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First ep of the Netflix series (aussie.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just finished the first episode, it's different, I feel like I messed it up for myself for rewatching the og one only a few weeks ago and having that fresh in my head, how ever I am a fan.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Just finished watching it and I thought it was quite bad. So much "tell don't show" going on. Aang literally explained his characters traits in a monologue ... just seems like they spoon feed you a lot of the information instead of actually setting up the characters. They do a lot of fan service .. if you can call it that. They shoehorned the old intro into an entire scene .. word for word. And they did Iroh bad .... he sounds as stupid as Yoda from the prequels.

I guess it can only get better from here .... but my low expectations were underwhelmed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yer a lot of that is fair however I think there just trying to cram in as much as they can, trying to cherry pick the best parts to put on show and force what's left of it down into any little cracks that are left. but there's only 2 things to compare it to that's the OG which it was never going to be, and that thing the doesn't exist by the same name. And we all know how that went...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is exactly where I'm at too.

They wasted tons of time showing us battles between people who don't matter just so they could work in a gratuitously long genocide as early as possible. And that means there's no time to develop Aang's character or relationships. So we just get wooden actors staring at the camera and saying "You are a kind and generous character. We are friends". If they had put the characters first and trusted that the audience will care about these people without CGI battles, when they did get around to showing scenes of emotional turmoil and conflict it would have been way more impactful.