Netflix Avatar is a Disaster - Part 1
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Due to copyright issues, this video that was originally 1 hour and 15 minutes long had to be split up into two parts. I don't know why it worked like that. Both halves work perfectly fine, but put together and woah, stop the presses.
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I still can't get over the fact that they dumbed down a LITERAL GENOCIDE all so they could have a "cool action scene."
Its as if the animated show didn't show anything regarding the genocide before the third episode for a reason. Maybe doing otherwise would've lessened the impact or something 🤔
“People talk about order 66 so let’s do that right?”
The part where Aang went into the Avatar state and said, "The Air Nomads had their chance!" and then broke Monk Gyatso's neck made me cry.
What are you talking about? That didn’t happen! edit: Oh! I just realized you are joking. Sorry.
@@lauraduarte712It's a meme about the Man of Steel movie, Zack Snyder's live action reimagining of Superman. In an effort to make it a "darker, more realistic" work, Zack missed the point of Superman and featured him killing Zod at the end of the movie via neck snap. OP was likely poking fun at the tonal shift this live action rendition of ATLA forced on the atmosphere of the show.
Superman in the movie even says "Krypton had its chance."
This is a top tier comment 💀
@@sageoverheaven Thanks for explaining!
@@lauraduarte712 No problem ^^
Moral of the story: JUST LET ANIMATION STAY AS ANIMATION.
Animation and live action are their own mediums. Not everything can (or needs) be depicted in both mediums. The sooner producers understand that the better.
@@Ratciclefan Absolutely. These producers and film aristocrats don't see animation as a credible film medium, so they'll try and adapt it into live action as a means to validate it artistically.If you think about it's kind of insulting to animation as an art form.
Avatar: TLA is a dam-near perfect series , not just as animation, but in general. It doesn't need to be adapted to lice-action to validate its greatness. The original speaks for itself.
In the their valiant quest to rid the series of sexism, Netflix lobotomized Katara…
And made Suki a damsel that just NEEDS sokkas attention
She went from being a co-main character- LITERALLY the narrator and driving force of the series- to a side character with no development. Who the fuck didn't like Katara or at least understand why she was the was she was?? Sisters, man. Did any of the Netflix writers have sisters or siblings growing up? Serious question lol
@@shawnwilcowski somehow this is “woke”
@@wildfire9280its woke because the whole thing is basically sokka becoming suki’s b*#$%
@@wildfire9280 sukki put sokka in his place, she proved that being a woman meant nothing and that it was training, in the live action instead of ANY of that ,because ya know media literacy isn’t a thing and Americans are genuinely dumb af now, we get sukki drooling over sokka thus her teaching him because she likes him, gone are the days of sokka being shown up and humiliated (embarrassed and shown to be more humble after) because of his backwards view and back to a stupid bad writing trope, never said it was “woke” since people have no idea wtf it even means, but they very obviously butchered females with true potential to soulless husks for the sake of what!? It’s so ass backwards but “im just complaining because its woke” huh 🤔
Netflix Avatar doesn't even try to work for it''s payoff, yet acts like it deserves it. What pisses me off is that the REAL version didn't have to explain every bloody thing to get it's point across and hit those narrative gut-punches. It used good dialogue, great characters, and excellent animation. It didn't have to talk down to its audience like a teacher in a head injury ward. Just like every single live action adaptation, it guts itself to appeal to an ungrateful demographic that probably weren't going to appreciate it in the first place. Now they suddenly don't have an audience at all and scratch their heads thinking, "Well if we try it AGAIN it'll work this time!"
The air nomads all gathering at the southern air temple to pay reverence to the newly-discovered avatar would’ve made way more sense than them gathering to that particular temple-where the newly discovered avatar came from-than simply going there for the comet festival. And even that would’ve still be unnecessary. In the cartoon, Sozin explains he hit all the air temples to leave no stone unturned. They didn’t have to all be in one place for the genocide to occur.
I guess it s one of those things the test audience didn t get.
Asking "why would all the air nomads be in one place just when the fire benders get stronger?"
So the netflix "writers" felt compelled to add that, somehow, they were celebrating the comet...because reasons. 😅
YES!!! All the air nomads gathering to pay homage to the new avatar would have been perfect, because it could also work in the sense that it would immediately drive home to Aang the weight of such an overwhelming responsibility.
