#and I'm also a fan of many of the older Legends storylines that they just scorched off the earth with the canon rest button or whatever

[sagechan]

okay people, I've watched SW: The Clone Wars. I just finished SW: Rebels (crying the whole way down btw). I laughed I wept I cursed Dave Filoni for making me feel the entire spectrum of human emotion in these two silly little shows. now the question is. should I actually watch Resistance? is it worth it? is it the same?

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Avatar Netflix Season 2 Will 'Condense' Original Storyline (Exclusive)

Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender will follow in the footsteps of the first season's storytelling "condensing." 

Each season of the animated Avatar series had twenty episodes, most of which followed their own adventures. When it came to the live-action show, the first season only had eight hour-long installments.

This led to many elements of the original storyline getting condensed, such as the combination and relocation of a handful of plot threads to the team’s stay in Omashu—meeting the Mechanist, Jet, Bumi, and venturing into the Secret Tunnel.

As one might imagine, these types of changes did not always land well with audiences.

Season 2 Will Condense Original Avatar Storyline

Speaking with The Direct at Paleyfest 2024, Avatar: The Last Airbender Seasons 2 and 3 executive producer Jabbar Raisani confirmed that they will need to condense some of the original story as the Netflix show moves forward.

Raisani pointed out how their handling of Seasons 2 and 3  which will conclude the live-action series - will be "a lot like Season 1," which also means "some condensing" has "to take place:"

"I think it's a lot like season 1. There's a lot of content in the animated series. And we will be looking at all that content. But we don't have the number of episodes that we have in the animated series. So, certainly, there will be some condensing that has to take place."

While speaking to The Direct about the possibility of more original moments in Season 2 for his character, Uncle Iroh actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee shared that he "[does not] know how they’re going to remix the stories" going forward:

"I wish I could; I have no idea what they have planned for us... I know we're getting an opportunity to finish telling the story. Obviously, the animated series is going to be the template for us. But other than that, I don't know how they're going to remix the stories. Nobody tells me nothing. So I'm just gonna show up. And yeah, hopefully, we get a better, clearer sense of where we're going with that in the future. But right now, I have no idea what's going to happen."

While the original animated series has been finished for nearly two decades, the story of those characters will continue in a new animated film called Aang: The Last Airbender.

Currently, not many details are known about the project, but fans do know it will follow team Avatar as they are older following the events Avatar.

As for whether its story will have any influence on future episodes of Netflix’s The Last Airbender, Raisani admitted it will not, at least "not at this point:"

"No, not at this point. We are really looking at the animated series at what came before and less of sort of what they're currently doing on the new movies."

As for whether or not he would be interested in potentially adapting Legend of Korra for live-action, he firmly responded:

"Certainly, I'd be interested in anything that is in this universe."

[ Avatar 2025 Movie: Last Airbender Release, Cast & Everything We Know About Adult Aang Film ]

Remixing Season 2 Episodes Was Inevitable

When it comes to adapting the source material, condensing is unavoidable. Avatar: The Last Airbender fans shouldn't be surprised the same will be happening for Seasons 2 and 3.

Simply put, 20-minute bite-size adventures do not work well for the more extended episode structures of the Netflix show. If the original episode is a self-contained, isolated story, odds are it may not make the cut—or be weaved in with other plot threads.

Hopefully, at the very least, fan-favorite episodes such as the desert spirit library and how Appa got stolen can see the light of day in live action.

One thing that will make it notably more difficult to stick to the original episodes, though, is how behind on Aang’s bending lessons he is. Book 2 is all about him learning earthbending from Toph—however, in the live-action Last Airbender series, he hasn't even started lessons for waterbending.

The show is ahead of the game when it comes to Azula’s storyline, however, as she doesn’t originally appear until Season 2. That alone could save some episodes from the chopping block.

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Can I just say I love your characterization of Marsha? She's so interesting when she's put next to the rest of the Alola cast! It's that complexity that really makes her shine ( even when kinda hating Kukui and others hurt my soul just a bit but also I can see why). I can't say that her and Aster would be friends ( Marsha being older and just both similar yet so different personalities), but I know that the two will have a interesting dynamic!

