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Avatar is cursed for remakes like Fantastic Four (lemmy.world)
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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's not bad, it's certainly enjoyable.

My take: the original is the real story. The Netflix is a summary. They skip a lot, but it's only 8 episodes. The things they skip, I just remember "still happened". The things they merged/combined are just part of the summary.

You are able to like the Netflix, as long as you know it's not a replacement. Just enjoy the retelling, and seeing Uncle iroh as a real person!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    It's only eight episodes, but they're an hour each, so it has exactly the same runtime. Also, the cartoon has the Great Divide, so not adapting that should have given them another 24 whole minutes to work with

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The first episode was an hour, but eps 2 and 3 were less, around 40-50 mins. (I haven't watched 4-8 yet.) So there was some loss of runtime, and I understand the need to change some things to make up that time. However, (and granted I'm only three eps in) I doesn't feel like the changes that were made were made strictly for runtime reasons.

    Gran-Gran giving Katara the scroll instead of her stealing it, yeah, I see that being a time saver. The overall change in Katara's personality? Not so much.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s only 8 episodes currently, or there’s only going to be 8 episodes? Surely not 8 for the whole thing?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago*

    Oh man, I disagree completely.

    Everything from the weird addition of Aang being able to fly without a glider to the really placid acting was very hard to watch. The CGI was insanely bad throughout, although the 2-3 second shots of the cities were oddly really well done.

    Still, none of the small glimpses of success made up for the overall failure of it for me. The acting was poor, and the cast was widely bizaar (why did Katara not look like Katara, at all?) the facial hair in many cases looked silly... Like, why does Iroh look like a mall Santa? And why was Aang wearing lipstick?

    I just don't get it... I don't know why they did half the things they did.

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