@@eglantinepapeau1582idk *spoilers* Aang didn’t even learn any water bending in the book of water. A second season SHOULD be book of earth. Now he’s lost a bunch of time that should’ve been spent learning water bending. They fucked up bad there.
They should've just made a Kyoshi show. You can tell how dark and gritty they wanted to make this show, and they easily could have if they simply chose a different, more adult, avatar to focus on
I think one of my peeves with Netflix, is constantly trying to turn animation into live action needlessly. The original story is fine the way it is, it's better to just tell a different story in the same universe so that it can stand on its own feet. So telling a story about a different avatar like kyoshi would absolutely be better.
this sokka seems so calm and it’s weirding me out so much. like in that first scene, sokka should be freaking out, frantically reaching for the canoe with his spear, barely avoiding taking an icy cold dip, and eventually pleading with katara to save their canoe with her “freaky water magic”, but (no offense to the actor) this sokkas just like. “damn. we could totally die right now… that’s crazy.” like what?
That would have been far better. Sokka doing his whole dramatic panic thing and then trying to get Katara to help with her bending. Ig they could have had her start trying to pull it calmly but Sokka keeps running his mouth and they start fighting. Finally Katara screams something at him kinda like she did in the animation and tries to aggressively yank her arms back sending the canoe flying and as her arms fly back towards the iceberg you can see a crack from starting at the edge of the ice where they're standing and just following the path made by her arms towards Aang's iceberg causing then large release of air. Katara nearly being blasted into the water and Sokka having to scramble to catch her and cover her with his body while holding a weapon out in front of them.
@@ericanight8359 dude! thats such a cool idea! sokka poking at the boat thus distracting katara as she waterbends would be such an easy change that doesnt even need them to include his sexism really and yet would still make the characters that much more interesting and engaging.
@@harderlarder1939 They honestly could still include his sexism in that. “Just let me do it. Should’ve known not to rely on a girl.” Or something like that. Which would have set of Katara’s rage. ANYTHING to show that these actually are the characters that they’re supposed to be.
@@ericanight8359 truuu. its honestly such a sad thing because it really doesnt take that much work to characterize them at least somewhat well. all it would take is just tiny details in the story, small writing and directing changes to make it that much more interesting. I do think the problems with this show run a little deeper than that, but its just tiny things could be added to make these characters more than just flat, cardboard recreations of their original selves.
…That’s actually deeply disturbing. I am American and that’s definitely the parallel I drew. I know school shooting have been culturally normalized here a lot and it’s in my psyche cause I did do active shooter drills in school. But I don’t like seeing it jump out somewhere where you wouldn’t see it if you weren’t primed to. Horrid reflection of the situation here.
@@isabelmcgaugh711 I'm American, but didn't notice the parallel at all. Maybe because we didn't have such drills when I was a kid in the 90s. Maybe because while I heard of school shootings, I didn't really have any first-hand experience with them outside of the news/fiction. Idk.
Can we pls talk about the fact that they made Zuko a giant NERD in this!! Cz dude, that is SO funny to me Lmfaoo He made a scrapbook about past avatars, and knows all this Avatar trivia- that nobody else probably even cares about anymore cz the avatar hasn’t been relevant in 100 years 😭 Him fanboying over Kyoshi too afsgafhjag IM CACKLING Also what a cool way to foreshadow his eventual role in Team Avatar! They’re using his research and knowledge in that journal as a source, so in a way he’s with them in spirit 😂
Tbh i love the idea, it makes total sense with all that time exiled and the anxiety he would be so obsessed with the avatar so he tries to find all the info to find a way to fight him and catch him
24:10 Bad acting is generally the fault of the casting director and the director, 100%. The director is who's job it is to make sure he gets the shots in the right tone and the right... direction. 10/10 nailed it.
This! I feel they made Katara and my girl Kiawentiio so dirty 😭 i love her performance in Anne with an E and to see her performance in this show was so underwelming
LEAVE MY MAN KURUK'S NAME OUT YOUR MOUTH 😭😭He fought the spirits because humans couldn't keep their promises, he fought the spirits in secret to PROTECT yangchen's legacy THAT MAN DESERVES THE UTMOST RESPECT FOR HOW HE SACRIFICED FOR THE WORLD AND YANGCHEN'S IMAGE 😤✊
@steampocalypse2429 yeah but it's in away where the person cares enough to at least try and seem like they care somka is rude in the way where he neither doesn't care or doesn't know hes being rude
Kuruk dyeing at 33 was because Yangchen had goofed up handling the spirits that mans had to step up to bat and become the Avatar equivalent of the Doom Slayer (unfortunately killing dark spirits puts a major toll on a person and Kuruk killed *so many* in just those 3 decades)
18:30 I love the interaction of the air to the fire. If the air is stronger than the fire it will blow it out, but if it is the other way around and the fire is significantly stronger than the air, the air just fuels the fire.
That opening scene was the biggest 10/10 I've ever seen, but as soon as Katara & Sokka showed it dropped all the way to a 5/10. Essentially Aang, Zuko, & Iroh have been the best parts of the show so far for me
Do you think it has to do with character writing changes to Katara and Sokka? I think their character writing fell flat but they really do look and act like them. I hope that changes if there’s a book 2 adaption.
Really?? I kinda thought Aang lacked quite a bit of personality. They did a bit too much telling and not enough showing with him as a character. I like zuko and I think Katara and sokka aren't that bad
It’s mostly katara for me. She feels so hollow, like she’s not even there. If the others have bad acting sometimes, I mostly blame it on directing because they’ve actually shown that they can portray their characters to a certain extent. But I swear there is nothing about this actress that feels like katara
I think that Zuko has the best writing and acting so far. Katara is a good actor, but they changed so much of the writing for her that she falls flat. Aang is okay, but they're trying to give him a childlike charm while also not actually giving him a childlike script... I just hate Iroh's character in this I'm not even gonna lie.
This is where I see the problem with life actions. It's not that I hate them, but I just find them useless. Like... Why would you watch a shortened version with questionable changes when you could watch an original that gradually introduces the world and reveals the characters more widely.
Precisely. People just don't respect animation as a medium, every single animated thing needs to arbitrarily be given an inferior, useless live action version that misses what people liked about the original and wastes everyone's money.
@@Byakkoya11037 I disagree. It is not that live action is worse its that western adaptations of any media is worse. We have some of the most arrogant and useless directors in the world who are arrogant and think they can make a better version of the version people collectively fell in love with. The only shows that have done good adaptations always have someone important forcing them to stay faithful to the source material
That's right respect the medium or miss out. I don't care. I had my fill of greatness. People are like: "Oh this would be so cool if this was life action" Why? Well then more people would watch it. And see the greatness that is - insert show Why aren't they watching the original? It is great now. Why can't they see the greatness now? Well they would never watch anime/cartoons. Well WOOP DEE fuckin' DOO.If people are blocked by the medium then THEY'RE the ones missing out, not me. I'm sorry but if you can't respect the medium then you will sadly miss out. And there's that. I can't force people to their happiness. You'll just have to try and broaden your horizon and see what happens. Are all animes or cartoons great? No, some are good some are bad. Are all live-action movies great? No, some are good some are bad. It's just another medium. It's like streaming services. Well this show only runs on Amazon Prime Sorry. You're gonna have to go and get Amazon Prime if you wanna watch this show. You're gonna have to watch Cartoons if you wanna catch this show. And if you don't that's okay. You will never watch it. I'm super okay with that, too.
EXACTLY! It’s so difficult to decide whether it’s good or not, cause some of it is so good and some of it is so well not the best- And the characterization for some of them- Is just - ouch
Yeah. I have such mixed feelings, because I appreciate some of the deeper dives into relationships. But also the awkward acting at points (even from the adults) is like.. hmm, and a little TOO much explanations, SOMETIMES. But there's still enough for me to enjoy for it to just be... odd idk. I really hope we get S2 and S3, I just have a gut feeling it'll really improve, after they get to assess reactions to S1. Well, I can hope.
@@isbammoi3358 This is exactly how I feel about it as well omg. Mixed feelings 😅 but I wanna see it through. I'm a sucker for ATLA content tbh haha. But yeah some changes are either good or bad
Legit the first moment that personality being lacking in the main characters was brought up I immediately thought of how Luffy's actor did it SO RIGHT and it's too bad we couldn't have that energy so it made me laugh that the One Piece example was brought up later haha.
I think maybe it's because Aang's actor is too young to convey emotions. And sometimes it does feel like they're just reading off a script. But other than that, I think they nailed it. One Piece Live Action was done amazingly too.
