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Ok so I finally watched the movie, it had been sitting on my hard drive for some time now...BUUUUUUUT, I kept hoping that it would be released on cinemas, at last...it didn't happen.

Did I like the movie? Yes, Do I have critisisms? also yes...I'm not about to review the movie in here.

I am much more interested in the implications of the film.

See, as truly great as the original is (And I really think the original animated series is one of the greatest things ever since bread) I do think there has been some waisted oportunities in the ATLA universe, and I do think the worldbuilding is amazing but it only did so much; and part of what I liked about Legend of Korra was the profundization of the lore.

So...the most ancient avatar we see in ATLA is Yangchen, the oldest event we see is Kyoshi splitting of the land, we see pretty much from the start that near everywhere is just a few years away from the Industrial Revolution, and then in ATLOK the industrial revolution already happened, we see the four nations (yes, including the air nomads) already formed AS nations, there's AN Earth Kingdom, A Fire Nation, A Northen Water Tribe, A Southern Watertribe and the four temples...already as nation states. Interconected Nation States (You have to know someone to fight with someone, so ATLA is on a world war already, you know how advanced a scociety needs to be in order for these types of interactions to be possible in the first place?)

so what I really liked about the movie was the implication of an antiquity, of a sort of bronce age of sorts (there were implications of the Bronce Age in the Avatar Wan episodes of Korra but it was just a few seconds), and you know, of a period in the Earth Kingdom BEFORE there was an Earth Kingdom. kinda like the Quin dinasty (ooooh a romance of the 3 earth kingdoms would be cool as shit); how cool would that be? Avatar in Antiquity? Imagine, the avatar still needs to learn all 4 elements, but there's not a real posibility of travel across all nations to find teachers because the world isn't THAT connected yet, and has to learn from spirits or the original benders or some shit, and like, there's a bunch of clans in the Earth Kingdom and they're warring with each other, there's a bunch of Airbenders but they're truly nomadic they don't have a homebase or something and the Fire Nation also has smaller kingdoms and feudalism and samurai.

The Air City on the movie looked so great, How cool would it be to see something set on the era of Avatar Sonam?

See, recently I played a one shot in the Avatar TRPG (my character is an edgy firebender who is a pirate but used to be a soldier in the Peony wars, she was drafted by her liege as part of her feudal army, like Mulan if her army had lost) and what I loved the most was the posibility of sectionalism within the firenation...Local nobles, civil war, etc. Now...Imagine seing the place BEFORE there was a Firelord.

I think the next Avatar series should be placed WAY in the past, not WAY in the future, like, I'd rather see Romance Of The Three Kingdoms ATLA than Fallout ATLA.

I loved the flashbacks to antiquity.

Toph Bei Fong

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Finally watched the new atla movie and where is Suki?! Team avatar and no suki?!

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What's so wrong about making a live action show with the SAME storyline as the original cartoon!! Why mix it up and change how shit goes??? The cartoon already has such great character development plus the show itself is already perfect. Ugh I'm just so disappointed

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Netflix avatar funny thing

But what happened to the painted lady fit. Was katara wearing her entire wt fit under??

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The second season of Netflix's live action Avatar: The Last Airbender is out and I think does a much more solid job than the previous, which was still figuring out a few things about adapting this story. In this pivotal season, major themes, story beats, and character moments are had, even if the situations are different. What they chose to cut, combine, and alter works well, and it logically gets us to the same place in the end: Lake Laogai.

All the main cast and several of the secondaries get good moments. I like having the Kyoshi Warriors along early on the journey to Ba Sing Se, giving Suki and Sokka more time to connect...except he's grieving Yue and scared now about Suki's impetuous warrior nature, too. It ends up confusing her as she's getting mixed signals from him. But it helps build their relationship up more before her capture.

While Iroh doesn't sing, there is a moment by a tree and those familiar chords playing in the background, which instantly gets me teary. I like his arc this season, what he learns in dealing with Zuko's struggles and growth, Iroh's own guilt and grief for his past actions, his interactions with the people of Ba Sing Se, and also the setup for the White Lotus, which actually kinda follows an idea I've seen banded about on a blog post here.

The Painted Lady is a flower and a story told to Katara by Amita, who is not only a friend to Team Avatar but a love interest for Sai the Mechanist, who also continues to have a role within Ba Sing Se. The story Amita tells inspires Katara's vigilante streak, but within the city, which also leads to encountering the Blue Spirit a couple key times.

Zuko does get his Alone time, and that does get to play out similarly to the original. His arc is honestly extremely similar for this season, not a lot to change there. What is changed are minor additions that connect to where he's going. We also get quite a few flashbacks to Ursa (the turtle ducks are exactly as cute as they ought to be).

Jet gets his emotional character arc, though the circumstances turn out far differently, ending in the same way by another route. It works for the time and episode constraints and what/how was adapted.

Due to child actors, they do mention time passing. Aang's actor shot up several inches and his voice dropped. So they don't try to get around it or play coy. Time's been passing and they've been working as things get worse in the Earth Kingdom. It does make his growing feelings for Katara work better too, as while still young - and boy do the characters' youths and inexperience work against them at times - his obvious new maturity makes it work. He's more believably having those thoughts and feelings than the perpetual 12 year old.

Toph is great. The actress is sighted, but the contacts make it actually hard for her to see at all, and there was a blind consultant on set with her the whole time. Her relationship with her parents is given a little more emphasis, giving her some moments of vulnerability behind the toughness of the Greatest Earthbender in the World. They do downplay her lie detector abilities though, to better make Long Feng's duplicity and the dangers of Ba Sing Se's corrupt political system work. Also a particular heartbreaking scene with her mother that leads to that crowning moment of awesome.

Ty Lee and Mai also have their moments, and their acknowledgement that however much they love each other or Zuko or whoever else, at this point Azula scares them more. Given what she shows through the season, they're not wrong to feel that way.

And Azula is great. As terrifying as she ought to be, trying to hold herself together with confidence and control, but there is a shade of a little girl in there who wants familial connection...maybe not as much as Zuko, but the glimmer of it is there, and creates a good reason for his turn in the end. It's built up all season with the flashbacks to their mother, too.

So yeah. I think the choices made to adapt this season worked out very well, and were better done than season 1. It flows well, major points are still hit, characters like Professor Wei built up a little more, new minor characters work, sometimes as composites sometimes as new roles filling a spot created by the changes. There are Easter eggs and callbacks, especially for things they couldn't include, but they do not lose sight of the version of the story they are telling now.

I look forward to seeing this Team Avatar again in season 3.