Yeah i hated the script it’s like they watched the animated scene right before and then said alright switch some of the words around so it doesn’t look like we copied 💀💀

Reminds me of the kid who played Aang in the live action movie. that kids entire career got screwed over because of that film.

​@@ikw2828the problem is that it literally feels like a school play. Evrything is way too clean looking. It feels like everyone is just reading from a script. Well they are I know but it shouldn't FEEL that way. None of this feel natural at all

@@andrewgarfield9898 lowkey you’re right it feels exactly like a play, none of the characters really feel believable if that makes sense

100% like the writing is easily what drags the show down

Mine is the reminder his college doesn’t exist anymore.

I love this one too, kills me every time.

ITS SO FUNNY

mine is his unfinished book

@@A4I1K0 that's a good one too 😆

At least they devoted some money to the special effects this time 😂

yahh i think they were so scared of it not being like the cartoon they made it EXACTLY like the cartoon

​@@enternamehere1968 But it's nothing like the cartoon, when you think about it.

so many exposition dumps, really disappointing script ngl lmao

This!! I saw it coming as soon as he just flopped out of the Ice! He's supposed to come out of the ice Jumping and flying about and rambling about penguins ya know!

Did you miss the scene where he stares at the kids playing and not join in with them? Yeah you can tell this kid really just wants to goof off huh? 😭

Feels more like a powerpoint presentation than an actual show​@@syra1541

I mean the writers literally said in an interview Aang is gonna be all business no side quests. That just ruins some of his character development.

all very bad at the core of the show, but the exposition dumping is what made it near-unwatchable for anyone, old fan or otherwise.

Omg yes, how are they supposed to grow when they don't have flaws in the beginning. Like nobody starts out as a perfect person

yeah same with katara's anger

Sokka is still sexist but it’s more subtle

Yeah, seems like they are scared of twitterx/social media "backlash" with flawed characters in season ONE.

To laughterville?

@@Troublemaker13201 omg, did you know there is a town in Oklahoma called slaughterville LMAO

@@alizahassan3299 omggggg dylan would love that town

Pretty sure he’s got a degree in it😅

@@Hana_Hfrom a college that doesn’t exist.

@@Hana_H that makes alot of sense

@@simplesimply3753 Hey, it existed at some point!

He went to a scam college 😂😂. The best of all colleges

It's so messed up

he’s said a lot that he doesn’t really want the recommendations unless he asks

we don’t do recommendations here

It's like the only rule don't recommend anything 😂😂

You must not really watch anything. 💀 He doesn’t take recommendations

dylan is complaining about the intro "telling and not showing" ..and it was done in the cartoon????

it's about "oh, we're gonna do this and that, we are evil" and not actually showing the audience their evil doing. @@marvelousmia

the intro was done in the cartoon!@@Ahmed-Interrupted

@@marvelousmiaYeah..as a bit of exposition. That's it. We just get that tiny bit of spiel. It doesn't say anything about zuko, the firelord, the actual LORE behind the (spoilers) comet. And then it's played every single episode- the exact same way. It was a nickelodeon show for kids, they would need to have a level of exposition in the case that a viewer joined mid season. It would then spark them to go to the beginning and watch from there. This live action CONSTANTLY ignores the "show not tell" NUMBER 1 rule. Example: let's take a scene where Katara is angry (in the animation), she wouldn't be shouting "I'm SO ANGRY"- She would be huffing and puffing, shouting at the others, frowning, staying silent etc. It's an objectively crap live action and it's a shame because they had potential. The cast are clearly decent but the writing is the Achilles heel.

@@marvelousmiaIn the cartoon they told us the overall history, and yes they did give us a bit of exposition. But the show does that over and over again, often about things it had already told us about.

Yeah! They’ve really ruined his whole arc by almost condensing it into one season! He’s not nearly angry enough or driven and I love when he is rude and cold to his crew until the Storm episode where they almost revolt and Iroh gives them a perspective of his character and WITHOUT BEING OBVIOUS their respect for him changes! I kind of hated the whole salute thing they gave to Zuko in this show because it was so overstated! And it would have given Zuko too much respect and appreciation so early. If he gets what he needs that early he’ll not want to go back to the fire nation because he won’t need to! Nobody seems to get that! The one thing I wanted from this show was for them not to fuck up Zuko and that’s exactly what they’ve done and what’s worse is that the actor totally has the potential to play Zuko right but he wasn’t given the chance!

