Avatar: The Last Airbender

CaughtCross said:

Netflix’s Live-Action ‘Avatar’ Series ‘Took Out How Sexist’ Sokka Was in the Original: ‘A Lot of Moments’ in the Animated Show ‘Were Iffy’

The cast of Netflix's live-action "Avatar: The Last Airbender" adaptation say Sokka will not be as sexist in the series.

variety.com

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That's not even a shocker or too much of a big deal really. Sanji on One Piece is way more problematic than Sokka.

i hate it when critic and audience numbers are kinda close, makes it tough to tell if its shit (critics high, audience low) or really good (critics low, audience high). This sounds like its just kinda mid.

ill still watch at some point but no rush, 8 episodes all dropped

Since they dropped all of the episodes at once, I will at least try it.

I haven’t watched it yet, but one common complaint i heard is the 1st episode is very exposition heavy. I could see how that could be annoying to fans of the original show since it would effectively be a recap of shit they already know

I have only seen the first episode. I thought it was good enough. They definitely dump some lore at the beginning to let people, with no knowledge of the show, know what is going on.

what the fuck is up with foh autoplaying youtube embeds all the sudden. quick way to kill of whats left of this dying forum

uncognito said:

what the fuck is up with foh autoplaying youtube embeds all the sudden. quick way to kill of whats left of this dying forum

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Shut up faggot.

There, hopefully kill it off a little faster now.

Halfway through and not sure I like them jamming story beats together because they only had 8 episodes. It seems more rushed than One Piece in that aspect.

Aang actor seems shitty and some of these scenes are way too dark

As someone that didn't watch the original, it's fine. I see complaints about Sokka not being sexist enough or whatever but if your entire character arc is "asshole eventually respects women" then it was probably bad. I have a couple of episodes left but the coolest spectacle so far was probably seeing how Zuko got his face fucked up.

Do none of the Avatar ghosts actually teach Aang how to bend their element? Why doesn't he try to do anything other than wind stuff? I thought for sure he would train near the river with Katara when she was doing her motions and that he'd probably pick it up easy because he's Neo or whatever.

Been forever since I've seen the cartoon, but Katara helped him with learning water bending and Toph later helped with Earth bending. He learned fire bending last.

Lenardo said:

He really didn't start water bending until season 2 which he trained with kitara, then when toph comes he trains both.

Just finished season 1. I liked it a lot [...] they did not tone sokka down much, I like his character...except for his nose. Actor and portrayal is fine, hate the nose. [...] Kitara is fine, like her portrayal [...] Only issue I have with zuko and azula is thier faces are too round cartoon had them more angular looking not round.

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So, as someone that watched the show, your main critique is that they couldn't 100% match live action actors to the physical characteristics of their... avatars?

Azula was prolly my least favorite casting

Homsar said:

Azula was prolly my least favorite casting

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I mean. You aren't supposed to like her though.

Her acting sucks and she doesn't look the role at all. I can't believe the guy from Ghosts played Bumi.

Watched the whole thing. After seeing the season, I suspect the real reason they took out the sexist Sokka subplot on Kyoshi Island is that it was too similar to the stuff Katara has to go through with the North Water Tribe and would have just felt like a rehash. They just reframed it during Kiyoshi as Sokka isn't the best warrior skill wise and gets humbled, which ties into the insecurity about his status as a warrior when he gets the dark visions in the Spirit Realm and later how they focus on how his true strength as a warrior is his heart/conviction.

Series was pretty good. Cartoon was better, but live action show did a pretty good job. The bending is pretty spot on with the cartoon and it hits most of the major beats of the first season. They definitely are trying to set up the June and Iroh thing a bit more as well (Iroh had a thing for her in the cartoon). The 8 episode run does make some stuff feel a bit rushed, though

Holy shit, I forgot how bad Dingdongs version was lol