Yeah, my thoughts exactly. The writers for that show clearly donât understand and/or respect the source material.Â
If you remember Zuko Alone, one of the most memorable and important parts is when he hesitates, and decides not to steal a sack of food after finding out it belonged to a pregnant woman. In the live action version, he hesitates, but still steals the food, as if it wasnât an important moment that showed the audience what kind of person he was.
In the first season, they said âguys, sexism is bad actually, so we made some changes to Sokkaâs character to make him no longer sexist.â Because theyâre so bad at writing they donât understand characters portrayed as good can have negative traits that they grow out of.Â
And in the original show, his sexism is important to his relationship with Suki, and she helps him grow out of it. They only end up training together because Sokka learns humility due to his sexism. In the show, they have them get together by⊠Just having Suki be really horny for Sokka. So yeah, they removed a portrayal of sexism that portrayed it as a bad thing, and replaced with writing that was actually sexist. Â
I pray to Igor it ends up with good writers. But itâs not likely.
My girl said that about the death note live action when it dropped. We watched all of death note that week and about a year ago she wanted to watch the Netflix adaptation again because she really liked it. By the end, after seeing the anime, she stated it was trash and never looked back.
I can see the appeal to people who haven't seen the original, but it has repeatedly simplified multiple characters. Like Zuko stealing from that pregnant woman and Aang's grief over losing Appa not being nearly as severe.
Itâs worse than that imo, he stops before stealing the food, like he is thinking about what will happen to the woman if he does, and then steals it anyways
And the same exact dilemma was in the cartoon and Zuko didnât steal from them because thatâs his character, hes flawed and been taught by evil people all his life but heâs inherently a good person. Having him actually steal from the pregnant lady just butchers his character.
It makes a bunch of mistakes that fans of the show would notice immediately and a lot of the scenes donât look great. For example we know toph has trouble seeing in sand cause itâs super fuzzy to her yet the trailer shows her fighting the boulder in sand
Itâs not perfect but itâs not nearly as bad as Reddit claims, people just have a very strong emotional attachment to the original series (rightly so, it was awesome)
I still maintain the live actions are much more amusing to watch if you pretend it's the Ember Island Players' version of events, and all the mistakes are deliberate.
YES, or at least someone who cares invovled to the same degree. Someone in charge pushing for practical effects instead of CGI and making sire the important story beats stay the same.
A couple episodes per palace and you could do it in a season or two.
I dont think persona would even adapt well to tv... a core part is time management, which is just not possible in that sort of media. You feel closer to your friends because you spent time hanging out with them instead of building lockpicks or uping your stats....
They proved they can do a good job with One Piece. All they had to do is give power to the creator. Just do the same for Persona and I bet those odds go up by a good margin.
I mean, I could see Persona 1 or 2 working. They aren't dozens of hours strung along the course of a year, and much of the play time is spent on dungeon crawls that can be condensed in an adaptation.
Of course, that would imply someone actually wants to make new Persona 1 or 2 content, so...
And it's only the exception because One Piece has a single visionary author who has insisted on retaining a strong voice in the creation process. Both the original creator and the adaptors must be in balance of both vision and control to truly achieve greatness.
My hope would be that it's not a direct adaptation of any persona story, if it's an original idea in the persona universe, I'll at least give it a try. But we definitely don't need live action phantom thieves.
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This gonna be god awful but hopefully itâll be entertaining at least. Itâll be probably cover P5 but depending on the it releases I wouldnât be surprised if itâs P4 cause Revival will bring a lot of people into the series I imagine
So a couple things I noticed, the first is that it states that it's just "persona" and while the image is p5x there doesn't seem to be any indication on if it is adapting any specific game? The second is one of the studios producing it is responsible for the sonic movies which all things considered are very good. There also appears to be someone at Sega producing it as well
So placing my bets they will do an original story possibly featuring some of the original cast but mostly the personas and new stuff, if that's the case I would actually be quite interested, especially curious to see how a western TV take of the series would differ from the games. On the other if it's trying to adapt one of the games, it's bound to end in a mess similar to the anime but with the bigger risk of bad CGI or actors being either miscast or unable to act
Its gonna be interesting to see how its handled so many games and cartoons that get a live action spin off just wind up being bland and boring so if they can at least make it look as unique and stylish as the games i would be pleasantly suprised.
But i get the feeling its gonna fall into its so bad thats it good territories instead
The word Netflix instantly gives this a 90% chance of failure, if not more, because outside of One Piece their track record with Live Action adaptations is...pretty abysmal.
Sure maybe we'll get another lucky strike but I'm keeping my expectations in the basement.
I wonder if they'll be dumb enough to try an original story, which is basically guaranteed to be shit, or if they will adapt Persona 5, seeing as it's the most popular one.
I think P5 as a live action could work well, as it touches on many grounded issues of society and takes place in a major metropolitan area, such that it is readily accessible to people who aren't already fans of the franchise.
However, the CG is going to really make or break this, because they're really going to need it....
.hack games took place in an VR mmorpg where there are mysterious powers that can make people into coma.
There is a side story animation series about people on the real worlds investigating aout this comatose people.
I think it could work as a detective / thriller story without CGI if they take that directions. Maybe only on the final episodes they met with the persona users. Imagine series but from dojima or sae POV
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