well some of the waterbending looks decent and there hasn’t been enough earthbending to say for sure either way, but the firebending and the airbending both look pretty bad
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This is why certain things just need to not be live action.
I said the same thing for One piece
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Okay how does fire bending look bad it’s Fire
apparently Sokka’s actor was 19 when they started filming and Aang’s actor was 12
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It’s probably the easiest one to do!
it looks like CGI fire (probably because it is) in a way that just feels. fake? idk how to explain it
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Yeah this doesn’t really help when Sokka is supposed to be a kid in the series as well. Him trying to defend the village, and be a strong warrior at a young age is part of his character
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Like I get that live actions need to make certain changes, and that sticking to every story detail can make it worse but meh
I think Sokka-the-character is 15, it’s just the actor that’s older – this is pretty common in movies (regardless of whether you think it’s bad)
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Yeah, I just felt like Sokka not being an adult is a large part of his character. Him trying to be a leader and warrior before he is ready. Him looking like a college student is w.e
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this is a really cold take but I think they should have just not said anything about cutting the Sokka sexism plot, like if they hadn’t said anything I don’t think ~anyone would have been like ‘this adaption, which is already not a 1:1 adaption of every event in the original series, should have had more sexism!’ but when they were like ‘we cut the sexism because it was Problematic to have a sexist character’ everyone was like ‘wow this is really dumb’ (because their reasoning was really dumb)
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fwiw there’s a great bit in episode 1 where Sokka is lecturing people on abandoning their watch posts, and then it pans to the people he’s lecturing and they’re like. elementary schoolers
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Meet The Soldier
You’re telling me that took out Sokka’s entire character plot?
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Wait, it’s problematic to have a sexist characters? Can somebody please inform the showrunners of May
they didn’t even take it out, they just removed the part where he was explicitly a misogynist as opposed to being an overconfident teenager who assumes that Obviously he’s a better fighter than anyone else
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Got some plotlines to cut
Like the Sokka/Toph stuff hits so fucking differently if Sokka isnt sexist
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What made the sexist plot so funny is how he got his ass handed to him by woman very early on in the series iirc
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afaik Toph doesn’t appear in season 1 of the liveaction, which makes sense since she also did not appear until season 2 of the actual show
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