he vanished.

NICK RETURNED!

😔

Happy you’re back. Did the opera sponsorship get you out of the ice? lol

He... came back?

I love how they think that showing people die in gruesome ways automatically makes it more “mature” 😂 like there’s different approaches to being “mature” really

Modern Writing(tm)

the opposite happens as well. Like puss in boots last wish. It's childish animated movie, yet the story is deep and deals with fear of our own mortality.

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HEHEHEHEHE we got Netflix's show out of trending! OINK OINK OINK -Cancel Pigs *one day later* Netflix avatar the last airbender is number one in trending again REEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! - Cancel Pigs

And not in a good way like, “This show made me feel like a kid again :)”

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For real though! And they never needed to "make it more adult" when there were adults that already liked the show. My mom loved watching it with my brother and I growing up. She even went with my brother to see the movie that shall not be named and even SHE was upset and disappointed.

​@@joshbuoy8661Yeah, I think I'd probably reword OP's point to. "The cartoon made little kids feel like they were being treated like adults, the live action makes adults feel like they are being treated like children."

Netflix’s Avatar Live Action Series was amazing, 9/1”

Well, Lion King made a billion dollars, surely that's a successful formula Edit: /s of course

​@@sunbleachedangel Disney fans literally watch any garbage that Disney releases, even if sucks massive ass

​@@sunbleachedangelWell, even judging mainly by profit, The Lion Kind 2019 made around 1.6 bilion with a roughly 200 milion budget, making for around 8 times the production cost. The original made a billion from a 45 milion budget, not even taking in the changes adjusted with inflation. Around 20 times more than the production cost. Can you see the difference?

@@sybilasteri5758 my comment was sarcasm

Oh, I am sorry for my comment, then. I struggle sometimes with telling whether something is sarcasm or not, especially on the internet. My bad!

Yeah, it removes the focus from seeing Aang discover their remains later on, after we have already formed a strong connection to him as a character.

Meanwhile the implications of the cartoon are actually more intense, because Gyatso died in a room full of DEAD firenation soldiers. Let's just think about that for a bit and remember that usually, if you win a battle, you bury your dead back home. Those dudes were abandoned to die in what I am only assuming, was the largest pure vacuum Gyatso could make. No air in their lungs, no air to burn, struggling to overpower an old man physically while he choked them all out, including himself. Sozen looked sick as hell in that live action, but I'll take the subtle haunting question of the source material over that hands down.

It honestly made me so uncomfortable because it felt like they were taking morbid enjoyment in showing a genocide. Like it was them patting themselves on the back for being so gritty and dark. I especially hated watching Gyatso die defending children because that means that he died failing to save the lives of the air nomad children. They would’ve been slaughtered right after. I get that “that’s realistic!” or “it’s showing the horrors of war!” but it just felt like an ego-stroking edgelord decision and one I am personally not a fan of. I don’t need to see the tragedy to feel its impact. I think it works better to have Aang wake up 100 years later with no knowledge of the actual day’s events and to just see the remnants and feel that emptiness and loss. To him, only a few days had passed, and everything changed.

And I think the way monk gyatso is tells he probably defeated the fire nation soldiers, but died of his wounds, wich, to me, makes it so much more tragic, they didn't even burn him to death, he just sat down waiting ti die, knowing the others fled or died

​@@mikefisher4051 I can't even say Sozin looked impressive. If its about raw power output then Ozai's column of flame was far more impressive. If its about technique... him vs Gyatso ws yet another laser clash trope moment. The live action's air nomad genocide scene has no reason to exist.

St*u u lonely weirdo weeb

water bend or bend water?

@@YasonYou you don't know the difference? Fake fan.

​@@stroud9811This Videos title is the same ol (you can't adapt Avatar) if people had that mindset when adapting The Lord Of The Rings trilogy those movies would have never been made! Blame the person/production/vfx artists/writers responsible for adapting the source material not the source material!

​@@theechidna2916I'm not a fan of LOTR but even I know that those movies are incredibly well made and are detailed and impactful and have changed and inspired many things about fantasy. Avatar the original show did the same, the original source material is a work of love and passion, of course there's flaws in both but the quality of the experience 100% makes up for any small flaws. The fact that those LOTR movies and the original Avatar series are so well received and loved even today is just a testament to how good they really are. The Live Action Avatar series on the other hand is wrong in almost every regard, it can't even really be compared to the original because it's a completely different thing, same as the movie although nowhere near as awful. The Live Action series unlike the LOTR and original Avatar series, will not be fondly remembered for almost Two decades after its showcase on screen and will either only be remembered for how badly it did or will be forgotten in under a Year.

