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The Last Airbender: Another Live-Action Catastrophe

How Netflix Ruined Our Favorite ‘Avatar’ Characters

Jade Zulfiqar
5 min readMar 18, 2024

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The Last Airbender Live-action Official Poster (Source: Netflix)

The Last Airbender live-action has been hyped since the release of its short teaser back in November, and there were genuine reasons behind it, including the story itself.
Firstly, despite having a rather simple plot, the animated series has always succeeded in capturing its audiences whether they are beginners or re-watching it a dozen times (including me). The elements that bring out the best of the animated series are its nearly flawless storytelling, action sequences, and enriching character development, which is one of the most compelling aspects of the show.

From watching snippets of the show on television to actually completing it properly a dozen times, I have enjoyed every moment of the series to such an extent that I could go on talking about it if the original series was our focus here.

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Back to the reasons, the second one was the need for a fairly decent, (not even something extraordinary) Live-action adaptation of the beloved series after Shyamalan’s abomination, which was the first dreadful attempt to bring the…

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