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Image 1 — Beefy Aang is out of character imo
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▲ 304 r/ZutaraNation

Beefy Aang is out of character imo

I will never understand why they needed to draw Aang as buff in season 3, while occasionally making him run around shirtless. The funniest thing that the shipping game was the strongest this season (as well as Bryke's influence).

Then, there comes the movie and oh God 🫠 I have always thought Aang would be the "slick, agile" type of person with similar body type, not a freaking bodybuilder. Say, I've always thought Aang would be the "archer", not the "warrior" type if we're talking about RPG stereotypes 😂

Looking at the air nomads which were shown in the flashbacks, I am partly right (even though they were mostly women and old people and children, but I still doubt "bodybuilding" is in the air nomad's genes).

And like, doesn't he also look kinda strange with the same baby face attached to the brood shoulders of a Sweden male model?

...and before anyone says anything, I think Zuko is too beefy as well. Like yeah, he was so much so even in season 1, but at least it looked somewhat normal. The movie basically blew the body types of characters out of proportion, emphasising on the fact that they have to look *hot*.

I don't even think any adult character looked like that in the OG series, then LoK came and yeah, they've made them bigger and more westernised physically - but the movie for me is somewhat absurd.

Like... it's still Avatar. Not Berserk.

u/Glum_Landscape9502 — 4 days ago
▲ 383 r/ZutaraNation

The Gaang watching the recent Atla movie

I am cackling at the fact that Bryke made this whole parody episode laughing at the fandom shipping and characters personalities being butchered ONLY to write the same exact thing unironically 15 years later

I think the Gaang reacting to the play is totally relevant to the movie lmao. Some complaints would've been just spot on.

Sokka: apparently, the playwright thinks I'm an idiot who overreacts to everything, brags and is completely useless all the time!

Suki: at least you were in the movie, Sokka!

Katara: relax, everybody. They are not accurate portrayals. It's not like I'm a preachy eye candy who can't resist throwing her arms around Aang all the time.

Zuko: they make me look totally stiff and humorless, even though hot!

Katara: actually, I still think that actor's pretty spot on.

Zuko: 😤

...Toph would've still liked the movie.

u/Glum_Landscape9502 — 8 days ago
▲ 69 r/ZutaraNation

I am afraid that if I am going to share my thoughts anywhere else I'll get punched in the face lmao so I'll rant a little.

Comics are just as the bad as the recent movie: Bryke writing all over it. And it's tideous. Same things that bothered me in the Tlok, the comics and the recent movie.

The bloated and rather uninteresting cast of characters, while the main ones are underdeveloped and reduced to their simplest roles. The shipping shoehorning, which has no actual chemistry. The retconning... basically, lots of retconning (I HATE the new bright, anime-like spirit world). The new attempts to explain the world-building: and I repeat, bloated and boring: it's basically a power-fantasy of two anime geeks who get inspired by the most recent japanese shows.

It's also so overcomplicated every time? Like, you can basically describe what the show is about in a few sentences and still make people invested in it. How would you describe the comics? The new movie? Korra? Like, what kind of Game of Thrones successor is this?

Oh, and also... BLATANT Aang favouritism. Basically, from the comics and so on (chronologically at least) he is not the character he used to be - he is a perfect, can-do-no-wrong god-like figure and also a cult leader. "With a totally hot girlfriend and future wife, who loves him more than herself by the way! Take that, Zutarians!"

...I hate this. I hate Bryke's view of the show. I hate how westernised they make everything feel, I hate the lack of somberness, depth, the lack of emotions, the attempts to over-explain everything. I hate that they go into a simplistic black and white territory, the only complexity about the new main baddie being him going into the "join me and we'll be strong together" rant.

And I didn't mind it as much in the TloK series, because it's a different show, basically. But when it repeatedly happens with any Atla continuation, I am losing my mind a bit.

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u/Glum_Landscape9502 — 17 days ago