How would that make more sense? Y’all are saying a whole lot of nothing 💀😂 In the cartoon they didn’t go around telling everyone Aang was the Avatar. The elders at Aang’s temple knew for years but didn’t tell anyone, because Gyatso wanted to protect Aang and keep his identity a secret. If they told every person they knew Aang would’ve been a massive target and the Fire Nation would’ve found out and tried hunting him down. The Great Comet Festival makes way more sense bc it only comes every 100 years so it’d be a once in a lifetime event people would want to go to, and it doesn’t expose Aang’s identity.
Also, do you guys know what “nomad” means lol? The Air Nomads didn’t always live at the temples, they moved around all over the world. The festival idea makes more sense bc it forces the majority of the nomads to go to one area or atleast the 4 temples they originate from and explains how they all died. Attacking the 4 temples otherwise doesn’t make much sense if the majority of nomads live all over the world anyway. I feel like this is just nit picky
There is no way they were ALL at that one temple anyway. You don't bring your entire population to another city no matter what the event is.
@@kataraluver The fire nation set traps for Airbender and the completion of the genocide didn't happen in one day
Yours is the first video I’ve seen where someone actually mentioned the idiocy of Sozin’s plan, specifically regarding the probability of some airbenders going to help the earth kingdom, which throws a huge wrench into his whole plan. I was starting to think I was imagining that detail…
It's even better when they do the exact same plan at the end of the season but a thousand times worse because they purposefully divert their own resources to attack a faction completely unrelated to their actual target and still somehow win.
The thing hurting this show the most is nepotism.
This affected the writing (the head netflix writer is a sports journalist)
But also the direction. (Again, rookies)
You can tell the young actors were left unsupervised and with minimal number of takes. Thus the bland katara and overserious aang.
There are also a lot of basic mistakes in filming (lighting is médiocre, dutch plan wasn t mastered, same for dialogues)
This lead to an overuse of small sets with greenscreens. You can tell they are on one in any scene where they end up doing the walking- while-talking thing...
It s a sad waste of a great cast, lots of money and a waiting fanbase. With 150millions dollars, one can imagine what good writers and directors could do with such a cast.
Well at least they got one character right. I'll give you a clue:
"My...my...MY CABBAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I'm so glad to see someone think to the future and bring up how tf are they gonna handle things like the final agni kai if _that_ was the commet boost?
Well the way I see it there are three possibilities.
1) Make the final battle as underwhelming as the air nomad genocide.
2) Make the firebending much more powerful completely arbitrarily.
3) Try to come up with an explanation as to why the comet makes them much more powerful 100 years after the air genocide.
The "All airbender will be here" is such an easy thing to solve. Just a single like of Giazo saying, "This time its souther temple's to hold the celebration"
Ty for calling out the firebending in the genocide. It looks like regular fire bending. It shows such a lack of understanding on how bending works. There was a few moments like this. Aang flying, aang holding up two giant boulders with no movment, the carts in omashu traveling upwards. The list goes on.
Idk. calling it "Wolf Cove" just makes me think: "What kind of wolf? In this world animals usually are always hybrids...with few exceptions. " I have not seen anybody talk about hat one yet.
To be fair, you also had Kangaroo Island, Whale Tail Island, and Chameleon Bay in the original show, so regular animal named locations aren't uncommon. Also whether or not you want to count Korra depends on you as a person, but in Tarrlok's flashback, the brothers are seen bloodbending what look like regular wolves.
@@FishStickOnAStick yeah ok. Good points.
The scipt is awful but the worst thing about this show is the direction. Period. Literally every dialogue scene is just the characters stiffly standing around spouting exposition at each other without any camerawork, no motion, no emotion. It honestly felt like I was watching an armature high school play or something…
A little tid-bit I learned from another video that had insider info: The exposition dump was intentional. The target audience during test screenings were people that knew nothing of Avatar, and were confused by the original story beats. This was supposed closer to the original pacing, went through several drafts, and was changed so that those people had no question on what was going on. Instead of focusing on the fan base with their story, they essentially tried to dip into fans and newbies at the same time. This show is entirely built around telling the audience what's going on.
If only the intro was any good at explaining things in a concise and economical format instead of yammering on in a needlessly wordy fashion after the cold open, then maybe we wouldn't need so much exposition.
