I enjoyed the Percy Jackson series and am glad there will be a second season. Now I’m looking forward to the live action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Yes, there was a movie, but it is best blocked from memory. I have greater hopes for the series. I’m not without trepidations. As The Mary Sue pointed out
the Netflix team made the decision to make Aang’s narrative more straightforward than it was in the original animated series. “He’s kind of going from place to place looking for adventures,” Kim said. “It’s a little looser as befits a cartoon. We needed to make sure that he had that drive from the start.”
Kim continued by explaining that the solution they found was giving Aang a vision right at the beginning, so that the stakes are very clear to him and so that he’s immediately motivated to reach the Northern Water Tribe and start learning waterbending.
And I’ve got to agree with them that this critically alters the central character in not a good way. Aang was frozen for a century precisely because he was running away from responsibility – and carrying guilt because of that and the subsequent slaughter of his fellow airbenders. Or, as The Mary Sue notes:
Aang’s arc within the three seasons of ATLA is a hero’s journey in the most Campbell-ish of ways—and one of the steps that happens right at the very beginning of that journey is the refusal of the call, when the hero is called to adventure and initially runs away from it before actually committing to the quest.
(Other changes also noted in the same Mary Sue post). Aang sounds like a much flatter character in this series. That would be a pity. But I withhold judgment til I actually watch it.
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