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The speaker explains why the original Avatar series felt nearly perfect and why a live-action version seemed impossible to pull off. They praise the visual effects while arguing that the adaptation gets the big-picture look right but stumbles on the details.
I know I am too old to be getting this worked up over a Netflix remake of a cartoon that came out when I was 11 but this is not just any cartoon it's not like they're rebooting Jimmy Neutronand I'm pissed off about it Avatar is a nearly perfect series it's one I enjoyed a lot when I saw it as a kid but rediscovering it as an adult actually blew my mind it's a show that movedme to tears multiple times it's something that the creators clearly put so much thought and Care into getting every detail right from the World building to the music now for a long time I thought it would be impossibleto translate this world into liveaction partly because of how intricate and beautiful the animation is and partly because the last time they tried to do it it was a disaster I've seen way too many people say in regards
to the Netflix adaptation hey at least it's better than the movie yeah I would hope it's better than one of the worst films ever made you don't get points for that because of how Goofy and awkward this movielooked I assumed it just couldn't be done that this world was simply unadaptable to liveaction and in a lot of ways Netflix proved me wrong this show looks probably as good as a liveaction avatar could I mean nothingwill ever truly compare to vibrant and fluid 2D animation but the VFX team that worked on this did a really good job of making something that very easily could have looked dumb as look pretty realistic except for thebending I don't know what happened there yeah a lot of the scenes are directed a little jarringly and it's way too dark sometimes but with what they were tasked with bringing to life here I think they deserve a
lot of credit but it's funny to me that Netflix nailed the part that I thought couldn't be done well and messed up all of the stuff that should have been a slam dunk let's start with the pilot becauseI started writing this video 10 minutes into the first episode The Pilot condenses the first three episodes of the Animated Series into one Premiere which on paper works really well the end of episode 3 really is where theprologue ends we've established the world we've introduced the characters and a little bit of their backstories and they're literally flying away from their past as they Venture forth onto their journey and while the very beginning of the showdoesn't quite reach the heights that it eventually will I think this is all paced really well and does a good job of doing out enough information to explain what's going on while still having the restraint to hold on
to some things that can be revealed when the time is right we open up two of the three main characters Saka and Katara we learned that they siblings who live in the southern water tribe qara is a waterbender Saka is not he belittles her ability they bicker for a bit it escalates and then qara water bends so hard that a 12-year-old bald kid falls out of an iceberg wait that's not just any bald kid that'sthe Avatar no one's seen him in a hundred years what the hell no time to stop and explain everything though because they have inadvertently alerted a nearby fire nationship of their presence this is Prince Zuko and his uncleiro they've been bag from their home and sent on a now three-year quest to find the Avatar a quest that may just be about to end some chaos ensues a fight breaks out but ultimately with the help of
his new friends Ang is able to escape Zuko and the three of them fly into the sunset now that brings us to episode 3 and there is still a crucial piece of information that the show Runners have notyet revealed to Ang because they're waiting until the right moment the gang heads to the air Temple that an grew up in a place where Saka and qara know is probably filled with air Benders but they don't havethe heart to break it to him he's so cheerful and excited to just show them where he used to play with his friends how do we tell this kid that everyone he knew and loved was murdered by theFire Nation instead they try to chear him up and keep him distracted we see a flashback of Ang's former life he's talking to his friend and Mentor gatu someone who we can tell he clearly cared a lot about
Ang talks about how overwhelmed he is at the thought of being the Avatar and yat assures him that everything will be all right we cut back they keep exploring for a bit they find Momo a little pet togo with their big pet things are going great until oh firebenders they were here yo oh man come on a everything will be all right let's get out of here this is a really important scene for the beginningof a Nickelodeon show that up until this point has been pretty lighthearted seeing your main character who's just a kid find out about the death of his entire people and then freak out and have to be calmed downby his friends it's a really powerful moment that can only happen because the writer held on to this reveal until the time was right to reveal it so now let's talk about how Netflix handled the pilot instead of
This chapter breaks down the live-action pilot, especially its cold open, pacing, and overuse of exposition. The speaker argues that the remake repeats information, weakens key emotional reveals, and replaces mystery with clumsy dialogue.
