Netflix's Avatar Gets Worse the More I Think About it...
Howdy! Yeah, this show is kinda terrible, but not completely!
I watched this one the weekend it came out but I kinda had to let my thoughts marinate for bit before I felt confident publishing a video about it, y'know? So what did I think? Who knows! You'll just have to watch and see!
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Timestamps:
0:00- Live Action? Yuck
2:20- It’s fine… But!
4:34- Aang is Alrightish
8:01- Katara and Sokka are Really Lame
10:39- Random Stuff I Didn’t Like
13:27- Azula Makes Me Upset
15:09- The Positives (Zuko)
Hey! Here's a list of songs I used in the video cause some people were saying I should put these somewhere (they're all bangers trust): 0:03 - At the Race Track (Everhood OST) 2:20 - Weatherscan Track 3 3:47 - Clock Tower Theme (Marvel vs Capcom 2 OST) 10:39 - Signs of Love (Persona 4 OST) 13:28 - Checker Knights (Kirby Air Ride OST) 15:09 - USA NYC Times Square (Smash Court 2 OST) 18:17 - Twilight (Street Fighter Third Strike OST)
Thank you for this. I wish more creators would!
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Maybe you like avatar 2010 more 🤔
If the Shyamalan movie hadn't come out, we would all be saying that this adaptation is flat-out horrible. The Netflix show is only viewed as mid because a worse adaptation already exists.
Facts, it was not good.
I'm not gonna say you're wrong (you're definitely right) but I feel like there's still some good stuff here and there (I really want to emphasize the some here)
I watche the first episode... afterwards Because it had been somewhat a while: I rewatched the first 3 Eps of ATLA og. The comparison was JARRING. Aang and Katara were also Child Voice Actors. Yet their performances let alone Zuko, Iroh, Sokka, And Zhao in first 3 eps. were so well done. And it is the same time. Probably less. ITs og Intro is so condensed and efficient in setting up world and stakes. The way it starts not Grand but in the middle of nowhere in the southpole with 2 peasent kids who had to grow up too fast because of the war. By chance or say Destiny stumble on the missing avatar.
Totally, I dont get why people say this show is great because is better than that movie, like dude you are suppose to compare it to the original...
@sirius2643 I think it's just a way of saying "it could've been worse" but I'm not a big fan of the comparison either (which is why I said I wasn't gonna talk about it in this video) I don't think comparison to the other live action is a good way of demonstrating the strengths and weaknesses of the two. Comparison to the original however (since that's what they're adapting from) seems fair to me. Think of it liking comparing two paintings of a mountain. You wouldn't judge them based on how their interpretation differs, but on the quality of the piece overall. That's at least my thoughts on it (sorry for length lmao)
I’m sorry but they butchered Katara badly in this show, it’s like the writers stripped her of everything but yet didn’t add anything to make up for it. So docile and bland.
Trust me dude you do not need to say I'm sorry, say that shit with your chest! (I'm so upset about her fr)
When I saw her bending water to stop the fireball hundreds of feet in the air in the first episode, I legit said “awww crap…..they gonna turn her into another captain marvel, aren’t they?”
Made her a girlboss while simultaneously taking away all her actual baddasery. It's downright impressive.
It actually creates a lot of problematic implications when the female characters are directed to act as either timid ingenues or creepy drill sargeants. It's like saying women can essentially only be pure sweethearts or cruel dictators. Basically, either be incorruptible or you're evil. Even the nicest characters in the original had moments of embarrassment or regret.
Animation is seen as just kids stuff, yet the "adult" live action removes subtlety, unnecessarily dials up tragedy and angst and gives numerous amounts of exposition to the adults audience as if they're children who wouldn't get it.
First off, there’s Adult Animation. So that claim in of itself is bullshit. Second, adult animation tends to be just as childish as kid’s animation.
It's ignorance from western culture sadly. Anime is taken seriously
@@theempireeofficial3935 That claim isn't bullshit really, animation by the public majority is seen as kid stuff, because the majority of animation is for kids, so of course people will have prejudice for it. They also didn't say that animation IS for kids, they said "Animation is SEEN as just kids stuff". Have a nice day!
@@theempireeofficial3935you do know that animation is openly being mocked by companies, film makers, and other people in the entertainment industry for being “for children.” For a recent example, the 2024 Oscars openly made fun of all animation and those who still watch animations. It was once again mocked by different people back in 2022, again at the Oscars. Those are just two of many examples of animation being disregarded as nothing but childish and for children.
@@theempireeofficial3935 Spoken like someone who's never seen Ghost in the Shell...
Honestly nothing frustrated me more than Iroh. He came off more like a parody of the character than being a wise mentor.
Yeah he did feel pretty off (the funeral scene is incredible though) EDIT TO ADD: Yknow how I said this show gets worse and worse the more I think about it? This comment thread is a perfect example. Cause honestly? Im not so sure about iroh anymore ngl
Even when he was saying solid Iroh lines, his delivery was often too grandiose than I think fit. This Iroh had the compassionate and wise sides down, but he didn’t across as down-to-earth as I think he should’ve been.
@@KnightlyReviewsthe acting for the funeral scenes is a great performance. The scene itself is a failure narration wise. It really breaks a lot of the narration around iroh. It also messes his timeline in a way that will make it harder to explain how and why he learned from other cultures and joined the white lotus (if the white lotus will even be in this show...) It also changes a lot of the dynamic of the relationship between zuko and iroh. In the original their relationship is more tense in the first book. You can tell zuko respects his uncle as a bender, yet he also calls him lazy and has the failure of the siege of ba sing se in mind... Overall the adding of a new scenes brought more bad than good AND it took away screen time to show more useful things to show (like aang learning waterbending...) 😅
@@etienne8110yeah, it's hard to criticize Zuko and Iroh relationship bcos its peak fan service but it also messes with their character arcs and growth
Iroh was ruined for me when he was confronted by the Earth Kingdom soldier, and basically implied he wasn't at all guilty for mercilessly killing the soldier's son. I get that Iroh had to escape from capture. But to be so cruel in his language when escaping is crazy. So unlike Iroh at all. While its important they acknowledge his history with violence, he was no longer that man by the time we meet him in the show. It's crazy to me that people credit him as one of the better points of the show when even he suffered from the terrible writing.
I think the reason people are so mad about the Hakoda thing is that being a good father and a great leader is the whole point of his character. Sokka's arc was not realizing he doesn't need his father's approval or smth, it was that he's always had it, no matter what.
Yeah that was kinda zuko’s arc. Though it was to realize he didn’t need his father’s approval
I'm sayin dude, it genuinely fucked up the whole character for me ngl. They're probably gonna try to make an arc out of it through the day of black sun but that would be so lame and predictable
@KnightlyReviews My problem with Hakoda is that his logic doesn’t make sense. Just because Sokka couldn’t do a boat test correctly, that just suddenly means Sokka isn’t meant to be a warrior?? Because of a BOAT TEST? Tests show if you need more practice in something. You’re supposed to get better if you fail- not just immediately be assumed you can’t be a warrior/can’t protect ppl. Don’t know why he even passed if he was that bad.
