One uncomfortable truth about the future of Avatar
There's no future. What we know about the show is about to change forever and what we thought we knew about the creators could quite possibly be a lie.
1. Seven Heavens is nothing more than a soft reboot on Avatar Universe. They are not dumb enough to make a full reboot and mess with The Last Airbender so they are sacrificing The Legend of Korra in order to make this soft reboot and start almost from zero.
They will continue to make The Last of Airbender material bc they have a good 60y window of time to work but it would be like The Legend of Korra never existed. Not only their window is short to work with (this even *if* we consider Korra's grey hair is from age and not stress) and they are going to end the world in Korra's time so it makes all for nothing, for everything related to her. From the show and/or new material. To make it short: Why would I invest in a movie about Korra saving the world again, if I know the tragic end of all?
2. Nothing about the images and the trailer feels like Avatar and this is another problem. Shows like Avatar have their well noticed, respected and praised visual identity. This translates with style, colors, color grading, shadows, choreography, cultural inspirations... basically the "body" of the show. And not only Seven Heavens appears to bring nothing of that, Bryke also is getting rid of the asian language that both Atla and tlok had (correct me if I'm wrong but it was Chinese right?)
Seriously what is this? It is like they went on the internet, saw ppl praising and hyping the high valyrian from Game of Thrones and want to surf the hype by copying it
Makes no sense. They are changing just for the sake of change. Avatar isn't The Chronicles of Ice and Fire, it ain't Lord of the Rings and it didn't need to try to be like them. This changes basically nothing but takes away from Avatar's identity.
3. It's kind of giving Resident Evil in the 00's when the game franchise didn't know what to do and try to copy the prominent action games at the time. Avatar is doing the exact the same.
The animation doesn't look like Avatar, it doesn't even seem from the same universe really. They are also changing the visual id because...idk. And the plot? Well: pos apocalyptic world, wasteland divided in "factions" where our hero is somewhat hunted? Yeah, never heard this before.
All of what The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra built in terms of visual and writing is gonna mean nothing because they decided to nuke everything in favor of a cheap generic plot they hope will sell best. Let that sink in.
4. Pavi is too young. There's so much they can do with a protagonist that young.
Don't quote Aang, he was 12y but the other kids surrounding him were older and also acted older than they really were. They were the ones who had it worst in that regard as we see more of Katara and Zuko's trauma than we ever did with Aang's in the og show.
And with Aang being 12y, they could at least hint at some things they can't with an 8y without getting age restricted.
This means the whole story will be more ""for kids"" than the other 2 shows. This will obviously make the show lose half of its audience which led me to
5. They don't care about their fans, especially tlok fans.
Most of Avatar fandom is old now, we are in our 20-30y, a lot of us will not sit down and watch a show made for little kids. I know that a lot of adults still watch cartoons but mostly we watch the same cartoons we did when we were kids and there's a psychological reason for that so for them to risk losing this audience (the faithful one) is so dumb. Especially bc they didn't need to make this choice between keeping the fans or attract new audiences
Ngl, even book 1 from The Last Airbender is a pain in the ass for me in every rewatch bc it's too childish and I'm old now. Those cues that landed well when I was 10y or 17y don't land anymore.
Anyway. They don't care. I know I joke about them making Aang weak in the movie but damn...imagine waiting more than 10y to watch your fav at their prime and he got somewhat dumber with his bending, beaten and murdered again in a worse way than the first one in b2.
They don't care. They don't respect the fans. I quoted Aang but with the female characters things are far worse
6. So, the uncomfortable truth is that they don care and ppl are even questioning if all the good we got wasn't made by other writers and they got the credit for it. Bc how can a show who was so proud of their inspirations started to get rid of it all of sudden?
What if it was other ppl working hard behind the scenes to make it look both cool and respectful, and only Bryke got the credit?
How can the ppl who fought so hard against everyone to make Korrasami happen, would all of sudden pretend they didn't exist?
It were the same ppl? It were really Bryke? Idk, but I also can't not make questions every time a new thing about Avatar pop up.
