The very idea of the first episode being written by the original creators (Konietzko and Di Martino), and that the first scene is just explanatory dialogue from Sozin to a random earthbender, only to flame shot him afterwards, make me think: "Dude who thought this was a good scene?". And I think that the showrunners later thought: "Hey let's make all episodes have the characters explaining stuff, just like the original writers stated in the first episode". It's like the James Bond type cliché, where the bad guy keeps explaining the protagonist for like 5 minutes what's exactly his plan, only to be later stomped by the main character. But in this case, the other way around. But what I mean, is: That dialogue just doesn't work for explaining the scene and setting the plot. However, I did like that we see what Sozin did on camera.
It is just small inconvience for him now as well. Cuz now he can meditate like 5-10 mins and can talk to his best friend and mentor, the good part is now he can do whatever he wants to. Also even after Aang dies, he will go to spirit world and be with Gyatso forever LOL.
The thing that pisses me off with their “tell, don’t show” approach is that it feels like a bunch of suits going “those dumbass Gen Z and alpha kids don’t have the attention span to watch a proper show, just tell them all the ‘complicated’ bits and how the characters feel about it. Dont make them use their brains, they’ll panic and go to tiktok instead!” Like they legit think yall are too dumb to properly entertain
Possibly. Though, I think it’s more like they don’t know how to write a good story even when the story is already written for them. That was the impression I got from the Netflix series.
A character from this live action will jump out of the mist of the lost souls and start asking: Why? And you'll have no other choice but to keep explaining.
It feels more like hubris. The guys in suits unironically think this is better because "animation is for kids and this is for adults. I took away the childishness and made it better."
Worse, Gen-Z (1997-2012) was the *primary target audience* of the original 2005 NICKELODEON show. I'm a Gen-X aunt to two Gen-Z boys who are young adults.
You aren't allowed character flaws or story arcs in fiction any more, in fact you can't even have them in real life. All characters must be oven-ready good guys, even the bad guys, and learn absolutely nothing over the course of their journeys so that everyone is included and no one is offended. Man alive everything these writers touch just sucks.
the weird thing to me is that they removed the flaws the characters ultimately grew out of, not only lessening the impact of the character arcs but seemingly axing a strong example of people getting over 'problematic' behavior.... which, uh, that seems like completely contradictory... like, this doesn't seem to be a case of 'wokeness', and more of fear of the brainlets on the internet who don't have the patience/attention span for an actual story to be told. But they still wanted to keep the payoffs to the arcs they basically killed any point to for fear of offending the existing fans. Leaving a series which, while not terrible, has little to no actual point anymore because the basic equation of setup and payoff is broken by what amounts to spineless writing. So much of this show has been weirdly dumbed down, yet they keep pushing it as more 'adult'.... because they'll show dead bodies? A major catalyst of the original show's plot was the fire nation feeling emboldened because Aang disappeared, because he wasn't mature enough to handle being the Avatar, making him at least partially responsible for everything that went down. Which is a pretty adult thing to deal with, and the original 'kids' show forced the main character to come to terms with it.... but in the 'adult' version he merely stepped out at just the right moment to 'clear his head' and survived by good luck because the fire nation was attacking anyway and then bad luck sees him disappearing. That's, well, kind of a really dumb change for no reason. But it's emblematic of a lot of strange choices this show made that kills so much dramatic weight. Then they try and contrive some reason to bring the same end point anyway, leaving you scratching your head as to why. The writing on this show is bad, but it's bad in such bizarre ways. Which is a shame, because some of the actors are actually quite well cast and the production value is decent enough.
You must mean "Person alive.. " You bigot! Jokes aside, I agree. I was watching Party of Five this morning. What a show. There isn't anything like it today.
@@petriew2018 but these internet brainlets doesnt even exist.. at least not in a large enough amount for it to matter. People dont stop watching a show because a character is flawed, they stop watching when those flaws arent being adressed properly by the writers. The main character in breaking bad is literally a villain and its one of the most beloved shows in tv history. I swear studios are terrefied of a boogie man that they’ve created themselves.
Serena William voiced 2 characters in the Avatar universe Ming, a Fire Nation prison guard who was good to Iroh when he was in prison, and a fire sage in Legend of Korra
7:08 There actually is a very small amount of relevance. In Avatar Serena Williams actually voiced a minor character in the series, specifically the Female Fire Nation Prison Guard that was nice to Iroh during the time he was imprisoned. So yeah, there actually is a very small connection, but only reason I know about it is cause I looked it up in the wiki.
The part where Aang merged with Ocean spirit didn't need the over explanation from Princess Yue that Aang's spirit was lost and blah blah blah i preferred in the animated that no One talked and just bowed to the Ocean spirit with Aang inside. That was enough🆗
@@johndodo2062 Yeah it is inferior. Animation can make characters as expressive as they want, make the world look as insane or crazy as it wants, there's basically no limit. Live action is limited by the actors, the sets, locations etc. One is limitless the other is limited.
@@ShiawaseNoIro Dude, it's a show about people throwing the elements with Kung Fu where the main character can call upon the memories of hundreds of people who've since died. Realism isn't needed.
As a hater of all live action adaptions, ATLA was watchable but fairly shit while One Piece was relatively tolerable/often enjoyable to me (which means it must be downright standout). The difference was that with the inevitable departures from the source material, the One Piece writers seemed to be actual fans of the IP and seriously considered how they could effectively adapt the story to LA. When they made a change, it served a legitimate purpose to the more compact narrative and faster pacing without shitting on the themes of original, such as introducing Arlong earlier or incorporating Coby into more East Blue arcs so he can parallel Luffy/have Garp show up more. ATLA LA writers completely fuck this up out of arrogance/irreverence, ruining characters and undermining the core point of several storylines.
many people forgot this about netflix one piece, Oda literally told them to reshoot or rewrite scenes because they bad or miss the point from the original source material even then certain scenes were heavily dumb down or cheaply made because budget issues or they couldn't capture that over the top style of the story. Netflix just has this corporate style when adapting adaptations
Do you... think this was the plan all along? Don't wanna get conspiritorial, but the original has been advertised to me more after the LA one came out than it has in years
That I wholeheartedly agree, I've rewatched Book One, and I loved every minute of it. It makes me nostalgic of the early 2000s. There aren't many animated shows like this nowadays.
I'm watching the animated show for the first time because it was coming out. I heard all the controversy about this version, and how good the original was, so I decided to give it a try. Am really enjoying it so far.
They likely used Serena Williams for that commercial because she played one of the fire nation guards when Iroh was in prison in season 3, a bit before the day of black sun.
Lmao it is getting a LAA. May our lord and savior Jebus Kwist deliver us from evil, because that's what these live action adaptations are lmao: pure evil.
The amount of time, effort, money, man-power, sausages, whatever that went into not only making M. Night's version and the Netflix version could have been used to make a 4K widescreen re-master of the original series which i'm sure every Avatar fan would have prefered.
They were so focused on the big things that they forgot to strengthen the core. Making a show this massive is very messy and overwhelming (they chose to do it though so I have no sympathy and they should go through with it) but they refused to make sure the script was tight alongside the casting and directing. They just casted directors for the fun of it, they didn’t have the patience to look for director that serves the episode to its best. or a director patient enough to work with the weaker actors and actresses like katara
That "old lady" by the way is Gran Gran. You know the one Katara is always mentioning in the animated series. But going by her chompers, they must have quite the dental plan in the Southern Water Tribe.
I was ready to give up on the show after episode 1 because it was so painfully average. But told myself to keep going 1) to see the changes made and judge them for myself, and 2) to better watch YT creators that would inevitably go into these differences. After episode 6 however, I realised it was being a chore instead of pleasant leisure time and decided, screw it, I'm watching the YT commenatry vids without finishing NATLA
I got 2 episodes in before I dropped it. The characters are just not the same. I really got my hopes up after OPLA but the original creators leaving were a huge red flag.
Maybe if he went back to releasing more than one video per month - that would possibly help?
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@curtismantle You're not wrong, but for me I like that he's genuine. I'd rather have quality meaningful content than just another soulless, negative Nancy, talking head
Why did Netflix hire the Ember Island Players to write, direct and act in the live action Avatar The Last Airbender series ? It makes zero sense because everyone hated that episode in universe except Sokka. I know these Netflix writers will just make Katara and Zuko end up together but it will be such a hack job in the writing department that I don't think anyone will enjoy or like it
6:39 to be fair to serena she did have a small part in the original avatar as she was the prison guard who was nice to iroh and she is a huge fan of the show.
@@simz88That’s a poor excuse. Roku is an important character to the story and acts as a guide and mentor to Aang. Kyoshi has basically nothing to do with the overall story.