YES I AGREE!! I thought the show was alright - good in some ways but not the best. This is one of my biggest criticisms of the show in my opinion. Here it feels like he's already half way round to the good side. I understand the creators love Zuko and want to hint that Zuko is a good person - as we all know he is - but he has also made mitsakes as a villain. I feel like the creators were very hesitant on picturing Zuko as an antagonist (putting all of the bad light on Zhao instead), and that only takes away from how much impact his turnaround becomes. In the netflix series he barely makes any bad choices, and any choices to fight were backed by the 'If I can't capture the Avatar I can't go home'. Which, to be fair, is the underlying reason for all his actions. But putting it to the forefront of every decision and making Zuko seem more panicked and stressed from being unable to capture him makes him seem more desparate, rather than the determined, confident 'I *will* capture the Avatar and regain my honour!' Zuko we see in the animation.

They're also not going to be able to do the scene where Zuko tries to capture Appa in Ba Sing Se where Iroh makes him actually question himself because he says 'this is just like at the north pole when you tried to capture the Avatar. You had him then you had no where to go' and did anyone notice that he didnt even capture Aang at the north pole?

I agree with this! I think Zuko and the actor are one of the highlights of the show! But I was disappointed that they’re already making us sympathize so much. I thought “his character arc is not going to be nearly as good in this version”

The same goes for Azula

And they explained it again and again like we are all stupid 😭

@@katsa6052 and the amount of monologuing made me wanna die

That’s why it was boring. Maybe they’ll do better in season 2 😅

Probably wanted to fill the time to avoid showing bending because the vfx is so expensive

@@katsa6052it’s one of the worst things for me. Even the cartoon which is literally made for kids has more nuance and subtext. The live action has completely lost the character of the show because it’s so flat and misses so much

the way i didn’t notice until you pointed it out i-

I was waiting for someone to point this out 😂

I agree. Like Dylan said it needed some care. Some f#$ing tender love n care. I mean the Executives know this shit works thts y thy bought it. So y change it. Y would u kill its spirit.

Clearly

Yes

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coming back to appreciate dylans critiques, watching through that first episode w him was such a struggle but his commentary is always just so satisfying - it like helps me understand what i didnt like about a scene while also giving me an idea of how it could have reached its best potential anyway i love being a troublemaker

ur so real for this LMFAO

Yes I do the same thing and I always thought maybe it was a little strange bc no one I know does it 😓

@@fairyfizz5985 a troublemaker? Is that what Dylan's fandom is called?

@@andrewgarfield9898 yessir 🫡

I cackled so fucking hard 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah that was my favorite part since it was a lot less telly (and yeah I think the fight made less sense character wise than the original but a little part of me wanted to see the matchup). I also liked when aang blew zhao into the door (and I think the dialogue is a tad better in that scene too) but that’s straight out of the old show.

still weird tho so much pointless expositiona and staring

I disagree. We didn't need to know zuko's n iroh backstory until the second season whn he starts struggling abt who he is!Right now he is the villain thn in the second season exile! his inner conflict n why he is the way he is! Hence backstory and thn season 3 he figures out who he is! N redemption arc. Revealing it too early only makes us sympathize with him rather thn go on a journey with him to his redemption arc. I hav to really hate him now to truly appreciate n love his development later on

@@hirarana93 yeah Zuko is way too emotionally mature and touchy-feely rn, he's not even enough this open at the end of the series in the og

@@hirarana93 ​ @jamesng.6387 completely understand your argument, I get what you're saying, but I think you're getting some facts crossed. In the original animation, Zuko's backstory was told in Season 1. One of my favourite episodes, "The Storm" season 1, episode 12. It's a very well known and important episode thematically because it shows that Zuko has been struggling with who he is, his core values, and what he stands for from the beginning. It shows him standing up to his father in the war meeting, having an Agni Kai but refusing to fight (which the LA got wrong and really shouldn't have had him fight back) - a testament to his character and his love and respect for his father who still punished him for what he perceives as weakness - and getting banished as a result. I don't think you need to "hate" him to "truly appreciate" his development. Rather I think sympathising with him makes all the other true "villains" of the story that much more heinous and unlikeable. Zuko has retained his humanity and his emotion and his appreciation for the world, even if it has been buried by years of indoctrination and being banished for 3 years on a impossible pursuit for a person he didn't know would ever return. Showing hints of that in small ways like him having such a positive connection to his uncle (both in animation and LA), having that brief moment where he connects with Aang after he (as the Blue Spirit) breaks him out of confinement (again both in the animation and LA) isn't him being "touchy-feely". And I wouldn't say the LA portrays him as emotionally mature. I think the tone and character of Zuko as portrayed by the actor is pretty dead on. Any times he's "open" are really in flashbacks to before he got banished and traumatised by his father. Most of the show is him being his usual petty, overly temperamental, and one-minded. Even Iroh's backstory, which is what I was referring to in my original comment, was sprinkled in throughout the first season. That said, the core part of his backstory (losing his son and giving up his siege of Ba Sing Se) was in fact revealed in S2. However, I don't mind they brought this story forward because it gives us context for why Iroh is so determined to guide Zuko and be there to protect him. His story was introduced via flashback in the episode "Zuko Alone" in s2 anyway so Iroh's backstory was always meant to be linked to Zuko's. The rest of that particular episode can always be visited again without touching on Iroh as much. Bringing it into S1 of the LA just again gives us a more rounded out context for why Zuko is the way he is. tl;dr his backstory had always been introduced early. you're meant to sympathise with him. That helps you to be more interested in his development and ultimate redemption arc (which is one of the most well-written redemption arcs in media even today). Introducing Iroh's backstory a little earlier was in aid of that writing.