He showed his love the only way he knew best, by trapping his friends and threatening to kill them and him and forcing him to take on normally deadly and incredibly difficult tasks.

​@@CerealExperimentsMizukilol

@@CerealExperimentsMizuki thats what i call true love 😔

@@tonymacaroni955 such a heart-warming and wholesome story of a friendship rekindled after such a long time.

Not to mention that the live action bumi just seems off.

It also removes a big part of the main characters agency. Instead of Aang CHOOSING to run off and suffer the consequences, it makes the whole thing just feel like happenstance. Aang can't be at fault if he just wanted to clear his head. Even if his agency showed him to be selfish...that's a good thing! That's a complex character! It shows that aang understood that responsibility and was SCARED. Which makes it all the more satisfying when he does accept himself!

yeah and honestly this confuses me because in the remake they treat him like a coward when he didn’t really run away scared this time. he legit was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, for some reason. such a random detail to change and takes away from aang’s journey

I also don’t fully understand why people are mad at Aang for disappearing…i feel like it would have seemed like the Avatar got killed along with the other airbenders. In the original, it never seemed to me like the comet was the same day that Aang ran away… which makes sense that the airbenders would have been searching for Aang and word getting out that the Avatar ran away.

Yes, that too. He isn’t supposed to forgive himself until he needs to open the chakra that requires him to forgive himself.

​​​@@sunnybeachgirl46 Like I can imagine him being a new king and going through a hard time, becoming resentful about his duty, "this would never happen if Aang is still around and he just disappeared but I still have to be here dealing with a war" type of thing. But then he realized he couldn't blame Aang at all, who in his assumption died in the genocide when they were just kids. Then as he got older he wisened up, while also becoming the King Bumi we saw in the og, instead of resenting Aang after decades of his friend's supposed death.

They think that just because they’re using a beloved IP they can print money.

The netflix show is number 1 in trending with the expected views. It is not a failure at all. Your bubble here on the internet is just a loud minority.

And btw. The animated series will always be as it is. As making a live action does not affect anything about the cartoon.

@@RK-cj4oc Imagine if the creators of Netflix avatar actually put this budget into something new that could possibly rival the Og show? Nah, let’s just do the bare minimum. Also, I expect another remake of Avatar in 10 years!

It may be popular now, but it’ll be forgotten and lost to time just like the live action Death Note movie was.

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and forget parts like; aang waterbending and zuko restoring his honor.

​@@zaadus112Aang makes like 2 waves and a wirlpool in Book 1 in the show. Its not at all an issue to skip that untill book 2. Christ what are you guys cry babys.

All live action adaptaions are, by definition pretty much, style over substance, trying to look "more mature" while being infinitely more infantile

@@RK-cj4oc the whole book 1 is learning waterbending. thats the point. the second is about earthbending, didnt you watch the show?

It's because they've been taught that the majority of their American audience lacks media comprehension so they dumbed it down for the majority. They don't understand the value of making something that would last the test of time.

@@WhatIsMyPorpoiseironically, the lack of media comprehension is a result of lazy storytelling. It’s a perpetual cycle of dumbing down.

@@seafoam6119 couldn't say it better myself

They did not forget

No they didn't forget. They literally told us outright, and even had him fly around without a glider because I guess he's just so powerful that he literally defied the rules and logic of airbending

No, they forgot being the Avatar meant being able to use multiple elements.

@@neilwritesstuff oh yeah that's why Kyoshi (with Aang's body) was out here only earthbending.

@@AprilMoon7 Then they probably forgot Aang could do that too

apparently they totally messed Katara up, she's a new character altogether.

I hated that too.

@@-ari Even worse, they changed her character, cheapened it but tried to do the same storyline.

It’s not suffering that makes you strong but learning from and overcoming it

Holy shit what an awful lesson

I would love to see some of the canon comics animated with modern tech. That would be so cool assuming they get the og storyboarders back (or at least people with equivalent talent. They need that marital arts choreography!)

I rewatched the cartoon and oof, the jagged lines of the characters from the first few eps were really hard to ignore. A remaster is definitely much more needed than whatever the hell netflix cooked up.

yo now i need this, just a beat for beat repolishing

Yesss ATLA with the quality of Korra would be so good. ATLA is just as HQ but they couldn't export it as smoothly back then. Give me the 'blueray release', cowards!!

I think some tvs have built in AI to upscale resolutions but they're usually pricey oleds. Also i think netflix's is in 4k if you have the premium subscription.