Luffy's actor was personally cast by Oda. Oda being on the OPLA project and having creative control is what probably made the casting for one piece feel so right and with great chemistry. We should have been way more skeptical when the main creators jumped ship.
@@Saskfinest1 This is sooo true. When the creators bounce, it's time to be very suspicious. I know I was, because I remember being super excited when I heard they were going to work on it. It truly sucks that they were about to be part of it, and it's crazy that they let them leave! I would've done everything to make them stay 😅
Zuko barely gets mad, Katara also never loses her temper, Soka is just serious and has no sarcasm, Aang doesn’t lean into his age Cartoons are always going to be more emotive and expressive in both face and body but its like they thought characters having emotions was too cringe so they forbade them from using their eyebrows
I hate the change to Aang discovering he was the avatar and needed to leave home bc it robs us of the realization Gyatzo was going to spirit him away from the temple. Aangs father couldn't bear to see his son so thoroughly isolated but was tragically seconds too late in showing him just how much he actually cared.
Danny the fact that you brought up Zaheer's flying ability is why I love you. I was making this same exact complaint to a friend. really hope they dont plan to make it to korra. it will make no sense then.
he kinda did, i mean he left to clear his head after getting the news about being the Avatar after ranting to Appa about not wanting the responsibilities. but yeah it was a lot less direct as to why he ran off
I noticed this too it's like they're allergic to giving characters flaws and personalities and just anything that'd make them relatable and seem human.
I lowkey think you're going a little too hard on Iroh I liked him a lot in this a lot more than the movie for sure, I have also only seen one episode so I'm hopeful that they continue to improve
Huh. As a non-American, When Danny started describing the school teacher huddling everyone in in a "school shooter" kind of way I initially laughed. Then he followed it with "i forget what it was when i was in school", and it hit home that it's actually some shit that exists in real life. Now I feel bad.
Growing up as an American half my time in the classroom was planning how I would stop a shooter hahaha... It's horribly sad when you really stop to think about it.
…I really did just causally accept the wild reality as a teenager that we had to regularly practice active shooter drills. Most people I talked to in high school agreed that they’d fantasized about what they’d do in a shooter situation. like risking a broken leg to escape out of the third story window and shimmy down the drain pipe, or just laying down under your pack back and pretending to be dead. Deeply grim.
He’s not flying he’s using wind in a vortex like how water benders do to do the same thing, but since it’s live action wind is largely hard to see or just “invisible” because it’s air
I could see it. It was pretty obvious that it was a vortex just by looking at his clothes and movement. It never even occurred to me that people would think he’s flying until I saw it in comments.
I haven't watched it yet but I'm pretty sure he flies in the air Temple and he didn't show it cuz he doesn't show the entirety of the show he skipped parts
i think a lot of the 'bad acting' is that they're young, new, and theres a lot of pressure to make it good. in a lot of interviews they talk about the pressure, i just hope they get closer and more comfortable soon
@@mundoatena1674 i guess thats true, i think it could also be the director.. because dallus, ian, and kia have done other roles and have done amazing jobs sooooo, not to mention ddk and paul sun-hyung lee are both very experienced
Also they do an awful lot of telling rather than showing in this like describing character traits and exposition and removing agency with the aang not having his friends treat him different or hear that gyatso is being forced away from him or when katara and sokka find the iceberg and it just opens for no reason why didn’t it do that over the last 100 years?! Or katara not helping aang out of the avatar state like the story just sorta happens to them they have no real control of their destiny which is a big theme in the show
aang is essentially creating a tornado around his person, i dont think a human being can realistically approah high winds like that so it makes sense that katara and sokka gets pushed away from aang due to that much air
@@Sapphire_Reacts my issue isn’t with the logistics of his tornado but maybe they should tone it down for the sake of the character moment of katara helping aang
They dont have the budget or time to show everything. They did a great job with what they gave us. The show already costs i think around 15M per episode as is. More is just too much. Id rather them show us the extra stuff they added instead of what we know cause all of that was done really well and added to the lore.
19:55 we see statues like those in the fire sages’ temple and the air temple in S1 of the animated series- I believe the eyes glow whenever the avatar is in the avatar state. I’m not really a fan of how the live action at all but zuko having those statues so he’d know if the avatar was “active” is one of the few new choices they made that I actually like.
It does feel a bit more like someone obsessed with finding every trace of lore and history of past avatars, and following every lead for three years, which as much as I love the original animation, does feel a bit lacking in that aspect.
Credit where credit is due, that was a nice detail added in. And in the original cartoon it makes sense why Zuko was convinced of the Avatar still being out there as an Air Nomad, as he says to Iroh in episode 1, “The Fire Sages tell us that the Avatar is the last airbender! (i.e., they ascertain he hasn't been been reborn that he was killed in the initial assault on the Temples)” and... cut to episode 3 wherein we see that, yes, the Fire Sages would've been alerted as to some Avatar activity going on, that they died or else went into the Avatar State.
Personally, on the contrary, I didn't really like the fact that the creators immediately threw flashbacks in our faces. We don't learn about what happened with Aang in the course of the story, which is smarter in my opinion. And that's a problem I've noticed throughout the series, it likes to explain everything meticulously. I understand that maybe they wanted to show everything in more detail, but it wasn't necessary. Unlike the life action, the original talked to the viewer as an intelligent interlocutor, although the show was for children
The thing is they do have the capability to do that. They kept teasing like we were going to get Zuko's flashback until it finally shows up in Ep 6. They also grabbed a bunch of ideas from Books 2 and 3 and threw them into Book 1. So hopefully that means they can spend more time in Book 2 to really set up the stakes.
I feel like the reason they go this tell instead of show route is because it’s on Netflix. Since Netflix has such a strict 8-10 episode limit for their seasons, I feel like this is probably the best the show could do at giving us so much lore for how much time they have. I also would guess they took parts from books 2 and 3 because they’re not sure if they’ll be renewed for another season, so they want to get in some fan favorite plot points or make sure no plots are left open in case the show ends up as only 1 season
I was so critical of it at first because I was just comparing every single change but then there was a particular scene in episode three where I was like why am I even doing this yk like it’s a whole different thing. And then there was I think it’s episode six or seven I was like “holy shit that’s such a good storyline to add” But God i love seeing you compare everything no joke bc that’s what my mind was screaming at me to do and u do it in such a funny way while spitting facts 💀
20:00 I actually like the glowy statues. It's clear from the original show that avatar shrines react to the presence of the Avatar using his power so it's perfectly logical for Zuka to be collecting these items.
I kind of hope that you turn this into a full series because I haven't run into a review that's highlighting some of the more interesting changes while also pointing out the awful directing choices. I'm intrigued but also deeply concerned lol
Changing why aang "runs away" changes the explanation for him drowning. The only reason why he left was to literally run away cause they were gunna send him away to start his training. But here he doesnt actually have the inention of running away so just being thay far out in the ocean doesnt make sense when hes just going for a quick fly
I really loved the show, also wanna point out Bryke wrote the first ep and ep 6, so they were apart of all changes! Acting was definitely stiff but overall I felt like the show was really made for the fans. I felt like the additions with all the fire nation stuff was absolutely phenomenal. Zuko, Azula, Iroh Ozai, Zhao, everything with them was awesome. Ep 6, 7, and 8 are absolutely amazing.
Definitely for the fans, that way as long as you've seen it before, you can imagine the personalities of all the main characters from the cartoon being there while you watch the live action.
7/10 is exactly what I said! The acting is really wooden and its completely on the director cause we've seen most of these actors nail it other shows. The changes are silly and not necessary. It'll be interesting to see how the next few episodes are though considering how much content we have to go through.
I think this video has me fully accepting of Dannys style of content. I watch a fair few reaction channels and he's the only one who stops/interrupts the show to go on a tangent and get out thoughts and that used to annoy me. But I just had a Danny DeVito "I get it" moment, cos I do that shit all the time when I watch shows. It's unique, has personality and he just makes good comments and observations with passion.
I see this as Aang not flying, but being able to hover for a few seconds without the glider. Honestly, we know Aang can send himself 20 feet in the air with a sneeze. Floating around for less than 10 seconds isn't that big of a deal. I can push the elliptical treadmill to read over 1000 Watts for that long. Plus, Aang is as powerful as any adult aairbender while weighing like 70 lbs.
