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Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)
Avatar: The Last Adaptation
To be honest I entered the Netflix adaptation of atla very reluctantly. After hearing of the departure of the original creators and knowing it would be difficult to put 20 episodes of content into 8, I wasn't very hopeful.
A last, my worries were warranted. The acting was subpar across the board, the chemistry was missing between our main trio, and the delivery of lines was laughable at times. The VFX looked pretty wonky at times (except the final episode) and took me out of the immersion of the show plenty.
The story was too fast paced, and the build up of plot points and relationships weren't satisfying. We often saw the cross section of multiple separate plotlines being brought together in an episode, and while I'm not directly opposed to this idea, the execution was what was off.
This show also did a pretty terrible job with exposition dumps(I'm looking at you Gran Gran). And while the show did take some creative liberties with the plot(Having Azula being the one feeding Zhao information), I felt like more should have been taken to make the plot flow better and giving long times fans more of a reason to keep watching, given that they already know the main plot points.
Overall Netflix Avatar The Last Airbender wasn't a complete train wreck. While I do have many gripes with the show, I still felt pretty entertained throughout for the most part, and the final episode was a huge redeeming factor for the whole season for me. Im curios to see how season 2 and 3 go and I will be watching/
Shaun White: The Last Run: Becoming Shaun (2023)
The Shaun Docu I've been waiting for!!
As a long time Shaun white fan for many years I was eagerly awaiting for his inevitable documentary since His retirement in 2022. And when I saw I would be captain be an executive producer of the Last Dance I couldn't be more excited!
I this first episode you see Shaun in two parallels. One in the present time in 2021 struggling to keep up with new talent easily doing tricks that he hasn't yet been able to master for years, while at the same time trying to make the USA team for Beijing 2022. On the other side we get an in depth look at his early life growing up doing skateboarding in the summer and snowboarding in the winter. Seeing his path coming from a fairly low income household to making over $50,000 over a weekend in his teen years. We get a good look at his family dynamic and how being fearless as a kid helped to shape him into the pro athlete he becomes.
At the end of the episode we see the parallels of Shaun winning his first Olympics in 2006 to struggling to make the men's USA team in 2022.
Well Paced, Well edited and I never got bored once during this one hour first episode.