#smashing together omashu jet AND the northern air temple while taking the most important bits away from each of them? atrocious

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Well I have finally watched the first three episodes of Netflix’s ATLA…

Ugh.

#I have so many criticisms of the first three episodes I’m scared for the other five #they botched nearly every character holy shit #especially suki aang and sokka #the only character I felt they got mostly right was zuko surprisingly (except the scar) #but at this stage his personality is mostly angry sometimes cringe teenager who wants to go home #so his character isn’t at the complexity of seasons two or three yet #they definitely ramped up his firebending which I’ll accept IF azula is 10x that #which I doubt but still #I do like that he’s concerned about honor even when faced with the opportunity to get gossip about zhao #honoring one’s enemy and all #every time he fights the gaang he gives them the chance to surrender first which is nice #many villains just attack right away #but besides that and the effects I disliked the show pretty strongly #smashing together omashu jet AND the northern air temple while taking the most important bits away from each of them? atrocious #jet needed to successfully manipulate both katara and aang to unblocking the dam #so that sokka could warn both the earth kingdom villagers AND the fire nation soldier #it was important that the soldiers chose to lead everyone out - both fire nation and earth kingdom citizens #and for the northern air temple it was significant for aang to see how the mechanist was destroying/adapting the temple #but they just cut those both out in favor of saving time #this show has no idea what patience is #somehow they cut out a shit ton of stuff while expanding what was left into super long episodes that feel rushed in every scene #my biggest pet peeve with this is that iroh talks WAY too fast #iroh’s slow and calm speech patterns helped force zuko - impatient and angry zuko - to shut up and listen to his uncle #he’s also way too blatant about his treasonous thoughts WAY too soon #I think enough people have written about suki and sokka that I don’t need to expand on the botching of their characters #kyoshi and kyoshi island in general were botched too #also #KANNA WHY THE FUCK DID YOU NEVER GIVE THAT SCROLL TO KATARA #the excuse of ‘the fire nation will find out’ ONLY works if she and sokka thinks there’s a spy in the village #and a spy would potentially make sense canon wise (I haven’t gotten to katara’s full flashback yet)