32:25 Speaking of the glow of following the patterns, im glad its not a solid arrow and has patterns. Just like the movie they knew a solid arrow would look dumb as hell, but didnt take it to the extreme the movie did. So it looks like both a solid arrow but also an actual tattoo
13:37 "at what point did Monk Kiatso unfriend u?" that's actually the childish response i was looking for. Aangs a kid who prolly thinks leaving to go be the Avatar and his friends behind means they can't be friends anymore. the irrational thinking of a child. I'm glad they added at least smth small like this.
The actong so stiff that this conversation had to of happened. “Sir why don’t we have them do another take?” “What this is fine!” “But aren’t they kinda stiff? Where’s the personality?” “What do you think this is a cartoon or something ?”
I think you’ve made the most reasonable review of this episode that I’ve seen. People are too far on either side of loving or hating it. I think there are some good things and some bad things. But I’m still watching it so 🤷🏻♀️
Love how they're willing to burn someone to a crisp on screen but won't let a kid make a childish decision to runaway that, optically, led to the destruction of his people and 100 years of war. Like, kid flew somewhere to clear his head and had an accident on his way back. Also, it high key feels like these kids are journeying together because they've got not choice or simply because it's their duty; there is no emotional connection between any of them. Finally, the amount of exposition via dialogue was making my blood boil. For instance, every line Gran Gran has serves to tell the characters things the audience already knows in the most straightforward and campy way possible. The only subtle thing in this entire episode was the reference to Katara's mother and that wasn't even that subtle. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
Um actually Aang's eyes darting around is great direction. It's a fear response in body language. It shows that Aang is silently panicking at the news that he is the avatar. Not to mention the sped up breathing. It was actually perfect
Yeah i actually really liked his reaction to finding out he was the Avatar in this. He was clearly silently panicking and his lack of a lot of outward emotion could really be contributed to shock and confusion.
Watching the air temple get attacked had me on the brink of tears. It was so horrible and seeing the kids huddled together in so much fear knowing what their fate was going to be was heartbreaking. The screams from the fighting airbenders was terrible. I rarely cry during shows/movies but that shit had me on the verge of a melt down
I genuinely believe the reason aang ended up in a storm due to all the airbending taking place at the temple during the comet, its the only thing that makes sense
its like they want to make the show so gritty and “adult” but they refuse to treat the audience like adults. none of the characters feel human or like they care about each other. atla is a masterclass of subtle characterisation that they completely missed here.
your reaction to thw first part is exactly what i thought 😭😂 i was like damn maybe this show is good- and then all my hopes and dreams got progressively more crushed as the episode went on
The fact that Gran Gran revelaed Aang as the avatar instead of Aang revealing it himself when defending the water tribe from Zuko TOTALLY deflated the impact of that scene
I actually know how I feel about it. I feel great! Yes, there ARE things that they definitely could have done better, especially the “over explaining” of things is a bit too much in the 1st episode. But I enjoyed myself pretty much and they did a great job of combining some plotlines! And the bending and the visuals in general are all so pretty, it's mesmerizing!
*Stares solemnly out at the sea like a lost soldier's wife* Oh, when will Danny upload the next Heaven Official's Blessing video... . . . Also tbh I didn't even make it past ep 5 of netflix ATLA. Once Bumi appeared I knew it was time to quit. That acting and those prosthetics took me right out of it. Too cartoonish even for an adaptation of a cartoon.
Love the honest commentary Danny. Yeah after seeing the first episode, I'd give it a 6.5-7. Similar criticisms. Really clunky exposition, stiff performances, and oof Gran-Gran's line deliveries were so bad. It does improve in subsequent episodes though, especially with Katara and Sokka's personalities. I wished they kept more of Aang's goofiness.
the air sucking theory makes sense and i’m sad they ruined it. it makes sense because monk gyatso’s corpse wasn’t charred and the guards were a decent ways away.
They changed it cz sozins there. They introduced him as the BIG BAD so him killing Gyatso was the right move to make us go OH NO! Fire nation is so evil If Gyatso did that move he’d kill Sozin too so we’d be happy about it and in that scene all we’re supposed to feel is terror and grief, so I think it made sense to leave him alive. You gotta keep in mind this live action isn’t canon, because it isn’t pretending to be the original 1:1. It’s similar to the original but not identical which is good, cz nothing couldn’t beat the cartoon and anything live action would always fall short in comparison. Try to enjoy this new story as an alternate universe. Like the MCU in superhero comics
I feel like you summed up my thoughts perfectly. The show really shines in the changes and additions it makes. But the things it actively tries to adapt are really hit or miss. I'm down for expanding but maybe it's time to put the idea of a full retelling to rest.
Binged the series last night. Agree with your rating. I had a lot of direction and writing critiques (and acting on Iroh's part, but he's my favorite so I was never going to be happy. Trying to be generous.), and costume and makeup. In our current revolution of impeccable wardrobe (literally everything else I've watched lately has looked incredible), there's no excuse for these costumes. But I also got a lot of feels while watching. I cried like 4 times and I am not a crier at movies and tv. They really nailed a lot! They just...really really flubbed other stuff.
"There's no reason to care about any of these kids." THIS. That first meeting of the trio was so bungled. We loved sexist!Sokka because we wanted to see him knocked down a few pegs as that kicks off him learning that some cultural ideals he grew up with aren't good and that he as a person can grow for the better. We also don't get to see him trying to balance wanting to protect Katara and the realization that she's going to be able to protect herself. We also fell in love with his wisecracking nature. Katara is such a caring person but is also an understandable ball of rage brought on from her experiences/trauma and just being a teen girl. And then Aang getting the literal world both dropped on him and pulled from under him with having to admit HE is the avatar and that HIS people are dead. To have the live action characters be so FLAT in personality and delivery is infuriating. I agree that it's not the kids' fault, it's the director's. The intro to your characters is such a pivotal moment and the cartoon delivered.
the thumbnail is a good summary of the show. If u keep watching, the other episoides have amazing expansions to backstories. But the changes get drastic too
@kylejackson7913 I meant that I didn't watch Danny's vid. But, I've seen about the same amount he has. Directors also stated they'd removed key character building elements from the show, because they didn't believe they were suited for a "modern audience" (when the show is less than 20 years old😒)
The opening was so good. They should have just done a show on the 100-year war, no avatar, just a show of how the dominos have fallen after the Avatar left. Show us some of Bomis complaints he had when Aang finally came back. Even the tv show showed us some of that. Yeah, show how the fire nation was so paranoid they took hundreds of water bends to camps, show us why the north was speared and how they fought. Netflix almost nailed it with that opening, and they should have kept it. Cause even Iro has so much lore they could have used.
before i hit play i constantly said " please be good please be good please be goo..." and honestly.... i don't even know if i got my wish granted like it looks great but the bending is wack sometimes the plot is good until it suddenly isn't it's way better than the movie bit that's such a low bar it isn't even worth mentioning so ... if i try to sum it all up it's like the most average live action adoption we could've ever had
Danny imma watch the video but first IT'S BEEN 11 DAYS, HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING??!! You're giving me serious anxiety and I hope you remember my pain as you try to sleep tonight... On to the video! Edit: 12 days now! I'll make an edit for every day it hasn't been uploaded
As a huge fan of the animated series, and as an industry pro in the film, i look at it as "ok... why did they make these changes? does it make sense? does it feel like its still following the main plot?" Because they were only given 8 episodes to do season 1, that is originally 20 episodes. I dont agree with some of the changes. I do wish somethings stayed, but i do understand why they had to do it because some stuff just wont translate well in live action. But i do think they can fix a lot of things people had problems with by adjusting dialogue, and we can live with that. I also gave it a 7/10. And im not saying this as someone who worked on one of the episodes, but as a person who loves Avatar, especially since it was a big portion of my childhood.
26:03 I think he’s doing an air tornado to levitate we just can’t see that well cause it’s in live action and you can’t see air. He’s not flying anything like Zaheer.
