Netflix's Avatar The Last Airbender is BRUTAL 

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@@eglantinepapeau1582idk *spoilers* Aang didn’t even learn any water bending in the book of water. A second season SHOULD be book of earth. Now he’s lost a bunch of time that should’ve been spent learning water bending. They fucked up bad there.

relatable tbh

But additions are changes.

​@@Attackontitanfan143they mean like the adaptations of the source material is bad, but extra additions they made is good

A Kyoshi prequel live action show wouldve been so good

I think one of my peeves with Netflix, is constantly trying to turn animation into live action needlessly. The original story is fine the way it is, it's better to just tell a different story in the same universe so that it can stand on its own feet. So telling a story about a different avatar like kyoshi would absolutely be better.

Wait till you find out about Yangchens torture fetish

@@kindred6453you also wouldn’t get comparisons to the original story because you’re making something new. It’s harder to go wrong

They can even start after the novels. Plenty of time to cover.

Me who listened to how they pronounced the name “yeah that sounds about how I feel about the name too. Aung”

I heard it as "ong" 😂

Thats the bare minimum, but holy hell im also glad they arent doing that

"My name is Ong! 👩‍🦲 And I'm the oyvatar"

@@anastasia_852 🤣🤣EXACTLY

Saying that is also kind of rude though lol

@@steampocalypse2429 what do you mean

@@DavidAntonio-uw1co Imagine someone saying 'not to be rude but-' to you

@steampocalypse2429 yeah but it's in away where the person cares enough to at least try and seem like they care somka is rude in the way where he neither doesn't care or doesn't know hes being rude

That would have been far better. Sokka doing his whole dramatic panic thing and then trying to get Katara to help with her bending. Ig they could have had her start trying to pull it calmly but Sokka keeps running his mouth and they start fighting. Finally Katara screams something at him kinda like she did in the animation and tries to aggressively yank her arms back sending the canoe flying and as her arms fly back towards the iceberg you can see a crack from starting at the edge of the ice where they're standing and just following the path made by her arms towards Aang's iceberg causing then large release of air. Katara nearly being blasted into the water and Sokka having to scramble to catch her and cover her with his body while holding a weapon out in front of them.

@@ericanight8359 dude! thats such a cool idea! sokka poking at the boat thus distracting katara as she waterbends would be such an easy change that doesnt even need them to include his sexism really and yet would still make the characters that much more interesting and engaging.

@@harderlarder1939 They honestly could still include his sexism in that. “Just let me do it. Should’ve known not to rely on a girl.” Or something like that. Which would have set of Katara’s rage. ANYTHING to show that these actually are the characters that they’re supposed to be.

@@ericanight8359 truuu. its honestly such a sad thing because it really doesnt take that much work to characterize them at least somewhat well. all it would take is just tiny details in the story, small writing and directing changes to make it that much more interesting. I do think the problems with this show run a little deeper than that, but its just tiny things could be added to make these characters more than just flat, cardboard recreations of their original selves.

yeah, it was weird (and kind of funny how calm both of them were and they barley had a reaction

Tbh i love the idea, it makes total sense with all that time exiled and the anxiety he would be so obsessed with the avatar so he tries to find all the info to find a way to fight him and catch him

EXACTLY, if anything Yangchen screwed it up for Kuruk, mans deserved better.

@@GibGab_Gabora tbf every Avatar screws something up that the next one has to fix.

@@BishopTDE pretty much lmao

What about Kyoshi to Roku ​@@BishopTDE

I honestly hated this change to Yangchen.

…That’s actually deeply disturbing. I am American and that’s definitely the parallel I drew. I know school shooting have been culturally normalized here a lot and it’s in my psyche cause I did do active shooter drills in school. But I don’t like seeing it jump out somewhere where you wouldn’t see it if you weren’t primed to. Horrid reflection of the situation here.

@@isabelmcgaugh711 I'm American, but didn't notice the parallel at all. Maybe because we didn't have such drills when I was a kid in the 90s. Maybe because while I heard of school shootings, I didn't really have any first-hand experience with them outside of the news/fiction. Idk.

That makes so much sense because even the adult performances in this just didn't stick the landing for me. They all felt super unnatural and corny

What also doesn't help is the writing, with the exposition and disregard of show don't tell.

This! I feel they made Katara and my girl Kiawentiio so dirty 😭 i love her performance in Anne with an E and to see her performance in this show was so underwelming

Are you an idiot? Yes? Alright

It’s like they were trying to…appeal to a wider audience or some shit? They took any hint of edge or controversy in story out.

Lots of dumb unnecessary changes

he kinda did, i mean he left to clear his head after getting the news about being the Avatar after ranting to Appa about not wanting the responsibilities. but yeah it was a lot less direct as to why he ran off

he Zoro-ed his way out of the war

I noticed this too it's like they're allergic to giving characters flaws and personalities and just anything that'd make them relatable and seem human.