My vote is not understanding. There was certainly a lot of care that went into the LA show, it was just done very hamfistedly.

Tbh i am not a fan of recreating masterpieces. I would be much more of a fan if this was just a continuation or an adaptation of kyoshi novels for example. The second would be better. Because tbh the ending in atla was kind of disappointing and rushed, and any continuation wouldn't worth it to be made. And yes i am gonna say something controversial, but metalbending makes the show unbalanced from that point after, because it makes the non benders irrelevant and the earthbenders very OP. In atla non benders with some ingenuity and weapons could deal with most benders, but in korra for example everyone except earthbenders is weak in comparison. The comics are kinda dumb and somewhat off character. The only character the comics really developed well was ozai. So in conclusion whatever they are to make it better be something out of some book or some modification of the comics since the original stands very well on it's own. Except the ending.

One piece worked

But do we really need an adaptation? What is the point, other than a cash grab?

​@@baarindefenderThere was care put into the VFX, choreography, set design, and maybe some of the acting. But the writer's room failed everyone.

I mean, they did say they wanted to make this like GOT

@@gazem_3211 maaaaan you made me crack xDDDDDDDDDDD

I think this is the part in the live action that upset me for most. In the cartoon the whole gaang goes in the cave and then we get the small spark of Aang and Katara's love when it's implied that they kiss and the light shows them the way out. In the live action they were like "cave of two lovers huh? ehh whatever we'll just send the brother and sister in there. Family love is the same thing as romantic love, right?" So stupid.

They were afraid of implying any romantic relation of Aang and Katara … obviously due to the age difference. But they completely failed at developing or showing us any chemistry between Katara, Aang, and Sokka…we rarely saw the 3 together on screen for more than 5 mins….

@@Lixx143V I really don't see why the age would be such a big problem, since romance in this show is maximum a kiss on the cheek, the kiss on the lips came much later. What is so wrong about kissing? It's not like they are gonna get naked and have sex every 5 minutes like in any other shows

And like they didn’t really save that much time when you look at the actual numbers. Like about 40 minutes. If they had done the first season exactly but removed two of the “filler” episodes (if you think of any of the episodes as filler), then they would have the same amount of filming and acting. More locations and characters would be needed, but then again why do we need a 1:1 recreation of the show when the show is already there and amazing

They could have stayed home lmaooo you're so right

@@gazem_3211so? She does flips for fun when she's just chillin

@@cloverbun2574exactly. theres no excuse. what happened to her walking on her hands?

@@cloverbun2574 Nvm, fair point

In my opinion they completely missed the mark with Ty Lee and Mai. Ty Lee was basically a whole new character

i think people calling it "good" is a volatile mixture of low expectations, dubious familiarity with the source material, and riding a high road they've paved for themselves

Tastes and colours... I get why some people could like that. Just like how some people like fast food or korean music. We all know it is shyte, but some will still like it and it is fine, that s how the world is.

It was good and I enjoyed it 😊

Just because you didn't like it doesn't mean other people can't find it to be great. I grew up watching the series, and binged it with my fiance last year; I thoroughly enjoyed the Netflix version. While generally no remake is as good as its source, you also can't expect a 1:1 copy. Sure, some things were weird and different, but overall the Netflix series has fans that it deserves. Saying that people shouldn't be allowed to consider it good as their opinion is what sets apart people who can appreciate new things and people who don't give chances.

@@SciffyTheJiffy i ve seen no one asking for 1:1 adaptation. But when some character arcs are butchered, changing the core of the story (aang coming to term with his guilt and responsabilities, sokka understanding the bigger world and questionning his beliefs, katara dealing with grief and bending etc...) Once all the character progression is taken out, there s just an empty shell left, not an "adaptation". But the visuals are okay, so at least there is some shiny things...

I get it makes a nice link with the crew but in the animated show they didn't even state that they were the same people he argued for cause he didn't need to, any soldier would have heard that story and felt immediate respect for zuko. While I like that they are it feels like it was a bit of fanservice sort of thing to draw attention away from any flaws

It was like they were saying DO YOU GET THAT ZUKO IS ACTUALLY GOOD? DO YOU GET IT? ARE YOU SURE? Maybe we should add another scene about how Zuko HAS to capture Aang to earn his father’s love, maybe he can say that DIRECTLY to Aang, that way they’ll definitely get it It was so painful

I swear it's a beautiful scenario, but they mucked it up with what you mentioned, as well as a full monologue explaining it's themes not even 10 seconds after the crux of the moment hit smh.

