Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra

Avatar: Best animated series or best animated series ever?

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Professor Donger said:
I tried watching it a long time ago and the 30 fps as well as the mixed race kids made me nope out.

Like the main dude is pasty white

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And then his brother is just bleh
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Korra was a disappointment and proved that Bryke were hack frauds but everything about The Dragon Prince is pathetic like it wants to try so hard to recapture what made ATLA as great as it was and fails spectacularly. You know you fucked up when you have to apologize for to your audience for pushing out a shitty product.
 
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So I watched it, Maybe because my expectations were below ground level to begin with so the only way was up but I did not hate it.

The Good
-The character designs did not look like this, thank God.
-The animation was pretty good.
-I liked the fight scenes, they are as good as ever.
-The soundtrack for the most part was good except for the part where it sounded like an indian woman having an aneurysm (lol). There were two scenes like Aang escaping the collapsing mountain and the last moments of the final battle where they should have used the main theme but didn't.
-Tagah, Dave Batista's character was a really compelling villain. He works great as a nice foil to Aang and outside of what of him saying Aang's reliance/attachment to his friends being a crutch, nothing he criticizes about Aang is exactly wrong. He had an very understandable motives and a sympathetic backstory of what shaped him into being the man he is. The fact that he hates Republic City and that becomes one of his big motives is a win too. I do wish the movie spent some more time with him observing Aang and Katara before he draw to the conclusions like he did.
-Sokka nearly carries the film, he at times almost sounds like the old Sokka but at other times sound more like the Ember Island player Sokka. Still, the few times the film got a chuckle out of me was over Sokka's antics in the film. I like the scene where he talks to a group of kids about his journey from the old show and outside of omitting some facts nothing he says is a lie but the kids still call him a liar.
-The Spirit World stuff here was handled with a lot more restraint here than what some Kiwifarmers are making it out to be with the exception of Taika Wattiti's character. Like if that Character had to exist at all couldn't they have gotten an actual funny person to play him like Matt Berry?
-I didn't mind Aang having trouble of holding onto the lessons from the Guru episode. Him being told to let go of the angst (I had to) of loosing his people sounds great as bumper sticker advice for a 12 year old but Aang here is much older and the legacy of possibly being the last of his kind has a much more growing emotional weight as a person like him ages. I didn't mind the ending of him reaffirming the lesson of carrying on the principals and values of his people because of how the villain was a foil of him.


The Bad
-The new voice actors range from mediocre to absolutely sucks. Not even just the main cast even the the dudes who voice Avatar Roku and Monk Gyatso's cameos sound nothing like what they did in the original show. In one of Katara's lines, I could have sworn I either heard the microphone or some poorly mixed autotune shit. Fuck the pajeet man that bitched about Apu all those years ago for taking away the perfect opportunity for an Avatar cast reunion.
-The other main issue is that the story is crutched on the fact that Korra exists. Everything is a foregone conclusion based on that fact alone and it ultimately prevents the story having steaks, dramatic tension, or the plot going into a mysterious and interesting direction simply because it needs to end in a way that makes Korra possible.
-And these two things ultimately break the film more than anything else. Like I could forgive a lot of things but these two main things are what hold the movie down. Like if Korra never existed and this was the first thing we got from the Avater world since the original show with the reunion of the original cast and a big theatrical run I would have been singing this thing to high praises but at last it failed.
 
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Gay Sex Enjoyer said:
Aaron Ehasz really was the glue holding the original show together, wasn't he
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continual reminder that Aaron Ehasz described one of the characters in The Dragon Prince killing a fawn in order to heal her brother's full-body paralysis as "practically irredeemable" and genuinely believes that humanity should just roll over and starve or let the elves genocide them because they use animal products in their magic and that's icky and mean :(

dude is just as much of a fucking hack as bryke, unfortunately
 
madethistocomment said:
continual reminder that Aaron Ehasz described one of the characters in The Dragon Prince killing a fawn in order to heal her brother's full-body paralysis as "practically irredeemable" and genuinely believes that humanity should just roll over and starve or let the elves genocide them because they use animal products in their magic and that's icky and mean :(

dude is just as much of a fucking hack as bryke, unfortunately
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Too lazy to try to find it, but there's a great post on how Dragon Prince magic system is hilariously racist to Africans since they have the blood magic be a part of their religion, while it's the Abrahamic religion that mainly swapped blood rituals to traditional vocal magic system.
 
Rome's rightful successor said:
The other main issue is that the story is crutched on the fact that Korra exists. Everything is a foregone conclusion based on that fact alone and it ultimately prevents the story having steaks, dramatic tension, or the plot going into a mysterious and interesting direction simply because it needs to end in a way that makes Korra possible.
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This is the core of what is wrong with this movie. This movie was more invested on insisting on LoKs existence than creating an original AtLA story and the plot suffered from that. They needed to make sure everyone knew that Republic City was sooper important for the coexistence of the 4 nations (its not,, cite og avatar intro) and the final battle ofc needed to revolve around protecting the city. Tbh Republic City is the biggest blight that exists in AtLA due to the fact that the entire AtLA universe now completely revolves around it. Want to see the unique landscapes and cultures of the 4 nations? Nah, lets just scrap around in Republic City for 300 hours of run time. Want to have creative battles in a environment with different bending variables? Nah, lets just have another giant monster fight in republic city. Aang needs to hire spiderman in that bitch just so the audience can finally get a reprieve from endless Republic City slop.
 
I had no idea they were making a new Avatar movie. First time im hearing about it (and it got leaked? LOL) Used to watch the original series back when i was a kid/teen. i really liked it. Could only stomach Korra for two seasons and i heard the rest of the show was even worse, so i did not bother watching them.
 
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One comment I saw: "Dave Bautista is Asian enough to be in Avatar because he's Filipino but Dante Basco isn't Asian enough to be in Avatar because he's Filipino." It's true too.
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They really did want to shaft the main cast and get new people.

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Ether Star said:
This is the core of what is wrong with this movie. This movie was more invested on insisting on LoKs existence than creating an original AtLA story and the plot suffered from that. They needed to make sure everyone knew that Republic City was sooper important for the coexistence of the 4 nations (its not,, cite og avatar intro) and the final battle ofc needed to revolve around protecting the city. Tbh Republic City is the biggest blight that exists in AtLA due to the fact that the entire AtLA universe now completely revolves around it. Want to see the unique landscapes and cultures of the 4 nations? Nah, lets just scrap around in Republic City for 300 hours of run time. Want to have creative battles in a environment with different bending variables? Nah, lets just have another giant monster fight in republic city. Aang needs to hire spiderman in that bitch just so the audience can finally get a reprieve from endless Republic City slop.
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Wasn't LoK a flop, or am I remembering wrong? You'd think they'd want to distance themselves from it and just go more Gaang adventures to cash in on nostalgia with out all the baggage of what came after.
 
Oilspill Battery said:
When did this happen
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S4/S5 was so bad that they blamed the quality drop on the new head writer who went and made an already woke slop show even gayer by having the main male and female lead break up and introducing a new tranny character. Then promptly walked everything back when the head writer got outsed but it was too late
ATandTism said:
Wasn't LoK a flop, or am I remembering wrong?
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The first season performed so well that it was bumped from a mini series to a full on TV series. Subsequent seasons had a sharp decline in the ratings and the series was effectively moved off the network in the middle of S3 and S4 was online only.
 
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The "every character must be voiced by a character of the same race" is one of the most anti-art anti-quality policies in Hollywood right now.
 
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