@@Nancydrew301 Exactly, Hakoda was a proud, loving father who always believed in Sokka and Katara. And that even is contrasted to Ozai's "conditional love" in the "The Awakening" Episode.
So they gave Sokka Zuko’s daddy issues?
i hate how katara is done. i hate it SO much. the part with her and jet, how he tells her to focus on when her mother was living and not how she died really moved me, as someone who's mother died at a young age too. But what i cant accept is how quickly she just switched up her thinking like that. It took me years, and im still not really healed. yet she managed to do so in what, 5 seconds? and i didn't even watch her die in front of my eyes like katara did. its also REALLY stupid how that was the only thing holding her back from being this amazing naturally skilled waterbender with no training.
i'm so sorry that you had to go through that :/ i hope you can find peace and can recover from your loss. i gotta put this next part separately bc talking about a show after giving condolences feels weird now that you mention it, her kind of "healing" from her mother's passing so quickly is actually terrible because then that also means we won't be getting the southern raiders episode and if we do it wont even hit the same
I find it funny that they wanted to make the show like GoT and make it have more nuance and complexity, then proceeded to dumb it down. They dumbed down characters from a cartoon.
What a flawless way to put it, couldn't have put it better myself
Exactly. Even the writing is immature. Actually the original series is even more similar to GOT when you compare characterisation, world building and writing
They were talking about the Secret Tunnel part with Sokka and Katara being like GoT.
@@BaldorfBreakdownslol
I hate this Iroh with a passion. Unpopular opinion, but I also hate the changes to Zuko and Iroh's relationship. Showing Iroh and Zuko already had a strong relationship totally takes away from Iroh supporting Zuko. Iroh is now supporting him because he already liked him, instead of supporting him because he's a struggling human worthy of grace
Totally fair man. It didn't make too much of a difference for me personally but I see why it could stop someone from liking it as much
fr the fandom is going super light on the criticism on iroh and it feels weird because he's probably one of the *most* liked characters in the show. i wonder what it was the fans even liked about him if they consider this portrayal to even be good or okay, this is absolutely not the same character
@@areeba7045I know. He was being sho shady with the Earthbender when he was captured, like ??? The real Iroh would recognize that man's grief and would be totally humble about it, he wouldn't try to appear superior for no reason.
Yes, thank you! My sister thought it was fine because she didn't see the original. But I hated it. I'm curious what she will say once she sees the cartoon (she wants to).
@@LuisGustavoSO The writing was ass in that scene because it didn't exist in the original. In the original, it was a mature scene between two war veterans who both understood the other's perspective. But of course, we can't have that in a ''mature'' show, so instead they made the Captain an emotional manchild who hysterically rages like an infant and can't keep his emotions in check and immediately resorts to torture for no reason. You know, because that's more mature than two grizzled and understanding war veterans who've very clearly been on both sides of those chains.
My biggest problem with the funeral scene is that there is what looks to be a coffin, and my immediate thought was, "You mean the FIRE nation doesn't BURN their dead?" And I feel like that just epitomized how I felt about the level of thought that went into all the changes made to the series.
They literally burn Fire Lord Azulon in the original, it's how they take care of their dead canonically, HOW did they miss this?
The good news is the live action finally made me get around to watching the masterpiece that is the original series. The bad news is the farther I get into the show the more I hate the live action
Yeah the only thing the live action did for me was make me wanna rewatch the original lmao
That's literally why I watched the cartoon, except with the movie. I watched the movie first and it made me want to watch the cartoon. Then I realized how bad the movie was.
yeah, same I watched the first episode of the live action and that just made me rewatch the entire ATLA and LOK. and tbh as an adult I actually like LOK much more since I was a teenager when LOK came out.
@@MegaKaimsyo facts Korra grew on me HEAVY I still notice it’s issues but overall I appreciate so much more about it
Enjoy the original. It really hits differently as an adult and some episodes are just heartbreaking. Tackling grief, duty, and other deep subjects.
I haven’t seen the LA, but I’ve seen some clips & them having Ozai praise Zuko as a way to piss off Azula & having Ozai COMFORT Zuko after burning him let me know not to watch this show. Also the number of ppl coming out the woodworks talking about “that’s a good change to his character & shows that Ozai is an abusive manipulative genius to both his kids & give him more depth” No Ozai was not a “manipulative genius” he didn’t try to play Azula & Zuko against each other, he hated Zuko b/c Zuko was too “weak” to him compared to his sister. Also the fact that they had Zuko fight Ozai during their Agni Kai had me PISSED the whole point of that was Zuko choosing to not fight his father AT ALL & Ozai still burning his face then banishing him for being “a coward”. Having Zuko fight Ozai & win then having Ozai burn him for “showing compassion/not being ruthless enough” takes away from the brutality of the situation and makes it seem more like Ozai lost his temper/got his pride hurt and lashed out instead of just him harming his son for no reason even after he surrendered
fr people are like "awww i knew he wasnt such a monster after all!!! zaddyy" ffs
Seriously. Ozai was clearly a great strategist and he was focused on the WAR he was waging and on his legacy. He was a conqueror, not a sneaky emotional manipulator. At the risk of sounding a bit sexist, this is what women specialize in (think Regina George in Mean Girls - this is toxic femininity). Not saying that a man can't do it, of course some can. But Ozai was clearly an ultra masculine type of a ruler, focused on conquest, not little games within his family. And yes, that fight was stupid as hell. When I saw the scene in the cartoon I was blown away. It was one of the best scenes i've seen in animation (even though I already knew about Zuko's past from YT videos). I hated in the live action but I was curious how my sister would feel about it (she hadn't seen the cartoon and didn't know anything about it). She said it was meh. She was disappointed because she expected the mystery of Zuko's past to be something... stronger? More emotional, maybe (not sure how to translate it from my native language)? She even said it was a wet fart after all that mystery build up.
Ozai didn't even hate Zuko for being too weak at first. He hated him because Ursa said she wished Zuko was not his son, to which he promised Ursa he would treat Zuko as she wanted: As not his son. That's where it started. Part of Zuko's stunted growth was the fact that Ozai began mistreating him, so him being ''too weak'' was ironically a result of Ozai's own actions.
ALSO makes Ozai look like a none threat. A 15 year old beat him.
Wait Zuko beat Ozai, WTF!
