#atla: live action

[rmorde]

Ok. I'm still mad about it.

Look. The ATLA Live Action writers were proud about removing "lots of iffy" things in the original AND giving the Fire Nation more scenes. Ozai being fan service-y is very suspicious too. Add on top of that how they screwed up Sokka's character...

Here's my take on what is going to happen:

One of the beauties in ATLA's writing was how they were able to humanize the Fire Nation. They are the evil bad guys but not all of them. They are victims too - people who suffered under tyranny and deserved saving too... WHICH CAN ONLY BE DONE BY SHOWING "IFFY" THINGS IN CONTRAST!

ATLA successfully showed that the villainous side (Fire Nation) are worth sympathy and empathy WITHOUT PROMOTING IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM.

HOWEVER, current evidence already seem to point that won't happen in the Live Action:

They are willing to destroy a main character's story arc and are proud of it because it's "iffy".

If sexism is "iffy", imperialism and colonialism would be under that category which meant the writer happily removed them or toned them down.

These would definitely give them the perfect excuse to give the FN more screen time to likely "subvert expectations" and show how they aren't really that bad. They're just misunderstood antiheroes and not villains. Considering the fan service-y Ozai scenes seen so far, it feels like they are angling for this shitty take. They're giving him tough but caring DILF vibes* (No fuck that because that's Hakoda's thing.)

In conclusion: Due to writers' cowardice and incompetency, ATLA Live Action will likely accidentally justify the Fire Nation's imperialism and colonialism. They will unintentionally promote it as "Not actually that bad and totally a good thing."

Villains totally can have caring DILF vibes. People can love them too.

The problem tho is the live action writers are cowards in writing actual villainous or questionable stuff aka "iffy" stuff. They're likely going to sand down Ozai's abusive streak and cruelty. Hence why the DILF vibes made me annoyed.

In the original, he is an evil asshole who is hot enough to be a DILF. But there is no mistaking that he is an irredeemable monster who destroyed his own family for selfish goals.

I don't think the live-action writers have the stomach to make such "iffy" characterization. They'll make Ozai a misunderstood "antivillain/antihero" DILF with Zuko Woobie-ness. He'd have no evil bad guy vibes. Just DILF... which so not what his character is in the original.

#avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar the last airbender: live action #atla: live action #i'd be over the moon if proven wrong #but with all i've seen so far... i 100% have no faith or trust in the writers #i said it before and i'll say it again: one piece live action was just a fluke #bryke are not perfect writers but they know their stuff with ATLA #them leaving the production is a huge fucking red flag #this is gonna suck #atla fandom: we are so fucked #i truly honestly DO NOT believe their spiel that they toned down the sexism only #yeah right... i bet they toned down everything they deemed 'problematic~' #they are lying like the fucking dai li

[aangarchy]

Alright now this pissed me off

What do you MEAN you're going to remove one of the most important aspects of Sokka's character arc in the first season? What do you MEAN you're going to remove Sokka unlearning misogyny, accepting change and embracing his role as a fighter and protector of the Avatar in order to end the war? What do you MEAN???

#they're also going to apparently show the rise of the fire nation as well as the airnomad genocide #which; again; i'm conflicted on #atla #netflix atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #sokka #atla live action #atla netflix #netflix

[spikeghost]

Somebody on Twitter pointed out that almost all of the netflix Avatar show was filmed so that the focus of the action would be at the center, so it could be viewed vertically, like on tiktok

#avatar #avatar the last airbender #atla #Avatar netflix #atla live action #Albert Kim #yes THAT albert kim #Every tongue that rises against Nicole Beharie shall fall

[timeofdeathnote]

stop that's so funny 💀

#avatar #avatar: the last airbender #netflix avatar #avatar the last airbender #general zhao #aang #james cameron #sokka #katara #zukko #humor #meme #spilled ink #atla #natla #live action avatar

[kat-rose-griffith]

I liked it better when Katara released Aang from his 100 year slumber through the pure unfiltered rage of a feminist rant at her brother

#avatar the last airbender #live action atla #atla spoilers #netflix atla

[mini-minish]

boy prince has to learn to do the dishes

#sweep the floor boy #zuko #atla #avatar the last airbender #iroh #uncle iroh #zuko atla #iroh atla #dood #i saw the live action dropped said no thx and rewatched the original show again #bless

[emily-e-draws]

love the Avatar show! yes the animated show from 2005 haha, what else?