If he had watched the entire series, his shirt might have been off 😂

Don't say such things. You'll attract the depraved ones.

@@rachel5399you have summoned me?

i wishhh omfg

But if the shirt comes off where would he keep the cookies?

Imagine the lint that's on there💀

And giggling like a child before he does it 😭

When he initially was going for his pocket, I thought it was going to be Sour Patch Kids.

@@ChulsZFFi miss sour patch kids

You *don’t* have cookies sat in your pocket?

WHEN HE SEE GYATSO and like it’s supposed to make us super sad too but we literally watched him die!!! We already got sad about it!!!! We should be feeling this stuff WITH AANG - not before him!! (Edit -sp.)

That has to be one of the single most horrendous takes I've ever seen about the live action. Constructive criticism is one thing, this is just Incorrect. One of the least impactful things in the cartoon, was the air nomads being killed, for the exact reason of it happening Off-screen. This comment is just complaining about it being different from the show, rather than praising it for doing something better, or criticizing it for doing something worse.

@@kamixakadio2441i just don’t know, the brutality of the ppl getting burned to death really makes it too much for children to watch and might scare them off. Is this even marketed for kids anyway? Or just genz?

​@@kamixakadio2441 You found that the original reveal of the genocide was not impactful? I respect that you had a different experience, but also, seeing the actual dead body of Gyatso had me crying when I was a child. Yes, the occurrence of the genocide was toned down by happening off-screen, so that it would not be traumatizing to the children watching, but that did not take away from the emotional impact. For me, the horror was there, as was the sadness, even as a child that couldn't fully comprehend the complexity of what had happened to the air nomads, because I realised, even then, that Aang being the Last Airbender meant every other Airbender had been killed. Later, when I rewatched, from a perspective more mature and parental towards the characters instead of feeling like their friend as I did when I was a kid, the scene hit even harder. Because you can read between the lines, you hear the echoes of what was left unsaid. It felt particularly awful because it was left to the imagination. We got to experience it like Aang did, our minds creating their own versions of what those final moments could've been like, and our brains have a talent of going wild when left alone to fill a gap in evidence. The show subtly told us to connect the dots and come to our own conclusions. Now, I have not watched the Netflix show. I don't intend to, at least in the immediate future, so I won't be complimenting or criticizing it, because that would be hypocritical of me. I just wanted to share my take on this particular scene and my experience watching it.

@@buahahaevillaugh1113 they could have shown us the geneocide as aang was walking through the place. they could have seen their bodies and imagine their deaths or something. so the switch to the avatar state would be more impactful but it didn't. in the animated series aang has hope that they are alive. katara even hides the fire warriors helmets for him.

i sometimes think that's why it's important for writers to not answer everything. like yeah, make your story cohesive and understandable, but don't explain everything. which is what the original show did. we didn't (and still don't) know how Monk Gyatso took down the firebenders, and that results in theories... and unless your answer isn't as great as what the audience imagines in their heads, then DO NOT answer that question. i once head a writer say, i don't know if it was George Lucas or George R. R. Martin when they asked him a question about something in his story, he quickly said, "i don't know" i think the biggest part of the *The Southern Airtemple* episode working out so well was the medium, and the setup. as a first time viewer you'd expect a show on nickelodeon to turn around and say, "guess what, most of the airbenders are still alive... turns out they've been hiding," in order to make Aang and therefore the kid audience feel better. and then it sweeps the rug from under us. and you feel more of that loss as the show goes on, that damn... they are not gonna find out about EVEN ONE airbender who escaped, and had airbender kids?

