I watched the first episode and tapped out when they decided to show the air nomad genocide on screen and Whoah How Cool Are These Fights Guys instead of what the original did, which was show the deep emotional impact of being the last person of a dead culture in the ruin of their society.
Also they straight up stole lines from Man of Steel lmao
I watched the entire thing, and then when I went online to talk about how disappointed I was about how awful it was I got so much copium in my replies that I was like "did I really miss something?" So I went back and tried to rewatch it.
I got about halfway through episode 2 of the rewatch before I was like "no, this is absolute garbage, how are people lying to themselves about this?"
It's perfectly fine Netflix slop but it's honestly astounding that the original animated series is coming up on 20 years old and they still haven't managed to make an adaption that's even half as good.
Whoah How Cool Are These Fights Guys instead of what the original did, which was show the deep emotional impact of being the last person of a dead culture in the ruin of their society.
Genuinely some of the greatest writing advice I've ever heard in my life: "Nobody gives a shit about the events in your story. They care about how it affects the characters."
Thousands of nameless extras dying in a slaughter is essentially a statistic. What gives it meaning is how it impacts Aangs development and having the audience learn about it and see it through his eyes defacto makes them empathize with him more.
I liked when Aang looked at the camera and told the audience his core personality traits
Ngl I'm kind of still in disbelief that they even made this, given the reception of the film.
Honestly I don't agree that this was even a competent production. I don't even know about how it ruined the original message of the show because I couldn't bring myself to watch the third episode. The writing is genuinely awful, nearly every scene is just characters expositing to each other about the world or telling each other what their characters are. The costume design looks way too clean, it looks like the outfits are made for cosplayers, not for real people who live in a world. The comedy was non-existent. It just sucks.
The blatant exposition about Aang’s struggle ruined the show from the get go.
Brace yourself, the Legend of Korra live action remake is going to be even worse
The actors did a great job and the presentation and everything is good.
That’s the one thing I remember liking about it. They got a very good cast, but I remember zero of the plot and the political subtexts. It was just that forgettable.
It had exponentially more heart and understanding than Shyamalan... and it's still shit. I read somewhere that it "competently missed the mark", which is probably the most succinct way of putting it.
This was the review I was waiting for to justify my avoidance of it. Thank you.
I'm convinced that the show was supposed to be an original story but in order for execs to sign on anything it has to be tied to an existing product/brand. So we end up with a wildly different tone but dressed in recognizable branding.
No need to pay script writers to revise drafts or costume/set designers for new designs. Just rename characters and make it vaguely like the source material.
It really felt like game of thrones when the brother and sister leads go to somewhere called "the cave of lovers".
(as someone who watched the entire original series like three years ago) who the fuck are jet and bumi
