I don't think Katara's actor did a bad job -- I think she gave the director exactly what they were asking for. All of the dialogue she was given just sucked, and they took away everything interesting from her character. Based on the clips from her past performances, I think she could have nailed the part if they let her.
I agree. Kiawentiio isn't a bad actress, she was just given a poorly written character. And especially in something with a lot of child actors, its important on the directors part to do their job and DIRECT the actors for a better performance. I hope this doesn't affect her career negatively.
She is a bad actor, you can’t teach someone how to cry if the director said cry. That’s why there is a difference between Merly Streep and Angelina Jolie. Are you so ignorant to understand that or a simp. Idk
I don’t think Katara’s actress did a “bad” job but I don’t think she’s S tier, in this show every line she spoke in a monotone voice and in the scene when Katara is supposed to be angry her face doesn’t change to make her look angry and she doesn’t sound angry, I would personally say she’s top of A tier
In my post-viewing rank at the end of the video, I moved her to B tier. I still think she's a better actress than they let her be in season 1 though, so hope she delivers in the rest of the show
* while talking about jetts actor * ”I guess im too straight to see it” (talking about how people were going craz for the actor on the internet) *Later while talking about fire lords actor* (Literally takes a break) ”DAMN HE’S LOOKS GOOD” 😂😂😂
A lot of these actors aren’t bad actors rather the script for the show is bad, the main characters seem more like there characters irl then in the show, the writers and directors for sure held them back which sucks but the show isn’t bad and im absolutely PRAYING they do them justice in season 2
Holy crap the actress who plays Ty-Lee is like, bang on, how did they manage to do her so dirty in the show??. Hopefully shes able to be a lot more bubbly in Season 2
Netflix's Iroh felt the most like someone playing a character imo. Like his cadence and actions were a bit distracting, but he was starting to grow on me.
@@BabyLionTurtlewhy does it feel like Iroh doesn't act "wise" enough in the live action, if that makes any sense? Like he's not relaxed enough. Someone should give Paul some jasmine tea lol
@@BeesRecipes I agree. It always felt like Mako's (and then Greg Baldwin's) Iroh spoke deliberately and with very thoughtful, well considered words. Paul's Iroh, though, speaks so quickly that it makes a tangible difference in how I perceive his character.
She's not a bad actress (see her performance in anne with an e for example) But i think the directors and thw writers gave her a bad scrpit and bad directing
Sorry to burst your bubble friend, but in episode 2x12 'The Serpent's Pass', Zuko and Iroh ran into The Freedom Fighters and Iroh said "Smellerby, that's an unusual name for a guy". She says "that's because im not a guy, IM A GIRL". She certainly was not non-binary
That updated ranking is pretty spot on, and I agree with most of them, except for 2 key characters... Iroh in B tier and Sozin in C tier. Personally I'd move them up at least 1 tier higher. Sozin was pretty intimidating. And my gods... Iroh... gotta love him. His scenes with Zuko were among the best in the series, especially when "Leaves From the Vine" started playing in the background. If that doesn't get you to tearbend, I don't know what will. T_T
Re-reuploaded the video to edit my post-watch ranking into the video's conclusion 36:16 :) (on the bright side, this means I techniqually uploaded 3 times in one week for the first time *ever*! BLT is so back!)
None of my issues with the live action were based on the acting, or even the casting. There were things I liked that the creators added, but many things I thought went wrong and didn't 'honor' the original.
i’d really like to point out a specific part of this video. 5:43 because people were really trying to deny kiawentiio her heritage because she isn’t as dark as a ficitional indigenous character who doesn’t even have any actual indigenous features (because its a cartoon). just ridiculous. but speaking of kiawentiio, her range shows so much in her previous projects.. why did they water that down ???
Her acting in Beans is really good and shows a lot of emotions in there especially in that one scene where she throws rocks at the police and shouts angrily at them for not helping her family. IDK why the writers made her act like that when she can pull off Katara's personality the same in the OG.
