You said it. Completely. What most people seem to forget when writing a story is that they should be SHOWING, not telling. It gives us viewers the joy of feeling curious to know more and, sometimes, maybe even feel more empathetic. Immediately telling it makes it sound like the character knows all the problems they face already. In reality, we need time before realising this. It's not reality to solve personal issues on the spot. It's reality to learn, grow and realise how far we've come from those issues. That was what made ATLA so beautiful, and Netflix just threw it all out the window. This is why I didn't want to continue watching it anymore.
Exactly! It’s a journey of learning who Aang is until it’s finally revealed why he ran away. It’s a lot more satisfying and natural that way than just dumping it all on us at the very beginning of the show -Zach
It killed me when Gran Gran just exposited the history of the war, how the airbenders were killed and how the world needs the Avatar, basically minutes after realizing Aang is an airbender. And he's immediately serious about the situation?? They even cut out how he was running away from being the Avatar?? That whole backstory took several episodes in the original to explain and Aang doesn't even fully realize the reality of the situation until he finds Gyatso's body in the temple. Aang's whole character arc is about growing up and finding out who he wants to be as an Avatar. Him starting out as a goofy optimistic kid is so important for his character. I feel like whoever thought this adaptation should appeal to Game of Thrones fans has no clue what made the OG ALTA show so good.
Yeah I had heard before the show came out that they were going to cut out a lot of the side adventures he goes on and just have the group go straight to the Northern Water Tribe. Which completely misses the point of Aang’s character and the arc he goes through, like you said, as well as character arc moments for Katara and Sokka as well. -Zach
You said it. Completely. What most people seem to forget when writing a story is that they should be SHOWING, not telling. It gives us viewers the joy of feeling curious to know more and, sometimes, maybe even feel more empathetic. Immediately telling it makes it sound like the character knows all the problems they face already. In reality, we need time before realising this. It's not reality to solve personal issues on the spot. It's reality to learn, grow and realise how far we've come from those issues. That was what made ATLA so beautiful, and Netflix just threw it all out the window. This is why I didn't want to continue watching it anymore.
Exactly! It’s a journey of learning who Aang is until it’s finally revealed why he ran away. It’s a lot more satisfying and natural that way than just dumping it all on us at the very beginning of the show
-Zach
It killed me when Gran Gran just exposited the history of the war, how the airbenders were killed and how the world needs the Avatar, basically minutes after realizing Aang is an airbender. And he's immediately serious about the situation?? They even cut out how he was running away from being the Avatar?? That whole backstory took several episodes in the original to explain and Aang doesn't even fully realize the reality of the situation until he finds Gyatso's body in the temple. Aang's whole character arc is about growing up and finding out who he wants to be as an Avatar. Him starting out as a goofy optimistic kid is so important for his character. I feel like whoever thought this adaptation should appeal to Game of Thrones fans has no clue what made the OG ALTA show so good.
Yeah I had heard before the show came out that they were going to cut out a lot of the side adventures he goes on and just have the group go straight to the Northern Water Tribe. Which completely misses the point of Aang’s character and the arc he goes through, like you said, as well as character arc moments for Katara and Sokka as well.
-Zach
FINALLY somebody said it
Hating it was done fantastic the sets cast fights were nailed