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So I gave the Netflix, avatar the last Airbender a second try. I took off my judgment goggles and looked at it as a brand new work of fiction. Now mind you my opinion means nothing, but I do have a certain level of emotional attachment to this intellectual property.
The live action show is very pretty, I love the costumes and I actually enjoy some of the characters. Keep in mind I’m only 20 minutes into the second episode. I’m a little busy these days. But I plan to make some time. I took down my original post where I called the show trash so that I could collect more data for my opinion.
Some grumbles;
The special effects are kind of wonky in places. I don’t care for Appa‘s hair. 😁
Some of the fight scenes actually have good kung fu in them. Hats off to the choreographer. However the connected CGI animations of the characters performing bending imho lack the basic essences of bending. The Airbender staff fighting had no “bending” at all.
The work we did on the original show came from a certain type of process, and none of those processes seem to exist in this current offering from Netflix…
I think if Bryan and Mike had stuck around on the project you may have seen some differences, but we will never know will we?
I may write more about this after I’ve seen the entire affair. I’m still a little upset about what NF did to cowboy bebop. Both of these shows had a certain “soul“ in the original animations, but that is one more element missing in these current efforts.Heck I know people that worked on NFATLAB that won’t even watch it.
In closing someone brought to my attention that some clown on Reddit called me an asshole.
Meh, I may very well be.
But your opinions are just like assholes, everybody’s got one 😜
(((i’ve had a Reddit account since 2008))
🙃
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cuck ass Zuko won against Piandao in the hot poll no one talk to me for 7 business days...
#I'm a liiiitle tipsy and its soooo bad no one let me think abt how hot Sifu Kisu is. dont let meeeeee#I wish they made old tlok book 3 Zuko an option I think he's the only Zuko that shpuld be allowed in polls. cus like idk I'd get less#annoyed when he inevitably wins like well thats just peepaw I cant get that mad
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how the FUCK has lovestruck jeong jeong been on this site for over two years and i'm only just now seeing it. my blorbo senses should've been tingling
#this isn't the kind of thing that would be a big deal if it was another character but there is Not A Lot of jeong jeong fanart out there#when you like minor characters most of the art is screenshot redraws or 'i'm challenging myself to draw every character in avatar'#which is all great#but fanart with personality and expression like that lovestruck jeong jeong is so much harder to come by#so it's always such a joy#an argument for those expression memes lol#normally the personality driven art comes from people having blorbo thoughts but if you just practice expressions with minor characters#you'll get the same result#i had similar feelings looking at the atla artbook sketches of piandao#that were mostly just 'we're gonna capture sifu kisu's expressions bc he's our friend and creative collaborator and it's fun'#but to me it was like oh! piandao emotions!#anyways#i'm normal about things#nina's personal log
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Sad but true …..
I think it’s really cool that he’s based off of the (martial artist) fighting instructor and consultant of the series named Sifu Kisu who’s actually blasian in real life
If anyone doesn’t remember, he was Sokka’s teacher
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debunking lies zutara shippers say about the atla creators & writers
disclaimer: this is in no way an endorsement or defense of bryke or anyone mentioned. literally just debunking false statements i see spread throughout and outside the fandom as it pertains to kataang
1. that bryke made kataang endgame because the nice guy should get the girl
this is something I see often usually linked with this video of a man ⬇️ who they claim to be bryan/mike echoing this sentiment.
this man is in fact john o’bryan, one of the three known zk shippers in the writers’ room (we’ll expand on this in point 5) talking about how he saw aang. not the creators. so of course it shouldn’t surprise anyone that he doesn’t even like kataang in the first place.
2. that bryke made kataang endgame last minute and zutara was the original pairing
bryan and mike (notice how i’m using both of their names separately. this too will be important in the next point) have talked about how kataang was planned since they originally wrote the show.
they have also talked ad nauseam in a video (which I will not share here cuz it made a lot of ppl angry) about why they do not like zutara and its shippers, so this entire point is bogus.
++ the reason why they say zk was the original pairing is because of one of the zk writers (joshua hamilton) wrote this in the atla fun facts that used to run on tv. (we’ll get into him later) those atla fun facts contain a lot of inaccurate/non canon “facts” which you can check and verify on avatar wiki if you know what i’m talking about.
