Avatar: The Last Airbender

Why wouldn't you just copy the symbols? Even if you didn't know what they meant there's no reason to change them.

I mean, that's not good, but I'm not really sure that it's "deliberately disrespectful".

Edited by LSBK on Sep 21st 2018 at 3:26:21 AM

Welp, I guess that gets added to the list of glitches happening.

Edited by LSBK on Sep 21st 2018 at 3:26:37 AM

https://twitter.com/JeremyZuckerman/status/1042105277707763712

Composer for Avatar and Korra is most likely going to join the list of people working on the series.

YAY. I freaking loved ATLA and L Ok’s use of music.

LOK's soundtrack is stronger in memory for me, but all of the trailers still give me chills.

Edited by Soble on Sep 21st 2018 at 6:44:13 AM

So do I. I always got vibes of it whenever I would play through the Mists of Pandaria zones. :)

The Agni Kai between Zuko and Azula... the Aang and Ozai duel... Zuko’s and Iroh’s musical motifs...

Don't forget that chime whenever Azula shows up. They managed to make a chime unnerving, that's some Pavlovian shit right there.

I just want them to hurry up and release an official soundtrack for the original series. We still haven't seen an official release of those violins that play at the beginning of The Last Agni Kai. It just cuts straight to the part that plays during the meat of the battle.

Seconded. I just want "Leaves From the vine" on my iPod; is that too much to ask?

Last page it was mentioned that MLP is too young for a reboot. But, MLP gets a reboot every 6+ years so that's just fine. ATLA on the other hand? I don't really see the point in redoing the show just in live-action. It's not even 20 yet. A sequel? Sure, but the a live-action adaptation?

I'm curious how the fighting will go. It's good that ATLA is relatively down-to-earth with its action but that also seems an issue. They're gonna have to make the action sequences as fluid as the original.

I wonder how the acting will go. Hollywood doesn't have the best track record with asian or Inuit actors so I don't know how a series that is nothing but that will do. Maybe they'll have to find international actors. They could always go with "looks over ethnic background" but that causes complaints as well.

The point is that everything's cooler in live-action.

Which is true. IF. And only IF. The casting, directing, acting, filmography, and effects are able to properly depict the subject matter. And if the writing is capable of conforming to the higher standard for suspension of disbelief that live-action brings with it.

That higher standard makes live-action always a gamble. It's a lot easier to buy into a story when it's a cartoon doing it. Stylistically drawn effects are fundamentally easier to believe than CGI-rendered effects in a live-action environment. We similarly give animated characters more leeway in terms of personality and behavior; the same things that make an animated villain threatening can wind up just making a live-action villain stupid, as many adaptations have discovered.

Screw up the transition and you have Howard the Duck. But get it right and you have Rocket Raccoon.

So it's a risk. Personally, I'm nervous about it. Avatar is an effects-heavy material and I'm not sure a Netflix show's budget can do it justice.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 25th 2018 at 9:51:10 AM

I'm just going to say flat-out that I don't think it can.

Honestly, I just think that animation allows for considerably more freedom than live action does, so I have a hard time imagining why you'd go for the latter if you've already done the former.

I think this is a situation where "expect the worst and hope to be pleasantly surprised" is pretty applicable.

I'd be more than happy to eat crow, but I'll confess that I'm still not very excited about the project.

I'd much rather have a sequel to Legend of Korra - hopefully this can lead to that, somehow.

I thought we still didn't know exactly what this was going to be. I see everyone assuming it's a live action reboot of the first series, but I haven't seen any actual official information on the time period or anything.

I mean, if it is a sequel, I'd rather it be animated, not gonna lie.

Would the sequel have Korra as still the Avatar? Or her successor, if the whole cycle thing still even works anymore? If her successor, there could be issues with that, considering that if she dies of old age, that would put the sequel in modern-to-20-minutes-into-the-future territory, which would clash with the whole martial arts and spirituality thing Avatar has going.

I don't know, martial arts are still pretty popular as a hobby and sport. My local gym offers no less than THREE martial arts programs. It usually is retooled as a self-defense sport. And there is still plenty of room for spirituality, new age and neopaganism.

If you add to that ACTUAL spirits co-existing with humans, and martial arts that allow you to bend the elements, that would make for a very interesting modern age Avatar.

I did want an Earth Avatar sequel, yeah. And I don’t mind going into the future - I love the idea of cyberpunk Avatar, although I envision that more for a Fire Avatar series.

I would have made an Earth Avatar series analogous to our modern world, or at least within the past couple of decades. Depending on how long after the series we wanted to set it, we could have Korra either die of old age, or have her spend many decades of happiness with Asami before going down fighting this huge threat from the Spirit World (and winning, of course).

I also wanted an Earth Avatar series that's set in "modern day". Although there would probably be some changes. Cyberpunk would be more the Fire Avatar's thing.

I have no interest in modern or futuristic Avatars to be honest.

A modern day Avatar would honestly be the best chance for a live-action version tbh. I don't see the settings from the show working as well in the same medium.

I think the setting's fine. It's really just the effects I'm concerned with.

Which setting the show in a modern day setting would still help with because it means you don't have to render Appa. Appa alone is going to eat up a chunk of the budget just from being an elephant-sized woolly fantasy creature that serves as the cast's main method of transportation.

Go with a modern setting or even Korra's setting and you can use trains and buses and cars and shit to get the characters around from place to place.

You can also excuse not having large, sweeping element battles every single episode by a metropolitan environment, as Legend of Korra demonstrated in its first episode. Keep the powers more subdued to avoid massive destruction of property and save the effects-intensive element battles for the season finale.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 26th 2018 at 8:26:37 AM