The show wasn't even that great. The third season was aggressively mediocre
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I like that in the netflix version they added scenes that weren't in the original. My favorite is the scene of Lu Ten's funeral. Iroh is just sitting there silent but you can see on his face that is he is broken inside but everyone comes up to him and congratulates him that his son died a hero. No one says it but for me it felt like in the fire nation culture you're not allowed to mourn the death of those who died in battle, which is a crazy concepts but fits with the Fire Nations fascist ideology.
I couldn't find the whole scene, but here is the last part of it (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hwPn2gJ1B_U). For context, Zuko has gone up to Iroh and said that Lu Ten's death is great honor. But when he was about to leave he comes back and thats when the above video starts.
These scenes add so much to the character of Iroh, Zuko, Lu Ten (whose character we did know anything about in the original) and to war-time Fire Nation culture. It's amazing!
My favorite part of that scene is that the background music is the tune of "Leaves From The Vine"
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I agree and also thought they did a pretty good job. Not perfect, but perfection is never attainable and for having to squeeze everything into 8 episodes, they did well!
Yeah this scene is great. There are a few more good additions, I have written about it at [email protected] already. My favourite episode is "Masks" with the blue spirit.
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I know… it worked for Mean Girls and The Color Purple…
Avatar: the Last Airbender Musical
It's not bad. Stop perpetrating this clickbait.
Edit: I was wrong y'all. It's trash
To be fair, I haven't gotten to more than Ep1 yet, because ep.1 was so bad I lost all excitement. The visuals are nice, and I personally don't mind little lore inconsistencies like flying that much, but the dialogue was really really bad, and I did not like frontloading the whole airbender genocide plot. Yes, 90% of the viewers probably have seen the original and know the plot, but it still robs me of the experience of discovering the truth and learning about Aang together with sokka and Katara. Idk, I just really like the structure of the original show, and I didn't appreciate the swap.
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How am I going to feel better about myself if I'm not shitting on stuff online? How do you expect me to feel superior to people who enjoy something without whining about how bad a show is?
I watched an episode. It's really bad. I rewatched the series this last year so I could compare it. Just because someone agrees with the popular sentiment doesn't mean they're perpetrating (perpetuating?) click bait.
I agree. I stopped watching after the first episode. It was extremely bad. I would understand if it's worse than the show, but it's just bad in general. The best comparison I could give is a really bad CW show. It not only fails as a remake, but fails a lot of basic television fundamentals. I understand people have different opinions, but it was so bad that it was almost objectively awful.
You watched an episode. That's not representative for all episodes. Simple as that.
I gave a show an hour of my time to get me to watch a universe I already like and know. If it can't "get" me in an hour, and THAT'S your front facing first episode? Nah, not worth my time
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Aang flies like Superman in the first minute of his first appearance in the first episode. I rolled my eyes so hard that my brain reset to zero expectations mode. It's good enough to be background noise, specially if you don't watch or ignore the actors faces most of the time (except Sokka, he kills it). But it is nowhere near anything that can be called good.
there's plenty of steps between bad and good. let's call it mediocre, or mid,or meh or, whatever flavor you want. I really don't think that flight moment was as bad as people are making it out to be. he uses tornadoes to push himself up in various ways in the animated series. this was that, but a bit longer. he didn't fly around like super man. he hovered on top of a vortex of wind for like 10 seconds at most.
I agree that the acting isn't great. good child actors are actually really rare. that said, people are overreacting calling it trash. especially since no one I've heard call it that actually gave it a fair shot.
It lasts 40 seconds and he is in Superman pose flying for the most of it. I didn't call it that out of spite, I actually enjoyed the whole series. But it is mid. Sure, maybe not trash like the Shyamalaladingdong movie, but I don't want to have to sit through it ever again.
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Ok, while I agree that was super cringe and there is definitely some more throughout, it's pretty short sighted to deem the entire remake bad when the first episodes are generally never the best in the seasons. They had to cram a lot of back story in and only had 8 episodes. I found the first episode to be the weakest out of the entire season. Overall, it's mid, but not bad and has some really enjoyable moments.
Also, I assume the flying is due to budget constraints, and it would have been too expensive to cgi a ball of air to fly on.
To each their own, though. Everyone's got their opinions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh, good call, I will do the math. The 8 live-action episodes last between 48 and 63 minutes each, in total they are 434 minutes of runtime. Roughly about the same as the whole animated season 1, which was 20 episodes that last 24 minutes each, so total 480 minutes. They only had 46 minutes less than the animated show to tell the exact same story.
Right but it's easier and cheaper to tell a story through animation vs live action. Just because the live action run time is close to the original animation run time, doesn't mean it's practical or feasible to do the same in live action.
I don't think animation and live action can pace the same for something like this. Things that feel rushed in animation feel rushed ten fold in live action. I'd think episodes would at least need to be expanded to a solid half hour for pacing when it comes to a live action.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a perfect adaption. But, I think that would require a HUGE budget and would have to be a billionaires passion project for all the cgi and general costs it would need to properly make an ATLA live action that perfectly follows the animation.
Since that's never going to happen, I appreciate the live action we have for what it is, and between budget and time constraints, I think they did a good job.
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Episode 2 is good. Episode 6 is good. Haven't seen 7 and 8 yet.
The other episodes are definitely mid.
I watched 1 and 2 back to back and couldn't help but laugh at the fact that Aang learns how to cry in between episodes, or they applied fake tears for Gyatso's funeral or something. Bless their child actor's hearts, they tried very hard. But I don't think even Oscar winners could've done much with some of the atrocious dialogue that plagues some episodes. But yeah, mid would be a rather apt descriptor.
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I really enjoyed the live action. Imo, it cut a lot of the filler from the animated show. I dislike wasting my time watching an episode that adds nothing to the plot.
I really think they should have just continued the story, rather than try to reboot it. I really hope they continue it though.
The animated universe will still be continued with movies coming out in the next few years. I think there is more info at [email protected] about that somewhere.
I also hope the live action gets a second season at least.
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