@theatricalityanddeception I agree with you, which is why I'm in the camp that wanted kiyoshi to have her own separate movie or show. I'm just looking at it from the Hollywood lense, they tried to do fan service without thinking about how it affects their story. I blame their incompetence
@@simz88 Ah gotcha. Yeah it was definitely a poor attempt at fan service and I just hate how they completely diminished Roku’s roll to try and insert Kyoshi where she didn’t need to be.
6:38 People have probably already said this, but Serena Williams voiced the character Ming in Book 3 of ATLA. She's the prison guard who brings Iroh tea and food and stuff, and she's the one whom Iroh tells to take the day off during the Day of Black Sun. I believe Serena also voiced a character in LoK. So that might be why she did that promotional video. But I agree, it doesn't have much to do with the Avatar state. I just thought I'd add some context
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I'm glad you mentioned the 4K makeup. I have 4K, and I couldn't figure out how everyone liked the casting and wasn't being driven mad by the cartoonish faces. I couldn't get past Aang's face and facial features and weirdly adult but childish voice. It was like Mia Farrow or Mary Martin playing Peter Pan, an adult woman with makeup pretending to be a young boy. Not so feminine, that's not what kept distracting me, but there's an unnaturalness to it. Almost uncanny valley like.
You are wrong about the ending following the og. Koh is 100% out of place. Live action ruined the amazing part of Katara defending Aangs body while he is in the spirit world trying to get koh to tell him where the ocean spirits are. Zuko beats her, kidnaps Aang, and takes him away. They completely cut all this stuff out. The ending was as terrible as the rest of the show.
Indeed, though they are undeniably a part of it. People seem to forget that these shows are created by entire teams of people working together, and it all gets swept away and credited to mainly 3 or so guys - Mike, Bryan, and Aaron. We've seen how each of these people's work turns out when they're not put with a proper team - The comics and Korra are filled with tons of writing issues, and while I do think that Aaron is still a decent writer, without a lot of the concepts and world building ideas of the ATLA team behind him, his other projects have been lackluster in comparison. ATLA was lightning in a bottle, the right team of people came together at the right point in each of their lives / careers, with just enough restrictions (network t.v. made for children) to breed some serious creativity and subtlety that is very much lacking in their works where they're given more freedom.
The amount of unnecessary exposition drove me insane. Exposition can be incredibly helpful, but you have to give the viewer the opportunity to figure out what’s going on! The amount of exposition in this show made me feel like I was being talked down to. My favorite was during the siege on the northern water tribe when Sokka and Yue were I think in the oasis as the fire nation was arriving. You see up in the sky a big red hot air balloon with the fire nation insignia on it. The camera stays there for a moment, then we look back to Sokka and Yue (who do not look NEARLY worried enough btw but I’ll blame that on the director, not the actor) and one of them says something like “that’s not supposed to be here.” NO DUH?! We’re in the water tribe. We know that the fire nation army is the bad guys right now and they’re closing in. This is a big dramatic moment where you learn “they’re here, and they’re prepared for battle.” They could’ve just left the camera on Sokka and Yue looking horrified and then cut to the next thing. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY WHAT EVERYONE CAN INFER?! Tl;dr: unnecessary exposition is the second worst thing they did, after cutting out side quests but narrowly ahead of erasing Sokka’s sexism.
No, don't you get it? That last show was for kids, so we're allowed naunce and subtlety there! This one is for adults, so we have to spell it out for them! Wait...
23:33 - 23:45 WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA! Whoa! Back up! Was... Was that supposed to be the Cave of Two Lovers episodes!? Why the hell were Katara and Sokka there!? In the original it was Katara and Aang, as it was trying to build up and foreshadow them eventually getting together by the shows end. Why did they change it to have her and her bro- Oh? Oh no- NOOOO! YOU BETTER NOT! NETFLIX! YOU BETTER NOT! Is THAT what the showrunners meant by saying they wanted to "Appeal to Game of Thrones Fans!?"
Serena Williams voiced a cameo character in the original series, she's a huge fan. The prison guard that Iroh convinced to "call in sick tomorrow" in season 3 was her character.
@@cambelloroxy9420it did fail. It’s only being renewed due to hype from first season which was always obvious because the show has a huge fan base. just like the winx club live action. Luckily they have been renewed for the finale seasons so whether it flops or not. We will see their vision
So just for a tiny bit of context to the Serena Williams thing… while it made no sense and definitely wasn’t what anyone was looking for, it wsnt COMPLETELY out of nowhere. I saw a video recently on random celebs that did voice work for the show, and she’s one. She did the voice of the prison guard that gave food to Iroh. Apparently she’s a big fan, and must’ve wanted to be a part of it any way she could…
There are certain reasons ppl still in love with the OG animation. U just can't delete most of them and try to compensate with flashy CGI, then say "take it as something different". It doesn't work. Fans stay fan for so long for certain reasons. U can't take away those reasons. U can't say accept whatever we are presenting since it has same name/IP. This has become a disease in current entertainment industry. They lost ability to create their own classics so what they do is vandalize already existing ones in greed of cashing the nostalgia and loyalty of fans, then ignore the same fans while making it. The biggest culprits are the ones who keeps saying "it wasn't that bad", "they are not same" or "don't judge them too early" and defend such mediocre and awful stuff. Fans doesn't show up to see how u can twist their loved franchise, they show up to see the thing they love once more, maybe in a new setup. U can't change characters, story, theme and say "just accept it. U are a fan, no? How can u dislike ur own favorite show since it has same name?". The backlash is pretty strong now as u see in Disney and Marvel. We seen what happened to Snow white. There is still time to understand why such adaptations don't work at all, unless u love backlashes and losses. If u don't wanna get compared, don't use a classic and try to replicate it. Want own ideals and views to be shown, want ur own version? Write ur own damn story. Don't expect no one will question u after u vandalize their treasure for ur own whims and fancies
The main thing they failed was that depressive Aang he was supposed to be something more like luffy in live action, happy , positive character, then the writing and some of the young characters are just terrible
Serena Williams had a cameo in the original series! She was a huge fan of the show and voiced the guard that was nice to Iroh when he was in prison in season 3
Serena WIlliams was a voice actor in the og avatar for Ming, the prison guard lady who was nice to Iroh right before he hulked out of jail. And she's very well known for being a huge fan of avatar, that's what the tennis thing was about
You do know that Serena voiced a character in the show, right? She was the guard who was nice to Iroh in The Day of Black Sun and he told her to stay home so he didn't have to kick her ass
Serena voice-acted a fire nation guard in the original animated series, who was always sweet to an imprisoned Uncle Iroh. It's not at all weird they would bring her back for an advert.
As far as the one-piece adaptation goes, I say if you're a fan of a bad show, it's easy to be a fan of a decent adaptation of a bad show. One-piece fans are incapable of realizing the suken cost fallacy and seem okay with watching a show forever with no end. Bad designs, bad writing, endless plot holes, stupid characters, all this isn't important to a one-piece fan.
With all the girl bossing going around, how did they manage to ruin Azula?! She was one of the best characters in the anime but in the netflix series, Azula's character gets shafted.
I think the main 2 culprits are: 1) Hollywood's inability to employ subtlety in writing. The show is SO GOD DAMN EXPOSITORY. It literally pre chews everything and spoon feeds you shit you should be able to figure out on your own like youre a helpless baby bird. There are so many scenes where exposition is repeated for the 3rd or 4th time and its wild. So many parts of the show feel like the characters are speaking directly to the audience while they just so happen to be looking at their scene partners and not directly into the camera. It doesnt feel like they're actually talking to each other. 2) The other problem is capitalism demands that art be profitable, and so people over engineer it for mass appeal and end up losing all the soul, spark and artistic merit that makes the original what it is. When you're forced by capitalism to make a product that's profitable, with mass appeal, youre not really making art anymore... There are so many important themes in the show, and NATLA basically just waters everything down to such a degree that it feels like "whats the point? Like why bother even making this if the result is gonna be inferior?" A better choice would have been to tell another story set in this world instead of telling Aangs story. Also 2 other complaints are the costumes and color grading look so insanely clean and brand new and saccharinely vibrant, that it makes the show look artificial. And the acting is kinda rough in some parts. I think the actors do the best with what theyre given, but Aang, Katara, Azula and Zhao (ESPECIALLY ZHAO OMFG) are honestly pretty bad in these roles a lot of the time. Ive seen Zhao in other shows. He was great in the matrix, hes fantastic in Industry, but hes absolutely atrocious in NATLA. I originally rated the show a 6/10, but the more I thought about it, I eventually settled on 4.5/10.
