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Netflix just announced Avatar the last Airbender will do their full adaptation
of the original series with season two and Season three back to back.
I know there's tons of questions about Toff now and are they going to bring back
the original voice cast from the animated series as the Ember Island players?
So we'll cover all that stuff.
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a couple of people actually dug into the viewership numbers.
As of right now, the live action Avatar series is doing just a little bit
better than the Netflix one piece Season one was doing around the same period.
We'll see if it has the staying power or if one piece winds up being the big winner here.
But Netflix spent so much money adapting Avatar season one.
I always assumed that they would do the entire series.
It was just a question of how quickly they would be able to get it all out.
I didn't do full episodes
for every single episode of season one just because of the way Netflix binge drops everything.
It makes it a nightmare to do episode videos for everything like it would do for traditional series
In general.
When the series launched, it was kind of hard to tell whether people
cared about it or not because it was almost crickets on YouTube.
Those first couple of days.
Like almost nobody was talking about it.
rewind back to 2018 when Mike and Brian made their first announcement, they were coming back to Avatar.
I did a couple of videos about their announcements.
Those videos, just all of them collectively have a couple million views on them each.
just to give you an idea for how hardcore people were for them coming back,
like how excited everybody around the world was at that time.
then all the drama about them quitting the Netflix series happened like Mike and Brian leaving.
We found out why they left.
most of the changes that were made to the original series in there were many.
Like, it was vastly different from the original series and Netflix probably
not giving them the budget that they said they would, which contributed to a lot of those changes.
like, can we have everybody meet it or mash you?
Even though like a lot of this stuff that we're doing here never happened in the original series.
Can we have Sokka and Katara do Cave of Two Lovers, even though that's from book to then?
Paramount basically gave Mike and Bryan a blank check
to make their own studio and make all the animated Avatar
The Last Airbender movies, totally new animated Avatar shows that they wanted.
so you don't have to be a genius to do the math on that decision.
They chose to go over on their own, do whatever they wanted, no limits.
Brian, just posted a preview video talking about the upcoming Avatar The Last Airbender
animated movie they're working on with the adult teaming in their late twenties, early thirties.
This is the first new project that they're going to be releasing Now we're making a movie.
Our first movie And so that always as an artist, that that was like really alluring to me.
can't really wrap my head around the final mix
and the final color correction on the feature.
we're talking about doing multiple projects at the same time, including feature films.
that adult team Aang movie was supposed to come out late 2025,
but that was before the strikes in Hollywood happened last year.
They might have delayed that to 2026, but it's going to be the first thing that they released regardless.
Right after that is supposed to be the next animated Avatar series with the next Avatar after Korra.
I think this is what's really going to get people hyped up is the animated movie coming out in the new
animated series.
it'll follow an Earth bender.
It's supposed to be set 100 years after the legend of Korra, which puts it in real world
present day, like an avatar with mobile phones, like modern technology.
Basically, during Korra, the world had progressed about 1920s
level technology they're doing a Kyoshi movie, a fire Lord Zuko movie.
Dante Basco is probably going to come back
as the voice of Zuko for all that stuff to their other series that they're working on.
All of them will be animated in different styles to the same way that the animation
from Korra was totally different from the animation on last Airbender.
we think the real hype for Avatar just in general will come back once those things start coming out.
And based on this Netflix Avatar The Last Airbender Season two, Season three announcement,
the new animated stuff from Mike and Brian will start releasing around the same time.
The season two of the Netflix live action series releases.
so just in general Avatar fans will be eating like whether you really enjoyed
the live action series or you're just waiting for the animated stuff to come back.
There will be a lot a lot of Avatar stuff coming.
they'll start filming the live action season two for 2026 release.
I do not think they're going to be able to get it out for December 2025, so expect season
two to release around the same time that Season one released in 2026,
like February 2026, season three probably going to be about a year after that.
And you're probably figured out
why they renewed the show for season two and season three at the same time, not just for season two.
Daniel Dae Kim tried to make a big dad joke about it too.
Dropping the mic.
it's mostly because they want to finish adapting the entire original series to the events of Book
three before all the child actors look like they're in their thirties with 5:00 Shadows.
we don't want Aang rolling up in season three with his beard from the Legend of Korra
flashbacks like a 40 year old looking ng the original animated series
took place over the course of about a single year, like a little bit less than a year.
NG was biologically 12 years old when he came out of the ice in Episode one.
Then he was about to turn 13 during the finale.
Like his actual birthday was about four months after the end of book three.
So literally less than a year goes by.
during the live action series, the showrunner said they changed the plot with Susan's comment
significantly because of this time issue that they ran into
because they knew it would take them a few years to get the whole series out.
So they could use the arrival of Susan's comment as a ticking clock, the same way
the original series did, mentioning it all the time.
that's why in the live action episodes, you barely hear them talking about the comment, like
just in episode one that Prolog for Fire Lord Susan's attack on the Airbenders then in the post-credits
scene with Fire Lord Ozai in the great Sage discussing the comet coming back When?
Soon.
