Amit Bar

Season 4 ruined it completely. Horrible writing, story arc, ruined prior well-developed characters, bad humor. Season 3 was bad but season 4 ruined it.

This is not the same show as the original. They’ve changed much of the essence, storyline, morals, characters, etc. I wish they would’ve either kept the important things identical or created a completely different story in the same world. This is just not Avatar the last airbender, it’s a different show pretending to be the same thing. At least it’s better than the movie. If you do watch this, try to watch it with a mindset that this is a different show so you can try to enjoy it. Even if you don’t compare it to the original, it’s still a bad show. Bad editing, bad acting, lazy storytelling, plot is prioritized over character development, and more. There are definitely good parts like the scenery, wardrobes, cgi, fight scenes, more realistic deaths, etc. But the failures strongly outweigh the successes. I wish they kept the following: - aang’s escapism and goofiness - aang’s fear of accepting his role of avatar, running away, and then dealing with the consequences and guilt at a later time, eventually reconciling it and accepting his responsibility - sokka’s sexism and subsequent growth / maturity - sokka’s goofiness and humor. This also emphasizes via contrast his “serious” tones - Katara’s struggle to learn water bending, dealing with jealousy of aang’s natural talent - learning information as the story progresses rather than random characters saying everything immediately. Why not let it develop naturally instead? Example: why did grangran tell aang about the genocide?? Aang was supposed to accept the fact that the genocide happened at the air temple itself. Why did grangran say he’s the avatar too? - why do badger moles follow “feelings”??? Huh? - why can aang fly? - the original martial art movements used for each bending - they represented iroh’s wisdom with constant adages, proverbs, and weird sentence structures. His true wisdom didn’t lie in which words he used, but the meaning behind those words. The writers misunderstood this and gave us a shallow representation of wisdom instead - they’ve added too much melancholy and unnecessary dramatization (aang, sokka, boomi, iroh, teo, mechanist, etc). In this case, less would be more (the original balanced this better) I’ll stop here to avoid giving myself a stroke. There’s much more that I wish remained the same though or that they followed through well. I’ve only seen half the show so far so I hope it improves (and will update this if it does).