― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/cf/250px-Avatar_-_The_Last_Airbender_103_The_Southern_Air_Temple_-_AvatarState.jpg
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
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― a magical moment with unicorns dancing around you (nickalicious), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― a magical moment with unicorns dancing around you (nickalicious), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Mae Whitman was on Grey's Anatomy the other day, she said "bitch"! I want to sample it and edit it into an Avatar... episode.
― a magical moment with unicorns dancing around you (nickalicious), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
The thing is with Shyamalan: I actually think he's a very good director, as far as the performances he gets from his (non-Mel-Gibson) actors, the way he frames images & uses color. As long as he sticks fairly thoroughly to the source material (which is mega-uber-kickass), the project might not suck monolithic shit.
Even more than Shyamalan, my biggest concern is how well this will translate from an animated to live action format. I am not looking forward to a CGI Appa.
― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
So the show is over! The ending was huge and pretty satisfying; some of the boring-er parts of season 3 seem less unimportant in retrospect, too. Too bad about Shyamalan.
Did any of you guys ever watch it?
― nickalicious, Thursday, 24 July 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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― dowd, Monday, 29 June 2009 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm...
― dowd, Monday, 29 June 2009 11:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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― dowd, Monday, 29 June 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
oh forget it. I'm sure you can find it. Anyway, pretty vague trailer, so hard to tell if Shyamalan is gonna ruin it or not.
― dowd, Monday, 29 June 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/the-last-airbender/trailer
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
SPOILERS!
I just finished watching the series, and HOLY SHIT was this awesome! The best animated series I've seen years! Okay, maybe the finale didn't manage of the avoid some of the cliches you get with this kind of a fantasy story, and I felt the pairing of Aang and Katara at the end was a bit too obvious and undeveloped, especially considering how the writerss otherwise tried to avoid making Katara a female stereotype. I thought Aang and Toph would've been a better pair, both agewise and as personalities. But those are minor complaints, all in all I think the series was REALLY GOOD, it managed to keep the story and characters interesting and complex throughout the series, and many of the plot twists were genuinely surprising, a rare thing for a kids-oriented fantasy fiction. I loved how there wasn't a clear-cut good vs. evil morality; though Ozai was presented as pretty much an arch bad guy, there were always good guys among the Fire Nation and bad guys among the other tribes. I think this worked very well in avoiding one of the biggest plot holes these types of stories tend to have: just because you defeat the Evil King, why would that automatically mean that his Evil Nation/Army will fall with him? In Avatar the ending made much more sense, because the people of the Fire Nation weren't presented as inherently evil, and with Zuko as their new leader they might change for better. I think the redemption story of Zuko worked really well, and the fact that the series devoted so much screen time to him contributed to that. His change of heart didn't feel like just a typical "bad guy turns good" twist, as throughout the whole series we'd seen him slowly but surely reach that turning point.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 27 February 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm surprised M. Night Shalamayan is just calling it The Last Airbender. Given the size of his ego, and even legal complications aside, it wouldn't surprise me for him to call it "Avatar" just to trick moviegoers into seeing his movie by mistake, because obviously HIS is the superior Avatar!
― Ballistic, Saturday, 27 February 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
So the movie's about out...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 June 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
trailer looks great, but aside from that i'm completely at a loss tbh
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Monday, 28 June 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Forget about the movie, just watch the series! For a kid/preteen-oriented faux-anime series it's really good, with surprisingly complex characters and plots that mostly avoid simple black/white morality. Plus it's quite epic, even though there are several stand-alone episodes, it's really a one big story divided into three seasons.
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 June 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
So, the guy I'm dating has told me he's into this show. Apparently this isn't the red flag it looked like if reaction itt is anything to go back?
― suge ♞ (The Reverend), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
up to attending conferences on it or formally studying it at a institute of education- at that stage RUN
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
naw, he just said he was watching it at his place and that it's a good show
― suge ♞ (The Reverend), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
in the safe zone imo
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think it's a red flag, no. AtLA is definitely a case of a show being better than it sounds. I was pretty sceptical about it at first, but after having read so many positive comments I decided to check it out, and was sold almost immediately.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 10:33 (thirteen years ago) link
We have been in full-fledged Avatar mode for like the last month. To the point where my wife and Iwill have to talk ourselves out of watching the late night repeats while our son is sleeping. "uh honey, we're grown-ups..."
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Movie related gripes:1. No Katara action figure.2. Actually having asianactors, but only as the bad guys.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Avatar was one of the best cartoons of the 00s. After about two episodes I was completely hooked. The only lull was in the first half of the third season, which feels too filler-ish, but things pick up again quickly for the epic finale.
Low expectations for this movie adaption, but there's been almost no reviews or anything yet so maybe it'll be a pleasant surprise.
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
earth nation are not bad guys, zuko and iroh are not bad guys
― ampersand (remy bean), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I was thinking Zuko and Iroh, which yes they aren't bad guys, but since the film is the first in a planned trilogy I'm not sure whether we will know that they aren't bad guys for a while.