Hands down the best review of the Netflix live action I have watched so far. And I have watched a lot. Touches on some key points that a lot of others have missed. Great job, and I hope your channel explodes with popularity and viewership!
The thing about the 4K I don’t think is at all nitpicking, I haven’t watched the Netflix show cause why would I give my time to that. But they look TERRIBLE just because you can clearly see everyone’s wigs and makeup.
Appa is essentially the school bus, the main cast have as much connection/friendship as kids who ride the same bus. All character building is removed, Cue up Leaves From the Vine, during Iroh scenes... Emotional exploitation! They removed all character dev for flashy CGI battles when WAR isnt the emotional driving force. Then climax: Pretend kill Momo because there is no emotional climax in the final episode. Talk about Clueless, This mockery of a show has ZERO heart because they skipped over character development. Thats what made the original good was the side arcs that forced characters to grow. SHOW ME THE FRIENDSHIP BEING ESTABLISHED, esp if thats the emotional Drive of ALL characters!
U can't fix what isn't broken. Primary rule. Every adaptation thinks they can make a classic even better by their own ideologies and agendas. We know what is the result of that, besides One Piece. Katara character is again victim of woke brigade, similarly Aang and Sokka too. Whole thing feels like the adaptation of Fire Nation play from animation instead of the actual one. Uninspired acting, no real chemistry, extreme lack of humor, very wooden expressions. Most impressive was Zhao and Zuko a bit. Azula and Katara are the worst. Aang is basically reading fortune cookies in front of camera in every scene. Most actors felt like reading script, not being the character. Only characters felt organic was Zhao and bit of Zuko by end. Felt natural Here Aang keeps talking like he is reading fortune cookies. They forgot to make him organic which Luffy was. A naturally loving character with depth when required. Here, not sure why, they portrayed a kid who acts like a 100 yr old. This show is so dry besides action sequences as if having the comedy would give them allergies. Everything feels so artificial. I wish they worked even half as honestly and sincerely on characterization, dialogues and acting as much they worked on CGI. Most characters feel so disconnected and just acting Doesn't matter how good u do in CGI, this show feels like missing the soul and chemistry. Lots of dialogues are just narrated, not felt. Acting is not as expected at all. Changes in characters is such a bad habit. Why do u ruin a iconic character by extra creative? I will blame direction and storytelling for this than actors. Now I know why Avatar team didn't stay with them till end. The first earth bender and lord Sozin did more acting in barely 5 mins or so than all of them together in rest of the episode. That says a lot. How u handle woman empowerment matters. Also there is a difference between being woke and being a strong woman with character. They didn't even show master Paku being her grandma's fiance since that would lessen the impact of cruel patriarchy and victimhood. They needed another woman to show Paku how small minded he is. Katara was never called a master by anyone but Aang. Here she is master already. Even she trained with Paku too before teaching Aang. Here she doesn't require it, neither Aang. As usual flawless woman character. That is the biggest flaw. Didn't even show her stealing the scroll since that would ruin the perfect image. Stopped Zuko's massive attack in first ep itself while just learning bending few moments back. So many are there only if u notice it. If u only felt something is off about this Katara before, then these are the reason. The usual habit of using woman characters to propagate an agenda
The biggest proper actual SUPER important flaw with that movie, is the dialogue was basically all exposition and there was no time given to the characters. Does that sound familiar?
That's just sad, really. I'm not an Atla expert but the casting looked really good to me. Hearing now how the netflix show basically screws important plot points from the original and makes certain characters - for example katara - a shallow, inferior version of what the character was before... Damn. I used to think I should watch stuff before i judge, but then again when fans say it's not that great why should I waste time finding out the same thing? Didn't watch Rings of Power and don't see any reason why I should - but i sure saw a lot reviews etc. painting a very clear picture - though i suppose netflix atla can't be THAT bad right?!
6:28 WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!? Man that got me confused. 8:33 that brings up my question um... Can all of them fly? Or is it just a select few? If yes then they could have flown away after the fire nation attacked. If no then why didn't they get on their gliders and flying bison and dipped?
1. She's an athlete who's a big fan of the original show and got to voice a character in ATLA and ATLOK. 2. It does look too much like flying but they were going for gliding. They can't really 'fly' without gliders and sky bisons. Also, the Fire Nation surprise-attacked them. Firebenders can also 'fly' and Sozin's Comet was increasing their power.
I’ve only watched 20 minutes of OP LA and the remake of avatar, and decided they are not for me rather for the people who won’t touch animation with a 10 foot pole. Serena voices Ming one of Iroh’s prison guards. That’s it. Bro that avatar state promo was cringe.
They even removed the fortune teller episode and the big elephant koi from kiyoshi island and Avatar can use his former reincarnates as ben 10 aliens 😂
Somehow the Netflix version was more "sexist" than the original. 😂😂 Suki was extremely hot and bothered over Sokka immediately. And Katara was super docile and submissive to every character. She had no agency... 😂😂😅😅
Actually, your point doesnt stand. When it comes to adaptations Netflix has one of the most uneaven records in history. One Piece wasnt even the first good Anime adaptations. A few years back they did an adaptation on *Devilman* and despite deciding to make their own thing of it and Drastically changed the animation, they stayed true to the source material and the show was fakking fantastic, its actually probably better than the original. Ofc, I prefer the original as I grew up on it but Im pretty sure im heavily biased for that exact reason. The Netflix verion is a real work of art, objectively speaking, I cant deny that and the very small diversions they did from the original made perfect sense and was actually good creative decisions. I highlly recommend it, Then there is Castlevania which was fantastic. I heard they completely fakked it over in season 4 but I only watched season 1 ad 2 then I lost my Netflix access and it just fell through the cracks but the two first season were brilliant. The DotA series wasnt fantastic or anything but it was deecnt enough, it coulve been alot better but It wasnt unwatchable cringe like most stuff these days. There was one more... why cant I remember >_< Anyway, then there is of course One Piece which was phenomenal. But even One Peice doesnt come close to the crown jewel of adaptations, fakking *_ARCANE_* dude. Jesus fakking Christ, thats show is so unbelievably good. Im still comparing things but I think it may be the best TV show Ive ever seen. Its really hard to compare cross genre with things like Breaking Bad, Gods of the Arena and Sons of Anarchy. So what I did was rewatch them all and simply tallied up the plot holes and mistakes. Arcane came out on top. HOWEVER, I still havent annouced it the winner as the other shows had _very_ few flaws and _way_ more epidosed/seasons so.... I dont think it would be fair unless Arcane has more under its belt. It it gets another season or two and theyre equally perfect as the first season, there is no arguing anymore. But I digress. My point here is that Netflix seemingly only have two gearss, "The worst thing in the known universe" or "Absolute fakking masterpiece, how the fakk did you do _that?"_ cuz in the other end we have the cinematic equivalent of AIDS, Cancer and Antheax mixed togeather, stuff like DBZ and the absolute *abomination* that is Netflix Death Note.
Hey thanks for the great video as usual! Are you planning on making a video on the new Percy Jackson series? I cant believe the books got murdered a second time like that. As if the movies didnt put them in the grave already
I 100% agree with you about the 4k thing. Take a look at Star wars a new hope, its not 4k and its blurry but at the same time it worked better and in favour for the movie itself. This is one of the things i've noticed in recent films, it looks too clear or detailed
If you have zero standards, sure? They utterly butchered every single relevant character, and that's not even getting into the terribly written dialog. There is zero reason to watch this over the original unless you're an idiot that sees animation as a lesser medium, or you're EXTREMELY young and have no capacity to understand subtext, so you need the characters to turn at the camera and exposition dump every piece of the story. From a writing perspective, it's a complete and utter disaster, and the writing is THE singular most important part - it's why ATLA is a timeless classic.
