Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is rightly hailed as one of the best TV shows of all time. The series, which ran for three seasons in the mid-2000s, follows Aang, a 12-year-old boy who awakened from a long slumber to find the world he knew torn apart by a century of war. As the Avatar, Aang must master the four elements and defeat the evil Fire Lord Ozai.Because of the show’s acclaim, it can be easy to forget it didn’t get off the best of starts. Avatar Season 1 is a diamond in the rough: lots of promises but bogged down by one too many filler episodes or storylines that don’t go anywhere. With Netflix’s live-action remake on the horizon, there’s a chance for it to smooth out the bumps of the first season and set itself apart from the original.While this is true, it’s important to remember that, whatever his flaws, an audience still needs to root for Sokka from the get-go. Directly transferring his early antics from 2005 to 2024, and from animation–where things can be more easily played as gags and exaggeration is part of the medium–to live action would cause some problems. Beyond coming to understand women as people, Sokka’s character arc is far more about being opened up to a bigger world of possibilities: he’s a small-town kid who’s only ever known one way of life, seeing a diverse array of cultures for the first time and coming to accept that.
Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is rightly hailed as one of the best TV shows of all time. The series, which ran for three seasons in the mid-2000s, follows Aang, a 12-year-old boy who awakened from a long slumber to find the world he knew torn apart by a century of war. As the Avatar, Aang must master the four elements and defeat the evil Fire Lord Ozai.
Because of the show’s acclaim, it can be easy to forget it didn’t get off the best of starts. Avatar Season 1 is a diamond in the rough: lots of promises but bogged down by one too many filler episodes or storylines that don’t go anywhere. With Netflix’s live-action remake on the horizon, there’s a chance for it to smooth out the bumps of the first season and set itself apart from the original.
While this is true, it’s important to remember that, whatever his flaws, an audience still needs to root for Sokka from the get-go. Directly transferring his early antics from 2005 to 2024, and from animation–where things can be more easily played as gags and exaggeration is part of the medium–to live action would cause some problems. Beyond coming to understand women as people, Sokka’s character arc is far more about being opened up to a bigger world of possibilities: he’s a small-town kid who’s only ever known one way of life, seeing a diverse array of cultures for the first time and coming to accept that.
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