let me do a little bit of an introduction. Avatar The Last Airbender is at my top of my all time favourite animations as a kid I used to watch a lot on Cartoon Network and in adulthood I have recently binged the entirety of the animated series but recently there has been a very mixed response to a live action version that came to Netflix. I've watched that live action version, I thought it was pretty good, pretty interesting, I think there's some things that they could have done better, some things that were pretty good but today we're going to be watching a video from Hello Future Me titled The New Avatar series is a lot of things, interesting. I think it's been quite highly reviewed, nearly reaching about a thousand million views rather so I'll have a look and see what they have to say about the new episode. I've been watching Quora as well, yeah Quora is a good one although I do prefer the first season of Quora as opposed to the second. Netflix's Avatar is a 10 out of 10 for me, I watched the first episode and it's already giving me 20 10 vibes. On episode 4 and I'm sucked in 5 out of 10 this show is a the new show is everything I could have hoped and more. At worst it makes the 2010 movie feel like a mercy. The people are divided but luckily I am objectively correct and I'm here to tell you what to think. Okay rapid fire let's go, overall it's okay, it's better than the film which shall not be named. Did you guys watch the film version? It was so awful, it was like the worst thing. Am I into the X-Men cut cut scenes? Yeah I mean the Avatar movie that was painful to watch, I just couldn't watch it all but the series is actually pretty good. I think they've adapted quite a lot of the story which I think is a good move because if they were to to like create a live action replay of all of the episodes I think that would be a bit crazy but I don't know like the the casting and like the the bending that you can see I think they did it pretty well to be honest. I mean this is well written 5 to 6 out of 10 net positive deeply flawed. If you're not thinking too hard fun opening episodes, terrible middle episodes, one great episode and enjoyable last couple of episodes. Terrible dialogue and script and exposition all throughout, hilariously bad at times but this is somewhat hidden by the characters being likeable and having chemistry.  When it's good it's focused on the characters not the plot and it mixes the right stories in the right ways, this is why episode 6 is good and when it's bad it's mixing the wrong episodes in the wrong ways, this is why episode 5 is terrible much like one piece it's very honest about what it is it's not afraid to be avatar but unlike one piece I think it puts a lot of emphasis in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's kind of a lukewarm version of the original where it does go to the same story just not quite as well even if it does it with a lot of heart and love it'll still be fun for a lot of people even if it's a little clumsy and that's okay you know we enjoy a lot of stuff which isn't necessarily high quality. I'll do another big breakdown later in more detail but I think it was like for what it was it was good like was it worse than the Netflix adaptation of Death Note? No it can't be as bad as that. I think for what it is like if you view it as like a separate entity to avatar and just like a kind of an alternative reality to kind of mix up it's pretty enjoyable like I am looking forward to like the next season of it coming out um I don't know I I don't know how else they could have done it better if you know I mean I thought it was I thought it was pretty good I enjoyed it so I just got a hello cut Lily how you doing Dragon Ball movie was also horrible oh I hadn't seen that but I can imagine. I want to know what do you think let me know down below we're going to go through the good the bad and the okay all right let's go okay the good the bending looks fantastic it does not look like the fire bending has heft and weight and Ozai feels like the strongest bender out of all of the others his flames hit hard a bigger faster Gordon's airbending is fluid the water bending feels powerful the earth bending is a little more mixed but the opening scene where you get to see it is really fantastic and you can really see the influence of the martial arts and bending they really put a lot of time and effort into that there were also a lot of little moments where they blended the v effects with the actors to make them appear more fluid animated and I think those worked for the most part although one of the best fight scenes in the series actually doesn't have much bending in it at all Zuko comes after Aang and Omashu and they're tangled up in all these clothes and clothes and there's a fun little moment where a woman comes along and bats Zuko for like hitting a child and it feels animated Zuko screams about Aang stealing his diary and comes after him you know which is very season one Zuko he's trying to be mature but he's ultimately a kid that was where they got the vibes right and this is important there are a lot of moments in the series that work moments the Avatar State does feel powerful they pulled that off they talked about changing how the Avatar State worked because that really just means using it less which is good and that Aang can only talk to his past avatars when he's in one of their shrines which is fine we'll just get to see a lot more