A Painfully Honest Review of Netflix Avatar

anime games Comics a long time ago, fandoms would get excited when something they loved was turned into a movie, but everything changed when Dragon Ball Evolution attacked, only the Avatar master of cartoon comedy and anime storytelling could save us, but when the world needed him the most, I got M Night Shyamalan, my name is An and I'm the Avatar, bring me all your elders, that kid was being arrested so he was bending little stones at us from behind a tree, it really hurts , is making fire out of nothing. Well, actually what we did. There was a lot of studio meddling that should be blamed because it's

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ly the biggest victim of the whole debacle by having his name irrevocably attached to this barely visible piece of trash that barely resembles the original Vision of him.

To be fair, the original Vision probably still would have done it. pissed off a lot of Avatar addicts, but more so in the quirky and fun Super Mario 8 movie, you know where the movie is clearly doing something, but not what most people wanted to see, which is infinitely better than doing nothing. that no one would want to see, but That's a story for another YouTube video that several other people have already made. I'm sure that as a starting point for today's story, all you really need to know is that there was once a Last Airbender movie and that it has a legitimate claim to not be alone. the worst adaptation, but ultimately the worst Hollywood film of all time, which had two lasting effects on Avatar's legacy: first, the entire brand collapsed in on itself for a time and each time its creators tried to rebuild it, the Nick exec who actually caused the problem would lose their nerve at the last second and now all of a sudden the final season of Kora premieres on a shitty web player, just for example, but secondly, the The film's

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ly miraculous and complete lack of redeeming qualities left us all with a burning question.

What if not even? What if we did it right this time? What if we tried again? It can not be worst. Just like the eternally hypothetical Final Fantasy 7 remake, the dream that there might one day be a good live-action Avatar became so fixed. In the imagination of both fans and creators that its manifestation as some kind of consumable product was inevitable, much like the absolute storm of discourse that proceeded and followed its release on Netflix last week, you've probably heard many versions passionate about this program. Since then, since he killed my entire family in front of me, he also sucked me off and gave me free cake, but today we're going to try to cut through all that noise to find honest answers to three key questions: Is this new series worth watching?

For fans of the original, does it work as a standalone adaptation and, most importantly, was this all a fundamentally bad idea before I tell you that the answer to all three questions is yes? Mostly, I should really tell you about today's sponsoring player, Subs the Fire. Nation, the fire nation is coming, oh no, I have so many flammable things that will save us. Look over there, it's the legendary hero destined with the power to defeat firebenders. The smoke shows the new player. Subs cup waiu when he gently rubs the magic hose on him. Not shown in the photo. shoots huge jets of liquid that can put out any flame, so just like a water bender, no idiot water bender shoots the boring old water smoke show shoots the biggest liquid known to gamer man, which also You can suck directly from the hose at any time to instantly get your focus and energy-related benefits, plus essential antioxidants, which is kind of like the Avatar State, but it's better because it also tastes delicious and that's why you should go to the Gamers subs. g/basement to pick up some at a discount now and maybe some of the sexy firefighter merch too until supplies run out in the future Jeff here the supplies didn't last the mugs are already sold out they have some t-shirts and trays I think they are They're left so get them while they're good or instant ramen, these days they make instant ramen and tea, do you have Jasmine the calmer?

No, but they are sleepy. Hey, where did everyone go? Oh, my nephew is burning them all right now. What about that? Oh no. How many can I belittle you for pain? Let's get the obvious questions out of the way from the start: is Netflix's Avatar The Last Airbender as good as Nickelodeon's Avatar The Last Airbender, okay, yeah, I expected it, but is it as bad as Nickelodeon movies? Last Airbender, an M Night Shyamalan movie that depends on who you ask and how much of a liar they are. Notable blue engagement on Twitter. Farm discussing the film said that at its worst, the Netflix show makes M Night Aman's 2010 film The Last Airbender feel like a mercy because at least That Poor Effort was only 2 hours long and the only way Where I can square that statement with a sensible view of reality is if the writer has never seen the movie, because even if you only watch the latest pilot episode of the Spinger Waste movie and never get to it. any of the good parts, the difference in quality is still night and day, the show's dialogue can be a bit embarrassing and overly explanatory sure, but the movie's dialogue is literally almost 100% Exposition, it's exceptionally unbearable to sit through to see a singularity of bad filmmaking that is unlikely to rival in our lifetimes, if this team had done something even half as bad the second time around, it would force me as an atheist to admit that the devil is real and that he is one and that God is dead, fortunately God is still dead for everyone.