Finally an objective feedback and one that is closest to mine too. I loved your insights on the video from yrs ago and watching this after a month the live action was premiered you were somehow spot on. I love this series and I think they did great with the casting and I cant wait to see more of them in the next seasons
Actually, I loved what the actress who played Yue did with her role. It was different from the animated series, but in my opinion, the changes elevated the character.
9:36 I knew his face from somewhere! He was on the most recent season of amazing race Canada! Weird connection but I’m glad I realized or else it would’ve been bugging me all week
Suki's actress being part polish is surprising but actually understandable, i really think the features suit the character since Suki looked more 'european' to me than other characters aswell.
the appa momo voice actor really wasn’t doing it for me. Sometimes appa just sounded like a throat grunt, and other times they played a literal chimp/monkey free sample sound for momo. I wish they got Baker back for this one.
@@BabyLionTurtle actually I take momo back, I only really didn’t like one moment. In the kyoshi episode fight when momo is throwing rocks at the intruders, they literally just use a monkey sound for him. For appa, I can hear the person doing a “moooooooo” but more coming deep within their chest, with an under layer of a growl, which the growl actually sounds really great… the “moooo” not so much. Omg I just rewatched when appa was dropping off Aang on the firenation ship in the 8th episode and he literally goes “MmmmmmmMm” like girlllll what is this
5:50 Would love for you to address the fact that we are mildly upset because of colorism. People my skin tone or darker should not have to hear “it would be too distracting” “we don’t want to have to figure out special lighting for dark scenes” “you just don’t look like a star” it’s the same thing they did with America Chavez in Strange 2 or Sunspot in New Mutants. Enough is enough and if for example we got a lighter Storm in X-men there’d be pushback. Darker actors need to be given opportunities like this otherwise people lighter than me will always get picked. It’s why I hate it when people say I should be happy Zendaya gets so much work. No, I’ll be happy for her and still want more for the rest of us as well.
Okay, I dont mean to assume, but from having looked at your videos you seem to be Black?. I think representation for all ethnicities and colours is important, but Katara/Sokka aren't black and i think its a little shitty for some twitter users to be almost appropriating them (for a lack of a better word) to their own ethnicites. Maybe im wrong but ive noticed that (especially in American Media) Non-White = Black almost always. I do think its really wrong for so many people online (Twitter Mostly) to be demanding that Sokka/Katara be "dark skin" representation when the Actors themselves are the right ethnicity to be playing the roles (Even if there are a few questions around Sokkas Actor).
@@klaidas7409 nobody said the water tribe should be black. people say they should be the same shade they are in the show, because such people do exist. there are siberians, aleut, and inuit (all arctic people) who are the color that water tribe members are, but that's not who was cast. netflix has a tendency to cast lighter-skinned people of color at any opportunity they can, regardless of race. that's colorism.
Looking at the animated series again after finishing the live-action show, I actually think that the actor for Sokka was a pretty good fit. Sokka's face from the animated series doesn't translate into actual facial features that easily, but I think especially the prominent jaw line was quite fitting for the role.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I don’t think Iroh’s casting is very good, particularly because he isn’t old enough. He doesn’t look elderly at all. He also doesn’t have even close to Iroh’s original voice, which is very calm and nonchalant.
everyone is nicely cast, but mei and azula is f tier. You cant put heavyweight boxer/weightlifter bodybuild as southeast asiano yop 1 martial artist, and an deffo unathletic one as extremely athletic character.
Agreed and I understand that this is not to body shame. I wish suki played azula she has the look and as a kyoshi warrior she did great but she would have been a better azula
@@darao.4907 umm, fat is not muscular. :p Look at any athlete, she does not have athletic build at all. She has heavyweight boxer build, not martial artist build.
In hindsight, the actors were dealt such a bad hand with the writing.the actors gave it their all and killed it. Unfortunately, killing bad writing just shows how they were screwed over
I really don't like what they did with Hakoda's character in the live action at all. In regards to the casting and everyone's acting I thought the casting was almost perfect and the acting was fine, would've been better if they had a better script.
I think the overall cast was so good, I really hope they listen to constructive criticism instead of the hate and lead the actors and the writing into the right direction. They have so much potential to make season 2 so good!