Iroh is just the best, imo.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Even if Iroh and Zuko don't turn out to be evil (though if each movie follows the plot of one season, this doesn't become fully clear until the second and third movies), it's a pretty dodgy practice to have Asian actors play all the members of the most villainous nation, and pretty much all the other important characters, except for the main heroes. Are they supposed to be genetic freaks in an otherwise all-Asian world or what? It's kinda hard not to interpret this as Hollywood saying that Asian actors are good enough for supporting roles, but they can't be the main protagonists of a bid budget movie. Especially since the white actors hired to play the hero roles are not established stars or anything.
On the other hand, the heroes were played by white actors in the cartoon too, but at least they looked Asian.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
The characters, I mean, not the actors.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
(though if each movie follows the plot of one season, this doesn't become fully clear until the second and third movies)
This is what I'm saying.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
This is all kind of spoilerific too, for those like the Rev who haven't yet seen the cartoons.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
The trailers make the movie look awful. The cartoon is humorous and has loads of Miyazaki-influenced whimsy, whilst the movie looks so po-faced and angsty. Shamwow ruins everything he touches.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, the humor is actually my biggest concern.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
One thing I also fear will be changed in the movies is the fact that the heroes don't kill anyone in the cartoon. Of course this was at least partially because it was a kid-oriented show, but it was still refreshing to see fantasy epic where the main hero is a pacifist, for whom not killing your enemies is actually a big issue.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
superman!
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
The Happening is absolutely must see.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 5 July 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
its really sort of unbelievable
― ice cr?m, Monday, 5 July 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a happening
― fraps rule everything around me (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
this movie wasn't nearly as bad as i expected. dropping the kyoshi warriors is going to fuck up some really important plot points in book 2, if it gets made though. slumdog millionaire was good as zuko. shyamalan's best movie by a bazillion miles. he changed the climactic ending and GASP i actually liked it.
― did you mean: fart blasters? (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
still not as good as the worst episode of the tv show though (which was 'the beach' in season 3)
― did you mean: fart blasters? (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
also kinda shocked that a few scenes from the series were recreated exactly in the film ("he was earthbending rocks at us...it really hurt").
― did you mean: fart blasters? (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Well done there, M. Night:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/49028608.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Inevitable:
http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/last-airbender
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL @ the foot massage reveal
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"Do not worry about the moon's power, General."
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^I quit watching the the rifftrax of this after Aasif's character said this line. IMO it can't be topped so why keep going? Plus it was making me fall asleep at 6:30 p.m.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
The final word on the subject (of the movie):
http://agonybooth.com/movies/The_Last_Airbender_2010.aspx
"I’ll warn everybody right now, this is going to be an angry one."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 February 2011 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Trailer for the new series The Legend of Korra, which begins next year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_VkHYtS6MY
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 24 July 2011 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
Here's a better-looking version of the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gz8pino8lw
I'm really excited about this! AtLA was one of the best TV series I've seen in recent years, it's amazing how much depth they managed to get into what was nominally a kids' show. At first the idea of the new series taking place in a fantasy version of early 20th century Shanghai felt a bit odd to me, but if they can pull it off, it could be really cool. AtLA already did the high fantasy, so why not try some urban fantasy for the sequel?
Anyway, about the trailer, what's that thing Korra is riding? I guess in the tradition of hybrid animals in Avatar it's a polar bear wolf or something?
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 July 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
Korra is riding a dog/polar bear hybrid. The series is set 70/80 years later and the look of the series will be mostly steampunk.
Some info on the series released so far: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_Airbender:_Legend_of_Korra
Descendants of the original series' characters will definitely feature; the Avatar world has changed a lot, but a lot of those changes were defined and built by the A:TLA characters and their influence will be far-reaching. It'll be interesting to see that based on what we've learned so far.
― Duane Barry, Monday, 25 July 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
Just finished watching this! At times quite remarkable, and totally impressed with how much moral nuance it brought to its stories.
Question: Do I need to seek out the comic sequels before I get started on Korra? I generally stay clear of these kinds of other-media tie-ins.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Sunday, 26 April 2015 03:44 (nine years ago) link
The storytelling over the three seasons is also really cool: it starts as a pastoral adventure story where the characters run through largely pre-industrial villages and towns, then we get the Earth Kingdom megalopolises with sprawling political bureaucracies (though the totalitarian state of Ba Sing Se is somewhat anachronistic), and finally the Fire Nation, which is full of 19th-century steampunk technology and imperialist ambitions. Sort of like the embryonic development in "The Oxen of the Sun" in Ulysses, but with political states.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Sunday, 26 April 2015 03:58 (nine years ago) link
You can just jump right into Korra after Avatar.