(prints)

#atla #avatar the last airbender #aang #once again.. #there is no live action in ba sing se

[mistbix]

so i've been re-watching atla....... expect more art soon

#atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #aang #sokka #kataang #i've made exactly 1 fanart for avatar before so i decided You Know What i'll make an art feast now #since the new live action came out i tought “hey now i can at least have refs of their clothes etc” and got a study as a bonus yay #mi arte

[kataraslove]

there’s a reason why the entire story of avatar the last airbender begins and ends with katara. there’s a reason why we are introduced to katara first before we are introduced to any other character. there’s a reason why katara is the narrator. there’s a reason why the creators have emphasized over and over again that katara is just as titular to the story as aang - she’s the other main character.

when you water down katara - remove her compassion, her ability to connect with others, her nurturing role, her ANGER and RAGE and DRIVE - you water down the very fundamentals of the story. you drastically and severely alter the core dynamics of the gaang, because katara was so important to the development of every single one of them. she was the rock and glue that held team avatar together.

katara was unlike any other character to ever appear on television; she was a young brown girl who took no shit from anyone, yet at the same time remained kind and compassionate and nurturing. katara was a force of nature; proud of her heritage and culture, burdened by the responsibility of being the last southern water bender of the water tribe, angered over the death of her mother and everything that the fire nation took from her, determined to help every single person in need, determined to change the world, angry and resentful because old men and rules and laws kept telling her what she could or could not do, thus, she was determined to restructure thousands of years of patriarchy that stood against her from accomplishing her goals and dreams.

watering down katara into at most 2-3 tangible characteristics, stripping her away of all her motivation and agency and nuance, telling the audience that she wants to help and change the world only to have her stand in the background with an air of grief, demonstrates that the writers of the live action fundamentally misunderstand the spirit of avatar. and that’s something so unforgivable. no matter how many changes they decide to make, or how much they decide to stay true to the original story in other areas, no matter how many flashy VFX fight scenes we get - if you fail to properly understand katara, you fail to understand the heart and soul of avatar the last airbender, everything that makes avatar such a timeless classic.

#katara #atla #avatar the last airbender #anti atla live action #anti natla

[beif0ngs]

sooo... this is the general consensus on the Netflix ATLA live action series, right?

#atla #Avatar the Last Airbender #atlaedit #animationedit #Aang #Katara #Sokka #Toph #Zuko #Suki #*mine #i mean what live action?? #there is no live action...

[olrazzledazzle5]

Zuko 🔥

#avatar the last airbender #atla live action #prince zuko #zuko #fanart #digital art #digital drawing

[fairmerthefarmer]

Aang and gyatso still melting my heart but this time in colour!

I think I maybe lost Some of aangs expression from the sketch but it’s still cute I think

#fairmerthefarmer art #artists on tumblr #atla fanart #atla #natla #atla live action #aang #monk gyatso #digital art #procreate

[kstarlitchaotics]

Whoever said this obviously hasn't seen the original 🤣

#atla #natla #avatar live action #aang #zuko #avatar the last airbender #avatar #the last airbender #avatar fandom

[duckiedaledeservedbetter]

zuko has not uttered the word honor one single time and i am not having any fun here

#avatar the last airbender #netflix you ruin everything #avatar #atla #atla 2024 #avatar live action #zuko #prince zuko

[mood-2017]

why do I see people complaining left and right aboout them cutting sokkas sexism arc but not about them completely cutting sokka out of the jet arc??? which in my humble opinion was much more important to sokkas character development overall and as a leader. sokka being the only one not blindly believing jet and his heroic act and instead trusting his instinct and revealing jets twisted morals and cruel plan that could have led to the death of a whole village full of innocent people??? no one???

#avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #avatar netflix #atla live action #avatar the last airbender netflix #rant

[what-the-phoenix]

Is the new avatar live action a perfect remake

No

Does it have a perfect scene of a random lady hitting zuko with a brush to stop him from trying to attack aang that wasn’t in the original

Yea and it was great

#atla netflix #atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #aang #avatar live action #atla live action