I am happy I clicked on the video and to find out that the actor of Smellerbee is non binary, and as you said it yourself in the video. Smellerbee is deffo/probably trans/non binary in the cartoon :3
SPOILERS: Omg. Suki and her mom are such badasses in the show and played by GORGEOUS ladies!!! The storyline was cheated not having Sokka dress as a Kyoshi warrior but making Aang go into the avatar state AS Kyoshi just like he did as Roku in the show was fucken smart of them they know we Stan. So fucken badass. The lesbians were living. Omg keeping Spellerbee trans and more visibly this time was so decent and respectful. Like how are you gonna gender Spellerbee? It’s not necessary. Fricken Jun is gonna be a problem for anyone with mommy issues 🤣🤣 but no I get it. I can see it for y’all. I haven’t seen the show. just watched a TH-cam reactor watch it and she and I were both having problems with the men in this movie. You couldn’t say one thing about the actor who plays Hahn but our slutty mouths and tongues were *wagging*. And I thought I had ended my fuckboy accepting era but that one Jet piece of shit…oh he’s about to make me want to let him rob me disrespectfully. And I’m sorry.
As soon as he said Katara was S tier I clicked away and then came back to comment. She looked nothing like Katara, was not pretty enough, and her acting sucked.
As soon as the cast of Avatar revealed y'all showed your true colors. Sexist, racist and low-key a pdf file. I never expect that there are kind of of these people in the fandom.
I don't think Katara's actor did a bad job -- I think she gave the director exactly what they were asking for. All of the dialogue she was given just sucked, and they took away everything interesting from her character. Based on the clips from her past performances, I think she could have nailed the part if they let her.
I agree. Kiawentiio isn't a bad actress, she was just given a poorly written character. And especially in something with a lot of child actors, its important on the directors part to do their job and DIRECT the actors for a better performance. I hope this doesn't affect her career negatively.
She is a bad actor, you can’t teach someone how to cry if the director said cry. That’s why there is a difference between Merly Streep and Angelina Jolie. Are you so ignorant to understand that or a simp. Idk
her performance in anne with an e was great, yes i think its the script and what the director told her to do that in the series
I think if she got to do the beginning argument with Sokka people wouldn’t be so hard on her but she was given so little to do except go “master?”
I don’t think Katara’s actress did a “bad” job but I don’t think she’s S tier, in this show every line she spoke in a monotone voice and in the scene when Katara is supposed to be angry her face doesn’t change to make her look angry and she doesn’t sound angry, I would personally say she’s top of A tier
In my post-viewing rank at the end of the video, I moved her to B tier. I still think she's a better actress than they let her be in season 1 though, so hope she delivers in the rest of the show
@@BabyLionTurtle yeah, based on her acting on other stuff, she's capable of so much more than what NATLA made her do
I am German so we got the luxury of the OG voice actors for the voiceover and that honestly made up so much in terms of nostalgia.
* while talking about jetts actor *
”I guess im too straight to see it” (talking about how people were going craz for the actor on the internet)
*Later while talking about fire lords actor*
(Literally takes a break)
”DAMN HE’S LOOKS GOOD”
😂😂😂
A lot of these actors aren’t bad actors rather the script for the show is bad, the main characters seem more like there characters irl then in the show, the writers and directors for sure held them back which sucks but the show isn’t bad and im absolutely PRAYING they do them justice in season 2
Holy crap the actress who plays Ty-Lee is like, bang on, how did they manage to do her so dirty in the show??. Hopefully shes able to be a lot more bubbly in Season 2
and they let her use her gymnastics skills too!
George Takei is also an Avatar Veteran. He played the voice of the prison warden that captured Haru's father in the animated series.
yoo that's sick! I thought he sounded kinda familiar, but with 250 credits that makes sense haha
Damn why did you move Paul Sun-Hyung Lee so low?
I thought he did an amazing job as Iroh
Netflix's Iroh felt the most like someone playing a character imo. Like his cadence and actions were a bit distracting, but he was starting to grow on me.