― sonic yarmouth (how's life), Sunday, 26 April 2015 12:19 (nine years ago) link
though korra was v boring, also h8 the character design
― laraaji p. hensen (clouds), Sunday, 26 April 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
all adults have "serious adult voice" like they're a voiceover in a PC point-click game giving yr character advice ("you MUST find the crystal shards, or else, I fear... all hope shall be lost!"). the "kids" sound (and mostly are i think) like 30+ ppl trying to sound cool but sounding more like poochy the dog or the "cool" guy in a made for tv disney movie. every villain just does the same throaty mark hammill received pronunciation almost british non-accent. despite the attention-grabbyness of the "steampunk" elements and all the cgi the animation looks really cheap and frame rate is jerky and ugly as fuck. the queer elements seem very self-congratulatory -- maybe we're in a similar phase in entertainment to e.g. the obligatory very special episode about AIDS in the late 80s wrt to gay shit and have to have this initial awkwardness which might not be recognized by the target audience as being awkward as such. just feel like the creators were trying to do something cool but just have terrible taste.
― laraaji p. hensen (clouds), Sunday, 26 April 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
I didn't care much for Korra either. With Avatar, I was totally engrossed throughout (though the first half of S3 was slightly uneven), and when it was ending I thought "Gosh, I'm really gonna miss these characters!" But with Korra, I stopped watching during S2 and never even felt the slightest compulsion to get back on board. The romance in particular felt very forced and tacked-on.
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 26 April 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Korra was really uneven for the first two seasons, but it actually got better: season 3 was a huge improvement over season 2, which was the worst of the series, and season 4 was pretty good. I think they actually listened to the criticism the first two seasons generated, because they dropped most of the teen relationship drama, the romance subplots in the last two seasons are more downplayed and organic and less obtrusive. And more importantly, the villains of the last two seasons are more human-sized and three-dimensional, which I thought was great after the generic doomsday big bad of season 2.
Also, I gotta disagree on the queer stuff being "very self-congratulatory"; if anything, it was too subtle, because many viewers apparently didn't even notice it. The had to make official blog posts that "yes, character X and character Y are indeed a queer couple!", because some people wanted to see them as "just good friends" or something. Apparently the subtleness was because Nickelodeon standards didn't allow them to be any more explicit about their queerness, which I think is kinda sad, but OTOH it actually stops it from getting into "a very special episode" territory, because it's never made into a big deal... Being queer isn't what defines these characters, it's just one part of what they are.
Anyway, I started a separate thread for Korra, maybe this discussion could be moved there, especially since it might spoil the series for those who've only seen AtLA.
The Legend of Korra (the sequel series to the Avatar: The Last Airbender)
― Tuomas, Sunday, 26 April 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
Who knew?
A reimagined, live-action “Avatar: The Last Airbender” series is coming to Netflix! (ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇᴘᴛ ᴀʀᴛ ʙʏ Jᴏʜɴ Sᴛᴀᴜʙ) pic.twitter.com/YsMoE4UguV— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) September 18, 2018
AND I can confirm that the original creators, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, will be back to take on the live action. THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BEEN TRAINING FOR ALL THESE YEARS. https://t.co/Pi5M1TDTZc— NX (@NXOnNetflix) September 18, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
Was just about to post this!
My first reaction was, "Oh god why?" But having the creators involved softens the blow.
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
Even with the creators involved, surprised anyone wants to sink money into live-action Avatar, given the movie. Then again, BBC/HBO are re-doing His Dark Materials too, so maybe 2019 is the year of redeeming shit live-action movies
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
The Dragon Prince, involving a lot of the same folks as Avatar, is up on netflix now. It's good, nothing too original.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
It's good, nothing too original.
Yeah, pretty much. Humor is a lot more forced and cringey.
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
I really disliked the few eps I watched of that and mostly because it's direly unfunny (and therefore a terrible comp to Avatar)
― rob, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
I'm rewatching this, and oh god I will never be ready for Iroh's part of "Tales Of Ba Sing Se."
― Perfect Leee Cromulent (Leee), Thursday, 25 April 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
Finally got the Blu-ray set for cheap the other day.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 April 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
had a co-worker who watched the movie avatar and this series and thought they were related
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 25 April 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
Ugh and "Appa's Lost Days" is up next, back-to-back emotional devastation.
― Perfect Leee Cromulent (Leee), Thursday, 25 April 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
So much for that
https://io9.gizmodo.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-s-creators-just-left-the-liv-1844700980
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Damn, that sucks. I rewatched the original series with my daughter a few months back. It's such an amazing show. I didn't need a live-action remake or update or whatever, but I thought it might be cool with the original creators involved.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Feeling this. What a great show.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 17 September 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
i've been watching this slowly with my kid, it's pretty good! good mix of action/humor/emotion. some of the character design (mostly for minor characters) is kind of ugly but that's only a minor criticism.
― na (NA), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
it is funny how much appa is just totoro + catbus
Return of Avatar, part 2 (3?): https://kotaku.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-nickelodeon-aang-katara-zuko-1849066817
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Saturday, 18 June 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link