My friends want to get together to watch it when it comes out so I will probably end up watching it :/
To be fair for the second one, they're going from 20 23 minute episodes to 8 (presumably) 40-50 minute episodes. That change in pace necessitates a shift from many minor stories to fewer but more in-depth situations, and making Aang more driven to reach the north is a decent way to help that along.
We don't even know how far along season one will go into the story.
judging by the released titles for each episode it's matching the first season, ending with the big battle at the northern water tribe
Yeah, but the critique as-presented is incoherent
Netflix turning Sokka into a beta soyboy cuck.
Oh my god, this is really gonna suck.
One of the messages driven home by the first series, is that Aang's pacifist ideology is what's needed most in a time of war. He entertains, educates, and elucidates non-compliance, and resistance. And that resistance can be as loose as a gentle breeze or a powerful gale. The airbenders primarily are dodging and using their opponents movement against them, and Aang tries very hard to be a gentle soul, and he only accesses the Avatar State in moments of a) great peril, b) the need for overwhelming force. Aang learns to be more mature as the weight of the responsibility sets in, without fully losing himself in the journey. He is not a grimdark hero, and it is what's such a beautiful thing about the show. Even the cop-out at the end, with Spiritual Bending, instead of killing Ozai. He tried really hard to find an alternative to a moment of violence that would have continued repercussions (as every other moment of violent does, in this show).
Of course the continued comics, kinda kill that idea. And they take a more "political" approach in the formation of republic city; but damn, it was a good message for a kid's show.
I'm still going to watch it but this. The changing of Sokka's character. Not making Katara a nurturer; it is this exact juxtaposition that Katara is both a care taker, a healer, and one of the most powerful water benders to ever exist, that is more feminist, than making her a girlboss type. You are not selling out feminism when you celebrate "feminized" traits like nurture, while still making the character a powerful individual.
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