I noticed that soon. Disastrous way to sabotage your own scene.

Honestly I never made that connection in the original, but they could have done that naturally. Like some higher up fire nation guy calling back (some of) the troops and (some of) them refusing, saying they fight for Zuko, without telling why. Then you could clearly show them when Zuko stands up for them in the past, without giving them dialogue, to make the connection. It can be clear without being spelled out!

They adapted Scott Pilgrim vs the World in animation and made it worlds better than the first live action adaptation imo

My mom fundamentally cannot empathize with cartoon characters. She's well educated, has definitely analysed books and their themes, but slap a cartoon face on it? Nope, no feeling. These kinds of people exist and are why a LOT of movies get things dumbed down. It's tragic.

@@WhatIsMyPorpoiseit makes me so mad because that view and feeling around animatione is definitely culturally taught-not innate to a person. my dad is similar, it sucks as an artist who cares so much about animation as a medium

The new Scott Pilgrim is a reimagining, not an adaptation. Imo the live action was fantastic, though not (neccessarily) because of the live action aspect.

@@WhatIsMyPorpoiseyou perfectly described most adult these days! I’m in my mid twenties and hope to never lose that sense of fun

one piece made us delusional lmao

@@pandapandasenketsu3473One piece has 1000+ episodes across 20 years of development, only the courageous of people are willing to adventure to deep waters, LA is a compressed version for those who don't enjoy the art style ATLA live action has more time than the exact length of the original, so what's the point

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Hope, I guess?

@@sunbleachedangelHope is something you give yourself, after all.

Yeah, I wanna watch the og again now

yeah i watched two eps of the remake and just started another rewatch binge of the original lol

lol yeah, the other day i watched all 8 eps of the live-action show, and now i'm watching the original again because watching the live-action crap made me miss the original lol

Not me binging the original show this week and when not watching the show, watching UKposts videos on the show haha. I’m 30 now and watched the OG when I was 26. It’s now my favorite show ever made

A live action series that follows the games would be cool, although an actual cartoon following thr game events would be magnificent.

Right, for all the shots that really needed a retake, the overall art direction was stunning and felt like an awesome recreation guided by a genuine love for the og show. But if they wanted to tell a more “adult”, visceral version of the story, they could’ve just given us a Kyoshi miniseries and then there’d be no direct comparison to an original show to highlight any huge flaws it might have.

A live action story that follows the Kyoshi novels would've been cool!

I love animation but I just want to play the live action on mute with the cartoon’s audio on top of it

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Some people like LA Iroh but tbh I just couldn’t connect with him. Maybe it was the writing of the dialogue, but it felt so stiff to me. He didn’t feel like Iroh to me. I missed Iroh’s jolliness, his levity. That was part of what made him so complex in the cartoon. He used to be a bad man, a general who fought and killed in the name of the Fire Nation’s colonization. But now he’s a jolly, wise, enlightened soul who loved his nephew as his own and is playing the long game to not only guide and support his nephew’s redemption, but contribute to saving the world and restoring balance and redeeming himself, too. There was also a moment I disliked in episode 1 where Zuko is training and Iroh praises him, when the equivalent in the cartoon is Zuko being too volatile and angry and Iroh giving him a teachable moment about how fire comes from the breath, not the muscle/power, and tells him to run the drill again. It’s a moment that shows Zuko’s hot-headedness and Iroh’s wise, firm instruction very well, but the LA completely upturns it and just….doesn’t understand.

I've seen a lot of people praise the scene of his son's funeral. But I think they rushed to show it too soon. In the og the the leaves of the vine scene hits too hard because Iroh is presented as this silly, wise, kindhearted yet powerful old man that serves as a guide to the mc's. He stands out from all the cold-heart fire nation soldiers. So when that scene plays out you see one of the sweetest chatacters in tv crying while also understanding he went through a lot to be the kind hearted man he is.

​@@Francisco-bu9ewI sympathise with this idea but I approach it with the same way I approach the idea people say of Ozai being shown too soon. For long time fans, that moment is never going to hit a second time. You've already experienced it, you know it's coming. I don't think I'd have enjoyed Iroh's backstory reveal anymore if they pretended even longer like I didn't already know it. I can't imagine a huge number of people who've seen the show never saw the animated series.

;) I see what you did there. Also I agree.