@@DarkAuraLord I mean I don’t have zero standards. I write my own stories. I listen to plenty of channels talking about different aspects of writing. I went to film school. And I hold the original ATLA to such a high regard for a reason. Someone having a different opinion than you can’t be only because they’re inferior to you. So the insult and dismissiveness you’re offering, to me, makes an impactful introduction to how I should perceive your mindset regarding everything else you have to say. Which doesn’t even matter because the things you have to say are they “butchered” “every single” character, that anyone who likes this version more is an “idiot”, followed by an assumption about why the person would like it more, these 2 things put together to make up out of thin air point that someone prefers it over the original in the first place AND the accused reason for it (disregarding that maybe this is simply the version they saw or stumbled upon, period), and then try to cap it off with saying that there’s even a singular most important part of ATLA being the classic it is. You might as well have just said “the story is the most important part of the story”. Otherwise you’re doing a huge disservice to every other amazing aspect of the original show without which the show would not be as great as it is. The show, like all great things, is merely the sum of its parts. This adaptation isn’t without flaws. But “failed” is what the movie did. The show “stumbled”. The dialogue in the show is exposition heavy. But it’s not like this entirely, and not every example of it was bad. Exposition =/= bad inherently. It’s just how and when it’s used. You want to see REALLY bad exposition then, again, look at the movie. This show has examples of “show don’t tell” as well such as Zuko seeing Appa fly by and choosing not to say anything about it to his uncle so he can take care of him. (Also it’s the same story regardless, just a different tactic to get the info to the audio and one just tends to engage the audience more). Idk. You might be a writing expert for all I know. But that doesn’t make your attitude right. It would be one thing if you just left a comment expressing your dislike for the show. But it’s another that you not only have to insult people who aren’t as bitter, but you have to reply to my comment, about why I wasn’t as upset, and then insult me for it too and imply I’m wrong about my own opinions.
@@Axxidous 1) I never said you were inferior, I exaggerated about your standards for the quality of writing you're willing to accept. Your STANDARDS are inferior (imo, obviously). That can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it and what you value in your life. Being critical of things isn't always good. 2) if we're talking what we can glean about one another from each other's comments, you can think I'm a dismissive asshole all you want, I don't mind, my comment is indicative of that the same way your comment is indicative of you being far too accepting of dog shit writing and not actually reading what I'm saying lmao. 3)I never said anyone who likes this version is an idiot, I said there's no reason to watch it over the original UNLESS you're an idiot *that sees animation as a lesser medium* . I don't think it's unfair to call somebody an idiot for thinking an entire medium of art is lesser simply for being that medium. I can tell reading comprehension isn't your forte, so I'll spell it out plainly like Netflix would: *you* are *acting* like an idiot right now by either speed reading my comment or deliberately ignoring pieces of the context. 4) "You might as well have just said the story is the most important part of the story" I don't know if you realize this or not, but "writing" is not the only part of crafting a story. Especially not when you're in a medium like film or animation. You went to film school, you should understand this better than I do. I'm surprised somebody with a background in film has no issue with the cinematography of this - I don't know much about film, and even I can tell it's amateurish. 5) I never said all exposition is bad, there is a natural and organic way to deal with exposition, the original Avatar does it quite well. An easy way of writing exposition you see used a lot across fiction is by having characters that are ignorant of the larger world, so it works that they'd naturally ask questions which can serve to fill in exposition to the audience. TOO much exposition when handled POORLY is an issue and NATLA has that in spades. 6) "Failed is what the movie did" I'm not here to argue about the semantics of how you PERSONALLY define failure and success. Obviously we have different definitions of this term. Suffice to say that, to me, this shit is no better than the disaster movie that M Night put out, and in someways it's worse. Katara feels more like Katara in M Night's version, and that's a fucking tragedy.
I think because of how bad the CGI and the effects in m night's version were, they really wanted to get them right this time and that's why they put so much effort into just that. Honestly if they had done the opposite and had nailed the writing at the cost of the visuals it would still have been a much better adaptation. Honestly it's amazing how well thought out the writing and structural design of the show that literally taking out a single scene removes an insane amount of character development and can affect the show in so many ways. Like even the episodes that can be considered filler add something important to the overall narrative and allows us an even deeper understanding of the characters/messages the show wanted to convey. The Ember Island Players was technically a recap episode for most of its duration, but it still manages to develop Aang and Katara's relationship and demonstrates to everybody including us watching, the gravity of the upcoming fight and how important it is for him to beat Ozai. One thing i'll say though, Dallas James Liu sounds pretty similar to Dante Bosco at some points i'm kinda here for it.
You know that if they had nailed the writing at the cost of the visuals everyone would be bitching about it even more So no I’m happy they made it visually almost perfect because the writing isn’t as bad as people want you to believe
aang able to fly maybe is possible in the first part (haven't watched the live action) cuz they said that air benders can fly back then but in exchange of their worldly attachment, they must rid of it and detach to anything that connects to them on the earth but even in the cartoon series, the air nomads in aang's back story can't fly since they form bonds and families over the years
Having watched the LAA in German was advantageous then. They got most of the original voice cast back on set, so the delivery was spot on. I enjoyed this adaptation actually.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about how season 2 episodes are in season 1 and yet they could use those episodes to fit in other important parts from the original season 1 cause they only had 8 episodes. Plus also surprised you didn't mention Aang and Kara's relationship not being there at all as the original used the cave episode to establish more of a romantic bond between them
You take the words out of my mouth. Couldn't have articulated what is wrong with this awful series better than you just did. If people ask me why I dislike the series, I'll just send them a link of this video.
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i love how netflix still does not understand the basic rule of show dont tell
Right!!! The show was basically an audiobook!
You idiots don't understand that basic rule.
The very idea of the first episode being written by the original creators (Konietzko and Di Martino), and that the first scene is just explanatory dialogue from Sozin to a random earthbender, only to flame shot him afterwards, make me think: "Dude who thought this was a good scene?". And I think that the showrunners later thought: "Hey let's make all episodes have the characters explaining stuff, just like the original writers stated in the first episode".
It's like the James Bond type cliché, where the bad guy keeps explaining the protagonist for like 5 minutes what's exactly his plan, only to be later stomped by the main character.
But in this case, the other way around.
But what I mean, is: That dialogue just doesn't work for explaining the scene and setting the plot.
However, I did like that we see what Sozin did on camera.
@@mrterry1756 and to add insult to injury, the acting is horrendous. like watching a school play
@@jayrockhammer
you're right
Even Dora the Exploradora has better dialogues and plot twists than more than half of the episodes of this live action.
15:22 Aang: Everyone I know is dead. :(
Katara: That's rough, buddy.
It is just small inconvience for him now as well. Cuz now he can meditate like 5-10 mins and can talk to his best friend and mentor, the good part is now he can do whatever he wants to. Also even after Aang dies, he will go to spirit world and be with Gyatso forever LOL.
When the movie has a better build up to Gyazo’s body
Literally not how it happened, I swear you idiots didn't watch the show.
The thing that pisses me off with their “tell, don’t show” approach is that it feels like a bunch of suits going “those dumbass Gen Z and alpha kids don’t have the attention span to watch a proper show, just tell them all the ‘complicated’ bits and how the characters feel about it. Dont make them use their brains, they’ll panic and go to tiktok instead!”
Like they legit think yall are too dumb to properly entertain
Possibly. Though, I think it’s more like they don’t know how to write a good story even when the story is already written for them. That was the impression I got from the Netflix series.
A character from this live action will jump out of the mist of the lost souls and start asking:
Why?
And you'll have no other choice but to keep explaining.
It feels more like hubris. The guys in suits unironically think this is better because "animation is for kids and this is for adults. I took away the childishness and made it better."
Worse, Gen-Z (1997-2012) was the *primary target audience* of the original 2005 NICKELODEON show. I'm a Gen-X aunt to two Gen-Z boys who are young adults.
No, I think this is just for the writers themselves. They aren't too bright.
You aren't allowed character flaws or story arcs in fiction any more, in fact you can't even have them in real life. All characters must be oven-ready good guys, even the bad guys, and learn absolutely nothing over the course of their journeys so that everyone is included and no one is offended.
Man alive everything these writers touch just sucks.
And yet there are hundreds of original writers struggling to get their stuff noticed amongst the tripe. It's just so sad, honestly.
the weird thing to me is that they removed the flaws the characters ultimately grew out of, not only lessening the impact of the character arcs but seemingly axing a strong example of people getting over 'problematic' behavior.... which, uh, that seems like completely contradictory...
like, this doesn't seem to be a case of 'wokeness', and more of fear of the brainlets on the internet who don't have the patience/attention span for an actual story to be told. But they still wanted to keep the payoffs to the arcs they basically killed any point to for fear of offending the existing fans. Leaving a series which, while not terrible, has little to no actual point anymore because the basic equation of setup and payoff is broken by what amounts to spineless writing.
So much of this show has been weirdly dumbed down, yet they keep pushing it as more 'adult'.... because they'll show dead bodies? A major catalyst of the original show's plot was the fire nation feeling emboldened because Aang disappeared, because he wasn't mature enough to handle being the Avatar, making him at least partially responsible for everything that went down. Which is a pretty adult thing to deal with, and the original 'kids' show forced the main character to come to terms with it.... but in the 'adult' version he merely stepped out at just the right moment to 'clear his head' and survived by good luck because the fire nation was attacking anyway and then bad luck sees him disappearing. That's, well, kind of a really dumb change for no reason. But it's emblematic of a lot of strange choices this show made that kills so much dramatic weight. Then they try and contrive some reason to bring the same end point anyway, leaving you scratching your head as to why.
