Netflix's Avatar Is TERRIBLE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I review Netflix's attempt at a live action reboot of Avatar the Last Airbender & I explain why it's actually pretty bad despite being better than the movie
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"Not as bad as the movie."
Incredibly low bar there.
That's the problem with low bars, anyone can step over them
I find it funny that everyone keeps saying this like it changes anything. Of course it's better than a turd movie... still doesn't make it a good show.
@@TheSpaceTurtle Ironically If he did say it was worse than the movie, I'd be more likely to check it out. Just to see how it could've butchered the show worse.
I thought it was worse in the fact Katara self taught herself and didn’t need no master cause she’s a strong women and Aang never even tried to learn water bending the whole time. The Avatar state was very butchered as well and Killing the moon spirit was done terrible. Made me appreciate how the movie did the ending much more
We're not supposed to talk about the thing that should not be named.
The second they said they were fixing the original, I wrote it off.
I didn't see it and I refuse to, so I have to ask someone else: How many gays?
Actually none funny enough and trust me I was looking it@@stepanotrisal1512
fixing how, cus they're weren't enough black voice actors before? Making everyone gay and black, pushing more lefty propaganda for no reason?
@stepanotrisal1512 So far, only Oma and Shu were made lesbians that I could tell. Enough for Twitter to be satiated but minor enough for them to say we're overreacting if we point it out.
Removing sokkas sexism arc only to ironically make suki a creep towards him (which is very important to him finding himself since it was a mask due to his father leaving him in charge), taking away kataras emotions, motherly qualities and her bossiness (because her mother was taken), Aang not being playful enough and too determined to fulfill his responsibilities when that’s supposed to be the whole arc of his throughout the show. Zuko not being as hotheaded and self loathing as he should’ve been. Horrible changes. These characters just have no flaws or challenges to overcome. It’s all about furthering the plot which makes it boring and feeling rushed.
And the worst part, the unbelievable amount of EXPOSITION. Everyone has to explain everything to the audience through monologues. We need to see it through context, not be told. That’s good storytelling. Yes, you’re right. This was some of their “FIXES” we all knew that would happen for “modern audiences”.
Cartoons do not need a live reimaging.
yEs tHeY dO cArToOnS aRe fOr kIdS 🤤
One piece live says otherwise
I NEED TO SEE THE LOONEY TOONS AS A REAL MOVIE! I NEED TO SEE BUGS BUNNY AS A REAL THING! I NEEEEEEED IT 😂
@TheXxemarosaxx one piece live is still B-tier compared to the anime.
@DanteArisen East Blue in the anime is actually B tier compared to the following arcs so the LA is basically just as good then
I hate that Katara just declares herself a waterbending master without ever training with a master
I didn't see that at all.. she starts off totally meek and unsure as hell of herself. She can barely make a blob of water for the first 2 episodes.
@@Wolfsheim23 and magically without any effort (but offscreen?) she becomes a master. classic wokeshit
So did you miss the whole part WHERE THE ONLY WATER BENDER MASTER REFUSED TO TEACH HER 😂😂🤦♂️tell me you didn’t watch it without telling me you didn’t watch it
@@zachall101 that’s my point, he refused to teach her so why did she just get to declare herself a master?
To be fair, she never declared herself a master. She was given the title ''master'' by other northern water tribe members after they saw her display her bending skills
The absolute lack of original ideas in mainstream entertainment is just proof of the slow ever approaching death of corporate media.
Yeah but we also have to protect those few pieces of original ideals from the msm.
Collectivist aren't original individuals. Combine that with the fact that marxisttheory literally thinks combining their ideas with already successful IP's is a strategic way to transmit their bland message. It is always detrimental to the original IP.
This is the same with feministtheory, queertheory, and racetheory. Because it is all culturalMarxism.
Even if they decide to not spew "the messege" collectivist will always associate with fellow collectivist and chose to employ them. Making a creatively bankrupt system at its foundation.
Just confirming ur post didnt get deleted by utoob.😅 @Krunchtastic727
Its crazy because they don't even have to come up with ideas right now, there are so many books and video game series that already have a story that people like all they have to do is bring it to the big screen but they mess it up every time because they keep trying to put their ideas into it
This isn't even about a lack of original ideas. This is about their utter laziness and failure of comprehension in recreating something THAT ALREADY EXISTED!
When you literally have a cheat sheet in front of you, but you would rather put down your own answers to the test.
This is the best analogy I've heard
"We made it better!"
"How?"
"We made the girls more bossy, and the boys more passive."
"Oh goodie, my favorite."
It is fine. Watched it and it is no where near as bossy as captain marvel.
The characters in the show can mostly pass as realistic.
welcome to modern media , its sucks , i know , but it is what it is
I’m not saying that there’s never been powerful woman, super hero or regular woman! But yeah it’s the new typical thing in movies now, the woman are better, stronger and don’t need help! While males are weak and constantly need help. Ok, maybe that’s how movies used to be where the male was the strong thing and woman were weak and needed help. Let’s think about that awesome woman from Terminator! She starts as a fast food worker and giggles and is acting like a girl. Then bam, the robot comes back and starts killing anyone with her name and right before she gets killed the human who came back saves her. Give her a bit of time and bam she’s kicking ass. The second movie comes out and she is super strong and tactful in combat! That was the 80’s! So yeah, we had female heroes for a while now, but they had to work for it (like any human would need to do to become stronger)! Anyway it’s just lame what is made these days, from Hollywood to Netflix and even TH-cam…. All about how lame guys are and how awesome woman can be 😂
I mean that’s how the cartoon was. The Kyoshi warriors Azula and Katara bumping heads w the chief of the Northern tribe are straight out of the cartoon 😂 they have a strong cast they could’ve picked different girls for azula and her squad though.