@@BabyLionTurtlewhy does it feel like Iroh doesn't act "wise" enough in the live action, if that makes any sense? Like he's not relaxed enough. Someone should give Paul some jasmine tea lol
@@BeesRecipes I agree. It always felt like Mako's (and then Greg Baldwin's) Iroh spoke deliberately and with very thoughtful, well considered words. Paul's Iroh, though, speaks so quickly that it makes a tangible difference in how I perceive his character.
You could not have been more wrong about katara xD I thought she was a horrible actress
Let her cook
She's not a bad actress (see her performance in anne with an e for example) But i think the directors and thw writers gave her a bad scrpit and bad directing
Sorry to burst your bubble friend, but in episode 2x12 'The Serpent's Pass', Zuko and Iroh ran into The Freedom Fighters and Iroh said "Smellerby, that's an unusual name for a guy". She says "that's because im not a guy, IM A GIRL". She certainly was not non-binary
Or trans
That updated ranking is pretty spot on, and I agree with most of them, except for 2 key characters... Iroh in B tier and Sozin in C tier. Personally I'd move them up at least 1 tier higher. Sozin was pretty intimidating. And my gods... Iroh... gotta love him. His scenes with Zuko were among the best in the series, especially when "Leaves From the Vine" started playing in the background. If that doesn't get you to tearbend, I don't know what will. T_T
Re-reuploaded the video to edit my post-watch ranking into the video's conclusion 36:16 :)
(on the bright side, this means I techniqually uploaded 3 times in one week for the first time *ever*! BLT is so back!)
Fuck yeah og cabbage man is back
Third times the charm?
Really should've taken another month to plan better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@BabyLionTurtle Just keep taking it down and reuploading all month. Then you can say you upload daily.
None of my issues with the live action were based on the acting, or even the casting. There were things I liked that the creators added, but many things I thought went wrong and didn't 'honor' the original.
I don't think real blind Toph is going to work well...
I literally said something similar to my one friend in a voice message hahaha
Yues actor is so hot
i’d really like to point out a specific part of this video. 5:43 because people were really trying to deny kiawentiio her heritage because she isn’t as dark as a ficitional indigenous character who doesn’t even have any actual indigenous features (because its a cartoon). just ridiculous. but speaking of kiawentiio, her range shows so much in her previous projects.. why did they water that down ???
Her acting in Beans is really good and shows a lot of emotions in there especially in that one scene where she throws rocks at the police and shouts angrily at them for not helping her family. IDK why the writers made her act like that when she can pull off Katara's personality the same in the OG.
if they ever for some strange reason decide to do a love action American Dragon, it HASSS to be Zuko's actor Dallas Liu
Can you do an updated ranking after watching the show and actually seeing all the characters?
Check the end of this video :)
I would switch Katara and June...I think Katara should be at A instead and Mai at D
Mai was SOOO BAD 😭😭
@@sweetcupcake2741Thalia Tran should play more a kind character
Randall Duk Kim is of Korean and Chinese descent
Dang I really got to the very end before mixing something up
There a reason why you left out Zhao in the thumbnail? Lmao
Finally an objective feedback and one that is closest to mine too. I loved your insights on the video from yrs ago and watching this after a month the live action was premiered you were somehow spot on. I love this series and I think they did great with the casting and I cant wait to see more of them in the next seasons
Actually, I loved what the actress who played Yue did with her role. It was different from the animated series, but in my opinion, the changes elevated the character.
9:36 I knew his face from somewhere! He was on the most recent season of amazing race Canada! Weird connection but I’m glad I realized or else it would’ve been bugging me all week
Yup! And a lot of the clips I used were from him competing alongside his sister
I know arden cho from nigahiga lol
Wait... she was RYAN'S GIRLFRIEND??? I was watching this girl lick toilet seats in Truth or Dare in middleschool LMAOOOO
@@BabyLionTurtle YEAH IKR CRAZY NOSTALGIA HAHAHAH
What is the katara actor saying Zuko here from
This is the second time I comment this
: i’m counting this as a title change
Suki's actress being part polish is surprising but actually understandable, i really think the features suit the character since Suki looked more 'european' to me than other characters aswell.
