I don't think he was serious.

I am still fucking tired of seeing them on almost 1/5 posts on bending time. All their theories are fucking terrible, makes no sense, or can be disproven if you have even the most basic knowledge of the series, which they seemingly don't.

I swear, most of them are 13 year olds who have watched TLA movie and then think they know all about the series, that is the only reasonable explenations for all those shit theories popping up everywhere.

Good point.
On a side note, what's this bullshit about the season finale being next week?
That's only eleven god damn episodes.

The season finale is in 2 weeks. Next week is episode 10, the season finale is 1 hour special which accounts for 2 episodes: 11-12. It was released since the very start of the series that season 1 was 12 episodes and season 2 was 14.

It is short, but how does this strike you as new info when it was said since the start.

The reason why it is short, is because it's a spinoff. Spinoff series USUALLY don't last anywhere near as long as the original series.

I don't pay much attention to things that are said that aren't either directly in the show, or on FunnyJunk.

And IMO it's a bit more than a spinoff.

No. It is directly a spinoff. Nothing more, nothing less.

For it to be continuation of the story it needs to be set more or less in the same setting and same characters. When a series suddenly takes a rather drastic turn, but its title stays the same (in this case Avatar, yet with completely new lead roles, characters and problems), or a character with a birole (lets say Smellerbee, and the freedom fighters. Or the Zuki and Kyoshi warrior) suddenly become the main character, it is a spinoff.

If it had not been a spinoff, it would've been a new season, and a new season will 99% of the time CONTINUE the story from where it was left off.

The Promise, the avatar comic, is a canon continuation of the story, that if was made into an animated series would be called a new season on the original story.

I meant it's a completely new story, set in the same universe, not that it was a continuation.
Of course it's not a continuation.
I just think that it's too independent from the original series to be a spinoff.

Except, it is not. It will forever be a spin-off, at it is set in the same world, where it still draws resources from the old series.

If it has relations to another series, is directly an "offspring" from a series, such as LoK is, it is a spinoff.

What one has to understand, is that spinoff is in no way a derogatory term at all, it just means a new story set in the same world, usually with some similar characters.

Fair point.
I guess I have a bad comparison point considering that I relate the word spinoff with the Cleavland show.