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Overanalyzing Netflix's Avatar - Episode Three: Omashu VIMEO (Patreon)

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2024-05-01 19:42:26
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Overanalyzing Netflix's Avatar - Episode Three: Omashu

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Nicholas Thomas-Brown

I'm so confused. Am I colorblind or something? I swear everything that gets called 'red' looks orange to me!

loridragon

Katara's biggest strengths also being her biggest flaws is such a great thing about her character that I missed in the Netflix version :(

Rory Collier

Red and Orange are so close that the distinction is mostly a matter of preference, there are many shades that could be considered either. For example, most fire is orange but most people associate it with red. A lot of video games use "red vs blue" where red is really orange. etc.

Nicholas Thomas-Brown

People associated fire with red? Really? Anyway, I'm being silly really. I'm an artist, and grew up with an artist as a mother. So I get a bit weird when it comes to colors and the like lol

sean keogh

is no one else upset that the mail delivery system in the live action is moving against gravity with "magic"

Sean Dickens

Hey man what about when Roku summons fire behind Jeong Jeong on the tree

Sam Burke

Sokka throwing the mechanical bird is non-bender pigeonbending

TheLithp

I completely disagree on Jet being more understandable in the original. There doesn't seem to be any strategically significant purpose to that weird forest area, at least not to a degree where I'd think "this is really hurting the Fire Nation." He just wants to destroy a town that, honestly, seems like mostly Earth Kingdom citizens with a few Fire Nation occupiers just to "rid this valley of the Fire Nation." Sokka even point-blank asks him rhetorically, "Who would be [saved]? Everyone would be dead." In the Netflix show, at least how you've described it, Jet is targeting specific locations for specific reasons like "spies meet here." Yes, he harms civilians, but he's not claiming he's going to protect the most people in Omashu, he's claiming he's going to deal significant blows to the Fire Nation war effort & is accepting the collateral damage. I'm not saying that's the right attitude to have, but if we're talking about his internal logic, it makes way more sense than the original. Arguably even too much sense because the point with Jet was that he was irrational & motivated by revenge against the Fire Nation. That's a big part of why we can't side with Jet in the original show. He tries to commit mass murder that doesn't even really accomplish anything, & the show implies he never meant for Sokka to come back alive, so he was even willing to go so far as to assassinate Sokka just to get him out of the way so he could continue manipulating Katara & Aang to his own ends. But Netflix sounds like it's playing into the part of the fandom that demands Jet be framed as "more reasonable," & I think having all these logical reasons for why he destroys specific targets as opposed to just trying to drown a whole town arguably distracts from the idea that Jet's ends do not justify his means. I mean, they've actually significantly reduced the amount of innocent victims, he's no longer even actively trying to kill them, & he gives arguments for why these locations have to be bombed that aren't just "I really like killing Fire Nationers." Then again, I don't want to totally write off this change, because the fact that Jet's plan is so insane in the original cartoon also creates distance from collateral damage the viewer might actually justify, so in that way, maybe it could also be argued that making Jet more logical but still highlighting how cruel his plans are actually better communicates the theme in a more useful way because it's more applicable to the audience. Either way, I maintain that the animated Jet's plan is absolutely orders of magnitude more bonkers.