pavi and Nisha—seeing that what they've become is so hated by those around them—but gets viewers interested in what the heck Korra did to supposedly cause the Cataclysm and destroy the entire world, leaving humanity struggling to survive. Many Avatar fans, however, aren't fully buying into this idea that Korra of all people would do something like this. While flashbacks show Korra intentionally ripping Republic City apart and smiling while doing so, only that moment is seen—zero context included. The amount of information being held back from the audience makes it clear that far more is going on here than people are led to believe, and it has everyone wondering why Korra did what she did. There are countless theories about the potential reasons or events that could have led to the decimation of Republic City at her hands, and the mystery is super strong. A good memory can truly keep people invested, and it's really working when it comes to the Korra of it all in Avatar: Seven Havens.