Hi there @ihopethisendswell!

I'm glad you like her. Honestly, she's probably one of my favorite OCs to actually write about because it's honestly kind of fun to write a character who is lowkey done with everything and everyone.

For even more context as to why she's low-key so hostile to her fellow Alolans, Marsha's a military brat. She grew up in Koni Koni City until age 9, when her dad got an assignment in Kanto. So she missed going on the island challenge with her friends once they turned 11. She had heard stories from her older brother and her parents (and then her friends as they'd write to her) about their time on the island trial, and she was just enamored with Alola's cultural traditions. So when her mom got a chance to move back to Alola (her dad's assignment was almost up, and they wanted to MeleMele anyways to be closer to Hau'oli City), Marsha jumped at the chance to go with her as she was still eligible for the island trial as they had a strict age cutoff (something she would fight to remove as champion later on after her experiences).

During her time in Kanto, she heard endless stories of the living legend Red. Now don't get me wrong, she respects Red and what he did, but she just didn't want anything to do with saving a region or taking down some villain. While many of her Kantonian classmates dreamed about going on a Red journey (and during my heavily modified Let's Go storyline, so many were hoping to be a part of that action and got a quick reality check). Unfortunately, a peaceful island challenge was never an option for her, and so yeah, she's a little bitter. Sometimes she wishes she had just done what her baby sibling did and tried the gym circuit in Kanto. She's a powerful trainer, and she would've cleared the 8 gyms and become champion with potentially way less stress.

And yeah, honestly, it hurts writing her being abrasive to characters like Burnet or Kukui, characters I genuinely like. But in the end, it wouldn't make sense, given the story, to make her super fond of them just because I like them (likewise, just because I dislike a character doesn't mean I'm going to go out my way and make everyone in-story dislike them especially if it makes no sense).

The thing with Kukui, in particular, is that Marsha was very much a fan of Kukui. She had heard how close he came to becoming Kanto champion when he went through the Indigo League (since prior to the Alola League, many youths and adults from Alola would move to other regions to get a shot at becoming champion, so much so that it was a mass exodus of young people). And she loved that he wanted to create a league while respecting Alola's culture.

It's just Kukui is a victim of "Too Many Hats" Syndrome. By that, I mean he's trying to balance too much at once: being a professor that's still in the early stages of his career, trying to create a league and become chairman, AND the masked Royal identity. That's a lot, and it takes a toll on him mentally, so he's not really all that cognizant of the struggles Lillie, Marsha, and the others are having. Of course, if he was more aware, he would've stepped in, but that's not what happened. So that's where the loss of respect comes from Marsha's end. Kukui does care for her, but his actions don't really show it, and Marsha is the type to hold "actions speak louder than words."

And then there's Lillie, whom she's not particularly fond of at first. Marsha does actually care for Lillie's well-being, but she's frustrated by how Lillie keeps a lot of what's really going on to herself. Going back to the whole military brat thing, Marsha picked up from her father to always make sure you have the most information and the right information. Lillie's initial reluctance to really say anything (which, to be clear, wasn't just aimed at Marsha but everyone as we see in games) just put alarm bells in Marsha's head. And there were many times Marsha lost her cool with Lillie, which obviously didn't help situations, but Marsha was also still a minor, and you know, not an army commander, so she really didn't have the skills to handle the situation in the most sensitive manner.

That being said, Marsha always came to help Lillie out because her dad had told her "never leave a soldier behind". That's why the in-game dialogue from Lillie saying "You came" at the aether foundation is really significant in cactusverse because Lillie was aware of how frustrated Marsha was with her, and she was always expecting her to just ditch her and the fact that she still showed up was rather significant. Of course, Marsha had caught on to the abusive nature of Lusamine before it was explicitly shown, and though she was way out of her depth dealing with this, she wasn't just going to leave Lillie stranded with her mom (thus, we get the scene of Marsha giving Lusamine a two-piece courtesy of her dad's self-defense training).

