Honest Trailers | Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix Series) 

really the biggest things that were done wrong

I disagreed with most points this made, but that one definitely hit the nail on the head.

They shud hv gone harder on this point, this is THE most aggravating issue w the show

@@Towkeeyohit worked great for the the other Avatar movies (the giant smurfs Avatar), so...

Sadly that show is a humongous pile of doodoo that brings nothing new to the table ​@@Arkios64

Agreed! So ridiculous. I got made fun of once for saying a cartoon could be more realistic than live-action, and I still believe it. How realistic is it for a person to teach themselves to the point of mastery? The cartoon did a much better job of implying Katara's progress, and she didn't just proclaim herself a master; she earned it from Master Pakku through persistence and determination.

​@@cinderbelle22the people of the Northern tribe called her master Katara even after losing to Pakku. It shows she's gifted enough, she just needed guidance. In the animated she got it from the scroll, Aang's advise, bending underground water, and actual battle experience.

yeah, that annoyed me so much, bending seems like something you would need to be taught properly and her just proclaiming that when we haven't at that point actually seen her do really any training apart from making a water bubble and curternly no training from anyone else (that one line from anng doest count) just seemed redicouls. im sure there are prodigies that require less training but they would still need to be taught by someone and katara didn't really seem like a prodigy with how she had trouble on this show making water move at all in the beginning.

She’s the Rey of water benders

What's crazy is by that point she is a master, we just didn't get to watch her learn.

Underrated comment right here. Thank u for noticing this because i thought he did a fabulous job with really the whole character in terms of mannerisms.

Yes he did awesome i loved his character

True 😊

Agreed... I also saw an article that the actor who played him also had prior Martial Arts training, so a lot of the scenes he had to do was him and not a stunt double. Which I thought was great.

My only issue with the character was the scar toned down.

In the series is good too. They kept enough levity

same with sakka in his random videos it sucks, the directing and writting killed this series

@@AlbertoGarcia-wd7scno they didn’t

I think it has to do with the actor's "character" development happening after the show was produced.

​@@kagenohikari8the original cast referrwnce was the cartoon, but they changed the writing after.

Yeah, but IT works Just so much better in a cartoon

It just blows up in my face! LIKE EVERYTHING ALWAYS DOES!

its the- GOD_AWFULL- Cadence! HOW?! ... Dare you?! INSULT ME- LIKE THIS?! EVERYTHING- THAT I SAY- HAS LONG- DRAMATIC- PAAAAUUUSESSSS!!!' BECAUUUUUSE- I AMMMMM-ANGRYYYYYY

He did amazing in the series. Zuko was a dramatic, troubled teen in the cartoon. I think he perfectly captured his personality. It's just cringier in live action

and ppl like to lie and tell themselves there isn't bunch of kids that act just like Live Action Zuko, wich, by the way, is probably the best thing on the show. Even the changes they made were really good and on character@@MrSlowpez10

And makeup needs some work too. Yue's wig looked weird.

yeah most of the items and places look a bit worn down and dirty like you might expect places to look if the world has been a war for the past 100 years and then you had everybody in bright clean clothes that looked newer then new.

I have noticed in recent times, everything is too clean, even being covered in dirt, the dirt is too uniform.

That’s one thing the movie did better.

I mean… the cartoon is the same way. Also I thought somewhere someone sew their clothing?

Yeah, it is the MCU issue. At what point is it not longer live action and just really expensive animated show.

@@goldmemberpb How can bending even be made without CGI and you're insinuating that animation is inferior to live action. Did you forget that Avatar is an animation?

they didn't even use vents to make aangs robe float

Waterbending that's so CGI, no one ever gets wet.

​@@GuyWithAnAmazingHatYou got it backwards. They're insinuating the animated version is superior, since there's so little actual live action stuff in this that one has to question what was even the point

Everyone: "No. No, you won't."

They show so much, but most of the viewers don't pick it up though. And, just like the original, they tell once, show at the same time at another instance, and then show again over the course of the season.

@@Xeno87 The viewers who don't pick it up need to get better at reading the situation. Don't dumb it down for everyone else. Tell the story well and let the rest go.