avatars mostly Kurok and Kyoshi and I think that actually works though I wasn't a fan of how they handled Roku Koi Zilla at the end is much more Zilla than Koi but there's very much that primordial rage that I think they really tapped into and I like that the story is clearly trying to keep the heart of the original show even if it doesn't always land or get to that they basically cut and prisoned the great divide the fortune teller but of the water tribe which are the right episodes to cut if you have to and the only one that you really feel is missing is the deserter where Aang meets Zhong Zhong and he gets his fear of firebending because he hurts Katara sometimes they mix the right stories in the right ways like in episode six they mix the blue spirit with a storm and that actually does work and episode six also happens to be the most loyal to the original series episode six honestly it's a great episode they move around some other core beats like Katara bringing Aang out of the Avatar State like we see in the southern air temple is moved towards the end when she sort of brings them out of the Koi Zilla face reminding me of sprains and loved ones and that's sort of this person making a lot of I'm kind of struggling to like find a place because they're kind of jumping about lots of different topics and struggling to find a place to like interrupt and talk Hollywood movies are pissing me off for the past few last years yeah I'm so excited and terrified for the arrival of Toph next series season she's my favorite and needs to be handled well my favorite as well actually I wouldn't say it's Thomas saying bender a few times Thomas don't disappoint me what type of bender would you be autistic cup of germ I'd definitely be an earth bender things okay whereas in the southern air temple Aang brings himself out of the avatar state with the Gyatso self which is the sort of thing I could imagine them doing in the original series that sort of reshuffling is okay I wrote coming with Zuko and saying everything he needs is right there on that boat that's a beautiful expansion what we already know the scene with Zuko returns to the ship after I wrote is like I think there's a big fandom for I wrote the the old the old dude he's like um I think I saw I saw like a youtube sort of documentary series or like video essay on like um like maybe sort of counteract in this that that video that we watched earlier from Hansa like i wrote being like the sort of positive sort of masculine influence I think that was pretty cool I said the Japanese for five years wow my second childhood crush was predator probably a water or air bender here I wonder if they have an online survey to find out probably never seen this avatar how many benders are there there's air water earth and fire but like between them there's like little there's like mixed ones so like air like earth benders can be like sand benders and metal benders um think air benders can be like I can't remember what exactly they were there's like mix mixings of like the the different elements and stuff which is pretty cool it's like um I think with water bending there's like the water benders with uh blood benders which is like a ancient kind of evil art or something like that you saw a lot a lot of it in um the the chorus sort of expansion of the series the main series that was cool gang and his crew honor him bowing before him as their prince it's one of the beast in the series it genuinely moved me and there are moments like this where it really does work you know this feels like not only a natural expansion to the story but it works whether you know the original show or not they do try to incorporate most of the main story and character beats even if they don't land as hard as they did because of a lot of the framing or scripting which I'll get to they include a lot of stuff in the books and comics which came out later which I appreciate it as a fan even if it didn't necessarily help the series some of the stuff they invented did work like showing more of iro's backstory lutein monkey art so even if i would have shown it at a different time and also i liked the genocide but i would have liked more they didn't feel that much more power in any other context that would be an unfortunate thing to say does this have anything to do with the avatar films when they're on pandora no um no we don't talk about the avatar one yeah i think um i don't know i think some people said that like one of the major criticisms that they had about like the show in terms of like characters was that ang was like a lot less goofy and sort of playful than he was sort of during the animated series but i don't know i think you could say the same for most of the characters because i think the whole idea of this series is to be a bit more kind of mature i think someone one of the press releases that i saw was talking about it being like aimed towards like a gamer friends sort of audience i think that's probably not right like i don't think it's really a game gamer friends kind of thing but um it definitely did come across as a bit more mature and and realistic because i think if they were to do the animated series with the same sort of energy i don't think it would have worked you know which avatar came first oh i think the avatar the last airbender came first before the the blue monkeys ones more powerful with the comet the main thing that makes me edge a little more positive is the characters