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Hilarious video, looking forward to seeing your opinion on seasons 2 and 3 in the future, subbed.

9:00 you got this part ALL WRONG it's not a redemption arc AT ALL he was never an evil character, that is exactly the problem of live action Zuko, they try to make him evil to somehow make more powerful his redemption but he WAS NEVER EVIL

It seems like they couldnt stand the good guys’ culture having bad sides and the bad guys’ culture having some good sides. There’s zero nuance to each side and just makes the characters flat. They removed the sexism from the water tribe and they removed Ozai’s preference for Azula by showing zuko being more competent, preferred and strong than Azula to make Azula a girlboss that wants to get stronger and be recognized, which was literally zuko’s arc in the cartoon but somehow they didn’t want to show the evil fire nation having feminist beliefs because they’re BAD. Everyone’s arc and character was ruined out of a fear of offending some people just because they think that having sexism in a show means they condone it. The show writers themselves are extremely media illiterate.

"How did no one in the writer's room revise this?.." They did and they got fired because of "creative differences" At least in my head that's how it went.

u r the most straight talking youtuber ever nice

One word: Hama. If the southern water tribe is really THAT sexist then why did Hama and other female waterbenders in the south defend their tribe? Women just sew? I think this opinion is widely influenced by a 15 year old boy and recency bias. Yes, all the men have gone to war. And the women who are left tend to the children and care for all the other (important) stuff that keeps the tribe alive. But have we forgotten that all waterbenders are gone in the south? I would even go as far as the south hadv very strong female waterbenders. As an effect of that loss the rest relied on classical roles based on strength and quite simply survival. Sokka's words must not be weighed in gold. As a boy bereft of an example he fell back to stereotypes and honestly pride. Lets see. Most boys (and girls) at this age try to find their place and role in the world and tend to exaggerate the trades of their team. Pipsqueaks trying to act super macho. Little girls stealing momies lipstick. Both go over board trying to identify strongly with their "group". Stupid stuff really but just a developmental phase. Now amp up the factor by 1000 in Sokka's case for he's the only male left AND he has been told by his father to "protect the village" Surely half of that was just meant as a comfort/band-aid for being abandoned by his dad, half was meant for later down the years. But him being sexist has a LOT to do with his age and the lack of reigning in by his elder role models. Sokka and Katara would have grown up in a Post-Hama society where the roles were more classical by necessity but I stand on that hill: The southern water tribe is still a far cry from the Northern Water Tribe regarding sexism

I FOUND SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME ON BOOMI, I also hate Live Action boomi so much, like i love boomi, but Netflix did him NO justice they totally ruined him

Stopped watching as soon as you said the M Night film is worse than the Netflix adaptation. I know it’s a popular opinion, but it’s incorrect.

16:10 No, He splish splashed with katara in episode 2 or 3 or something, Its not bending but hey its something, xD Anyways, your video is incredible, ty for making it, I agree with everything u said

I felt the netflix avatar was complete trash.

You know...I wouldn't mind it they wanted to take the show in a different direction, but I'd meed them to commit to it rather than saying "this is the same show you love" while making significant changes.

The only grace i can give them is that they really cannot rush the plot because the actors will age a lot. Everything else you said is spot on.

I mean it has some good aspects but I would consider it unwatchable by the spirit world episode.

the only wrong thing about this video is the "3 months" haha, he gets told on winter solstice that he needs to fight the firelord by the end of summer, giving him AT least 7-8 months, which tracks since we get a lot of time jumps especially in ba sing se. 3 months really wouldnt have been enough. so all in all the show took place in about a year from episode 1 to the last in season 3, since winter solstice is in episode 8 and they tell you they've been traveling for weeks now

you deserve more subs.good script

Nah Sokka and Katara in the love tunnel is giving incent, because it's paired with a song explicitly about lovers and a lore explicitly about romantic love. "True love" in Frozen was vague enough to work as sisterly love, but not here. If they didn't yet have a ship to make it work they should have kept the entire tunnel for season 2 where it belongs anyway cause it's earthbending focused.

This Netflix show could’ve at least been tolerable had they not managed to screw up EVERY SINGLE MAIN CHARACTER Aang, sokka and Katara never feel like actual friends, more like work colleagues reluctantly going on a business trip together Zuko is way too nice in this season. He supposed to be a jerk in season 1, but we rooted for him because of his underdog rivalry with zhao, who was an ever bigger jerk. How are they gonna justify this Zuko siding with azula in season 2? Speaking of azula, WHY ARE MAI AND TY LEE THERE? In the original show she had to go find them and essentially force them into working with her, but in the show they just follow her around like bodyguards. Did the creators even watch the show? Ozai no longer feels like this untouchable force who’s the most evil man in the world. Now he’s just a commander dude who’s also kind of a bad dad And zhao…i don’t even know. What a joke

I agree. bye

I've watched too many videos about the remake at this point, so I don't know who to attribute this point to, but the 41st Division plot change ruins Ozai. He essentially rewarded Zuko for his failure to sacrifice and reinforced that by letting them grow a bond as his crew. OG Zuko had weakened his compassion for the common man because he was banished...which is what Ozai would want. Also, they're an army division and couldn't just magically become a navy.

