#the king's avatar live action

[thekingsavatar-liveaction]

2019-07-24 Jiang Long weibo update

[blogquantumreality]

Live Action King's Avatar is back on Netflix (at least for Canada)!

I was kinda gutted when it dropped off before I could finish the series, but I just checked and WHAT IT'S BACK ON???

[dareduffie]

when will people learn that live-action remakes will never be good as their original animated counterparts because the glory of animation is the colour, movement, and fantasy that's just untranslateable to live-action

[umossu]

So in the live action iroh is no longer shorter than zuko.

I think their entire dynamic changes because of this. A little. Maybe. Not in a good or bad way, but in a uhh different flavour way?

Like how zuko is not as aggressive with his uncle like he used to be. There's a lot more respect. The eye contact is different. Maybe iroh looks more intimidating at first glance. It becomes more obvious that zuko's just a teenager.

And while I always prefer the animated version, the live action does add extra bits (while simultaneously cutting off and taking away from the original plot) this height thing suddenly gave me uhh thoughts? apart from the other plus points of the live action like the range of expressions on the actors' faces,,, so this one thing made me look at iroh way more seriously and uh yeah that's all I have to say don't mind me I'm just thinking

[garciajey]

King has a similar backstory to Aang

[syncogon]

you know, the little demon king!

[soulc-hilde]

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[thatahjumma]

I had to pause the show, I am currently at the fight scene between Bumi and Aang. I have to say the characterisations of most of the characters so far have disappointed me. I can't help but compare to the OG ATLA because its literally based off the show and the characters in the animated series are already so fully fledged and complex, the live active just had to follow suit, instead of adding their own interpretations. I'll comment about main characters after I've watched the whole series but now,

Jet and the Freedom Fighters: They were casted so brilliantly!! And the actor for Jet did the absolute perfect job in being the charismatic leader of the 'lost boys' who lived in the trees. What I didn't like was how Netflix labelled him a "terrorist" and "acting out of hate". They outrightly labelled what he was doing, which made him less of complex character vs the animated series portraying him as a boy dealing with the traumas of loss and war, finding family with others who had to deal with the same loss, and failing to see the complexities of war. I don't know, the characterisation in Netflix's ATLA feels off.

Uncle Iroh: I like that Netflix addressed that he was a war criminal and how that affected the soldier on a personal level as well. But when Iroh said "War pushes us to the edge. I wasn't talking about me", I felt again that it does not feel like the Iroh I know from the animated series. The Iroh, who regretted his past decisions, the Iroh who was compassionate and on the search for enlightenment, the Iroh who was part of the White Lotus as a way of redeeming himself. Even the fight scene in the animated series, he did not use any firebending againts the Earthbender soldiers but in the Netflix one he did. In the animated series, it was significant to me that he did not use firebending (only the chains) -- from his past, he understood that he should not use his power to oppress. Somehow, without explicitly fleshing our Iroh's past, the animated series succeeded in creating a more complex, fully fledged character.

Lastly, BUMI T.T I understand that Netflix wanted to set the show in the context of war and so it kept bringing it up and I understood that the Netflix characterisation of Bumi was trying to act as a foil to Aang: someone who lived through 100 years of war vs someone who "ran" away from the difficulties of it. But this made Bumi wholly unlikeable and very much NOT BUMI. The animated Bumi acted as someone who could potentially be Aang's earthbending teacher and a "mad genius", someone who prepared Aang for the tough journey ahead and taught him to think outside the box. To me, while people do change and become jaded by war, Bumi was one of the characters that retained his 'madness' and joyfulness/zest for life (that's why he was part of the White Lotus). In the OG ATLA, he changed over a 100 years in terms of the wisdoms he gained and imparted to Aang. In the netflix series, he seemed like just an angry old king, who was jaded and took his anger out on his old friend? He even made the remark of airbenders being "flighty" after Aang said that they all died??? What on EARTH really, King Bumi liked to joke but he would never disrespect Aang or a whole peoples like that. Crazy characterisation choice by NetflixT.T

Anyway I'll stop ranting here and finish the episode (ALSO HOW COULD THEY TAKE AWAY THE AANG X KATARA MOMENT IN THE CAVE?? I'm really starting to understand why the original creators pulled themselves out of the Netflix project)

[maaruin]

So Aang doesn't need to learn from Bumi, Katara doesn't need to learn from Pakku, and the previous Avatars already are presented as giving Aang advice that the story wants him to grow beyond.

Yes, storytelling wise it is pretty expected that the student outgrows the master. After learning. The student being able to outgrow their master after learning is the highest praise for both the student and the master.

But instead they went for innate power and goodness.

(Even many Zuko-learning-from-Iroh moments are missing.)

[tortoisewithoutashell]

So disappointed that the live action ATLA destroyed Bumi’s character like that. Every scene he was in was a struggle to watch.

[ladyelainehilfur]

I really don't wanna be a hater for no good reason, but WHERE is the melanin in the liveaction ATLA cast.

[thekingsavatar-liveaction]

2018-07-06 电视剧全职高手 (TKA TV Drama) weibo update

[scarareg]

Bumi should be weird,yes; but should also be wise and compassionate. He is a member of the Order of the White Lotus! In the live action they made him weird for the sake of being weird and oddly angry

[lynne-monstr]

i was rewatching bits of tka and taking screenshots for yuhuang valentines but i got distracted by this amazing shot.

pls i need five thousand fics about this height difference.

[staringintoyoursoulwithall]

Bro, they did NOT just pull The King's Avatar off of Netflix. I was half way through the series and I can't find another site with the live action version.

[longsufferingcritic]

It's funny how a consistent theme in live-action remakes of animated media is that the filmmakers seem to understand the artistic intention behind the original's details less than many layperson fans do. Everything from the visual design of a creature like Toothless, to the characterization of a protagonist like Sokka, to the intonation in Disney musical numbers... Even subtle details almost always serve a specific purpose, so when those details are changed or removed it can drastically alter a story's tone, trajectory, and/or effectiveness. And yet it's almost always the fans who analyze that, while the filmmakers themselves (like Jon Favreau in this interview) appear contentedly unaware of what exactly they've accomplished, other than a myopic fixation on "realism" and perhaps making a story more sanitized for corporate mass appeal. It's incredible how this happens over and over with practically every remake and they never learn.