Netflix missed the point of Avatar

I know I'm too old to care about a Netflix remake of a cartoon that came out when I was 11, but this isn't just any cartoon, it's not like they're rebooting Jimmy Neutron and I'm mad about that. Avatar is a near-perfect series, it's one that I really enjoyed when I watched it as a kid, but rediscovering it as an adult really blew my mind, it's a show that made me cry several times, it's something that the creators clearly put a lot of thought into and I I worried about achieving every detail from the building of the world to the music.

For a long time I thought it would be impossible to translate this world to live action, partly because of how intricate and beautiful the animation is and partly because the last time they tried to do it. It was a disaster. I've seen a lot of people say regarding the Netflix adaptation. Hey, at least it's better than the movie. Yes, I hope it's better than one of the worst movies ever made. You don't get

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s for that. Because of how silly and awkward this movie looked, I assumed it just couldn't be made, that this world just wasn't adaptable to live action, and in many ways Netflix proved me wrong, this show probably looks so well as a live action

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Couldn't you say anything? It will never really be compared to vibrant, fluid 2D animation, but the VFX team who worked on this did a very good job of making something that could have easily looked silly and quite realistic except for the curvature. I don't know what happened there, yeah. A lot of the scenes are directed a little jarringly and it's a little too dark at times, but with what they were tasked with bringing to life here, I think they deserve a lot of credit, but it's funny to me that Netflix pulled off the part I thought they could pull off. .

It wasn't done right and it ruined all the things that should have been a failure. Let's start with the pilot because I started writing this video 10 minutes into the first episode. The pilot condenses the first three episodes of the animated series into a premiere that on paper works very well, the end of episode 3 is really where the prologue ends. We have established the world. We introduce the characters and a bit of their backstories and they literally fly away from their past as they adventure. their journey and although the beginning of the show doesn't reach the heights it will eventually reach, I think the whole thing is paced very well and does a good job of giving enough information to explain what's going on while still having the restraint to hold on to some things. that can be revealed when the time is right.

We open on two of the three main characters, Saka and Katara. We learned that they are brothers who live in the southern water tribe. Qara is a master of water. Saka is not. He belittles his ability. They argue a little, it escalates and then Katara's water bends so hard that a bald 12 year old boy falls off an iceberg, wait, that's not just any bald boy, that's the Avatar, no one's seen him in a hundred years, what the hell not? However, it's time to stop and explain everything because they have inadvertently alerted a nearby fire nation to their presence.

This is Prince Zuko and his uncle Iro, taken from their home and sent on a three-year quest to find the Avatar. That may be about to end, some chaos ensues, a fight breaks out, but eventually, with the help of her new friends, Ang is able to escape from Zuko and the three fly off into the sunset. That brings us to episode 3 and there's still a crucial piece of information that the show's runners haven't revealed to Ang yet because they're waiting until the right moment when the gang heads to the air. The temple that grew in a place where Saka and Qara know is probably full of airbenders, but they don't have the heart to tell them.

He is so happy and excited to show them where he used to play with his friends. How do we tell this boy that everyone he knew and loved was killed by the Fire Nation? Instead, they try to tell you. encourage him and keep him distracted, we see a flashback to Ang's previous life, he is talking to his friend and mentor guato, someone who we can tell clearly cared a lot about Ang talks about how overwhelmed he is at the idea of ​​being the Avatar and yat. he assures him that everything will be fine we reduce they continue exploring a little they find Momo a small pet to go with his big pet things are going very well until, oh firebenders, they were here, oh man, come on, everything will be okay let's get out of here This is a really important scene for the beginning of a Nickelodeon show that up to this

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has been pretty light-hearted watching your main character, who's just a kid, find out about the deaths of all his people and then go crazy and have to be calmed down by his friends is a really powerful moment that can only happen because the writer held on to this revelation until the right time came to reveal it, so now let's talk about how Netflix handled the pilot instead of starting the show on our main show. characters we open in an epic chase this is streaming baby we have to put on a fight scene within the first 10 seconds or people will turn it off and go watch Love is Blind if you don't brutally murder someone right now.

I'm taking my ass to release, but you know what I'm good with this cold open. I get that you're just trying to get people's attention and a quick little action sequence showing how ruthless the Fire Nation can be isn't the worst way to do it, but it should have ended here, you say this line, this doesn't matter. is about the Airbenders, it's about one who lives among them, but the Avatar hasn't revealed himself yet, so we have to kill them more and then we cut to Present Day, with the three main characters similar to how they did. they made the cartoon, I really thought that would have been a really effective opening because if you've never seen the show and you just see the fire lord say we have to kill all the airbenders and then.