@@kaygafane yeah you're so right! I also think the writers and frankly everyone involved had an impossible task, as the original show is soo beloved and just so so good. That and added nostalgia and theories people have, I think nothing would be able to capture the magic of the original. But... they could have done better than this. I just want to go and watch the original now 😅

@@kaygafane I read recently that in the comics they do say that some airbenders were able to escape but were being lured into a fire nation trap and that's how they were able to kill all of them. This is supposed to have happened around the same time as the end of season 1 of the animation. I know that doesn't actually change anything about your comment, I just thought it was interesting

Probably. No fire if there’s no oxygen to feed it.

In Korra, Zaheer suffocates the Earth Queen with her own breath, so. Yeah, Gyatso was probably also capable of a similar effect. The Air Nomads being pacifists was for the other Nations' benefit, really.

well he spent a hundred years in water, is it stupid if i say it's not a surprise his clothes are clean?

​@@kaygafanedude I'm sorry, 100 YEARS idc if dude spent that time frozen in Tide, his clothes are gonna be a little rough after 100 fucking years. Especially cause it's not like his clothes were brand new the day he went in the ice, he would have been wearing them, airbending in them and supposedly "being a goof" in them as aang likes to tell us. So it would have been good costume design to show a little wear on them. The details matter.

okay but when't he going to produce and film an indie movie for us... i NEED

He wasn't wrong😔

Which shows are gone from where?

I immediately thought of the movie “Leave the World Behind” when the daughter is distraught she can’t watch the last episode of Friends.

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Yeah, with everyone and their grandmother starting a new streaming service, I'm just collecting my favorites to not have to pay 5 different corporations rent for a few hours of entertainment.

You are so right. Am telling you, I'm not going waste my time watching s2 if toph 's character isn't showed properly. Like the depth of the characters needs to show or it's really a waste of time to watch. Idk why Netflix decided to make everyone so 'good' and flawless. Ain't nobody gonna relate. And since the integral part of the personalities are cut out the plot decisions are baseless and contradictory. The whole point of meeting Suki was baseless. The whole point of meeting paku was baseless. The whole point of the spirit world was gosh awful. Brah. I just really want this series to blow me away in a good way.

You hit the nail right on the head. I’m also a big Katara fan, she’s my favourite character. I see so much of myself in her with her motherly tendencies, her need to work so so so hard to achieve her goals, and her anger. In the live action she’s so… docile? Her character is flat and has no strong emotions. Supposedly removing her “motherly” traits is progressive. As a feminist, I find doing this to such a strong female character has the exact opposite effect. Flattening female characters is NOT the way we should be going.

Which is also important for the big payoff when zuko helps her find the person who led the raid. Its probably the biggest step of her being able to let that rage go.

Similarly, in episode 2 they ruined sokka's character. When he meets the kyoshi warriors in the cartoon he doesn't respect women at all and is violently humbled by them kicking his ass until he asks for their forgiveness and wisdom and learns their craft. In the netflix adaptation he just rizzes up Suki and they focus so much on the romance that it deflects from Sokka's character arc entirely

@@heatherbrown6418 i doubt there will be a season 2 it cost 20 million per episode i doubt it made even 30 million but if it did get a season 2 i hope they take what the fans say into account it wont be hard cause it seems everyoneh has the same problem the dialogue the writing

Very fitting indeed 😂 dylan in general is just very sokka coded imo

There's a scene that is in the blue spirit (I think it's that episode?) where Zuko looks at the tapestry of the Fire Nation sigil before turning away. Even before we knew that Zuko would have a redemption arc they were planting the seeds. In the same episode, Zuko and Aang have a small short moment. It's expanded on in the live action, and just does nothing for me. "Do you think we could've been friends too" is just such a simple yet POIGNANT line. It's something that is brought up again in season 3 when Zuko tries to join the gaang. ATLA understood the meaning of "keep it simple stupid" because sometimes simple is simply stunning.

At least they didn’t do a whole interpretive dance to move a pebble

Gotta teach em kids some manners

And Dylan going 'housekeeping!' After every knock hsd me rolling (but I also consider the high pitched housekeeping to be a direct reference to Outer Banks so I was laughing and all of a sudden I went 😮😑)

They’re probably just trying to bust it down

@@sarahlevine2397 booo! take your “reasonable solution” and get outta here!