@@FishStickOnAStick I agree. Ironically it's more confusing with all the minor inconsistencies. I think they were scared no one would get it off rip, instead of allowing people to sit with it.
WTF??? Avatar is not even a complicated story, 8 year olds back in 2005 were able to get it right away...
@@OurBrainHurtsALot Technically they didn't get it right away, because none of that exposition was in the first episode. The air nomads being completely gone wasn't established until episode 3, Sozin's comet wasn't mentioned until episode 8, Aang's backstory on how he ended up in the iceberg isn't until episode 12, and we don't learn more about Fire Lord Sozin until episode 6 of _season 3._ Here, all of that stuff is thrown at viewers before you ever get to properly meet the main cast aside from Aang.
Honestly when you think about it, it's no wonder people were confused. The only reason you would ever start the show there is to specifically appeal to avatar fans, for everyone else it makes no sense. Even with the little details this is inherently confusing. They talk about how sozin's comet enhances firebending, but as a viewer we have no reference for what that means, we haven't even seen normal firebending. And in the first few minutes there's a heavy focus on the earth kingdom (the first bender we see in action is an earth bender), even though in both the cartoon and live action, the earth kingdom won't be relevant for another two hours of runtime. Kids would've been just as confused by the cartoon if this was how it opened, but instead we have the iconic line "Then, everything changed when the fire nation attacked" as all the context we need.
@@squiddler7731lol you have a comparison for the comet, literally in the beginning there were already firebenders *against armors* and now we have 3 firebenders buffed with comets against 1 Airbender without armor.
They literally have no excuse if they actually try to summarize and shorten the story instead of actually changing it.
the whole “Wolf Cove” thing honestly bothers me a lot ‘cause in the cartoon, the fact that there’s literally only half a dozen women, some elderly women, and a bunch of kids under like, 8 max, is genuinely important. You feel how utterly vulnerable they are and can understand why Sokka is so excessive with his warrior attitude and drills. Heck, he has *lived* through a Fire Nation raid and lost his mom from it. The possibility of it happening again is very real to him. Then with Katara, we can imagine how she probably felt over the years, hoping that one of those little kids would turn out to be a bender….and then it never happens. Now all the men are gone and there’s no more chances for another bender to be born in her tribe until the men get back from the war or those little kids grow into adults and either have kids with each other. Not to mention marriage and child prospects for Katara! She obviously can’t marry her _brother_ (not *that* kind of Game of Thrones, please I beg) and her only other option is to either wait for one of the kids to become an old enough adult (ew, I know) or the men come back and she becomes one of _their_ wives. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t remember the men of the Water Tribe being particularly on the young side. Same thing goes for Sokka in the marriage department. And until either of them find lovers or the men come back from the war, the village is stagnant in number. It cannot grow-it can only lose.
But in the live action, there’s a bunch of people, they feel far less vulnerable and weakened as a tribe, and there’s fellow teens and tweens around their age that could be future prospective lovers (and therefore, future prospective *fellow waterbenders* especially for Katara) which means that the village can continue to grow in number much faster than it could in the original show. It’s just a completely different state of war-torn and affected that I don’t think conveys the extent to which the Fire Nation _devastated_ the Southern Water Tribe, especially since by calling it “Wolf Cove” you’re implying it’s not the only village-so are there no waterbenders in other villages?
Implications are such an important thing to consider when writing a narrative.
Wolf Cove was not new for this show. It is the name for the area where the Southern Water Tribe village is located and historically the name of one of the water tribe cities in the area. Of course by time we are introduced to it in the OG, Wolf Cove city is a small village thanks to events that happened during the age of Kyoshi followed years later by the fire nation raids during the Hundred Year War. It was rebuilt after the end of the war.
during ww2 in FOUR YEARS they manage to kill an estimated of 6 millions jews and had 5 million prisoners…now, why is so hard for netflix to graps the concept that there is not a single Air Nomad left AFTER 100 YEARS OF HUNTING, even in the comics of ATLA general Zao tells Aang that Sozin and Azulan dedicated their reign to kill air nomads along side with southern water bender (in case the avatar was reborn) and taking earth kingdom Territory
Ember island players have more accuracy and emotions than the netflix adaptation. Also why are all the air nomads gathering in one place? Aren't they supposed to aid the earth nation since sozins attack plan is leaked?