@@tomascoelho5562 I wasn’t being fully literal but yeah when I see something that looks bad I’m just not gonna watch it lol especially when it’s something that is from my childhood
@@goatcheesee I understand that sentiment, if I see a trailer of a movie and I don't like it I won't watch it. But to be honest, for this show I was excited to see the changes they made into the story because adapting the cartoon shot for shot simply wouldn't work and gives the cash grab impression. There are some things in this show I don't like but heck, even the cartoon had some problems in Book 1. What I don't really agree with is seeing people hate on a change because "that's not what happened on the animated show". I won't give u spoilers in case you watch the show but there's a certain character that was my favourite in the OG which has such a fun and quirky personality but in the show it's so much different. You have every right to like or dislike the changes they made but I just don't agree with hating on something because it's not like the original show. That's also what most of the critiques I've seen. People who criticize plot points or characters which are different from the show. Instead of judging the changes because on the impact it had in the Netflix version, they see it as bad just because it's now how it happened in the original. And you might say "If the original was so good why change it" which I must agree but then we come back to the shot for shot remakes which wouldn't translate well to live action format. So, ultimately, for this show to work, it needed to be a retelling of the animated show. Have the characters, locations and major plot points and get to the same ending point (North Pole). Just to really clarify, there are some things in this version that I really don't like because I think they could've been made better, not just because they are not like the original show. For example, Gran Gran, Yue, Katara to an extent. Just one more things which is, I don't feel like you watching this series will your nostalgia, only if you really hate it which I doubt because this series is not bad, not great either.
So apparently, for those like me who wasn't really following along with every new piece of info while the show was in the making, they decided to change Sokka's misogynistic character aspect in the live-action. Which, I can understand that decision, but it also changes Katara's character as she reacts so violently to any sort of misogynistic prejudices against her
24:01 if I have to assume this is all directors choices. The director wanted a serious tone so he probably stamped out any emotion and told them to just keep is serious 🤷🏾♂️ some directors also just don’t allow actors to delivers the lines the way they wanted to.
this is a very small, stupid detail to focus on, but I feel like the symbol for fire on the thing with all four elements that grangran expo dumps on should be like torn, smudged, or burnt. this isn’t important but I feel like it would be a cool detail that someone got so angry and distraught over what happened that they tried to destroy all symbols of the fire nation from the village, and I think it would add more depth to the environment as a “war torn village barely holding on” than just proudly displaying the symbol of the guys who absolutely ravaged a majority of your population.
When the video starts it’s like “does this guy even want to like this show” and then two seconds in it’s literally the most hype I’ve seen you ever. Really there are some interesting choices. I agree - did the people in charge ever meet a kid? But this looks so much better than I expected.
You have a lot of the same feeling as I do. The characters costume designs feel yassified and cosplay like. While the dialogue/conversation feels like the characters are reading their lines and just waiting for their cast member to finish before delivering theirs. They don’t feel like they are embodying their role and it comes off flat/lifeless. I have another gripe but I don’t want to start a war in the comments. However, I do think they did a good job considering other live adaptations pre One Piece live adaptation.
i dont like how they over explain things like please just imply it people have brains trust us too be capable of using them other then that i totally agree
My theory is the storm was actually caused by the invasion - the sudden burst of intense heat from all the comet-powered firebenders up at high altitude caused a vacuum effect which disrupted the nearby weather systems. Cold air above the nearby ocean all started rushing in to fill the void, resulting in violent winds, lighting, etc. That sudden storm is what brought down Appa and Aang.
I stopped trusting Netflix the moment Henry Cavill had issues on the Witcher. Calling the acting here "community theater" was so accurate it actually hurt. It's just bad. Also Zuko's scar looks like a bruise and for sure not a scar.
Then there's no point in making it. If you're doing it line for line and action for action it isn't going to transfer well. It's supposed to be adding to just flat out copying. There are definitely changes that should not have been made, but it would be complete trash if they just did every little thing the exact same.
he's right about the direction of the acting falling flat. the thing is if you see interview clips of the cast members, they're so lively and passionate about their characters. they've seen the cartoon and loved it. so yeah maybe it's the directing
thank you for commenting on what I call the Netflix Costume Problem. They need to fire their whole custome division and get better people. The costumes look like they were bought at a walmart and they JUST took it out of the package.
@EspeonMistress00 fair. I'm not an expert. But they need to do something, because whatever the factors, it's like that in all their live-action shows. The other day, I watched a trailer to the movie Borderlands, and they had some wacky costumes, but they all looked lived in, and I thought... Netflix should take notes.
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No cause I love how when zuko finally met his obsession (aang) he went straight to drawing fan art💀
relatable tbh
"People's excitement for this show was at an all-time high, but when Netflix needed it most, it vanished" 😂😂😂
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My god lol 😂😂😭
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@@eglantinepapeau1582idk *spoilers* Aang didn’t even learn any water bending in the book of water. A second season SHOULD be book of earth. Now he’s lost a bunch of time that should’ve been spent learning water bending. They fucked up bad there.
"the changes are bad but the additions are good" is the best way to put it tbh.
But additions are changes.
@@Attackontitanfan143they mean like the adaptations of the source material is bad, but extra additions they made is good
They should've just made a Kyoshi show. You can tell how dark and gritty they wanted to make this show, and they easily could have if they simply chose a different, more adult, avatar to focus on
A Kyoshi prequel live action show wouldve been so good
I think one of my peeves with Netflix, is constantly trying to turn animation into live action needlessly. The original story is fine the way it is, it's better to just tell a different story in the same universe so that it can stand on its own feet. So telling a story about a different avatar like kyoshi would absolutely be better.
Wait till you find out about Yangchens torture fetish
@@kindred6453you also wouldn’t get comparisons to the original story because you’re making something new. It’s harder to go wrong
They can even start after the novels. Plenty of time to cover.
Well at least they aren’t calling him “ung” anymore. That’s already a vast improvement.
Me who listened to how they pronounced the name “yeah that sounds about how I feel about the name too. Aung”
I heard it as "ong" 😂
Thats the bare minimum, but holy hell im also glad they arent doing that
"My name is Ong! 👩🦲 And I'm the oyvatar"
@@anastasia_852 🤣🤣EXACTLY
this sokka seems so calm and it’s weirding me out so much. like in that first scene, sokka should be freaking out, frantically reaching for the canoe with his spear, barely avoiding taking an icy cold dip, and eventually pleading with katara to save their canoe with her “freaky water magic”, but (no offense to the actor) this sokkas just like. “damn. we could totally die right now… that’s crazy.” like what?
That would have been far better. Sokka doing his whole dramatic panic thing and then trying to get Katara to help with her bending. Ig they could have had her start trying to pull it calmly but Sokka keeps running his mouth and they start fighting. Finally Katara screams something at him kinda like she did in the animation and tries to aggressively yank her arms back sending the canoe flying and as her arms fly back towards the iceberg you can see a crack from starting at the edge of the ice where they're standing and just following the path made by her arms towards Aang's iceberg causing then large release of air. Katara nearly being blasted into the water and Sokka having to scramble to catch her and cover her with his body while holding a weapon out in front of them.
@@ericanight8359 dude! thats such a cool idea! sokka poking at the boat thus distracting katara as she waterbends would be such an easy change that doesnt even need them to include his sexism really and yet would still make the characters that much more interesting and engaging.
@@harderlarder1939 They honestly could still include his sexism in that. “Just let me do it. Should’ve known not to rely on a girl.” Or something like that. Which would have set of Katara’s rage. ANYTHING to show that these actually are the characters that they’re supposed to be.
@@ericanight8359 truuu. its honestly such a sad thing because it really doesnt take that much work to characterize them at least somewhat well. all it would take is just tiny details in the story, small writing and directing changes to make it that much more interesting. I do think the problems with this show run a little deeper than that, but its just tiny things could be added to make these characters more than just flat, cardboard recreations of their original selves.
yeah, it was weird (and kind of funny how calm both of them were and they barley had a reaction
As an non-American viewer, The school shooting imagery with Gyatso and the kids did not jump out to me. It's so strange to have that pointed out to me
…That’s actually deeply disturbing. I am American and that’s definitely the parallel I drew. I know school shooting have been culturally normalized here a lot and it’s in my psyche cause I did do active shooter drills in school. But I don’t like seeing it jump out somewhere where you wouldn’t see it if you weren’t primed to. Horrid reflection of the situation here.
@@isabelmcgaugh711 I'm American, but didn't notice the parallel at all. Maybe because we didn't have such drills when I was a kid in the 90s. Maybe because while I heard of school shootings, I didn't really have any first-hand experience with them outside of the news/fiction. Idk.
Can we pls talk about the fact that they made Zuko a giant NERD in this!! Cz dude, that is SO funny to me Lmfaoo
He made a scrapbook about past avatars, and knows all this Avatar trivia- that nobody else probably even cares about anymore cz the avatar hasn’t been relevant in 100 years 😭
Him fanboying over Kyoshi too afsgafhjag IM CACKLING
Also what a cool way to foreshadow his eventual role in Team Avatar! They’re using his research and knowledge in that journal as a source, so in a way he’s with them in spirit 😂
Tbh i love the idea, it makes total sense with all that time exiled and the anxiety he would be so obsessed with the avatar so he tries to find all the info to find a way to fight him and catch him
24:10 Bad acting is generally the fault of the casting director and the director, 100%. The director is who's job it is to make sure he gets the shots in the right tone and the right... direction. 10/10 nailed it.