they have chemistry they're likable on screen they've got the vibes right in a way especially ang and zuko and there's a difference here between the acting and like the script they were given they delivered those lines with all of their heart i think they water katara down i'll talk about that in a bit but there are there's promise with all these characters jiao is a little bit different he's the slimy little bottom feeder who's both incompetent and extremely dangerous but he does what he's meant to he's meant to make zuko look honest by comparison every character is a little different but jiao was the only one that i was like really comfortable with being different they also give a zula yeah jiao's the um they're like commander i think like with with a lot of the stuff in the series i think the the episodes are like an hour long but they definitely do cut out a lot like and they do mix around the story quite a bit that's why i said it's probably good to to view it as its own thing and not like an extension of the original series you know i like it i think it's i think it's really good i'm excited for the next one zula her own story this is something i said i was generally in favor of you know she's basically just pops up in season two bring into season one not a bad idea but they're trying to play up how ozai doesn't care about either of his kids he manipulates a zula as much as he does zuko just in different ways and that's what drive her to madness this is something the comics delve into a bit more that he doesn't really love her he just loves how useful she is this is a change i like in concept less so in execution it suffers from the same scripting lack of subtlety problems we'll get to but i don't think we should see her as ticked off as she gets in the series so easily she's not meant to be this easily tipped but this also might be an example of something where it's like different but not necessarily bad and i feel like we need to wait and see it well she kind of she kind of appears to be a bit more like teenagery which kind of makes sense because she's a teenager like in in this new series so i think it kind of works to a certain degree but yeah her um she tends to be a bit more sort of calm and collected up until like the end of the original sort of avatar series i like the bright colors there's a lot of contrast within like the the sort of live action series it's pretty cool my melody says my mom is autistic and sometimes i get really angry at her for being rude is there any way that i could help um you'd have to give me a bit more a bit more input on that my melody well are you talking about like them them being blunt and directs maybe see a bit because obviously i'm comparing it against a complete story if i was to say the live action accomplished what it said had to do which is bring an animated classic into a new medium with a new vision building on what was then it did this in i think the production design you know costing sit settings they pay your margin it was beautiful designs in so many ways but a lot of the time they build on them quite nicely too like the grove in the northern water tribe becomes this sort of mini valley i quite liked omashu is similar but not identical to kitschy forakawa did an incredible job with the music taking the motifs and songs we know but building on them threading in like little bits of leaves from the vine into iris episodes you might say doesn't matter much but that definitely changes the feel and tone and the immersion of the world the biggest plus is it's honest it's not afraid to be cheesy it's clearly made by people who love the original material it's not ashamed to be avatar it's hard it's definitely in the right place even to its detriment now you will notice i didn't really praise the writing a lot and that's because the bad they messed up the spirit world so in the show ang finds a burned down forest then the village being terrorized by hay by confronts hay by sets it right before he learns he needs to go and talk to roku in the fire nation where he learns about the comet in the process dealing with his grief and learning something really important for his duty as the avatars an amazing couple of episodes in the netflix show they find the burned down forest and then the village and then go to find hay by but then they bump into uh one she tong but then socar and katara get kidnapped by co the face dealer and so ang has to go to the fire nation to talk to roku to find out how to beat co the face dealer to rescue yeah that was a bit weird to be honest and the spirit world is just the forest tinted blue they mixed all the wrong plants in the wrong ways here it takes all of the exposition and plot bloat but none of the depth that makes the stuff meaningful and kind of cheapens all of their stories it's just feels like references almost like fanservice like hay by is basically rushed past he feels kind of like an animal that's just sort of there and even though he looks great he's kind of just sidelined for co in the original show ang and hay by both kind of have to come to terms with the world they knew no longer being there and find a new way to move past this grief this is what i mean by the show has a lot of the core beats because this moment is technically in the netflix show but it doesn't hit as hard because it's it's kind of rushed past and co the face dealer it's definitely that that whole arc of it is definitely like brushed