I guess the Air Nomads value partying over the well being of the Earth Kingdom.
@@FishStickOnAStickYou know what would have been a cooler show? Maybe have a segment of Airbenders that actually fled to help the Earth Kingdom while the southern air temple was annihilated. Then follow them trying to survive while the Fire nation brings a reign of terror across the planet to wipe them out.
Instead of readapting a perfect show.
@@FishStickOnAStick 😂😂😂true that
@@lorddevilfish5868 then that would have increased the budget and they have to show another genocide right. Killing all of them at once is brutal you know why cause game of thrones fans are used to watching things like that and by following their steps Netflix wanted to show how mature they are
There is no Avatar the last Airbender live action adaptation in ba sing se
Also, the fact that the Air nomad was going to send Aang to study earthbending tells you that the story writer knows nothing about ATLA lore
You know Netflix truly effed up when you have to praise some points of M. Night Shyamalan’s movie in comparison to the Netflix series lmao
OOOF
They were so worried about adding the characters to cool scenes that they forgpt to add the characters _to_ the characters
There's so much lore and potential with other parts of the Avatar universe that could be adapted, but they keep trying to remake the same thing. Say what you will about Korra but at least it tried to tell its own story, however divisive it may be. I'm just tired of them trying to remake something that's already phenomenal as is.
False flag? I guess you could say those Firebenders really…
Glow in the dark?
You could even say they light up the sky.
My favourite review channel making a video about my most hated show of the year??
Today is a good day
damn, pleasure to see you here michael
Hehehehe
i personally cannot get over how bad sozin's beard looks
Iroh and Roku too
Hey this isn’t a creepypasta
Yes it is!
old man reads creepypasta
Nor is it Bad Weapon Academy.
It’s a Netflix adaptation. Even more horrific.
Hyper realistic flying buffalo.
I always felt the attack on the Air Nomads was more then just about this incarnation of the Avatar. I thought it was Sozin trying to break the cycle.
Although the attack on the air nomads is probably the most important event in the entire show, its justification is pretty weak. I think Sozin's intent was to end the avatar cycle, but attacking when the new avatar is already 12 years old doesn't make sense. He's obviously way too late. Killing Aang would have just reincarnated him into the water tribe, which was still standing 100 years later.
@unrighteous8745 why is 12 too late? The fire nation would have annihilated Aang.
And the fire nation didn't k own the water tribe would survive 100 years. You're criticizing it with 20/20 hindsight.
@@fangiscool1 Twelve is too late because killing the avatar doesn't break the cycle. I'm pretty sure Sozin's idea was to wipe out the air nomads so the avatar couldn't reincarnate into them, but he already had.
I don't think you need much foresight to realize that sending the avatar to the north or south poles would make him difficult to locate.
Could also be what they figured they could reasonably take out at the time. The peace loving nomads in 4 sparsely populated temples in which novice airbenders would end up making the flames stronger trying to blow them out instead of subtly snuffing them out. Instead of massive landmass filled with benders that naturally counter you, and two hidden ice masses in which is too cold and too wet. Air nomads makes most sense to take out. Followed by slowly taking out the flanking water tribes or atleast majorly crippling the lesser of the two. And finally using sozin's comet to turn the earth kingdom into a glass floor.
If that’s the case, wouldn’t it make more sense to genocide the water benders first, then kill the avatar air nomad? Then again would that actually stop the cycle or would the avatar just skip water directly to earth?
It's interesting that you’re pointing out stuff the movie did do that the Netflix show didn't, because that was my thought as well when watching it. I mean, the movie is still bad, and objectively the Netflix show is better, but I still found it fascinating that certain things in the live-action show got me praising things in the bad movie. :P
And when the world needed him most... he made a video talking about Avatar of Thrones
I JUST CAME HERE TO COMMENT THIS YOU THIEF
LMAOO
God damn, can ANYBODY make an actual faithful adaptation of this fantastic show? First we got that awful movie, and now we get this show that was built up for so long to be some great achievement, but every single news story about it made it sound worse and worse lol.
The original creators said that the fire nation used the dragons to find the air temples and ambush them from the back of the dragons
You know it's going to be an "interesting" show when a Shyamalan adaptation is compared positively to it.
LoK has a lot of script issues specially season 2. But I still think season 3 and korra herself save that show
Imagen if the Firenation conducted four simultaneous raids on the four Airnation temples.