3. that aang is bryke’s self insert (specifically mike)
yeah, here’s where the separation becomes important. bryan (L) and mike (R) are two different men. mike has never said that aang was his self-insert, nor has he directly talked about relating to aang. bryan, however, constantly talks about how much he relates to zuko. even, going as far to say he tries to think like zuko when he writes characters and shows.
the only time mike has come close to saying he relates to aang is when dante said he thinks mike is more like aang while bryan is more like zuko, and they, mostly bryan, agreed. (mike has actually said he relates to korra more than aang but hey) bryan also is the one who drew mike’s beard on adult aang because he considered it a nice reference to his friend. this is the main reason why shippers ran with that self-insert narrative because half the time, they think bryke is actually one person ☠️
++ in fact, aang’s original character design is based off the mixed black-chinese son of sifu kisu
4. that atla was supposed to have a season 4 where katara and zuko got together
this is mostly something that has come out of a fabricated interview by the head writer, aaron ehasz. he was allegedly asked what he would have liked to do if given the chance to write a fourth season of the show and talked about an azula redemption arc among other things. zutaras then made up a whole fake interview including that he wanted to make the two characters endgame.
ehasz then came out to say that most of these “interviews” were faked and that he has never talked about having a preference for any ship. if you go on his twitter, you will see him talking about an azula redemption arc tho.
as for atla having a 4th season at all, it was never intended. the creators, the music composers have all said at various points in time, the show was written and pitched as three seasons, three elements.
5. that most of the other writers shipped zutara and bryke’s authoritarianism shut it down
as I said above, only three writers on the original show have come out to say they preferred zk at some point. atla has had a total of 21 staff writers. 3 out of 21 is not most if you ask me.
as for bryke (yes now i’m using the shorthand cuz i proved my point earlier) being authoritarians, no writer or staff that has worked with them on the show has said this so…? idk where that came from but i’m not here to back them up just mention facts.
6. that all the women who worked on the franchise shipped zutara while only men shipped kataang
atla has very few female staff as it is:
5 writers (elizabeth welch: zk; others: unknown)
1 director (unknown)
5 storyboard/character artists (lauren montgomery: ka; elsa garagarza: ka; angela song mueller: zk; others: unknown)
1 comic writer (faith erin hicks: ka)
2 comic artists (gurihiru: ka)
++ mae whitman (katara’s voice actress) has expressed her like for both ships throughout the years.
so i’m not sure what defines all and only for some ppl but those definitions are not in my dictionary. disclaimer: i’m not declaring anyone here as a shipper in any official sense. this is just based off statements they have made that you can google!
7. that katara is written poorly in post-atla content because of kataang/bryke
I mean the first part isn’t really a lie, more of an opinion which I can agree with to an extent.
why I mention this here is because zks will not only go on a tangent and link the misogyny in the writing to a m/f ship and say the other m/f ship would have been more feminist…
but they also refuse to hold all the men involved accountable. like I said, 3 known atla writers shipped zk and 2 of them (joshua & john) were men (who would’ve thought men could like a ship and it could still be considered feminist 😃). they were also 2 out of only 4 atla writers that came back for legend of korra, outside of the creators. (19 to 4 ☠️ no comment). these shippers very well know this and instead of holding these men accountable for the misogynistic writing, they instead brag about them shipping it and ask them about zk whenever they have the chance.
another example is gene luen yang, a comic writer who again shipped zk (another man GASPPPPP) responsible for the first 5 comic books. everyone knows his comics suck in terms of characterization, particularly katara’s. in fact zutaras have made multiple threads on how poor the writing is. funnily enough, they always fail to mention that gly was the script writer or acknowledge his part in this mischaracterization, while bragging about him shipping zk in other posts. ironic.
meanwhile, bryke have never offered writers’ commentary on any of gly’s comics besides the search - mike (because they were mostly writing legend of korra during his run.)
basically these shippers don’t care about misogyny or holding male writers accountable if they ship zk which is funny because I thought it was… for the female gaze? why are you hyping men shipping it anyway? confusion.
