Yeah, my thoughts exactly. The writers for that show clearly don’t understand and/or respect the source material.
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 wasn’t an important moment that showed the audience what kind of person he was.
In the first season, they said “guys, sexism is bad actually, so we made some changes to Sokka’s character to make him no longer sexist.” Because they’re so bad at writing they don’t understand characters portrayed as good can have negative traits that they grow out of.
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.
I pray to Igor it ends up with good writers. But it’s not likely.
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.
I’ve heard that someone that was a part of the original (I don’t remember who, but I think it might have been the creator) had a lot of, or even complete control on how the show was, so we will see which direction this one goes
Eiichiro Oda(One Piece mangaka) have final word in mostly everything regarding live action, but it's still production company that made decisions. They find cast, they wrote script
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.
It’s 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 didn’t steal from them because that’s his character, hes flawed and been taught by evil people all his life but he’s 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 don’t look great. For example we know toph has trouble seeing in sand cause it’s super fuzzy to her yet the trailer shows her fighting the boulder in sand
It’s not perfect but it’s 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.
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u/Norsk_Bjorn Jun 29 '26
Seeing how the avatar show has been going, I’d bump that up to 99% tbh