All of that being said, Marsha, Lillie, and Kukui do, over time, patch things up. Lillie and Marsha are never super close, but they team up in the Rainbow Rocket Takeover and are regular tag team partners at the Battle Tree, where they make a very effective team. Kukui helps her enact some fairer rules regarding the island challenge (mainly taking off the age cap for doing trials and giving the trial captains actual pay) to help keep more of Alola's talent in Alola. Eventually, they get people willing to take over the Battle Tree from Red and Blue as them being Battle Tree Heads was always supposed to be a temporary assignment mainly to foster goodwill between one of the oldest leagues (the Indigo League) and the newest one.

And yeah, I'd love to see some interactions between Aster and Marsha. Personally, seeing characters clash a bit is always interesting and who knows maybe they'll find some common ground with each other.

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I NEED TO TALK ABOUT FT (not theatre -related, this is a shock, ik): A LUCY HEARTFILIA DEFENSE RANT

This is just something that’s been peeving my cheese as I scroll through my dash or tags. This fandom is just so fucking problematic??? (also, a disclaimer: every single fandom has its problematic fans but right now, Fairy Tail is making me pissed off even though I'm in it but not religiously. I need to rant like right now. And this isn’t to say everyone in this fandom is bad but the chosen few are just)

Now, I love, love, love this anime. it’s one of my favorites but I stopped caring about it or even writing about it (we don’t look back at the ol fanfics about NaLu that are on a waaaaaay older account) because the fandom is so awful. It’s like, you can’t even have an opinion without other people shitting on you. Also, the hate in it is so damn terrible.

I see this one account all the time with confessions about this show (this isn't hating towards them, they’re just doing their job) and I see all of this hate towards Lucy. It’s fine to not like a character, everyone has their own opinions on things. But there was one where someone said Lucy had no importance to the plot. What. The. Fuck.

Without her, there’d be no Fairy Tail, there’d be no storyline because Lucy is the narrator and she’s the start of it all! Without her, there’d be so many things that never happened and people just forget that! Then, there are a few that just call Lucy weak because legit everyone else in the show is OP when Lucy’s abilities are a bit more realistic since they BUILD UP over time. She didn’t start out with all of these incredible abilities like Natsu and Gray did at the beginning of the show. She ended up finding her true power, some that most people with her powers never did, not even Yukino how some of y’all swear is more powerful than Lucy but who has 10 out of 13 Zodiac keys? Oh right.

She didn’t grow up in a place where she could use her powers for combat; she was sheltered, hated her life and only used her spirits so she could have friends and didn’t ask them to fight or anything!!! Also, people say that she has no reason to be a true hero since she has no backstory. She lost her mother, her father was a dick that was about to marry her away and attacked her guild just to bring her home after she ran away for good reasons, suffered a lot of losses along the way, and suffered from loneliness all throughout her childhood and when the guild disbanded. Oh, yeah. someone said that it was lucy’s own fault for being cut off from the guild after that. THEY WENT THEIR OWN WAY, ALL OF THEM WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT HER TO DO HUH?

People even mistake her kindness for a weakness! In fact, her kindness is one of her greatest strengths! Can’t we just have a sweet character that doesn’t kick someone’s ass without asking the real questions first? (@ Natsu and @ Gray and @ Erza) She helped and never stopped fighting for people but did it in a way that shows her true compassion. And when people think that being nice is a sign of being weak, it just shows a lot about your character.

Sometimes I just swear this fandom hates women that don’t have manly-esque personalities like Erza. It seems like if you guys have a main female character that acts like how most girls act and isn’t from a League of Legends game, y’all are never satisfied. She grew up sheltered and lonely, don’t expect characters like her to be overpowered and overly buff. Lucy is strong in her own way and it’s evident she became much stronger over the course of the anime while still keeping her personality true to herself. Stop trying to make Lucy out to be this weak girl when, in reality, she has so much more strength and intelligence (in her own way) than some of these characters. You don’t have to like her, but get your facts correct when all you’re trying to do is bring down a character that Hiro Mashima worked so hard to create. He would be disappointed if he saw what these heathens have been doing on Tumblr. (He probably is, I know I am)

I expect backlash from this so if any of you anti-Lucy haters wanna say some bullshit, I’m ready for that bullshit.