I lowkey think you're going a little too hard on Iroh I liked him a lot in this a lot more than the movie for sure, I have also only seen one episode so I'm hopeful that they continue to improve

Growing up as an American half my time in the classroom was planning how I would stop a shooter hahaha... It's horribly sad when you really stop to think about it.

…I really did just causally accept the wild reality as a teenager that we had to regularly practice active shooter drills. Most people I talked to in high school agreed that they’d fantasized about what they’d do in a shooter situation. like risking a broken leg to escape out of the third story window and shimmy down the drain pipe, or just laying down under your pack back and pretending to be dead. Deeply grim.

I think maybe it's because Aang's actor is too young to convey emotions. And sometimes it does feel like they're just reading off a script. But other than that, I think they nailed it. One Piece Live Action was done amazingly too.

Luffy's actor was personally cast by Oda. Oda being on the OPLA project and having creative control is what probably made the casting for one piece feel so right and with great chemistry. We should have been way more skeptical when the main creators jumped ship.

The crazy part is that Inaki Godoy ACTS LIKE LUFFY in his everyday life. It's like if he was made real by some crazy wish

​@@Saskfinest1 This is sooo true. When the creators bounce, it's time to be very suspicious. I know I was, because I remember being super excited when I heard they were going to work on it. It truly sucks that they were about to be part of it, and it's crazy that they let them leave! I would've done everything to make them stay 😅

Probably to try and convert/convince all the animation haters out there 💀🙃

Precisely. People just don't respect animation as a medium, every single animated thing needs to arbitrarily be given an inferior, useless live action version that misses what people liked about the original and wastes everyone's money.

@@Byakkoya11037 I disagree. It is not that live action is worse its that western adaptations of any media is worse. We have some of the most arrogant and useless directors in the world who are arrogant and think they can make a better version of the version people collectively fell in love with. The only shows that have done good adaptations always have someone important forcing them to stay faithful to the source material

That's right respect the medium or miss out. I don't care. I had my fill of greatness. People are like: "Oh this would be so cool if this was life action" Why? Well then more people would watch it. And see the greatness that is - insert show Why aren't they watching the original? It is great now. Why can't they see the greatness now? Well they would never watch anime/cartoons. Well WOOP DEE fuckin' DOO.If people are blocked by the medium then THEY'RE the ones missing out, not me. I'm sorry but if you can't respect the medium then you will sadly miss out. And there's that. I can't force people to their happiness. You'll just have to try and broaden your horizon and see what happens. Are all animes or cartoons great? No, some are good some are bad. Are all live-action movies great? No, some are good some are bad. It's just another medium. It's like streaming services. Well this show only runs on Amazon Prime Sorry. You're gonna have to go and get Amazon Prime if you wanna watch this show. You're gonna have to watch Cartoons if you wanna catch this show. And if you don't that's okay. You will never watch it. I'm super okay with that, too.

Money. They want money, and popular IPs are safer than making something new.

Do you think it has to do with character writing changes to Katara and Sokka? I think their character writing fell flat but they really do look and act like them. I hope that changes if there’s a book 2 adaption.

Really?? I kinda thought Aang lacked quite a bit of personality. They did a bit too much telling and not enough showing with him as a character. I like zuko and I think Katara and sokka aren't that bad

This katara is so dull, was kind weird when she make all the women fight beside her . And they make grangran is wiser than iroh

It’s mostly katara for me. She feels so hollow, like she’s not even there. If the others have bad acting sometimes, I mostly blame it on directing because they’ve actually shown that they can portray their characters to a certain extent. But I swear there is nothing about this actress that feels like katara

I think that Zuko has the best writing and acting so far. Katara is a good actor, but they changed so much of the writing for her that she falls flat. Aang is okay, but they're trying to give him a childlike charm while also not actually giving him a childlike script... I just hate Iroh's character in this I'm not even gonna lie.

Yeah. I have such mixed feelings, because I appreciate some of the deeper dives into relationships. But also the awkward acting at points (even from the adults) is like.. hmm, and a little TOO much explanations, SOMETIMES. But there's still enough for me to enjoy for it to just be... odd idk. I really hope we get S2 and S3, I just have a gut feeling it'll really improve, after they get to assess reactions to S1. Well, I can hope.

​@@isbammoi3358 This is exactly how I feel about it as well omg. Mixed feelings 😅 but I wanna see it through. I'm a sucker for ATLA content tbh haha. But yeah some changes are either good or bad

@@isbammoi3358 I really hope they do- this is really good explanation btw

I hardly consider what Aang was doing to be true flight.

Bro he was just doing flighty airbender stuff, he does that all the time.