Most people have talked to death about the characters (and how poorly they were written) so I just wanna get into some of the lore re-writes that I thought were pretty stupid: That Sokka and Katara can go into the spirit world with Aang defeats the purpose of The Avatar being the bridge between the human world and the spirit world. In ATLA Iroh was considered a legend for having ever been approached by a spirit as a mere mortal. And even in Legend of Korra, the only way it was possible for non-spiritual beings to enter the spirit world was through spirit portals. So this is such an unnecessary retcon that takes away from the mystique of the spirit world, and also kind of nerfs Aang as the Avatar as well. Similarly, the shrines being the only way he can communicate with past Avatars also undermines a huge part of his arc. As someone who is very young and reluctant to take upon such a huge responsibility, being able to communicate with his past lives for guidance was an important part of his journey. While they had him communicate a lot with past lives in this show it didn't make sense how they did it. Most of the time it was to get yelled at. And they featured Kyoshi way too much. I always thought, in the original, his main guide was Roku because he was literally the most recent Avatar before Aang. When he spoke to others like Kyoshi, Kuruk, and Yangchen, they felt a bit distant-emotionally- and it makes sense because they are also distant in terms of their place in the cycle. On top of that, there was something powerful about Roku feeling responsibility for not stopping the war, the same way Aang does. Learning how to accept responsibility, and overcome his guilt so that he can grow into the Avatar he needs to be, is another core aspect of his journey. No other Avatar could relate to that as well as Roku, because no other Avatar was alive during the 100 Year War. And finally; I saw no need in incorporating Book 2 episodes into the first season. While you might argue they're on a time crunch, the overall run time of Season 1 live action, is the same, if a bit longer, than Book 1 of the original animated series. They have less episodes, sure, but they have more time per episode. They could still have cut out episodes like The Great Divide or the Storm and still have made out with enough time to tell the original story. Some people defend these decisions as if the directors/writers were held at gunpoint to make them this way, and if that's the case, then we still don't need to defend those decisions. We need to criticize whatever producer/studio/investor thought it would be a good idea to adapt such a beloved IP, knowing full well they were going to change core aspects of it, only to deliver a poorer, unsatisfying rendition.
i agree with all the points you made, i dont think people should harass or bully the writers obviously but i don't think we need to be lenient when it comes to the way they structured and directed the show. they screwed up the story and now the pacing is going to be a lot worse than it would have been if they just followed the og story as it was
for me it's so good in the animation that Roku is his primary guide not only for the reason you listed but also because it shows that it's not about the fire nation or its people being bad, but that there are bad actors in it. We basically learn to reject the bad actors but accept the awesome people living under their rule.
@Soapy-chan That's another great point! Roku being Aang's main Avatar guide does soften the image of the Fire Nation, even just a little bit, simply because he's Fire Nation but he's also a good person. So even if it feels like nitpicking. I feel little changes like this definitely affected the live action in a bad way. I love Kyoshi. But honestly they could have made the whole live action about the Kyoshi novels ans I feel it would've done a lot better. Instead of trying to retroactively make her seem more important to the original than she actually was.
@@A2daM2daZ the thing is, if it is nitpicking, then it's still valid. There's nothing wrong with nitpicking, if the script has a million little holes then it's as bad as if it has a dozen really big ones. Kyoshi also came across really unlikable, I don't have her in mind like this from the animation.
This war is literally Roku's war. It's one he could've stopped. He outright says ''This war is not your responsibility. It was mine.'' Or something along those lines to Aang in Book 3, when Aang is distressed over having damn near died, which would've lost them the war. Them featuring Kyoshi way more and making her the literal meme overly violent angry Kyoshi was not even funny. Pure cringe fanservice. ATLA was Roku's story as much as it was Aang's. All of Aang's biggest enemies bear Sozin's blood. His greatest ally in the end is a descendent of both Sozin and Roku. Them removing Roku almost entirely is garbage. Anything for the girlbossing I guess. Also, LOL at Kyoshi taking over Aang's body and transporting him elsewhere physically, and doing it without his consent after loudly berating and insulting him no less. Imagine if the genders were reversed. I suddenly think Netflix would have a problem with it then 😬
At this point, instead of watching the live action, I'm just going to grab my box sets and rewatch the original.
Sounds like a great time, think of me when you see sokkas big ass head
@@KnightlyReviews😭😭
Bruh I didn’t even notice Azula’s fire not being blue. That’s how little I cared/paid attention by the time we saw it.
Genuinely insane that a show could disinterest you that much (I can almost guarantee you aren't the only one)
there’s a lot of valid critiques but her fire not being blue isn’t one of them. it literally turns blue in the episode where’s she’s beating up on her teacher in like a rage moment, showing us her fire wasn’t always blue(just like in the original when her and zuko firebend in front of azulon as kids) than an episode or 2 later we see her develop lightning which we never saw from her before. this is a prequel of the azula we know so far, as she never appeared until season 2 in the anime and wasn’t a part of the story at this time, so it makes sense why she’s not the complete psycho we know her as.( although to be fair, she was insane from a small child in the anime, but i always felt like having a literal 10 year old be obviously insane and evil just because we know what she becomes was always super unrealistic and one of the more cartoony parts of the show, but this is all just one mans opinion who has watched a kids cartoon one too many times.)
@@Anthony-tq4di yeah despite how i dislike many things about the show, this one feels like it was made with the point that we're being hinted about azula's growth in terms of power. they're teasing with blue flame azula.
I quit at Ep4, so I never got to see her bend at all. I did see her use a bow better than the dudes that captured Aang with them in the original, which was enough for me to quit in and of itself tbh. So somehow they managed to both make her a Mary Sue, but also took away what made her special. Kinda like what they did to Katara. It's impressive how shit the writing is.
I was so confused when aang was just flying around like it was nothing in the first episode
I cannot get behind the story change of making Zuko fight back against his father in the Agni Kai. Not fighting was the reason he got banished. It showed his care for his father, how he wanted to please him and ultimately just gain back his favor. Later on he AGAIN chooses not to fight Ozai during the eclipse saying that the Avatar’s job. These were very important parts to his character’s story line. His struggle with good and bad. Also having Zuko been invited to the war meeting instead of Iroh letting him tag along removes depth and responsibility Iroh felt for Zuko getting injured in the first place. Another change I really hate is how Kiyoshi is getting after Aang for “abandoning the world”. They know what goes on when Aang is in the Avatar state. It’s also not a powerful weapon! In Ba Sing Se, when the general or whoever told Aang that he only needed to go into the Avatar state and use it as a weapon, Aang shut that down. It wasn’t the goal Team Avatar had. This live action is so focused on power in a way that didn’t align with the original. I feel it’s more toxic which is wild considering they wanted to make this more “woke”.
For me it s more that he feared his father so much that he didn t dare fight back. They are clearly in an abusing relationship.
the avatar state stuff reminds me of them changing zukos motivations from just simply wanting to go home, to wanting to go home to take the _throne._ the emphasis on power is so weird. they make every character so overpowered and its utterly pointless. in the original show, power was portrayed as tragic, more than anything. especially for the main characters, because it was painful responsibility being put on _childrens_ shoulders. every time aang went into the avatar state it was a sad moment. it wasnt meant to be cheered for. this show doesnt seem to care about that though. it feels like they do nothing for any reason beyond wanting shit to look cool. its somehow far more immature than the nickelodeon cartoon.