starting the show on our main characters we open on an epic chase this is streaming baby we got to put a fight scene Within in the first 10 seconds or people are going to turn it off and gowatch Love is Blind if you don't brutally murder someone right now I'm taking my ass to freeing but you know what I'm fine with this cold open I understand you're just trying to grab people's attention and a quicklittle action sequence that shows how ruthless the Fire Nation can be is not the worst way to do it but it should have ended here you say this line this isn't about the air Benders this is about onewho lives among them but the Avatar is yet to be revealed which is why we have to kill them more and then we cut to present day to the three main characters similar to how the cartoon did I
actually think that would have been a really effective opening because if you've never seen the show and you just watch the fire lord say we got to kill all the Airbenders and then you cut a 100 years intothe future and you see an air bender that survived you'd probably be like how did that happen I'm going to stick around to find out instead we come back from the title sequence and we're still in the paston the day of the aforementioned Invasion I guess we're just going to do the whole show show chronologically lest anyone be confused we meet Ang and yatso and see them stand and talk for a while and then weget to watch some people sit and talk for a while and we cut back to Ang and Gato and they do more standing and more talking and then Ang flies away and a whole bunch of murder happens oh
my God so much murder I'm talking several uninterrupted minutes of murder because remember this is a show for grown-up cartoons are for babies we got a bunch of dead bodies in this one what's crazy to me about thisentire sequence is that while they're so insistent on showing something that I honestly think had more emotional impact to just see the aftermath of they make no attempt to show us any aspects of Ang's personality I mean don'tget me wrong the writers take the time to explain Ang's personality to us he and Gazo tell us all about him I know who I am I like to play airball and eat banana cakes and goof off withmy friends that's who I am I feel bad for this kid because he seems like a very good actor but the writers keep giving him lines that make it sound like he's about to burst into song don't even
trust me to feed the baby bison and I'm supposed to save the world why can't I just be a kid but this isn't even the worst example of tell don't show that they do in this episode remember Itold you about how Ang finds out that all the Airbenders are dead how he stumbles upon the corpse of his former best friend surrounded by all of the fire Benders it took to take him down here's how theydo it in this show most just arrived for the great Comet Festival a great great Comet Festival the last time that the great Comet was seen in the sky was 100 years ago someone just tells him about iteveryone in the village knows this story but you don't just as you don't know that Airbenders haven't been seen in generations and that the southern air Temple was the first to fall because you've been trapped in that ice
this whole time gr gr reads out loud the entire opening theme for like two straight minutes while he has to just sit there and give reaction faces before running out of the room crying and he sad for like10 seconds and then everything is fine no time to mope buddy you got to do another Walkin talk this is infuriatingly bad writing you took one of Ang's most impactful moments from the beginning of the show and turnedit into someone else's monologue it's so weird to me when shows are clearly in a rush to establish as much information as possible possible I guess because they think people will get confused and turn it off if theydon't have their handheld through every interaction but it feels counterintuitive I think what gets people to continue watching something is Mystery you don't need to answer every question I have within seconds of me having it you can reveal
information in small doses and slowly add to it piece by piece that's what's going to compel me to keep watching something not paragraphs of expository dialogue whenever you feel like you've got some L blanks to fill it's alsoweird to me that they still try to recreate the air Temple moment in this episode even though it's not new information for Ang he goes and sees Dead gatu who was evidently much easier to kill this time aroundand still goes bananas and still has to be calmed down but it doesn't really make sense because he already knows about this are my friends they're all gone what is he doing it actually feels like kind of anoverreaction considering he barely gave a about it earlier also in the original qara is the one to calm Ang down while he's in this stage she tells him that she knows what it's like to lose someone you love