Honestly I don't care I just watch avatar the last airbender now and after that I after that I was the reamke everything is ok but they change everything I like about the original I get die hurt fan hating on the show so much

Original Katara: flips off on her really racist older brother, saves The Savior Of The World from big fish, initiates rebelion in Earth Kingdom village, gives up personal wants so avatar would learn waterbendind, confronts elite member of North Water Tribe at the spot for being ridiculously sexist, gets proper training for few days, beats the Fire Nation prince, twice. Netflix Katara: extinguishes fireball by grabbing water from 100 meters away, extinguishes flying ignited arrow, applies earthbending technics (though the only time of her seeing someone earthbending was the encounter with a badgermole), confronts elite member of North Water Tribe for being sexist, begs for permission to fight, already in titled as a master just because she's natural. Yeah...

I couldn't even finish episode 1.... maybe... just maybe I "might" try again next time there is another world stopping quarantine or something similar that forces everyone to stay home... maybe, but not likely

i really enjoy your irreverence and foul language <3

i don't like the 41st being zuko's crew in the live action. it meant that ozai gave zuko what he wanted: the safety of the 41st. ozai compromised.

*[pause]* "beating said meat" lmfao.😂

I didn't know Pirates of the Caribbean was considered to have a bad script. I feel like up to part 3, it has top tier writing plotwise.

I can see a world where starting with badass katara could work, but it relies heavily on making sure she has a lot of personality, which this katara doesnt. Like lets take erza scarlet for example. She started out the series being one of the most powerful characters and has mostly stayed in that position throughout. But she has other qualities to her that balances out her power, to make her a more dynamic character. For 1, girl doesnt have any social graces due to her past. 2. Her loyalty to the guild and her friends are so devout, they have been weaponized at times. 3. She’s funny and weird in a good way, sometimes being the instigator of jokes and sometimes being the butt of jokes. All of these qualities arent given to netflix katara. They made her whole personality girlboss when it should be just a quality of her (if they wanted her to start off being a girlboss)

i know its a small nitpick but like.... the wiggggsssss.... awful

I could not go through those scenes with the live action Bumi! 😭😭😭. So cringe!!!

I do think the southern water tribe had fixed gender roles, but I like to theorize that they were more flexible. Like when we saw Hama fighitng the southern raids, it was men and women. Also when Katara found out Paku was Gran-grans ex-fiance, she said something about "not letting her tribes customs run her life, that's why she left". While she was just running away from the marriage, maybe in the southern tribe you didn't have to do that? The south is still sexist, but maybe just slightly less?

I also hated Bumi in this show. They got a guy who sounded like the character and looked like the character and had him play something entirely different which imo is the most insulting part about it

4:25 "look beyond, what you see, Simba"

One little correction: The original show had all three seasons taking place within the span of at least 8 to 9 months, practically almost a year. We know this because Aang first learned about the comet during the winter solstice, and the comet arrived at the end of next summer. Plus, because Aang woke from the iceberg before the winter solstice, there's a chance the show actually began somewhere around mid to late autumn.

Lol, weird but... Could you please record like.. idk.. bedtime stories or something. Your voice is really soothing

Small nitpick for the Sokka and Suki subplot, the way you say it makes it sound like a man teaching a woman something, or a woman falling in love with someone because they are different is inherently sexist, when what made it sexist was them changing it from Suki teaching Sokka, to Sokka teaching Suki.

I'm gonna keep saying this till it happens. Until it's a fan made musical, I'm not paying attention to any remakes.

nice video!

I’m so tired of nobody saying how horrible the live action zuko is. His acting is terrible, the character is written poorly and the plot where he saves the same group he’s traveling with is dumb, if he already has his own crew (that is against the fire nation) what will ever be his motivation to join team avatar??

Show feels like it was made by Zuko fans for Zuko fans and everyone else went into the trash not understanding that a balanced cast of well developed characters was key to the story’s success

This is my first time stumbling across your channel and videos. I really loved your commentary. You deserve to blow up! Now I'm going to binge watch the rest of your videos. ❤

Great review 😊 it is sad that they are removing character flaws and the same flaws that made the characters relatable and build growth.

I thought you were gonna say the live action is lacking Patience, because that’s the thing I noticed, they’re just rushing through plot moments from the original with no consideration for how they fit the framework of the story 😭

I had to agree with you

It's depressing how high this horrible show is rated on rotten tomatoes.

16:12 Honestly... I wouldn't even call that a fish... It's definitely not a koi fish spirit. (Koizilla) More like a big blob. As an artist that thing looked cheap. I could and will try my hand at drawing what it SHOULD have looked like.

Ive noticed how Feminism and Sexism works on a horse shoe theory. The more feminist and the less sexist you make something, you will eventually loop around to the other side. Here, they go so far to remove the sexism that they make Zuki the way a 14 year old boy would think of a girlfriend, and they give Katara so much girl power that she becomes satire. This is a trend all over western media as of late. Loads of writers are so far up their ass that they dont know that they are doing the opposite of what they want to do, showrunners who think they can do the story better then the original creators, and feminists being so eager to inject feminism into their thing that Andrew Tate would be proud. The reason why Katara is so badass is because she is the mom. Who do you fear the most, the edgy teenager, or abuela with a slipper in her hand?

09:45 Also Pirates had a banger script. (idk which movie specifically were talking about? I mean the first 3 had great writing). The 4th movie is oof

Very good Video!!! :)

excuse you his name is Koizilla

I only got a couple of episodes in, and it was obvious that the live action was made by people who paid attention to the other one's critics but still did it for the money. They miss soooooo many of the little things that add up to a great show with the animated version.