I keep seeing copium comments online like "No no this show got my 97 year old great grandma to watch Avatar! This means its a good thing you guys!!" Like... this is not the flex you think it is. The fact that your grandma doesn't take animation seriously, and will only watch Avatar in live action form, doesn't automatically mean the live action show should exist. The bar cannot be this low, ya'll.
I just sucks cause it's mostly people who haven't seen the original saying that, like dude please watch season one it will literally take less time and it's 100,000x better
Really good point. My father loves excellent storytelling such as what ATLA offers and would undoubtedly love the original, especially the character of Iroh, but he's 61 and isn't interested because of the medium, that being animation. I still hope to convince him one day. Maybe we'll watch it together. I've already warned him away from the live action. It just shows that getting someone to watch it because it's a different style doesn't dictate quality, at all. And that's coming from someone who generally doesn't like animated series either. I'm just open to watching them.
Even Roku's introduction was very weird. Why is he joking like that? If you know what happened when he was the avatar and how he died in the original series, you will feel very weird about his portrayal
Nah, I can see Roku having fun with Aang on his first meeting. And he switches gears quickly to be serious when Aang starts to explain the problem.
@@SpiritOfWaterMontaru is he a really jokey sort of dude, though? i never got that vibe from him. idk, feels weird to me.
@@bumbabees I'm thinking of his comment of like "Being the Avatar certainly doesn't hurt your chances with the ladies" and how he was with Sozin, Gyatso, and Sud.
It felt like they slapped Bumi's personality onto Roku. Didn't seem dignified on Roku though.
Yo Aang wassup my G! Oh BTW Ozai is gonna destroy the world, homes!
what really gets me is the fact that it takes halfway through SEASON 3 for aang to finally accept and embrace his destiny as the avatar. it take almost the ENTIRE show for aang to accept his destiny and mature, a huge part of his character gets stripped away because they decided to start off the show with aang being okay with being the avatar
I don't understand the point of characterizing Ozai like this. He is not meant to be a character with much emotional depth, he's supposed to be a power-hungry egomaniac who is willing to mentally and physically abuse his own children to accomplish his goals. I don't see this show's Ozai being the kind of guy who would burn down an entire country to ashes.
What’s scary is that the writers need to learn their mistakes and fix them NOW. Since they’re filming and writing seasons 2&3 at the same time, they don’t have any extra time after the release of season 2 take in audience feedback and improve for the next. Everything will be set in stone already so they can’t change something if the audience isn’t happy with the direction of season 2. The show runners sounded so confident that they truly did a job to satisfy fans. And it’s obvious that it didn’t happen with a lot of us.
Yeah no if they aren't rewriting it as we speak it really might be cooked ngl. At least it'll look pretty (Im losing it)
Okay, but it will be hard to change some things, even with the feedback. Are they going to completely change the characters of Katara and Aang after they decided to make them like that? It wouldn't be consistent from what they showed before. Some things are already irreparable.
@@KnightlyReviews ''But the effects were decent.'' From the Ember Island episode is literally stuck in my head when thinking about this travesty of a show.
@@missAlice1990 This. Can't turn back now. Clock only goes forward.
Who cares? We know the writers working on this are bad. So feedback or not, the result will be awful anyway. "Abandon all hope". 😅
Azula and Ozai have been made so boring. I DONT wanna feel bad for them. I LIKE not liking them! People are allowed to just be BAD! Getting to watch the insanity with Azula end with her being just a broken child was an important piece of the original! I can’t see that scene being earned here. I can’t see the actress being angry or devastated or any extreme emotion, or any of the cast really. It’s not their fault, it’s the direction and lines, but still. They’re not characters anymore.
Even if Azula does break down, Ozai will probably hold her while crying even harder or something equally as trash.
This is what happens when you try to shoehorn in complexity where it isn't really needed. Azula was already a complex character who the audience could sympathize with to a degree. Not every villain has to be totally sympathetic. Ozai was fine being a heartless monster. Ozai being a monster made Zuko, Azula, and even Aang more interesting characters. Zuko literally tells Aang to kill Ozai in Book 3, even attacking him to drive in the message. How is Zuko going to do that in LA?
In my opinion they should've spent WAY less time with Azula and Ozai this season. Ozai should have been left as a terrifying silhouette just like the original series until we actually see him later. And Azula should've been held off until the last episode.
Your "I dont want to feel bad for them" argument (particularly in Azula's case) doesn't make a lot of sense, considering how many people did feel bad during the scene where Azula has a mental breakdown in front of Zuko and Katara. Azula was never "Just bad" in the original. She was a broken child who used fear to rule.
@@justinstewart9145 "My own mother, thought I was a monster. She was right of course, but it still hurt." No, Azula was just fucking bad. Ever since she was a child she's been sadistic and brilliant. That's literally the definition of being an evil genius. She didn't break down because she was a poor wittle baby with an abusive father, she broke because her control began slipping away more and more, starting with Mai and Ty Lee betraying her, then she kept failing to defeat Zuko and capture Aang, and her paranoia began to take root and fester as she was finally given true power. Azula was ALWAYS just as evil as Ozai, and she was NOT "abused". She and Ozai are just straight up fucking evil. Azula was probably the only one Ozai actually loved, because she's basically just like him. So as a result she was constantly praised, she was given the most important tasks, he gave her the fire nation to rule despite how young she is. Ozai was SO confident in Azula's absolute skill he allowed her to sit in his decoy throne room as insurance because he knew even if she couldn't bend a single ember, she was still far too smart and martially skilled to lose to even the fucking avatar. She had the Dai Li, but it's not like they're a magical win button plus an ultimate shield. We saw how that whole scene played out, even powerless Azula was in complete control of everything. We feel bad for Azula when she breaks fully because we're humans with empathy and we watched this like 13ish year old girl who always wins take critical losses for the first time in her life that chips away at her perfection until the final blow shatters her completely. That's how GOOD Avatar is as a show, we don't feel bad for Azula because she could've been good, she's evil to her fucking core, we feel bad because of how brilliantly they portrayed her downfall. Azula's life was fucking perfect, there was never a singular HINT that Azula was under constant pressure to be perfect and if she stepped a single foot out of line Ozai would set her feet on fire to get her back in line. That was ZUKO! Azula just WAS perfect, she was the ideal child and Ozai made it pretty fucking clear how much he liked Azula over Zuko. ZUKO is the one who was abused and beaten down, literally getting burned because he spoke out of turn. Azula, btw, was full of GLEE watching half of Zuko's face being burnt off. Can't fucking teach that shit. When you live your whole life in such perfect control of everyone and everything around you, seeing your control slipping time after time will start to chip away at you until you feel like you can't control ANYTHING anymore. Mai and Ty Lee betraying Azula was the biggest hit to that sense of control, and losing to Katara was the final nail in the coffin.