EEAAO is the most refreshing movie in the last decades

I always try to see the development of society through a positive lense, but with the animated movie slog from the highest brands in Hollywood, and even more with the rise of AI generated images, I can't say I disagree. The amount of 5 second videos captioned 'wait for it' are so telling. People really need to be humbled. Maybe we should all be forced to cook a meal that takes all day to make but tastes like nothing else and gets shared with your loved ones, or something.

I like to compare it to "old life" back in early 2000s and before. When you had question that your parents didnt have answer to, either you go to library(if its work hours) and spend time there sesrching for answer, or you literally wait for next day to ask your teacher or friends or whoever. Nowadays its 3 clicks on phone and 0 patience

Similar with me. My brothers' kids watched the show with my brother. Then they visited my house, and I started watching it with them. It worked for a dad, kids, and a college student because it's a good, well written, show appropriate for any of them.

I love this. I was watching it on tv when it came out and my uncle was walking around behind me and I could feel him stop to check it out every few minutes until he finally ended up on the couch watching it with me and he continued to watch all the new episodes with me. He’d be jumping off the couch hollering about how cool the show was and is definitely still a huge fan. The original show brought people together.

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Fr. These videos are about movies and shows that are coming out right now and right now we’re in an age of sequels and adaptations (which are most often pretty bad). So having negative videos about bad movies and shows is completely understandable. And it’ll only make it more fun when a good movie or TV show comes out :)

Yeah, the first episode should’ve been the second one to give time to breathe and have some form of mystery about who this boy is and what happened according to AANG and not the plot. It would’ve been better to start with Sokka’s and Katara’s family in the southern tribe and their daily life, let Katara be herself and argue with Sokka from time to time then him goofing off not taking her seriously because he is a «warrior ». AND then they go fishing because food is lacking in the village because without enough men, they go through periods of famine. THEN Sokka pisses Katara off one more time and she gets off on him about her responsibilities since their parents are gone and she hates his disrespect. That breaks the iceberg. But it’s AANG who takes time to retell how he learned that he was the Avatar and don’t know where he is and wants to go back home. That’s when Katara tells him that there’s no «home » and she’s deeply sorry and maybe they have an emotional moment together. While we the spectators get through some of episode 1 moments with Gyatso and the fire Nation attack. They mixed up things in such a weird way that I would say 90% of the scenes where Aang talks about being the Avatar and his duty should’ve been deleted. Maybe replace them with Zuko search of the Avatar from the moment he was banished and how anger built up into him to the point of being a villain. But no, they did this mess.

Aang flying wast the first of many times I said (out loud) “noooooooo…”

The creators clearly forgot about Guru Laghima being special

⁠by Aang flying they already ruined zaheers arc before it started💀

It kills me especially when you see how western viewership of anime, 2D animation, is basically skyrocketing in recent years

Well, since Avatar Studios has been teasing an animated film set after the events of ATLA with everyone as adults, I think it's time to see more of what animation is capable of from the people who know how to write the characters.

You don’t have to watch them

@@kylejackson7913most of us don’t watch, this is all you’ll get from those of us who don’t like this literal sludge of media. We voice our concerns and explain what and why we dislike it then we go on with our lives , cos that only took me a minute to write & I’ll be frustrated at this for a bit but I wanna be happy today so I just don’t watch it after voicing my complaints, feedback from people who watched the original is pretty important when it’s a remake.

I think remaking animated shows into live action series is also a symptom of a really big problem in hollywood: IP farming. There's a significant lack of original movies and TV shows nowadays, esp with companies like Disney relying on live action adaptations so they can milk it dry with new toys and merchandise. I feel like something similar to that is happening with this series :( Also forever gonna be gagged at the fact the original creators of ATLA left this disappointment of a show 💀

Art shouldn't be made only because it's needed. That's a corporate mindset. The original show wasn't even needed. If someone one day ACTUALLY has a real vision for a live action ATLA they should make it as a piece of art, because art isn't needed.

@@mr.iiconic these remakes in and of themselves are a corporate mindset. they are not often made as art for the sake of it. theyre made off of very popular things that a lot of people have a lot of nostalgia for because itll make whoevers making it a lot of money. if that werent the case itd be a different story, but given all the shit disneys done, i dont believe it is. they dont care about making good retellings. they never have.

@@bumbabees you may be correct. I didn't mean to argue in favour that the show IS a passion project, but saying we don't "need" a piece of art is bad a mindset to have.

