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Netflix’s live-action Avatar has its heart in the right place, but its pacing and uneven performances leave a lot to be desired.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Even with each of its eight episodes clocking in at about an hour each, it would have been difficult for Netflix’s Avatar to hit all of the same beats as the lengthier cartoon.

Ah well theres your problem. I was actually rooting for this to be good but surprise surprise, Netflix is still shit.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean, to be fair, 8 episodes at 1 hour each is more or less the same runtime that 20 episodes of ~20 min each. The problem is not the amount of episodes, it's just bad direction.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Same runtime maybe, but not the same pace. Would you have them just switch from one story to another a third of the way through the episode?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lots of animated shows do that, though they only usually have two stories due to shorter runtimes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

That's more because they have an allotted time slot on their TV network. Like Nickelodeon gave Spongebob 22 minutes per episode but they only wanted to write 10 minute episodes, so they did 2 per episode. That's not really relevant on a streaming service where they have total control over the episode pacing. They can even do weird stuff like having different episodes in a series run for different durations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Run the stories at the same time, plenty of tv shows do that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not if the stories follow the same characters and are sequential

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Better direction would probably help but fitting multiple episodes from the original into a few here seems like its asking for issues. But as you said, bad direction is more the issue. Im sure someone will make a better ATLA live action at some point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

They got my hopes up with One Piece.