That makes so much sense because even the adult performances in this just didn't stick the landing for me. They all felt super unnatural and corny
What also doesn't help is the writing, with the exposition and disregard of show don't tell.
This! I feel they made Katara and my girl Kiawentiio so dirty 😭 i love her performance in Anne with an E and to see her performance in this show was so underwelming
LEAVE MY MAN KURUK'S NAME OUT YOUR MOUTH 😭😭He fought the spirits because humans couldn't keep their promises, he fought the spirits in secret to PROTECT yangchen's legacy THAT MAN DESERVES THE UTMOST RESPECT FOR HOW HE SACRIFICED FOR THE WORLD AND YANGCHEN'S IMAGE 😤✊
EXACTLY, if anything Yangchen screwed it up for Kuruk, mans deserved better.
@@GibGab_Gabora tbf every Avatar screws something up that the next one has to fix.
@@BishopTDE pretty much lmao
What about Kyoshi to Roku @@BishopTDE
I honestly hated this change to Yangchen.
Sokka saying "not to be rude" is like the most anti-sokka thing ever he lives to be rude especially this early in the show
Saying that is also kind of rude though lol
@@steampocalypse2429 what do you mean
@@DavidAntonio-uw1co Imagine someone saying 'not to be rude but-' to you
@steampocalypse2429 yeah but it's in away where the person cares enough to at least try and seem like they care somka is rude in the way where he neither doesn't care or doesn't know hes being rude
Kuruk dyeing at 33 was because Yangchen had goofed up handling the spirits that mans had to step up to bat and become the Avatar equivalent of the Doom Slayer (unfortunately killing dark spirits puts a major toll on a person and Kuruk killed *so many* in just those 3 decades)
He was killing dark spirits when he was a toddler? Damn!
18:30 I love the interaction of the air to the fire. If the air is stronger than the fire it will blow it out, but if it is the other way around and the fire is significantly stronger than the air, the air just fuels the fire.
That opening scene was the biggest 10/10 I've ever seen, but as soon as Katara & Sokka showed it dropped all the way to a 5/10. Essentially Aang, Zuko, & Iroh have been the best parts of the show so far for me
Do you think it has to do with character writing changes to Katara and Sokka? I think their character writing fell flat but they really do look and act like them. I hope that changes if there’s a book 2 adaption.
Really?? I kinda thought Aang lacked quite a bit of personality. They did a bit too much telling and not enough showing with him as a character. I like zuko and I think Katara and sokka aren't that bad
This katara is so dull, was kind weird when she make all the women fight beside her . And they make grangran is wiser than iroh
It’s mostly katara for me. She feels so hollow, like she’s not even there. If the others have bad acting sometimes, I mostly blame it on directing because they’ve actually shown that they can portray their characters to a certain extent. But I swear there is nothing about this actress that feels like katara
I think that Zuko has the best writing and acting so far. Katara is a good actor, but they changed so much of the writing for her that she falls flat. Aang is okay, but they're trying to give him a childlike charm while also not actually giving him a childlike script... I just hate Iroh's character in this I'm not even gonna lie.
This is where I see the problem with life actions. It's not that I hate them, but I just find them useless. Like... Why would you watch a shortened version with questionable changes when you could watch an original that gradually introduces the world and reveals the characters more widely.
Probably to try and convert/convince all the animation haters out there 💀🙃
Precisely. People just don't respect animation as a medium, every single animated thing needs to arbitrarily be given an inferior, useless live action version that misses what people liked about the original and wastes everyone's money.
@@Byakkoya11037 I disagree. It is not that live action is worse its that western adaptations of any media is worse. We have some of the most arrogant and useless directors in the world who are arrogant and think they can make a better version of the version people collectively fell in love with. The only shows that have done good adaptations always have someone important forcing them to stay faithful to the source material
That's right respect the medium or miss out. I don't care. I had my fill of greatness.
People are like: "Oh this would be so cool if this was life action"
Why?
Well then more people would watch it. And see the greatness that is - insert show
Why aren't they watching the original? It is great now. Why can't they see the greatness now?
Well they would never watch anime/cartoons.
Well WOOP DEE fuckin' DOO.If people are blocked by the medium then THEY'RE the ones missing out, not me.
I'm sorry but if you can't respect the medium then you will sadly miss out. And there's that. I can't force people to their happiness. You'll just have to try and broaden your horizon and see what happens.
Are all animes or cartoons great? No, some are good some are bad.
Are all live-action movies great? No, some are good some are bad.
It's just another medium. It's like streaming services. Well this show only runs on Amazon Prime Sorry. You're gonna have to go and get Amazon Prime if you wanna watch this show.
You're gonna have to watch Cartoons if you wanna catch this show. And if you don't that's okay. You will never watch it. I'm super okay with that, too.
Money.
They want money, and popular IPs are safer than making something new.
EXACTLY!
It’s so difficult to decide whether it’s good or not, cause some of it is so good and some of it is so well not the best-
And the characterization for some of them- Is just - ouch
Yeah. I have such mixed feelings, because I appreciate some of the deeper dives into relationships. But also the awkward acting at points (even from the adults) is like.. hmm, and a little TOO much explanations, SOMETIMES. But there's still enough for me to enjoy for it to just be... odd idk. I really hope we get S2 and S3, I just have a gut feeling it'll really improve, after they get to assess reactions to S1. Well, I can hope.
@@isbammoi3358 This is exactly how I feel about it as well omg. Mixed feelings 😅 but I wanna see it through. I'm a sucker for ATLA content tbh haha. But yeah some changes are either good or bad
@@isbammoi3358 I really hope they do- this is really good explanation btw
It's actually really easy to decide if it's bad. It is.
Legit the first moment that personality being lacking in the main characters was brought up I immediately thought of how Luffy's actor did it SO RIGHT and it's too bad we couldn't have that energy so it made me laugh that the One Piece example was brought up later haha.
I think maybe it's because Aang's actor is too young to convey emotions. And sometimes it does feel like they're just reading off a script. But other than that, I think they nailed it.
One Piece Live Action was done amazingly too.
Luffy's actor was personally cast by Oda. Oda being on the OPLA project and having creative control is what probably made the casting for one piece feel so right and with great chemistry.
We should have been way more skeptical when the main creators jumped ship.
The crazy part is that Inaki Godoy ACTS LIKE LUFFY in his everyday life. It's like if he was made real by some crazy wish
@@Saskfinest1 This is sooo true. When the creators bounce, it's time to be very suspicious. I know I was, because I remember being super excited when I heard they were going to work on it. It truly sucks that they were about to be part of it, and it's crazy that they let them leave! I would've done everything to make them stay 😅
Zuko barely gets mad, Katara also never loses her temper, Soka is just serious and has no sarcasm, Aang doesn’t lean into his age
Cartoons are always going to be more emotive and expressive in both face and body but its like they thought characters having emotions was too cringe so they forbade them from using their eyebrows
Are you an idiot? Yes? Alright
It’s like they were trying to…appeal to a wider audience or some shit? They took any hint of edge or controversy in story out.
yeah and they gave zuko an extra one
I hate the change to Aang discovering he was the avatar and needed to leave home bc it robs us of the realization Gyatzo was going to spirit him away from the temple. Aangs father couldn't bear to see his son so thoroughly isolated but was tragically seconds too late in showing him just how much he actually cared.
We dont know Aangs father. Gyatso is the closest thing to a father to him. Both ways is fine.
Danny the fact that you brought up Zaheer's flying ability is why I love you. I was making this same exact complaint to a friend. really hope they dont plan to make it to korra. it will make no sense then.
I hardly consider what Aang was doing to be true flight.
Bro he was just doing flighty airbender stuff, he does that all the time.
@@haydeniskander5306 25:55 bro has a whole 30 ft lift off, curious what "true flight" is. im a Dnd player, 30 ft flight is true flight to me.
@@haydeniskander5306 Bro had a 50ft vertical and barrel-twirled horizontally at cruising altitude.
TF do you consider 'true flight'?
THATS WHAT I SAID
So Aang didn't run away from his avatar responsibilities here, he just went on a joy ride and got lost?
Edit: Sulk Ride
Lots of dumb unnecessary changes
he kinda did, i mean he left to clear his head after getting the news about being the Avatar after ranting to Appa about not wanting the responsibilities. but yeah it was a lot less direct as to why he ran off
he Zoro-ed his way out of the war
I noticed this too it's like they're allergic to giving characters flaws and personalities and just anything that'd make them relatable and seem human.
