#also what are the chances suki will join the gaang muuuuch sooner

[tuiyla]

Hey. I'm not sure if you talked about this. What you think of the ATLA live action introducing a new character Suki's mother? Also what's your opinion on the casting overall so far?

Hey Anon, I haven't yet, actually! Glad you asked though.

First off I'm really digging the cast so far. Feels like every announcement brings me closer and closer to being cautiously optimistic about the live-action show again, which I haven't been since Bryke left. That to me was a huge red flag and you know like Taylor said, I've seen this film before. Literally. But the cast looks really good, from the ones I knew beforehand like Daniel Dae Kim to the younger actors. I have nothing to base this on but I thought Suki's actress in particular was an excellent choice. I just vibe with her, she's gonna be great. Really just every time they announce a new character I get more and more excited.

Now, as for Suki's mother, Yukari. I suppose new characters were bound to happen and based on the limited info we have so far I don't mind this addition. Even some news outlets were confused by this so to clear it up: Yukari wasn't in the show at all, instead the village leader was a guy named Oyaji. Him being Suki's dad was a popular headcanon back in the day, btw.

Yukari is described as “the fiercely protective mayor of her small village on Kyoshi Island" and that's so far so good. It makes me think that maybe we'll spend more than one episode on Kyoshi Island and delve more into Suki's life and circumstances before she meets the Gaang. I'm all for that. The tricky thing about new characters is gonna be that ATLA's characters are legendary, even the minor ones. They're all so well developed for what purpose they served so adding a new one is gonna be challenging no matter what. I hope she'll have her own fleshed-out character and she won't just, like, be there to be distrustful of Sokka or something.

At this point I really don't know how to feel about it all. I'm gonna watch it, of course I am, but like I said I was cautious about it to begin with and more so after Bryke left the project. But the cast really does look so good and this first original character sounds good. I'll be curious what they'll omit, you know? Because there's no way they're adapting all of Book 1. It's the trickiest season to do anyway and overall it's so 2005 Nickelodeon. Not in a bad way, just in a realistic way. So to already know that we'll have extra characters really makes me wonder about the ones who're not gonna make the cut. Tell you what, I can't wait to see what they do with Jet because he's gonna be real easy to get horribly wrong.