I’ve written about 4,000 words on this god awful, poor excuse for a tv show. But this is the last part. This is the end of my live action Avatar the Last Airbender review. I seriously started watching it at 1.25X because I just needed it to be over.
I had a very short list of must haves for this first season. I gave this show so much leeway, and I tried very hard to be open minded about the inevitable changes that were going to be made to this show. I have complained a lot about said changes because they were all unnecessary and executed very poorly. But words can not express how happy I am that they kept the sexism of the Northern Water Tribe. It is so integral to Katara’s character development and so important to the story as a whole.
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I would say that 60% of the show is a 1:1 adaptation, now that is a really high percentage and quite frankly far more than I expected. The problem is that even in that 60% where the story beats and dialogue are exactly the same the live action managed to suck all the life and character out of the story. The whole first episode was a hot mess of cheesy dialogue and poorly delivered lines. Then we move along and all of the very important character moments are what is cut out of the story. That means whenever we have an important moment, or a relationship moment that is supposed to be impactful it falls flat because there was no set up and the characters haven’t actually bonded. My official Avatar the Last Airbender review is that overall the show is bad. It is very skippable and if you love the show just go watch the animated series, the live action is not worth your time. I sincerely hope that it does not get a second season and that it just dies and fades away with the live action movie. There is no live action in Ba Sing Se.
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