I lowkey think you're going a little too hard on Iroh I liked him a lot in this a lot more than the movie for sure, I have also only seen one episode so I'm hopeful that they continue to improve
Huh. As a non-American, When Danny started describing the school teacher huddling everyone in in a "school shooter" kind of way I initially laughed. Then he followed it with "i forget what it was when i was in school", and it hit home that it's actually some shit that exists in real life. Now I feel bad.
Growing up as an American half my time in the classroom was planning how I would stop a shooter hahaha... It's horribly sad when you really stop to think about it.
…I really did just causally accept the wild reality as a teenager that we had to regularly practice active shooter drills.
Most people I talked to in high school agreed that they’d fantasized about what they’d do in a shooter situation. like risking a broken leg to escape out of the third story window and shimmy down the drain pipe, or just laying down under your pack back and pretending to be dead. Deeply grim.
Not cool Hogey
He’s not flying he’s using wind in a vortex like how water benders do to do the same thing, but since it’s live action wind is largely hard to see or just “invisible” because it’s air
Then they should make dust or something so that it looks more visible
I could see it. It was pretty obvious that it was a vortex just by looking at his clothes and movement. It never even occurred to me that people would think he’s flying until I saw it in comments.
@@andrecarpenter2432fr, they're literally in a winter wonderland, just have the gusts of air pick up some snow powder
I haven't watched it yet but I'm pretty sure he flies in the air Temple and he didn't show it cuz he doesn't show the entirety of the show he skipped parts
@@andrecarpenter2432 Didn't people complain about the movie's airbending for not being invisible enough?
i think a lot of the 'bad acting' is that they're young, new, and theres a lot of pressure to make it good. in a lot of interviews they talk about the pressure, i just hope they get closer and more comfortable soon
I actually think it's the direction, rather than the pressure, cause the adults are also showing the same problems as the kids
@@mundoatena1674 i guess thats true, i think it could also be the director.. because dallus, ian, and kia have done other roles and have done amazing jobs sooooo, not to mention ddk and paul sun-hyung lee are both very experienced
Also they do an awful lot of telling rather than showing in this like describing character traits and exposition and removing agency with the aang not having his friends treat him different or hear that gyatso is being forced away from him or when katara and sokka find the iceberg and it just opens for no reason why didn’t it do that over the last 100 years?! Or katara not helping aang out of the avatar state like the story just sorta happens to them they have no real control of their destiny which is a big theme in the show
Ya I am hoping that the showing will improve now that a lot of the exposition is out of the way.
aang is essentially creating a tornado around his person, i dont think a human being can realistically approah high winds like that so it makes sense that katara and sokka gets pushed away from aang due to that much air
@@Sapphire_Reacts my issue isn’t with the logistics of his tornado but maybe they should tone it down for the sake of the character moment of katara helping aang
@@Sapphire_ReactsIn the OG they were at the "eye of the storm" and that made sense
They dont have the budget or time to show everything. They did a great job with what they gave us. The show already costs i think around 15M per episode as is. More is just too much. Id rather them show us the extra stuff they added instead of what we know cause all of that was done really well and added to the lore.
19:55 we see statues like those in the fire sages’ temple and the air temple in S1 of the animated series- I believe the eyes glow whenever the avatar is in the avatar state. I’m not really a fan of how the live action at all but zuko having those statues so he’d know if the avatar was “active” is one of the few new choices they made that I actually like.
It does feel a bit more like someone obsessed with finding every trace of lore and history of past avatars, and following every lead for three years, which as much as I love the original animation, does feel a bit lacking in that aspect.
Credit where credit is due, that was a nice detail added in.
And in the original cartoon it makes sense why Zuko was convinced of the Avatar still being out there as an Air Nomad, as he says to Iroh in episode 1, “The Fire Sages tell us that the Avatar is the last airbender! (i.e., they ascertain he hasn't been been reborn that he was killed in the initial assault on the Temples)” and... cut to episode 3 wherein we see that, yes, the Fire Sages would've been alerted as to some Avatar activity going on, that they died or else went into the Avatar State.
Personally, on the contrary, I didn't really like the fact that the creators immediately threw flashbacks in our faces. We don't learn about what happened with Aang in the course of the story, which is smarter in my opinion. And that's a problem I've noticed throughout the series, it likes to explain everything meticulously. I understand that maybe they wanted to show everything in more detail, but it wasn't necessary. Unlike the life action, the original talked to the viewer as an intelligent interlocutor, although the show was for children
The thing is they do have the capability to do that. They kept teasing like we were going to get Zuko's flashback until it finally shows up in Ep 6. They also grabbed a bunch of ideas from Books 2 and 3 and threw them into Book 1. So hopefully that means they can spend more time in Book 2 to really set up the stakes.
I get that but everyone already knows the story. I think that’s the main factor
I feel like the reason they go this tell instead of show route is because it’s on Netflix. Since Netflix has such a strict 8-10 episode limit for their seasons, I feel like this is probably the best the show could do at giving us so much lore for how much time they have. I also would guess they took parts from books 2 and 3 because they’re not sure if they’ll be renewed for another season, so they want to get in some fan favorite plot points or make sure no plots are left open in case the show ends up as only 1 season
@@user-cd7ip5qz2oThen they will be forever be compared to the OG.
I was so critical of it at first because I was just comparing every single change but then there was a particular scene in episode three where I was like why am I even doing this yk like it’s a whole different thing.
And then there was I think it’s episode six or seven I was like “holy shit that’s such a good storyline to add”
But God i love seeing you compare everything no joke bc that’s what my mind was screaming at me to do and u do it in such a funny way while spitting facts 💀
20:00 I actually like the glowy statues. It's clear from the original show that avatar shrines react to the presence of the Avatar using his power so it's perfectly logical for Zuka to be collecting these items.
Came here to say this
I kind of hope that you turn this into a full series because I haven't run into a review that's highlighting some of the more interesting changes while also pointing out the awful directing choices. I'm intrigued but also deeply concerned lol
Love that you also agree that it looked lame from the get go~ you playing the Avatar tune has just made my morning ❤
Changing why aang "runs away" changes the explanation for him drowning. The only reason why he left was to literally run away cause they were gunna send him away to start his training. But here he doesnt actually have the inention of running away so just being thay far out in the ocean doesnt make sense when hes just going for a quick fly
I really loved the show, also wanna point out Bryke wrote the first ep and ep 6, so they were apart of all changes! Acting was definitely stiff but overall I felt like the show was really made for the fans. I felt like the additions with all the fire nation stuff was absolutely phenomenal. Zuko, Azula, Iroh Ozai, Zhao, everything with them was awesome. Ep 6, 7, and 8 are absolutely amazing.
Definitely for the fans, that way as long as you've seen it before, you can imagine the personalities of all the main characters from the cartoon being there while you watch the live action.
So many videos are coming out today abt this adaptation and I’m LIVING for it
So many different opinions too. At least people aren't universally agreeing it's bad so there's definitely something good there
Took me 3 watches to finish episode 1. Done watching lmao
7/10 is exactly what I said! The acting is really wooden and its completely on the director cause we've seen most of these actors nail it other shows. The changes are silly and not necessary. It'll be interesting to see how the next few episodes are though considering how much content we have to go through.
I think this video has me fully accepting of Dannys style of content. I watch a fair few reaction channels and he's the only one who stops/interrupts the show to go on a tangent and get out thoughts and that used to annoy me. But I just had a Danny DeVito "I get it" moment, cos I do that shit all the time when I watch shows.
It's unique, has personality and he just makes good comments and observations with passion.
I see this as Aang not flying, but being able to hover for a few seconds without the glider. Honestly, we know Aang can send himself 20 feet in the air with a sneeze. Floating around for less than 10 seconds isn't that big of a deal. I can push the elliptical treadmill to read over 1000 Watts for that long. Plus, Aang is as powerful as any adult aairbender while weighing like 70 lbs.
32:25 Speaking of the glow of following the patterns, im glad its not a solid arrow and has patterns. Just like the movie they knew a solid arrow would look dumb as hell, but didnt take it to the extreme the movie did. So it looks like both a solid arrow but also an actual tattoo
Danny is so creative with his videos...
he deserves ten times more recognition
Agreed, but why the extra space in between?
agreed, he's probably one of the only reaction channels where he actually REALLY adds onto the experience w his great jokes and actual honest analysis
he's probably the only one where I never skip the intro... or outro..