If you cut a hundred years into the future and see an airbender who survived, you'll probably wonder: how did that happen? I'm going to stick around to find out, instead we come back from the title sequence and we're still in the past on the day of the aforementioned invasion I guess we're going to do the whole show chronologically so no one gets confused, we meet Ang and Yatso and we see them stand and talk for a while and then we can see some people sitting. and we talk for a while and we go back to Ang and Gato and they stand more and talk more and then Ang flies away and a bunch of murders happen, oh my god, so many murders.

I'm talking about several uninterrupted minutes of murder because you remember. this is a show for adults, cartoons are for babies, we have a lot of dead bodies in this one. What drives me crazy about this whole sequence is that while they insist so much on showing something that, honestly, I think had more emotional impact. Just look at the consequences, they don't try to show us any aspect of Ang's personality. I mean, don't get me wrong, the writers take the time to explain Ang's personality to us. He and Gatu tell us everything about him. I know who I am.

I like to play airball and eat banana cakes and joke with my friends, that's what I am. I feel bad for this kid because he seems like a really good actor, but the writers keep giving him lines that make it sound like he's about to start singing. Don't even trust me to feed the baby bison and I'm supposed to save the world. Why can't I just be a kid? But this isn't even the worst example of what they say, don't prove it in this episode. Remember how I told you how Ang finds out that all the Air Benders are dead, how he stumbles upon the corpse of his former best friend surrounded by all the Fire Benders it took to take him down, that's how they do it in this one. program.

I arrived for the big Comet Festival, a big Comet Festival, the last time the big Comet was seen in the sky was 100 years ago, someone just tells you. Everyone in the town knows this story, but you don't know it. I don't know that Airbenders haven't been seen in generations and that the Southern Air Temple was the first to fall because you've been trapped in that ice this whole time. gr gr reads the entire open opening theme out loud for about two minutes straight while he has to sit there and make faces in reaction before running out of the room crying and sad for about 10 seconds and then everything is fine, there's no time to get depressed buddy, you gotta do another walk-in, this is infuriatingly bad writing, you took one of Ang's most shocking moments from the start of the show and turned it into someone else's monologue.

It's very strange to me when shows are clearly in a rush to lay out as much information as possible, I guess, because they think people will get confused and turn it off. If they don't have their handheld in every interaction, but it seems counterintuitive, I think what makes people continue to watch something is a mystery, it doesn't have to answer every question I have within seconds of having it, it can reveal information in small doses. and slowly adding to it piece by piece, that's what will force me to keep watching something other than paragraphs of expository dialogue whenever you feel like you have some L blanks to fill in.

I also find it strange that they are still trying to recreate the Air Temple. moment in this episode, although it's not new information to Ang, he goes and sees Dead Gatu, who was evidently much easier to kill this time and he still goes crazy and still needs to be calmed down, but it doesn't really make sense because he already knows about this it's my friends they're all gone what's he doing it actually feels like kind of an overreaction considering he barely gave it a thought before also in the original qara is the one who calms ang down while he's in this stage he tells him he tells him that she knows what it's like to lose someone you love, but the world needs it and they are here to help no matter what it is.

It's a great moment for the three of them because it closes Ang's past while he closes the gap on this one. present Journey are about to continue in this version qara just watch as we see a bunch of flashbacks from earlier in the episode in case you were looking at your phone during that part you're my friend I really don't understand the obsession with gatu in this version it's a important character, but more as a memory for Ang, as a symbol of what he lost, he is not so relevant in the present. The journey you are about to embark on, what matters most is your relationship, your friendship.

It's the foundation this entire series is built on, so I think you're doing it a disservice by taking away Kar and Saka's interactions so you can give them to a guy who died 100 years ago. He does this several times in On the show, they keep bringing back Yatoo instead of giving that valuable screen time to the more important characters. They even do this in the opening title of the pilot episode in the original qara. He's the one who does this voiceover that sets up the show. from her point of view and the very iconic lines she says at the end, but I think Ang can save the world, it actually tells us something about her, it tells us that she is optimistic and believes in her friends no matter what, so they really managed do it. adding characterization to a sequence that is essential Exposition is a very efficient use of dialogue in the remake they take this away from qara so they can give it again to a character who died 100 years ago and that's not to mention the fact that all of that is said in this version of the title sequence is repeated several times throughout the episode, it is a very inefficient use of dialogue The Avatar, the only person with the ability to master all four elements, The Avatar, the next master of the four elements, alone the Avatar, the only person who can master the four elements only the Avatar master of the four elements, but when the world needed him most, he disappeared when the world needed the Avatar most, he disappeared episode one shouldn't feel as rushed at the end as it did. ago, it's roughly the same runtime as all three episodes.