Actually they made katara less bossy and basically removed her whole character
A live action Netflix adaptation of a beloved animated series sucks?!
What a surprise!
*surprised pikachu face*
Meh, I thought it was okay. It's been a while since I watched the animated version but the live action seems decent.
What a twist!
@@robcubed9557we binge the animated series at least once a year. The live action butchered it. I can handle changes when it comes to a live action adaptation, I get that they can't include everything, but they butchered the story so hard in this one, it's insulting.
The thing is, Netflix' The One Piece is fantastic. Having watched the entire animated series, the live action was about as faithful as you can get. They cut out a bunch of stuff that took place in the same story line but it was legitimately stuff that *could* be cut, as it didn't actually offer much to the main story line. I had hope Netflix would pull off another miracle for Avatar, but it's just classic Netflix.
Modern writers do not understand or like character arcs... Or science fiction.... Or fantasy.... Or the audience for those things. And they absolutely HATE heroism, stoicism and legacy characters that have those traits.
They seem to like cats though.
This. Writers and directors need to become fans of the original source, or it just won't work.
Modern writers are not the problem here. It's corporations. Corporations rush deadlines, overwork employees, and prioritize profit over art. How can good stuff be produced under these conditions? A good example of this was Disney executives rushing the production of Frozen 2--which was financially successful but poorly received by fans and critics.
@@Nopeasaurus maybe. But, the corporations are losing money, on almost every new project. They are also losing money and viewers on every legacy project. Films and shows that had huge fandoms are being written, or rewritten, into oblivion. Catering to an audience that never existed.
They can see the losses, but continue to crap out this dreck, whilst captured critics and media continue to gaslight everybody into believing that it's a necessary "redress of past wrong think".
If it came out tomorrow that AI has been writing this stuff for the last few years, I would not be shocked.
they also HATE duty, honor, obligation and humility.
The girl not needing to prove a thing and just being an innately superior master is the most Netflix thing ever. Surprised they didn't make her black too.
(shhh ... don't give them any more ideas)
she's already Polynesian/Innuit/Tongan. they dont NEED to increase the melanin in her skin.
The movie made her white so what is your point? White actors have always played other races and the few times actors of color play mainly fictional actors of color then whyte people get all in their feelings. The true snowflakes.
@@jaredfritsch6833Jews are a minority group that literally suffered genocide, and yet some still blackwash them. Being already a minority doesn't make you immune to blackwashing
Actually, on facebook someone was trying to say that. Why didn’t they make the water tribe black
To top it off, Toph won’t call Aang “twinkle toes” either because it’s a “homophobic slur”.
Lame
the ironey is that everyone knew this was gonna be bad when the original creators left due to "creative differences"
and yet people still bother to pay for it well not me
@@FriendlyGhost-rf7tq i mean same
The creators left because they themselves wanted to change everything about the show, look it up
The original creators aren’t better, they’d just ruin it differently. They’re current year types now.
“I’m the Avatar, you gotta deal with it!”
@@prinzdenaxyeah. Change Everything wrong with this current live action that they clearly messed up on XD
Removing sokkas sexism arc only to ironically make suki a creep towards him, taking away kataras emotions, motherly qualities and her bossiness, Aang not being playful enough and too determined to fulfill his responsibilities when that’s supposed to be the whole arc of his throughout the show. Zuko not being as hotheaded and self loathing as he should’ve been. And the worst part, the unbelievable amount of EXPOSITION. Everyone has to explain everything to the audience through monologues. This was some of their “fixes” we all knew that would happen for “modern audiences”
Sokkas “woke” removal of his attitude is the worst about his character. The original show constantly shows it to be something sokka needs to grow out of, and it keeps challenging him to do so. His ingrained assumptions of there being “natural” assignment of mens and womens roles ultimately gets him humbled. His assumptions of the kyoshi warriors having to have been men, calling their practice “dance lessons” only for them to beat him every time. Even though he’s emasculated by putting on the “dress” and makeup, it’s something he consciously chooses to still do in order to learn to fight from them. This completely underscores his jaded concept of there being masculine and feminine roles and changes his worldview by showing they are not separate, and most importantly that they’re not opposing. You can be both. Which is why suki says “I’m a warrior, but I’m a girl too” after she kisses him.
The fact that he gets on his knees and asks suki to teach him, and suki says “even if im a girl?” just shows the importance of his arc. If someone doesn’t think that’s great story telling and an interesting story, I don’t know what is.
I suppose they will make Uncle Iroh a feeble white guy
Everyone just felt wooden
you said everything
Even when he gets his meteor sword the fact he has been humbled throughout the series and understandings his limitations is the only reason the sword master decides to train him.
Without those inclusions in the series it makes everything meaningless and destroys his character development.
stop yapping what great story telling about sokka that’s so basic and cartoony your just using enriched vocabulary to make it sound detailed
The casting for Azula and Mei, but ESPECIALLY Mei, was a head scratcher.
They didn't even need to cast any of them for season 1
@@ActualJusticeWarrior true!!
Mei and Ty Lee are non-benders. They need to be athletic to be a challenge. These actresses don’t look the part.
This Azula is more whiny than threatening. When she continued hitting her earthbender opponent on the ground, looked like a kid sister having a tantrum.
Azula has such a baby face. When she was rallying the troops, i couldn't help but laugh. The bounty hunter chick probably would of fit better as Azula, she had a mean acing look.
@@captmoroni agreed. Mei being a short chunky girl really bugged me. The only way I even knew it was her at first was her hairstyle.
The fact the first question Aang asks Katara isn’t “you wanna go penguin sliding with me” 😔
I’m glad they skipped that part tho I was never a fan of him having a crush with what’s her face
@@Bunny11344 katara?? bro they said her name right there and besides, the question wasn't to show him having a crush on her but rather showing how child-like and fun he is - katara haters are so lame looool.