#atla#atla fandom problems#anti zutara#antizutara#pro kataang#kataang#if you want me to remove any tag let me know!
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Knowing that the creators deliberating lightened Aang's skin color as he was based of Sifu Kisu's son, a Black/Chinese american, and in a sense Aang has always been whitewashed from the start...
we could have had Blasian Aang. we could have had it all.
#and people's weird obssesion that black people can't be in the show#despite the creators using african inspired cultures for the sandbenders...#well maybe that was a good thing since the sand benders were a racist caricature#atla#retracing atla#aang
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who is sifu kisu
the martial arts consultant for atla
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I feel the need to point out that Sifu Kisu posted the trailer for the live-action AtLA.
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All of my friends are begging me to play this guy in the live action…
Hollywood 🫵🤣
#sifu kisu#atlab#northern shaolin#lok#northern shaolim#atlab lok#jian#kung fu#baguazhang#youtube#piandao costume#piandao sword#ships piandao and motoko#piandao
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Alrighty I'm gonna share photos from the con 😊
They had an arts and crafts room, so Friday I drew these. I also got to participate in a jeopardy game later in the evening, and there was a room where an Iroh cosplayer was serving tea, and they had the show playing on a projector, and it was really nice and cozy.
Saturday, went with my sister and partner (I'm the Zuko cosplayer, my partner is the Mai, and my sister is the one dressed as a sandbender - her oc). There was a Q&A with Sifu Kisu, who was the martial arts consultant for the show, and we got a picture with him which was very cool. He was really enjoyable to listen to as well.
They also had an activity where you rolled a die for random animals and then combined them, mine was the chicken whale, partner's was the turtle chicken, and sister's was the flying squirrel-whale lol
Also (forgot to get any pics woops) there was a martial arts studio local to Columbus that was there doing a demo and a workshop, so my sister and I got to attempt learning kung fu which was very exciting!
Sunday was a half day, and was more laid back, they had an art gallery of all the drawings and coloring pages people made throughout the con, personal fave that wasn't one of ours was this one:
But yeah it was a really great experience! I'm really glad we went, and I really hope they hold it again in the future
(I cant fit the rest of the pictures so I'll make another post for them lol)
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but yea love you Studio Mir. MAWS was not it 🫢😔🔫 FOR ME...
#LOOK. they probably had production issues. 2d animation industry a-given at this point...#but I just... didnt like it....#the reason MIR's animation is so gorgeous for atla and tlok was because of the specific kind of#artistic direction they had and all of the reference material they were given (re: Sifu Kisu + martial arts) its the attention to detail#that made it all slot together so well.... anyway. done cartoonposting I prommy <- no I dont#oh also: while I didnt like Voltron I DID like Mir's work on it. some budget hiccups here and there but thats normal. smooth stuff.
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wait was piandao's design really based off a moroccan guy? i can't seem to find a source for this
that is sifu kisu's ancestry, yes! he was the martial arts consultant for the show and piandao's design was based on him
you can read a transcript of his commentary on "sokka's master" here and a good interview about his experience with the show here.
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Despite the never wrecking silence from the con until the start of February, I am hyped for Cabbage Con at the end of March!
I am excited to see Sifu Kius again. I got to see a single panel in Atlanta years ago (MomoCon 2014?) and it was really fascinating. He is famous to us anime for Avatar, but he is also credited with working on Big Bad Beetleborgs for you Sentai fans/(if you have never seen it look it up! It has the heart of fun and some great comedy martial arts) He has a tumblr @sifu-kisu and it’s an interesting read outside of Con related news.
Norsefyre (cosplaying circus troupe) looks fun. If nothing else this con should have some pretty cool physical displays. I am still hopeful for fan panels, but I guess we will see Friday/Saturday when the schedule is suppose to come out.
My big adventure plans for OH is really only to check out otherworld since it is only in OH or PA. Hoping to go with a bunch of other attendees!
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Got a Portal Key and also Sifu Kisu's autograph! He was the consultant for the martial arts used for the different bending styles on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Korra!
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