It's adapting, so it's not that they didn't have time to tell the story, it's that they misused the time they had, adding all these things that probably would have been better if they were kept a mystery. They waste a lot of time repeating the same information only from different sources and replace interesting moments of character development with vague gibberish. The pushup is about energy and balance by feeling the energy around you. You can find balance by finding balance. You can feel the energy and what they are. you're talking about remembering that energy is balance, which is energy, uh, which is balance, who, thank you.

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Update the way you browse the web. Download Opera for free using my link in the description. Thank you Opera for sponsoring today's video now before continuing to receive. I'm crazy about every aspect of the show. I want to answer a more general question about what we should expect from an adaptation because it may seem like I'm trying to say that this should have been a standalone recreation of the original show. when that's not the case you can and should be able to change things, why bother spending all this money to make something that looks worse if it's going to be exactly the same, but those changes should improve the story in which they can't be? is at odds with the spirit of the show or fundamentally changing a character to have been an episode 2 in the months leading up to the show's release.

I kept seeing quotes added about it from cast members from the creators and each time I did it it made me feel A little less optimistic about what we were going to get in one of those quotes was how the creators of the show very nobly got rid of the sexism that Saka had at the beginning of the cartoon because that was 2005 and we're a lot smarter now, obviously I don't need to tell you that there are tons of movies and TV shows from 20 years ago that haven't aged well, but I think you're missing the point if you try to group this show with Saka is an overconfident but misguided teenager who grew up isolated from the rest of the world, where he has been tasked with being the sole leader and protector of all his villain, as a result he starts the show with a pretty sense outdated of what men do. and women should be expected to do, he constantly makes belittling comments to his sister, he meets the warriors on Kyoshi Island and is relieved to see that they are just girls, here's the thing, even though the show doesn't glorify his behavior, in fact, they're very much doing the opposite because you know what happens right after he says these things, he's immediately proven wrong, underestimates Suki and the rest of the Kyoshi Warriors and gets his ass kicked.

He is so embarrassed by this that he comes back with his tail between his legs. and he apologizes and begs to learn from them, it is bound to be a humiliating and humiliating experience for him, one that also supports the women around him, it is vindicating for qara, who has had to deal with this his entire life, and establishes Suki as a badass. not without control, it's not something the showrunners are celebrating. his misogyny has immediate repercussions. Are we really at a point where we can't even show a character on television doing something morally unpleasant? Is it possible that the public doesn't really understand the difference between a real-life human being? to be expressing a bullshit belief and that belief being portrayed in a piece of fiction and look, I'm not here to die on the hill, you gotta keep the misogyny in the showman, it was as fun as if the writers had other ways of doing it.

Show Saka that he has a flaw that Suki can use to make him better, so what do they do instead? She walks up to him taking a bath and stands there looking at him with googly eyes and then in their training scene together they have to stop every 10 seconds because of all the sexual tension avoid it, we have avoided a lot of things by living the way we do, Jesus Christ, do you understand the point I'm trying to get across here instead of being a calm and confident intellectual superior? To Saka, who always has the advantage over him and is always able to stop him whenever she tries to do something, they decided to make her so horny that she can't function.

I have to say it's a little ironic that in an attempt to eliminate sexism from the show, they actually took a more sexist approach to designing her character, taking away everything that made her who she was, making her absolutely obsessed with Saka, who wasn't does nothing to earn it and then they have the nerve to act morally. superior to the original writers, does anyone in this Village respect privacy? Shaking my damn head on the topic of absolutely destroying strong female characters, let's talk about guarding her entire arc on the show it's just man I'm not that good at bending and then Ang is like you are and she's like huh you're right actually I'm the best, she hasn't been given any personality at all, her entire existence is tied to her waterbending ability, which isn't what made her a great character in the cartoon instead of showing how fiery and passionate she can be. qara and how her optimism sometimes backfires because the world they live in is so broken and how she can be a great leader and friend to everyone around her, not only because she is strong but because she is empathetic and brings out the best in people. people, they just made her really good at fighting and that's it, you're a waterbender, that's what you've always been and always will be and she doesn't even need help because she's so talented and she's always been in In fact, she doesn't even was trying, it's just not an interesting choice compared to how the original show handled his growth.