@@fairycurls nobody cares, Karen
Yue's hair was atrocious, it looked like a Marie Antoinette powdered wig, Shyamalan's Yue was actually better which is impressive 😂
Very true
The story of Netflix..."Style over substance", "we don't understand why you like what you like but we'll try to get your money anyway.
Why would they ruin the Zuko and Ozai dynamic? The last thing that the original series needed was an over haul of the fire lord he was a great villain.
Great villains seem to be frowned upon now. Apparently they all need to be sympathetic now.
@@tahlia__nerds_out
Aka tryhard sad backstory overly dramatic garbage. Apparently if you don’t have a melodramatic backstory and aren’t sympathetic, you’re a “mustache twirling villain”.
Netflix Ozai is trash
@@jesuspernia8031
It’s frustrating because it’s ruining both villains and heroes. The villain is not outstanding, so the heroes aren’t forced to be outstanding to defeat him. A watered-down villain doesn’t seem like a true threat to our heroes and they don’t have to challenge themselves to become better or learn new skills because the villain is just so sad and sympathetic, don’t you know. They’re actually the ones bullying him, those nasty heroes. 🙄
Okay, it’s not usually that bad, but it’s come close. Ex: I really didn’t want or need a sympathetic story about the Joker that makes him seem like a victim. What does that make Batman then, other than a guy who beats on poor mentally ill people? Changing the villain too far in the direction of being sympathetic runs the definite risk of making the hero less so.
Zuko’s Agnai-Kai (sp?) and Katara’s fight against Azula is amazing because so much work was put into making her a dangerous and powerful foe before she started her downward spiral. Aing’s fight against Ozai was highly anticipated and felt like the stakes were so high because they *were.* Ozai’s ruthlessness and unbridled ambition made him seem like an unbeatable foe for the peaceful, spiritual, and fun-loving Aing. If Ozai was conflicted, Aing would have tried to reach him (like he did with Zuko) to avoid crossing a line he really didn’t want to cross. But because Ozai was so unreachable, so *unconflicted,* Aing was forced to consider what lengths he was willing to go to in order to stop Ozai’s determination to conquer all the other kingdoms and destroy anyone who dared to resist.
Netflix’s attempt to add nuance to an already amazing villain created a ripple affect that couldn’t help but adversely affect the story and all the other characters around him. As much as Avatar: The Last Airbender is about a group of kids learning to transform themselves into the heroes they need to be, it’s as much about a ruthless foe who is willing to go to any length to feed his unbridled ambition. Netflix missed the point.
low iq writers. Ozai was always suppose to be a warning of who Zuko could become if he continued down the path he was on. It's inferred throughout the series that Ozai was the Zuko of his own generation. The orginal writers convey all this without ever telling us and most people miss it & call Ozai 1 dimensional. These writers barely understand the show let along the characters so ofc they wanted to make Ozai soft/relatable 🤦♂️. If anything they should've showed flashbacks on why he became Fire Hitler not changing that because they feel its too mean
@@AyKrax
What’s worse is even lower iq people are eating it up. I’ve already come across a bunch of people saying horse crap like “uhhhh in this version Ozai is akshully a real character unlike his original one dimensional self”. Whack.
The biggest crime to me was azula. When that character was introduced and that she was more powerful (seemingly) than zuku gave such chills. Here she just comes across as a whiney spoiled teenager.
I gave up on the first episode when they had Gran Gran give exposition to explain to Ang that the Fire Nation attacked and killed all the nomads before looking right in the camera saying "He's The Last Air Bender".
Ang discovering the fate of the nomads organically by traveling to the temples was SO much more impactful in the animation.
Lol that sounds terrible, like some normie comedy show
And then you have Aang lose it when he finds Gyatso’s skeleton (which he shouldn’t have been able to recognize at all considering he was burned alive, but somehow he’s still clothed and has his pendant), even though expository gran-gran has already told him all the T.
Halo, Rings of Power, and now Avatar the Last Airbender. Corporate media doesn't understand we want close adaptations but we also understand they can't do it shot for shot. They have been so far off the mark though it makes me sad watching these things butchered.
One piece too.
You forgot The Witcher, or every time they decide to make another Mortal Kombat movie...
Like FFS Hollywood just take the original source material and adapt it 1 for 1 with as few changes as possible.
If they did that, it would be banger after banger on repeat.
@@jasonxe One Piece adaptation was very true to the source material though? lol
@@jasonxeOne Piece did understand that, though, which is why it was received so much better than other live action remakes. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a step in the right direction
Those are some of my favorite series in the last few years
Why do these production companies bother acquiring licenses for properties if they are going to change everything about them? Just save the money and write your own script if that's what you want to do.
That's the problem, they can't write their own scripts. Without fame and a fanbase, their garbage won't sell as well. They have to buy into famous franchises if they want to make a buck. It kills the franchises, but they don't care as long as they make a little money.
@@rozu7772 In other words, they CAN do it, but they don't have the guts to take the risk.
@@Makingnewnamesisdumb Exactly! They'd probably be better off if they did their own scripts too, even if they were horrible. It would be an opportunity to learn and grow, seeing if their ideas sell or not. Whatever decisions they were making with the show is proof their ideas don't mesh well with the Avatar franchise, and now the franchise suffers for it. It's obvious they want to do something different, but they just don't have enough confidence to make a show based on those ideas.
Because if all you got to advertise is that your show/game was curated by an ESG/DEI board then nobody would even bother.
At least this way they can at least trick some poor diehard fans into giving it a watch.