We woudnt even need a close up fight, it would have been way more epic if we just got wide shots of the four tembles, but just waves of fire exploding from the windows and courtyards, under a blood red sky.
The wight of the genocide has been completely snuffed. The fight with Boomie has more of an umpf, and it would save on the budget.
It's so interesting seeing the amount of things this show gets wrong that the Shyamalan movie somehow got right. It must have taken actual effort to get that wrong.
I was taking this screen writing course and the instructor said one of the signs of a skilled/experienced writer is his ability to have budget in mind. Your video has given me a glaring example of the truth of his statement.
I love it when Netflix saya It's Avatar time, and proceeds to ruin yet another live action avatar
And aang flying is just not good. You have to let go of your earthly attachments and like Yangchen said the avatars soul duty is the world
Yeah, Sokka and Katara no longer make any sense.
Because Sokka's character arc has been deleted from the bloody story.
What's worse is that the pilot for the netflix series covers the events of the first 3 episodes of original animated series, with almost the same runtime between the two. Netflix wastes SO MUCH time in this series, when the original animation had little to no problems with this.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but from the moment I saw the cold open with the earth kingdom spy, it instantly felt like a straight up rip off of the spy scene from Rogue One. Really bizarre.
This is the most mortifying creepypasta you've reviewed yet! Luckily it's as real as revenge of the jungle trap!
They should have altered his intention to be to flush out the avatar, and that the genocide continued because the avatar never showed.
It is impressive and concerning how often you brought up the movie understanding what the cartoon did at points and keeping them instead of changing them like the Netflix show did
I've said this in another TH-camr video but I would have LOVED it if the water tribe village was a migrating tribe because they were so small. At least on their own land. That and it would have been really cool to learn that they followed their food source. Using the fire nation wreck as a land marker would have been nice btw. All they would have to show is Katara help set up camp and sombody mention that they'd be moving within a few days, to a week or whatever. Then that could give reason to why Sokka and Katara go out fishing and essentially finding Aang. Added note I wish we could see how they got sea cucumbers. Like they are attatched to sea weed or something?
I really want to see an actual critique from someone who's never seen ATLA before because it can't POSSIBLY just be the ATLA fans who see the issues with the actual quality of the show. It seems like everyone who likes NATLA hasn't actually thought that deeply about it. I do think there are some things to like, but I'm tired of people acting like fans are overreacting when they critique the show heavily.
Idk if you've seen it but just yesterday I watched a video of this guy breaking down the differences between the fight between Katatra and Paccu in the live action vs the cartoon and through the whole analysis he just refers to them as "the girl" and "the old man" basically ignoring the set dressings and only focusing on how the fight is choreographed and how the film is shot and even completely ignoring that it's atla it's So Bad
@@rachelmclaughlin9525 Oh I did see that and I actually really loved that. I can't really tell if you thought the video was bad or not, but he said he wasn't referring to anyone by their names to really focus on the technical aspects of the show. I thought the video was great and it made me realize how badly directed NATLA is.
Coincidentally I saw the Pakku video too.
The Harry Potter 1 level of CGI character rendering in the exposition sequence was painful to watch
Good writing could have made the genocide scene heart breaking and powerful. Your point on it just being an action scene is so valid I can't believe I didn't think of that.
With good camera work and proper dialogue, the writers could have connected us to the airbenders and shown the tragedy of their genocide much more effectively.
Amazing breakdown comparison! Most in depth analysis I’ve seen so far! Great video!
Saw this coming a mile away, like look how bad they treated one piece
also in the original, the fire nation colonised earth kingdom territory ehile Roku was still alive and no one went to help
Hey, fsoas, have you thought about creating a gaming channel where you could do stuff like tell people how to use not good TF2 wrapons?
Nah, I don't think that would ever work.