27:25 I am a Avatar! Dr Ozai!
the appa momo voice actor really wasn’t doing it for me. Sometimes appa just sounded like a throat grunt, and other times they played a literal chimp/monkey free sample sound for momo. I wish they got Baker back for this one.
Really? I didn't really noticed anything with them which, for me, meant that it didn't sound off in any way. Hence the post-show S tier
@@BabyLionTurtle actually I take momo back, I only really didn’t like one moment. In the kyoshi episode fight when momo is throwing rocks at the intruders, they literally just use a monkey sound for him. For appa, I can hear the person doing a “moooooooo” but more coming deep within their chest, with an under layer of a growl, which the growl actually sounds really great… the “moooo” not so much. Omg I just rewatched when appa was dropping off Aang on the firenation ship in the 8th episode and he literally goes “MmmmmmmMm” like girlllll what is this
If you watch behind the scenes w him he brought so much nuance to the animals. That kind of diligence is dying
6:04 the edit in 💀
This video came out on my birthday lol.
Happy birthday ig
Daniel Dae Kim as ozai is the best thing to happen in 2024. i will not shut up about himmmm
do it a fourth time for the funny
don't tempt me
I'm so upset at myself... I was so convinced Avatar Roku was played by David Choe
It would 've better if Hiroyuki Sanada should've played him.
Gosh, I am a Polish and just find out that Danny Pudi have polish roots
A Maria Zhang to pół-Polka!
@@dariuszgaat5771 Tego akurat się dowiedziałem gdy sprawdzałem obsadę jak już upublicznili
5:50
Would love for you to address the fact that we are mildly upset because of colorism. People my skin tone or darker should not have to hear “it would be too distracting” “we don’t want to have to figure out special lighting for dark scenes” “you just don’t look like a star” it’s the same thing they did with America Chavez in Strange 2 or Sunspot in New Mutants. Enough is enough and if for example we got a lighter Storm in X-men there’d be pushback. Darker actors need to be given opportunities like this otherwise people lighter than me will always get picked. It’s why I hate it when people say I should be happy Zendaya gets so much work. No, I’ll be happy for her and still want more for the rest of us as well.
Womp womp
Okay, I dont mean to assume, but from having looked at your videos you seem to be Black?. I think representation for all ethnicities and colours is important, but Katara/Sokka aren't black and i think its a little shitty for some twitter users to be almost appropriating them (for a lack of a better word) to their own ethnicites. Maybe im wrong but ive noticed that (especially in American Media) Non-White = Black almost always. I do think its really wrong for so many people online (Twitter Mostly) to be demanding that Sokka/Katara be "dark skin" representation when the Actors themselves are the right ethnicity to be playing the roles (Even if there are a few questions around Sokkas Actor).
@@klaidas7409 nobody said the water tribe should be black. people say they should be the same shade they are in the show, because such people do exist. there are siberians, aleut, and inuit (all arctic people) who are the color that water tribe members are, but that's not who was cast. netflix has a tendency to cast lighter-skinned people of color at any opportunity they can, regardless of race. that's colorism.
I think the actors are good, but they DONT look like their role. Liek you cant say truthfully that Ian Cosley looks like Sokka.
That's why Sokka was B tier. Now Ozai and Aang, though? They literally couldn't look more spot on
Hey i cant diasgree with that one@@BabyLionTurtle
Looking at the animated series again after finishing the live-action show, I actually think that the actor for Sokka was a pretty good fit. Sokka's face from the animated series doesn't translate into actual facial features that easily, but I think especially the prominent jaw line was quite fitting for the role.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I don’t think Iroh’s casting is very good, particularly because he isn’t old enough. He doesn’t look elderly at all. He also doesn’t have even close to Iroh’s original voice, which is very calm and nonchalant.
He’s 60 🤯 he looks 30
13:49 ain't this also the guy from free guy? The friend of the omcreqtor of freecity?
yup!