@@ActuatedGear And then your series ends up cancelled after season 1. You gotta maintain a balance between entertaining those who don't get it and educating those who can receive the message.

This 👆🏻

MY CABBAGE!

"Say the line Bart"

please say “Netflix avatar the last air bender the offender”

Not my cabbage corp!!

XD lol

This!!!

It's very hard to manage that while shooting. Imagine you have to dry or change your clothes every time. Same reason why food is never eaten on a set. It's either it will be inconsistent during editing, or the actor will be full due to the number of takes.

Yeah he was an edgy theatre kid from the knife day

For the original it’s hyperbole. For this it’s just completely accurate.

@@wildfire9280 Zuko *IS* limitless theatre kid energy personified. Wore a theatre mask to commit multiple crimes, screamed at the universe on a mountaintop to strike him with lightning, collapsed dramatically in a fever because he did a good thing, yelled at a toad for not validating him after practicing his "I'm good now" speeches for it, "WHAT TURMOIL?!" "WHY AM I SO BAD AT BEING GOOOD?!?" "I don't NEeD AnY cALminG TeA!!" No hyperbole in Zuko being dramatic AF in all things. Anything less would have just been insulting. 😆🎭

Not to mention having a beef with the Ember Island Players even before they saw the atrocious Avatar play for butchering Love Amongst the Dragons "every year." Absolute theatre nerd. ❤️

But Dante Basco is a better actor.

The GOAT has left us..

Kamehameha

This!!

Kamehameha

KA....

LMAO I'm dying

NAAAAAH THIS IS THE MOST FOULL CROSSOVER OF BAD WRITING EVER 😂😂

It sounded exactly like that 😂😂😂

Imagine fusing with the water spirit, and the bro just sends you to Amazon

tbh i am okay with the ocean spirit line, i have seen the show many time and i never realized it was the ocean spirit not aang untill that line.

From what I hear, they've already written season 2. Hopefully they have enough time to incorporate some feedback 😬

They treat like 90% of us didn't watch the cartoon. It's really dumb decision

@@herdiansyah9982 no, that would be ok, they treat it like we arent even watching the show itself

This show is way more mature than the cartoon I swear. The characters are constantly telling me so.

Whyareugay?

Agreed. That actor was giving it his all.

​@@asmodiusjones9563 i enjoyed this show

If anything, Zuko needs to be intense. Great job by the kid.

😂 His reaction to "What's The Plan?" Was absolutely perfect

I started dying 😂

I kinda makes sense if he assumed the Avatar was just hiding the entire time.

he knows hes in an anime.

I dunno if telling is always required. One of my favorite villains of all time is so damn good because they never tell you how and why he thinks the way he does. His decisions felt like they made sense but they were still surprising. I've seen a dozen different reviews who all had a different explanation for how he came to be what he was or even what his sexuality was, whether he actually cared for people or not at all. What made that villain so special was exactly the just not telling anything. The author even cut a chapter from the official release because it revealed too much.

More like: "You tell more by showing"

@@sergiosarmiento4371 And show more by telling. :) Kind’a a balance between the two, or favoring one over the other. Got to be some showing, but also got to be some telling. One without the other can prove incomplete (though not always). :)

@@merakimelodies8931 they are not equivalent though, there's clearly one more important than the other when it comes to watchable media. The whole point of the expression is that in tv shows and movies, if possible it's better to convey an idea with an image than with words, and when it's not possible or effective, there are clever ways to do expository scenes that don't disrupt the flow of the story.

"Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony....etc etc". This is tell, and its one important aspect in avatar. There are times when its better to tell, and there are times when show is better.

You're tearbending!

You are a punbender

There is only some much they can afford to do.

​@@meoff7602 you'd think with a netflix-paying writing team they'd have better dialogue

I agree with this. The show was better than the first attempt and the cast is good too. The dialogue needs work... it feels like the original anime dialogue and that wont work in the live action... I did love Bumi however...

​@meoff7602 you'd think with a netflix-paying writing team they'd have better dialogue

Definitely don't keep Azula.