but the world needs him and and they're here to help no matter what it's a great moment for the three of them because it gives closure to Ang's past while Bridging the Gap into this present Journey they're aboutto go on in this version qara just watches while we see a bunch of flashbacks from earlier in the episode in case you were looking at your phone during that part you are my friend I really don't understandthe obsession with gatu in this version he is an important character but more so as a memory for Ang like a symbol of what he lost he's not that relevant to the present day Journey they're about to goon what matters the most is their relationship their friendship is the foundation that this entire series is built on so I think you're doing a huge disservice to that by taking interactions away from Kar and Saka so you
can give them to a guy who died a 100 years ago they do this multiple times in the show they keep bringing yatoo back instead of giving that valuable screen time to the more important characters they even dothis in the opening title scroll in the pilot episode in the original qara is the one who does this voice over which kind of establishes the show as being from her point of view and the Very iconic linesshe says at the end but I believe Ang can save the world actually tell us something about her they tell us that she's optimistic and believes in her friends no matter what so they actually managed to add characterizationinto a sequence that is at its core Exposition it's a very efficient use of dialogue in the remake they take this away from qara so they can again give it to a character who died 100 years ago and
that's not even mentioning the fact that everything that's said in this version of the title sequence gets repeated multiple times throughout the episode it's very inefficient use of dialogue The Avatar the one person with the ability to masterall four elements the Avatar the next master of all four elements only the Avatar the one person who can master all four elements only the Avatar master of all four elements but when the world needed him most hevanished when the world needed the Avatar the most he vanished episode one shouldn't feel as rushed at the end as it does it's roughly the same runtime as the three episodes It's adapting so it's not that they didn'thave the time to tell the story it's that they misused the time they had they add in all this stuff that probably would have been better if it was just kept a mystery they waste so much time repeating
the same information just from different sources and they replace interesting character development moments with vague mumbo jumbo bending is about energy and balance by feeling the energy around you can find balance by finding balance can feel the energyand what the are you talking about remember energy is balance which is energy uh which is balance who thanks Ang I'm water bending now and I'm internet bending ooh sorry about that uh this portion of the video issponsored by Opera the faster safer and smarter way to browse the web if you've ever wondered why it takes me so long to make videos it's because most of my job is writing and while I'm writing I liketo have 97 different tabs open for every thought that pops into my head a really cool thing I can do on Opera is sort my tabs into Islands so when I want to shift gears away from my 25-minute
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The speaker shifts to broader adaptation philosophy before focusing on how the show handles Sokka and Katara. They argue that the remake removes meaningful flaws and growth, making both characters flatter and less compelling than in the original.
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time I did it made me a little bit less optimistic about what we were going to get one of those quotes was how the creators of the show very nobly got rid of the sexism that Saka had alittle bit of at the beginning of the cartoon because that was 2005 and we're a lot smarter now obviously I don't need to tell you that there are tons of movies and TV shows from 20 years ago thatabsolutely have not aged well but I think you're missing the point if you try to lump this show in with those Saka is an overconfident but misguided teenage boy who grew up isolated from the rest of the worldwhere he has been tasked with being the sole leader and protector of his entire villain as a result he begins the show with a pretty dated sense of what men and women should be expected to do he's constantly
making belittling remarks to his sister he meets the warriors on Kyoshi Island and is relieved to see that they're just girls here's the thing though the show is not glorifying his behavior in fact they're very much doing theopposite because you know what happens right after he says these things he is immediately proven wrong he underestimates Suki and the rest of the Kyoshi Warriors and they kick his ass he's so embarrassed by this that he comesback with his tail between his legs and apologizes and begs to learn from them it is meant to be a humiliating and humbling experience for him one that also props up the women around him it's vindicating for qarawho's had to deal with this her whole life and it establishes Suki as a badass it's not unchecked it's not something that the showrunners are celebrating his misogyny is immediately met with repercussions are we really at a point