past a lot i would say to um i think this this the spirit aspect of avatar is like quite a core component of it but it wasn't really delved into too much it's kind of sad it's a compression of the story yeah but i think i think they definitely rushed for it way too much like especially that part got to go now to take care of everyone see you later spicy autistic would you recommend this someone who hasn't seen it before yeah i think both of them are pretty good you know um i'd say i'd say which i'd say watch both of them like the live action one has its own positives like it's pretty cool to watch it's a bit more kind of mature feeling a bit more accessible to sort of a mainstream audience i suppose but like the main series of avatar like you can't beat it it's it's pretty good i think if any if yeah i think that they did a good job with the original series but it's not not as mature as this new sort of live action version and um they definitely do make the live action version look really really pretty good um now i think i think that part that he's talking about at the moment with like the spirit world and the the the animal um yeah i i kind of tuned out a little bit during during that part of the series so i guess that's that's that's a good that makes sense you know because it didn't it didn't really feel like it was an integral part of the story it just felt kind of just thrown in there you know it's sort of a transition point to the end of season one where can i see the series you can watch it on netflix i think you can watch both the animators one and the live action one on netflix now i'd start with the cartoons yeah the colonian yeah the colonian owns that i think it's really annoying well if you if you're going to watch the cartoon version just be aware that the the intro sequence from the collodion is really really really loud compared compared to the actual series yeah just be aware of that if you like watching it at night time and you have it like at the optimum volume for you the intro sequence just blasts your ears out every time that is way more important we have to worry about that now and ang isn't really thinking about his grief that much it doesn't have that character dimension once you tong is there but only because they're probably not going to do the library episode and they wanted to get him in somehow but he doesn't have the entry in gravitas he's just there to give ang exposition exposition we don't need and co has turned from this interesting morally gray ancient spirit of unknowable power and knowledge who helps the avatar in a critical moment uh to just kind of an evil obstacle especially because they remove the need to keep a straight face and the subplot kind of just hijacks the story then roku's place as ang's mentor is kind of given to kiyoshi which i don't actually think is inherently bad it feels like the need to go talk to roku was really just put in there because it's in the original show and not because it's naturally fit for this plotline you know ang's suddenly going over to the fire nation and it seemingly being basically no issue whatsoever it just it kind of cheapens it like ang rescuing soken katara from co doesn't feel that important for his character development just feels like something he has to now do it sometimes gets lost in these moments of fanfic or fanservice that it forgets why the original show did something a certain way like they gave us kiyoshi as a sozen but seemingly the sacrifice of that reveal for ang at the southern air temple this whole story also exemplifies something of the worst parts of the adaptation because the story constantly sidetracks to try and mishmash all these different episodes it's trying to cut between different plotlines and then try to weave them together but it doesn't always i think like when it comes to the actual story like the main sort of storyline they do it pretty well but when it comes to like the side missions and side quests that are a part of it it just kind of feel a bit underwhelming i think like the main storyline is pretty cool like the whole like battle that they have between the fire nation and the the water nation like it's good but um like the middle bits like the whole spirit world stuff it just didn't really land very well i feel lost what is this this is a dive into the new live action avatar series we're branching out a little bit into some more topical stuff it's interesting to see what this this guy says because i don't know i did like it i thought it was good i enjoyed it even even though i loved the original series i've always managed to do that very well because it's ang oh going to save the village by talking to hay by but no it's not it's actually ang needs to go and um save soccer guitar from co the face deal but no it's not because ang needs to get to the fire nation uh but no it's not ang gets captured and needs to escape but in order to get back to save co um save guitar and soccer from co all these stories end up being stunted and cut short in their own ways i'm really not sure why co had to be here why he couldn't be at the northern wadshy but his original role or why even if you didn't want to do the comet because they don't apparently want to do the the com reveal just yet why not have roku calling to ang and then he uh reveals that you know the the moon is in danger and foreshadows that and frankly wanshi tong doesn't feel like it naturally fits here it's mostly there