Just finished watching the live action and i absolutely loved it. This is best in quality and Albert Kim (program creator) proved he’s a fan. This show got everything and felt bit of rushed from the cartoon. But they beautifully condensed the story we saw on 20 episodes into 8 episodes. Gordon Cormier portrayed Aang so well. I felt him like Aang because he had the responsibility(convince the fans) to carry out this role at this young age. This show doesn’t have fun elements as like in animation, but it felts so realistic to the new audience. Hopefully this series could bring more viewers to the original series. There are many sequences which are only on the book are shown and it makes more sense to the story. Netflix should bring the next season soon before the cast gets more old. I know the creators of this show left Netflix due to creative differences, but Netflix did a good job.
After thinking over it for a while, I think my biggest problem with the show was that it's boring. I like some of the changes but not all of them. For example, showing more of how azula was manipulated is good, I kind of like that she was in kahoots with Zhao, but I didn't like how goofy they made Zhao. I don't like that they made Sokka not be a Renaissance man, and instead he just cries about not being a good fighter even though we've seen him fighting. I've got tons of other examples but I just feel like the series is incredibly superficial in nature, and the characters don't have any depth. They also seem to shy from the ugly parts of personality in our good characters, like Sokka's sexism (didn't have to make him sexist but could've given him another flaw), Katara never gets angry even though I always thought those were some of her best fights in the animated show, Zuko doesn't mention his honor once, etc. Just felt a lot like a kids show trying to be "grown up" in the worst way possible. In the end, again, my biggest problem with the show was that it's boring.
Oh and I also really dislike that nothing feels earned. Like Katara became a master because...??? She learned from 1 scroll? Her inner strength eventually convincing Pakku to teach her, and then her training really hard and progressing quickly to become a master felt much more earned in the animated show, than the live action where they just started calling her a master. It felt so dumb.