This is about as creative as they're willing to get. Take an existing popular IP, shuffle some things around , change it to be more progressive, and call it a day.
Why the hell would Azula tell Zhao to kill the Moon Spirit? How would she even know there _is_ a Moon Spirit *_to_* kill? Did she leave the palace? Did she go to the Spirit Library in the desert, in the freaking Earth Kingdom, and find a scroll about the Moon Spirit? None of this makes any sense!
Stupid writing and unnecessary changes
They didn't care. I watched a little of it... they changed tons of things all over the place. None of the actors were good representations of their characters. The actor for Uncle Iroh, my favorite character in all of ATLA just can't sell Iroh. They even brought in season 2 characters for the whole "Azula" crap that didn't happen in the Original. They even changed how Ozai found about about the return of the Avatar.
I had to watch the animation to wash the nasty out of my mouth.
I don't think Azula told him there was a Moon Spirit. He got his information from the Great Sage. He only told Zuko that Azula was his ally, but that doesn't mean that she was the one who told him about the Moon Spirit.
@@thedarkestfatefuland we all know that a Great Sage would be privy to information not even Roku, nor any other spirit besides Koh (that we know of) had. 😂
As soon as i saw Aang flying i was done
Good point
They barely show Aang using air bending to cushion his fall. But to make it look like flying sounds to me writers are too lazy to read the lore. Or Netflix have such strict schedule and budgets that visual effects and cgi was cut out for that first scene.
...he flies? 🤨
@@Crackpot_Astronaut first thing you see in episode 1 is Aang flying lmao.
He isn't flying, he is gliding which he also does at the start of Book 1 in the original show (In the kyoshi arc)
I wasn't interested when they announced it. But when they said they wanted to make it more mature like Game of Thrones I decided I'd go out of my way to completely avoid it.
So sick and tired of these people thinking they can fix something that isn't broken.
ironic since the dialog is so on the nose, this show is dumed down from the cartoon.
The series is fine. The way they made it more mature is that they show the consequences of war.
They show people on screen get burned to death and even take time to show the aftermath of the battle in the northern watertribe.
Tbh I think the avatar era is gone. They have the original series but I’m kind of bored of it. Anything they try to do now like this new neflix series just terrible and milking it for all it’s worth
Finally someone said omg why is everyone scared to say it like the original creators stayed on the project. It's like someone retold avatar without rewatching. That's just the plot alone
Original creators left in 2021 I thought?
Would it matter if they were here or not? Bryan and Michael are current year types now, they’d _have_ to ruin it. It’s their duty to the cause.
i can see why the creators left
Actually, not true they’re actually been actual weeks and reveals to say why they actually left the project in for one. You’re gonna be like on Netflix site on this one. The report said that they left because it turns out they wanted to change the source material something completely different. They became unrecognizable, and they even met that people would really hated that Netflix actually wanted to do an actual adaptation to it.
@@RedStar-kz7wr Would you fix your comment? It's very incoherent to the point I don't understand what you mean, especially on the lack of punctuation.
@@1685Violin Dude speaks like someone who is drunk or sleepy and they think they are speaking coherently, but actually just spewing random words in conjunction.
@@CaptainTitforce In Summary: Netflix crew was allegedly the force trying to remain true to the source material.
Bryan and Michael are current year types now, and we know those sorts ruin everything they touch. Even their own creation isn’t safe. It was doomed from the start whether they left or not.
It’s looked awful from the beginning. I have no idea why people thought it was going to be good.
Humans live in hope.
@@thistles my hope is in Jesus. That's about it. And the main hope you need.
Consuuuuuuuuuuuuuume!
Y’all some haters i thought the show had a strong beginning🤷🏾♂️
@@Notawarriorsfan Only in comparison to the episodes after it.
Have we learned yet boys and girls? Avoid any and all adaptations and live version remakes. You will be nothing but disappointed.
From Netflix
It's kinda fucked up how Katara put all the nothern water tribe healers at risk in the frontlines thus allowing even more casualties to take place. Yeah Katara all those warriors and civilians that may have been healed may have died because all the healers that weren't combat trained were put at risk.
Yeah, I didn’t understand that.
That’s as stupid as putting all your doctors on the front lines and having no one tending injured troops.
Logistically, it was pure stupidity…but that’s girl power for ya. They recommend idiotic ideas that seem good in theory, but in practice they’re completely stupid.
Just makes the “strong wamen” seem as dumb as a box of rocks.
Dumb person trying to write smart characters...
@@JohnDoe-dr9ffthey were in a situation where they were going to be destroyed. Wtf is the point of healers when there is no one to heal? You don’t take women to the front lines. But their home was the freaken front line!
@@jamesbizs Medics mitigate injuries done to active soldiers.
EVERY combat force requires medics and doctors to function properly to tend to wounded. Having no medics to do so insures any injured combatants will die and be unable to get patched up and back into the fight.
This poor understanding shows a distinct lack of understanding of simple combat logistics. It’s as stupid as putting those responsible for maintaining supply lines of food and weapons on the front line.
Thank you for proving you failed to understand just how powerful having dedicated HEALERS would be to keep other soldiers in the fight. It doesn’t matter their “home was the freaken front line,” it was stupid tactical decision in the name of “gurl power.” Even if it was men that were dedicated healers, it would be just as stupid of a decision.
@@JohnDoe-dr9ffMedics also have to actively go onto the battlefield, not hide back at a base. Haven't you heard the term "combat medic"?
The women were put to work rebuilding the ice shields. A waterbender doesn't need combat training to make an ice wall. That makes more sense than passively awaiting death.
My question to these series is always the same. Why would I watch an inferior version of the original? No live action series will ever be half as good as the animated version, so why would anyone wanna watch it?
No one is going to watch it. It's going to flop and quietly disappear.