because they know you know it from the original series there's a lot of just i think what one thing that i don't think they mentioned which was good was that i think some of the like original sort of past life avatars were done were done pretty cool like particularly kiyoshi and the other that the water avatar dude i can't remember his name like i quite liked the backstory to them i feel like that was dived into a bit more than it was during during the actual anime series what are your expectations for fallout on amazon yeah i don't know my my dad's pretty excited about it because he loves fallout the fallout series i do as well to be honest the original one fallout 3 was i'm not the original original but you know i mean i love i love this laid back vibe this feels bizarre i have no idea what anyone's talking about at all no i mean to be honest like i've watched i've watched quite a lot of avatar but even even so like i would really like a little bit more context and like clips in this video i didn't realize it would just be such like a talking head one but i want to see what he says about it what about a movie night when we could when we could explain what's going on in the chat hmm i'd love to do in movie night that would be cool but i'd have to try and find a movie that youtube won't get upset at me for streaming that's the only issue you know it was just plot plot plot and it can feel a bit bloated at times they end up mixing the episodes jet o masu and the mechanist the northern air temple and this is actually not like conceptually not a bad way to combine the stories but they fracture it in a way that a lot of the characters don't have anything to do with these plots like soccer basically doesn't talk to jet at all he doesn't really have any direction barely and so when he and katara clash over you know that it doesn't have the depth that it did in the show where all of the characters were all during what dealing with jet again they do include these plot beats but not always enough for the context this isn't always the issue but it's a recurring enough issue for you to notice like as watching the jet stuff and equals katara i think it's just because it's paced differently like it's you don't really get as much of like the the character understanding especially when the characters are any the new sort of side characters are only introduced to like a little bit of the little bit of the episode like for one episode or two like you just you don't get as much of a feel for like the dynamics and like the history and stuff it's they're just kind of plopped in there you know i think that's the issue kaira naive but i was like you haven't really seen that much it only makes sense in my head because i know what actually happened in the series i think the plot bloat was most noticeable in the secret tunnel episode where a sock and katara are heading into the tunnels to find ang and i actually had to stop and pause myself i was like wait why are they in the tunnels again and the answer is because it's in the series and they wanted to do that and you can see that earnestness there but it also doesn't help sometimes it would have been better to extend the jet and mechanist plot line while ang is dealing with boomy even though some of the extra backstory scenes was i really didn't like boomy work bringing them in so early doesn't the order in which we learn these things often robs them of their impact the clearest example being ang isn't revealed as the avatar with all the hope that brings when katara and soca learn it because the show already told us that he is the avatar in the backstory before the story started even though they didn't need to part of the reason backstory is usually found later is because it's only given meaning by the context of a character's actions and motivations later in the story like ang hiding his real identity that's interesting but we don't get that even though they managed to understand this in episode six with zuko but the biggest issue the series has is a dialogue and script and exposition it is genuinely quite bad throughout the entire series there's this moment where grand grand gives an expositional speech much of which we already know and it's really heavy handed and weirdly it's also the opening credits katara speech but they already did one there's like the off-brand version of katara's speech characters end up saying what they feel there's a lot of telling and not showing and that's what i mean by like the characters do the best with the lines they're given like they deliver these lines with heart and kind of like them but the lines are really bad yeah it's it's kind of like i don't know it's just they kind of just um they like shovel in information rather than kind of let it let it breathe and let you like understand it from like past episodes or conversations that people are having about stuff it's very forced and it's very compacted but i mean it is like a compacted show isn't it like it's just not i don't like how they did boomie in the live action yeah me too i'd say that's probably my my least favorite part of it like boomie came across as like a genuinely not very nice person like since like in the original he seems is kind of like this crazy sort of wise wise dude um but he's just a bit like he just likes to play a game whereas in the actual live action he is sort of being weird and quirky but he's also behind it got this kind of malice feeling towards