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Now I need to rewatch the whole atla because these live action changes got me gaslighting myself fr.

Zuko's "you have my notebook🔥🔥🔥!" had the same energy as "he 👏STOLE👏 my ✨️Dream Journal✨️!"

The Bad Batch as Benders 🏔️

Hunter is either a firebender or an earthbender, I really can’t decide but I just feel like he’d be both. He’s strong, determined, & coolheaded. But he’s also very caring & tight knit with his squad.

Wrecker is an earthbender all the way!! You can’t look at this guy & tell me he isn’t an earthbender! He’s probably the strongest anyone’s ever seen, but he’s really a big old softie under all that rock-hard muscle.

Echo I had a tough time with as well, but I feel he’d be either a water bender or a nonbender! I feel he’d be good as a nonbender considering his experience with combat, as well as his prosthetics helping him out a bit. I also think it would be cool if Fives has Echo’s polar opposite for bending.

Tech would be a water bender for sure! I feel he’d also be a plant bender too considering it’s very helpful. But also because I feel he’d want to learn more about waterbending!

Omega is definitely an airbender! Or better yet, I feel she’d be a great Avatar! She’s like the cutest & most fun loving person ever, but I’m not sure he’d be as skilled as Aang, since he was a prodigy. But she is very smart! Plus, the Bad Batch can be both her teachers & her version of the Gaang!

I’m sorry this was so short but this was really fun! Consider it in honor of the Live Action ATLA, which was awesome!! 🪨🔥🌊🍃

Atla fanfic “always meet” fem oc x Sokka

Wattpad : dude_wthhh

Atla fanfic “always meet” fem oc x Sokka

Wattpad :dude_wthhh

Atla fanfic “hate me more” fem oc x aang

Wattpad :dude_wthhh

Dare I say this fic will be the death of me

exactly!!! It's an ADAPTATION and it won't be the exact same, but it still was (in my opinion) very enjoyable to watch! You can tell that the people who worked on it were all fans, and it shines through!!! At the end of the day, it's about passion and love for the project, and I think they hit that nail on the head.

ATLA fans need to realize that ATLA isn't and never was perfect. The first episode is really awkward at times. Some of the plots are weird and some weird things happen. Everyone will disagree on what plots are relevant or are unnecessary or are good or bad. But some things were just not the best idk what to tell you. And the animation wasn't top notch either. That doesn't mean the show isn't good and isn't really fucking good and it doesn't mean you can't like it. Nothing is perfect and when you strive for perfection in shows you will be disappointed. Imperfections is what gives things their charm!!

You literally can't hold the live action series to ATLAs standard because ATLA isn't perfect and if they made everything exactly the same it wouldn't turn out well. You have to let this new show have it's own flaws and charms and if you don't like your favourite show being adapted and it makes you angry when they change things then don't watch it because that's bad for your health

Maria Zhang as Suki AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER — 1.02 "Warriors"

THIS!!! This is everything I’ve thought about Zuko’s scar in the live action. I was also disappointed that they didn’t seem to put much actual effort into the scar, because it’s such a huge part of his character and arc.

literally pleased with almost all of the new atla trailer except as per usual, Zuko's scar, idk why studios are so scared to commit to the intensity of the thing, its supposed to be shocking and obvious and textured and the first thing you see... that's the point, Zuko is supposed to struggle with feeling like it defines and brands him before finally coming to the point in his journey where he defines it.

Hollywood/big studios are known to hesitate or straight up avoid properly and honestly and unapologetically showing people with disfigurements/disabilities/facial differences etc. with the realism they deserve. Which is a shame in general for representation and humanization but ESPECIALLY in this case as its minimization actively harms it's narrative purpose as well

I promise making the scar more intense (shrivel up the ear a bit, make it intrude in his hairline, make his eye in a permanent squint due to nerve damage, for god sake REMOVE THE EYEBROW IT WAS BURNED OFF) will not make Zuko "ugly", (the actor is incapable of looking ugly and also the implication that scars make people too unappealing? yikes) but will actually do the character and his journey justice, not to mention really show Ozai's brutality, another essential narrative tool. Especially when he's bald like hello??? It should be even more stark and intense when he doesn't have hair to distract from it and cover his ear!!!

When transitioning from 2D to live action, of course some visuals are up for interpretation but that usually involved ADDING detail because the constraints of having to stay on modeling frame to frame is gone, not minimizing, removing or airbrushing. Doing Zuko's scar right to me is absolutely essential and I'm disappointed they seem just as as scared to go there as I thought they might. It doesn't have to be gory, if you've ever seen burn victims in real life or in pictures or even cosplayers/artists who are skilled in realistic burn makeup you'd know its possible to balance realism with humanity. It's possible especially with their resources to avoid the "scary Halloween makeup" route while not holding back on the brutality of the original injury.