@@ClarkWahlberg-bo3oh Not defending the live action, but its currently number 1 on Netflix. So yeah… people are watching it lol. Thank God the original series is still on Netflix! Hopefully newbies watch both to see how superior the animated series is.
Well. There are people who just really can't appreciate anything animated. My Senior Citizen Dad being one of them. This way I could share with him my fave animated series and he doesn't have to put up with it being animated. Yes it's a niche reason but it's the same way he enjoyed Rurouni Kenshin and even Yuyu Hakusho (though that adaptation really disappointed me). So yeah there is a niche market for it.
One piece is capturing a pretty good image of the original. They also have the author involved and not some UCLA graduate of a showrunner.
exactly, thats why I dont completely agree with the original commenter@@anorouch
Spot on review. This remake was a waste of time, effort and money. I'm back to watching the original animated series again to erase this new show from my memory.
Thats what I ended up doing. I really tried to give the Netflix version a chance, but I cannot for the life of me make it past episode two. The acting is just so bad that it breaks any sense of immersion. You can just feel the wokeness seething under it all.
Not to mention they ruined Koh and why tf was Wan Shi Tong in the spirit world? And how tf did Aang bring katara and sokka in the Spirit world????
Yup, I understand there's going to be differences but that stuff really cooked my noodle.
Wasn't Sokka kidnapped by Hei Bi and taken to the Spirit World in the original series?
Netflix made a bad adaptation?😱
Shocker
Them leaving out setups like white lotus characters and cramming plot lines together killed me
The reason the one piece LA adaptation worked so well is because they had to go through oda for everything. The one bad change was one that the crew pleaded to oda to change. *Edit: When the original avatar creators left, i already knew it was doomed.
what was the one bad change?
agreed
The original creators aren’t anything special, there had to be some unnamed talent that left between ATLA and LoK because the quality absolutely tanked after that.
So no I have no faith in Bryan and Mike. They suck.
The OP live action didn't work, people are just willing to shit on Oda's legacy and writing by saying his story doesn't matter so it's OK to abandon ever line or scene that is important.
True when the creators left i knew it's going to be bad
Netflix: “Can I get an empowered woman?”
“How original.”
Netflix: “And passive men that are stupid and incompetent.”
“Daring today, aren’t we?”
“so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.”
That's modern television/gaming in a nutshell.
@@Naruku2121Especially God of War Ragnarok, utter garbage
Ding ding ding
Of course these live action remakes have no soul. They are not about storytelling, they are all about cashing in on the IP and milking it's fanbase.
12:30 In the original show, everyone (especially Iroh) is horrified that Zhao would do something as extreme as killing the moon spirit, just to win one battle. But it fits Zhao's character - he'll do anything to win, even if it backfires on him (like the time Aang tricks him into burning his own ships). Azula is much too smart to even think about trying something like that, so making it her idea ruins her character as well as Zhao's.
Did they ever state that it was Azula's plan to kill the Moon Spirit? Zhao reveled it was Azula who was backing him but I'm pretty sure it was never said killing the Moon Spirit was her idea. Zhao even says he is doing it to make a bid to become fire Lord, if Azula had even a hint his ambitions were that high she would have gotten rid of him. She can't be firelord if Zhao is.
To be fair, Azula doesn't seem to be the kind to fear or believe in the spirits much.
One would argue that it’s not “one battle,” but the complete domination of the Waterbenders as a whole. Which is significant, given that they are the elemental opposite of the Fire Nation and could pose a major hurdle, especially if they combined their forces with the Earth Kingdom, something they hadn’t committed to, yet.
That said, this would have had drastic consequences that would have thrown the entire planet into chaos, down the line. It is absolutely insane and arrogant of Zhao to believe he can control or kill the Moon Spirit and think that the Fire Nation wouldn’t feel that impact.
Iroh YELLS.
This scene is the first time we see Iroh like this. It HITS, every god damn time. When Iroh raises his voice, you god damn listen.
@@nicholastaylor9687Impression I got was she supplied him with the means to kill the moo spirit…thus it was her intention and plan.
I'm 3 episodes in and the way they butchered my boys Sokka and Zuko is embarrassing
Zuko and iroh episodes in Omashu are good. But only cuz they bring in the Tales of Ba Sing Se story
I never thought I'd complain about a live action adaptation making a character less sexist, having a guy not wear a dress, and having a female not be overly outspoken and aggressive.
But sokka needed that arc, and so far, katara is passive as heck.
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Because they took away her active role within the party personality balance. She plays the first section of the story playing mom while not really being any more mature than the rest of them,
@samuelwallace2782 for real! The best part of this show is the character arches
@@blackchibisan8116 Correct-amundo
Avatar:the last air bender- Uno reverse edition.
Huh, I forgot Netflix even existed. Does anyone seriously still have a Netflix subscription?
I watch the Korean dramas, but overall I get ya
For Stranger things, and some anime like Bleach
I just get a month like 2x per year to watch a few movies and series, mostly older stuff.
0 reason to have that run continuously though.
I newer had it why bother paying for s... when i can watch it for free on you tube in clips witch is how i watched this show one of best decisions a ewer made
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I agree with everything said. I describe everything wrong with the show's new altered story as the "sticky note" method of writing. Imagine all the characters, plot lines, world building, conflicts, etc. as individual sticky notes on a wall that are arranged in sequence according to the original animated series. Basically the writers decided to shuffle and layer a bunch of these sticky notes together to rearrange them, while giving off the illusion that they maintained the original stories structure. Unfortunately, yeah, the showrunners don't get why the series was sequenced the way that it was. Show-Don't-Tell was absurdly not understood by these new writers. For example, with the Hei Bai story, another big part of that plot is that Hei Bai is terrorizing the local village, he kidnaps Sokka after retreating during the first fight, and that's what leads Aang to the Spirit World. AND that leads to Aang meeting Roku's dragon and learning that he has to find the Fire Temple. In contrast, the showrunners have Katara and Sokka get "accidentally" dragged into the Spirit World with Aang while investigating the forest. So you can see how this new series doesn't understand how the stakes from the original series build ontop of one another.