@@jaydeng.9506 Actually maybe you're right. Not a good idea. May turn out with peopel asking to cover good weapons like ambassador in the series and we dont want that
He would probably complain a lot about Vaccinator and Kunai or something like that
Glad to see fish is making up for not posting on Halloween last year
I love how in depth you are going with your takes on this show (that was dumbed down to a point of pain and contradicted and caused unnecessary plotholes for itself) and I love the snark.
also… yay, a fellow disliker of Legend of Korra! (love ATLA to death and have watched it multiple times, but gave up on LoK somewhere in the middle)
Unnecessary changes baffle me
Paku could be sexist but Sokka couldn’t? That’s weird
Someone said this feels like if the ember island players made a new play about it like 20 years later when they started unpacking the facism of the fire nation before ozai's defeat, and honestly i think that's my headcanon for what the hell is happening here
The issue with controlled flight without glider is,
**WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE A GLIDER ??**
Re: Sozin's plan regarding the avatar. I think he and Jiao had different ideas and different concepts of their abilities. Ultimately Jiao is a small man who wants to leave his mark on history. Sozin was the Fire Lord. I think Sozin's plan was to sort of "chase " the avatar back into a fire incarnation, which he could then control .
We do know, after all, that after he thought he might have killed the air nomad avatar, he kept up raids on the Southern Water Tribe, which is where the Avatar was supposed to be born next in the cycle (it seems the avatar shifts from both element to element and tribe to tribe), and seemed intent on capturing all the waterbenders. He was looking, essentially, for Korra. Not realizing Aang was still alive.
Man even as a standalone series this would suck. Like the visuals are awesome imo, if it had even half decent dialogue it could be good
The problem is not that you can’t make live action from a beloved animated series. The problem is doing it right. Better call Saul is on par with the original Braking Bad, because the creators took something that was great and tried to make it even better.
When ppl say it’s a good show hadnt seen the show
Damn the explanation at 23:51 gave me goose bumps 😅. Such a great way to express the power boost!
Thought I’d been recommended an E:R vid, instead a pleasant surprise to see this channel uploading.
The way they claimed they were making the show 'less sexist' and their way of doing that was removing the scene where Katara angrily points out she does the chores for him and STANDING UP FOR HERSELF and changing it to Sokka essentially telling her to get back in the kitchen instead of waterbend lmao
25:44 I think the way Gyatso dealt with those firebenders is that he kept himself hidden in the room while dozens of those firebenders are looting the place.
And since even he doesn't stand a chance against comet-enhanced firebenders, his only way to defeat them is to suck the air out of the room and let everyone suffocate, including himself.
I've had an infermal, painful headache, and I need some direction to channel my hatred towards again.
Right off the bat I was HEAVILY CRITICAL on my watch. Like for example why WAS there a earthbending soldier in the fire nation's capital city? That meant somebody sent him there "TO" spy or his party he was with had been taken out in a ambush. That info was left out so I'm guessing on that idea. I don't think he would have gotten far to begin with but the guy was not even trying to escape. Like creating a wall BEHIND himself instead of in front. A small self-preservation would have been nice.
4:24 I have to ask... Wouldn't they ALREADY know? I mean the airbenders wouldn't susspect a betrayl coming before so wouldn't they have mentioned to the fire sages that the next avatar HAD BEEN FOUND? That they were just waiting for him to grow up?
How long have they known Aang was the avatar again before Sozin planned his attack? Did they also tell the Earth Kingdoms and the Water Tribes the avatar has been found? I forget actually.
@@joshbuoy8661 Aang had mentioned that he started playing with the ancient avatar relics when he was quote "little". They don't EXACTLY say how old. Neither was it brought up in the cartoon that the other nations knew about this. So it would have been interesting to watch the suspense grow when Sozin found out about Aang via messenger bird and began to hunt him down.
You know, this just popped in my head. A good scene to work on would have been how they found out Aang was the next avatar. For perspective a short scene of monk Gyatso giving Aang the toy or relic test at the age of hmmm, four or five. Kids naturally love toys so a child actor of that age only needs to pick up the toy (even hand the toy to the child out of frame) and have Gyatso look on as his guardian and father figure. Scene done. A good show don't tell scene with maybe Sozin's voice declaring they will hunt down this new avatar and anyone who protects him. Making the audience worried for the little guy.
That's a beautiful music selection you got going for this vid, Donkey Kong Country Music rocks. Also Route 216 hell yeah
Netflix avatar “a Marble Hornets Story”
Honestly Sozin's comet looks kinda week in the live action ngl
When the world needed him most he returned
Ngl I didn’t expect you to make a video on this. Nice to get a notification from your channel after so long tho 😂
Avatar State Yip Yip!
