here is the post in the TLA subreddit

ok so the Showrunners of the original distanced themselfs from the live TV show last year and the rumor as to why is because Netflix wanted to do Zutara and sex the show up a bit.

  • HarryLime [any]
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    4 years ago

    What a weird decision. I don't get it at all.

    Netflix wanted to do Zutara and sex the show up a bit.

    Okay, I can see doing Zutara to differentiate it from the old series, but "sexing it up" would be gross. Why not age up Aang then?

    • KasDapital [any]
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      4 years ago

      Or make it easier & just tell a different story like Kyoshi's. Or even just the post war days, when they're trying to establish the new non-bending-nation cities. It would fit in great with what people are already watching, because you could set it up as a new style western kinda like The Mandolorian. Plus the characters wouldn't all be children if the goal is to "sex-up" the series.

      • TossedAccount [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I agree with this. Original stories set in the same universe with the same rules, something like The Mandalorian, would be better than writing what's almost certainly going to be a worse version of a story that everyone loved the first time. Shyamalan tried doing this already and it didn't fucking work.

    • thelastaxolotl [he/him]M
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      4 years ago

      they are probably gonna use Aang being 12 and katara 16 to push Zutara more

      • HarryLime [any]
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        4 years ago

        I never liked Zutara, because it seemed to me like Katara was a family-oriented country girl and would HATE being the wife of a Fire Lord.