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I absolutely agree and have said this. By avoiding Sokka’s sexism, the show itself just is extremely sexist. Katara is reduced to a passive woman that needs the confirmation, opinions, and guidance of her male counterparts. In the Netflix version, Aang teaches her water bending, when that is the complete opposite of the OG show. In the OG one, Katara asks Aang for help, but he admits he knows nothing about it. Then they learn together, but with Katara being more passionate about water bending, she then teaches Aang. The fact that they made her a total pleb in the live action is heart breaking and a horrible shame to such a powerful female character.

Wrong. We don't hate strong female characters, we hate bad strong female characters. That is a big difference. In the original Katara was strong and talented, but she was flawed and that is was made her a good character. Even though she was talented we still saw her struggle with bending due to her anger problems and impatiance. In Netflix adaptation however we only stratch the surface of Katara's complexity. 2 years ago House of Dragons came out and there are strong and complex female characters, but I didn't saw any complains. How so? Please for the love of god stop with these stupid takes.

​@antigua2728 Honestly I still see people make dumb comments about shows and films being "woke" over non white or female characters who are written perfectly fine. You see how people constantly talk about how everything is "political" nowadays, despite tons of shows being political in the past, even more so. Avatar is an example of one of them.

@@BratzRockAngels I see them too, but most of the time they have valid critique. Don't get me wrong, misogyny is bad, but don't confuse genuine critique with misogyny or racism. Of course there are bad apples in this basket too. I just don't understand why we can have Fire Nation burning people alive, screaming and shit, but Sokka can't be sexist for a while? Oh that is the moment of crossing the line? Really? If you don't see anything wrong with that then yeah...

I’m pretty sure they would have bastardized that source material too LOL

@@marim8494 Most likely lol unless they gave creative freedom to the show's creators.

Yeah. Kyoshi straight up murders people. Would be a perfect fit for an edgy adaptation

Also clearly they wanted to shove kyoshi into the show more so why not just make a kyoshi show

@@leaffinite3828 Right!? We should all create a community where fans write their own stories using those characters we love be it screenplays, comics, shortfilms etc

Taling into account how the writers had a strike I wouldn’t be shocked if it was really chat gpt

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They are trying to appease an audience that refuses to watch animation. pretentious people that measure their maturity by insulting animation as a childish medium. They probably believe Ghibli films can be ‘improved’ upon by having a live action treatment. Some things work BECAUSE of animation. Suspension of disbelief, physical humour, fantasy and surrealism lends itself to animation. I would be forever more charmed by Peter rabbit in 2d animation vs anyone animating a real rabbits lips to move or giving me a James cordon cg bunny. Will I be more impressed by spirited away if instead of an animated dragon or giant baby I get to see them rendered in cgi? Like…no. The animation and closely referenced to real life martial arts combines with the bending was so beautifully mastered in the cartoon with atla. Sifu kisu even mentioned some of the movements were just too difficult at times so in certain key frames one person would hold up another to get it. It is heightened reality.

@@surette2012Didn't know that about Sifu Kisu but it makes perfect sense. They use the medium to stretch reality to a point where gravity and physics still exist but these people are clearly doing things people can't do. And that allows them to get so imaginative and really push the fights to be so dynamic. And then even if you get the best martial artists on earth to do it in live action it'd look cool sure but then the elements are a factor too. I was just rewatching the Zuko v Azula agni kai and the way the fire moves, and crashes and billows and evaporates and glows is so beautiful to watch. In live action, firstly idk that you'd have the exact same granular control that you have in 2D animation and also that is not how fire looks or moves. I know what fire looks like, what it does, you couldn't make it look that artistic and gorgeous in live action because it still has to look like it belongs in the real world. I think there's just no way around it, live action is a lesser medium for element bending

@@pianist150 I agree. The transition to live action means you are asking the audience to stretch their belief to the max. You are now challenging them to believe what is real life fire vs sfx fire. With animation we give more artistic licence. In animation we believe we are seeing a kid flying and bending, with live action our brains know we are seeing a kid on a wire or a cgi person. Not to say live action and fantasy can’t join to make great content. Like with Hook: I know Robin William’s isn’t flying or it’s green screen, but I’m not a stick in the mud and as long as emotional beats and storytelling is strong and immersive I’m here for the ride. Anyway, I’m so amazed with sifu kisu that I’m convinced he could do all those crazy moves. to be fair, he suffered from injuries at times and they couldn’t always get him to do some crazy poses and movements. He would hold up Bryan and it’s rather funny to see those frames. I believe in the opening for Korra the last pose of aang air bending was a bit of a stretch so he just held Bryan so he could balance to do it. Bending involves people being pushed up by energy and elements and leaping 30 feet in the air so of course the reality is heightened and sadly our reality won’t let us recreate that without help.