... Why does azula and crew look like they ate appa?
First world problems
They're not even fat they just have baby faces people like you are the reason why teens are struggling so much with their body image and becoming anorexic
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The fire nation citizens living large literally 😂
Fr tho fat azula and fat may 😂😂😂
Man if I took a shot every time you said “Uno Reverse” I would be lost in the spirit world😭
The problem with Iroh was trying to imitate the facial hair. Should’ve just done a respectable white beard.
The actor spoke too fast it’s like he never heard the cartoon iroh speak the director must’ve told him to just keep mentioning jasmine tea and the audience would buy that he was iroh
He looked nothing like iroh …
And I don’t like what they did with Roku his beard is too short and he’s acting silly. I hope the neflix series flops
I don't know much about One Piece, but really thought the Netflix adaptation had a lot of heart and was entertaining on its own merits. Unfortunately, I hold the Avatar series in high regard, so I'm very disappointed that the adaptation misses the mark so badly; One Piece is just an anomaly (sort of like Picard S3). At least we still have the animated original.
Picard s3 came out of nowhere. Shocking really. One Piece was good cuz the creator was involved and the showrunners are OP nerds. It was more of a passion project than it was a cash grab.
I saw the whole Netflix's Avatar, and I can see where creators of Avatar animated series left from the Netflix production right about 3 to 4 episodes in. At least Oda the creator of One Piece have balls of steel and passion that held Netflix and crew involved with Cowboy Beatbop live action to do a proper adaptation. Storytelling in Netflix Avatar drop hard after Team Avatar meet King Bumi, reverse Uno card.
When I first laid eyes on live action Zuko, the actor looked great, but the scar was abysmal. It looked like Zuko had a training accident rather than he was badly scared by his father. Makes Zuko look less tragic, and his childhood trauma more tame. Disagraceful.
his brow wasn’t singed off either
I'm surprised that Gyatso wasn't mentioned. They did his death dirty.
True, they uno reversed him from killing a bunch of Amped benders to dying immediately
And somehow he’s still clothed and has his pendant after being burned to a crisp a hundred years prior. 🫠
@@luishp3sale in the original.
Also, one thing that bugged the CRAP OUTTA ME is how alot of scenes are just people sitting around begging for X person to do or not do something.... Zuko invading to take Aang, Iroh & Aang trying to tell Zhao not to hurt the Moon Spirit, etc.... I'm like, "Why are y'all begging?!! This guy's not on your side, OF COURSE they're gonna do it, STOP THEM!!! SHOW SOME INITIATIVE!!!"
They screwed up one of Iroh's most epic threats in the show with that weak delivery & lack of ANY sort of display to back up what he says....SMH
You are so right. That moment with Iroh is absolutely iconic.
what i got from this series is the men are not competent and the women are perfect. which is unnecessary because there are plenty of powerful women in the original lol. its forced for no reason.
They fucked up Cowboy Bebop. I would expect no less of this.
Cowboy Bebop is a masterpiece. The remake is no Cowboy Bebop. End of story. Nothing got fucked up. Just deny it. There is no remake in Ba Sing Se. It doesn't deserve the same name imo.
@@hemmojito : I'm okay with denying its existence.
This is by far the best breakdown I’ve seen, and I’ve watched probably 15 different reviews on the new Netflix show! Really liked your Uno reverse card analogy, finally someone touching on all the different 180s that took place.
Ember Island play is better than Avatar the last airbender on Netflix
Here we go🙄
The cast looked like the characters, but they weren't the characters.
No they don’t.. azula and mai are like 20+ lbs overweight?
@@Bunny11344yeah like why are they so fat 😂😂😂
I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought the costumes looked cosplay-ish. That’s one thing I’ll give the M.Night version , is that the costumes were amazing , the arrow tattoo was also a great change, and also the final act in the M.Night movie. The big Tsunami Aang creates in the Avatar state works way better than Koizilla in Live Action.
Thank you! I thought I was the only one! No Remake,Reboot, or Reimagine will ever live up to the original. The best anyone can hope for “is as good”, which it isn’t. Plus EVERY show today has “modern” undertones. It’s either heavy handed or subtle, and I’m just over it period. THIS IS WHY EVERYONE IS WATCHING OLDER SHOWS AND NOT THE NEW CRAP
The boys tv show proved this is possible
It was unbearable to watch with sooo much exposition and they ruined so many moments that was impactful in the show meant shit in the netflix show like gran gran telling aang all the airbenders were gone instead of you inow....WAITING TILL THE HE GET TO SOUTHERN AIR TEMPLE TO FIND OUT THE GRUESOME TRUTH WHEN HE FINDS MONK GYASO DEAD but nope just spill the beans in the first episode in an exposition dump then trying to have emotion when he goes back home to find gyaso ....i hated this so much 3/10 fuck this Netflix series
I hated that so much. Him going to the temple, running around looking for people, only to discover they were all killed was such an impactful moment, but no. Grandma just says it.
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This is as far as I got before I realized that I was correct to assume the worst when the original show runners left.
Azula may have actual mental disorders but a part of why she is the way she is was because Ozai rewarded it. He put her in positions of power and let her work with impunity because she was his pride and joy. She mirrored the twisted, violent, and ambitious mind of her father and it really did seem like such a… wholesome?… kind of villain child relationship.
