Netflix put out a brand new trailer for its live action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but the more I see, the more I think you should just watch the original.
Earlier today, Netflix dropped the latest trailer for its adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, where it very much set the stakes for Aang and his friends. It also better set up the adventure they’ll all be going on, and actually gave us a look at some of the cast’s performances as these now iconic characters. It all looks pretty enough, with the CG on the show’s various creatures, like Appa the flying bison, and Momo, the winged lemur, and all of the bending looks serviceable enough, but honestly, you really should just go and watch the original animated show.
A big concern I have about the live action take is the way bending is presented, as something like the wind can’t really be conveyed all that well in a real setting – this trailer kind of highlights those concerns, and shows you why animation was such a perfect medium for a show like Avatar. Thankfully, the original animated show is actually available on Netflix too, so if you’ve never seen it, you should make sure to check it out ahead of (or instead of) the upcoming live action take.
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