The main reasons and everything bad about this Netflix show can be explained by natural means, which is not everything about the show, to be clear, the praise this version of Avatar is receiving definitely does not come from nowhere, but the hate definitely either. and I think a lot of that ultimately comes down to the incredibly bad first impression the first two episodes leave, especially that aforementioned trash pilot that completely destroys some of the series' most sensitive moments in a misguided attempt to being more of an adult who ends up feeling less. mature than the way the baby cartoons did.

I'm talking, of course, about Capital C's much-publicized choice of the show to open on the Airbender genocide depicted in the most gruesome detail that a tv14 rating will allow, so I have to cover the gore for the most part, but there is corpses that Ang can push around with his big stick now and when the fire lord gets angry he can go all Darth Vader on his butts, but with fire, yeah boy, this ain't your little brother's after school

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, this It's all hard and rubbish. This firelord wouldn't just sit back and manage a genocide, he would go on the front lines himself to make sure there were no survivors.

Remember there are no survivors. Now, as clunky as they are, these scenes at least attempt to expand the series. A bit of lore and history, the idea of ​​misinforming Earth Kingdom spies to lure troops to Bosing Se and away from the air temples in preparation for San's Comet is strategically interesting and sets up a call back later to the assault from Xiao to the water. It is revealed that the tribe is simply a distraction allowing Azula to take omashu because obviously a group of enemy ships heading to the North Pole would draw the Earth Kingdom's Ground Forces away from one of the only two cities they have left.

You know, one of the advantages of the original Avatar age rating required a reluctance to directly depict the most direct aspects of the war, since its writers didn't really have to account for all this strategic logistical crap; they could simply say, for example, that the Fire Nation managed to eradicate all flying nomads on the entire planet off-screen without having to deal with the complicated tactical question of how precisely someone could accomplish that and inevitably come up with an answer. Ridiculously stupid as if the entire race was in the same city for the big Centennial Comet Festival.

You better go help prepare for the big Comet Festival before the announcements from the other temples appear. AR. How many will come? We have to kill them all. Do not misunderstand. Part of me definitely sees the vision in a more brutal version. Avatar who can fully explore all the horrible things one could do to other humans with their power system When Zahir murdered the Earth Queen by airbending around her head and Kora, 20, I thought it was metal since her words no. Mine, I prefer to curse sparingly for maximum effect these days and that same principle is exactly why that moment hits so hard.

It's a truly savage act of violence, far worse than anything shown at Avatar University up to that point, though not by long. Even more strikingly, Zahir uses the most peaceful defensive of the Bending Arts to do so in so many ways that it feels as if a taboo has been broken, as if the world of Avatar has been fundamentally and irrevocably changed by this crime that you know, as that Community episode where Jeff commits the first murder in GI Joe history and that gives the Gravits moment a regicide that led to Demi Deide's attempt really should have, but moments like that can't have that kind of impact on a show where horrific violence is just one part.

From the overall atmosphere, the kind of impact that facing the consequences at the Southern Air Temple had on Ang and the audience in the original series after spending three episodes in a row wasting time and trying not to think about it, this version reduces that masterfully finished blow. to a pathetic slap in the face, an afterthought of an epilogue clumsily tacked on to the end of his clumsy, overly expository tale of the boy on the iceberg, and so Ang made a bold break from Prince Zuko's brig riding toward the New World with his new friends and his old friend Apaa then went to a room full of skeletons to shout at them and shine before them.

