Spoilers Avatar: The Last Airbender - Netflix Live Action Version
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Azula's actress just didn't look menacing enough. Its def a tough ask for the age you are intending the character to be... But she just gives Kamala/Miss Marvel feeling. Not a deranged uber-badass.It's a fictional story, so everything goes!
I like Kyoshi village story the most. I was surprised how good it looked in the live action adaption.
Princess Azula on the other hand had really good written story, but the actress didn't look the part she was playing. Not menacning enough.
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The rest of the cast were really good picks aspecially Bumi:
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Together with One Piece, this are the best adaptions i have seen to date. Netflix really did it!
Now i am super excited to see their take on 3-Body Problem adaption next month.
She is a scheming, backstabbing, egomaniac, narcissistic, mentally unstable antagonist throughout.
Well, let's see...
That was odd to me too. Thinking about it now, I suspect it's because they shifted the focus toward the idea of Aang depending on his friends rather than being a lone Avatar. They played up that theme throughout the season, with his past lives insisting he had to go it alone and Aang realizing that it was his friends that gave him his strength. So the emphasis was less on learning bending and more on that philosophical clash with his predecessors.
Relatedly, since they played up his past-life communions so much more, that shifted the focus more toward the spiritual side and the legacy of being the Avatar, as opposed to the bending itself.
I don't disagree, but I see that a consequence of the short season length rather than a flaw in the concept. Recall that there was a time jump halfway through the season, with reference to the Gaang having adventures we hadn't seen. So there was more time for Katara to study than we were shown. Also, getting the waterbending scroll from Gran-Gran right off the bat justified her faster learning curve. That, plus it showed that Aang was a good teacher for Katara, as opposed to Katara being a teacher for Aang.
There was also the fact mentioned in the climactic episodes, that Katara had actual real-world combat experience while the Northerners only had theory. Katara learned fast because she had to, because she was fighting for her life and her friends' lives. And because she traveled widely and observed other bending styles that she could learn from, like the way she innovated the ice-disk technique based on watching Bumi's Earthbending. That adds to the theme of people from different Nations learning from each other, the way friendship with others makes us stronger than isolation and separation.
Setting up Yue earlier as the fox spirit also helped deepen her role. At first I thought that giving the kitsune only three tails was a budgetary choice to save on animation, but it turned out to be a reflection of Yue's three-tailed hairstyle. Also it indicated her youth, since more tails on a kitsune (up to the maximum of nine) denote more age and wisdom.
Yup. She's fine. Doesn't need the maniacal look to convey her insanity.
So a typical woman.
When the directly quote the show it really stands out to me. Like when Iroh warns Zhao about harming the moon spirit, his line and Zhao's response was lifted right from the animated series
Whereas I tended to be more impressed by the new additions, the bits that I didn't already know and expect, that added fresh new angles and textures. Though I wasn't immune to the thrill of seeing a familiar moment recreated.
Despite already being smack-dab in the middle of a Division Adventure 2020 watch-through, I decided to watch the first episode of the show so that I could watch some reaction videos (and to kill time before the WWE aired their Elimination Chamber event from Perth, Australia early this morning), and while I still have issues with the age-to-characterization ratio of the kid characters, I did like the writing, design, and overall narrative structure of the story.
Immediately delving into Aang's history and disappearance was an important decision in terms of hooking in general audiences who aren't/weren't already fans of the franchise and for immediately endearing viewers to him as a character (although I personally would've used captions to indicate that we'd skipped ahead 100 years after Aang crashed into the water and went all Avatar State instead of leaving that revelation for expository dialogue).
I don't remember if the Avatar State was this uncontrollable in the animated series, but if it wasn't, I like the change because it adds tension and a real sense of danger to things instead of the Avatar State just being this ultra-power mode that Aang ought to just be dipping into constantly.
As I said at the start, I still don't think they cast actors who match the ages of the kid characters that they're playing, but there were still things that I liked about what said actors gave us, namely Dallas Liu's interpretation of Zuko's obsession, Gordon's conveyance of Aang's quick shift from selfishness to selflessness, and Kiawentiio's conveyance of Katara wanting to step up and be a warrior. I still hate Sokka, though, so the actor playing him at least got that right.