Budget is definitely not an issue, or "scaring the kids" considering this remake is likely aiming to go a lil darker in tone than the cartoon (which was already super dark with its target audience of nickelodeon 7 year olds so no excuses) Audiences SHOULD be unsettled and upset when they see him but not because he's hard/disturbing to look at but because we are human and do not want to imagine someone doing that to a child.

It's a deliberate choice out of the all too common fear/hesitation to allow someone who is destined to eventually become a protagonist and is meant to be sympathized with to be "too ugly" while this hesitation is very rarely applied to straight up villains (again we come back to media's historic villainization of facial deformity). It's a trend that's always ticked me off in fanart too. The boy's face was melted, for gods sake. Zuko was always portrayed as an attractive boy in the cartoon (fire nation girls fawn over him) even with the intensity of his scar which is something I've always admired! People exist with scars similar to Zuko's in real life, and should not only be permitted to be represented as good guys and/or as attractive when their scars are toned down to be "palatable"

Like I said there's more that I loved than didn't love about the trailer, that can be a whole essay on it's own but I needed to get this very specific vent off my chest because it missed the mark so hard and stands out like a sore thumb in comparison to all the other visuals that hit the nail on the head to me

Happy 19th Birthday Avatar The Last Airbender

Today Atla animated first episode aired on Nicklelodeon, tomorrow Atla live action will air for the very first time

6Tomorrow the boy in the iceberg will wake up, with the water damage siblings, a flying bison and a winged lemur, he's going to save the world

In my country, it's already Feb 22nd

And because I have to wait for one more day, I broke that Final Trailer down

A previous incarnation of the Avatar can manifest through the current Avatar by possessing their body.

Love the fact that they used that more and that Kyoshi show up to protect her village and her people

The Storm!

Sokka and Katara, they're his family now

The Northern Water Tribe, so epic!

But it's not cool, it's cold *fingers gun*

The Boy in the iceberg, fate is leading them to him

Omashu- the second largest city of the Earth Kingdom, make sense to have a line of people waiting to get in

This easily win as the coolest scene in my heart (but that only count the trailer)

Aang after discovered Monk Gyatso's skeleton, this boy gonna go through a lot

Base on the blue light on their faces and snow on Zuko face, I would say you are witnessing Koizilla

His first girlfriend turned into the moon, and Tui swimming in the background

KOIZILLA. I really curious about it whole design

Guess now we will have more Monk Gyatso and the Southern Air Temple. Awesome!

We now have a fight between Zuko and Sokka instead of the boomerang

Suki and Sokka fight together! Also what was the fan made of to create those spark. Wait, can Toph Metalbend Suki's fan

Look at the way they Bend, look at their outfits, just look at it.

The pure joy on his face and in his voice. It would be so bad if someone take it away

I'm looking at you Azula

3 more hours before Tumblr, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook,... basically everything relate to the Internet explode

JUST 3 MORE HOURS

New avatar series!!!

So based on the internet this is the consensus on the atla live action series:

“They finally made this theme more blatant-" Why does it need to be blatant. What's wrong with subtlety? Concepts can be underused but subtlety is not neglect.

Blaring all your concepts and themes is not good writing. It's so disruptive to a story's flow when the characters look off the screen to be like "See? This is the concept. The idea. The theme."

If you can feel the hand of the author becoming too heavy that's bad.

For example: I see people saying Azula's abuse in ATLA is more blatant in the live action and it's good because "it's being discussed more". It already was discussed at length. The show made it clear she was a victim at every turn, every behavior, every reaction, it came from a place of trauma. It was made clear that she was scared of ending up like Zuko because Zuko was an example of what would happen to her if she failed. When she says she's better than Zuko it wasn't just because she was raised to think hersef superior to him but because Zuko failed and failures get mutilated and exiled, failures are abandoned. In that final Agni Kai the music is morose and somber because this isnt some epic battle its a fucking tragedy, the burning out of "Ozai's brightest light" and Azula finally succumbing to her terror and trauma she was repressing now that her worst fears are realized. How can you see a fourteen year old girl chained to a sewer grate wailing and writhing and breathing fire desperately as unsympathetic? Even Katara and Zuko are horrified as to what has become of her.

The writers weren't looking us in the eye and saying "See? She's a victim too" when they wrote this, they weaved it in. They weaved it into her obsesison with symmetry, her extreme perfectionism, the way she talks about Ozai, the ways she calls herself a monster, her isolation from those with healthy home lives, all the ways she held herself together and ultimately all the cracks and seams that she shattered down when she fell apart. It did not need to be blatant to be clear.

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.

overlooking all the other reasons why the show went downhill: katara’s feminine rage missing, aang getting guilt punched every episode, bumi being ooc, almost zero gaang bonding episodes, three episodes compiled into one (done twice), azula being introduced too early + given too much screen time, the cave of two lovers being in s1 when it was a s2 episode— all of that is valid but the show can really be pointed out in two ways where they went downhill:

aang never waterbended once during a season where it is literally called book one: water.

yue’s wig.

Zukka shippers come get your juice!

(Dallas Liu about his relationship with Ian)