I am a huge fan of the OG cartoon and I think it is one of the best written animated stories ever.
While Shyamalan's adaptation was horrible, this is just disappointing.
It does not capture any of the spirit from the original. It is boring and jumbled. They took random parts of the original story and just mushed them together into one huge mess.
Starting of the show had a red flag for me because they used a part of the story from one of the best and most important episodes in the animated version (The Storm) and used it in the beginning without any of the weight the OG episode holds.
FX are not grreat but are good.
Acting is very bad, specially for the Aang character. Dialogs are very generic, story is so forced and without any depth or emotions.
Sokka character is so stipped down to its basics and is not really a character at all. Katara does not have anything that resembles the one from the OG show. The girl who had to grow up too fast and gets a huge responsibility thrown at her to look out for her brother. And she was one of the great examples of strong female characters done, not just right, but great.
Iroh does not have any of the goofy old man and the wise one characteristics. Zuko is kind of OK, but his dialogs are also very bland.
Although I never expected this to be as good as the original show, and after really liking the trailes, I did not expect it to be so lazy and removed of any depth or emotions.
Last 3 episodes I watched in about 6 minutes while skipping most of it.
I dont think I will come back to season 2.
While Shyamalan's adaptation was horrible, this is just disappointing.
It does not capture any of the spirit from the original. It is boring and jumbled. They took random parts of the original story and just mushed them together into one huge mess.
Starting of the show had a red flag for me because they used a part of the story from one of the best and most important episodes in the animated version (The Storm) and used it in the beginning without any of the weight the OG episode holds.
FX are not grreat but are good.
Acting is very bad, specially for the Aang character. Dialogs are very generic, story is so forced and without any depth or emotions.
Sokka character is so stipped down to its basics and is not really a character at all. Katara does not have anything that resembles the one from the OG show. The girl who had to grow up too fast and gets a huge responsibility thrown at her to look out for her brother. And she was one of the great examples of strong female characters done, not just right, but great.
Iroh does not have any of the goofy old man and the wise one characteristics. Zuko is kind of OK, but his dialogs are also very bland.
Although I never expected this to be as good as the original show, and after really liking the trailes, I did not expect it to be so lazy and removed of any depth or emotions.
Last 3 episodes I watched in about 6 minutes while skipping most of it.
I dont think I will come back to season 2.
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