@@Daesma999i rarely even skip his Patreon plug because it's usually a funny bit
@@Arixandrine exactly. I never skip these either
You can actually see the air pushing Aang. Zaheer just floats
13:37
"at what point did Monk Kiatso unfriend u?"
that's actually the childish response i was looking for. Aangs a kid who prolly thinks leaving to go be the Avatar and his friends behind means they can't be friends anymore. the irrational thinking of a child. I'm glad they added at least smth small like this.
The actong so stiff that this conversation had to of happened. “Sir why don’t we have them do another take?”
“What this is fine!”
“But aren’t they kinda stiff? Where’s the personality?”
“What do you think this is a cartoon or something ?”
"how does Katara trying pull the kanu closer break the ice berg"
She only knows how to bend in reverse at this point remember
I think you’ve made the most reasonable review of this episode that I’ve seen. People are too far on either side of loving or hating it. I think there are some good things and some bad things. But I’m still watching it so 🤷🏻♀️
Love how they're willing to burn someone to a crisp on screen but won't let a kid make a childish decision to runaway that, optically, led to the destruction of his people and 100 years of war. Like, kid flew somewhere to clear his head and had an accident on his way back. Also, it high key feels like these kids are journeying together because they've got not choice or simply because it's their duty; there is no emotional connection between any of them. Finally, the amount of exposition via dialogue was making my blood boil. For instance, every line Gran Gran has serves to tell the characters things the audience already knows in the most straightforward and campy way possible. The only subtle thing in this entire episode was the reference to Katara's mother and that wasn't even that subtle.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
You nailed it
I gotta walk out the door but based on the title I feel the same way😭😂
Um actually Aang's eyes darting around is great direction. It's a fear response in body language. It shows that Aang is silently panicking at the news that he is the avatar. Not to mention the sped up breathing. It was actually perfect
I was immediately drawn in by Aang's reaction in the scene. It was very well done by Gordon Cormier.
Yeah i actually really liked his reaction to finding out he was the Avatar in this. He was clearly silently panicking and his lack of a lot of outward emotion could really be contributed to shock and confusion.
Ummm actually yea cause like I'm umm yea actually im right and you're wrong ummm In actuality I umm yes I know yes
GOD DAMN! That scene where Gyatso hid the kids in the corner had my mouth DROPPING. That’s so wild
Watching the air temple get attacked had me on the brink of tears. It was so horrible and seeing the kids huddled together in so much fear knowing what their fate was going to be was heartbreaking. The screams from the fighting airbenders was terrible. I rarely cry during shows/movies but that shit had me on the verge of a melt down
I genuinely believe the reason aang ended up in a storm due to all the airbending taking place at the temple during the comet, its the only thing that makes sense
its like they want to make the show so gritty and “adult” but they refuse to treat the audience like adults. none of the characters feel human or like they care about each other. atla is a masterclass of subtle characterisation that they completely missed here.
Like them being okay with showing us the airbenders being ACTUALLY cooked but leaving out Sokka's sexism is so weird
your reaction to thw first part is exactly what i thought 😭😂
i was like damn maybe this show is good- and then all my hopes and dreams got progressively more crushed as the episode went on
Felt the exact same way. It only gets worse with the future episodes
Did you even tried to watch it?
@@eleutheriasaouli3650They literally said that they did
your honesty is the reason why I love your channel
The fact that Gran Gran revelaed Aang as the avatar instead of Aang revealing it himself when defending the water tribe from Zuko TOTALLY deflated the impact of that scene
I KNOW RIGHT
I actually know how I feel about it. I feel great! Yes, there ARE things that they definitely could have done better, especially the “over explaining” of things is a bit too much in the 1st episode. But I enjoyed myself pretty much and they did a great job of combining some plotlines! And the bending and the visuals in general are all so pretty, it's mesmerizing!
*Stares solemnly out at the sea like a lost soldier's wife* Oh, when will Danny upload the next Heaven Official's Blessing video...
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Also tbh I didn't even make it past ep 5 of netflix ATLA. Once Bumi appeared I knew it was time to quit. That acting and those prosthetics took me right out of it. Too cartoonish even for an adaptation of a cartoon.
REAL 😭😭 every day he uploads I’m like “surely it’s heaven officials blessing today!” But no no it isn’t
@0.flowie.0 glad I'm not the only one lmao
THISSSS. I WAS WAITING SINCE WEDNESDAY PLS ✋
When will our soldier husband return to us... 💔
*800 YEARS*
Love the honest commentary Danny. Yeah after seeing the first episode, I'd give it a 6.5-7. Similar criticisms. Really clunky exposition, stiff performances, and oof Gran-Gran's line deliveries were so bad. It does improve in subsequent episodes though, especially with Katara and Sokka's personalities. I wished they kept more of Aang's goofiness.
the air sucking theory makes sense and i’m sad they ruined it. it makes sense because monk gyatso’s corpse wasn’t charred and the guards were a decent ways away.
They changed it cz sozins there. They introduced him as the BIG BAD so him killing Gyatso was the right move to make us go OH NO! Fire nation is so evil
If Gyatso did that move he’d kill Sozin too so we’d be happy about it and in that scene all we’re supposed to feel is terror and grief, so I think it made sense to leave him alive.
You gotta keep in mind this live action isn’t canon, because it isn’t pretending to be the original 1:1. It’s similar to the original but not identical which is good, cz nothing couldn’t beat the cartoon and anything live action would always fall short in comparison.
Try to enjoy this new story as an alternate universe. Like the MCU in superhero comics
I feel like you summed up my thoughts perfectly. The show really shines in the changes and additions it makes. But the things it actively tries to adapt are really hit or miss. I'm down for expanding but maybe it's time to put the idea of a full retelling to rest.
Aang didn't talk to Yangchen because Yangchen is fucking terrifying
Binged the series last night. Agree with your rating. I had a lot of direction and writing critiques (and acting on Iroh's part, but he's my favorite so I was never going to be happy. Trying to be generous.), and costume and makeup. In our current revolution of impeccable wardrobe (literally everything else I've watched lately has looked incredible), there's no excuse for these costumes.
But I also got a lot of feels while watching. I cried like 4 times and I am not a crier at movies and tv. They really nailed a lot! They just...really really flubbed other stuff.
"There's no reason to care about any of these kids." THIS. That first meeting of the trio was so bungled. We loved sexist!Sokka because we wanted to see him knocked down a few pegs as that kicks off him learning that some cultural ideals he grew up with aren't good and that he as a person can grow for the better. We also don't get to see him trying to balance wanting to protect Katara and the realization that she's going to be able to protect herself. We also fell in love with his wisecracking nature. Katara is such a caring person but is also an understandable ball of rage brought on from her experiences/trauma and just being a teen girl. And then Aang getting the literal world both dropped on him and pulled from under him with having to admit HE is the avatar and that HIS people are dead. To have the live action characters be so FLAT in personality and delivery is infuriating. I agree that it's not the kids' fault, it's the director's. The intro to your characters is such a pivotal moment and the cartoon delivered.
the thumbnail is a good summary of the show. If u keep watching, the other episoides have amazing expansions to backstories. But the changes get drastic too
Didn't even watch yet, but the title says it all. Hit the arrow on the head
O SHIT DANNY CAN PLAY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!!??👀
You haven’t even watched it so I don’t know how you could say the changes are bad. That makes no sense
@kylejackson7913 I meant that I didn't watch Danny's vid. But, I've seen about the same amount he has. Directors also stated they'd removed key character building elements from the show, because they didn't believe they were suited for a "modern audience" (when the show is less than 20 years old😒)
@@kylejackson7913They showed major terrible changes in the trailers
@@ZeallustImmortal And the trailer doesn’t do just to how good those changes are.
The opening was so good. They should have just done a show on the 100-year war, no avatar, just a show of how the dominos have fallen after the Avatar left. Show us some of Bomis complaints he had when Aang finally came back. Even the tv show showed us some of that. Yeah, show how the fire nation was so paranoid they took hundreds of water bends to camps, show us why the north was speared and how they fought.
Netflix almost nailed it with that opening, and they should have kept it. Cause even Iro has so much lore they could have used.
Thoroughly impressed that Danny learned an instrument just to prove he's a fan.
before i hit play
i constantly said " please be good please be good please be goo..."
and honestly.... i don't even know if i got my wish granted
like it looks great but the bending is wack sometimes
the plot is good until it suddenly isn't
it's way better than the movie bit that's such a low bar it isn't even worth mentioning
so ...
if i try to sum it all up
it's like the most average live action adoption we could've ever had
Exactly, it’s so mixed
Not enough sexism but everything else is fine
6/10
Danny imma watch the video but first IT'S BEEN 11 DAYS, HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING??!!