They had this great episode from the beginning where Qara gets jealous of Ang because he's the Avatar and everything comes so easy to her, but what this showed about her character is that she really wants to be good at controlling water, she's going to Great Longitudes to able to do it and she has to work twice as hard as Ang, so when we get to the end of the season and she outskills him, we know it's because she worked so hard to get there and that's more admirable than just being given this power. I mean literally Grand gr just gives him this scroll that in the original show he went out of his way to steal so his main motivation in season 1 is to get to the northern water tribe so he can find someone to teach him to control water, something she always wanted but never had access to because she's always been the only waterbender in her tribe and then they finally get to the North Pole and I guess she doesn't really need that because instead of asking Paku to train them, she begs him to let her fight first of all, why are you asking for permission?

He's not going to stop you, just do it. What's going to follow you and tie your hands behind your back because you're trying to put out the fire? Just do it, but the point they're trying to get across is that she's so powerful that she doesn't even do it. I need someone to teach her, well then why doesn't she go defeat the Fire Lord herself? She has this line at one point where she says, "We need you Ang, I need you, no, no, it doesn't seem like you really need it." Anyone, the fact that everything is so easy for her means there is no reward in the end, it makes this line find a teacher, right?

You're looking at her a little silly, actually, all you did was read a scroll that Your grandmother gave you and now you are a Waterbending Master, what a journey, huh, this story will be told for generations. They gave zero depth in this show and it's really frustrating, you can tell while watching the show that Netflix seems afraid to give. any of the main characters is an unpleasant trait. God forbid any of these kids make a mistake or have a Redemption Arc. They need to start the already perfect program. It's such a boring way to write your characters.

It's also a disservice to your actors. We don't give them anything to work with. One of Ang's biggest traits at the beginning of the show is that she's still just a kid. She is a 12-year-old boy who has been given the overwhelming responsibility of saving the world. It's something that, understandably, scares him so much that he runs away, which is how he ends up in the iceberg for a hundred years. It's the inciting incident of the entire show that guilt haunts him and it's a really important part of his growth, but Netflix seemed to be very concerned. with his main character making the wrong decision and they change the reason he flew out in the middle of a storm to him just going for a walk, you're right, he just needs to go up where things always make the most sense.

I have to go. up where things make more sense the terrain is not so good for thinking, don't worry guys it was just an accident, he wasn't avoiding responsibility because he's a kid who wasn't ready for it, but he was just getting something new. air in the middle of a thunderstorm, he's fine, so instead of showing signs of immaturity, he's actually just an idiot. Another thing about Ang still being a kid is that he's not always focused on the task at hand, that's something he has to become. is his first line in the original show Will you go with me in penguin sling?

He constantly gets distracted and wants to do side quests because he's a little kid, of course he's not like that throughout the show, but it gives him a starting point. In the end you can see how mature Netflix Ang is he doesn't have a whimsical bone in his body he is extremely serious and focuses solely on getting from point A to point B he is not written like a child he is already the Netflix season 3 version , if you want your characters to be able to grow, they need to have a place to grow from. Yes, he takes the time to deliver his little soliloquies about how much he longs to be silly, but those are just words, we never actually see him do those things. also makes his entire interaction with Boomie pointless boom it's like there's no time to have fun hang up you have to go save the world it's like yeah, he knows he's already too good to not have fun this is one of the worst arcs written all over the show because everything they say contradicts what they are doing.

Boie tells him to stop playing and go do his job as the Avatar, while he is the one holding him hostage and giving him games to play. H wants to leave the entire program. Time just let it go and it will do the things you ask of it. Ang's immaturity also lends itself very well to the narrative shift that happens in the first season because for a long time he's like, yeah, yeah, eventually I have to save the world. but first let's go a little bit here and get to episode 8 and the former Avatar is like no other guy, you actually have to defeat the Fire Lord by the end of the summer because this comet is going to come and if you don't do it before, because it will be invincible.

Mastering the elements requires years of discipline and practice, but if the world is to survive, you must do it before the end of summer. It's this big shift in momentum that adds even more risk to the equation. puts a timer on everything they do, in this one they are given a vision of the North Pole being attacked, but that does nothing to address the overall goal of having to learn and master the three elements, something that uh A little note here, he he doesn't do anything the entire season, they set it up as one of the main goals in the original first season and we see a lot of examples of Ang learning to control water and before it pays off in the finale. he doesn't bend the water even once in this version, he's so far behind that it's actually stressing me out, it would have been wise to have focused on your training during your trip.

