The Reel Rejects - AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER LIVE ACTION 1x02 REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:38 they have a lot of stuff to get through the first episode they've got to pile it in exposition there was like zero exposition here zero Greg there wasn't any to the extent of the first episode Yeah, no, I don't think exposition in it is inherently bad. Yeah, you exposize everything. Exposition is Ness, you need exposition to explain stuff. It's the handling of it. Yeah, I thought that was a much better episode.

Starting point is 00:02:12 It actually went against the grain of, not again, when I was going to ask right, it alleviated a lot of the concerns that I was actually having. I thought the scene by the lake or the river, what is that, pond? the swimming pool with uh catara and ang it was it was that as a river it's a river yeah okay what uh that was like oh okay bam they got good chemistry here and creek it could have been a creek could have been a creek could have been a river creek i thought the what you may call it uh sacca and sukey nice chemistry again my main my main thing was i feel like there's lack of chemistry And as long as performers together are having chemistry,

Starting point is 00:02:57 Zhao, I think he's doing something very different than what we've gone in the animated counterpart, which is kind of a generic bad guy. Villain, yeah. And I think what, I forget that actor's name, but he's in a lot of stuff. And I think he's bringing such a great expressiveness, like great body language to the role.

Starting point is 00:03:15 And he's having so much fun with it whilst his intents are so clear through every line delivery that he has. I think he's really, really good. overall i thought this was a much like better paced episode uh there was great emotionality to it and they're they are switching things up because i mean we don't remember like clearly what i what i remembered from this was when saka was like girls can't do the the hell can girl defend uh and and then he learns his ways and then he gets all kioshi

Starting point is 00:03:48 warriered up in the animated show and so they still took those elements doesn't even put the makeup on yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they get and they took those elements and they made it their own here and then what they're doing with the the avatar state allowing him to in as i i remember you could like i don't remember all the rules it's been so long even since legend of cora but the whole thing with like the projection of the kiosha warrior avatar uh i thought was really cool it's it's different but and i i don't want it to rely too much on that you know because part of the phone is watching inglearn and kick ass instead of just going, yeah, just jack yourself into another avatar and go whoop some ass.

Starting point is 00:04:28 But they establish he can only do that at a shrine. Yeah. So. There's, there is some rule. I don't remember what the rule is. There is some rule, like an office hour rule. When you can clock in with the avatar, the special avatar, when you can clock in and you can, I don't know, there's always like alignment issues or something like that. There's something there.

Starting point is 00:04:52 but okay it's not making that real clear it was good and uh yeah overall i thought like this was a significant i would say like if you're going to start the show you should have watched the first two so we get past a lot of the other stuff and then here was it felt more grounded more realistic more tangible the seriousness of i felt like the last episode was a bit at times a little tonally conflicting where here was mainly serious but whenever there was humor it didn't um work against the seriousness like they found the humor uh via through the characters at appropriate times. Yeah, overall, I like this one.

Starting point is 00:05:28 What a change. Seriously, I have no complaints. This is like surprising. I really enjoyed this episode. I thought it was engaging. I think it took care of the chemistry issue. I think we saw them build the chemistry here. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:42 And it's more believable as the episode goes on. I really, another huge change, my favorite is Zuko so far, which I couldn't stand that. piece of shit in the animated film couldn't stand it in the animated series but I really every time he's on the screen I think the actor is super engaging I really like him and Iro yeah I'm really I'm really digging where all this is going and I have no I have no complaints I think it's flushing itself out it's giving itself time to breathe and we're along for that journey that's what it feels like to me it feels like we're along for the

Starting point is 00:06:20 journey with them of learning to be a group together learning to be a team and learning ing get over his insecurities and then eventually work on learning the other elements so yeah that's the one part of the that's still carried on through here that I feel like is a little too repetitive of the way everyone is kind of saying the same thing to hang like all the time the guilt tripping I can't and it's to the point I'm like it's so you're all saying the same things to him and so once in a like the interaction with Katara I think is

Starting point is 00:06:56 nice because it gives it a different cadence to it there's a different tone to the way she talks about because everyone else is like stop avoiding your bullshit hanging face up man so like most people talk to this guy and I so I really like

Starting point is 00:07:11 you abandon everyone yeah when you get the levity there with it because I'm like guys it wasn't his choice to abandon people you know yeah yeah and I kind of like the sage wisdom of if there's the only time i actually got pulled out for a slight second was when we were with the kioshi warrior lady and i uh my my record because normally i'm not comparing this to the anime the show when i'm watching it actually and it did make me flash to because this was a notable change i think and it did make me flash to when he does first like

Starting point is 00:07:39 start talking to avatar and and and they're they're so like why it's in common understanding and zen and then of course his experience the first time is like you better equip you a bitching get your shit together little boy you know and i i like her though i like the presence of them i do think the show is still like consistently shot really well and there's great uh technical designs to it and uh i i do yeah i would agree with you i think i think zuko i think the benefit that the actor has here without spoiling anything is the variations of the journey that zucco does undoubtedly go on and i think that actor is able to bring the multi layers right up front yeah so i think as a strength