They honestly could make it better than what they've shown but they're so stuck at making it as realistic as possible when they could just make it more magical. Make it have shape, make it move less like realistic water, and make it move like a thicker water or any other viscous liquid then make it realistic when it actually hits something. Even make it glow a little or have a different shift in color when it's being bended. They opted for realistic water with realistic textures. They could make other types of bending cooler but they opted for martial arts with a little bit of bending here and there. They can't even combine the two when essentially bending is martial arts with "magic"

It's more than that. There's a myth going around that they're about the same length but this isn't taking into account that every episode of atla og had less than 30 seconds of credits in total across 20 episodes in the season, making for about 10 minutes of credits. The Netflix shows has an insane 6 or so minutes of credits per episode, creating a total of 48 minutes of credits. That's 38 less minutes added into it, plus the 20 you mentioned to make 58 and it's practically an entire hour less. The Netflix show should have been 13 episodes.

A shot for shot, line for line adaptation seems pretty pointless to me since it would just be a slightly worse looking product due to the limits of reality. In general I would say avatar didn't need any kind of adaptation of the main story whatsoever I mean in terms of problems the show has what? A few bad episodes and that one turtle plot point at the end? Does that warrant a new show? There are a few more scenes with azula? Does that really need a new show rather than some tie in comic or the such?

I'D LOVE TO SEE AVATAR IN THE BLUE SAMURAI STYLE!!

Arcane level animation with a new true to the world story set before the Gaang would have been a dream come true honestly. So much potential there.

​@@saviorbobI don't really understand the mentality that we should only tell stories that NEED to be told. Stories should be told that someone wants to tell, regardless of what's needed. I just feel like, y'know, we never needed avatar in the first place, it wasn't mandated by a studio, it was made because someone had a vision. If someone one day has a true vision for a live action ATLA, they should make it. Good art was never needed in the first place, y'know?

@@mr.iiconicI would say there's a difference between an original work and an adaptation. If it's going to profit off the name it can pay the price of comparison.

They need female representation for feminism.

​@@theconsciousobserver6829 What ?

​@@theconsciousobserver6829 I would say that the adaptation was less feminist than the original.

@@glor8167 That's probably true funnily enough

​@@theconsciousobserver6829the original had quite a lot of this.

I was confused when Monk Gyatso, the best airbender in the world, was defeated so easily. We knew he would eventually die esp during the comet, but they made him seem more like a feeble old man

Also, the live action's potrayal of Sozin's Comet is...underwhelming, in a way? It's not the same kind of terrifying power with Ozai scorching entire fields worth of land in seconds. Without the previous context of how strong firebending usually is, the live action just makes the airbenders feel weak. But nooo... we had to have a 'cool' action scene of a genocide happening.

I'd say there was no difference; in the finale regular infantry's basic attacks were explosions and high pressure flamethrowers, then you had Ozai who could torch a cul-de-sac with one move. Not seeing the airbender genocide, then watching Ozai's opening strike during the comet, and putting two and two together, along with the haunting music really tells you all you need to know about the horror of what went down. Show, don't tell. And they did it while never showing what happened.

And just to add to this - imo it was way more terrifying/impressive when the Fire Nation pulled off a simultaneous genocide event in 4 separate locations instead of putting all of the airbenders together at once

​@@mekannatarry1929 The firebending we see from Ozai at the series finale would have nuked the entire Air Temple in a single blast. The firebending we see at the beginning of Netflix Avatar doesn't even look any different from regular firebending in the original show.

That was exactly when I gave up on this adaptation too

NGL they are overrated. Avatar was never just 2 guys, it was hundreds of impassioned animators and writers that you and nobody ever give the time of day for creating some of the greatest parts of the show. We should not hedge our every thought on what they do.

Genuinely, it only gets worse. Ep 2 was the one I enjoyed most. It is the only one that takes its time. The rest of the show is a clusterfuck.

@dikhed1983 Blame entitled (and also bad) writers who want to make Avatar their own story, instead of honoring the work of someone who is much better at their job than they are.

@aithjawcraig9876 I think there was a lack of care in a lot of the production. I wouldn't be surprised if the studio interfered in the writing, and gave the set design and costume creators less time or a smaller budget than they needed. ☹️

Absolutely piss poor writing by people who have no business taking on this project who clearly don't understand the project they paid to make.

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Look at edge runners, midnight gospels, literally any animated show is critically and highly enjoyed by everyone. I wish they made more animation

They want their own Harry Potter

@@mr.iiconic they gotta be out of touch

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All you got was cold leaf juice.

