What’s Wrong With Avatar The Last Airbender?

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You know what’s even more depressing in the tone department? The fact that every time I see these actors on social media they seem like energetic fun cool people who could totally pull off more cartoony leaning tone.

my jaw instantly DROPPED as soon as you said you NEVER WATCHED IT

katara in the live action series is just "i did some mining off camera".

Moral of the story: don't take something that works in one medium and translate it to another unless you have people that actually care about it…or just don't do it at all

Um, achktually Bumi was not the Earth King; just the king of Omashu. The Earth King is in the Earth Kingdom capital of Ba Sing Se... where I was told there is no war there...

I just wish they'd use the TV budget to adapt the Kyoshi books into live action instead. They're much darker and more dramatic, and they'd fit the tone they want for adults perfectly. Plus they've never been on screen, so there are fewer comparisons.

Don't forget about how they did Monk Gyatsu dirty with how he met his end, especially compared to the animated show where it is obvious that he took a lot of firebenders out with him

It should be noted: Netflix announced the live action series in 2018 so it was only 3-ish years after Korra ended. Netflix began streaming the animated series in anticipation of the live action series

Actually, a lot of fans hate all the extra development given to Ozai. He wasn't supposed to be a real character in the original series, just a sort of representation of the worst of the Fire Nation and the war as a whole. That's why they used him so sparingly, when you use a character like that too much they lose a lot of their presence and just become this bland caricature that's hard to take seriously. Like, the show actually had Zuko fight Ozai in the Agni Kai, and like- what? That was a super important part of the original where Zuko was banished because he refused to fight. It showed off how cruel Ozai was by burning his son even when his son was on his knees begging for forgiveness. It showed how naive Zuko used to be, believing his father would forgive him if he didn't fight. And then Zuko almost wins but doesn't because of personal choices? What the Hell?! Why should we be concerned about Aang beating the Fire Lord when the Fire Lord loses to his preteen son?! Aang doesn't need to master any other elements, he could just go to the Fire Nation right now and beat Ozai! He's already beaten Zuko by this point! Sure, this series gives Ozai more scenes but they add literally NOTHING to Ozai's character. In fact, all they've done is take away.

Someone else is as pissed off about the Aang not learning to waterbend, like even if the weird set up they have there were chances for him to learn, like he could have practiced the water whip with Katara. And the excuses people give, I commented about this on another post or video and someone said "oh but they are making things slower so he will learn through a longer time period off screen, because the animated show was unrealistic by showing Aang learning so fast" I was in complete disbelief with that answer

What sucks is you KNOW the actors all really love the og series and were only given 8 episodes to do the impossible. It was a ridiculous demand

The original creators were actually supposed to help work on the live action show but left due to “creative differences” of course. Meanwhile, shows like the One Piece live action and the Fallout show are being praised because they’re actually good shows on their own and the og creators were also involved with the production. It really seems like the best solution for making legitimately good live action adaptations of animated shows is actually listening and working together with the original creators…shocker.

What a coincidence that this came out the day I finally finished the show myself.

Only thing I can say about the Shyamalan movie... ... There is no live action movie in Ba Sing Se

Also, a small correction on your description of Aang in the first episode of the Netflix show: He doesn't run away. He's stressed out about having just learned that he's the avatar (Right before the festival starts, good job Gyatso), and because he can't sleep he asks Appa to take him on a flight to clear his head. He's literally just talking a walk, which is 100% a reasonable thing to be doing in his shoes. Except the show still frames it like he ran away, so WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THE CHANGE?

Finally someone who considers Avatar a cartoon with anime influence, rather than a straight up anime

When the show creators dipped out during the script writing should have been a sign to everyone that this show wasn’t gonna be a retelling but a different show.

Fun fact the bloodbending episode was originally aired during the week of Halloween so Nick used their new show that wouldn't necessarily make sense to suddenly be celebrating a "Halloweenesque holiday" like Icarly or Drake and Josh by having a Halloween episode without it being Halloween based.

So a few things I do feel like I should mention. 1) Korra isn't bad, it's divisive. The Legend of Korra makes a lot of weird, and honestly bad, decisions during it's run that was a combination of multiple factors that I'm not going into right now. With that said, it has also done a lot of things pretty great as well. It just failed to live up to the expectations of the original ATLA that has a number of fans treating it worse than it actually is. Personally I say the show is worth watching as the positives do generally outweigh the bad, and understand that the fan base generally agrees that Season 2 was just a mistake. 2) I think the big reason why people weigh the Netflix show higher then [There is no Movie inside of Ba Sing Se] is because there does feel like an honest attempt from the Netflix show to actually be faithful. It doesn't, but there are all sorts of tiny nods and all sorts of other things that shows that this was created by people who really do know the show, whereas the movie that doesn't exist feels like someone read a script of the first season once and just went based off of that. 3) I want to make a big suggestion of looking into the actual books when you can. Specifically the Rise of Kyoshi and the Shadow of Kyoshi novels specifically as they are two of the best Avatar content we've gotten in years, but because they are novels, they are easily overlooked by most fans. (I did myself until I ended up catching a glimpse of the story and decided to look into them myself.) Like I know that it isn't usually content you look at, but they are completely worth it if you want to really get to know some of these characters that are barely touched on in the show.