Starting point is 00:08:28 because yeah i didn't i couldn't stand zuko in the animated show at first time he became one of my like favorite characters but in the first season i remember being like i really just don't like him like i don't like listening to him i wasn't a fan at all and i think the actor is bringing everything from that season one counterpart but he's infusing it with more depth because he's able to and he knows knows a little bit more about Zuko probably this one thing with him and Katara already you see that hesitant he doesn't want to hurt her yeah I'm like I'm like okay I buy this character development in the depth a little more that we're going to see later down the road yeah because yeah the anime show is just like I'm just a friend mad all the time yeah get it all right I'm super sensitive to their shows but it was it was annoying and and here I am really liking what he's bringing to the role and iro as well as being the the mentor who's trying who's don't want to say too much the mentor and and uh bringing a lot of that wisdom to to the role as well but also trying to guide him to being the ultimate prince he can he can

Starting point is 00:09:39 possibly be also trying to be like but also you know create your own path like i'm trying to teach you all the skills you want to learn but also you know maybe maybe find you know path at the same I'm very curious to I actually feel like the fire nation shit like when you're with them is I have a very opposite experience as when I was watching the animated show when I was I find myself a little more invested

Starting point is 00:10:00 in that stuff here in the live action than in the anime show I didn't enjoy it you know at first and like season two is when I was like oh it was getting great and see three like for us for us the long story short of the animated show was like season one we thought was all right

Starting point is 00:10:17 and season two went through like oh it's great stuff i think i love the ending of season one which is the thing i'm yeah started to get great rather is where we're ending this season because they've already mentioned i'm pretty sure on the show the ending with the north was the season finale of the season one yeah i mean and they're already mentioning that they have to get there there's only eight episodes so i think we saw a condensing here i think we saw a flash for i think i think when he was talking with the kioshi warrior we saw what the what's going to happen i think yeah the to make us go oh that's what he saw and then maybe will that be the same outcome yeah i think i think that's what they were doing because they did they flash on the moon

Starting point is 00:11:03 and i was like oh okay i'm worried are we going to get season two stuff in this season i don't think so i feel like i understand what they're doing because i i don't remember how how long the animated show was in the first season but they were only 22 minutes long and this is like 45 minutes to an hour long so you can theoretically condense you know two to three episodes into one right right so i don't feel like they're they're overdoing it and it seems like they're handling it overall with the right level of pacing and such it's not like a dot adapting like Naruto or or or one piece even for that matter or one piece was like you know a billion comics and stuff like there there's only a certain

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Starting point is 00:15:24 We're done with this ad. Momo. Momo, I love Momos. Momos, super adorable. So cute. Again, I know there's been a couple of little things I pointed out in terms of comparison to the animated show. There is a quality that I do find myself sort of craving

Starting point is 00:15:44 that I wish was brought to the anime to here and maybe it is just about readjusting my motor emotional skills here is it is so serious you know. Oh fascinating and I want a little bit of that a little bit of that even though it was weird because I thought Avatar was always at its best when it was super serious

Starting point is 00:16:07 but I am kind of missing some of that lightheartedness. I don't see that here because I see it in Aang, the lightheartedness. Like the moments, everyone knows I love Naruto, and I see that hope that Naruto gives his people, that he's able to have that wisdom and talk with the villains and turn them into good gifts. I see that in Aang in these moments where he's out with the villagers playing with them, where he's giving these people hope. That to me is the lightheartedness, you know, that levity that we need. So I'm not, I don't

Starting point is 00:16:40 see it as overly serious. I feel like, yeah, I think it's well done so far especially in this episode i think this episode is way better in terms of but that's what i meant earlier when we were talking about it and how i i was able to recalibrate to the tone and i do think the humor comes through via the characters the light the light comes through via the characters you just want jokes and everything he turns everything everything should be marvel yeah everything should be thor love and thunder everything in your daily life you turn into a joke so i'm not surprised you just want content jokes that's not true only if it's about me, I don't make it a joke.

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Starting point is 00:18:22 do you remember the character boomy oh yes of course boomy i feel like he would be is boomy season one yes he would be this have i did this episode or or two episodes boomy super campy animated wise i don't know how they're going to translate that feeling of pull it on i feel like they probably couldn't have a little worried depending on the actor they've done pretty good with that the other actors yeah everyone's really good wow everyone's really good yeah yeah see i've liked the side actor so far yeah for sure all right guys cabbage man i want cabbage man oh yeah see can you pull off cabbage man in such a serious show we need cabbage man i need the cabbages

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The Reel Rejects - AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER LIVE ACTION 1x02 REVIEW!!!

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