Albert Kim, who replaced creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, is handing over the series to colleagues Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani.
Sources say Kim’s intention was to lay the foundation for season one of Avatar: The Last Airbender after stepping in for the beloved franchise’s creators. Given the long turnaround time in crafting the series — Netflix ordered it in 2018, the creators left in late 2020 and the show didn’t debut until February 2024 — sources say Kim was ready to move on to new opportunities.
Co-executive producer Christine Boylan and exec producer/director Jabbar Raisani — both of whom were hired by Kim — will take over as the drama’s third showrunners for the previously announced second and third seasons.
I think critics are being a bit dramatic. ATLA Book 1 had bumps and slow episodes, and some very similar flaws people pave over looking back (like Sokka being a chick magnet).
I wouldn’t care if the issues where just bumps or some slow episodes. The problem is that the live action has some very fundamental issues like a glaring lack of character development and generally poor story telling, which are things the original excelled at.
Just watching the live action remake and trying to tune out the original as much as I could, I found most characters to be very flat and superficial. Combined with the often very cringy dialog I found it really hard to emotionally connect with or care about the characters.
I don’t understand why they can’t just film a 1:1 recreation of the animated show as live action. Why change anything other than the medium?
This applies to all of these animated to live action remakes. Just do the original thing in live action! Or make something original. Stop half assing both.
What’s the point of a 1:1 recreation if the original is right there?
The 1996 shot-for-shot remake of Psycho showed clear as day that nobody needs anything like that.
I just made another comment about that. I kind of agree. Maybe not a 1:1 remake but one very close to the original but maybe with an overall darker tone and including more mature themes, for example actually showing the horrors of the 100 year long wars that is supposed to go on, but see very little of in the kids show.
But yeah, keep all the good stuff and add to it. Don’t remove or fundamentally alter stuff what already worked.
It’s a problem that lots of live action shows have nowadays, not just adaptions. Usually character writing gets better in the second season when the writers have a better grasp on what their actors are good at.