We shall see the return
of citizens combat.
and notice during those scenes, they don't specifically list a date on
when the comet is coming back, only a vague reference that it is coming soon.
At some point, all because they had no idea when the show
was going to be renewed or when they'd be able to make season three.
So the showrunner implied that they would be writing some time jumps between season one, season
two in season two and Season three to explain why the child actors, especially Gordon Cormier,
who plays Hank, looks so much bigger, like, wow, what do you been eating egg?
Like, you just grew so much.
overall season one was head and shoulders better than the Night Shyamalan, Avatar The Last Airbender movie.
I feel like this was the only assignment that it had.
Like there was no way that it was going to be as good as the original animated series.
That's perfect.
Essentially, you cannot beat something that is already perfect.
but beating that original live action avatar movie
was a pretty low bar to clear, so it wasn't that hard for them to do that.
They had a lot of swings and misses.
I do have complaints about some of the bigger aspects of the Netflix series,
but there were a couple of things they did really well on the whole.
Like the bending itself is probably the biggest win that they had.
The bending all looks great.
one of the other big improvements that they need to make is fixed.
The chemistry between Aang and Katara they're supposed to end the series
is one of the great love affairs in the Avatar universe
and season one Katara and season one Aang have zero chemistry together,
the closest thing to any kind of relationship development during season
one in the Avatar universe, here was between Suki and Sokka.
then also probably be one of the bigger changes for season two.
Expect them to bring the Suki Actress back and make her a bigger part in the plot than she was
in the original book to Now Suki does become part of the plot later on in the original animated series.
She does come back eventually, but just expect her to be more prominent in the live action version.
but really, we're talking about Toph here.
Like Toph is the biggest new character they're introducing because she's a core member of Team NG,
like one of the greatest earth benders in the history of the Avatar universe.
So, just like season one, expect them to condense a lot of the plot points, skip a lot of the side quests.
so either they'll make a beeline for bossing say or they'll meet Torv or
and we'll have a vision of her at some point during episode one, but we will see her
at some point during episode one and they will make their way to boss
and say pretty quickly so I think they'll probably do a pretty close adaptation of the way they met
Toff in the original book two series at a bending competition with her beating the crap out of Boulder.
I would love I would love if he were played by the Rock.
The fandom has been asking for the rock to play Boulder for so long,
but there is no way Netflix is going to pay the money it would take to get the rock to do that.
will probably get that first Toph versus Aang fight scene
she'll join them in over the course of the season.
She'll teach ing how to earth, bend and she'll invent metal bending toff.
Is canonically supposed to be the first metal bender in the history of the Avatar universe?
and for those of you asking,
like one of the big complaints of season one is that NG never actually learns to water.
Ben Like what's happening here?
Wasn't he supposed to learn how to water?
Ben Isn't that the whole point of this?
they'll probably do is they'll have Katara teach him how to water Ben at the beginning of season two,
like first couple of episodes, he'll learn how to water bend.
as for Zuko Iroh in Azula, their book to plot is actually pretty easy to adapt,
like it's way less expensive than what's happening with team NG for the most part.
Fire Lord Ozai sets Azula to the task of capturing Zuko and Iro,
branding them as traitors, trying to bring them back to the Fire nation
and they take off to hide and bossing, say pretending to be normal citizens of the Earth Kingdom.
Opening Arrow's tea shop, which is a lifelong dream of his like.
He has so much fun during that part of the plot.
just chilling out and making good tea every day.
Like that's all he cares about.
and Zuko begins the next phase of his redemption arc.
Or really he begins his redemption.
He was mostly an antagonist to Aang during season one, and he almost falters during book two
as well to early in the original version.
Like Zuko betrays Uncle Ira in a pretty big way.
But essentially during book two, he starts to turn the corner on his redemption.
it's not really till book three
that he actually joins Team Avatar and becomes a fundamentally good character.
they'll probably end season two the same way they ended the original book two
with Azula lightning bending and almost killing him, basically putting him into a coma.
This is a pretty easy way to explain the time jump before season three
because Gordon Cormier, like the actor, will actually just be physically so much bigger.
you look so much older because you've been in a coma for a long time.
hoping that they do adapt a version of the beach in some way.
And one of the episodes a bit weird for them to do Cabbage Man Cave two lovers and then not do the beach
and really hoping here like fingers crossed
that they bring back the original voice cast to be the Ember Island players.
They do reunions all the time of conventions.
Like you can actually go get signatures with them, hear them talk about doing the original series
all the time, like literally several times a year.
Dante Basco is even doing a rewatch podcast
for the original Avatar series with Janet Varney, who was the voice for Korra.
what I'm really hoping to is that he comes back
as the voice of Zuko in these movies that Mike and Brian are doing.
we probably won't see any footage from those
till either the very end of this year or like early next year at some point.
So I'm not expecting any big trailers for the animated Avatar stuff for a while.
But everyone posts all your thoughts on Avatar The Last Airbender, Netflix Season two.
If you had any complaints about season one stuff you hope they fix or you hope that they adapt
from the original book to We might get some actual footage
from that by the end of this year if they're going to be filming later this year
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