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Guy Swann
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I just finished The Last Airbender Netflix series…

It was quite possibly the most densely packed “on the nose” writing of anything I’ve watched in years.

You could have told me that the entire thing was first written as script notes, and the director mistook them as first person dialogue. Practically every scene that progressed the plot is written with the character’s lines like “This is what I’m feeling. This is the history that is relevant to our situation. This is my motivation. Friends are good. Let’s continue toward our goal.”

I just don’t understand how a script like that can survive tens or even hundreds of million in budget. It’s incredible. 🤣

I will say it was a significant improvement over Shamalama DingDong’s film adaptation. But only because the bar was set so low. The Netflix series did have really great action scenes and VFX though. Some of it was a little iffy, but had the show been good nobody would’ve cared.

Also, the casting was bonkers.
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GulagBound · 106w
This is quite possibly the most accurate analysis I’ve seen.
Michael Welnick · 106w
You haven’t watched much anime have you?
Shawn · 106w
Worth your time in hindsight?
BitcoinBelle · 106w
Shamalama who?? 😂😂😂😂
John · 106w
Anytime Aang or Katara were on screen I got annoyed. Sokka was the best, sukki was great, zuko and iroh were okay but grew on me Animals were really well done When momo saved that kid at the end I literally yelled "oh fuck off"
KaMeek Lucas Taitt · 106w
I’m a HUGE fan of the animated show and after getting up to EP 4, I started to tune out as the writing is SO on the nose. Damn. I agree with you. They really tried clearly, so I’m hopeful S2 will be better but I’m having trouble powering through S1.
strah · 106w
Hollywood can’t quit its “tell, don’t show” approach to storytelling.
𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠 · 106w
What a shame 😢