I swear to God if they start season 2 and Ang is already very good at bending water, which implies. that there was a lot of progress that happened off screen. I'm going to lose my mind and don't try to tell me I already have it. This is me on a good day. As you watch more of the show, that goes a long way. additions are more frustrating because everything comes at a cost, if you have to remove character development moments to have the space to show a bunch of Air Masters on fire, you might want to take a step back and reconsider your priorities, start become It's a bit obvious why the creators of the original show abandoned this project almost four years ago over creative differences.

According to them, they were promised that they would be given the job of guiding the program in the right direction and they were lied to. I'm so tired of these stupid executives who make $2 million a second getting involved in things they have no knowledge of why hire the original creators of the show if you're just going to ignore their input and act like you know their story better than they do. why the concern about making characters unlikeablewhen that was never a problem to begin with, everyone loved qara, saka and ang, even with their imperfections, the imperfections are what make the characters relatable and it's like this is all supposed to be the problem with the network television broadcast. was supposed to be the solution to this, we're not going to micromanage or enforce a bunch of arbitrary rules, we're just going to trust the showrunners to do the job we hired them to do in some way over the course of the last decade.

We've reinvented cable, so good job everyone. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that most of the problems with this version of Avatar are the result of meddling by people who should have stayed away because the potential is there. Here, beneath all the baffling decisions, are the bones of what could have been and could still be a much better series to boot. I think they did a fantastic job with the casting. I imagine it's much harder to cast live-action actors than animated ones because not only do they have to have the perfect voice, but they also have to look good and be the right age and, in this case, be able to practice martial arts.

The fact that they can check so many boxes with these kids is impressive, I just hope. That goes on, they get better material to work with the only character they write consistently well for is Zuko, this guy got it, he's totally intimidating on the outside but a little sensitive on the inside and between him, iro Xiao, Lieutenant G, I think almost all the Fire. The nation scenes were more cohesive and better written than anything the rest of the cast was forced to do, going back to my point that you can and should be able to make changes to an adaptation if they make sense.

I thought a couple of the additions that were made for Zuko's character worked perfectly. There's the revelation that the team Zuko protected from being sacrificed in the meeting that led to his banishment. It's actually the same team he's been commanding for the past 3 years since then, so I thought it was a really cool thing. way of putting everything together makes so much sense that I was actually surprised when I went back and rewatched the first season of the animated series and realized that they didn't do that originally and I also liked the scenes they added with him and Iro, like the Flashback to Io's Son's Funeral, where we see Zuko give him his condolences and a gift to remember his sunshine.

They have another moment like that at the end of this episode, where Zuko is about to go on his never-ending quest to find the Avatar and I'm like, hey, would you mind if he showed up and Zuko is pretty resistant to the idea, but then Iro says that everything What I need is on this boat. It is a very sweet moment, especially with a small gesture they make to the leaves of the vine, a famous and sad episode. from season 2, but I think it's worth noting that this only works for people who have already seen the entire animated series, this only has the emotional weight it does if you go into this show with 30 hours of content.

Please note that this is episode four of the live action, if this is your first exposure to these characters this moment won't have the same meaning for you, it's nice but it feels a little premature. Netflix Avatar has an instant gratification problem where they don't. they want to set up something that can be paid off later, they just want that payoff now and I understand that part of that was probably due to the uncertainty of whether they would get a season 2 and a third, so they were trying to be as shocking as possible. They can do it with this first season, but that will only make their job harder in the future.

Where are they going with some of these characters? There was a big change with Zuko that feels emblematic of the whole philosophy they approach the show with. episode from the first season of the cartoon called The Storm, where we see these juxtaposed flashbacks of Ang and Zuko's passage and learn about the moments that sent them on the trajectories they are on now: he is running away from home and for Zuko he is Getting banished from home, he speaks on a shift at a war meeting and disrespects everyone in the room by saying they should come up with a better plan.

Oai does not appreciate this and tells Zuko that he will have to do Agy Kai, also known as firebending. duel, but when Zuko appears, he is shocked to discover that he is not the general he is supposed to fight, it is his own father. Zuko begs not to have to fight him, in fact he flatly refuses, but this only makes him angrier. Zuko has now disrespected him. twice, so he burns his face and tells her that he can't come home until he finds the Avatar. The Netflix version plays out pretty similarly, but with one big difference, this time Zuko fights back because why would we keep one of the show's biggest moments? when we would be missing an amazing fight scene, he looks at all the fire.