Bro.....this analysis is BRUTAL!!!! And also completely deserved. 😂
when I sat down and watched this with my mom and little sister, I suddenly realized who's intended audience this was aimed at. This show were for people who, like my mom specifically, refused to watch the original due to it being a "cartoon for children" (my mom strays away from a lot of goated media aimed at children despite her love for Marvel and DC comics. Its for kids afterall; theres no serious themes going on for adults to enjoy... obviously... 🙄🙄🙄). She likes the show. Kinda. She did say it was confusing and hard to follow, and thus, with her having untreated and undiagnosed ADHD, she lost interest in watching the show very quickly. My sister too lost interest for being confused... which is funny in hindsight for all the expo dump they do throughout the first few episodes 💀
The majority of the time watching I had to fill them in on scenes that didn't make sense because they took out parts that would've been perfect had they did a 1 to 1 recreation (like how they showed the ice orb but not Aang inside of it, so my mom was confused as to where he appeared from, thinking he spawned from the light that came from it. She was also confused where Appa came from since they didn't show him inside the orb with him either. During that iconic Aang talking to himself scene my mom was like "...Well that was weird. Who the hell was he talking to, us? Was that supposed to be a 4th wall break?"). Now, that being said, I don't mind adaptations not copying beat for beat of the story they're based off of. I encourage a retelling, thats what makes it cool to watch for viewers who already know the story after all! ...But god damn, *make it make sense* 😭 I'm on my knees begging.
The firebending was so weak during the comet in the live action. It just looked like normal firebending. It seriously took 3 firebenders combined to take out 1 air nomade smh
Even M.Night actually WATCHED the show before making his movie, even if he only watched the first season all the way through and is pretty infamous for saying how much he didn't like it (because he doesn't like cartoons) and only skimmed book 2 and 3.
I feel like the directors and producers of THIS show didn't watch the animated series at ALL and were only relying on memes as their sources.
When the world needed him most, he returned
I had a headcannon that you and OverAnalysing Avater are relatives, now this has become true
Why does it seem like everything animated MUST have a live action adaptation? Do studio executives assume something is somehow better purely because it looks realistic?
I watched this show with rose tinted glasses I am now realizing... I just saw that some characters were similar to the originals, some scenes were faithful or at least competent, and I had just gotten done watching the original show over the course of 2 days when I was more sick, so I was craving more Avatar. I kinda feel shortsighted..
Bro i didn’t realize you had this channel
This is the first person I've seen who thinks the movie was better
Korra doesn't suck. At least that's what I believe now that this is out.
I think Jackie Chan would’ve been great as JeongJeong or maybe Jet Li one of those two.
It's not like fingers in the pie, it's like order a pie and finding a bunch of fucking hair in it. Why the fuck didn't the pie come the way I expected it, It's like ordering french fries, and watching the manager grab the fucking french fries, rip them in half, place them in front of me, look at me and have the balls to say, have a good day.
Netflix is on a streak
23:41 holy crap, that was great "it's like the air itself is screaming in pain" 😂
Okay, I didn't watch this series, and I hadn't seen much clips from it, but now I saw this video, I finally can say: what the heck did they do to firebending, again? It seems like no one can do it. No, not the CG. The movements. Suddenly firebenders mostly do open-handed firebending now? The original show didn't hire a martial arts expert to make the movements of each element bending distinctive. My favourite movements from firebending are the fire-shooting fist punch and fire-shooting feet. I am probably wrong, but open palm fire in the original series usually used as a statement of power rather than usual fighting. I didn't want to repeat this all over again because I turned away from the first live action adaptation as soon as I saw firebenders there, and yet here I am again.
Open palms are actually associated more with airbending than anything else, comes from the bagua martial arts style that airbending is based off of. Open palms are sometimes used in firebending, as is seen in the Ozai clip or when used defensively to deflect fire, but for the most part it's associated with closed fist punches.
@@FishStickOnAStick Yeah, exactly. I want to be mad again about the whole "they got firebending wrong" again, but you know, I'm just glad someone understands my point.
27:16 I believe the name was actually revealed a few years ago in Avatar Legends? (I definitely remember finding the name on wiki before the show released). I think it is the same roleplaying game that people were saying confirmed that guns existed in the Avatar universe
THANK YOU! Sozin's misdirection, and the genocide overall made no fucking sense. I couldn't get over the show starting this way. And it is alarming how many positive reviews liked this change, even though the logic of it doesn't work. And it's alarming that we can literally point to scenes the atrocious movie did better. This essay is nailing all the problems (big and small), perfectly.
