WHAT WOULD THE POINT OF AN ADAPTATION BE IF IT WAS AN IDENTICAL EXPERIENCE TO THE FIRST ONE - Tumblr Posts

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE KIDS IN THE BACK!!!

so, i finished the ATLA LA the other day and like

of course it’s not a carbon copy of the cartoon. there would be no point in making it if it was going to be. if you ever want to be satisfied with an adaptation you have to go into it seeing it as its own thing. there’s going to be plot changes, live action shows are a wildly different media to cartoon shows (and i do think avatar is the type of show that did have to be animated, so much of the development came from filler which you can’t really do in live action) and when you properly take that into account, they did a damn good job.

yes, there’s some scenes and lines that i am sad didn’t make it in. but also, the characters still feel like the characters. the visuals, costumes, bending effects and choreography are freaking awesome.

i honestly think some people just want to be mad at this show without even giving it a chance because of how bad the last one is and that’s so unfair to all the people who worked really hard on it.

if it’s not your cup of tea, that’s absolutely fine. ATLA is a show that is better suited to cartoon media, we all know that, the cartoon still exists just fine. but don’t shit on people for enjoying the live action just because you don’t, yeah?