What's going on? What are you doing? This quiet take on the original anime of Gatso, the kind old fool we only ever knew about. The fun cartoon flashbacks of Ang dead in the snow surrounded by the countless firebenders who fell trying to capture him say more about the tragedy of this CRI war crime and the ferocity with which it was opposed than all the CGI Sound and Fury$ 15 million per episode they can rake in, which is still a lot better than what the movie raked in with 10 times that amount of dollars to be fair, but let's be real, that bar is underground, some of the show's fights feature some really stunts and choreography. impressive and the great final battle scene. where everything turns black and white except for a few splashes of color after the moon dies, that's legitimately awesome.

I wish they did more stylish stylized things like that because while the CGI here looks overall better than the movie, it just isn't. Down to the level of realism, the rest of the shows filming Earth and Firebending seem pretty believable. Years of Hollywood research perfecting fake explosions and Rubble really work in the program's favor there, but the fluid simulations are still very complicated and the EXP is expensive, so the water control. it mostly looks wet and slimy, except when they use ice, and to top it all off, the air bending looks like Dusty's farts, although to be fair, it's basically impossible to make realistic air bending look like anything else because, speaking Realistically, the wind is supposed to be invisible, but that obviously isn't. very cinematic, so they had to add some sort of visual component even though it was basically guaranteed to look silly and when you throw those silly effects onto the Unreal Engine environments on the big Mandalorian LED wall behind the actors, the whole thing thing just looks like a video game, especially when the Benders start flying and have to trade 3D stunt doubles, at which point this new live-action version becomes an uglier cartoon with more expensive extra steps, that's its true power connection.

Building bridges, this is what the Avatar is going to be like even if the bending effects had been perfect, although the attack on the Southern Air Temple still would have been shit because they made the gatso monk fall a little without killing anyone, which only thing this scene could have done to justify its tacky, tacky take. Ang's tragic backstory was to show us how the hell that room became like this and they were completely filled. I was so angry after watching this prologue that I could have sat down and started roasting right there, but I'm glad I stuck with itbecause it did.

Much better eventually it is not clear because now is when we are introduced to Saka and qara and with them another highly publicized Capital C election Saka is no longer a sexist pig, which again I see the vision here, this more of the prophecy of Doom type vision where a lot of tweets are made by people who don't know what character Arc is about how Saka is all problematic and aging poorly now, I'd be wary of that too if he dropped a Scott Pilgrim. anime, but by taking the coward's exit in this Netflix has fundamentally changed where Saka comes from and what his entire character Arc means.

He's supposed to be a tough, rude kid who's never seen the world beyond his small town and says a lot of things. Dumb shit, but only because he legitimately doesn't know any better, his regressive attitude towards women is the most obvious expression of that and when Suki gets on his nerves in episode 4, that's his first step on a very long journey to becoming a real man. of the world also made for a genuinely compelling romance, especially for a Nick show where the fact that these two characters fall in love really says something about both of them.

I'm so glad to see you, Saka. I knew you would come to the anime. Saka is a really good guy at heart, but cocky and very rude, stupid, with a grace and confidence that makes competent and motivated women like Suki and UA think I can fix him and monsters like Tye think I want to make mistakes with him, sanding those edges. And what you're left with is a mostly together guy with some confidence and daddy issues, a great sense of humor, and an impressively progressive worldview for a guy who's only met 70 total. All the people with that line of jaw it's no mystery why he's fucking princess he still has a lot of Saka's important things you know, meat and sarcasm I bet you taste like chicken what are you doing here?

We are doing what we are doing well, but why? You do it here Ian Olley definitely gets the character, but remove his key flaw, that confident ignorance, and Kyoshi Island is suddenly just a story about a hot guy who meets a hot girl and he likes martial arts and she likes them. martial arts and he has problems with his father. and she has problems with mom, so they kiss. This is hardly bait for CW level boats. It will be better directed than most CW shows, but the real problem, one that has immediate consequences for the entire story, is how this changes Saka's relationship with his sister because now he is not a stubborn idiot who doesn't take to qara seriously because women can't be warriors and she's not the surrogate mother forced to clean up after those idiotic messes, they're just brothers arguing a little about the pecking order based on age, which means we don't have nothing to fight about as usual, which means that the inciting incident of the entire story in which Qara gets so angry at Saka for being a sexist idiot that she accidentally frees the Avatar with water is changed to, oh no, the ship in the that we were arguing slightly.

