It’s being spearheaded by Bryke, they’re set to start production fairly quickly to align with Paramount+’s release, and the comics themselves were originally pitched as a series of TV movie scripts to coincide Korra’s miniseries.
Or Aang breaking his oath of pacifism to make a murder pact with Zuko like 2 days after he made a whole thing about not killing a tyrannical maniac like Ozai, or Zuko going to his dad of all people for advice on peace negotiations in one of the lamest uses of Superdickery ever conceived, or how little Iroh does to help anyone anymore, or Zuko trying to pull rank on Mai so she can’t break up with him over seeing Ozai in secret... only for her to later do the exact same thing by shielding her own dad who‘s trying to plot an assassination attempt against Zuko, or Aang starting what looks like the makings of a sex cult just waiting to happen...
Hopefully it's not just Last Airbender's time period. There's little else to talk about in that part of the history.
E;R is having a heart attack right now.
My prediction is Paramount is going to turn this into their epic fantasy franchise. Disney has Star Wars, Warner has LOTR and Harry Potter and they have the Last Airbender. But considering the track record for "prolonged" fantasy IPs, I don't think it's going to be a fun ride. I wonder if Paramount and Netflix will cancel the live-action remake though, progress has been going at a snail's pace, Netflix is essentially advertising a rival platform, and Paramount is sharing a popular IP with a competitor. I won't be surprised if their deal lapses and nothing comes out of it, it doesn't make sense to maintain an alternate continuity that rivals your official one.
It’s hard to say, really. It would make sense to just smother the live action series with a pillow, but on the other hand the Netflix series just announced the new show runner; considering talk of Paramount doing something like this has been floating around for at least a few months, you’d think now would‘ve been the best time to quietly let the project quietly die rather than announcing new developments, what, two weeks before Avatar Studios was announced?
It's worth its existence just for the riffs that it'll spawn.
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What did these commenters on Deadline mean by this? (Although, it would be nice to live in a future where Nick dedicated their time slots to make more action-adventure cartoons for children.)
I think what the latter two are missing is that, while it only takes one look at how Bryke talk about their characters vs how Ehasz talked about them to know which one was actually facilitating the heavy lifting in the character writing department along with the other writers & directors, the core of the problem isn’t so much who they get but whether or not Bryke will actually give those people the freedom to present their own ideas or if they’re just going to be there to only copy-paste Bryke’s notes into script format like what happened with the comics and a most of Korra. And I have strong suspicions that when Bryke left Netflix to make this studio, their deal probably promised them total creative control precisely to allow them do the latter.View attachment 1950925
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What did these commenters on Deadline mean by this? (Although, it would be nice to live in a future where Nick dedicated their time slots to make more action-adventure cartoons for children.)
Hold the phone-- his primary reasons for liking Katara have to do with her being his very first contact in a foreign world where all his people were wiped from the face of the earth, and being supportive on top of that.
Her interest had to do with the fact that he was the ray of hope she had been hoping for her entire life, having been born into a war that claimed her mother's life, robbed her of her father, and ultimately decimated her society. Aside from that, Aang did plenty of comparatively trifling things for her, on top of doing the whole listening and empathizing/taking action thing you were talking about earlier.
