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I hate how Hollywood thinks live action is the highest form of visual media. Like you want remake avatar? Up the budget for animators, pay the shit out of your voice actors, and pay some writers to add some darker themes. Would be better than any of the live action have been.
The original is pretty dark for a childrens show. Even as an adult episodes like the one about blood bending made me shiver a bit.
Yeah but they weren't allowed to show or too directly imply death. That's why Jet's "death" scene was bizarrely vague. Getting rid of that restriction on the original writers would probably be interesting.
That's basically what happened with Legend of Korra. It wasn't TV-MA, but it was definitely a far darker show overall.
And when Korea got into the more obvious deaths they actually pulled it from broadcast and went streaming only.
The Earth Queen's murder was the one that crossed the line for the Nick execs. There was no way they were showing that on TV.
Nah. Avatar isn't dark at all for a kid's show.
Nobody dies. Nobody gets cut. Bending really just amounts to "pushing" in most fights.
Naruto on the other hand is quite dark for a kid's show.
Japan gets it.
Japan makes shit lots of live action adaptations of anime. they just don't usually make it to the west.
And the manga fans don't watch them.
Besides, a lot of those movies aren't actually meant to be watched. They're made by Yakuza owned company that have to do some production to "prove" they aren't just laundering money.
I'd watch that
Alex Meyers has a good video on this, he has this exact same opinion. I think maybe you would like it.
The problem is you have the literal actors shilling their bullshit to the masses.