where we can't even show a character on TV doing something morally disagreeable can audiences truly not understand the difference between a real life human being expressing a shitty belief and that belief being portrayed in a piece of fictionand look I'm not here to die on the hill that you got to keep the misogyny in the show man it was so funny like there's other ways for the writers to show Saka having a flaw that Sukican use to get a leg up on him so what do they do instead she walks in on him taking a bath and just stands there staring at him with googly eyes and then in their training scene togetherthey have to stop every 10 seconds because of all the sexual tension avoid it we've avoided a lot of things by living the way we do Jesus Christ do you see the point that I'm trying to make here
instead of being this cool and confident intellectual Superior to Saka who always has the upper hand on him and is always able to shut him down whenever he tries to pull some they decided to just make her sohorny she can't function I got to say it's a little ironic that in an attempt to remove sexism from the show they actually took a more sexist approach to designing her character they Stripped Away everything that made herwho she was made her absolutely obsess over Saka who doesn't do anything to earn it and then they have the nerve to act morally superior to the original writers also does anyone in this Village respect privacy shaking mydamn head on the topic of absolutely destroying strong female characters let's talk about guar her entire Arc in the show is just man I'm not so good at bending and then Ang is like yeah you are and she's
like huh you're right I'm actually the best she is not given any personality whatsoever her entire existence is tied to her waterbending ability which is not what made her such a great character in the cartoon instead of showinghow fiery and passionate qara can be and how her optimism sometimes backfires because the world they're living in is so beaten down and how she can be a great leader and friend to everyone around her not just becauseshe's strong but because she's empathetic and brings out the best in people they just made her real good at fighting and that's it you are a water bender that is who you have always been and always will beand she doesn't even need any help because she's so talented always has been in fact I wasn't even really trying it's just not an interesting choice when compared to how the original show handled her growth they had this
great episode early on where qara gets jealous of Ang because he's the Avatar and everything just comes so easily to him but what this showed about her character is that she desper really wants to be good at waterbending will go to Great Lengths to be able to do it and has to work twice as hard as Ang so when we get to the end of the season and she does surpass him in skill we knowit's because she worked really hard to get there and that is more admirable than her just being handed this power I mean literally handed grand grand just gives her this scroll that in the original show she went toGreat Lengths to steal for qara her main motivation in season 1 is to get to the northern water tribe so she can find someone to teach her water bending something she's always wanted but has never had access to
because she's always been the only water bender in her tribe and then they finally get to the North Pole and I guess she doesn't actually need that because instead of asking paku to train them she begs him tolet her fight first of all why are you asking permission he's not going to stop you just go do it what is he going to follow you around and tie your hands behind your back cuz you're trying tofight the fire in it just go do it but the point they're trying to make is that she's so so powerful she doesn't even need someone to teach her okay well then why doesn't she just go defeat theFire Lord herself she has this line at one point where she's like we need you Ang I need you no you don't you don't seem to really need anyone the fact that everything comes so easily to her makes
it so there's no payoff at the end it makes this line you found a master haven't you you're looking at her kind of dumb actually all you did was read one scroll that your grandma gave you and nowyou're a waterbending Master what a Journey huh this story will be told for Generations they gave her zero depth in this show and it's really frustrating you may notice while watching the show that Netflix seems to have a
This section examines how the remake changes Aang into a more serious, less childlike character and weakens his arc. The speaker also criticizes the season's lack of training progression and the way it undercuts the original show's sense of urgency.
