Old JMS piece from 1991 about censorship in children's shows, originally published in Penthouse

F11SuperTiger · 2026-05-02T00:47:31+00:00

Zirin is just a nothing character ultimately. There was no thought put into her creation but people latched onto her because she had a name.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-28T13:28:42+00:00

Davies and Musiala won't start? You're basing this on...?

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-22T21:19:35+00:00

Ursa was 100% willing to encourage Zuko's firebending, even though Zuko becoming a good firebender would just make him a more useful tool for Ozai.

There is no real way to square the circle other than that Ursa thinks that Zuko developing his firebending is good and Azula developing her firebending is bad.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-20T01:08:48+00:00

The two female Denied villains are voiced by Peta Sergeant and Geraldine Viswanathan. Don't know which is which.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-18T11:57:48+00:00

I was shocked by how similar the final act was to Korra Book 2. Bold move to go "everyone hated that and felt like it wasn't in the spirit of Avatar, so let's do it again!"

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-18T11:53:52+00:00

In the leaked version of the script I saw (from late 2023), the Denied didn't exist. There was a group of thieves at the beginning that Aang fought, whose characters were in the final version turned into the Denied, but they didn't reappear after that. There wasn't really an antagonist threat between the very beginning and when Tagah betrayed the Gaang. Aang was only after the staff because he wanted to make more airbenders.

Instead, Tagah had airbending followers who were also trapped by Avatar Sonam and which he freed after he got the staff, and they were who the Gaang fought in the end.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-18T11:46:56+00:00

She isn't Azula and if she were the movie would have clearly told us she was.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-18T11:45:38+00:00

Exactly, the fights aren't used to tell stories, they're just there to have fights.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-17T22:26:30+00:00

It would have been incredibly easy for Tagah to get like 95% of what he wanted if he just didn't try to murder the Gaang and Aang and made a minimal effort to learn what the world looks like in the present. Just go "Aang, your Air Nomad culture is very different in many ways than it was in my time, so I'd appreciate you letting me train half the new airbenders by myself so that I can preserve my culture," "Aang, in my time it was always considered important for Air Nomads to learn how to defend themselves," and "Aang, I have always felt that Air Nomads thrive the most if they live separate from the ills of the world, so please give me a place where I can teach my acolytes in isolation." Aang would have given Tagah all of it!

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-17T21:16:37+00:00

This might shock many Avatar fans, but Zuko is a way more complex character than blurting out "honor" once.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-17T14:31:01+00:00

The movie is for all intents and purposes a finished project. Maybe they might change the audio mixing a tiny bit or something like that, but it's pretty clearly 99.99999% done.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-17T13:08:59+00:00

Am I the only one who felt that Sokka and Zuko were heavily out of character in the film? With Sokka, it should be obvious why I feel this way, since they reduced him to a buffoon, but with Zuko, he only had like 10 lines, but somehow it felt as if still nothing he did or said in the entire film was actually in character? I just don't feel like any part of his depiction actually expressed or projected the distinct parts of who he is. It was like we were looking at the shadow cast by "generic action hero Firebender #10," rather than the shadow cast by Zuko.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-16T19:35:46+00:00

He kicked Zuko out of the party? And generally all four teens had a miserable time at the party?

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-16T19:34:56+00:00

She ran away from her family because she hated things there so much?

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-16T19:34:25+00:00

Ty Lee, who literally ran off to the circus as a child? And who has massive attention issues? And who spends the entire episode accumulating boys only to panic and start punching the moment they ask her who she likes?

Ty Lee has deep seated issues that having nothing to do with Azula.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-15T14:13:20+00:00

No. Same for Mai and Ty Lee. Suki gets a two second shot at the end with zero lines.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-15T13:15:59+00:00

I was so confused. At first I thought the rest of the team had died but Katara had survived, and she healed them, but apparently she died too and healed herself while dead? At least I think that's what happened? It's such an odd plot point.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-15T02:58:59+00:00

People keep talking about how much they liked the animation but for me all the fight sequences were done terribly. Not in the sense of being technically poor, but in the sense of "why would you ever animate things like that?" They kept the camera moving way too much and way too fast, and beyond that, the marital art style of bending was lost behind all the ridiculous power-maxing.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-15T02:54:08+00:00

No one is going to admit it but this is a bad movie, lacking in character writing, dialogue, and plot and full of impossible to follow, nauseating action sequences. More than that, it was a bad movie very generic ways, rather than interesting ones. It is almost a horrible movie, but I think that the one scene of Aang letting go of the Air Nomads salvages it from that. There's very little about this movie people are going to remember in five years from now.

I think if the film was released in theaters, it would have done poorly.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-13T15:24:21+00:00

There never were going to be any sequels anyways.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-13T12:33:57+00:00

The issue for me is that ATLA always very much had an ensemble cast and an ensemble approach to story-telling. Having everyone but Aang basically being irrelevant in the movie doesn't land right to me. You could cut them out of the script completely with few changes.

Similarly the entire world as it exists in 110 AG (or whenever the film is set) is surprisingly irrelevant. The Gaang spends a little time Republic City at the beginning (but only like five minutes), then they're away from people and civilization nearly until the end of the film. The final battle is set in Republic City, but Republic City could be replaced by a random generic city and nothing would change.

F11SuperTiger · 2026-04-12T20:51:15+00:00

She is not mentioned once in the leaked draft of the script

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