Gotta chase that algo, bro!
My dude went from critiqueing Creepypastas to Netflix adaptations... nice
11:15 Or, you know, dividing their army in 4 and attack all temples at once since the comet made them unstoppable.
I love all the begrudging bits of praise you give the movie for getting some things right. Just adds to the fact that the supposed redemption is in some regards even worse than the previous try.
I'll add one of my own as i prefer the movie costumes. Sure they aren't as colourful as either version of the show, but they look more like actual clothes, not cosplay pieces. The winter clothes in this version bother me especially cuz they just look so thin and flimsy, where both the og show and the movie had them looking all warm and thick. Also the wigs, especially Yue's, movie did it 100 times better.
I don’t even know why you would try to make a live action The Last Airbender adaptation. It’s hard to think of a worse ip to do a live action adaptation. Best case scenario, you get an inferior and redundant version of an already existing show and, worst case scenario, you get the M. Night Shyamalan film.
I know why! Money!
Specifically to pay the live action stuff more than animators.
Literally the only thing I could see being done better is fixing the energy bending deus ex machina. Introduce it during book two by the guru, either as an elevated technique from opening your chakras, or even as the basis for all bending (could bring in the lesson from the swamp about everything being connected, how people first learned to bend the energy within and learning to connect with the elements of nature, how benders aligned their chi with each element, etc etc.). Then either the guru or Aang could float the idea of sealing someone’s bending (Aang if he was more contemplative on the war, the guru joking about being able to gift bending to others, or the guru introduces the idea if Aang brings up the war). Then he could be practicing it to little avail due to the injury sustained at the end of book 2. Or have this bending be the catalyst for re-unlocking the Avatar state instead of being smashed into the rock.
The lion turtle could still be the one to teach him the sealing technique, but Aang training in energy bending would be a good way to have a proper payoff in the finale when he overwhelms Ozai. And he can still feel guilt and trepidation over possibly needing to kill him because he hadn’t managed to figure out the sealing technique while also trying to realign his chakras for the Avatar state. So he still feels that his options are limited, but now his pacifism is less out of ignorance and more out of determination, even in the face of desperation over his lack of results before the big fight.
@@jemm113 or you can say "I'm a chad" and force aang to kill ozai.
I'm pretty sure the only reason the Firebenders fly is because Ozai flies when he fights Aang.
I'm fine with the firebenders flying due to the influence of the comet, my issue is that it's literally the only difference between regular firebending and comet enhanced firebending that we see, outside of a vague indication that the comet makes the firebenders stronger. And it's my desperate hope that the whole flying thing is comet exclusive, because if that isn't the case then everything is just screwed. We'll have to see if the next two seasons completely contradict that.
@@FishStickOnAStick I wasn't critising your point. I'm saying it's nostalgia baiting.
I don't think it's quite blatant enough to be nostalgia baiting. They'd have to play the music from when Ozai starts flying or have a similar camera angle for that to be the case. I think they just wanted an explanation for how the firebenders got up to the temples without sky bison, which is fine enough in concept.
@@FishStickOnAStick If I remember right, in Avatar Ozai was the only Firebender depicted to be able to fly.
Aang's characterization could have been a simple scene about 2 minutes in lenght max. All they had to do is have a scene in which Aang is walking through the temple with a few monks , heading for some sort of training. And on the way Aang gets distracted by fruit pies laid out on a table, get distracted by seeing kids playing and waving at him , and the monks keep not letting him get distracted , telling him over and over about the importance of his training. Then another monk walks in , looking worried, bearing the news that the fire nation is attacking the earth kingdom. And so, emergency meeting ensues and Aang's training gets posponed, much to Aang's surprise. Curios by nature, Aang sneaks off to eaves drop on the meeting to figure out what could have happened in order to make the monks act like that.
And he hears the whole thing, that he's being sent away, that war is starting , that they'll take away his childhood, that the stakes are infinitely higher which scares him. And *that* establishes everything we need to know about Aang and gives him the motivation to run away while still doing something original.
Cant wait to see part 10!
Take a Shot whenever Fishstick says a varient on "The Movie was better!"