You're giving me serious anxiety and I hope you remember my pain as you try to sleep tonight... On to the video!
Edit: 12 days now! I'll make an edit for every day it hasn't been uploaded
SAMEEEEE
fans of other shows (like Soul Eater, last reaction 2 months ago): 😐
@@evelina2619 IS YOUR PFP SUNAKO FROM THE WALLFLOWER??!!
@@cjstevenson143 yes))
She is a gothic icon after all
*800 YEARS*
The potrayal of emotion was on point tho. The flashback with monk Gyatsuo honestly made me tear up and it was just the first episode .
As a huge fan of the animated series, and as an industry pro in the film, i look at it as "ok... why did they make these changes? does it make sense? does it feel like its still following the main plot?" Because they were only given 8 episodes to do season 1, that is originally 20 episodes. I dont agree with some of the changes. I do wish somethings stayed, but i do understand why they had to do it because some stuff just wont translate well in live action. But i do think they can fix a lot of things people had problems with by adjusting dialogue, and we can live with that. I also gave it a 7/10. And im not saying this as someone who worked on one of the episodes, but as a person who loves Avatar, especially since it was a big portion of my childhood.
26:03 I think he’s doing an air tornado to levitate we just can’t see that well cause it’s in live action and you can’t see air. He’s not flying anything like Zaheer.
Roku levitated when he confronted Sozin.
There is a major difference between levitating for a few seconds and flying like Zaheer did.
as a huge fan of the original I don’t even think I’m gonna watch it just for the sake of my nostalgia because I know I’m gonna hate it
i really don't understand how someone can have this limited mindset towards a seemingly irrelevant piece of media. "I know i'm gonna hate it"
You just gotta take it as it's own thing and it's just fine. But if you go in negatively and expect to hate it, you're gonna hate it
@@tomascoelho5562 I wasn’t being fully literal but yeah when I see something that looks bad I’m just not gonna watch it lol especially when it’s something that is from my childhood
@@goatcheesee I understand that sentiment, if I see a trailer of a movie and I don't like it I won't watch it. But to be honest, for this show I was excited to see the changes they made into the story because adapting the cartoon shot for shot simply wouldn't work and gives the cash grab impression. There are some things in this show I don't like but heck, even the cartoon had some problems in Book 1. What I don't really agree with is seeing people hate on a change because "that's not what happened on the animated show". I won't give u spoilers in case you watch the show but there's a certain character that was my favourite in the OG which has such a fun and quirky personality but in the show it's so much different. You have every right to like or dislike the changes they made but I just don't agree with hating on something because it's not like the original show. That's also what most of the critiques I've seen. People who criticize plot points or characters which are different from the show. Instead of judging the changes because on the impact it had in the Netflix version, they see it as bad just because it's now how it happened in the original. And you might say "If the original was so good why change it" which I must agree but then we come back to the shot for shot remakes which wouldn't translate well to live action format. So, ultimately, for this show to work, it needed to be a retelling of the animated show. Have the characters, locations and major plot points and get to the same ending point (North Pole). Just to really clarify, there are some things in this version that I really don't like because I think they could've been made better, not just because they are not like the original show. For example, Gran Gran, Yue, Katara to an extent. Just one more things which is, I don't feel like you watching this series will your nostalgia, only if you really hate it which I doubt because this series is not bad, not great either.
Him: "Hello boys, girls, and squirrels"
Me: 🐿
So apparently, for those like me who wasn't really following along with every new piece of info while the show was in the making, they decided to change Sokka's misogynistic character aspect in the live-action. Which, I can understand that decision, but it also changes Katara's character as she reacts so violently to any sort of misogynistic prejudices against her
Zuko's doodling scene is so in character. 7/10 pretty much sums it up.
24:01 if I have to assume this is all directors choices. The director wanted a serious tone so he probably stamped out any emotion and told them to just keep is serious 🤷🏾♂️ some directors also just don’t allow actors to delivers the lines the way they wanted to.
please react to every single episode from now on, you perfectly summed up almost ever single thought I had while watching this show
this is a very small, stupid detail to focus on, but I feel like the symbol for fire on the thing with all four elements that grangran expo dumps on should be like torn, smudged, or burnt. this isn’t important but I feel like it would be a cool detail that someone got so angry and distraught over what happened that they tried to destroy all symbols of the fire nation from the village, and I think it would add more depth to the environment as a “war torn village barely holding on” than just proudly displaying the symbol of the guys who absolutely ravaged a majority of your population.
When the video starts it’s like “does this guy even want to like this show” and then two seconds in it’s literally the most hype I’ve seen you ever.
Really there are some interesting choices. I agree - did the people in charge ever meet a kid? But this looks so much better than I expected.
"I forgot what the window meta was on school" MY MAN CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THESE OMG HAHA
I am a Registered Behavior technician who works with kids with Behavioral Issues, Trauma, or Autism. Kids 100% react like this. 11:38.
You have a lot of the same feeling as I do. The characters costume designs feel yassified and cosplay like. While the dialogue/conversation feels like the characters are reading their lines and just waiting for their cast member to finish before delivering theirs. They don’t feel like they are embodying their role and it comes off flat/lifeless. I have another gripe but I don’t want to start a war in the comments. However, I do think they did a good job considering other live adaptations pre One Piece live adaptation.
i dont like how they over explain things like please just imply it people have brains trust us too be capable of using them other then that i totally agree
My theory is the storm was actually caused by the invasion - the sudden burst of intense heat from all the comet-powered firebenders up at high altitude caused a vacuum effect which disrupted the nearby weather systems. Cold air above the nearby ocean all started rushing in to fill the void, resulting in violent winds, lighting, etc. That sudden storm is what brought down Appa and Aang.
I stopped trusting Netflix the moment Henry Cavill had issues on the Witcher.
Calling the acting here "community theater" was so accurate it actually hurt. It's just bad. Also Zuko's scar looks like a bruise and for sure not a scar.
OMG!!!! THIRTEEN MINUTES AGO, THIS IS THE EARLIEST I'VE BEEN TO A DADDY MOTTA VIDEO !!!!
The second i saw them air nomad kids hiding i instantly remembered that star wars scene with anaken😂
When I was watching the show, I couldn't help but think " it feels like the Ember Island Players; but without the satire and propaganda."
You know it's doomed the second the original creators leave the production.
they knew what they were doing.. not putting their names on this is a good move.
They wrote the first episode
@@surferchic15cw .... oh
Eh, the original creators being on board isn't always a guarantee either (side-eyes the Gilmore Girls revival)
That tune you played has proven your dedication to the fandom. We welcome you as our overlord.
They took Katara’s rage and Sokka’s sexism.
Can't wait to see you react to the rest of the season😭
The bending cgi and fight Chorio is my favorite parts of the show.
dmotta after watching Madoka: “This child is not acting traumatized enough”
Solid takes as always… but where are the rest of the Soul Eater reactions 🤧
Yeah I hate being this person…but I just wanted the cartoon literally adapted to live action scene for scene 😂
Same..
I think that would’ve been pointless and garbage. Things inherently need to be different bc cartoon things can be silly irl
Then there's no point in making it. If you're doing it line for line and action for action it isn't going to transfer well. It's supposed to be adding to just flat out copying. There are definitely changes that should not have been made, but it would be complete trash if they just did every little thing the exact same.
" i need to go somewhere to clear my head, 40 miles into the nearest ocean should do " is almost what i thought when i watch it😂😂😂
he's right about the direction of the acting falling flat. the thing is if you see interview clips of the cast members, they're so lively and passionate about their characters. they've seen the cartoon and loved it. so yeah maybe it's the directing
Bruh why I was so mad when Aang flew you legit said everything I said
he didn't fly though, he was gliding or "falling with style." he uses the glider for the whole show
Man this wasn't on my Danny Motta Bingo card
thank you for commenting on what I call the Netflix Costume Problem. They need to fire their whole custome division and get better people. The costumes look like they were bought at a walmart and they JUST took it out of the package.
Usually costumes look bad because of other factors than the department being bad
@EspeonMistress00 fair. I'm not an expert. But they need to do something, because whatever the factors, it's like that in all their live-action shows.
The other day, I watched a trailer to the movie Borderlands, and they had some wacky costumes, but they all looked lived in, and I thought... Netflix should take notes.