All of these Netflix adaptations always come across to me as if i'm watching an anime with a friend, and that friend is a super-fan of the show, and he watched it while growing up and knows every line, and instead of letting the characters exist by themselves he has to lean over to me on the sofa and say: >"ok so, Aang is actually really outgoing and fun-loving, but he has been saddled with this responsibility, so hes trying to juggle his dual reality both as a child and as the saviour and protector of the world and so hes thinking what will i do? as a kid he just wants to run away but as the avatar he can't do that, and not avatar what he saw happen at the Air Temple..." Like bro, just let me watch the show. I'm sure if you got it as a kid, i'll get it now as an adult. Let the show exist as it is, don't change the secret sauce. Anyways, I got about 4 episodes into the show before I turned it off. Almost every good scene that had a profound impact on 10 year old me's brain was replaced by dialogue and acting. If a character sat quietly and stared at a sunset with zero dialogue and just leaving the audience to think alongside the character, well in the Netflix show the camera now faces the character and they whine for 45 seconds about responsibility. Yes!! the theme of the show is responsibility being thrust upon you!! i get it!!! now shut up!!
also with irohs reply something pops to my head iroh"we were at war I gave up you won" eks"YOU WERE BUTCHERS" iroh "were you there at the battles you seem young" eks "old enough to hear what you did to the first guard unit you massacred them when they surrendered!" iroh "strange I remember them ripping the heart out of the 5th division after refusing to" and the entire time iroh is polite almost apologetic but more whistful this line would also be good foreshadowing for the state of ba sing sae info is twisted to fit a narrative iroh being there simply what happened also I think I know what would be a perfect reaction to the failure in the north the numbers are stated how many ships how much this ruined the fleet involved how many men and ozai doesn't care it changes literally nothing "oh well least the fifth fleet can keep them contained and the earth navies already dead so nothing really lost" and that shouldn't be a cope just a cold accurate read on the situation
I big problem I had with Bumi specifically was that i feel like he wouldnt have given up like he did. It really bugged me. I also agree that the blue spirit adaptation was great and the best part. But when I tell people about it I say its because it had almost no dialogue.
wait what? the entire point of sokkas arc with inadequacy is that he always set the bar too high for himself he blames himself for being too young his dad always respected that he saw what the war did and still lept at every oppertunity to try to help which again helps feed into his arc that learning that he himself is both good enough and his own worst enemy
I chalk up a lot of the bad acting to the fact that they're filming in the volume. You can tell that the actors look cramped up and just tip toe around the set because they're boxed in by 3 dimensions of giants TV screens. AMAZING video by the way!
All of these Netflix adaptations always come across to me as if i'm watching an anime with a friend, and that friend is a super-fan of the show, and he watched it while growing up and knows every line, and instead of letting the characters exist by themselves he has to lean over to me on the sofa and say:
>"ok so, Aang is actually really outgoing and fun-loving, but he has been saddled with this responsibility, so hes trying to juggle his dual reality both as a child and as the saviour and protector of the world and so hes thinking what will i do? as a kid he just wants to run away but as the avatar he can't do that, and not avatar what he saw happen at the Air Temple..."
Like bro, just let me watch the show. I'm sure if you got it as a kid, i'll get it now as an adult. Let the show exist as it is, don't change the secret sauce. Anyways, I got about 4 episodes into the show before I turned it off. Almost every good scene that had a profound impact on 10 year old me's brain was replaced by dialogue and acting. If a character sat quietly and stared at a sunset with zero dialogue and just leaving the audience to think alongside the character, well in the Netflix show the camera now faces the character and they whine for 45 seconds about responsibility. Yes!! the theme of the show is responsibility being thrust upon you!! i get it!!! now shut up!!
also with irohs reply something pops to my head
iroh"we were at war I gave up you won"
eks"YOU WERE BUTCHERS"
iroh "were you there at the battles you seem young"
eks "old enough to hear what you did to the first guard unit you massacred them when they surrendered!"
iroh "strange I remember them ripping the heart out of the 5th division after refusing to"
and the entire time iroh is polite almost apologetic but more whistful this line would also be good foreshadowing for the state of ba sing sae info is twisted to fit a narrative iroh being there simply what happened
also I think I know what would be a perfect reaction to the failure in the north the numbers are stated how many ships how much this ruined the fleet involved how many men and ozai doesn't care it changes literally nothing "oh well least the fifth fleet can keep them contained and the earth navies already dead so nothing really lost" and that shouldn't be a cope just a cold accurate read on the situation
I big problem I had with Bumi specifically was that i feel like he wouldnt have given up like he did. It really bugged me.
I also agree that the blue spirit adaptation was great and the best part. But when I tell people about it I say its because it had almost no dialogue.
wait what? the entire point of sokkas arc with inadequacy is that he always set the bar too high for himself he blames himself for being too young his dad always respected that he saw what the war did and still lept at every oppertunity to try to help which again helps feed into his arc that learning that he himself is both good enough and his own worst enemy
Ive never seen the show but this was interesting
I chalk up a lot of the bad acting to the fact that they're filming in the volume. You can tell that the actors look cramped up and just tip toe around the set because they're boxed in by 3 dimensions of giants TV screens. AMAZING video by the way!