New Delhi, June 26 -- Miyako Cech is twelve years old in a cave, crouching in the dark and listening for the way vibrations move through earth. She cannot see her opponents. She has never needed to. Toph Beifong, the blind earthbender who has been the most anticipated arrival in Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender since the series was announced, makes her entrance in Season 2 by doing what she always did in the original animated series: winning before anyone else in the room knows the fight has started. Seven episodes of the second season landed on Netflix on Thursday, and the consensus forming in early reviews is that the show has become, in significant ways, a different series.

Earth, moving Aang and the Gaang out of the N...