The writing on this show is bad, but it's bad in such bizarre ways. Which is a shame, because some of the actors are actually quite well cast and the production value is decent enough.
You must mean "Person alive.. " You bigot!
Jokes aside, I agree. I was watching Party of Five this morning. What a show. There isn't anything like it today.
@@petriew2018 but these internet brainlets doesnt even exist.. at least not in a large enough amount for it to matter. People dont stop watching a show because a character is flawed, they stop watching when those flaws arent being adressed properly by the writers. The main character in breaking bad is literally a villain and its one of the most beloved shows in tv history. I swear studios are terrefied of a boogie man that they’ve created themselves.
@@JesterEx Breathing Persons!!!! Be more PC 😂😂😂😂
Serena William voiced 2 characters in the Avatar universe Ming, a Fire Nation prison guard who was good to Iroh when he was in prison, and a fire sage in Legend of Korra
Oh my god now I'm an avid Serena fan. Been indifferent on her for 20 years 😂
really?
7:08 There actually is a very small amount of relevance. In Avatar Serena Williams actually voiced a minor character in the series, specifically the Female Fire Nation Prison Guard that was nice to Iroh during the time he was imprisoned.
So yeah, there actually is a very small connection, but only reason I know about it is cause I looked it up in the wiki.
She was a huge fan of the original series and that’s how she got the part. It’s just celebrity clout, but still awful marketing.
She voiced Ming? Really??? That's awesome! She actually did a pretty good job.
Short version: "they told and didn't show."
The part where Aang merged with Ocean spirit didn't need the over explanation from Princess Yue that Aang's spirit was lost and blah blah blah i preferred in the animated that no One talked and just bowed to the Ocean spirit with Aang inside. That was enough🆗
lol
Wait, Sokka's girlfriend turns into a large celestial body? That's rough, buddy.
Answer is simple, they tried to take something that was already perfect and adapt it into an inferior format.
The format isn't inferior, it's the people making the show
@@johndodo2062 Yeah it is inferior. Animation can make characters as expressive as they want, make the world look as insane or crazy as it wants, there's basically no limit.
Live action is limited by the actors, the sets, locations etc. One is limitless the other is limited.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 It also has the advantage of realism tho
@@ShiawaseNoIro Dude, it's a show about people throwing the elements with Kung Fu where the main character can call upon the memories of hundreds of people who've since died.
Realism isn't needed.
@@ShiawaseNoIro Realism isn't always a good thing.
As a hater of all live action adaptions, ATLA was watchable but fairly shit while One Piece was relatively tolerable/often enjoyable to me (which means it must be downright standout).
The difference was that with the inevitable departures from the source material, the One Piece writers seemed to be actual fans of the IP and seriously considered how they could effectively adapt the story to LA. When they made a change, it served a legitimate purpose to the more compact narrative and faster pacing without shitting on the themes of original, such as introducing Arlong earlier or incorporating Coby into more East Blue arcs so he can parallel Luffy/have Garp show up more.
ATLA LA writers completely fuck this up out of arrogance/irreverence, ruining characters and undermining the core point of several storylines.
The Japanese do that since a long time and man are the most live action version of the animes cringe.
That's why I completely agree with you.
Can’t be as bad as Cowboy Bebop LA
many people forgot this about netflix one piece, Oda literally told them to reshoot or rewrite scenes because they bad or miss the point from the original source material even then certain scenes were heavily dumb down or cheaply made because budget issues or they couldn't capture that over the top style of the story. Netflix just has this corporate style when adapting adaptations
“..that Aang somewhat resembles a tennis ball.”
Flameo, sir. Flameo.
I think you mean "Flameo, hotman. Flameo."
The only good thing that came out of this adaptation is that it made me want to watch the original again, which I did. So... thanks Netflix, I guess.
Do you... think this was the plan all along? Don't wanna get conspiritorial, but the original has been advertised to me more after the LA one came out than it has in years
After I binged the live action I rewatched season 1 of the cartoon. And man had I already fun again.
That I wholeheartedly agree, I've rewatched Book One, and I loved every minute of it. It makes me nostalgic of the early 2000s. There aren't many animated shows like this nowadays.
same
I'm watching the animated show for the first time because it was coming out. I heard all the controversy about this version, and how good the original was, so I decided to give it a try. Am really enjoying it so far.
They likely used Serena Williams for that commercial because she played one of the fire nation guards when Iroh was in prison in season 3, a bit before the day of black sun.
Aangs eyebrows gives this actor a good chance at playing Rock Lee if Naruto ever gets a LAA.
Naurto is a getting a live action reputation they just hired a director already.
@elijahbannis6474 Oh boy! I was just kidding, but Naruto, being one of three anime I credit for getting me into anime, I'll have to watch it.
@@JesterEx may God have mercy on your soul
Lmao it is getting a LAA.
May our lord and savior Jebus Kwist deliver us from evil, because that's what these live action adaptations are lmao: pure evil.
So.... basically about as much chance as anyone then? His eyebrows were pretty normal. lol
"Dragonball Evolution": "Am I not a joke to you!?"
The funny thing is, that I actually went to a THEATRE to see dragon ball Z movie and ATLAB... Yep...
@@ScienceDiscoverer On a scale of 1 to 10, how disapointed would you say you left the cinema?
@@ScienceDiscovererATLAB? Avatar The Last Airbender Bender?
My mother always said, "I don't care what they tell you in school, but there is no war in Ba Sing Se!"
The amount of time, effort, money, man-power, sausages, whatever that went into not only making M. Night's version and the Netflix version could have been used to make a 4K widescreen re-master of the original series which i'm sure every Avatar fan would have prefered.
They were so focused on the big things that they forgot to strengthen the core. Making a show this massive is very messy and overwhelming (they chose to do it though so I have no sympathy and they should go through with it) but they refused to make sure the script was tight alongside the casting and directing. They just casted directors for the fun of it, they didn’t have the patience to look for director that serves the episode to its best. or a director patient enough to work with the weaker actors and actresses like katara
And I'm sad we didn't that project
That "old lady" by the way is Gran Gran. You know the one Katara is always mentioning in the animated series. But going by her chompers, they must have quite the dental plan in the Southern Water Tribe.
I was ready to give up on the show after episode 1 because it was so painfully average. But told myself to keep going 1) to see the changes made and judge them for myself, and 2) to better watch YT creators that would inevitably go into these differences. After episode 6 however, I realised it was being a chore instead of pleasant leisure time and decided, screw it, I'm watching the YT commenatry vids without finishing NATLA
I got 2 episodes in before I dropped it. The characters are just not the same. I really got my hopes up after OPLA but the original creators leaving were a huge red flag.
@@alienatedslayer I "watched" it while my daughter watched it. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was awful and cringe.
I can't help but think your content needs more recognition. Superb, my man.
Maybe if he went back to releasing more than one video per month - that would possibly help?
@curtismantle You're not wrong, but for me I like that he's genuine. I'd rather have quality meaningful content than just another soulless, negative Nancy, talking head
Why did Netflix hire the Ember Island Players to write, direct and act in the live action Avatar The Last Airbender series ? It makes zero sense because everyone hated that episode in universe except Sokka.
I know these Netflix writers will just make Katara and Zuko end up together but it will be such a hack job in the writing department that I don't think anyone will enjoy or like it
6:39 to be fair to serena she did have a small part in the original avatar as she was the prison guard who was nice to iroh and she is a huge fan of the show.
The end of Ember Island Players says it all
"At least the effects were decent"
They focused SO MUCH on kyoshi, when it was clear it should've been Roku. But we know Netflix will always choose girl boss
To be fair yancheng and kiyoshi are fan favorites so I'm not really surprised they chose to focus on the more beloved avatars
@@simz88That’s a poor excuse. Roku is an important character to the story and acts as a guide and mentor to Aang. Kyoshi has basically nothing to do with the overall story.
@theatricalityanddeception I agree with you, which is why I'm in the camp that wanted kiyoshi to have her own separate movie or show. I'm just looking at it from the Hollywood lense, they tried to do fan service without thinking about how it affects their story. I blame their incompetence
@@simz88 Ah gotcha. Yeah it was definitely a poor attempt at fan service and I just hate how they completely diminished Roku’s roll to try and insert Kyoshi where she didn’t need to be.
Sounds like someone doesn't respect wamen enough. Smdh.
6:38 People have probably already said this, but Serena Williams voiced the character Ming in Book 3 of ATLA. She's the prison guard who brings Iroh tea and food and stuff, and she's the one whom Iroh tells to take the day off during the Day of Black Sun.
