Avatar: The Last Airbender

1281 readers

122 users here now

A community for all things related to Avatar: The Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, cartoon or live action TV, movies, comics, novels, etc.

Rules:

Be kind, regardless of nation or tribe
Credit artist(s) when possible
Post relevant content
No spoilers in title, mark spoilers
No spamming or trolling
Only relevant posts
Let people like what they like
Follow all Lemmy.world rules

Please report any rule violations.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

ahimsabjorn

[email protected]

Netflix's Avatar: S1E2 - Warriors (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/avatar

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Warriors directed by Michael Goi written by Joshua Hale Fialkov

Joshua Hale Fialkov has previously written episodes for Young Justice, Ultimate Spider-Man and was head writer on the 2008 show LG15: The Resistance.

Michael Goi directed the first and this episode of Netflix' Avatar. He is known for his work as director of photography for American Horror Story and has directed episodes of Sabrina and Riverdale.

Opinions below.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I really liked this episode.

Click for Spoilers

I don't remember the Warriors of Kyoshi episode in the original show that well, but iirc there Sokka was the one actively seeking the Kyoshi warriors' training after they beat him up? In this adaption Suki has way more of her own agency and basically tries to woo Sokka by doing what she does best: fight. I also fully understand comments someone made about her being very smitten by Sokka from early on in that episode, the actress did a great job at portraying that lol

Streamlining Kyoshi to be the Avatar Aang talks to instead of Roku probably makes sense for multiple reasons (one of them being Avatar Studios' commercial interests lol). And her "taking over" Aang's body as the climax of the fight was awesome to see. But I know a good chunk of people will be disappointed about losing Roku in that role.

In a few takes, the CGI for them flying on Appa was off imo. That took me out for a second.

There is a clear cut in that fight scene before Kyoshi arrives - Suki and Sokka fight together and suddenly they're scrambling to the sidelines together with her mom, just watching the fight go on? What happened there? Did they forget to film something, or throw some scene out?

Last, and I already felt this in the first episode: Kiawentiio's acting isn't doing it for me. She does great in light, comedic scenes - but it feels like she's lacking something in those more serious scenes with Aang. And I'm very sorry to feel that way - no attack intended or anything. She clearly has potential! Looking forward to the next episodes with a different director, maybe that changes something...