fear of giving any of the main characters an unlikable trait God forbid any of these children ever make a mistake or have a Redemption Arc they need to start the show already perfect that is such a boring wayto write your characters it's also a huge disservice to your actors by giving them nothing to work with one of the foremost characteristics of Ang early on in the show is that he's still just a kid he's a12-year-old boy who has been given this overwhelming responsibility of saving the world it's something that understandably scares the out of him so much so that he runs away that's how he ends up in the iceberg for a hundredyears it's the inciting incident of the entire show that guilt follows him and it's a really important part of his growth but Netflix seemed to be so concerned with having their main character make an incorrect decision that they
change the reason for him flying out into the middle of a storm to him just going for a stroll you're right just needs to go up where things always make more sense I got to go up where thingsmake more sense the ground ain't so good for thinking don't worry guys it was just an accident he wasn't avoiding responsibility because he's a child who wasn't ready for it yet he was just uh getting some fresh airin the middle of a lightning storm okay great so instead of him showing signs of immaturity he's actually just an idiot another thing about Ang still being a kid is that he's not always focused on the task athand that's something he has to grow into this is his very first line in the original show will you go penguin sling with me he's constantly getting distracted and wanting to go on side quests because he's a little
boy of course it's not like that the whole show but it gives him a starting point so by the end you can see how much he's mature Netflix Ang don't got a Whimsical bone in his body he isextremely serious and solely focused on getting from point A to point B he's not written like a child he's already the season 3 version of a Netflix if you want your characters to be able to grow they needto have a place to grow from yeah he takes the time to deliver his little soliloquies about how much he yearns to goof but those are just words we never actually see him do those things it also makesit so his whole interaction with Boomie makes no sense boom's like there's no time for fun hang you've got to go save the world it's like yeah he knows that he's already very good at not having any fun
this is one of the worst written arcs in the entire show because everything they say contradicts what they're doing boie tells him to quit playing games and go do your job as the Avatar meanwhile he's the one holdinghim hostage giving him games to play H wants to leave the entire time just let him go and he'll do the things you're asking him to Ang's immaturity also lends really well to the narrative shift that happens inthe first season cuz for a long time he's like yeah yeah I got to save the world eventually but first let's go here and around here for a little bit and we get to episode 8 and the formerAvatar is like no dude you actually have to defeat the Fire Lord by the end of the summer cuz this comet is going to come and if you don't do it before that he's going to be Invincible mastering
the elements takes years of discipline and practice but if the world is to survive you must do it by Summer's end it's this great shift in momentum that adds even more Stakes to the equation it puts a timeron everything they kind of do that in this one they give him a vision of the North Pole being attacked but that doesn't do anything to address the overarching goal of having to learn and master all three ofthe elements something that uh small note here he doesn't do any of the entire season they set that up as one of the main goals in the original first season and we see a bunch of examples of Anglearning water bending and before having it pay off in the finale Ang doesn't water bend once in this version he's so behind it's actually stressing me out it would have been wise to have focused on your training during
your journey I swear to God if they start season 2 and Ang is already very good at water bending implying that there was a bunch of progress that happened off screen I'm going to lose my mind and don'ttry to tell me that I already have this is me on a good day as you watch more of the show it makes a lot of the additions more frustrating because everything has a cost if you have tocut out character development moments so you have the space to show a bunch of air Benders getting set on fire you might want to take a step back and reconsider your priorities it starts to become a little obviouswhy the creators of the original show left this project almost four years ago over creative differences according to them they were promised that they would be given the job of guiding the show in the right direction and they
were lied to dude I'm so tired of these dumbass Executives who make $2 million every second getting involved in things that they have no knowledge in why even hire the original creators of the show if you're just goingto ignore their input and act like you know their story better than they do why the concern over making characters unlikable when that was never a problem to begin with everybody loved qara and Saka and Ang even withtheir imperfections imperfections are what make characters relatable and it's like this was all supposed to be the problem with network TV streaming was supposed to be the solution to this we're not going to micromanage and enforce a bunchof arbitrary rules we're just going to trust the showrunners to do the job that we hired them to do yet somehow over the course of the past decade we've just kind of reinvented cable so good job everyone I
The speaker acknowledges some strengths in the casting and especially in Zuko's scenes, including a few effective additions. But they argue that even Zuko's changes reveal the show's preference for spectacle over character depth.
