Obviously not as good as Last Airbender but still pretty damn awesome
It's indeed still awesome. I don't believe they really knew what direction to go in with the first season, as they were told it would be the ONLY season.
So the first season/Book spends all that time on the love triangle/square and the pro-bending tourneys. Despite that all being kind of annoying it still shines through as an AWESOME series, full of beautiful animation (the city just looks astounding) and awesome characters.