And that's the epitome of poor writing. The creators should be ashamed for many reasons

It makes me sad cause the cast is great

What'd the wardrobe do tho

Ian Ousley was a really good Sokka imo. He sounds like him, looks like him (minus the skin tone) and when the script allows it, acts like him. Too bad the script was awful.

@phillnyetheplaylistguy3759 it's that thing new shows and movies have had for the past couple of years whereby the clothes don't look like clothes but got this weird clean look that reminds of you of cosplay and not something rough and lived in like the Lord of Rings or Pirates of the Caribbean costumes were.

@@-N0V4- I think you may have just fallen into the trap of hyperreality. You've seen so many desaturated, dirty and worn down clothes in fiction, that you think that's how it was in the past. However, oftentimes these are exaggerations. People wore durable, brightly coloured clothes in the past and regularly cleaned them!

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Call it a sabbatical.

​@@justincruz5720 One month? Nobody would notice lol. Just clickbait. Back in the day we would post "bump" in hopes of giving it some life and catching views.

@@cooliipie What?

@@cooliipie the fuck does that even mean?

Which means the creators don't understand the amazing story they're telling. It breaks my heart. What a waste.

The craziest thing about this is that there's an interview out there with Gordon Cormier (Aang) names by MEMORY each of the martial arts the bendings are each based on. These actors know their shit and are being held back.

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Much like the story it's lacking

General public hasn't seen the original. In that sense, the show is a success.

Absolutely true. The only thing added was Zuko/41st division plot disappointed. Hope they learn a lesson.

it is a great contender for the best show of all time imo

I'm kind of envious. ATLA is one of those stories I wish I could experience for the first time again.

Literally somebody came for me for nitpicking and being ‘not objective’ because nostalgia apparently causes people to not be fair in reviewing new adaptions. On its own it’s still uninspiring. If someone never watched the og the takeaway isn’t ‘omg best show ever!’ (Unless they are a tween making an edit of jet on TikTok) If anything they were impressed with the world because it’s novel to them and that’s where the admiration ended. The writing, reveals, chronological order, exposition, erasure of natural reveals, mystique and characters make for a dry and out of it experience. It doesn’t hold us in suspense, it basically outlined everything that would happen. It’s really condescending for people to think we should blindly like something and if not we’re incapable of fun or accepting new things. I was even playing devil’s advocate for this new show, i latched onto the things I liked to remain hopeful. I like zuko’s actor I liked the small additions to the 41st division, I liked the effects and omashu looked good, the critters looked good. I even defended azula’s characterization. I agree she shouldn’t be shown in s1, but her sycophantic and unstable need for perfection and daddy’s loyalty and love is within bounds of her character. Their BIG mistake is again, the chronological choice to reveal all that in s1 and destroying her charisma, presence and aura that she had in her s2 introduction. The show is not high on the rewatch list, though. I hate how media literacy is now and attention spans, it seems they curated a show to avoid bad faith interpretations so they kept it dry and safe and stripped characters down.

​@@surette2012azulas characterization was the worst part.

he opens the video with that dumbass

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Fax

I think the problem is that people always think there's stuff they need to take away or replace from the original, when in all honesty, I don't think there is. It's all 100% necessary, the only thing that can be done is to build on what's there, and even then if you don't adhere to the laws of the universe and characters it gets messy. Unfortunately even things like great divide, because it shows aang doing something completely contrary to all our previous conceptions about him (not to mention one of the only times he draws on being over 100 years old in any meaningful way + an early expression of doing his duty as avatar), sokka and katara having a serious feud after being stuck in the south pole with not a lot of outside cultures for most of their lives, and characterization for both (showing some of Katara's tendency to be hypocritical and holier than thou, Sokka's tendency to throw his beloved logic out the window and be careless when it suits his opinion). which sidenote because I'm about to RANT, the 'adding too much of the wrong thing' is what I don't like about Legend of Korra, and why just the two original show RUNNERS were not the only thing that made ATLA so amazing. It took these incredible characters and settings with very defined relationships that we adored and just said "Okay so the world is totally different and everyone can do things that only the literal best around could do like less than 60 years ago, all these characters grew up to be mostly bad people and parents, most of them are dead or we've changed them entirely, and instead you get all these new guys with no chemistry, a whiny girlboss mc, 5 storylines with only slightly different neonazis depicting this cool thing everyone loves the world for as holding the world back, nothing has permanent consequence, and also the devil is here and he's a living flag. Have fun!"

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