It's too far away, well, I guess you better use Magic Water to get it back, although we were just arguing about it because honestly, it's not a big deal, okay, I'll just do a little, oh wow, now there's a bald kid and I also want to say. that later we will need a whole exposition from Messa on how bending power and control are tied to emotions because this adaptation failed to be shown cinematically, don't tell us that in its opening moments, unlike the low-budget cable show, is based on the first season of which, by the way, is about the same length in minutes as the Netflix version, but because of this it shows much less efficient storytelling, it can only cover about half of the book's plot points. , now some of that lost time is the result of some new fires. national subplots that were added in order to have more scenes in reusable sets which are honestly much better additions to the story than what Netflix bbop tried to do with Vicious for example, although not as good as what One Piece did with the Marines, but the inventions. made to accommodate all these unnecessary changes to the

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s, the characters also really add up, especially when it comes to Capital C's most egregious choice, this adaptation makes Ang no longer want to waste time, you know Ang, the beloved character iconic whose first words in any piece. from the media I ever had to ask you something, what are you going to do?

Penguin, he sings with me now he's all about Duty and saving the world and stuff. This Ang didn't run away from home straight into a storm to throw off the Benders who were following him. out of sheer terror at the overwhelming responsibility of suddenly being Kung Fu Jesus. At the tender age of 12, he just flew away from the Comet Festival to clear his head, for some reason, a little low in the open ocean and then a tidal wave came through. To him, it's a very silly change that apparently makes no sense unless you look at the story from the perspective of a television producer who is trying to fit it into a budget.

Taking advantage of Ang's elusive desire to travel means adding more locations to the shoot. scheduling or paying a CG team to create more Mandalorian sets, which isn't cheap by any means, but if Koshi shows up at the beginning to give Ang a prophetic vision of attacking the Northern Water Tribe, which makes him will force you to make a beine there now. You can focus on making a handful of more prominent locations look as good as possible and then you can do the B-plot of the KE Yoshi Warriors episode about a boy sitting in front of a glowing statue for a couple of hours while his friend gets lucky. .

Unlike a kid trying to assemble a giant monster that is, in a very real sense, made of time and money, the Critter effects we see in the show, particularly Momo and Jun's hero, are legitimately pretty impressive, but You don't spend every million dollars. Filming penguin sleds is another million you can spend slaughtering the Airbender genocide and the project's stated goal is to make an explicitly less cartoony, more adult version of Avatar, so what's wrong with toning down Ang's childish and silly side? ? Nothing if you don't care. Toning down Avatar's Soul Avatar The Last Airbender is a fascinating media chimera that fuses the more mature narrative sensibility of Japanese anime with the playful, comedic energy of American cartoons as fans, especially adults, look back on the series now.

I think we tend to put too much emphasis on anime. Part of that equation is lore, continuity, fighting and romance, all the things that made Avatar so special and distinct from the American children's television landscape from which it first emerged, but both ingredients are equally essential to Avatar's Secret Sauce. , the tension between the two identities of the series. like a crazy Nick tune about a dumb bald boy and his magical animal friends and a serious serialized war anime with a life-or-death world shaking. Stakes reflects the tension at the heart of Ang's character, the carefree, fun-loving boy he wants to be versus the responsible, decisive young man he must become as the series progresses, from the serious action of the anime to the amusements of Goofy's cartoons, changes perceptually along with Ang's growing determination to see his Destiny through the very structure of the story, grows alongside his protagonist, and when you remove the more childish, cartoonish aspects of Avatar to focus on the good parts of the anime, you lose that effect completely, that's not to say the show is allergic to silly fun, it still plays hits like Secret Tunel, Secret Tunel and of course they even brought back the original.

