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Is anyone else rewatching both series right now? Ever since Netflix got ATLA and Nick decided to engage more with the audience via social manager and post HD clips of the series (which is a brilliant move), Avatar has become somewhat relevant. Kind of makes you wonder if they have something in store for the franchise right now and they want the fans to get warmed up for it.
Personally, I want that dream 2D fighting game developed by Arc System Works to get in development already, dammit.
Personally, I want that dream 2D fighting game developed by Arc System Works to get in development already, dammit.
RumblyTumbly
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I've rewatched the original series twice over. Its a fantastic show that deserves all the praise it gets.
Korra...I didn't hate it, but it had big issues (especially in Book 2), but there was enough enjoyable stuff to keep me engaged.
Korra...I didn't hate it, but it had big issues (especially in Book 2), but there was enough enjoyable stuff to keep me engaged.
I'd be lying if I didn't say I enjoyed many parts of Korra and I'd even call it a decent show at the end of the day, but it's definitely inferior to ATLA. Overall cast isn't nearly as strong, Korra herself is fine but she's built around a character growth arc that is clumsily realized, romance is unbearably uninteresting and the resolution to most conflicts ranges from OK to underwhelming (Amon being a spirit world herald sounds much more interesting than just being some OP bloodbender who acts like an asshole, for example). There's also the fact that they needlessly turned Book 2 into this comicbook-style cosmic event arc with stupid high stakes that ends up changing many things about the world. I'm really mixed about that decision and it doesn't help the fact that Book 2 is trash to begin with.
However, most villains are great, the way the world evolved is really interesting in my opinion and the animation is often top-notch. Battles aren't as fun or creative as ATLA, but they're still pretty good to watch. I like characters like Tenzin (whenever he's not being used as a big meme anyway), his brothers and Lin. The adults in this show are better than most of the cast, come to think of it. Score feels different from the original in many ways, but I like it still.
In other words, it's good but I'd rather rewatch a filler episode of Book 1 of the original rather than a vapid relationship subplot episode from Korra.
However, most villains are great, the way the world evolved is really interesting in my opinion and the animation is often top-notch. Battles aren't as fun or creative as ATLA, but they're still pretty good to watch. I like characters like Tenzin (whenever he's not being used as a big meme anyway), his brothers and Lin. The adults in this show are better than most of the cast, come to think of it. Score feels different from the original in many ways, but I like it still.
In other words, it's good but I'd rather rewatch a filler episode of Book 1 of the original rather than a vapid relationship subplot episode from Korra.
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Iroh and Azula were my anchors for A:TLA, with Toph and Zuko being entertaining in their own ways. Everyone else had moments, but they were good moments. Ty Lee and Mai really added to any scene they were in.
As for Korra, it was all right. It may be due for a rewatch, as my memory of it is patchy. But the fact I can recall so little is telling, while with A:TLA there is much less I don't recall.
As for Korra, it was all right. It may be due for a rewatch, as my memory of it is patchy. But the fact I can recall so little is telling, while with A:TLA there is much less I don't recall.
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The annoying thing abou Avatar becoming popular again is that the “Just like Harry Potter“ crowd is latching onto it.
At least some of the villains in AtLA aren't "literally Hitler" like bland boring Voldemort is. Zuko gets a full redemption arc and Azula is complex and sympathetic. Ozai isn't onscreen enough to merit signs at Orange Man protests.
FaramirG
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I feel like that crowd has always been there. Mainly the insufferable Zutara tumblrites who infected the fandom for a while. It got a little worse with Korra but it's the same people who liked the show to begin with. And Bryke especially have always been this way. The political climate has just changed enough that they can really embrace it without getting ridiculed.
While ATLA/LOK seem to be back in vogue, will the white VA apologize for voicing non-white characters? After all, the four nations look to be based on non-white nations/cultures and people were up in arms over the casting choice in the live action adaptation.
Before or after culturally appropriating 1920s Western dieselpunk aesthetics?
I just want to know why the races of the Avatar world are Fantasy!Chinese, Fantasy!Koreans, Fantasy!Eskimos, Fantasy!Tibetans (all of them using Chinese martial arts)...and one loincloth-wearing Indian guru complete with "bobs and vagene" accent.
My tinfoil hat tells me that the people living in the eastern temples were Fantasy!Indians and this guy is a 100+ year old survivor that wasn't born an airbender for some reason
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, but there seems to be two camps of anger. The first camp, who are angry the movie didn't accurately portray the source material, and the sjws who are mad that they turned the heroes white and the baddies brown.
Which is funny, because the Fire Nation pretty much inarguably has the best characters in the series, in terms of meaty roles for actors to dig their thespian teeth into (in fact I half suspect that Indian "representation" was Shyamalan's motive for that change)...
FaramirG
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What happened was that a jewish billionaire heavily invested in the studio wanted his daughter to play the female lead (which would be Katara). It was a domino effect from there that fucked up all the other casting decisions. So now they had to cast a white kid as Sokka. Then the Indian kid they wanted to be part of the movie pretty much had to be Zuko, then the Fire Nation in general had to sort of match him (which is how you get Aasif Mandvi playing Zhao for example).
Which is funny, because the Fire Nation pretty much inarguably has the best characters in the series, in terms of meaty roles for actors to dig their thespian teeth into (in fact I half suspect that Indian "representation" was Shyamalan's motive for that change)...
Don't get me wrong, the movie was a piece of shit regardless, but the weird casting wasn't Shymalan's fault. It was just some rich prick forcing his untalented kid onto a studio, same thing that happens every time you see Cara Delevigne's face on a movie poster.
Who did they want Dev Patel to play? The JoBlo link only mentions that he came onboard as Zuko after Jesse McCartney gave up the role in response to the producers' worries about the cast being too white.
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M. Night got the main characters name wrong. It's his fault that movie was a turd and second only to Eragon on the list of Worst Movies of All Time.
It's funny how Jackson Rathbone was nothing like Sokka on the big screen, but then you watch interviews with him and you realize that he's remarkably like Sokka in real life. He pulls the same goofy expressions, tells the same silly jokes, all that. I think he really could have done a good job as Sokka had Shamalamadingdong been an actually competent director. Same with the kid they had playing Aang.
Goes to show how important a good director is.
Goes to show how important a good director is.
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The Making Of featuring the actors makes me so sad because they ARE these characters irl in terms of personality. I feel bad for them a having shitty lackluster direction.
I wonder what Book 2 would have been like. Given the shitty name pronunciation, I was expecting the complete butchering of "Toaph" and "Ahhzula".
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