Avatar: The Last Airbender
Warning : This list contains spoilers for Neftlix ’s Avatar : The Last Airbender time of year 1 .
Summary
WhileNetflix ’s Avatar : The Last Airbenderunderstandably makes changes to the secret plan of season 1 , not all of them serve the story . Due to the shift in the number and length of episodes and the change in medium , some game point had to be spend . However , other beats and fibre are seemingly introduced early only to make the show more marketable , whilemoments in Aang ( Gordon Cormier ) , Katara ( Kiawentiio ) , and Sokka ’s ( Ian Ousley ) storylines are maligned .
Writing this show would have been a Brobdingnagian challenge since the season 1 plot line has already been shown in film and TV twice before . Some of the speculative changes inAvatarseason 1 stem from an effort to make the tale new , when most of the hearing knows what is going to happen . Changes like this come across as completely unnecessary . Netflix’sAvatar : The Last Airbenderseason 2will not be as affected by this trouble , but the author still face the challenge of stay true to the original characters .
8Aang Just Going For A Ride With Appa
Aang doesn’t intentionally run away, which invalidates later conversations.
Rather than Aang deliberately track down away from being the Avatar , Netflix propose that he is only going for a ride with Appa to clear his head . Unfortunately , this coincides with the Fire Nation assault the Southern Air Temple and a huge storm preventingAang and Appafrom getting base . eccentric throughout time of year 1 criticize Aang for forsake them , which is already complicated because Aang ’s duty to be the Avatar fight with his years . However , the fact that in this adaptation he did n’t advisedly desolate them redact their ire and his guilt as extra drama .
Netflix ’s newfangled show includes some change from the original Avatar : The Last Airbender which further develop the graphic symbol and work well in the story .
7Katara & Sokka Coming To The Spirit World
Some of the Spirit World’s power is lost because it is too accessible.
In the original show , Sokka is at one head take by a vindictive spirit and must be rescued . None of what happened to him in the Spirit World is show . In Netflix ’s show , Aang inadvertently bringsKatara and Sokkato the Spirit World with him through their bare proximity . The sibling are then force to relive their unfit memories while Aang calculate out a manner to rescue them and the Greenwich Village masses . Katara and Sokka coming to the Spirit World so easily chips away at its narrative weightiness , and the special position the Avatar make by being able to access it .
6Pakku’s Connection To Katara
Pakku’s character lacks the emotional storyline of the original show.
Katara still fight the Northern Water Tribe ’s ruleagainst women teach combative waterbending . This specifically brings her into battle with Master Pakku ( A Martinez ) , butPakku ’s connection to Katara ’s sept is removed . In the original show , Pakku discover that Katara and Sokka ’s nanna is the fair sex he was engage to in his youth .
“ Gran Gran ” ( Casey Camp - Horinek ) give the North Pole because of its limitation on women and had a fellowship at the South Pole . This actualisation makes Pakku understand Katara ’s perspective , and he agrees to check her . While Katara still changes Pakku ’s way of thinking satisfyingly in the Netflix show , his fiber lacks an emotional componentwithout this backstory component .
5Completely Skipping Katara’s Training
Katara’s waterbending skills are too unlikely.
In Netflix ’s show , Katara is declared a master based entirely on her ego - taught waterbending from one scroll , in the time of a few months at the most .
The original show admittedly also depicts Katara ’s onward motion from an amateur to master waterbender as improbably swift . However , it at least imply a little time jump where Katara and Aang are training with Pakku . In the intervening sentence , Katara becomes qualified to continue instruct Aang because waterbending get along more naturally to her , and she was Pakku ’s more studious learner .
In Netflix ’s show , Katara is declare a lord based solely on her self - taught waterbending from one curlicue , in the time of a few month at the most . The patch go directly from her challenging Pakku to the Fire Nation ’s attack to the " Gaang " go forth the North Pole , with Katara now responsible for train Aang . It suffer out even more because Katara spend the season read she need additional teaching from a master . The time omission is a small part of the original ; show , but it help this plot point make more signified .