him boomie was the worst change yeah 100% he bad a lot of time sometimes there's exposition which is just entirely unnecessary and they just added in like uh i'm part of this is like the co-story where he's like ah co-hunt and the fog of lost souls and this is the fog of lost souls and it's like that's a great little piece of tidbit of lore but we really didn't need that or how this is a special type of moon that the moon and ocean that's why they can be killed now and it's got a special knife to kill them with sometimes the exposition is a nice little nod to the lore that i would get because i know this stuff but if you're unfamiliar with it it'll just feel like bloat they spoon feed a lot of stuff the show originally left a subtext which is partly why while i like azula having more of a role i don't like how they did it hard on the right place execution it never lets you wonder about the characters or be intrigued by their motivations figuring them out they're inner feelings because they will just yeah they're not as complex tell you what they're thinking don't worry you won't miss a thing and the remixing of the lines in the script sometimes gives individual scenes some really weird timing like you know the moment where iroh goes xiao let the spirit go anything you do to it i'll leash on you tenfold well he does that in the series okay but he says that and then he lets xiao like pick up the thing and threaten it and go i am the moon slayer and then only a little yeah surely if he was gonna reach for it it just immediately just blast him to be a tell myself be honest this guy's voice is like sped up he's not so annoying to me just saying staying for you guys in the chat though yeah i didn't think um i thought they would be a bit more like context but i think this is like this video is meant for people who already have like a pretty deep knowledge or understanding of the whole avatar stuff we'll move on to something something new after and hopefully hopefully like soon mike will um get back to me you know he said it he said between like nine and ten so maybe soon it's so good a little laughter does he act why not just have him say that later or they do the scene where ang takes out the single fine nation ship in the north before realizing there's a whole armada out there and he has this moment of hopelessness and he goes i'm just a boy they do both of those moments but those lines are split up into weird places that mean that they don't quite land as hard as either of them could because they're meant to be together again they do include those beats the matter but it's just not quite right and they don't quite land as well of all the characters i actually really liked ang and zuko especially delice you but i think they fumbled katara a little she gets watered down she's meant to be full of passion and forthrighteousness and feminine rage and traumatic rage but we don't get those little moments like katara's rage shattering the ice that frees ang or even in her duel with parku which we do get she's not quite as angry and full of fury i think i wanted to avoid doing the emotional angry woman trope but they ended up kind of neutering her socca's arc is better than i expected i know that everyone's really worried about them removing socca's sexism and all that but they do give him an arc of like trying to find out his skills he's a planner and an inventor and a leader more than necessarily just a warrior that said in the kiyoshi warriors episode you do feel the absence of that sexism arc because basically just means that as him and suki hit it off because she has a crush on the cute foreign boy which i mean to my mind is is even more sexist there's also and this is one of the weirdest changes that they made a distinct lack of ang learning any waterbending ever he and katara basically never trained together they never learned waterbending together it just doesn't i think it's just something that's just been chopped out of it hasn't it oh i'm sorry to hear again s has there been any developments i think you what did you say earlier the exam didn't go very good what what happens i think it's funny when people make adaptations of the film and series and take an aspect of what the fans will love and go i can make this way better by removing what the funds left about it yeah yeah well i'm sorry how you're going for a hard time s happen katara basically gets the waterbending scroll at the start and that's pretty much the only way we see her improving her waterbending she doesn't get to train with parku i don't quite know what they're planning to do with this i'm very skeptical but i think this is maybe a wait and see most of the arcs are there in some way but they're lukewarm versions of what we know and love like ang running away from being the avatar is muted by him not running away from the temples and getting stuck in the ice katara does grow to engage with the trauma but she's not as feisty and doesn't learn from parku and soka while he does learn a lot about himself he's not humbled the okay all right so i was initially a lot more negative on boomie boomie in the original show is this kooky goofy but still very lovable old man who puts ang through a bunch of trials to teach him to think differently in an effort show unlovable corrupt politician who has lost all hope in the world and blames ang for running away and instead of him teaching ang a lesson ang teaches him a lesson that you can rely