I believe Serena also voiced a character in LoK. So that might be why she did that promotional video. But I agree, it doesn't have much to do with the Avatar state. I just thought I'd add some context
I'm glad you mentioned the 4K makeup. I have 4K, and I couldn't figure out how everyone liked the casting and wasn't being driven mad by the cartoonish faces. I couldn't get past Aang's face and facial features and weirdly adult but childish voice. It was like Mia Farrow or Mary Martin playing Peter Pan, an adult woman with makeup pretending to be a young boy. Not so feminine, that's not what kept distracting me, but there's an unnaturalness to it. Almost uncanny valley like.
I was never interested in Avatar but your video made me start to watch the original, so far so good.
You, my friend, are in for the experience of a lifetime.
That tennis with avatar pairing is bizarre, I never saw it before
You are wrong about the ending following the og. Koh is 100% out of place. Live action ruined the amazing part of Katara defending Aangs body while he is in the spirit world trying to get koh to tell him where the ocean spirits are. Zuko beats her, kidnaps Aang, and takes him away. They completely cut all this stuff out. The ending was as terrible as the rest of the show.
The only problem is, Michael and Bryan aren't the masterminds behind why the last airbender is such a masterpiece...
Indeed, though they are undeniably a part of it. People seem to forget that these shows are created by entire teams of people working together, and it all gets swept away and credited to mainly 3 or so guys - Mike, Bryan, and Aaron. We've seen how each of these people's work turns out when they're not put with a proper team - The comics and Korra are filled with tons of writing issues, and while I do think that Aaron is still a decent writer, without a lot of the concepts and world building ideas of the ATLA team behind him, his other projects have been lackluster in comparison. ATLA was lightning in a bottle, the right team of people came together at the right point in each of their lives / careers, with just enough restrictions (network t.v. made for children) to breed some serious creativity and subtlety that is very much lacking in their works where they're given more freedom.
The amount of unnecessary exposition drove me insane. Exposition can be incredibly helpful, but you have to give the viewer the opportunity to figure out what’s going on! The amount of exposition in this show made me feel like I was being talked down to. My favorite was during the siege on the northern water tribe when Sokka and Yue were I think in the oasis as the fire nation was arriving. You see up in the sky a big red hot air balloon with the fire nation insignia on it. The camera stays there for a moment, then we look back to Sokka and Yue (who do not look NEARLY worried enough btw but I’ll blame that on the director, not the actor) and one of them says something like “that’s not supposed to be here.” NO DUH?! We’re in the water tribe. We know that the fire nation army is the bad guys right now and they’re closing in. This is a big dramatic moment where you learn “they’re here, and they’re prepared for battle.” They could’ve just left the camera on Sokka and Yue looking horrified and then cut to the next thing. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY WHAT EVERYONE CAN INFER?!
Tl;dr: unnecessary exposition is the second worst thing they did, after cutting out side quests but narrowly ahead of erasing Sokka’s sexism.
No, don't you get it? That last show was for kids, so we're allowed naunce and subtlety there! This one is for adults, so we have to spell it out for them!
Wait...
I only found this channel by looking for more reviews of this series so imagine my surprise at seeing Astarion (4:14) in a BG3 unrelated video.
23:33 - 23:45
WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA! Whoa! Back up! Was... Was that supposed to be the Cave of Two Lovers episodes!? Why the hell were Katara and Sokka there!? In the original it was Katara and Aang, as it was trying to build up and foreshadow them eventually getting together by the shows end. Why did they change it to have her and her bro- Oh? Oh no- NOOOO! YOU BETTER NOT! NETFLIX! YOU BETTER NOT! Is THAT what the showrunners meant by saying they wanted to "Appeal to Game of Thrones Fans!?"
SWEEEEEEEEET HOME, ALABAMA 🎶
I'm not saying I trust Netflix, but I doubt they were going for incest. Sibling/Familial love exists.
Serena Williams voiced a cameo character in the original series, she's a huge fan. The prison guard that Iroh convinced to "call in sick tomorrow" in season 3 was her character.
I’m honestly not surprised. I said it was going to fail the minute I saw image leaks.
But it didn’t fail….
@@cambelloroxy9420 Financially speaking, neither did the Avatar The Last Airbender 2010 Film.
@@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 I’m not talking financially
@@cambelloroxy9420 You're really going to tell me that people found the live action ATLAB show better than the Animated one?
@@cambelloroxy9420it did fail. It’s only being renewed due to hype from first season which was always obvious because the show has a huge fan base. just like the winx club live action. Luckily they have been renewed for the finale seasons so whether it flops or not. We will see their vision
HE CAN'T FLY HE CAN'T FLY HE JUST CAN'T WITHOUT HIS GLYDER
In all honesty, it feels like they made Yang into a Gary Stu...
@@ArmageddonEvil no they're pulling elements from that stupid Legend of Korra show
So just for a tiny bit of context to the Serena Williams thing… while it made no sense and definitely wasn’t what anyone was looking for, it wsnt COMPLETELY out of nowhere. I saw a video recently on random celebs that did voice work for the show, and she’s one. She did the voice of the prison guard that gave food to Iroh. Apparently she’s a big fan, and must’ve wanted to be a part of it any way she could…
ACTUALLY, Serena was one of the voices from the OG animated show!
There are certain reasons ppl still in love with the OG animation. U just can't delete most of them and try to compensate with flashy CGI, then say "take it as something different". It doesn't work. Fans stay fan for so long for certain reasons. U can't take away those reasons. U can't say accept whatever we are presenting since it has same name/IP.
This has become a disease in current entertainment industry. They lost ability to create their own classics so what they do is vandalize already existing ones in greed of cashing the nostalgia and loyalty of fans, then ignore the same fans while making it. The biggest culprits are the ones who keeps saying "it wasn't that bad", "they are not same" or "don't judge them too early" and defend such mediocre and awful stuff. Fans doesn't show up to see how u can twist their loved franchise, they show up to see the thing they love once more, maybe in a new setup. U can't change characters, story, theme and say "just accept it. U are a fan, no? How can u dislike ur own favorite show since it has same name?". The backlash is pretty strong now as u see in Disney and Marvel. We seen what happened to Snow white. There is still time to understand why such adaptations don't work at all, unless u love backlashes and losses.
If u don't wanna get compared, don't use a classic and try to replicate it. Want own ideals and views to be shown, want ur own version? Write ur own damn story. Don't expect no one will question u after u vandalize their treasure for ur own whims and fancies
The main thing they failed was that depressive Aang he was supposed to be something more like luffy in live action, happy , positive character, then the writing and some of the young characters are just terrible
He got stage 9 depression from all the adults screaming and being pissed-off at a kid.
I find many modern shows treat you like idiots because they're written by idiots.
Serena Williams had a cameo in the original series! She was a huge fan of the show and voiced the guard that was nice to Iroh when he was in prison in season 3
Serena WIlliams was a voice actor in the og avatar for Ming, the prison guard lady who was nice to Iroh right before he hulked out of jail. And she's very well known for being a huge fan of avatar, that's what the tennis thing was about
It’s like people forget Serena Williams was a big fan of the show. She voiced Ming irohs guard. So it makes sense why’d she’d advertise for them.
Still seems random
You do know that Serena voiced a character in the show, right? She was the guard who was nice to Iroh in The Day of Black Sun and he told her to stay home so he didn't have to kick her ass
Serena voice-acted a fire nation guard in the original animated series, who was always sweet to an imprisoned Uncle Iroh. It's not at all weird they would bring her back for an advert.
I wouldn't give Serena that much praise either, she got famous from raging at a ref and getting called out for it.
As far as the one-piece adaptation goes, I say if you're a fan of a bad show, it's easy to be a fan of a decent adaptation of a bad show. One-piece fans are incapable of realizing the suken cost fallacy and seem okay with watching a show forever with no end. Bad designs, bad writing, endless plot holes, stupid characters, all this isn't important to a one-piece fan.
Facts.
With all the girl bossing going around, how did they manage to ruin Azula?! She was one of the best characters in the anime but in the netflix series, Azula's character gets shafted.
I dont mind that Cheif takes of his helmet simply because he is a Master Cheif not THE Master Cheif.
17:25 that's rough, buddy.
The two things that bothered me the most was how rushed the story felt and how you can see it's not cold in either of the polar regions.
Stop remaking things that were already perfect from the start.
Remake fails like Dune instead and people will thank you for doing it.
I as looking forward to this video as soon as I noticed they redid Avatar again.
The great thing about this show is that it made many people rewatch the original series, if not watch it for the first time.