In regards to the child actors, and the acting in general, if all the acting is lackluster, it's usually a directing problem more than an acting problem. (and in this show, it's probably also a script problem.) The young actors have less experience in overcoming bad directing and bad scripting, where an older actor might be able to manage it. But even that's not always the case. So with the sum total of the wonkiness in the acting, I think it's more of a directing problem (coupled with that awful script).
The thing that pissed me off the most was how the pacing is like on the time limit despite we arguably got as much or even more time than the first season in the original. The dialogue is like M. Night movie: EXPOSITION DUMB!!!! WHY? SHOW, DON'T FREAKING TELL, IDIOTS!!! Also, I got some beef with Iroh character as well. Iroh is practically humorless. You removed one of his complexities that being baddass under the farce of self-defecating humor. It hit WAY harder when the show got to his baddass moment. They TOTALLY butchered the Iroh capture sequence. The goal of this supposed abduction was for Iroh to stray Zuko away from pursuing Aang. That's why he let himself to be captured and the show was smart to slowly show how he managed to leave trace for Zuko to find him. Also, when Zuko rescued Iroh, Iroh was about to be executed, the dialogue just gave me the true bond between those 2: "Excellent form, Prince Zuko!!" "You taught me well, uncle." That's all I need to know. No need for the long ass flashback to know how close those 2 are. Just 2 lines and I already knew. Also, when Iroh was rescued, he never firebended once. He just use bruteforce or redirection to KO his opponents. It showed how he never overly relied on his bending all the time.
Self defecating 😂
...you mean self-deprecating... :))
@@OnaterdemLmao. I didn't even notice.
If toph ain’t blind next season I’m dropping the series
It was a cash grab.
At more than 10millions dollars per episodes, it s more a scam...
it always is. i dont know why anyones surprised, at this point. we all saw what disney did to their classics.
We just gotta stop remaking avatar, it’s such a good show it’s hard to make an adaptation that lives up to the masterpiece
It s not that hard. Just hire professional writers instead of sports journalists... (Yeah, this show head writer is a sports journalists... No wonder there are so many amateurish failures.)
@@etienne8110 didn’t realize the writing team had sports journalists on it, that’s pretty wacky lol
All I want is a widescreen remaster. I'd be cool with a live action series if it were actually good, but I don't care too much.
Writing is so bad. Its an ok show but like u said. Its laughable once u examine it. Like aang saying no one ever fought for him while gyatsuu got cooked while looking for him . Or the entire beggining sequence where the earth bender makes a wall behind him instead of in front of him. And then sozin and earthbender just explain everything to the audience.
Tbf aang doesn t know Gyatso died for him... Still a very weak line nonetheless. 😅
They completely fucked up zukos Agni Kai with ozi. The whole point is zuko stood up for what is right but he was too weak to stand up to his father. The show made zuko fight and actually win
I think I might've thought the writers were going for a completely different idea for zuko (the character was so different I assumed they knew they couldn't compete and went for a different interpretation) so that swayed me but I totally get you
The background is blurry because that's what the background is. They are not filming on a green screen but in front of a giant LED screen array. To create a depth effect, they need to show a blurry image.
Aang is definitely not alrightish imo. The writers completely missed the point of his character. The fact that they made him more focused towards becoming Avatar and stripping him off of his goofy and childlike personalities prove that. To add, why did they make him an idiot, instead of an innocent boy who just wants to live a normal childhood? No Netflix, Aang leaving the temple in the OG show was to show that he didn't want to accept his duty as the Avatar, hence why he ran away. In this series, they literally made hin look like an idiotic coward that ran away because the fire nation were about to attack. Two completely different executions. These writers suck, and they completely missed the whole point of the show.
Part of the reason the original was so good was it's RPG elements, all those adventures serves a purpose. You take that away and cram so much while at the same time deleting so much then the world feels so much smaller
It was so stupid and for NO reason. All they had to do was not try to rewrite things for the sake of it and they blew it. I see why Bryan and Mike left but they also should have grown a pair and fought harder for their show.
I 100% agree with everything you said …This is not the Avatar we all watched as a kid. When I heard the original creators left my hopes and excitement went down the hill.
I disagree about irons son. Original we didn't find out about him till chapter 19 book 1. Small line. You love Iron by then and it hits you hard. Also how he feels about zuko. Live action uses what you know to evite emotion out of the viewer and the big slap in the face is using the song from book 2. Something no one mentions is atla music, feels unique and special because of the instruments they use. Neither live action use this to make the music feel in the universe.
i hadnt noticed it but now that you mention it, i feel a massive loss in music. avatar, from beginning to end, is filled to the brim with music. really beautiful pieces that incite real emotion. but i genuinely cant remember any piece of music from the remake that wasnt from the original show. its not filled with sound at all and it just makes it feel even more dead.
Now that you mention it... i am very nervous about how they may use Toph's ability to tell if someone is lying, in like a really stupid way lol
SHE FEELS EMOTIONS NOW.
Given the cyclical nature of the Avatar, this was a missed opportunity to just make an entirely original story set in the same universe! They could’ve done a story from the past or after Korra, I just don’t see the point of adapting the original show when it still holds up super well!
In the depths of a TikTok comment section I saw someone say that any adaptation of the novels would be great and like. YEA. Live action Kyoshi adaptation?? Yang Chen adaptation?? Once it’s actually out and completed, Roku adaptation?? Fuck it, completely original Kuruk adaptation?? I’d sit down for that!! Like any show those all have grounds for failing in some way, but to me they’d certainly get a lot more leeway because there’s not an original cartoon that people are already so attached to that you could compare it with.
Let's be honest. Aang killed a bunch of people in the animated series, they just never showed it. I'm pretty sure he blew a few fire nation soldiers of a cliff.
Fair enough
Yeah his kill count was around 70 I believe. Even Bryke admitted that he definitely killed a few people when asked in the DvD commentary I believe, LMAO!
6:02 is the worst decision the show made
No seriously it isn't even close, it's so stupid
I'm glad this live action is at best at least passable instead of the monstrocity that is the one that won't be mentioned. I don't know why the writers thought taking away defining traits of the main characters was a good idea. Yes, Sokka was sexist but the point of him being sexist was that he was able to learn and grow with a new worldview. He was the man of the Southern Water tribe, it was his job to protect the people there. Of course he was going to think men were better than women! Why did they make Katara not motherly? She was a very strong person and her motherly-ness contributed to it. Why are the characters lambasting a literal 12 year old for basically not stopping a WAR? He's freaking 12! I haven't watched the live action but from these clips you've shown, I doubt this actress can pull Azula off. She doesn't... reflect? Azula's "ruthless perfection". Azula is a woman who knows she's a bitch and absolutely revels in the terror of you both knowing that fact. To her credit though, I think Azula is a really hard character to pull off well even for adult actresses.