on your friends and you should have hope and you should continue i don't like this is a change i had a very negative reaction to at first because it's never nice to have a character you like turned into someone this unlikeable but i do see what they're trying to do with it and i think this might be a case of just because it's different doesn't mean it's worse and my love for the original series might be interfering with that judgment there because this does speak to a broader tonal change in the series everyone outside of ang kata and soka are way more depressed and miserable kiyoshi island chief are nook the past avatars iroh parku and most clearly boomie they're really playing up that this is a hopeless world ever since the avatar left it and that ang is meant to be hope returning to it that he wins hope maturity i don't think i agree with people who say that like ang isn't happy or goofy enough they clearly put that into the series yeah i think they're confused with the overall tone of the series which is a bit grimmer and there is sometimes with that but i think the original turn of the series was meant for like kids you know it was kind of it was a bit kind of goofy and you know there was some interesting sort of adventures that they went on and dynamics and stuff but i do kind of get the the overall tone shifting of the whole series but i don't know i just think they could have i i can't i can't agree it being an okay thing like i think they just just demolished boomie's character i don't know they could have done it better i think checking for breastans to maybe i don't know i'm sorry to hear this that grimitone does pay off there's a scene where iroh gets to talk to one of the soldiers or relative of the soldier who fought at basing say the city which he sieged and he's like hey you butchered people and i think that's actually one of the better scenes in the show it's a really interesting way to build on that scene in the the series but if they do want to have that ang is bringing joy then i need to see that joy in others more like at the end of the kiyoshi episode she basically just goes hey you made us happy and waves happily goodbye but we don't actually see that joy there's a lot of tell and a lot show the question a lot of people's minds is it worth it was this necessary and i don't know i think trying to adapt an animated series into live action inevitably just shows you why the series is animated in the first place and i also hate the trend of adapting animated classics into live action is if it's somehow a better medium it's disrespectful animation is amazing and has so many great qualities that only become more visible in projects like this if they wanted to do a live action story then do a new one about a different avatar or even ang later in life it would have been better yeah i can't figure that measurable expectations of the series did that kind of shot it in the foot but we live in an age of remakes and prequels and regurgitations and you can feel the cracks of that it being fun and honest doesn't mean it's not clumsy the bottom line is the show is okay and there's room for improvement it's well known that seasons two and three are typically stronger than season one season one is a lot more fragmented and has some of the weaker episodes so we might see that i think that definitely like taking on as a different plot i think that would have probably worked better but i still think it is worth watching even if you have watched or haven't watched the end of the original sort of one but i think i enjoyed it i'm looking forward to watching more of it but like i think it's more for the aesthetics of it and just like i like that they have changed the narrative a little bit more and like the frame of it from being like this kind of cartoonish kind of funny sort of teetering on between serious and and sort of entertaining kind of attitudes to it being more serious but yeah i i agree that it probably would have worked better as like a standalone sort of series but i think it's still worth watching 100 percent i i do enjoy it in the second season some of the additions and changes work others are bizarre i think it's interesting if you love the original show but i think i need some significant improvements if it's going to stand independent of its source material it definitely feels a little bit weird and clunky if you don't know the source material i wouldn't call it a disappointment obviously when things don't work it is disappointing but overall it's just kind of okay and i'm like oh all right seems like kind of a first draft maybe a second draft would do better but i want to know what you think let me know down in the comments below stay nerdy and i'll see you in the future i think i gave it a good six seven out of ten you know i think that there are some aspects to it which are pretty grating but if you can sort of view it as being like an artistic sort of rendition and sort of focus maybe on like the main plot and not so much on like the little side sort of plots and character things i think it's pretty good it's definitely better than the movie that they did but yeah it's not it's not like the original that's for sure avatar is interesting yeah it is yeah but it's not like um it's not very much in line with like what i've been doing for the past seven odd years i guess i don't know i'll have to think about it for sure


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