#but like… I know the movie was largely executive meddling in a film the industry didn’t believe mattered

[seeminglyseph]

Why is it that adaptations of “children’s” media for all ages or more mature audiences somehow involves “removing subtext” and “explaining everything in simple and plain dialogue to avoid misunderstandings by the audience”

It’s like the media targeted towards a more mature audience has even more hand holding and fewer mature themes than the media targeted towards children.

Like, yeah I watched Avatar when it came out as a young adult, and it has an adult fandom. But like many children’s media that has an all ages fandom, it was made with children in mind but was good enough that everyone could enjoy it. That’s the mark of good all ages content. Why are we making it more mature by like… taking *out* the messaging and subtlety and lessons and putting *in* really blunt dialogue that explains themes no longer present in the media and violence that enforces a message that runs counter to the theme that worked so well in the original media.

Like. Why is it that remakes targeted towards older audiences seem less mature in their storytelling? I know it’s technically “mass market appeal” but still, it feels like the assumption is that adult audiences are more ignorant and incapable of understanding media and difficult subject matter than children, so adaptations more likely to have adult or teen audiences need things explained and the lessons learned more explicitly family friendly and reductive.

#natla #atla #idk man I watched atla as it came out back in the day #and I experienced the disappointment of the movie live #but like… I know the movie was largely executive meddling in a film the industry didn’t believe mattered #and natla is… something someone believes in #but like… I feel like some of it is proof of writers showing things that are like… internalized biases #or missed points from the original series that were in the series for a reason and meant something for a reason #and it’s one of those things where if you change it without understanding why it’s there it fucks the whole production #Sokka had a misogyny problem because he was a boy with a lack of role models and maturity #as he gains those things and meets people and gains better scope on the reality of life beyond his village he grows into a good young man #take out his misogynist plotline and you create a plotline about a strong girl who just… stops everything to build up a sad boy #which is the same annoying plot line we’ve seen for warrior women over and over and over again #you didn’t know why it was in the soup and now you fucked the broth