Fr I'm not sure any real 16 year old can play an azula, especially after Grey DeLisle voiced her (that woman gave the most convincing mental breakdown performance I've ever seen in my life)
What do you mean "instead of the monstrosity?" There's no live action in Ba Sing Se.
Regarding the blurry backgrounds: they're using a new tech called The Volume, which was also used on The Mandalorian. It's basically a giant wrap-around TV screen that replaces the green screen. It allows the actors to react to what's going on around them as it's happening on the screen, but sometimes it looks like hot garbage, like during the agni kai.
This version of Azula will never let Zuko take the credit for killing the avatar
The backgrounds have that perfectly sharp blur to them that happens when using a virtual volume. I personally think we need to step back from volumes and calibrate them to only be used for reflections. Basically the backgrounds look flat and you can tell, but you can't quite tell why you can tell. There's a mismatch between how the light behaves for the actors and the way the light behaves within the virtual space. We're loosing so much when dealing with the restrictions virtual volumes create. I don't think those will be solved so easily because rendering a virtual volume is expensive and it doesn't fully accomplish what it says it accomplishes, which is tying the actor into the scene.
Damn I never knew what that was, thanks for teaching me something!
I noticed this a lot. This movie overused the volume making it have a very fake feel. It reminded me of Quantumania. Another thing apart from the volume that contributes to the fake feel is the costumes. While the costumes look good and are accurate they are too clean and look brand new and freshly ironed which makes the world not feel lived in.
Just the concept to make a live action of one of the most beloved animated shows of all time meant it was always set up for failure that they somewhat pulled off, atleast its better then the M night movie
This is my favorite review of the series because it actually touched on a few of the minor things that really bothered me (nobody had mentioned Aang just _flying_ that I'd seen!!), but also it gave props where the show was due!! It really _did_ do well by Zuko and Iroh, even if it came at the cost of Every Other Character, and it's great that this video acknowledges that! I feel like it's important to talk about what was done right, even with shows like this which did most of what they were going for _wrong._ That said, god watching this show was a slog. _Azula's fire isn't even blue._
I'm just always perplexed when the feel the need to change things that don't need to be changed
In my opinion, it's often from a lack of understanding of the source material and a lack of care. Why NOT change a fundamental part of the show when you don't understand wh6 it was important and clearly don't care enough to do the source material justice to begin with.
@@meowmachine9147 yeah with u on that
I was hoping they made Azula's fire regular so that they could make it blue later on, for an epic reveal of her power and determination. But now that I think about it, epic moments and Netflix's Avatar are like water and oil. Edit: WHAT?! A not blind Toph?? Are they insane?! The entire reason Toph is such a great bender is that she learned from the badgermoles. She learned from the badgermoles because she connected with them. And she connected with them because SHE WAS BLIND! If they make her seeing and don't give her any other (not that much of a dis)ability I am gonna delete my Netflix account and never gonna hear from them again.
Thank God the Toph thing was fake, I genuinely don't know what I would've done if she wasn't blind (I'm still nervous they're gonna do it)
If they make Toph not blind for fear of offending blind people with blind jokes or whatever, they will have missed the entire fucking point of her EMPOWERMENT. The only thing these people care about next to diversity and somehow cannot ever get right.
It was like watching a school play from beginning to end. So many continuity errors, terrible writing.
My friend said it was good 💀 Also, I hope the ATLA fans aren’t stupid enough to attack the actors (I don’t have high hopes) Give the writers a hard time.
Seeing so many people are happy with the show an it made me realize... there are a lot of people who didn't care about the series for its story. And I took that personally.
DO NOT PUT DIRT ON IROH'S NAME!. But seriously. Why do people call him a war criminal? He was a general and nothing else. Sokka is more of a war criminal because he used enemy insignia during the northern temple ep to win the fight.
AH my fault gang, I should've emphasized the joke of exaggerating it a little more (fr though iroh genuinely changed my life I can't lie)
I mean he’s a war criminal the same way the rest of the fire nation military is Iroh while a good person now has a permanent black mark on his character which is why he’s able to help zuko on his path because Iroh has made many mistakes that he deeply regrets
The problem with the funeral scene is that Zuko isn't supposed to be the one who gives Iroh the emotional support yet. Zuko is supposed to be a villain at the beginning of the series, and an arrogant spoiled prince in the past. Sure, he had a good heart, he didn't want innocent people to die, but he wasn't a sweet, kind and emotionally supportive boy. I know people are happy with Zuko's portrayal because they already know him as a hero but it shouldn't be like that. He needs to be a villain first if his change is to be so powerful as in the cartoon. But he hardly is one in the Netflix version.
Great video my dude! Definitely worth much more attention!! One thing that you forgot (that was the main issue to me) is that the fatal flaw of this show is the dialogue. Even having those weird scenario choices, with dialogues as great, emotional and profound as in the original show, this series would have been a banger for me. But they rather chose to repeat on each and every dialogue Aang saying « I’m the avatar, supposed to save the world and I don’t know what I’m doing » which is kinda stupid, especially after 50 repetitions of it …
This is really good. I appreciate all the effort you took to find a silver lining wherever you could.
Glad you liked it!
Am i just bitter or how is this show still considered even "okay" thoooo 😭 they butchered everything, every change they made basically sucked (aggressive but still) and im all for changing stuff in remakes but only when it makes sense?? What is the point of remaking characters to just strip them of their key traits? What is the point of breaking the worldbuilding with aang flying? Or with the spirit world? These feel completely unnecessary and not worth it. Or the fact that they made important arcs about the sexism into scenes with the complete opposite message. These feel like pretty big parts to making a show totally ass especially since its a remake, ig its not that deep but like 😢 i watch adaptations to atleast get SOME inkling of the familiar characters and world from the og show
I can animate and create beautiful Blue firebending attacks and explosions WITH BLENDER.. I was so confused to why Azulas Fire wasn’t blue from the start.. We see it change color briefly but she didn’t just straight up shoot blue flames. I’m kinda disappointed we got to see her using lightning bending before seeing her Blue firebending skills in action.