honestly wouldn't be surprised to learn that most of the issues with this version of Avatar are the result of meddling from people who should have just stayed the hell away because there is potential here underneath all of thebaffling decisions are the bones of what could have and could still be a much better series for starters I think they did a fantastic job with the casting I imagine it's way harder to cast for live action thananimated because not only do they have to have the perfect voice but they also need to look the part and be the right age and in this case be able to do martial arts the fact that they're ableto check so many boxes with these kids is impressive I just hope that going forward they get better material to work with the only character they consistently write well for is Zuko this guys got it he totally Nails
the intimidating on the outside but a little sensitive on the inside and between him iro Xiao liutenant G I think almost all of the Fire Nation scenes were more cohesive and well written than anything that the rest ofthe cast was forced to do going back to my point that you can and should be able to make changes in an adaptation if they make sense I thought a couple of the additions they made to Zuko's characterworked perfectly one there's the reveal that the crew Zuko protected from being sacrificed in the meeting that led to his banishment he's actually the same crew that he's been commanding for the past 3 years since then so Ithought that was a really cool way of tying everything together it makes so much sense that I was actually surprised when I went back and rewatched season one of the animated series and realized they didn't do that originally
I also like the scenes they added with him and iro like the flashback to io's son's funeral where we see Zuko give him his condolences as well as a gift to remember his sunb they have another moment likethat at the end of this episode where Zuko is about to set off on his never-ending quest to find the Avatar and I is like hey uh mind if I come along and Zuko's pretty resistant to the ideabut then iro says this everything I need is on this boat it's a very sweet moment especially with a little nod they do to leaves from the vine a famously sad episode from season 2 but I do thinkit's worth pointing out that this only works for the people who have already seen the entire Animated Series this only has the emotional weight that it does if you're going into this show with 30 hours of content keep
in mind this is episode four of the liveaction if this is your first exposure to these characters this moment is not going to have nearly the same significance to you it's nice but it feels a little premature NetflixAvatar has an instant gratification problem where they don't want to set anything up that can be paid off later they just want that payoff now and I get that some of that was probably due to the uncertainty overwhether they would even get a season 2 and three so they were trying to be as impactful as they can with this first season but it's only going to make their job harder in the future like where doyou even go with some of these characters there was one big change with Zuko that feels emblematic of the entire philosophy they approach the show with there's an episode in season one of the cartoon called the storm where
we see these juxtaposed flashbacks of Ang and Zuko's pass and we learn about the moments that sent them on the trajectories they're now on for a it's running away from home and for Zuko it's getting banished from homehe speaks out a turn in a war meeting and disrespects everyone in the room by saying they should come up with a better plan oai does not appreciate this and he tells Zuko that he's going to have todo an agnik Kai AKA a firebending duel but when Zuko shows up he is shocked to find out that it's not the general he's supposed to fight it's his own dad Zuko begs not to have to fight himin fact he outright refuses but this only makes oai more Angry Zuko has now disrespected him twice so he burns his face and tells him he cannot come back home until he finds the Avatar the Netflix version plays
out pretty similarly but with one major difference this time Zuko fights back because why would we keep one of the most important moments of the show when we'd be missing out on an awesome fight scene look at allthe fire Zuko refusing to fight his dad was the best way to show us who he is how unlike his father he's not willing to hurt the people he loves Netflix kind of respected that idea I mean Zukodoes refuse to fight for a few seconds and he does eventually get burned by his uncaring father the problem is you can't justify Zuko getting banished forever because he lost a fight to the world's most powerful Firebender thatwouldn't make any sense so they had to add in another wrinkle to make sense of their first wrinkle which is that Zuko actually could have won he just chose not to and that's where this scene completely loses me
oai is supposed to be the ultimate threat the world's most feared villain looming over every second of Ang's Journey and you're telling me some random 13-year-old kid could beat him in a fight what are we doing here Ialso just think it's better for Zuko's Arc if he doesn't stand up to his dad yet because then it will mean way more when he eventually does what this decision showed to me is that the creators of knockoffAvatar will always choose flash over substance if we have to fundamentally change two important characters so we can get one extra minute of pyrot Technics you bet we're going to be doing that because this is a show for
The closing chapter returns to the show's dialogue, repeated twists, and inconsistent plotting as evidence of weak writing. The speaker ends by expressing cautious optimism for future seasons and encouraging viewers to revisit the original series.