The actor who played Cabbage Guy in this adaptation was clearly made by fans who love and care about the original series, but are also clearly more anime fans who treat the funny parts as non-essential comic relief and probably share the widely accepted Avatar fan. opinion that the series only gets really great after the first book, that would explain why both Ang and Saka feel like they just jumped ahead halfway through season 2 in their character arcs, now don't get me wrong, some of that reluctance to step up and grow is still there in this version of Ang, he will tell you that if you ask him in detail all this time.

He has worried me that I don't know what I'm doing, you're not going to lose us. but just thinking that I could will stop me. The other kids always say I'm lucky because of the things I can do, but I trade places with any of them. I don't want the responsibility. I'm afraid of my power. I'm afraid of being alone. This was my home and now it's gone. Only after we have lost something do we realize how much it means to us. You can't just have your characters announce what they feel, that makes me angry, but then he.

He has to tell you, as basically every character on the show does, at some point or another, how he feels because everything the original series used to show has been cut and it legitimately sucks that Gordon Cormier has to waste so much time. soliloquizing things he should be able to perform because holy shit, can this kid ever play anyone in the Netflix casting department? He is clearly some kind of dark magician because between him and Iñaki Godoy they keep finding these people who were born to play anime heroes. being just the right age to star in the adaptations of him is a little crazy although, on the other hand, they failed by like three decades with SP Ed.

This is actually a great example of how wrong all this Ang is looking for could have gone. Everything is also a strange little guy prone to bouncing off walls, sometimes literally, and translated into an actual human performance that could easily have been too much, but Cormier manages to capture the essence of the character in a more subdued and grounded way that is feels like a real. Boy, his talent is truly remarkable, so it's a shame that the script barely gives him opportunities to play Ang, which in turn gives Kio Ando Tarbell even fewer opportunities to play Qara, since Saka is not an idiot and Ang is constantly focused on her homework, she really has nothing. there's no fuel for the fiery emotional outbursts that are supposed to define the character outside of his relatively brief conflicts with jet and master paku and they're both basically reduced to supporting characters by the choice to combine their stories with other episodes, so yeah, qara it's just More or less there, everything that happens between her and Jet now happens on the periphery of Sak's surrogate father story with Danny Py as the mechanist, which is really inspiring because of the way Jet wants to kill with bombs for his traitorous dealings with the Fire Nation.

Now and all of that takes place in Omashu Now, where Zuko and Iro sneak off to capture the Avatar, all of those plot threads eventually come together in a satisfyingly chaotic climax that ends with Iro and Ang both in jail and leading to the A . and the B-plots of omashu part two where p meets with King Bumi and is tested by him while Zuko saves his uncle from the Earth Kingdom's prisoner Convoy. There is also a SE plot where Saka and qara solve their diluted sibling problems in the secret tunnel. The secret tunnel kind of sucks, except for Badgero.

Badgero looked pretty cool but other than that I honestly really enjoyed how the two parts of omashu were brought together with the understanding that they probably had to combine all of these plots to justify the cost of rendering an omashu in 3D imagine doing all this for tell just one story. I think the ones they chose complement each other very well. The mechanists meddling with Fire Nation spies feel much more dangerous in a crowded city than in an isolated temple and help foreshadow the eventual downfall of omashu when Jet tries to kill a character we really know and love CU, It's impossible not to love Danny Py having a child as an accepted victim instead of some random civilians, it really underlines how far the Freedom Fighters have fallen too and having iro.

Being arrested to save Zuko rather than simply because he was caught with his pants down ramps up the drama of the rescue effort quite a bit, and that really pays off in the second part, especially, which draws a very clear thematic line between its exploration of the past of io. as the dragon of the West, his many regrets and how Zuko saved him from them and this shows a much darker view of boomi who has understandably become tired and bitter after a hundred years running a city at war and needs Ang to rekindle his hope that I wasn't. here in the world more for you but i'm here now if you insist on making an adult avatar this is how it should be done instead of downplaying the innate innocence of Team Avatar uses the added flexibility of a tv14 rating the runtime addition of those hour-long episodes to establish a starker contrastwith the darkness of war and the toll it is taking on the adults around them.

