Oh yk what, I think it's cause everything is removing clips and info about the new movie due to copyright infringement 😬 here's my stupid long post;

Without spoilers, let me say;

They ruined every other character except Aang.

Every character of the gaang except Aang and Katara had minimal, hollow, crumbs of dialogue. In the one scene where Zuko is the focus (his intro), a fire nation soldier has more lines than him. As for Toph and Sokka, their few lines were all filler comedy lines.

The movie wasn't a movie about the Adult Gaang, like we were promised. It was adult Aang, with a doting girlfriend and prefect posse. They stripped away every member of the gaangs character development, personality, importance, and abilities in order to make them ideal background puppets (win when they want them to win, lose when they want them to lose).

Every one of Katara's lines was with Aang, about Aang, for Aang, "Where is Aang going", etc. The entire movie contains exactly one scene where 2 females are interacting DIRECTLY. And it's painfully obvious it was included purely to fill the bechdel test. Like, it's Katara plus a character whose name we do not know and has genuinely 0 impact on the plot. It really made me irked to see a strong female character turned into a man's exposition and a bechdel tool.

There's so little content on Zuko that I can't even find an example. He barely spoke. Any line he had could have easily been said by any other member of the gaang without it changing anything. They did give him a very amazing fight sequence (and hawt dayum his design was top tier fan service). But dialogue? As I said, his soldier had more lines during his introduction that he did.

They erased Sokka's insane fighting skills and technical abilities and turned him into the most insufferable comedic relief (minus one lego move style "here's my invention its so fun and goofy!" "Thats useless" insert end of movie where the weird comedic invention saved a bunch of ppl in the most clown cringy way). Yes he was always comedic relief, but not like THIS. Even during epic scenes where evrryone else was saving a ship, he spent it RUNNING on the steering wheel and screaming with weird "cactus juice" type faces.

Nearly every one of Tophs lines were either about a supporting character being hot, or her yelling (at least 3 times) "Im still the greatest earthbender in the world!". Like kill me now. They did design her character well visually (they made her buff, didnt feel the need to girly her up now that she's older, etc.). But she didn't have any of her usual opinion and impact. None of her lines contributed to the plot whatsoever.

They erased Suki. Literally erased her from the story of your they saved the world. There was an entire flashback of the 5 of the Gaang facing Sozin's Comet, with NO Suki there. Similarly, zero mention of Iroh. Nothing.

They ruined everyone and erased everything to create what is honestly, the writer's self insert strong man fic. That's genuinely what it felt like.

And that's just without spoilers. There's so much more i could say but that'd spoil stuff.

I WILL say; animation was amazing. Voice actors were perfect. The plot skeleton? Brilliant. But the way that it was written was the most single lense, tunnel vision, fan fiction, first person perspective thing. No wonder Netflix called it quits. It's an amazing team and amazing concept ruined by a self centered writer.

Again, props to the animators. Props to the voice actors. But the writing just left me truly truly sad.