Avatar: The Last Airbender TV Show • Page 15

Shocking, if true.

 

That’s what deadline is reporting anyway. They also confirmed that the seasons will be filmed in close proximity to each other

 

Yeah they're following the cartoon format 1:1. Season 1: water, Season 2: earth, Season 3: fire.

 

Finished the show over the weekend. Thought episodes 1 and 2 were very enjoyable, even with my minor quibbles about lore and character changes. Episodes 3-5 were pretty hard to sit through, even if there were some clever (and poorly executed) changes to combine plotlines - which is a problem the show created for itself by being short. Episodes 6-8 were good to great, and I loved some of the changes and additions. The ending felt like a template for the show.

That being said, they really should have split season 1 in half to allow for better pacing and let there be more character moments. My biggest wishes for seasons 2 and 3 are that they are much longer, have much better dialogue, and let the actors be the kids that they are instead of making them all mopey and have to stand around and dump exposition all the time. The bending/action was great, Zuko was great, Sokka was great, but Katara, Aang, Azula, and Iroh all need a lot more development in my opinion. There's a lot less of what could be considered inessential episodes in seasons 2 and 3, so they need more space to tell the story and not rush to the ending.

 

I really hope we get the lost Appa episodes from season 2, but I feel like they won't include it.

 

I would HIGHLY doubt they’d do a full episode of Appa’s missing days. But I do feel like they would need to at least include a scene or two for Azula to capture Suki. I don’t think there’s any chance they cut Boiling Rock. I guess they could have Suki join back up another way, but I feel like that’ll still happen.

 

was about to watch the new show tonight and then realised I didn't want to and put the original on instead, I'm happy with this decision lmao

 

I appreciate the effort and budget put into a lot of the action sequences and the kid actors got a little better as the season went on, but overall the Netflix show is a pretty bland adaptation. The writing feels clunky and forced, and several of the characters arcs feel deflated. It seems like Iroh and Zuko's relationship was fleshed out a bit more, which I appreciate since I liked Iroh's character the most in the Netflix show.

 

I have mixed feelings so far 3 episodes in. Tonally, it's jarring. Like, within the first few minutes someone is burned to death (although not too gory), but then other episodes (like 3), feel completely childish. I mean, is it still marketed at kids or not?

It also makes me realize how much better some things just work in animation. I really don't mind stuff that's aimed at young adults and even younger (I mean I binged the hell out of both the animated Avatar and Trollhunters and loved both), but this is a struggle at times in live action.

Worst casing so far = Azula (just feels off to me).
Best = Aang

 

man Tales of Ba Sing Se/Appa's Lost Days back to back is just the most insane flex. they really said it's all masterpieces for the second half of that entire season. it's hard to imagine any adaptation ever doing those justice

 

man everything set in the metal city in Korra s3 is so good. probably a hot take but it's one of the best arcs between both shows, it's a shame they'll never adapt Korra to live action because of the backlash

also I didn't realise my first time that they fully introduce Kuvira in s3

 

I definitely don't think that's a hot take. It's an amazing season and I think most people who still heavily favor ATLA seem to have a soft spot for Book 3 of Korra. haha.

Book 3 is proof IMO that the showrunners could have done a much better job with the show as a whole had they been given the green light to make more seasons from the get-go. Book 3 was the only one of the four where they already knew that it wouldn't be the finale.

 

I still haven't seen any of Korra. I'll get around to it eventually.

 

yeah reading up on it and it's crazy how much Nickelodeon screwed them over making Korra. the fact that they had to cut a Kuvira backstory episode in s4 for the clip show is just insane. how do you not give the crew who made ATLA a blank slate to do whatever they want lol

 

If I recall correctly, at the time ATLA did not have the cultural impact yet that it does now. It was considered good by the fans but Nickelodeon had no idea what to do with that type of show, it just didn't fit the rest of their programming. Nowadays it seems obvious but we also now have Avatar Studios, so, I think they get it now

 

fair enough! I only ever watched it in retrospect where the general consensus is that it's a masterpiece. I honestly can't imagine being a kid watching a show like ATLA after school lol

 

It was pretty great, not gonna lie. The worst part was seeing certain episodes out of order, but I vividly remember setting aside the nights they premiered the final episodes of the show so that I could finally see it all come together.

 

best cartoon I religiously followed when I was a kid was Courage the Cowardly Dog. ngl it's underrated to this day

 

Courage is the shit

 

Bautista is The Boulder surely

 

So when this was good, it was great, but there were some things I just didn't like.

- Bumi - that whole episode sucked and really didn't fit in with the rest of the show at all. The costumes looked cheap and the way they filmed that whole episode with the tilted camera like some weird funhouse made it all look fake, corny, goofy. It was hard to sit through that one.

- Azula - the casting is just off the mark for me. I don't want to disparage and go into too much detail, but by far the worst portrayal as far as capturing the shows vibes.

- Also the water bender avatar just reminded me of Dean Winters from the Mayhem commercials (amongst others) and was completely distracting.

- Aang and Zuko were the strongest for me.

Overall, I enjoyed it, but it made some parts more realistic and adult, but then kept some of the more childish aspects to where it was a distracting tonal mish mash at times. I get all TV shows do this, but the quality of effects varied wildly. It seemed they spent more early to hook people in, it got cheap in the middle, and then ended strongly. Though I don't know if I liked the shifting color scheme of the last episode. All black and white except for the fire may have worked better.

 

Glad they're actually trying to cast someone with a vision impairment for the role.