Avatar: The Last Airbender fans claim Netflix series was ‘butchered’ amid complaints over changes and CGI

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Avatar: The Last Airbender viewers have weighed in on the new live-action series.

Released on Netflix earlier this week, the series is a remake of the acclaimed youngsters’s animation of the identical identify, which was beforehand tailored right into a critically panned characteristic movie by M Night Shyamlan.

Avatar follows the adventures of Aang (Gordon Cormier), a monk-like youngster capable of manipulate the 4 parts: water, earth, hearth and air. The unique series aired between 2005 and 2008 on Nickelodeon.

While the series has obtained a blended response from fans, a very good quantity of criticism has centered on the present’s use of CGI and inexperienced display screen results, in addition to changes to the plot of the unique.

“Overall if you have the chance to watch the original… just watch the original,” one particular person wrote on X/Twitter. “Avatar is a beautiful cartoon full of life lessons and an amazing cast of characters that’ll stay with you, if you want a watered down version with bad CGI then the remake is for you.”

Another commented: “I think live action Avatar isn’t that bad, but of course changing story knowing what was in animated show feels wrong and some cgi scenes when surroundings looks blurry and feels like there are in diffrent room.”

“Watched all 8 eps and Netflix Avatar adaptation completely missed the mark for me,” another person wrote. “Character development mostly ruined, storylines and lore butchered as they’re mixed together, messy pacing, 80% dialogue is exposition, no nuance to themes…”

“Live action Avatar has literally BUTCHERED this show,” one other particular person remarked. “It wouldn’t be so bad if they kept the same storyline but noooooo.”

Others, nonetheless, have been extra constructive concerning the visuals, with one particular person writing that the CGI “carries” the opposite weaker facets of the present.

“People complaining about the CGI in Netflix’s Avatar are insane. It genuinely looks great way more often than not,” one other fan wrote.

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Earlier this week, one of many series’ stars, Ian Ousley issued reassurance to fans who have been involved over changes made to the character of Sokka from the unique series.

“The animated show really is the heart and soul of what our live-action show is. We were not trying to take out anything,” he said. “Obviously we took out that [sexist] element, but he still has that attitude. Not a sexist attitude, but it’s morphed into extra of – in Sokka and Katara’s relationship – ‘I’m the chief and you’re the follower’ scenario. Stuff like that.”

He continued: “He’s still the Sokka we know and love from the cartoon. I don’t even think fans would notice some of those things, honestly, [when] watching our show… He definitely still has his arcs and his lessons in the show.”

Avatar is certainly one of a lot of high-profile live-action animation variations to have been launched by Netflix in recent times. It follows on from final 12 months’s One Piece series, and a live-action remake of the hit anime Cowboy Bebop, each of which garnered blended receptions from critics.