@@haydeniskander5306 25:55 bro has a whole 30 ft lift off, curious what "true flight" is. im a Dnd player, 30 ft flight is true flight to me.

​@@haydeniskander5306 Bro had a 50ft vertical and barrel-twirled horizontally at cruising altitude. TF do you consider 'true flight'?

THATS WHAT I SAID

He was killing dark spirits when he was a toddler? Damn!

We dont know Aangs father. Gyatso is the closest thing to a father to him. Both ways is fine.

Ya I am hoping that the showing will improve now that a lot of the exposition is out of the way.

aang is essentially creating a tornado around his person, i dont think a human being can realistically approah high winds like that so it makes sense that katara and sokka gets pushed away from aang due to that much air

@@Sapphire_Reacts my issue isn’t with the logistics of his tornado but maybe they should tone it down for the sake of the character moment of katara helping aang

​@@Sapphire_ReactsIn the OG they were at the "eye of the storm" and that made sense

They dont have the budget or time to show everything. They did a great job with what they gave us. The show already costs i think around 15M per episode as is. More is just too much. Id rather them show us the extra stuff they added instead of what we know cause all of that was done really well and added to the lore.

Then they should make dust or something so that it looks more visible

I could see it. It was pretty obvious that it was a vortex just by looking at his clothes and movement. It never even occurred to me that people would think he’s flying until I saw it in comments.

​@@andrecarpenter2432fr, they're literally in a winter wonderland, just have the gusts of air pick up some snow powder

I haven't watched it yet but I'm pretty sure he flies in the air Temple and he didn't show it cuz he doesn't show the entirety of the show he skipped parts

@@andrecarpenter2432 Didn't people complain about the movie's airbending for not being invisible enough?

I actually think it's the direction, rather than the pressure, cause the adults are also showing the same problems as the kids

@@mundoatena1674 i guess thats true, i think it could also be the director.. because dallus, ian, and kia have done other roles and have done amazing jobs sooooo, not to mention ddk and paul sun-hyung lee are both very experienced

It does feel a bit more like someone obsessed with finding every trace of lore and history of past avatars, and following every lead for three years, which as much as I love the original animation, does feel a bit lacking in that aspect.

Credit where credit is due, that was a nice detail added in. And in the original cartoon it makes sense why Zuko was convinced of the Avatar still being out there as an Air Nomad, as he says to Iroh in episode 1, “The Fire Sages tell us that the Avatar is the last airbender! (i.e., they ascertain he hasn't been been reborn that he was killed in the initial assault on the Temples)” and... cut to episode 3 wherein we see that, yes, the Fire Sages would've been alerted as to some Avatar activity going on, that they died or else went into the Avatar State.

The thing is they do have the capability to do that. They kept teasing like we were going to get Zuko's flashback until it finally shows up in Ep 6. They also grabbed a bunch of ideas from Books 2 and 3 and threw them into Book 1. So hopefully that means they can spend more time in Book 2 to really set up the stakes.

I get that but everyone already knows the story. I think that’s the main factor

I feel like the reason they go this tell instead of show route is because it’s on Netflix. Since Netflix has such a strict 8-10 episode limit for their seasons, I feel like this is probably the best the show could do at giving us so much lore for how much time they have. I also would guess they took parts from books 2 and 3 because they’re not sure if they’ll be renewed for another season, so they want to get in some fan favorite plot points or make sure no plots are left open in case the show ends up as only 1 season

​@@user-cd7ip5qz2oThen they will be forever be compared to the OG.

Came here to say this

So many different opinions too. At least people aren't universally agreeing it's bad so there's definitely something good there

Took me 3 watches to finish episode 1. Done watching lmao

Definitely for the fans, that way as long as you've seen it before, you can imagine the personalities of all the main characters from the cartoon being there while you watch the live action.

Agreed, but why the extra space in between?

agreed, he's probably one of the only reaction channels where he actually REALLY adds onto the experience w his great jokes and actual honest analysis

he's probably the only one where I never skip the intro... or outro..

​@@Daesma999i rarely even skip his Patreon plug because it's usually a funny bit

@@TheAlexandrine exactly. I never skip these either

I was immediately drawn in by Aang's reaction in the scene. It was very well done by Gordon Cormier.

Yeah i actually really liked his reaction to finding out he was the Avatar in this. He was clearly silently panicking and his lack of a lot of outward emotion could really be contributed to shock and confusion.