Sadly, this two-parter is the only part of the show that fully achieves or even really attempts that approach or by combining several episodes, the next two episodes adapt the two-part Winter Solstice, the Blue Spirit, and some of the stuff from the spirit world of the northern siege with just a little bit of Water Tribe Bot on top so Ang I can get Shear out of Roku's temple and take him to Iro and Zuko so they can then take him to Xiao. Also, the library owl is there for some reason, I guess because in this version Xiao doesn't steal from him.

The Fire Nation just received scrolls about the Water Trib's biggest weakness is gathering dust anyway. uh, they make a joke where Ang is the only one who can hear the owl and that's pretty funny. It really feels like they combined four random episodes based solely on the association of words with spirits and that's a bit. It's crazy when you consider that two of those episodes were originally part of the same two parts, but so much of Roku is cut that it's barely recognizable now it's all about Ang asking how to save his friends from Co, the face dealer, No. mentioning San's comet because obviously that would add a clock to the story that you really can't afford to have with the real world going on.

Ang's puberty time bomb only for my friends to be kidnapped by co ah well, they're probably fed kids. There's no way to beat him I'm sure of that, well I have one thing I stole from him that I would definitely trade all his hostages to come back to but other than that the rest of the episode is just you meeting the Blue Spirit only at the end and deals with Hai and co again, it's just a real disaster of a script, made even worse by how relatively clean the omashu episodes were which said there are still bits and pieces of those episodes that I really loved as a fan of avatar Co and heyi , for example, are both very convincing and creepy effects and George Decay even reprises his face dealer role, which was a very pleasant surprise, so pleasant that I almost didn't notice that Ang just completely forgets that hey exists afterwards to save the Co villagers, so I guess there's still a rampaging Mutant Panda spirit out there so they can deal with NE.

There's also a decent emotional crease where the monk Gatu seems to guide Ang through the spirit world and he says: I'll see you again after I save my friends. true and you know he won't, it's super obvious, but you're still a little sad when Ang comes back and his father's ghost is gone, plus the adaptation of the blue spirit is pretty solid throughout, even if he goes out on the left field with probably the best martial arts choreography in the entire series and a great addition to Zuko's backstory in this version. Zuko's team are the same soldiers whose sacrifice he objected to in the war council that led to the battle with his father and his eventual banishment.

It's a small change, but it makes them feel like much more than just faceless firebending mucos, which were very much in the original, our Returned Prince, on the other hand, the change is a bit out of character for oai, it's framed as somewhat ironic. punishment, but he still gives Zuko exactly what he wanted by saving those soldiers and setting up the prince he just deposed with a personal entourage who all owe him their lives, which seems reckless from a coup prevention standpoint. , but overall this adaptation really handles Ozai's character and the entire Fire Nation side of Avatar's story really well, even if the Palace Intrigue subplot was only included to get more use out of those expensive sets, it ends. adding a pretty substantial layer to our understanding of the Fire Lord's abusive parenting style. and how that reflects his control of the entire country, the fire lord, his below average performance set before oai sends aula to hunt down the Avatar and conquer omashu, we see him mocking his daughter with the success of his brother, suddenly withholding his affection and pretending to be his exile.

Failon has a real shot at taking back the throne because he found the Avatar just to make his favorite job a little harder and Aula ends up mastering lightning control and eventually achieves her iconic blue flames as a direct response to that pressure. It's not a Great addition to any of the characters, we're not learning anything about their relationship, we didn't get to see how Oai treats her and Zuko at the beginning of the third book, but it feels true to all the characters involved, like it just happened. plausibly in the Canon. from the cartoon, which is a lot more than anyone can say about the filler content of Flicks Boy net bop, shoot me a bullet now because you'll never be manad enough to defend yourself, don't you ever tell me what I am? not man besides going back and forth with classroom and oai behind Zuko's back gives Kenung's Admiral Xiao more opportunities to be a delightfully deceptive little rat.

