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SlothfulCobra posted:It's just a pastiche. While east asian influences are obviously the strongest, and the setting purposefully veers away from most European influences (that most fantasy gets really dominated by), the creators didn't really set any hard rules for themselves. The Earth Kingdom has chinese, korean, and even arab influences at times. The water tribe veers most notably to cajuns for the lost swamp tribe, but also the Northern Water Tribe has a little of Venice, and Legend of Korra's reconstructed Southern Water Tribe even gave me some Japanese vibes. One of Sokka's trademark weapons is Australian for some reason. And like I said, while I'm pretty sure it's mostly just convergent design, there's occasional Viking vibes from the Southern Water Tribe warriors, mostly in the longboats, which make a lot of sense for coastal raiding, and the Fire Nation's geography is apparently based on Iceland. And then there's the nomads that are basically hippies, even giving their newborn child a hippie af name. Quite a few elements are mixes of Eastern and Western themes and motifs, with Zuko having an episode that's basically a Western showdown (of course, the cross pollination between those and samurai movies is well known) and the Avatar's deal somewhat resembling a superhero more than anything, even coming out of the ice like Captain America. (And Zuko even has his own masked alter ego)
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Been making my way through Craig of the Creek looking at episodes I never saw (basically everything after season 1) and it keeps being a delight. The easiest way to describe it is if Recess was modernized and not constrained by the school setting. The kid cliques with their weird kid logic reigns supreme and the contraptions are outlandish but never impossible. They also do the ongoing lore thing well too where it's never bogged down by it and if it's missed, it's not going to ruin anything. (I'm only on s2 fwiw.) Its last season is season 5 and the episode order was cut which is a shame, but 5 seasons and a movie is a good run for a kid's cartoon. The spinoff is only getting the one unfortunately, but it was also meant for the preschool demo which is tough.
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Is this literally the first Disney+ original show that that isn't based on an existing Disney IP aside from movies that went directly to Disney+ during covid? I guess they must have at least had some live action kids shows that I just can't think of off the top of my head.
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I feel bad for the creators trying to do something original knowing that basically every review of this is gonna compare it to Wakanda/Black Panther.
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That's the second afro-futurist series Disney has put out. This came out a little while ago: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14866860/ I assume these were all greenlit following the success of Black Panther but it's cool it allows for a different look in animation. Although Iwaju looks closer to typical disney feature rendering than I would have liked, was hoping for more stylized stuff.
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mystes posted:Is this literally the first Disney+ original show that that isn't based on an existing Disney IP aside from movies that went directly to Disney+ during covid? I can think of a few, but only because you specified Disney IP. Benedict Society (before it got memory holed) and Percy Jackson are both book adaptations. There's also a bunch of nonfiction stuff, if you want to count that.
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Ccs posted:That's the second afro-futurist series Disney has put out. This came out a little while ago: Oh, I assumed it was a spin-off from that! Like, each of the anthology episodes was a reasonable pilot/proof of concept for a series, and they’d picked one to run with.
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i was doing research on music and I just found out that Mainframe's two founders (Reboot and Beast Wars) were responsible for the music video for Dire Strait's "Money For Nothing", the CGI parts. Wild. I found out something similar before that, which is that the director of the 1990 TMNT movie, Steve Barron, cut his teeth with some of MTV's big early videos-Toto's "Africa", The Human League's "Don't You Want Me", a-ha's "Take On Me" and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean".
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The Money for Nothing guys cameo in Reboot at one point and get made fun of.
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X-Men ‘97 drops March 20th https://youtube.com/watch?v=pv3Ss8o9gGQ https://twitter.com/kaymaldo/status/1758132118327034278 Larryb fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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I'm probably always going to be mad about the abrupt way that they ended The Owl House, but it's sweet they had Luz and Amity front and centre in their valentine's day chibi special. Also it was nice they brought back Star and Marco, too! Honestly I'm pretty surprised how much I've been enjoying the chibi stuff in general.
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Larryb posted:X-Men ‘97 drops March 20th I like how this looks. A bit more appealing from a movement and color perspective than the original, but not a lot more appealing. The intentionally stilted animation and somewhat muddy colors.
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New ATLA clip: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z4YKGVwd8pI The Bending effects look decent at least
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Larryb posted:New ATLA clip: This looks fine. It's about what I expected. A fire effect placed over live action footage with minimal budget to have them interact or integrate well. It basically looks like the bending is sat "in front" of the screen. But that's fine for what it is.
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Better than the movie at least (but that’s probably one of the lowest bars you can clear)
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I've liked the other trailers and clips but this one is easily the most impressive one they've released so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEmlE9Ianuo
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Speaking of Avatar, we’re getting a Roku novel it seems: https://www.amazon.com/Avatar-Last-...WKK&tag=snx1-20
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Larryb posted:New ATLA clip: Why are the earth kingdom soldiers European?
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because woke has won.
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Look, I'm sure it must be there's only a handful of Asian folks out there who want to be extras, okay??
