I just finished The Last Airbender Netflix series…

It was quite possibly the most densely packed “on the nose” writing of anything I’ve watched in years.

You could have told me that the entire thing was first written as script notes, and the director mistook them as first person dialogue. Practically every scene that progressed the plot is written with the character’s lines like “This is what I’m feeling. This is the history that is relevant to our situation. This is my motivation. Friends are good. Let’s continue toward our goal.”

I just don’t understand how a script like that can survive tens or even hundreds of million in budget. It’s incredible. 🤣

I will say it was a significant improvement over Shamalama DingDong’s film adaptation. But only because the bar was set so low. The Netflix series did have really great action scenes and VFX though. Some of it was a little iffy, but had the show been good nobody would’ve cared.

Also, the casting was bonkers.

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