I swear I won't rest until I hunt down these villains, a blatant crime perhaps unsurprisingly, though the characters who benefit most from this increased focus on the Fire Nation are Zuko and Iro, who are played in Pitch Perfection by Dallas Louu and Paul Sun Young Lee. You have a plan? However, the plan is to claim what is rightfully mine, so there is no plan. I'm working in it. Man, these two are the biggest saving grace of this entire adaptation, as the casting and costume design in this series is pretty spot on across the board, but just like with Ang, 11 out of 10 nailed it with these two and unlike Ang, they are actually written as themselves, although a little more forced, the love between them feels so genuine and warm every time they are on screen together and individually, both actors completely understand the little eccentricities that define their roles, the show even gives them some new quirks that feel very much in keeping with the original series, like the fact that hunting the Avatar has turned Zuko into a sort of low-key otaku avatar with a collection of figures and everything. , it's really cute how Maddie finds out about Ang Steel in her notebook, now I don't want to get your Hopes are too high for this stuff, most of her extra screen time amounts to extended scenes that delve a little deeper into her traumas more personal than the anime had time to, but simply giving these actors more time to live those emotions and their roles makes those scene extensions worth it, they play it very well when it comes off the vine in this show, It feels a little silly to say that two really good casting choices can save an entire show, but Zuko and Io's relationship is so vital to the soul of Avatar.

I'd say this alone raises what would otherwise be a three or four out of 10 adaptation to a solid six, maybe even a 6 and a half, no matter how much it bothers me how much this show takes away from Team Avatar . I can't help but love every moment these two are on screen and I think many Avatar fans will agree that the show is worth watching at least just for them and the rest of the Fire Nation, although personally, if it's So. I would suggest skipping straight to episode three. On the other hand, you won't miss anything.

If you're not already a fan of Avatar, you should go watch the original series, but if you end up watching this one by accident, you will. You'll be able to follow the plot quite easily and you'll probably be as entertained as you would be with an average Arrowe series. It's not a great adaptation or show by any means, but there are enough things to like that in the Total, I'm okay with it existing now, let me explain why it shouldn't exist unless it doesn't, even if you've been living under a rock for the last decade, you probably know that Disney has been raking it in with artistically bankrupt live action. rehashes of beloved animated classics I'm definitely not the first YouTuber to say this and I definitely won't be the last, but I hate these things and everything they represent, these things are almost invariably a huge waste of time for both the artists who could be making things new and cool ones in their place and audiences who could just watch the original versions invariably better.

The only reason any of these things exist and the only reason they make money is because of the widespread misperception that animation is a minor cinematic art form for children and if you want to enjoy these stories as an adult, There have to be real people in them now. Avatar is something of an exception in that sense, there has been a lot of excitement over the years about the idea of ​​a live-action remake of the original series. Fans and even the creators of the original series before abandoning the project, for Of course, many people who worked on this clearly have a lot of love and respect for the source material and wanted to do it justice and, for all its flaws, the finished product.

It still has soul, which is more than I can say for most of Disney's crap, but even with all that passion behind it, look how much compromise had to be made to make this story work as a streaming show in the middle that Ang doesn't. can execute. around and plays because every time he gets on an air bike or pets a creature, the director has to go talk to an accountant for the same reason Opa and Momo's roles have basically been reduced to cameos, every character outside of the Fire Nation has had some defining characteristic. of his Stripped Away persona to keep the tone consistently adult and, worst of all, the world of Avatar, this vast, strange place full of possibilities, had to be compressed into eight or nine CGI backgrounds, a handful of small buildings and the Backwoods around Vancouver, some of the physical sets look great, like the machine shop in Zuko's cabin, and it makes me wish everything could have been done practically, but that's not very practical when it comes to impossible cityscapes built with magic like Omashu or the northern water tribe.