Azula: The *HANGRY* 🤭

And yet we don't see aang water Bend at all

SUCH a glaring mistake by the writers@@randomgeekcrap

Curse you, James Cameron...😡

It's even funnier since the guy playing Zhao thought he was auditioning for THOSE movies. "I thought I'd be blue!"

It's annoying because she kind of is, but this adaptation skipped SOO much story we dont get to see the growth. They just skip aangs waterbending training altogether.

That already bothered tf out of me in the cartoon but this is beyond that

Fartbending is best bending

And soggy balls lol

I mean they had to do something, realistically unless you pick up dust air bending would be invisible 🫥 terrifying honestly, the world is lucky the air nomads were all about peace and self control

he said dust farts

@@audreyanna7628they could have maybe added a cloud like effect to give it substance. But aside from that I think they did their best

So she now uses food to cope 🤭

@@Chilling_Chilling DAMN

OMG YOU ARE SO FUNNY! THAT SURE IS THE MOST POIGNANT JOKE TO EVER EXIST 😑 @@Chilling_Chilling

@@grmgt so triggered that you went *all caps* 😂 Have another 🍔 it's on the house, Biggie Smalls

@@Chilling_Chilling And you are so brainless that failed to understand sarcasm. Well, that's on me for thinking that a person that makes kindergarten jokes could get anything at all.

It's because live action and animation has different timings to convey the same things and emotions. Also, the biggest problem with this show is structure. Is different to writte 8 episódes from nothing, intended to be a TV Show from the beggining transform 20 episodes into eight. Because they are little stories, with each other having their own arcs and serving to especific propurses. So they need to desconstruct all episodes and resconstruct the storylines to make it fit to the eight episode netflix estructure. And i think they did a really great job with it. Their problems lie much more in bad dialogue, excessive explanation and minor changes so the narrative fits the hollywood patherm of storytelling that usually fucks the characters unintencionally. But i think mostly of mainstream media, specially netflix shows and blockbuster movies, suffer from this problems. I think this show can get better and better and we may have a really great final season.

People say its different, but why does it take different timing to convey the same emotions? @@heitoroliveira5166

​@@heitoroliveira5166 actually they also added scenes or arcs from future seasons. For ex I think azule does not appear in book 1. So they run out of time because they wanted to introduce things earlier...

Yes! The intro sequence wasted 20mins of runtime. A lot of NATLA original content stole runtime from important plot elements.

The anime is about 78 minutes longer. Especially since the Netflix original has two episodes from ATLA season 2.

But all of the handholding exposition seems like it was all made for 6 year olds. They cant quite seem to nail down which audience their after.

The Cartoon was more mature than both of the live adaptations

@@wadewilson452 Keep telling yourself that. Maybe one day, it might come true.

@@Bad_Wolf_Media have u watched the cartoon?

@@bluemyst42No 6 year old wants to sit through that much handholding exposition. The target audience for that is no one. Or maybe Wheel of Time fans.

have you seen Korra?

I love that the actor playing the cabbage vendor WAS the guy who voices him.

Rise of the Cabbatar

Cabbage Corp. 🥬

Yeah, The not so amazing Spider-man 2.

You mean King Bumi? He always looked like that, since the original series.

maby it was a fake eyebrow that he stuck on.

@@pinkpixie8686 this is the only way they could make it a funny scene. Him and Iroh are at a bath house, the eyebrow starts to peel, Iroh looks confused and reaches over to pick at it and pulls it off. Zuko freaks out and Iroh laughs. They could do something like that, but they won't 😂

When hope is gone, undo this lock. And send me forth on a moonlit walk. Release Restraint Level...ZERO. 😈

I'm not apologizing.

And kill homicidal firebenders.

Ocean Spirit, after joining with the Avatar: "You done goofed."

A REAL fxking avatar.

Yes please!

Protect the hive

it was good imo. Just a bit lacking side-actors/stories.

I don’t know if it hit streaming yet.

I'd rather see a trailer for The Beekeper

Further adding to the humor in this statement is the movie a bridge too far probably could have used with a lot more editing. Though I watched it in the 90's so maybe my historical reference is off and people of the time loved the drawn out scenes.

