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I’m sorry is Yue yoghurt-bending??

had to turn back to tumblr after a year of not using it to hate on the new atla adaptation

a few things

• speedrunning through half of the story with the fire nation family is not a good idea, actually. lu ten was introduced far too early, and with it you delve into iroh's backstory, motivations and true character before you've even fully developed the whole 'silly old spiritual man who prefers tea and hanging out with his nephew over hunting down an 11-year old air nomad'. the lu ten funeral scene was fine as an addition, but it's not something for book 1. learning about lu ten is something we do in book 2 as it compliments the developing relationship between iroh and zuko with the fire nation as a whole. also, iroh seems a lot less cool. the show commits the grievous literary sin of always telling rather than showing, and by continuously telling us 'he's the famed general iroh, dragon of the west' you're not actually accomplishing anything. let him redirect some lightning you fucking cowards.

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more things

• gran gran’s veneers are really offputting
• i do like the decision to make zuko’s crew the 41st division. i don’t think it’s enough considering he didn’t choose to take the 41st division with him (ozai forced him to take them), but it’s just enough compassion for others that keeps me believing that zuko is still somewhat zuko. still can’t forgive the change of him fighting ozai, however.
• zuko doesn’t go completely rogue and try kidnapping aang in the north
• hated yue’s wig. and zhao’s
• no inclusion of the northern air temple story SUCKS ASS. like the whole working of the mechanist into omashu was actually kind of smart if you ignore the fact that teo has no reason to learn to start flying if he has no relationship to air nomad culture, but you do lose the story about aang accepting that a group of earthbenders wanted to preserve and respect parts of his lost culture.
• the scene at the end of the first episode where aang enters the avatar state after finding gyatso’s body shouldn’t have me cackling. you can’t cut between gyatso looking like he’s standing in front of god to a really awful cgi double of gordan cormier and expect me to not giggle
• gran gran speaks fluent yapanese. i do not need her consistent expo dumps that are just word-for-word the intro to the cartoon. it’s forced in and it’s weird
• don’t expect me to care about momo nearly dying if you’re not going to include him for more than three seconds at a time every other episode for the sole purpose of having thought of a momo-related joke
• the earthbending looks lame. it should be quick, and strong. in the new show, exactly the same as the movie, earthbending feels a little too laboured all the time, and if by season 2 toph is pulling the same laboured movements, I AM GONE
• in the same vein, waterbending just looks off to me. it’s portrayed simultaneously as cutesy little splashes of water, but also like it should really hurt and has the power to push one or more people to the ground when it doesn’t look like it could. this makes me scared for when/if (hopefully not if) they introduce hama later on.
• mai doesn’t sound nearly as bored as she should be
• hakoda’s a dick. sokka’s most traumatic moment isn’t his dad not believing in him, it’s his dad placing the responsibility of wolf cove on the shoulders of a thirteen year old boy with no experience and then disappearing without a trace. hakoda may have understood that his son was just a kid with big ambitions and a big heart who wasn’t ready for what he was about to be told, but he also believed his son could live up to that task and truly believed that sokka was capable of being a warrior.
• bumi is kinda creepy to me in the new show. maybe it’s just the armpit wigs that make me want to cry, but something about him gives off more 'creepy great-uncle’ more than 'kooky, intelligent king’. also aang figured out that it was bumi far too early, and bumi’s argument with aang was stupid. they’re friends. bumi should not give aang the decision to either kill him or himself, it paints him more as a threat than as a, yet again, member of the order of the white lotus. let’s hope they don’t fuck up piandao the same way
• ian oussley looks scarily like sokka
• no inclusion of the reason why aang became a master airbender being because he created the airball technique. instead, apparently the other young air nomads were afraid of how naturally powerful he was, which was weird. maybe him being a young prodigy is meant to be a nod to him feeling like his bending could endanger others (JEONG JEONG EPISODE MENTION :O), but no. he was just a normal airbender kid.
• the airbending and the firebending does look good. i think zuko’s firebending is a little too slow, and it CRIMINALLY doesn’t include his breakdancing, but it’s otherwise really good. also ozai shouldn’t be firebending so early on and so frequently. i think we see him firebend in the original in no more than like, five episodes. it’s meant to be sparse because we’re meant to be afraid of what the firelord is truly capable of.
• at least they pronounced all the names correctly. no 'ong’, no 'eeroh’, no 'sohka’.
• the casting for jet was kinda perfect. while i don’t think they did the jet story right since it never included sokka distrusting him from the start, i think they captured the whole first intro to jet’s character pretty well, the basic concept being 'dreamy looking guy that katara seems to trust a little too easily turns out to be a horrifically traumatised teenager who cares not for the collateral damage of his acts of terrorism’. jet’s actor does that pretty well, and i did like the inclusion of the little straw he chews on, and hopefully when jet comes back and gets brainwashed in ba sing se he loses it (which was meant to be a tell that something was off with him).
• the blue spirit was done well. the mask looked really good, and i think the whole episode was only lost on me because i know that zuko is the blue spirit because i’d watched the original show. had i not, it would have been the sickest shit, but then again when you copy the original so well, you can’t fuck up. once again - THE GUIDELINE IS GOOD. FOLLOW THE GUIDELINE!!!!!!!!

I need names of whoever is at fault for Sokka not putting on kyoshi warrior makeup and the dress in the live action and I need them now.

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