The show didn't actually have any greenscreen, at any point. They had one of the CGI stages that first came up in the mandalorian, which costs upwards of $100 million. Meaning the shows budget was actually 1/3rd of what was advertised and explains why the environment backgrounds look whack
I have to say on the "the fox who is the girl who is a fish who is the moon" part... It's a CRIME to take away the solution from Iroh; he just runs off, instead of telling Yue that she can give her life back to the moon... T.T
The only praise I’ll give this show is that I’m genuinely excited to see how fucking much they’ll change Like me and my friends are coming up with some bomb ass Hail Mary bingo cards Examples: Zuko’s scar will fade as he develops Toph wont be blind Aang will murder someone and has to come to grips with it Aang talk no justus Ozai Azula will turn into an anti-hero Iroh will die (possibly killed by Azula) There won’t be any blind jokes They’ll injure appa or momo severely Katara will heal Zuko’s scar They mention Raava or Vaatu Zuko loses his crew There won’t be any dragons left cause Iroh killed the last one They scrap the Drill episode The initial invasion on the day of the eclipse gets scrapped They scrap the Boiling Rock Aang will somehow teach Toph how to metal bend/ he’ll tell her to “feel the energy” or something and she ends up doing it Katara will side with Hama and have like 2 episodes where she’s evil and bloodbends people
If they scrap the boiling rock, I will genuinely lose it
aang murdering someone actually seems likely with this show’s attempt at being dark and mature…i’m getting worried 😭 about appa or momo getting injured- they already had momo get fucking crushed in the northern water tribe and brought back to life by spirit water so my guess is that when the sandbenders kidnap appa the gaang will either be too late to save him or he’ll be injured in some way that stops them from riding him around everywhere. it’ll save them some money on CG 🤣
Really hoping that the next seasons we see more of a comedic tone. We need to lighten the mood
Or at the very least fix the exposition problem and make the characters feel more like actual people. It’s not nearly as bad as the movie in that regard, but still an issue in this remake. That’s why it feels so dry a lot of the time.
@@joshbuoy8661 hopefully they can start fleshing out the characters. i mean, i dont think they have any more room for exposition since they've literally explained the entire show like 10 times at this point so they probably wont have a choice lmfao
Haha Kyoshi got me upset too. How are the writers going to change a big aspect like aang running away, but not be consistent with that change? I know people are very strong with the fact that aang isn’t *really* flying…but he kind of is. In the show he had to be on top of a mini tornado that was connected to the ground, or on top of an air scooter that is still making contact with the ground, or the avatar state. He can jump really high, but that’s not flying, that’s just being light. Imo he’s flying. How do you think he got to the top of that air temple without the glider anyway? I can only let this slide because it happens in the first episode.
There's so much that annoys me about this show based on the videos I've seen, but what I'm most curious about is Wan Shi Tong. He looks great, but why is he out in a forrest? Are they skipping the library all together? That would be a major disappointment as that's one of my favourite episodes
THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING (it genuinely frustrates the shit out of me)
To be fair with azula, in the show we didn’t see her until book 2 and there she hadn’t “perfected” her lightning bending. At least not to the level she wanted it to be at. We know as a child she had regular fire, she was just really good at it. In the show, they don’t tell us when she got the blue flames, just that they had them. With no mention of Sozin’s Comet and there for sure being a time skip, she could show up with her signature blue flames at the beginning of book 2, just like she did in the show. ……… I’m trying to have hope for the show here😅
Abandon hope
No but see that’s the problem. They built her up so well like they did Ozai. Her reveal was intense. Here… I’ll just see a girl with daddy issues trying not to whine because he praised Zuko. There’s no power there for her, I’m not afraid of her or what she can do to the characters. If she suddenly gets op, that’s just worse.
She was in the backstory that Iroh told and in the very end of the last episode in season 1
@@alittleofsomething Both times though, she just smirked and that's it. We don't really see her and what she can do (outside of being a b**ch during the burning of her brother's face) until the beginning of book 2.
@@jessd3601 How can we abandon hope? It really is all we have. 😅🥲
Iroh is not a war criminal, he was a general. First the Geneva convention isn't a thing in that world, but there's also no evidence that he even broke it. Plus I think Admiral Zhou felt like a better version of the smarmy Zhou from the movie.
I think the creator of this live action do care about the original show. They're just bad at writing though.
I watched the video and was about to click away and you got excited about 8000 subscribers. I look at your current subscribers and see you are at 9.99k and uploaded 16 hours ago. You are skyrocketing, and I am clicking to join in!
Hell yeah man! (I woke up to ten thousand today so thank you for joining the club!)
disagree with bending, cause it doesn't feel like they're bending, they just look like they're controlling elements. avatar was amazing with how they incorporated martial arts with elements, but the show only looks like it has martial arts but the elements are controlled with psychic powers. i can forgive a not so convincing cgi, but how they made bending look just really takes me away from the show everytime.
Yeah fair enough man I can't say I disagree. When I said it I meant the effect of the element moving, I didn't even really think about how impressive the actual martial arts were and how much better it could've been
Sorry man, but Iroh would *never* gloat or rub it in or show a lack of empathy for his part in the war. He wouldnt be remoresful or ashamed, but he wouldnt be unpersonable. Also, Zuko not fighting back in the cartoon shows the mercilessness of Ozai and how that contrasts with Zuko. In the live action, a younger and much less experienced Zuko almost beats the final boss of the whole world and series.
9:04 My exact thought during the pause was "exists..."
2:56 What you’re referring to is called depth of field. Basically when the camera (or your eyes) focus on something and the surroundings become blurry. But yeah I also have no idea why this was used to much in the show😭
i dunno man i don't think depth of field hits *that* hard
@@KnightlyReviews It can it depends on the camera
The blurry background is because of the cgi. A lot of the shooting was done in those new cgi ready studios. You can tell by the lighting (super white and coming from everywhere) and all the walking-while-talking scenes. It s also super costly (explains the high budget of 150millions for book1) yet makes all environnements just worse than outdoor shootings. It boils down both to the inexperience of the directors and the limitations of working with kids (easier to shoot in studio than outdoor when tou have limits on working hours and don t want to deal with weather...)
Hahaha I love how you say “youuu were literally there! You were piloting him when he did this?!” Yesss so true! Gosh ahhh why Netflix why!!
-Zuko is too likeable too early. -The Luten funeral was a fan service moment because new watchers weren't given enough time to connect with Iroh enough to care. In short, I find no positives. I rank the og ATLA with the Breaking bads of the world in terms of story telling. The Netflix adaptation is the CW arrowverse level, not even as good and would get cancelled on there after 2 seasons. Its bad
Wait wait wait, all joking aside if we take Korra into account this means that flying Aang here has released all of his Earthly tethers, something he struggles with EXTREMELY in the later seasons, one of which being Katara who is no longer a love interest so idk maybe this Aang can gain the ability of flight that easily.
I don’t give a damn. As a professional dancer there’s a saying, “amazing dancers can make a shitty choreographers work look AMAZING!”, the same should apply to other art forms as well. I’m sorry but I’m not excusing these “child actors”. They did not GIVE. Child prodigies exist. There’s no excuse. I see child prodigy dancers all the time eating up dance choreography. It’s the artist job to turn “shit” into magic. They should’ve use a couple of their MILLIONS 💰 to actually hire TALENTED KIDS, instead of hiring kids who simply “look the part”. That’s all this live-action does, “look like Avatar “, but that’s literally it. All of the money went into the CGI and the talent suffered and it’s awfully OBVIOUS………
Chief criticism and harassment are two totally different things dude (these kids were just mid to bad, with an alright scene here and there, so they equaled out to being meh for me) My Twitter when this show came out was FLOODED with people HARASSING these kids, and I don't want that in our community here. But yes the kids could've done better
There is not even a reason for Azula's fire to not be blue fngnh
I'M SAYING (this literally didn't need to be an issue)
I haven't seen the show, so I really don't have a lot of ground to stand on, but in general I notice that lately, live action remakes tend to make changes to the story for the sake of making changes, and not because they think it enhances the quality. Like, it justifies them existing in the first place-- that they're not exact copies of the better original. But this could just be me.