I think the main 2 culprits are:
1) Hollywood's inability to employ subtlety in writing. The show is SO GOD DAMN EXPOSITORY. It literally pre chews everything and spoon feeds you shit you should be able to figure out on your own like youre a helpless baby bird.
There are so many scenes where exposition is repeated for the 3rd or 4th time and its wild. So many parts of the show feel like the characters are speaking directly to the audience while they just so happen to be looking at their scene partners and not directly into the camera. It doesnt feel like they're actually talking to each other.
2) The other problem is capitalism demands that art be profitable, and so people over engineer it for mass appeal and end up losing all the soul, spark and artistic merit that makes the original what it is. When you're forced by capitalism to make a product that's profitable, with mass appeal, youre not really making art anymore... There are so many important themes in the show, and NATLA basically just waters everything down to such a degree that it feels like "whats the point? Like why bother even making this if the result is gonna be inferior?"
A better choice would have been to tell another story set in this world instead of telling Aangs story.
Also 2 other complaints are the costumes and color grading look so insanely clean and brand new and saccharinely vibrant, that it makes the show look artificial.
And the acting is kinda rough in some parts. I think the actors do the best with what theyre given, but Aang, Katara, Azula and Zhao (ESPECIALLY ZHAO OMFG) are honestly pretty bad in these roles a lot of the time. Ive seen Zhao in other shows. He was great in the matrix, hes fantastic in Industry, but hes absolutely atrocious in NATLA.
I originally rated the show a 6/10, but the more I thought about it, I eventually settled on 4.5/10.
You realize that the original series was also made under capitalism, right?
The movie also had an issue of too much explanation.
Hands down the best review of the Netflix live action I have watched so far. And I have watched a lot. Touches on some key points that a lot of others have missed. Great job, and I hope your channel explodes with popularity and viewership!
"Worst live adaption"... Dragonball evolution has entered the chat mate. Can't go worse than that
They need to age them up in live action, 20's would be fine It just doesn't work live action with kids.
people calling the cartoon series for children haven't seen the adults who cried from leaves from the vine
The thing about the 4K I don’t think is at all nitpicking, I haven’t watched the Netflix show cause why would I give my time to that. But they look TERRIBLE just because you can clearly see everyone’s wigs and makeup.
Appa is essentially the school bus, the main cast have as much connection/friendship as kids who ride the same bus. All character building is removed, Cue up Leaves From the Vine, during Iroh scenes... Emotional exploitation!
They removed all character dev for flashy CGI battles when WAR isnt the emotional driving force. Then climax: Pretend kill Momo because there is no emotional climax in the final episode.
Talk about Clueless, This mockery of a show has ZERO heart because they skipped over character development. Thats what made the original good was the side arcs that forced characters to grow. SHOW ME THE FRIENDSHIP BEING ESTABLISHED, esp if thats the emotional Drive of ALL characters!
Serena Williams was in the last season of the avatar last Airbender and was the guard talking to uncle Ira
It took the whole 8 episodes to him to accept the fact that he is the avatar which is crazy! And no water bending training
Avatar was simple. WHY do we need to add more?
i love how i agree with every single sentence that you said. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
M. Night Shyamalamadingdong needs to try adding some twists to his storytelling or something.
Ozai is Aang from the future who returns to the past to stop himself from saving the world.
The twist was that he turned one of the best story into the worst adaption known to man.
@@HadesFist That is a talent in it's own right honestly. A terrible, terrible talent, but a talent none the less.
@@JesterEx That reminds me of the Scott Pilgrim BS.
@@TheNuclearGeek I'm not familiar with Scott Pilgrim outside of the movie. Does something similar happen?
No wonder the original creators left the project
U can't fix what isn't broken. Primary rule. Every adaptation thinks they can make a classic even better by their own ideologies and agendas. We know what is the result of that, besides One Piece. Katara character is again victim of woke brigade, similarly Aang and Sokka too. Whole thing feels like the adaptation of Fire Nation play from animation instead of the actual one. Uninspired acting, no real chemistry, extreme lack of humor, very wooden expressions. Most impressive was Zhao and Zuko a bit. Azula and Katara are the worst. Aang is basically reading fortune cookies in front of camera in every scene. Most actors felt like reading script, not being the character. Only characters felt organic was Zhao and bit of Zuko by end. Felt natural
Here Aang keeps talking like he is reading fortune cookies. They forgot to make him organic which Luffy was. A naturally loving character with depth when required. Here, not sure why, they portrayed a kid who acts like a 100 yr old. This show is so dry besides action sequences as if having the comedy would give them allergies. Everything feels so artificial. I wish they worked even half as honestly and sincerely on characterization, dialogues and acting as much they worked on CGI. Most characters feel so disconnected and just acting
Doesn't matter how good u do in CGI, this show feels like missing the soul and chemistry. Lots of dialogues are just narrated, not felt. Acting is not as expected at all. Changes in characters is such a bad habit. Why do u ruin a iconic character by extra creative? I will blame direction and storytelling for this than actors. Now I know why Avatar team didn't stay with them till end. The first earth bender and lord Sozin did more acting in barely 5 mins or so than all of them together in rest of the episode. That says a lot.
How u handle woman empowerment matters. Also there is a difference between being woke and being a strong woman with character. They didn't even show master Paku being her grandma's fiance since that would lessen the impact of cruel patriarchy and victimhood. They needed another woman to show Paku how small minded he is. Katara was never called a master by anyone but Aang. Here she is master already. Even she trained with Paku too before teaching Aang. Here she doesn't require it, neither Aang. As usual flawless woman character. That is the biggest flaw. Didn't even show her stealing the scroll since that would ruin the perfect image. Stopped Zuko's massive attack in first ep itself while just learning bending few moments back. So many are there only if u notice it.
If u only felt something is off about this Katara before, then these are the reason. The usual habit of using woman characters to propagate an agenda
...I couldn't finish this one. I need a nap.
Better effects for abilities than the last movie, in which they took 20 seconds to dance their way to a fireball.
And the acting was ATROCIOUS.
The biggest proper actual SUPER important flaw with that movie, is the dialogue was basically all exposition and there was no time given to the characters.
Does that sound familiar?
Serena Williams is a HUGEEEEE AtLA fan, that's why :)
That's just sad, really. I'm not an Atla expert but the casting looked really good to me. Hearing now how the netflix show basically screws important plot points from the original and makes certain characters - for example katara - a shallow, inferior version of what the character was before... Damn. I used to think I should watch stuff before i judge, but then again when fans say it's not that great why should I waste time finding out the same thing? Didn't watch Rings of Power and don't see any reason why I should - but i sure saw a lot reviews etc. painting a very clear picture - though i suppose netflix atla can't be THAT bad right?!
What a like about your takes is they’re accurate and sharp but not bitter and angry :) A real pleasure and good laugh!
6:28 WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!? Man that got me confused.
8:33 that brings up my question um... Can all of them fly? Or is it just a select few? If yes then they could have flown away after the fire nation attacked. If no then why didn't they get on their gliders and flying bison and dipped?
1. She's an athlete who's a big fan of the original show and got to voice a character in ATLA and ATLOK.
2. It does look too much like flying but they were going for gliding. They can't really 'fly' without gliders and sky bisons. Also, the Fire Nation surprise-attacked them. Firebenders can also 'fly' and Sozin's Comet was increasing their power.
I’ve only watched 20 minutes of OP LA and the remake of avatar, and decided they are not for me rather for the people who won’t touch animation with a 10 foot pole.
Serena voices Ming one of Iroh’s prison guards. That’s it. Bro that avatar state promo was cringe.
They even removed the fortune teller episode and the big elephant koi from kiyoshi island and Avatar can use his former reincarnates as ben 10 aliens 😂
With how much needless exposition was used in the 2010 film, I'm surprised how much they still relied on it in this series.
While M-Night Shamamalama is at fault, it isn't entirely his fault, he just became the scape goat for everyone else involved, lol.
Somehow the Netflix version was more "sexist" than the original. 😂😂 Suki was extremely hot and bothered over Sokka immediately. And Katara was super docile and submissive to every character. She had no agency... 😂😂😅😅
Actually, your point doesnt stand.
When it comes to adaptations Netflix has one of the most uneaven records in history.
One Piece wasnt even the first good Anime adaptations.
A few years back they did an adaptation on *Devilman* and despite deciding to make their own thing of it and Drastically changed the animation, they stayed true to the source material and the show was fakking fantastic, its actually probably better than the original.
Ofc, I prefer the original as I grew up on it but Im pretty sure im heavily biased for that exact reason.
The Netflix verion is a real work of art, objectively speaking, I cant deny that and the very small diversions they did from the original made perfect sense and was actually good creative decisions.
