Reasons why I'm relieved the Zuko movie got canned:
Seeing how the Aang movie treated its animators, I feel morally justified in my relief.
Seeing how the fans were treated with the theater bs adds onto point 1.
I do not trust them to write a proper script and storyline.
They were "taking inspiration from but not directly adapting" [The Search] and [Smoke and Shadow] comic trilogies? The infamous, out of character, plot contrived, melodramatic, poorly written, Azula-is-crazy-and-she-needs-to-go-down comics? Need I say more?
As noted in point 4– They do not respect (nor do I ever expect it of them) Azula's mental health and psychological needs.
Zuko, Iroh and Fire Nation glazing would have been burning hotter than Sozin's Comet.
If they included Ursa, they'd probably have to retcon the comics. There is no way to include her without it coming directly from the comics timeline. It just wouldn't fit into a ~2hr film.
Killing off the last two dragons, save Druk, makes me wonder if the writers just love exterminating oppressed groups for drama's sake. Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
Fire Nation politics. Who would rule while the Fire Siblings are off on an adventure? Iroh? These sort of "I have to go on a side quest for the hundredth time" occurrences being accepted by the Fire Nation does not make sense. It just sounds like avoidant, incompetent behavior from their leader.
Would it include Mai and Ty Lee? Would they be sidelined or stripped of their personality?
They would've either had the siblings somehow reconcile within a movie's length after nearly three decades of being arch nemesis... or, they would've stretched the conflict out and we don't get a proper resolution.
The same-face, nose-job anime artstyle haunts me. And so does manwha Zuko.
If Zuko learned lightning bending, would it be through Azula? How, when and why? What would the thematic buildup be? Would he zap at a threat with it? Would morals be involved?
I'm not sure if a murder mystery plot is something the writers could pull off with this set of characters, within a movie's length. How do you handle the pacing?
I heard it included a failed assassination attempt on Iroh. And we all know how I feel about Iroh happily living his life, snorting lavender and drinking from porcelain cups.