Those models are impressively faithful to the original background art with an equally impressive amount of added detail, but it's only when you look at them in a vacuum next to real people that the unreality of these sets becomes instantly apparent, so overall, although there are much more realistic details. this Avatar than this Avatar because the level of detail is not consistent between the backgrounds and character effects. This shot of guys standing on a state-of-the-art soundstage feels much less believable than this world made of drawings and that's the crux of the problem. In all of these live-action remakes, you're almost always spending more money to get less of something that looks and feels worse, in this case for exactly the same running time as the original animation, clearly illustrating how negative was the entire adaptation process for Avatar and as for the parts it managed to cover, they are all, at best, pale imitations of the original, so what's the point of remaking something in live action when most of Are the most memorable moments so impossible to film that you have to cut them? or just animate them again, worse anyway, what's the point of choosing a perfect Ang if you can't afford to let him be Ang?

What's the point of telling a story we've heard before on what was already one of the most-streamed shows? with Netflix money, yes, it's always fine, almost always Netflix One Piece had a clear point beyond that: to condense the extensive original story into something more manageable and present it to an audience that wasn't familiar with the source material. Speed ​​Racer pioneered a bold new style of filmmaking. which still feels ahead of their battle in time Angel Alita was a personal passion project for James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez that actually manages to completely capture the look and feel of the original Manga and Anime, but only because it runs in Avatar Tech like people Avatar blue. isn't this Avatar, it actually seems like James Cameron is still making Avatar movies to finance the Elita adaptation, which is great, even Netflix Death Note had something to say about American culture and the Lone Wolf phenomenon using the original premise from Death Notes and also the The director clearly had a very powerful vision of a more realistic version of Light and Ru's first meeting.

All of those projects were born on some level from a real creative spark of an individual art artist with something to add or say about the original idea and even if that doesn't turn out to be something most fans wanted to see, adaptations like that almost always They're worth it in the long run, but Netflix Avatar isn't really one of those like the Disney Dragon Ball Evolution liveaction FMA remakes, heck, Shyamalan's movie. It exists mainly because the numbers suggested there was demand for some kind of live-action extension of the brand and remakes require less attention than spin-offs.This was never going to be anyone's favorite version of Avatar because it has no ambitions beyond playing on our nostalgia for Avatar, which it sometimes does quite well, it's as good as anyone could have hoped for, it's definitely better than the first movie Dragon Ball FMA and all the Disney remakes this side of the Jungle Book, but in the grand artistic scheme that it still is. a six out of 10.

I can't help but think that the incredibly talented production team and cast that put this show together could have done so much more if only we instead asked ourselves what we have to compromise to make a live action Last Airbender work. I started by asking what stories we can tell in the world of Avatar that fit within the limitations of the film, like imagining a show or movie about the siege of the Chiefs. He says the fixed location means you can use more practical outfits. Firebenders vs. Earthbenders leans on the strengths of the bending effects and already has a perfect anger, they could have made an entire show just about his life story and the perspective of the Hundred Year War with Ang and them, already that the secondary characters call him Dragon of the West.

I'd watch it, but there's no point dwelling on what could have been as it is. The best thing I can say about the program out there is that it wasn't a waste of time. I'm glad I got to see how he handled the Fire Nation plus some of the most visually stunning fights and of course all the incredible work on the costumes and props. Also, the soundtrack has very good music, but the

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honest truth is that despite all those good points, I will never watch it again because the cartoons are okay. it's literally right there if you're watching it on Netflix and I think that's going to be true for most people who watch this show, even the ones that really like it, some people will really like it and I think any Avatar fan that can Get through the first two episodes, they'll find at least one thing they'll love, even if they end up hating it overall, and the only way to know how it'll feel is to try it yourself, no.

YouTuber or Twitter blue engagement farmer may decide that for you all I can say is that I liked it just barely enough as a die-hard Avatar fan and if I ever watch this on an in-flight entertainment system, I'll be watching a Dwayne The Rock. Johnson Movie I'm Jeff's professional anime adaptation rater and for anyone curious about that big list I made last year of all things Hollywood anime, I'd put this in 8th place, just ahead of Netflix bbob, and one piece takes second place.