#also like im so genuinely suprised at the amount of shit that took from season 2 and just deleted toph from the scene

[cloudjumpervalka]

i have now seen the live action atla series and god its so bad. it really is all the critics have been saying, it favors the characters telling you exposition over and over again with mediocre fight sequences.

the acting left a lot to be desired. the costuming left a lot to be desired. the writing DEFINITELY left a lot to be desired.

i feel very qualified to... judge the content of this as i was an undiagnosed autistic child with a hyperfixation on atla for the entirety of my middle school years. it was the only thing i cared about or thought about literally

like. the worst part of all of it. is not just the like. cutting of any character developing moments but alao like. these weird little plot differences ????? again these are arguments ive already seen online but, katara isnt allowed to be angry, sokka isnt allowed to be a good leader, aang isnt allowed to have FEELINGS.

god so much of it felt like. how many adults can we get to berate this child that looks like hes about to legitimately cry. the changes to bumis character? made me so angry.

like i guess i can see what the writers were "going for" if you want to call it that. they put so much focus on showing the violence of the fire nation, literally deciding to open the show. showing the genocide of the airbenders, burnt corpses and all. because of this exasperated showing of violence, the message being shoved down aangs throat by nearly every adult character is "you abandoned the world and people died because of you and will continue to die because of you and you will never atone for this"

like what these writers were going for is. aang is not allowed to be a child. none of these kids have been allowed to be kids in the war so we need to punish aang for that so that he can understand their pain. its because we only things you learn about katara and sokka is their tragic backstories and nothing about what makes them.... them..

so we cant possibly have aang be a fun loving kid bc we dont have time to explore that with anyone else !!! these characters cant bond !!!! suffering only !!!!!!!! we live in a time of suffering !!! suffering through these shitty plot changes !!!!!

#i could go on of course #about any little detail #about shoving omashu the mechanist and jet and secret tunnel all into one plotline #also like im so genuinely suprised at the amount of shit that took from season 2 and just deleted toph from the scene #also WEIRD to see comic and korra lore pop up #it made it feel like there were Real Fans of the show working on it but they didnt get to write anything other than a few bits #the episodes were so disjointed #i could have swore aang did this speech about never going to omashu before #and then the next episode starts with flashbacks to him with child bumi in omashu #IT HAD ONE GOOD SCENE AND IT WAS LU TENS FUNERAL OKAY