If movie studios actually listened to the feedback of the fans then these shows and movies wouldn't exist

I come from an anime loving viewpoint and to me it seems odd that after hating the first season, or dislikign it very much, people will still tune in to season two.l If they messed with all the other female characters, it is unduobtful that they will do the same to Toph.

They need to recast Azula and Mei. Idk what the hell they were doing but they missed by a mile.

@@kipolem53 Damn, youre probably right. Toph is a fan favorite too, if they screw that up its basically over.

@@_M....Yeah, I know Azula is supposed to be younger than Zuko, but she just looks way too young. And also too round faced, not angular enough

That scene made us tearbend.

Wait until they make the live action of Bloodbending

@@margarethmichelina5146He wasn't talking about bloodbending...

@@margarethmichelina5146 yeah I can see that line not aging well if they do the bloodbending ep in live action.

@@kryhigh9302 Exactlyy🤣🤣🤣

Iroh's tea bending?

It's like a videogame 😂

Some people say that the actor was ineffective because he's "not funny." It's the writing, folks. Sokka needs better material.

He was definitely not pulled from the animated series. he's far far away from his character

And Zuko

Fun fact: Sokka wasn't originally going to be a funny character. It was his voice actor who brought that comedic side to the character.

@@ghazi5841 yeah, but that's on the writing. In all the lines that were in character he made it work.

I heard good things about Suki too.

The only thing that nailed is theirs ⚰️...

But Aang's character was butchered... No fault on the actor

They took between 10 and 30% of the characterization from a would be perfect Sokka

I wouldn’t say Kyoshi was nailed considering she just shouted at Aang the whole time and Kyoshi was previously a very calm and stoic character

What a twist!

Kinda like saying it's better than chlamydia.

Exactly.

So, bare minimum.

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se

*Stilgar approves of this*

​@@balut76 Madhi!

​@@balut76as it's written

Academy Award Winner Godzilla Minus One*

@@Gzilla313 Yeah!

Godzilla Kong whatever its called, "A movie that came out three months after a popular Godzilla film straight ut of Japan, that won an Oscar for best visual effects which this new one has no chance of getting nominated for and would lose to Dune Part Two anyway."

Yes. Absolutely

They have to wait for the DVD release to get the footage. Japanese movies take much longer to get to DVDs. You'll have to wait a bit longer for that one ...

best costume in the show, unfortunately one of the worst characters, removing her humbling sokka and just making her boy crazy

The actress that plays Suki is gorgeous 😍

Unfortunately, that's true. Makes me wonder whether those people did watch the animated series

​@@mohdamerulaidilbinrazisahm7317 They did not want Sokka to be mysoginistic in this show which unfortunately made Suki kinda useless.

​@@thevinisoThey really should have kept his sexism. Characters need flaws. Even the good guys. But it seems they no longer trust audiences to understand that White Hats having personality flaws doesn't mean the show is supporting or promoting said flaw, so now every good guy character has to be boring.

they played leaves on the vine, instrumental style, that iroh sings in tales of bah sing say on the anniversary of his sons death. i think one of the only good things about the new show was iroh and liked that scene too, it added some nice backstory to iroh and zuko and there relationship.

a good suggestion. Let me reply to promote this within the algorithm.

They have to wait for a home video release.

Given how boring the first half of that movie was, I still don't know how it beat Across the Spiderverse or Elemental.

@@christopherhughes3551From what I heard it was intentional to slow the pace to make the viewer focus

@@oliverdelica2289 My friends and I were focused...on not falling asleep. Lol.

"A movie that made the crybaby voicing Miles Morales post his rage on social media despite the honor of getting a nom in the first place..."

He's looking for a 110 year old man, not a 12-year-old child

That would be such a good one

Please!

They will have to wait till it’s out on DVD…which might be a while.

@@mkdemigodzillawarriorShin Godzilla has been out for 7 years. You’re thinking about Godzilla Minus One.

@@mkdemigodzillawarrior I think you're thinking of Godzilla Minus One

”I am a super sandwich!”

​@@RabbitShirakI'm Goku! I'm insane! From Earth!

I'm the light in the fridge