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Replacing fake sexism with real genuine sexism is like a super high depth social commentary of the last 10 years.

When execs hear “strong female character,” their only interpretation is “you mean strong like punching, right?”

You didn‘t even get to the part where azula is now written as insecure and „lashing out“ instead of a calculated, cold-blooded and highly competent psychopath …

Growing up as a woman, Katara was one of our ONLY positive representations of a strong girl who was also not only able to maintain empathy and emotion (something women and girls are belittled for) while being strong, but it often is what GAVE her strength. For them to completely strip her of that is just so telling of the story they were trying to tell and for who.

Katara being called a “Master” after obtaining 1 water bending scroll and having no training with an actual Master is as Disney/Marvel as you can get.

From the second Aang said "I like to play airball, eat banana cakes & goof off with my friends" I knew we're going to be in for a bucket load of "tell, don't show".

this was very effective. literally the moment your video ended i opened my laptop to start watching the animated series for the first time

in the Netflix remake of "the emperor's new groove" kuzco is a philanthropic ruler who spends his days working with the peasants & is in the process of dismantling the monarchy when he's turned into a llama. He's the world's nicest guy and they ruined his life for no reason.

its interesting how netflix seems to think of animation as mindless and for kids and then goes out of their way to make a mindless version of it... but for adults

The fact that they felt the need to simplify the plot/exposition of a CHILDREN'S SHOW. Like they literally assume their audience has a shorter attention-span than a 7 year old

The visuals were exactly what I hoped they would be and the rest was exactly what I feared it would be, extremely disappointing

can't wait for Katara to discover blood bending by herself halfway through season 2 and use it to kill a bunch of fire nation troops and have 0 moral quandaries about using it.

Where is Katara's rage, her compassion, her nurturing, her emotions??? They stripped her of any depth and emotion.

We never wanted Sokka to be sexist. We wanted Suki to teach him to be better and we were robbed of that

Replacing sexism with hyper sexuality and then acted like people wasn’t going to notice.😬😬😬

ALSO the thing that pissed me the fuck off the most was the fact that they robbed Katara of her "motherly" role in the group. In live action Sokka was said to be the one that takes care of her and he is a "father figure" to her when in cartoon it was such an important part of Katara's and even Sokka's arc that Katara was the one to act like a mother to Sokka at times. I hate that they robbed Katara of one of her main personality traits which is her sense of responsibility and maturity. She was forced to grow up too soon they completely ignored that.

It's becoming genuinely a little concerning how many media properties suggest that strong women can't exhibit an ounce of empathy, insecurity, or inadequacy. Their only flaw is that the other characters don't realize how awesome they are yet.

Critics: "at least it's better than the movie" Drew: "yeah, I sure hope it does"

What really upsets me about this show, is that when I watched through all of the original animated series 2 summers ago my Dad used to walk in and take jabs at me for watching "a kids show" and I'd say its like the LOTR of kids shows but he wouldn't take interest. So I was encouraged and surprised last month to come home and see him watching the Netflix show, the bio and visuals piqued his interest. I didn't mention that it was an adaptation and just let him watch it. I came back later and he had turned it off, when I asked why he said the writing was cheap and it didn't seem worth watching. One of the best stories in TV and they couldn't even keep the audience they spent so much to attract. I hope he watches the original someday but its not likely.