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SomeUsername529 posted...

I feel bad for all the people that hyped it up soooo hard and then like a month from release Netflix tripped over their own dick every time they said more about the series and then it finally came out and it seems like nobody gives a shit and its just barely passable. It really does feel like nobody is talking about this series outside of exactly the context of this thread.

Honestly, the ultimate reaction seems to be about what I expected, which is roughly what the better live action Disney movie remakes got: "It's okay, but there isn't much reason to watch this over the original." That's kind of inevitable with remakes like this: Either you do a frame-for-frame remake and end up with something totally redundant (if not strictly worse, as happened with the Lion King), or you try to make changes to take advantage of the different medium and end up losing some of the nostalgic appeal you were banking on to gamble on something new that may or may not actually improve anything.

If it's something where a big part of the appeal is the spectacle, then live-action remakes can add something meaningful with a different aesthetic without taking anything away from the rest of it (my impression is that the live action One Piece did pretty well, and shounen often puts a lot of emphasis on the spectacle of fight scenes, so that makes sense), but for something like Avatar that's mostly a character story, live-action doesn't inherently change much. The world-building does, however, lend itself to quite a bit of hype from preview material in that it's interesting to see the live-action takes on the setting, which I think is where a lot of the hype came from.