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Netflix' Avatar prepped for a possible season 2 time jump by removing Sozin's Comet "ticking clock" (ew.com)

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Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender has not been given the all clear for a second season just yet. (...)

That said, there were certain logistical factors of making an epic fantasy drama of this scale that forced [showrunner Albert] Kim to account for the possibility of more seasons: one, his core four actors are aging up on screen before his eyes, and two, it takes time to both film and produce a single season of Avatar.

“All three seasons of the animated series essentially take place in the course of one calendar year,” Kim says of the original Nickelodeon animated show. “There was no way we could do that. So we had to design this first season, especially, to accommodate the possibility of some time elapsing between the first and the second season.”

Part of that strategy involves Sozin’s Comet, which fans of the original series are already familiar with and newbies can spot cutting across the night sky in the trailers. “The comet was their ticking clock,” Kim explains. “We removed that particular ticking clock from our show for now because we couldn't know exactly how old our actors would be for the subsequent seasons. We definitely thought about that going into season 1 so that we can accommodate for puberty, adolescence, time passing — all of those fun things that happen to real-life human beings that don't happen to animated characters."

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[–] dustyData 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This adaptation, while promising superior visual spectacle in comparison to the movie that doesn't exist, is however a mistake. My prediction is that it will flop. Not because it is technically bad, but because the show runners and writers are cowardly corporate plants. They will not dare do anything creative, innovative or cool with the concept. They should've told a new original story in universe, or done the Scott pilgrim takes off approach and just have fun with the retelling of the same story. Instead, we will have the vanilla oatmeal equivalent of a series. Passable, even good by all accounts, but ultimately boring and bland.

[–] EdibleFriend 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I still don't have any hope for it even being faithful to the original despite how good the trailers look. Don't forget, very early on, the original creator walked away from the project because he didn't like what they were doing with it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Bryke immediately left netflix after disagreements with the story iirc

[–] EdibleFriend 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And here we are. The show hasn't even premiered and getting word of possible massive fucking changes to the story. Which in and of itself isn't a horrible thing. A new take isn't the end of the world if it's a good one.

But I don't trust Netflix to do that. At all. Look at their 'fresh take' on Deathnote. It was like they hated the source. Misa was basically the real Kira. Light pretty much confessed as soon as he met L. RYUK WAS A VILLAIN

[–] Anticorp -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It should be illegal to change beloved stories in adaptations. It makes me want to punch people.

[–] EdibleFriend 7 points 10 months ago

It can work. Every single version of Hitchhikers was different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

There are multiple accounts.

Their statement back then was that they were not able to tell the story the way they wanted to. Sources within Netflix leaked to the media that Bryke were way behind the agreed-upon schedule in preproduction and were unable to get things going.