Zuko refusing to fight his father was the best way to show us who he is. Unlike his father, he is not willing to hurt the people he loves. Netflix is ​​something respected. That idea I mean is that Zuko refuses to fight for a few seconds and is eventually burned by his indifferent father. The problem is that you can't justify Zuko being banished forever because he lost a fight against the most powerful Firebender in the world that he wouldn't. it doesn't make any sense so they had to add another wrinkle to make sense of their first wrinkle, which is that Zuko actually could have won, he just chose not to and that's where this scene completely loses me.

Oai is supposed to be the biggest threat in the world. The dreaded villain looms over every second of Ang's journey and you're telling me some random 13-year-old could beat him in a fight. What are we doing here? I also think it's better for Zuko's Arc if he doesn't stand up. for his father yet because then it will mean a lot more when he finally makes it What this decision showed me is that the creators of the Avatar knockoff will always choose flash over substance if we have to fundamentally change two important characters so we can have an extra minute. from pyrot Technics, I bet we're going to do that because this is a show for adults, tell me again why the show made for adults, Netflix's Game of Thrones, had to simplify its writing, every line of dialogue is like this.

Nose, this was my house and now it's gone. They always choose the simplest way to get a point across, but all I know is that I am the Avatar and this is just the beginning. Oh, I get it because he's the Avatar and this is it. At the end of episode one compare these two lines that serve the same function and tell me which of these shows is made for babies you will learn respect and suffering will be your teacher compassion is a sign of weakness compassion is a sign of weakness compassion was weakness the script feels like a first draft filled with a bunch of placeholders that ended up taking that place forever.

I think the moment that made me realize that they really give a damn about what they're doing here was when they reused the same twist three times, so just like in the original Zuko opposes the Fire Nation's plan to attack one place as a distraction so they could attack somewhere else, but then in the first episode they added something where the Fire Nation tricks Earth. Kingdom makes them think that they are going to attack one place as a distraction so they can attack somewhere else and then in the end it is revealed that the entire fight that just took place was to get this to be a distraction so they can attack somewhere else, how is? the rest of the world has not realized now they only have one strategy the entire world will turn their attention to the earthbenders a masterful ruse your highness the enemy's firepower was focused on that distraction we can launch pinning attacks here a masterful ruse your your highness why attack? the north in every distraction the north was never the true objective a masterful ruse your highness not only is that writing so vague but the last one makes no sense they attacked the northern water tribe to distract them from omashu but both sieges happened in the course of a day, even if they somehow knew what was happening because they received an email about it, they still couldn't have arrived in time to help and it's not like the Earth kingdom was distracted from omashu because they were busy helping. the waterbenders weren't there these two things have nothing to do with each other this wasn't a distraction you just did two attacks at the same time and one of them worked and the other didn't they didn't say it in episode 4 either, they knew omashu was going to be attacked.

The Fire Nation forces are on the move. They'll be here when Dawn. Why write that they knew this was going to happen if you're going to leave them so off guard? "We are under attack, we will be, but we will be ready. Does anyone in the newsroom keep track of the things they have said? I know some people will watch this video and accuse me of just hating, but like I did." I don't want to not like this show, believe it or not, it's a lot more fun for me to like things that I don't like.

I will seek the success of this program and everyone involved. I was very excited to see the cast react to the news. They got picked up for two more seasons and I didn't even like the first one. I'm happy for them that they can continue working on this. I think there's a lot of room to grow and I'm happy that they're doing it. I'm being given the opportunity to try to do it. I hope the corporate overlords at Netflix who pushed for all the changes people are complaining about can listen to the criticism and realize that they are only making things worse by intervening.

I think they're going to do that, but I'll choose to be blindly optimistic until proven otherwise. At the end of the day, I would rather this show exist than not exist. It didn't cost me $100 million to do everything I needed to do. was watching Avatar is one of my favorite shows of all time and even if the best thing about this adaptation is that it convinces people to go back and discover the original series for the first time, I will take it and if you are one of those people welcome, uh Sorry I spoiled the first 20 episodes but a lot more happens after that season 2, it's where everything goes to another level, they haven't even introduced Toof but they replace Admiral Xia with a Zula and that's a huge improvement .

Good man, if you haven't seen it yet, go see it. What are you waiting for this video to end? He already did it.