4The Extra Plot Surrounding The Moon Spirit
Netflix includes too much build-up to a scene people are already familiar with.
The other characters are lamenting Aang being consumed by the angry Ocean Spirit whenSokka , for no plausible reason , says that there must be“some way to institute the Moon back to life . ”Yue then steps up to give herself to salve the Moon Spirit , which everyone knew was going to happen anyway . Yue ’s fateis one ofAvatar’ssaddest moments ; creating a third interlingual rendition of it was undoubtedly a challenge for Netflix . They obviously thought that add to the plot would make it more interesting , but it comes across as pandering .
3Azula Is Introduced Too Early
The Fire Nation princess loses some of her flair with a season 1 subplot.
In the original show , Azula is only briefly see and reference once before her dramatic unveiling in the last moments of season 1 . Netflix introduce Azula ( Elizabeth Yu ) early and follows a parallel subplot of her trying to prove herself to Ozai ( Daniel Dae Kim).The modification robs Azula of her brightly terrifying innovation and is essentially fan service — the writers just wanted to have her , as well as Mai ( Thalian Tran ) and Ty Lee ( Momona Tamada ) , appear in season 1 .
The show also unnecessarily makes Azula the genius behind Zhao ’s game . Iroh sums it up when he tells Zuko ( Dallas Liu ) that Zhao is“a small world who ’s go to encounter a small ending ” — he does n’t need to be a part of the larger secret plan . Zhao is intend to drive the difference of opinion until Azula is ready to make her terrifying ingress . Azula ’s nonadaptive relationship with her beginner can still be shown through later storyline , while including this subplot in season 1 launch area the runtime .
The cast and gang of Avatar : The Last Airbender tease the story potential for the second season , and talk about their hope for the show ’s replenishment .
2Aang Speaking To Three Avatars
Aang speaking to the three Avatars who came before him works in some ways, but not in others.
The question of how personal attachments affect the Avatar ’s duties is a valid one . However , the show does n’t depict Aang coming to any meaningful balancing between these opposing value .
Netflix establishes a exonerated motive of Aang speaking to the three Avatars who come before him through imagination , so at least one Avatar originating with each land look in season 1 . As individual cadence , these conversation exercise well . Kyoshi ( Yvonne Chapman ) manifest herself through Aang to fight the Fire Nation is fittingly epic , while Roku ( C.S. Lee ) is a delicious direct contrast with Kyoshiand clue at future plotlines .
However , Kyoshi , Roku , and Kuruk ( Meegwun Fairbrother ) each bid Aang advice that varies in wording but is at long last the same : That friends are a burden to the Avatar , who must put others ’ needs above their own . The storyline of Aang wondering whether he should be allowed to have friends is passably surplus . The interrogative sentence of how personal attachments impress the Avatar ’s duties is a valid one . However , the show does n’t depict Aang coming to any meaningful reconciliation between these play off value — Katara just asseverate that they are going to stand by together , and so they do .
1Ozai Has Too Much Screen Time
Ozai does not have the same dramatic entrance as in the original show.
Ozai suffers from a similar narrative trouble as Azula . In the original show , Ozai looms in the background as the eventual last menace . The fact that he is barely seen only makes him scarier . However , Netflix ’s extra scenes , which were probably stand for to flesh outZuko ’s character arc , diminish Ozai ’s impact . This includes an drawn-out sequence of Ozai and Zuko ’s Agni Kai duel , as well as the conversation when Ozai banishes Zukountil he finds the Avatar .
Ozai being a shadowy figure during the Agni Kai and the audience learning of how Zuko received his delegation secondhand contribute to Ozai ’s cruel delineation . While thechanges to Ozai ’s relationships with his childrenare interesting , they still could have been let in in later season without changing his initial appearing . in the end , Ozai and a few other character and moments lost some of their impactin Netflix’sAvatar : The Last Airbender .
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establish on the acclaimed animated Nickelodeon television series , Avatar : The Last Airbender is an military action - risky venture phantasy series developed by Albert Kim . The series follows Aang , a untried world training to harness the four elements to live up to the claim of Avatar - the one who will restore symmetry to the world .
