*BRAND NEW* Look at Netflix's Avatar Live Action

So as I’m sure you all know, Netflix have been working on an Avatar series which is releasing in only a few months, February 2024. Fans have had some really mixed feelings from the few images and scenes we’ve had so far, with many fearing that the series will be a flop just like the Shyamalan movie all those years ago. If you’re a youngster and don’t know that movie, please, don’t get interested and go look it up, you’ll regret it and start being scared of the Netflix adaption.
Well, to celebrate the Winter solstice last week, Netflix released a few more images of some scenes within the series, and it’s definitely looking very interesting. First up, we have a new picture of Aang, our first time seeing him in a full-body show revealing his boots, and in the background we get an interesting glimpse which might show us one of the first changes in the series. It appears Aang is meditating on a rock beside a statue of Hei Bei - the spirit which spent thousands of years protecting the earth kingdom forest, usually taking the form of a panda bear.
In the original series, Aang actually meditates on the head of this statue - and although some fans have commented that it may be the real, physical Hei Bai, I think it looks more statue-like with its colour and the way Aang is meditating within a rocky terrain around him. If Netflix has changed this scene slightly, it’ll be interesting to see how the rest of the series is with changes.
On that note, it’s been revealed that Suki’s mother will be in the series, which has a lot of mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it could introduce a new dynamic to her story, but on the other, it also risks heavily undermining her as a character, since her being so young and leading the kyoshi warriors all by herself was an important part of her being who she was.
In another image we get our first look at Jet and the Mechanist, both of which look great. Notably, Jet doesn’t have a straw, which sent a few fans crazy, but Netflix assured them that in the full series their beloved straw boy would be properly equipped with his signature mouthpiece. The background behind him doesn’t seem familiar. It definitely isn’t their forest-based hideout, and it looks more like a town, so some have theorised that it’s the fire nation town which the group plotted against in the original series.