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Watched a bit of the ATLA remake and it’s…fine. Not Cowboy Bebop level bad but not One Piece level great either. As you can expect from an 8 episode show it condenses a lot of the plot down (we jump straight to the Kyoshi Warriors in Episode 2 and the third episode moves the Mechanist and Teo to Omashu and merges their plot with the Jet story, which actually works surprisingly well) They replace Sokka’s sexism with him just generally coming across as an rear end in a top hat at times and therefore still having room to grow (Suki gets a bit more development as well which makes me think they might be elevating her status sooner than the cartoon did, assuming this lasts long enough that is) Larryb fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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Larryb posted:Watched a bit of the ATLA remake and it’s…fine. Not Cowboy Bebop level bad but not One Piece level great either. That all sounds fine. Moving the Mechanist to Omashu even works with it's fall leading to the Fire Nation having the massive blimps we see in Book Three. Whilst it's only 8 episodes the running time of each means its actually got a total running time a little bit longer than Book One of the cartoon.
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PriorMarcus posted:That all sounds fine. Moving the Mechanist to Omashu even works with it's fall leading to the Fire Nation having the massive blimps we see in Book Three. Which makes it all the more weird it feels slow and yet less dense and characters feel less well-formed. Maybe it's the tiring one hour episode format.
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Someone I know pointed out that it's harder to suspend your disbelief that a teenager could be making military decisions when they're in live action than in animation and I'm inclined to agree
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Halfway through the ATLA LA remake and, look, they made some good changes. There were some plot holes that were filled in, some stuff that I would have expectedfrom season 2 have been moved to season one because while they're iconic, the showrunners are probably worried about fitting all of season 2 into season 2, so overall mostly positive, but... Bumi. Look how they massacred my boy. After actually making me really like both Jet AND the Machinist - which I never thought I'd say - the show does what the fire nation never managed to achieve. They murdered King Bumi.
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One minor change that Shyamalan did that I think these guys should've (although there's a solid shot with the lukewarm reception this is getting that it won't matter) also stuck to was not having the comet coming the same year Aang is unthawed. If they do end up doing books 2 and 3, these kids are gonna age out of the parts so goddamn quick...
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Gaz-L posted:One minor change that Shyamalan did that I think these guys should've (although there's a solid shot with the lukewarm reception this is getting that it won't matter) also stuck to was not having the comet coming the same year Aang is unthawed. If they do end up doing books 2 and 3, these kids are gonna age out of the parts so goddamn quick... I finished the season today, at the end, Ozai and a fire monk are at a model of the planet and comet, with the monk describing that they figured out the calculations for the comet, Ozai asks when and monk response "soon". Which is perfectly fine because you put that ticking bomb over season 3, if there is a season 3.
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I haven’t finished the season yet but while they removed Sokka’s sexism did they keep Pakku‘s (the northern waterbending master) intact? If not, how did they handle Katara’s arc in those episodes then? Also is the flashback to Ozai scarring Zuko’s face still there somewhere?
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Larryb posted:I haven’t finished the season yet but while they removed Sokka’s sexism did they keep Pakku‘s (the northern waterbending master) intact? If not, how did they handle Katara’s arc in those episodes then? Yes they kept the north tribe sexism in. Yep they kept the agni Kai too.
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Miching Mallecho posted:Yes they kept the north tribe sexism in. The latter is moved to the episode adapting The Blue Spirit it seems (which works pretty well honestly)
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Larryb posted:The latter is moved to the episode adapting The Blue Spirit it seems (which works pretty well honestly) Honestly I liked the season overall, definitely pacing issues, sometimes it felt some episodes were rushing and others a little too slow. I think the reactions overall online are being too harsh. The only casting choices that felt wrong, for me, Danny Pudi as the mechinist.
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Yeah, overall it seems like some genuine effort was made with this (Aang even SOUNDS like his cartoon counterpart at times and I like how they expanded on Suki a bit) and provided Netflix doesn’t shitcan the show I’m at least invested enough to want to keep watching
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Junpei posted:Someone I know pointed out that it's harder to suspend your disbelief that a teenager could be making military decisions when they're in live action than in animation and I'm inclined to agree Yeah, I felt the same way after watching one of the early trailers: koolkal posted:Watching a cartoon 12 year old boy fight a war: endearing I tried watching the series but it's just waaaayyy too weird.
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a neat cape posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1760770595942240476?t=acPaeSTfI7g1tmHziDn3DQ&s=19 I already didn't like seeing that Aang was kind of a poo poo dad in Korra, I don't need to see it happen in real time. Okay I'm kidding (well, half-kidding) but I really don't want more Avatar stuff. To me it's like Star Wars, where every successive entry/product just takes more of the mystique out of the setting.
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As long as it's animated content I'll take it, sure fine, but all of these ATLA projects have release dates years and years from now so they might as well not exist to me.
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I watched the first episode of ATLA live action and thought it was half decent, and apparently its the worst of the bunch. Granted I had low expectations but I was curious about it. I sort of hope that despite some very lukewarm reviews that it hits the viewing targets Netflix cares about to actually renews shows.
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It gets better as it goes along, yeah (the second episode is particularly good despite them changing Sokka’s role a bit) I also find it interesting that they brought Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai in early (they all seem particularly well cast too). Hope the show lasts long enough for us to get to Toph
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