The war was already going on for years tho, Sozin started before Roku died and went maniac after. The only reason Aang had to start his training so soon was because of the danger of the fire nation, i’m pretty sure he overheard the monks talking about it. So he definetly knew about a war but not to what extend they went.

@@CassidyStarke The fire nation had set up illegal colonies, but I don't think there was an official declaration of war until the attacks on the air temples. Aang also definitely wasn't informed about it; Katara has to explain the war to him in episode 1, and Aang talks about being confused because he has friends in the fire nation.

nope Aang did not know there was a war brewing...Katara was the one who told him and even for a little while he didn't believe cuz he had friends in the fire nation and this was the same time she revealed to him that he doesnt know about the war bc he was trapped in the iceburg for 100 years @@CassidyStarke

@@CassidyStarke No girl rewatch the show

So true. The emotional impact of finding out how tragical it happened as he did. 😢

Literally one of my favourite bits he has

when the world needed him most, he returned.

what other vids does he mention a botsnist, i vaguely remember something like that but not really

@@azzadahia5403zootopia😂

I totally missed that I can’t believe that I did not see it before.

Same lol

i actually enjoyed Billy Binges's commentary, as someone (Billy) who experienced the story for the first time with this.

In Dylan’s older videos, you can see an ATLA poster in the background, so I was never worried.

Drew goodness analysis of the show is also so good, it was like therapy I felt so validated in my thoughts on the show lmao

🤣🤣

Fuck off. Seriously, this gets renewed for a 2nd season and so many better shows do not!? In terms of live action, the original animated series is perfection.

There's also gonna be a season 3... 😅

Agreed if I wanted that I’d read a book

​​@@mrsjasontodd89books would probably depict actions better

It’s so annoying. It’s like they think the audience is stupid. The cartoon which was actually made for kids was packed with nuance and subtext and the live action is so on the nose and flat 😭

Im sorry but i dont agree with him, i like the series adaptation

@@shybeann That’s fair . I’m glad you liked it.

Same

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Same literally

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Yeah, I was thinking that too 😅

Siblings have a love for each other - Your mind is dirty! FOR SHAME!!!

@@tornadochaser2457you damn well know thats not what i was talking about, they literally talked about how it is for lovers to find each other blah blah

@@Pancake.or.nothing I've always been ignorant. Always, I tell ya.

@@tornadochaser2457are you kidding me? In the OG show the tunnel of lovers represents ROMANTIC love bc of how the tunnels were created (two lovers created them)

@@Blueeyesinthesky I'm just joking around, trying to demonise and shame flippantly and ridiculously, talking nonsense etc.

LMFAOOO

I hate you 😂

Exactly, to this day, people still talk about the OG series, in every way, character arcs, storyline, spirit world, heck, for me, LOK is equal to this show, brilliant story, Nickelodeon just screwed with it by messing with the final season, and forcing it online, after several time slot switches.

The fact that katara is so silent and calm and aang too. He's never really jumps and acts like a child and katara is just like"yeah sokka you are right and I have no option bc Im a woman" 🗣

He only takes recs from netflix 😂❤

Even the most essential message of the original series about friendship, facing adversities in different ways (all main characters had different ways), staying true to yourself, rediscovering your true self, and the journey of it all that we need to take step by step, all meaning was taken away. People say how they are; they don't show us. Katara suddenly bends like a master early on instead of struggling through many things as we all do. I didn't see anything done right that stayed true to the original story's feelings and teachings (because they were hidden teachings). I've never been so angry at the show, even Witcher. I was like, okay, you fucked it, but he (and I read the books), but for some reason, this one really got to me.

I'm thinking maybe I chose right when I decided to watched it dubbed, cause a lot of the criticism I've seen is about how the line delivery feels flat and it didn't really feel that bad to me, so maybe the dubbing actors did a better job😶‍🌫️ (dubbed in spanish, btw)

I also don’t like that their outfits look like they just bought them clean and new from a costume cosplay store. Why can’t their outfits look a little more realistic, like how the outfits in LOTR or GOT look realistic

My only saving grace for this show is that I got to see some environments and scenes in live action style, the effects were pretty good and definitely made me excited to see some things. Too bad it was ruined by the rest.

But the effects were decent 😂

I liked the journal a lot as a plot point and I think it was pretty to look at too

Agreed. If only they did that much SHOWING instead of telling through exposition with every character.

Happy birthday 🎉

@@millyqaTHANK YOUU

You could say Dylan used...showing instead of telling... ;)

The way she’s literally smiling.. like y’all couldn’t reshoot that?