That kid is literally long shot lmao
The s tier was right
I'll only watch forthe cabbage man and Jet. I don't care how bad the series gets 😂
everyone is nicely cast, but mei and azula is f tier. You cant put heavyweight boxer/weightlifter bodybuild as southeast asiano yop 1 martial artist, and an deffo unathletic one as extremely athletic character.
Agreed and I understand that this is not to body shame. I wish suki played azula she has the look and as a kyoshi warrior she did great but she would have been a better azula
lizzy yu (azula) isn’t fat at all, she’s just a bit more muscular but you all want stick skinny asian girls
@@darao.4907 umm, fat is not muscular. :p Look at any athlete, she does not have athletic build at all. She has heavyweight boxer build, not martial artist build.
In hindsight, the actors were dealt such a bad hand with the writing.the actors gave it their all and killed it. Unfortunately, killing bad writing just shows how they were screwed over
My cabbages 😂😂😂
There is no pipsqueak
Sky bison sky bison sky bison
I really don't like what they did with Hakoda's character in the live action at all. In regards to the casting and everyone's acting I thought the casting was almost perfect and the acting was fine, would've been better if they had a better script.
Great acting
Casting rank-
Soka-D
Zuko- C
Katara - C
Azula- F
Mai- F--
Tai- F
Iroh- A
Aang- S
Zet - S
Zets crew - S
Princess Yue- F
Firelord -S
I think the overall cast was so good, I really hope they listen to constructive criticism instead of the hate and lead the actors and the writing into the right direction. They have so much potential to make season 2 so good!
Yue’s interaction’s with sokka where so f***ing cringe I was embarrassed watching it
Lol ur up and down with longshot
Ju li do the thing yes sir getting bed ready get down on it now
man, i was watching this channel a lot when i was waiting for the netflix show to come out... it was terrible as expected. so depressing
I am happy I clicked on the video and to find out that the actor of Smellerbee is non binary, and as you said it yourself in the video. Smellerbee is deffo/probably trans/non binary in the cartoon :3
I found any kind of cast "ranking" unfair for a show with incredibly bad writing!
Exactly 💯
w vid
This tier is way off.
This ages awfully. Anyways, while the actors are good at what they do, the script is just.. unacceptable.
SPOILERS:
Omg. Suki and her mom are such badasses in the show and played by GORGEOUS ladies!!! The storyline was cheated not having Sokka dress as a Kyoshi warrior but making Aang go into the avatar state AS Kyoshi just like he did as Roku in the show was fucken smart of them they know we Stan. So fucken badass. The lesbians were living.
Omg keeping Spellerbee trans and more visibly this time was so decent and respectful. Like how are you gonna gender Spellerbee? It’s not necessary.
Fricken Jun is gonna be a problem for anyone with mommy issues 🤣🤣 but no I get it. I can see it for y’all.
I haven’t seen the show. just watched a TH-cam reactor watch it and she and I were both having problems with the men in this movie. You couldn’t say one thing about the actor who plays Hahn but our slutty mouths and tongues were *wagging*. And I thought I had ended my fuckboy accepting era but that one Jet piece of shit…oh he’s about to make me want to let him rob me disrespectfully. And I’m sorry.
It was mid
Putting Mai, Azula and Zuko over F tier is wild
Are you kidding? Dallas Liu killed it as Zuko!
I agree with the first two except Zuko
what exactly did they do to be f tier
I'll stay mad about the colorism, no one is on skin walker Katara's ass fr racism. But the casting department picked a light skinned cast on purpose
Says who?
But the live action actor for katara is a horrible actor
I still don’t like them
You dont know what you are doing. 😡😡😡
As soon as he said Katara was S tier I clicked away and then came back to comment. She looked nothing like Katara, was not pretty enough, and her acting sucked.
Other people have said she has been good in other shows so it might have been the writers or smth
Was not pretty enough? Umm that's a 15 year old sir. I'm not sure you're suppose to find her attractive. I do agree her acting was a bit stale.
Her Acting should've been a bit Improved.
As soon as the cast of Avatar revealed y'all showed your true colors. Sexist, racist and low-key a pdf file. I never expect that there are kind of of these people in the fandom.