I highlly recommend it,
Then there is Castlevania which was fantastic.
I heard they completely fakked it over in season 4 but I only watched season 1 ad 2 then I lost my Netflix access and it just fell through the cracks but the two first season were brilliant.
The DotA series wasnt fantastic or anything but it was deecnt enough, it coulve been alot better but It wasnt unwatchable cringe like most stuff these days.
There was one more... why cant I remember >_<
Anyway, then there is of course One Piece which was phenomenal.
But even One Peice doesnt come close to the crown jewel of adaptations, fakking *_ARCANE_* dude.
Jesus fakking Christ, thats show is so unbelievably good.
Im still comparing things but I think it may be the best TV show Ive ever seen.
Its really hard to compare cross genre with things like Breaking Bad, Gods of the Arena and Sons of Anarchy.
So what I did was rewatch them all and simply tallied up the plot holes and mistakes.
Arcane came out on top. HOWEVER, I still havent annouced it the winner as the other shows had _very_ few flaws and _way_ more epidosed/seasons so....
I dont think it would be fair unless Arcane has more under its belt.
It it gets another season or two and theyre equally perfect as the first season, there is no arguing anymore.
But I digress.
My point here is that Netflix seemingly only have two gearss, "The worst thing in the known universe" or "Absolute fakking masterpiece, how the fakk did you do _that?"_ cuz in the other end we have the cinematic equivalent of AIDS, Cancer and Antheax mixed togeather, stuff like DBZ and the absolute *abomination* that is Netflix Death Note.
Hey thanks for the great video as usual! Are you planning on making a video on the new Percy Jackson series? I cant believe the books got murdered a second time like that. As if the movies didnt put them in the grave already
I 100% agree with you about the 4k thing. Take a look at Star wars a new hope, its not 4k and its blurry but at the same time it worked better and in favour for the movie itself.
This is one of the things i've noticed in recent films, it looks too clear or detailed
Did they fail? They made mistakes. I don't think they quite failed. The show still leans towards good far more than bad.
If you have zero standards, sure? They utterly butchered every single relevant character, and that's not even getting into the terribly written dialog. There is zero reason to watch this over the original unless you're an idiot that sees animation as a lesser medium, or you're EXTREMELY young and have no capacity to understand subtext, so you need the characters to turn at the camera and exposition dump every piece of the story. From a writing perspective, it's a complete and utter disaster, and the writing is THE singular most important part - it's why ATLA is a timeless classic.
@@DarkAuraLord I mean I don’t have zero standards. I write my own stories. I listen to plenty of channels talking about different aspects of writing. I went to film school. And I hold the original ATLA to such a high regard for a reason.
Someone having a different opinion than you can’t be only because they’re inferior to you. So the insult and dismissiveness you’re offering, to me, makes an impactful introduction to how I should perceive your mindset regarding everything else you have to say. Which doesn’t even matter because the things you have to say are they “butchered” “every single” character, that anyone who likes this version more is an “idiot”, followed by an assumption about why the person would like it more, these 2 things put together to make up out of thin air point that someone prefers it over the original in the first place AND the accused reason for it (disregarding that maybe this is simply the version they saw or stumbled upon, period), and then try to cap it off with saying that there’s even a singular most important part of ATLA being the classic it is. You might as well have just said “the story is the most important part of the story”. Otherwise you’re doing a huge disservice to every other amazing aspect of the original show without which the show would not be as great as it is. The show, like all great things, is merely the sum of its parts.
This adaptation isn’t without flaws. But “failed” is what the movie did. The show “stumbled”. The dialogue in the show is exposition heavy. But it’s not like this entirely, and not every example of it was bad. Exposition =/= bad inherently. It’s just how and when it’s used. You want to see REALLY bad exposition then, again, look at the movie. This show has examples of “show don’t tell” as well such as Zuko seeing Appa fly by and choosing not to say anything about it to his uncle so he can take care of him. (Also it’s the same story regardless, just a different tactic to get the info to the audio and one just tends to engage the audience more).
Idk. You might be a writing expert for all I know. But that doesn’t make your attitude right. It would be one thing if you just left a comment expressing your dislike for the show. But it’s another that you not only have to insult people who aren’t as bitter, but you have to reply to my comment, about why I wasn’t as upset, and then insult me for it too and imply I’m wrong about my own opinions.
@@Axxidous 1) I never said you were inferior, I exaggerated about your standards for the quality of writing you're willing to accept. Your STANDARDS are inferior (imo, obviously). That can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it and what you value in your life. Being critical of things isn't always good.
2) if we're talking what we can glean about one another from each other's comments, you can think I'm a dismissive asshole all you want, I don't mind, my comment is indicative of that the same way your comment is indicative of you being far too accepting of dog shit writing and not actually reading what I'm saying lmao.
3)I never said anyone who likes this version is an idiot, I said there's no reason to watch it over the original UNLESS you're an idiot *that sees animation as a lesser medium* . I don't think it's unfair to call somebody an idiot for thinking an entire medium of art is lesser simply for being that medium. I can tell reading comprehension isn't your forte, so I'll spell it out plainly like Netflix would: *you* are *acting* like an idiot right now by either speed reading my comment or deliberately ignoring pieces of the context.
4) "You might as well have just said the story is the most important part of the story"
I don't know if you realize this or not, but "writing" is not the only part of crafting a story. Especially not when you're in a medium like film or animation. You went to film school, you should understand this better than I do. I'm surprised somebody with a background in film has no issue with the cinematography of this - I don't know much about film, and even I can tell it's amateurish.
5) I never said all exposition is bad, there is a natural and organic way to deal with exposition, the original Avatar does it quite well. An easy way of writing exposition you see used a lot across fiction is by having characters that are ignorant of the larger world, so it works that they'd naturally ask questions which can serve to fill in exposition to the audience. TOO much exposition when handled POORLY is an issue and NATLA has that in spades.
6) "Failed is what the movie did" I'm not here to argue about the semantics of how you PERSONALLY define failure and success. Obviously we have different definitions of this term. Suffice to say that, to me, this shit is no better than the disaster movie that M Night put out, and in someways it's worse. Katara feels more like Katara in M Night's version, and that's a fucking tragedy.
I think because of how bad the CGI and the effects in m night's version were, they really wanted to get them right this time and that's why they put so much effort into just that. Honestly if they had done the opposite and had nailed the writing at the cost of the visuals it would still have been a much better adaptation. Honestly it's amazing how well thought out the writing and structural design of the show that literally taking out a single scene removes an insane amount of character development and can affect the show in so many ways. Like even the episodes that can be considered filler add something important to the overall narrative and allows us an even deeper understanding of the characters/messages the show wanted to convey. The Ember Island Players was technically a recap episode for most of its duration, but it still manages to develop Aang and Katara's relationship and demonstrates to everybody including us watching, the gravity of the upcoming fight and how important it is for him to beat Ozai. One thing i'll say though, Dallas James Liu sounds pretty similar to Dante Bosco at some points i'm kinda here for it.
You know that if they had nailed the writing at the cost of the visuals everyone would be bitching about it even more
So no I’m happy they made it visually almost perfect because the writing isn’t as bad as people want you to believe
4:40 is me dealing with people telling me I'm wrong for not liking the new dune movies cause they're not lore accurate
So happy I was able to catch this video, absolutely love your content my guy 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sick new intro dude! Great video as always.
aang able to fly maybe is possible in the first part (haven't watched the live action) cuz they said that air benders can fly back then but in exchange of their worldly attachment, they must rid of it and detach to anything that connects to them on the earth but even in the cartoon series, the air nomads in aang's back story can't fly since they form bonds and families over the years
I mean characters do explain what they are doing in anime a lot of the time
lol
Having watched the LAA in German was advantageous then. They got most of the original voice cast back on set, so the delivery was spot on. I enjoyed this adaptation actually.
But isn't the dialogue still bad or did they change it?
@@BananaGuy0 I'll have to rewatch it in english to be certain, but it felt okay.
@@BananaGuy0the dialogue isn’t bad at all
I also watched it in German and I really liked this adaptation
that is a very based jonny law intro
Aang: my family is gone
katara: my mother is also gone
Oh wow I loved the intro! If it's the debut this is a perfect episode to do it in as well.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about how season 2 episodes are in season 1 and yet they could use those episodes to fit in other important parts from the original season 1 cause they only had 8 episodes. Plus also surprised you didn't mention Aang and Kara's relationship not being there at all as the original used the cave episode to establish more of a romantic bond between them
You take the words out of my mouth. Couldn't have articulated what is wrong with this awful series better than you just did. If people ask me why I dislike the series, I'll just send them a link of this video.