I don't know how quickly I'll get through the show since I want to watch reaction videos about each episode, but I did overall like the premiere and most of the adaptational choices that have been made thus far.
Immediately delving into Aang's history and disappearance was an important decision in terms of hooking in general audiences who aren't/weren't already fans of the franchise and for immediately endearing viewers to him as a character (although I personally would've used captions to indicate that we'd skipped ahead 100 years after Aang crashed into the water and went all Avatar State instead of leaving that revelation for expository dialogue).
I don't remember if the Avatar State was this uncontrollable in the animated series, but if it wasn't, I like the change because it adds tension and a real sense of danger to things instead of the Avatar State just being this ultra-power mode that Aang ought to just be dipping into constantly.
As I said at the start, I still don't think they cast actors who match the ages of the kid characters that they're playing, but there were still things that I liked about what said actors gave us, namely Dallas Liu's interpretation of Zuko's obsession, Gordon's conveyance of Aang's quick shift from selfishness to selflessness, and Kiawentiio's conveyance of Katara wanting to step up and be a warrior. I still hate Sokka, though, so the actor playing him at least got that right.
I don't know how quickly I'll get through the show since I want to watch reaction videos about each episode, but I did overall like the premiere and most of the adaptational choices that have been made thus far.
Those poor Americans. Having to stay up late to watch the event. I feel so sorry for you.
Those poor Americans. Having to stay up late to watch the event. I feel so sorry for you.
I could've gone to sleep and woke up at 2 AM to watch the event, but deliberately chose to pull an all-nighter just because I could.
On-topic, both of the ATLA fan reaction videos I've watched (or am currently watching, as the case may be) mentioned how much more intense and graphic the depiction of what fire actually does to the body is here, that it's not something that they were really expecting, and how it makes the live-action not as all-ages-friendly as the animation was, but , honestly, I think such sentiments underestimate just how much kids can handle when it comes to violence and/or horror.
So a typical woman.
I don't care if you turn around and claim you were joking; misogyny has no place on this board and you have a warning for trolling.
Watched episode 2 today, and I it was just as good as the first one. I don't remember the episode that well, but from what I do remember they did a pretty good job of hitting the major plot points from what I do remember. I didn't realize Tamlyn Tomita was in this, so her popping up as Suki's mom was a nice surprise.
I'm not totally sold on Ken Leung as Zhao yet, he's a good actor, but I would have expected Zhao to be a lot more intense and intimidating, and IMO at least, Leung really wasn't either of those things here.
I'm not totally sold on Ken Leung as Zhao yet, he's a good actor, but I would have expected Zhao to be a lot more intense and intimidating, and IMO at least, Leung really wasn't either of those things here.
Is the whole thing with Kyoshi showing Aang the Fire Nation's attack on the Northern Water Tribe new? I don't remember them having any reason to go there other than wanting to train in the animated series.
They do take a different approach to Zhao here, but it makes sense in the context of some of their other adjustments.
Yeah, it's new.
They couldn't use Sozin's Comet as the ticking clock, because the cast's aging from season to season requires them to be loose about the time frame. So they came up with another plot driver to replace it.
Which is better than the Shyamalan movie; as I think I mentioned a while back, the problem with the visions there is that the Dragon Spirit didn't tell Aang anything except that he needed to do exactly what he was already doing anyway, making the visions utterly pointless.
Which is better than the Shyamalan movie; as I think I mentioned a while back, the problem with the visions there is that the Dragon Spirit didn't tell Aang anything except that he needed to do exactly what he was already doing anyway, making the visions utterly pointless.
"The online fanbase" is never happy about anything. They get mad when things like this aren't exactly like what they're adapting, but then if they were to do an exact recreation of the source material in whatever the new form is, they'd be mad they weren't more creative and didn't make changes.
It's not the entire fanbase; as always, it's just a closed-minded minority that pretends it speaks for everyone and shouts loudly enough to drown out everyone else. I'm sure Netflix is paying attention to actual viewership figures instead of that predictable, meaningless noise. And I fully intend to rewatch the season before too long, so I'll be doing my part.
Reddit, youtube, twitter...
Hell even on Rotten tomatoes, it is now rated as "rotten" after the critic reviews have come in. So it seems critics also hated it.
Please tell me these sites where its positive, it would be nice to read positive discourses
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