Ummm actually yea cause like I'm umm yea actually im right and you're wrong ummm In actuality I umm yes I know yes

Watching the air temple get attacked had me on the brink of tears. It was so horrible and seeing the kids huddled together in so much fear knowing what their fate was going to be was heartbreaking. The screams from the fighting airbenders was terrible. I rarely cry during shows/movies but that shit had me on the verge of a melt down

REAL 😭😭 every day he uploads I’m like “surely it’s heaven officials blessing today!” But no no it isn’t

​@0.flowie.0 glad I'm not the only one lmao

THISSSS. I WAS WAITING SINCE WEDNESDAY PLS ✋

When will our soldier husband return to us... 💔

*800 YEARS*

Like them being okay with showing us the airbenders being ACTUALLY cooked but leaving out Sokka's sexism is so weird

Hope we get more in the second season. The crew behind the show seem receptive to criticism but we'll have to see!

They changed it cz sozins there. They introduced him as the BIG BAD so him killing Gyatso was the right move to make us go OH NO! Fire nation is so evil If Gyatso did that move he’d kill Sozin too so we’d be happy about it and in that scene all we’re supposed to feel is terror and grief, so I think it made sense to leave him alive. You gotta keep in mind this live action isn’t canon, because it isn’t pretending to be the original 1:1. It’s similar to the original but not identical which is good, cz nothing couldn’t beat the cartoon and anything live action would always fall short in comparison. Try to enjoy this new story as an alternate universe. Like the MCU in superhero comics

Felt the exact same way. It only gets worse with the future episodes

Did you even tried to watch it?

​@@eleutheriasaouli3650They literally said that they did

I KNOW RIGHT

Roku levitated when he confronted Sozin.

There is a major difference between levitating for a few seconds and flying like Zaheer did.

You nailed it

SAMEEEEE

fans of other shows (like Soul Eater, last reaction 2 months ago): 😐

@@evelina2619 IS YOUR PFP SUNAKO FROM THE WALLFLOWER??!!

@@cjstevenson143 yes)) She is a gothic icon after all

*800 YEARS*

Exactly, it’s so mixed

Not enough sexism but everything else is fine 6/10

O SHIT DANNY CAN PLAY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!!??👀

You haven’t even watched it so I don’t know how you could say the changes are bad. That makes no sense

@kylejackson7913 I meant that I didn't watch Danny's vid. But, I've seen about the same amount he has. Directors also stated they'd removed key character building elements from the show, because they didn't believe they were suited for a "modern audience" (when the show is less than 20 years old😒)

​@@kylejackson7913They showed major terrible changes in the trailers

@@ZeallustImmortal And the trailer doesn’t do just to how good those changes are.

i really don't understand how someone can have this limited mindset towards a seemingly irrelevant piece of media. "I know i'm gonna hate it"

You just gotta take it as it's own thing and it's just fine. But if you go in negatively and expect to hate it, you're gonna hate it

@@tomascoelho5562 I wasn’t being fully literal but yeah when I see something that looks bad I’m just not gonna watch it lol especially when it’s something that is from my childhood

@@goat.cheese_ I understand that sentiment, if I see a trailer of a movie and I don't like it I won't watch it. But to be honest, for this show I was excited to see the changes they made into the story because adapting the cartoon shot for shot simply wouldn't work and gives the cash grab impression. There are some things in this show I don't like but heck, even the cartoon had some problems in Book 1. What I don't really agree with is seeing people hate on a change because "that's not what happened on the animated show". I won't give u spoilers in case you watch the show but there's a certain character that was my favourite in the OG which has such a fun and quirky personality but in the show it's so much different. You have every right to like or dislike the changes they made but I just don't agree with hating on something because it's not like the original show. That's also what most of the critiques I've seen. People who criticize plot points or characters which are different from the show. Instead of judging the changes because on the impact it had in the Netflix version, they see it as bad just because it's now how it happened in the original. And you might say "If the original was so good why change it" which I must agree but then we come back to the shot for shot remakes which wouldn't translate well to live action format. So, ultimately, for this show to work, it needed to be a retelling of the animated show. Have the characters, locations and major plot points and get to the same ending point (North Pole). Just to really clarify, there are some things in this version that I really don't like because I think they could've been made better, not just because they are not like the original show. For example, Gran Gran, Yue, Katara to an extent. Just one more things which is, I don't feel like you watching this series will your nostalgia, only if you really hate it which I doubt because this series is not bad, not great either.

they knew what they were doing.. not putting their names on this is a good move.

They wrote the first episode

@@surferchic15cw .... oh

Eh, the original creators being on board isn't always a guarantee either (side-eyes the Gilmore Girls revival)

he didn't fly though, he was gliding or "falling with style." he uses the glider for the whole show

Same..

I think that would’ve been pointless and garbage. Things inherently need to be different bc cartoon things can be silly irl

Then there's no point in making it. If you're doing it line for line and action for action it isn't going to transfer well. It's supposed to be adding to just flat out copying. There are definitely changes that should not have been made, but it would be complete trash if they just did every little thing the exact same.