Honestly it was enjoyable but to me completely misses the point of book 1’s journey.
Did Aang learn waterbending? No. Did Katara try to/struggle with teaching him while she was learning herself? No. Was Katara the strong female lead she was in the show? Basically the heart of the show? No.
Also I find the acting subpar. The more cold-ish faces clashing with experienced actors that embrace the goofiness is meh…
It’s not perfect but I enjoyed it.
If only it was a bit more fun. Sokka was basically the only semblance of comic relief and even then…
All the humor being gone is such a crime. Half of Aang’s personality is his love of fun.
Yeah, I agree. Some of the acting didn’t feel grounded in the scene, kind of like they were performing on stage and some of the lines could have been better. On the other hand the bending related cgi was well done as well as the environment. Overall I really did enjoy it and look forward to seeing the next 2 seasons.
While it has it’s own merits the live action doesn’t hold a candle to the original.
I don’t know how they managed to have less show in more screen time
The Netflix show has a runtime of 430 minutes. The original is 477 minutes. So it’s actually less.
This here is what bugs me so much about the adaptation, I’ve seen so many people defend the show “because they had to cover a lot of ground in such a short amount of time” the runtimes are so incredibly close it’s absurd how much Netflix botched it in favour of nothing.
Supposedly they argue it’s because they wanted to make Book 1 more exciting and “good like the other Books” which is a disservice to how good Book 1 was back then to make us excited about what comes next.
Obviously the episodic format of the original wouldn’t have translated well into live action and there were some moments that were expected to be cut, like riding the elephant koi or the fortune-teller episode, but the insane mish-mashing of episodes, especially during the Omashu stuff, was ridiculous. For example, between two scenes of Aang and Bumi walking through a hallway, we get Zuko chasing after Iroh’s captors, and the entire secret tunnel section, including the entire backstory of the city, and then it finally cuts back to Aang and Bumi arriving at their destination. All that comes at the cost of giving the audience a rushed and extremely watered-down cliff notes version of the original stories.
I’ve watched it twice now. I quite enjoyed it. Especially since there hasn’t been new content from this universe for quite some time
fuck this show, I am so sick of the constant live action reboot/remake garbage, avatar never needed to be remade or changed
LoK could’ve been given the time and budget it needed for a bit of fixing, but Netflix really loves snorting lines of live action for some reason.