By making Azula second fiddle you undercut not only her presence in the story, her open intimidation factor as the next generation of danger, but also her role in Zuko’s life. His little sister was always mocking him, berating him, beating him at literally everything, and when it came time for his banishment, there were those that continued to look down on him as a humiliation to his family. Not just for the scar but because he was the only apple that fell far from the tree.
By flipping that one dynamic alone you ruin two characters completely.
The show runners decided to turn Azula into Cersei Lannister
"My father said she was born lucky. He said I was lucky to be born."
"Beating him at literally everything" is a stretch. It was just firebending that she was better at naturally. Which was all their dad cared about. But Zuko was still her big brother so physically stronger, plus Zuko trained himself how to fight beyond just fire bending, he was an amazing swordsman.
@@thecensoredmuscle563 It's really not a stretch. She's consistently shown to be smarter in basically every way, she's a MUCH better firebender and physical strength just doesn't matter, they're firebenders not boxers, she can generate lightning despite her young age, she's several years younger than Zuko but has always been considerably ahead of him in talent, she's far better at politics, she's an extremely skilled manipulator which is a highly valued skill IN politics, she's demonstrated to be a better tactician in both military and small squad situations.
Like sure, we don't see their math scores, but Azula is shown at EVERY turn to just be BETTER than Zuko. Hell, she and her group of 2 other people finessed ALL the Kyoshi warriors in straight combat, and Azula shows she is VERY skilled at just straight combat, even if she holds her bending back. Suki came at her with a sword and Azula just slapped that shit away.
Again, this is what their FATHER said TO Zuko. Azula was born lucky, Zuko was lucky to be born. He is considered a failure, worthless, he was banished for speaking out of turn, Ozai was just LOOKING for a chance to get rid of him. If you're good at everything BUT firebending, you don't GET that reaction from your father and the RULER of your country.
That's Zuko's journey. He SUCKS. He's a LOSER. He's the DREGS of the fire nation. Iroh has him practicing FUNDAMENTALS in episode one. At SIXTEEN. He's incredibly weak as a bender and over the course of his journey he grows and becomes powerful, but he also becomes a better person. Zuko at the final episode and Zuko in episode 1 are basically 2 totally different people.
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It is canonical that he never beat her in a fight as kids. So “physically stronger” if true literally amounted to nothing.
what?? Zuko had blurry vision on his burned side? Where was that ever said in the show. I know it makes since but it was never stated in the show or comics. Where did that information come from?
lol that was just straight up false information. Zuko is never once stated or implied to have blurred vision in the cartoon.
@@nevillelequant4118 yeah I thought so.
I’m impressed. You almost know as much lore of Avatar the Last Airbender as you do Ana Kasparian
Animation has freedom to use over top character emotion and actions that are uncanny when used in live action so must be dialed back. When that is dialed back, something is lost that was an important factor in making the animated story so popular. When it comes to costuming, IMO, it is important to not copy the animation directly but to capture the spirit of the costume. Take for example Captain America. Marvel nailed it making his movie costume have the spirit of the comics, but not be spandex. The Ahsoka show however I feel was held back by making the costumes mimic the cartoon far too much. Cartoony costumes and behaviors make any serious tone very difficult to pull off in live action.
incompetent writing is now the industry standard
I want to know studios obsession with making shit look so clean and crisp. Every love action movie looks like everyone and everything just jumped out the washing machine
Uno Reverse: Now the cabbage cart smashes YOU
You hit the nail on the head with that forest spirit representing balance of the world and of Aang so perfectly man. Props to how you expressed how many ppl like us see the animated version as art that cannot be captured by those who wanna change it and miss the point of the whole thing
Is the Shamdalang twist that Shaboopaloop wasn't allowed to schwingdong this?
Everyone needs to boycott the live-action demake!
You're spot on with this review, I said the same things when I was watching it. One more thing I'd touch on that the live action didn't hit was the music. The animation had some of the best soundtracks ever, even ambient sounds were way better in the animation. During the Bluespirit episode there wasn't much dialogue, but the ambient sound was so good in the animation, the live action had nothing for ambience.
the funny things about all of this is : all of us can see it coming & yet we still act surprised 😂
It’s a typical incompetently written story (Netflix production) with an ATLA mask on it. The story has benchmarks and an end goal, but no meticulous passion for the character development. It’s boring, rushed, and disloyal to the original series. That’s my final stance on it and no amount of beautiful CGI or character appearance likeness can change a horribly written story.
Nothing beats the original, but I still really enjoyed it
The last four or three episodes were ONLY ABOUT THE SAME THING: “the avatar must walk alone” and that’s not even focused till the end of book 2 to the start of book 3 for gods sake.
Now we know why the original creators left
Stop pretending like Mike and Bryan where good with continuing the avatar legacy they legit created korra
@user-qv9ch7df4l and your point? Korra was never meant to be the same the last air bender...if u don't like the show fine but not everyone like the last air bender also so chill because what u said had nothing to do with my comment anyway
@@alexanderwilliamson7375 I’m saying the show wouldn’t have been any better with the original creators on the team that was the whole point of the statement, they where trying to do even more changes than the live action did it would’ve been worse
@user-qv9ch7df4l well we don't know that for sure
Uncle Iroh was voiced by Mako, who passed away recently. Mako was in live-action films before Avatar; you might know him from Conan the Barbarian where he holds his own against James Vader Jones.
What? He didn’t die recently, he died in the middle of the original show. In the tales of ba sing se episode the production dedicated Iroh’s tale to Mako and they hired a new voice actor for Iroh to complete the show.
I wouldn’t say it’s a failure. But I didn’t hit it out of the park either
You're exactly correct, executives and normies think this is popular SIMPLY because OOOH BENDING SO COOL 😎
I knew it wasn't going to be as good as the cartoon so my expectations are low enough to the point i actually enjoyed it.
