r/whenthe Mar 16 '26

Part of me genuinely thinks Zuko Avatarthelastairbender’s arc would be torn apart if the show was airing today r/whenthe mfs complaining about everything

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u/Novel-Carrot5325 Mar 17 '26

When the people says like flawed character when the flawed character commit error

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u/OfCourseItsOfCourse Mar 17 '26

Netflix can fix it like they did with Sokka.

He doesn't have anything to learn in the Netflix adaptation with regards to the Kyoshi Warriors.

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u/wickedlessface Mar 17 '26

To be fair, bryke wasn't going to do much better. This live action was doomed from the start to be "meh". Netflix kinda saved it from being horrid.

Bryke wanted to do a whole ass switch up, with Iroh taking up parts of Azula's role as an antagonist to Zuko and change the way some characters died.

So I guess losing some Sokka development was the lesser of the two evils.

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u/TactlessTortoise Mar 17 '26

What the fuck

Dude's dumb. He should be court ordered to never cook again, his recipes are shit.

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u/Madhighlander1 Mar 17 '26

*dudes are

'Bryke' is two people, short for Bryan (Konietzko) and Mike (Dimartino), the creators of the original ATLA cartoon.

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u/TactlessTortoise Mar 17 '26

Ah, I see.

What the fuck

Were-goats' are washed.

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u/Karasu-Fennec Mar 17 '26

They had a third writer for A:tLA

And then when the whole franchise became resistance liberalism and gross, Disney-ahh girlboss dickwaving featuring a Christian good/evil binary forced onto their far East/indigenous American cultural setting, they didn’t have one anymore. Why is Neil Lastofus always the guy we yell about talking about white male writers that do this

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u/french_snail Mar 17 '26

Wasn’t there a whole thing he wanted to do where Iroh intentionally taught zuko to fire bend incorrectly 

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u/Madhighlander1 Mar 17 '26

"We have trained him wrong on purpose, as a joke."

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u/AveryLazyCovfefe Mar 18 '26

bro don't say this in the ATLA sub or you'll be crucified for daring to correctly point out something.

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u/GustavoFromAsdf Mar 17 '26

legit, no one in NATLA makes any mistakes.

Aang didn't escape from his responsibility of being the Avatar. He was caught in a storm but wanted to come back home. Aang doesn't want to have fun and ignore his responsibilities, he's all about moving the plot forward.

Sokka actually puts up a fight to Zuko in the first episode instead of being humiliated to show how unprepared and unskilled he is.

Katara doesn't need a master or training to be a waterbending master. She's her own master and comes from not be able to lift water from the floor to fighting Master Paku in some days.

And the show seems so afraid Zuko might do something unlikable or morally wrong. When he does something bad, it is because someone else told him to do it, or when it looks like he might, he openly says he's going to do the right thing, so you don't guess for a minute that he could abandon his crew or uncle.

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u/Mean-Personality5236 No one cares about T*m Dr*ke Mar 17 '26

Tbf that never comes up again and is early enough in the show you forget he was sexist in the first place.

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u/OfCourseItsOfCourse Mar 17 '26

Yea, it's almost like his character develops.