grown-ups tell me again why the show made for grown-ups Netflix's Game of Thrones had to dumb down its writing every line of dialogue is so on the nose this was my home and now it's gone they always choosethe simplest way to convey a point but the one thing I do know is I'm the Avatar and this is just the beginning oh I get it because he's the Avatar and this is the end of episode onecompare these two lines that serve the same function and tell me which of these shows is made for babies you will learn respect and suffering will be your teacher compassion is a sign of weakness compassion is a signof weakness compassion it was weakness the script feels like a first draft filled with a bunch of placeholders that just ended up holding that place forever I think the moment that made me realize oh they truly don't give
a about what they're doing here is when they reused the same twist three times so just like in the original Zuko objects to the fire nation's plan to attack one place as a diversion so they can actually attacksomewhere else but then in the first episode they added in this thing where the Fire Nation tricks the Earth Kingdom into thinking they're going to attack one place as a diversion so they could actually attack somewhere else andthen in the finale it's revealed that the whole fight that just took place was get this a diversion so they could actually attack somewhere else how is the rest of the world not catching on by now they onlyhave one strategy the entire world will turn their attention to the earthbenders a masterful ruse your highness the enemy's Firepower focused on that diversion we can launch pinning attacks here a masterful ruse your highness why attack the north
at all distraction the north was never the true Target a masterful ruse your highness not only is that such lazy writing but the last one doesn't make sense they attacked the northern water tribe to distract them from omashubut both of those sieges happened over the course of one day even if they somehow knew it was happening because they got like an email about it they still couldn't have gotten there in time to help and it'snot like the Earth kingdom was distracted from omashu because they were busy helping the water benders they weren't there these two things have nothing to do with each other this wasn't a diversion you just did two attacks atthe same time and one of them worked and one of them didn't also did they not say in episode 4 that they knew omashu was going to be attacked Fire Nation forces are on the Move they'll be here
by Dawn why write in that they knew it was going to happen if you're going to make them so unprepared for it you're under attack we will be but we will be ready is anyone in the writing roomkeeping track of things that they've said I know some people are going to watch this video and accuse me of just being a hater but like I didn't want to not like this show believe it or not it'sway more fun for me to like stuff than it is to not like stuff I will root for success for this show and everyone involved I got genuinely emotional watching the cast react to the news that they gotpicked up for two more seasons and I didn't even like the first one I'm just happy for them that they get to keep working on this I think there's a lot of room to grow and I'm happy that
they're being given the opportunity to try and do that I hope that the Netflix corporate overlords who pushed for all the changes that people are complaining about can listen to the criticism and realize that they're only making thingsworse by intervening um I don't think they're going to do that but I will choose to be blindly optimistic until proven otherwise at the end of the day I would rather this show exist than not at all itdidn't cost me $100 million to make all I had to do was watch it Avatar is one of my favorite shows of all time and even if the best thing about this adaptation is that it's convinced people togo back and discover the original series for the first time I'll take and if you are one of those people welcome uh sorry I spoiled the first 20 episodes but a lot more stuff happens after that season 2
is where everything goes up another level they haven't even introduced Toof yet they replace Admiral xia with a Zula and that's a huge upgrade it gets so good man if you haven't seen it yet just go watch itwhat are you waiting for for this video to end it already did