Why you can't adapt avatar the last airbender

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I love that Bumi was just so happy to see Aang again 100 years later in the original show. He didn’t resent his friend for leaving, Bumi probably feared Aang died with the other Airbenders.

the cartoon made little kids feel like adults, the live-action makes adults feel like little kids

so many studios think "you know what would make this magical world of color and beauty better? Realism."

One thing you didn't mention that literally made my jaw drop when I was watching the Netflix show was that Aang just says he wants to go on a little flight to clear his head, vs the original where Aang is so afraid of being the Avatar that he decides to run away. It may seem trivial, but it's a MASSIVE change to his inner turmoil. Not to mention that effing spirit world Gyatso literally absolves him of all guilt later in the show. Smh

the worst part, Aang never learned how to water bend or bend water, and Zuko NOT saying Honor at least once.

The irony of trying to make a more "mature" version of the story while treating the audience like dumb kids

Showing the deaths didn’t impact or add any depth to franchise at all, it just screams "we showed the nomads getting burned to death look how more edgy and mature we are"

The fact they just fucking tell Aang that the air nomads were killed off is criminal. Seeing it at the southern air temple in the original is devastating, both for Aang and the audience. The line “I really am the last air bender” holds so much weight to it.

I'm honestly sick to death of ATLA being adapted into live action. Y'all failed TWICE, give it up! Just let the animated series be as it is.

Netflix forgot that Aang is an Airbending Master. thats why he got his tattoos.

I don't really get why some writers think that having every character being cynical and depressed is a way to be more "mature" and "real". When in reality, it only serves to make everything so drained of life to the point where it becomes "I'm 14 and this is deep" territory.

I’m willing to take a “remaster” at this point. Upscaling the cartoon to 4k is all I ask. They’ll just ruin this franchise in other forms of adaptation

To make the "Southern Air Temple" adaptation worse, what Katara does say to Aang after he exits the Avatar State is some generic tripe about how trauma happens to make you strong. It's so absolutely insulting to Katara's character, she would never say that. That sounds like something Jet might say to Katara, maybe she'd even momentarily believe it hearing it from him, but it's not something that Katara would think and worse SAY TO AANG IN HIS MOMENT OF VULNERABILITY. "It's okay that everyone you love is dead because you're so STRONG now." It's awful.

It sure didn't need modernizing, but if it never needed a live action adaptation in the first place, I'm not going to bother. Not only is the mindset of "live action is more mature and less childish" insufferable, they literally spoon feed everything to the audience and explaining how they should feel.

Imo Avatar can be properly adapted, the problem is that the people working on these adaptations don’t care enough, lack imagination, or don’t understand what made the original series so great.

Why tf did they send sokka and katara into the cave of the TWO LOVERS weird shit man

"they had to cut plot points to save time!" like no dude they didn't HAVE TO do any of this shit, they could have stayed home

Its crazy how they included Ty Lee and she doesn't do a single flip.

You know the best thing about LA Avatar? Everyone and their mom stepping up to highlight how great the OG is and making videos about it. Keep that sweet juicy Avatar content coming, baby 😂