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multiple big videos pushed on my homepage about how bad netflix avatar season 2 is. most cursed franchise of all time. its really really really hard to tell a story for babies about a little kid going on adventures and eventually defeating The Emperor. its the hardest thing you can do

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

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that first series is a real flash in the pan. has me going pepe silvia over it sometimes, unable to find anything it does wrong

All they have to do is remake Korra as a mid-budget live action teen drama that focuses on Korra's social life in the big city instead of sending her through the torture and despair gauntlet every season.

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.

yeah i dont understand it. the show is very simple and it works in its simplicity. aang is a happy go lucky guy then he has to fight someone and remembers he's the victim of genocide but then he makes a new friend and he's happy again. this is every episode and also the entire show with zuko

That show pushed against a lot of hard and soft rules of children's television, but the adaptations are strictly by the book

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.

but even netflix' second screen writing aside, I remember flipping channels as a teen and finding that the episodes I had understood just fine as a kid now had like... info bubbles about references inserted into them. like even nickelodeon was feeling a bit queezy about it