I watched it with my kids when they were young so I am no Avatar lore specialist but I am liking it so far.
Worst Changes:
1) Aang was suppose to leave the air tribe because he need to train with the other benders for his responsibility. He simply can't accept that so he ran away. In this series however Aang just flew with Appa to clear his head with the coincidence of the attack of firebenders.
2) Aang was suppose to be good in both water bending & airbending to the point that Katara get jelous of him.
3) Katara is not a total beginner at waterbending. She even thought Aang a few simple tricks.
4) They ruined how Aang & Bumi is suppose to meet in Omashu.
5) Azula's fire should be blue not orange.
Everything woke turns to shit"
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Saying they were making it like Game of Thrones and the other hints showed that this had many red flags
It’s red flags all the way down. Who the fuck would watch this crap.
Wasn't that bad.
1. The outfits look like Comic-con RP costumes, it's not giving realism, too oversized, too brightly themed, too cartoony.
2. The cast reminds us that Asian actors aren't usually tall, we pictured the tall characters in the cartoon, also I think people expected Zuko and Azula to look more like Kpop artists.
Jets character and storyline always annoyed me lol. It’s my favorite animated show but that whole part sucked for some reason
He was casted well tho compared to everyone else
Yup, I never liked Jet even in ATLA. I don't hate him though, I just don't like him.
"We are gonna respect the original by fixing the original!" Said the writers.
I do like the funeral scene between Zuko, Iroh, and Ozai. I wish the original show had it but that's really it outside of the stuff you mentioned. Although I do LOVE the costumes, I just wish everything didn't look so clean and freshly ironed.
There was a sweet moment in there, but it was too early for that beat so I didn't mention it
All I am picturing as the hollywood writers is the face of that girl that complained on tic tok about how her dad abandoned her and her family to go pursue break dancing.
The live action of Gantz wasn't too bad. But it also wasn't touched by Hollywood.
Yep, even the Gantz O animated movie was good but I didn't like how they cut a few characters like the vampires and psychic duos. At least Gantz O was epic with tech and mech.
No wonder Bryan and Mike left. I guess they were too embarrassed to continue working with a showrunner who actually had A SECOND chance to make something great with source material ALREADY written out but decided to get rid of Sokka's sexism but show air nomad genocide and innocent people being violently burnt to a crisp, hire actors who convey the emotions of a stone, .hire writers who may as well have written this into an audiobook because the dialogue tells the entire story of what's happening in each scene vs advancing the characters' arcs and giving them layers. I could go on and on... The visuals are much better than Shyamalan but the storytelling is just as bad, if not worse than Shyamalan.
I think Bryke and even Aaron Ehasz are too woke now and would surely ruin the show anyway. So, this LA would have been sh't with or without the original creators.
It doesn't suck, it just meehhhhh.
Make it to the end of my video I say this
I think the neflix one sucks just like the movie. Pretend they all don’t exist
We knew it would have really bad writing when original creators left.
I disagree with animation not needing a live action adaptation. It creates a larger audience that way and it gets more exposure. That was literally Echiro Oda's goal for making live action one piece so that it could reach a larger audience.
Yeah, but that's a terrible idea. This is the same line of thinking that caused the dumbing down of properties like the MCU and the game of MtG. Yeah, you may have a 'bigger audience', but at what cost? You sacrificed the integrity of the property and radically changed what it was, just to chase more money. And now the product is a shell of its former self, all because you were chasing the lowest common denominator.
The bottom line of what I'm saying is that chasing excess money usually leads to unnecessarily compromising the vision of the art, devaluing it in the process. It is ok to have a product that is not for everyone; we all like different things. And that's the true meaning of diversity.
I’ve watched the original series probably about 10 times. The character arcs and story progression are close to flawless because they carefully planned out every episode. It is a TIMELESS piece of art that I will always treasure. Why they even try to remake it and change it blows my mind.
It’s mid not horrible but eh
Everyone saying that the show would have been better if the creators stayed, the reason they left is because they wanted to change so many things themselves and the showrunners wanted to be as faithful as possible.
I wish people would just enjoy a show without picking at every little thing wrong. So what everything wasn't perfect. It's called production budget and some things have to be arranged within that. As a fan of the original series, this is a great addition to the franchise. Critics don't make anything but critic.
You clearly didn't watch the video and just decided to bitch about it because you liked the life action..
The issue wasn’t the production budget.
They could have done this ten times better with an even smaller budget.
The problem is that they decided to make a bad fanfiction instead of doing the actual story.
Suki was gorgeous, with or without the warpaint.
I liked the Chereography of the Agni Kai between Ozai & Zulo. Even if they handled it wrong.
While the made-up arcs were absolutely irrelevant, I liked seeing more of Kyoshi & Kurrok.
Casting 👍 Effects 👍 Changes 👎 Writing 👎 Expositionary Dialogue 👎 👎
who the f*ck is Zulo is that a new character in the show?
@@lingricen8077bro stop
Apparently, some people in the original cast of the series wanted the new cast for the Netflix series to do their own thing and not make it a copy paste thing. I get that, but this is just too much. You don’t have to make huge changes just for the sake of it to not steal your friend’s homework, so to speak. You can make small changes and stay true to the original at the same time. I don’t think it’s anywhere near as hard as everyone’s making it out to be.
I don't plan on watching it, and from what I'm understanding in this video they haven't concluded the story. So it sounds like they crammed the first 2 books (40 episodes) into 8 episodes! That's ridiculous! I understand the run times are longer in the Netflix series but still it's not enough to showcase all the important moments in the first 2 books.
How does Netflix STILL not understand how to adapt these mediums properly?