That's a really great way to put it! I don't really have much to add but I want you to know I really really agree with you so I'm commenting. Have a lovely day and here is a flying money emoji as a reward💸)
Katara being a MASTER with no training is insane
That's what I'm saying
The acting was terrible. The writing was terrible. The storytelling was terrible. The episode sequence was terrible. Only thing they got right was the CGI and the scene locations.
Another comment said it looks like Avatar and that's it and I agree.
The moment I saw katara block a fireball from hundreds of feet in the air without a single second of proper training I stopped watching and dropped the entire series. I was so close to finishing episode 1 and they somehow managed to override the completionist in me.
Love it, people who have a whole show written for them and they can't even get that right....
So many decisions are... weird to say the least, like the firelord wanted to sacrifice a fleet and zuko opposed this, so his punishment is giving him what he wants by not sacrificing the fleet, making ozai and azula more nuanced and less evil because.... reasons! Aang breaks the rule of "show dont tell" in every scene, Katara is not even the same person but whatever you go "master" girl, Hakoda doesnt deserve this, no water bending in the water book, Zuko has no redemption arc because he is already the character you cheer for the most because he is not really a villain at this point, team avatar and zuko pretty much dont meet at all, Sokka and Zuki just have... moments? that make me feel like Im watching a teen movie instead of two warriors and their becoming, they remove the speech from katara in the intro but gran gran says it anyways... I just feel like they dont understand the show or like many other adaptations, they didnt watch it and they just see some scenes like a checklist of things fans like and HAVE to keep and the other scenes they can remove and get creative with
I hated Kyoshi's proportions too. They were way too weird. Bumi and Pakku's bald caps look so bad they're all I can see during the scenes they're in. Zuko and Iroh are the best parts of the whole series.
There are other underrated live action anime series that wasn’t aired in the US. I would recommend people to check out the live action anime Great Teacher Onizuka 1998. This show is about a former Yakuza gang leader Onizuka who becomes a teacher of worst high school class. This show actually achieved the highest TV ratings in Japan at that time and have a score 8.5 on IMDB. 😃
definitely adding that to the list, what can I watch it on?
Something to note is that in the original show, azula's fire is not blue in flashbacks. It's clear netflix is going to show us her developing blue flames, which I think it really cool. Too bad her character is written awfully and you're right about everything else.
fair enough man, but I feel like that makes it even worse? I think that them showing that she wasn't always like this (she was normalish until the mom stuff if I'm remembering correctly) in the original series works because it adds to Azula's subtle characterization. this show is the furthest thing from subtle though lmao
Congrats on the 10k subs, but another thing that I feel like wasn’t talked about enough was the fact that if and could fly, that means he lost his connections to earth
Thank you! And also yeah, I forgot that that's why they couldn't. I wonder how that'll work with the guru and the fight with azula when he lets go of katara then (I really hate that a plot beat that important is at risk of failure before it's even in the right season)
AND THEY BUTCHER ROKU.... he was so serious i loved that about him .. to see him goof off is wierd asf ..
Felt like energy that would've been better spent on iroh.
I've never found a small KZheadr before that I was more confident was going to get a big audience. Your videotape so well done and feel so polished keep it up. When I watch your avatar season 3 review I'm going to be excited to see that 150k or 200k subscriber shoutout
Dude thank you so much! That genuinely means so much more than I think you realize
I liked the live-adaptation series because I had not watched the original series… but! I finally finished the original and now I hate the netflix’s one 😅
I just finished the animated series 2 days ago. And based on TikTok scenes, I'm glad I watched the animated. They massacred Azula, Ty and Mai. Katara don't look like Katara and Sokka is already matured. Suki is too stiff and Bumi is supposed to be wise. Why is Avatary Kyoshi more featured than Roku??ughhhh
well I knew it was going to be bad, when I saw that the waterbenders don't have blue eyes. If they really cared they would have noticed things like this. But they were blind to a lot of other important things, so yeah no wonder they didn't notice such a small detail
y'know i never noticed that but when I think about it I'm pretty sure you're right
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Hell yeah man! I'm glad to have you in the community! (And thank you so much! Im really excited!)
I enjoyed the live action very much. I appreciate how much they brought in from the show and I got from it the same feels I got from the animation. I don’t get where all the negativity is coming from.
They arent on a green screen they're avtually using the Volume, which is a large LED or LCD (i forget which) display that shows the background in real time on set and for actors. Its blurred because when shot incorrectly and in close-ups or medium shots it CAN look really really bad if cinematographers dont know how to properly shoot on it. Original footage the backgrounds probably looked really flat so blurring them probably helped hide the 2 demensionality of the Volume's flat and curved screen
The worst offence in all of this is they break the most important writing rule, every, single, scene. “SHOW DONT TELL”, it’s hammered into every single writing advice thingy-ma-ging ever!!! Also zuko’s scar, is offensively bad. I have a burn scar and his live action scar is so bad that it pisses me off every time I see it, it doesn’t even look like a burn scar. Not only did they nerf it by half the size, but it’s the least-scarred looking scar I’ve ever seen in my life, how can they put so much care and effects into the beautiful backgrounds yet so little into his scar? He was burnt by the most powerful fire bender! The burn would’ve torn away flesh, stiffen skin to-almost rock, and leave a heavy texture, yet it does none of that! (Although the texture is there, it’s extremely miniscule and doesn’t show up half the time! Burn scars are finally shown on someone who’s not just a 1dimensional villain, zuko, a character who admittedly starts as a villain but then gets the greatest development arc ever, earning a title of a hero. And then they get the scar offensively wrong. Honestly, it wouldn’t suprise me if they removed toph’s blindness at this point, considering how little they care about the disabled. And even if they don’t remove it, they’ll find some way to screw it up and be ableist with her character, I bet it.
with their budget and resources, they have no excuse for how bad the scar makeup is. i suspect that they were afraid of making zuko too ‘ugly,’ just like they were afraid of making him too angry and evil. it’s behind fucked up but it’s clear the writers don’t understand his arc at all or why people resonated with it :/
I know! That scar looks way too flat (I'm not sure how they would even be able to fix it but I hope to Christ they do)
I have my hopes for season 2, but man... If they really not going to make Toph blind, this is instant fail for me.
Come to think of it, if the past avatars can just access Aang as a form of survival technique, why didn't they just water bend aang to the surface and like water glide him or some shit instead of freezing him in an air bubble?
How the hell did One Piece do so well!? Avatar, Death Note, Cowboy Bebop are all soooo much easier to adapt. One Piece is one that should have failed while all the others succeed.