#zuko/iroh 'what is that?' '*that* is *wrath*' i feel highlights their mishandling of it. like yes it superficially is. fundamentally though | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ereh-emanresu-tresni · 9 months ago

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No but fr imagine making an adaptation where you're so desperate to overexaggerate the whole "you were a coward who ran from your responsibilities so must work to make up for it now" melodrama, to the point of sacrificing multiple critical characters' distinct and appreciable personalities into the woodchipper in favor of one-dimensional screamranting, but then also just like... Don't proceed to have him do much if anything to start making up for it. Did Aang literally at any point even consider learning waterbending, let alone actually practice it one (1) time outside of being controlled by the avatar state/ocean spirit? No. Because otherwise how could we shoehorn in another bs "I'm not a waterbender I can't help defend you :c" "tsk guess we still can't count on the Avatar >:/" exchange? uGH

#and yet literally take out the part where he actually even did intentionally run???? ugHkhGuHgGH #Christ the handling of kyoshi and bumi was so bad #and side note but do not even get me started on the ocean spirit lol #most iconic and memorable scene of the show imo swapped for a b list cgi kaiju battle...#zuko/iroh 'what is that?' '*that* is *wrath*' i feel highlights their mishandling of it. like yes it superficially is. fundamentally though #it's raw agonized and desperate grief. hence the washed out grey lighting and slow ost as it silently washes away the fire nation #instead of a faster paced rampage w a bunch of creaking and roaring effects :/#and the whole bs 'no aang you'll lose yourself!! D:' thing too literally fuck off lol #esp after already flattening koh into a generically dangerous predator how dARE they try to demonize La too aaaAAAA i need to stop now lol.#atla #natla

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