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Probably the funniest dumb change they made happens during Zuko Alone In the original he considers stealing food until he sees the pregnant woman. This shows he is willing to do immoral things, but still has a heart In the Netflix version he steals it despite seeing the pregnant woman

There is also the change they made to Toph inventing metal bending where they have her declare "I'm Toph Beifong and I invented metal bending" for second screen watchers

the well-received fighting game revealed to have been designed by a serial abuser, and the well-received animated movie showing a chatgpt prompt at a panel... at this point it has to be on purpose.

literally cursed in the traditional sense

is avatar the most lightning in a bottle work of all time, or is it simply impossible for studios to produce art competently anymore

It's what happened when the lead writer leaves and makes his own show. The Dragon Prince which feels a lot more Avatar than anything that has come out since.

Aaron Ehasz is widely known to be a hack piece of shit who takes credit for the work of the women under his abusive employ. His (now ex)wife Elizabeth is, in all likelihood, nearly solely responsible for the depth & character work the show is famous for, having singlehandedly penned Zuko Alone.

many creative teams have spent millions of dollars trying to adapt the children's show "avatar: the last airbender" and they all fail because its so impossibly hard

It very much reminds me of the same problem the Disney live action remakes. Multiple nostalgic regurgitations that make an ass to themselves trying outsmart the source material, which ends up making a relatively simple kids’ show look mature by comparison.

I think it’s exactly because it’s a kids show that managed to handle some pretty adult topics in ways kids can understand that executives can’t figure it out. The new show babies the audience more than the one for literal children.

that's because the old one was written on the assumption that the kids watching it would be, you know, watching it

I do love that theres so much 'accidental' screw ups that it keeps covering up the completely international bird brained choices like replacing actual chinese script with 'avatarese'

somehow, Dragonball: Evolution returned...

netflix avatar could NEVER do goku sliding by his head on a car

They’re two flavours of bad but also products of time. Dragonball Evolution is basically a Michael Bay action movie. It’s soaked in that 2000s grime and it desperately does not want to be its source material. Netflix Avatar is painfully nostalgic and wants to its source material…but ‘more adult’.

Absolutely crazy they didn't just Shonen movie that franchise, there should be 10 to 15 Avatar movies of dubious quality and impossible to place in the canon by now. A Dark Side of Dimensions where kid Aang and Korra team up to fight a villain with a new bending style I dunno some shit

Timebending. The bad guy has timebending. They lose all their memories at the end, nobody knows why we did any of this. Fans consider it the best of the movies, way better than the one where Alternate Universe Fire Aang travels to conquer the main universe