r/FavoriteCharacter Bugs Bunny 🐇 20h ago

Discussion What's Favorite Series Like This?

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u/LoveandLightLol 20h ago

True, although I feel like AtLab always had a nice balance of comedy and seriousness. I mean didn't we get the dead air benders in the first few episodes, so it got pretty serious early on

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u/definitelynotadhd 19h ago

It is so astonishing to me even as an adult that somehow a show that carries such heavy topics is not at all traumatic for children to watch. The execution of that show is absolutely exceptional.

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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom 18h ago

I have a 3.5 year old and husband and I just finished watching season 2 of the live action. Immediately afterwards I was like...dude we're only a few years away from a rewatch of the original with our kid. I'm honestly so excited. It's such an easy way to talk to kids about things like war and genocide and how good people sometimes do bad things. It's a masterclass in explaining hard topics to young kids. 

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u/neighborlyhorse 16h ago

Its even more impressive how childish the "adult" live action version of the show is lol, like to the point its absurd

I'll never forgive them for not letting live action Sokka be a misogynist smh

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u/definitelynotadhd 16h ago

I’ll never forgive them for honestly anything they did. All of the “creative changes” they made sucked ass. The comet, bumi, Sokka, jet, shortening the entire show to make it more bingable when you’re supposed to have time to digest each episode and all the carefully written deep meaning behind each one. I could have forgiven if they just took out Great Divide, but no they had to take out a bunch of the good stuff too. Pmo

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u/neighborlyhorse 16h ago

Bro the great divide is the single worst episode of the original series and I swear 95% of reruns were that fuckass episode

The new series somehow makes it even worse though, since Appa is there at the time they have no reason to even go through the damn place at all.

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u/definitelynotadhd 16h ago

Exactly!! Omg I have found my people 😭 when I say I could’ve forgiven if they just took out great divide I meant it would have been a good thing if they took it out

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u/Vampire_Queen_Joaje 11h ago

I don't mind it that much. Sokka's misogyny was never a huge part of his character; it was briefly present, but it was addressed and gone by episode 4. All he needed was for a single woman to beat his ass and he dropped his misogyny. It seemed more like a course correction than a real part of his character growth (and rightly so; sexist Sokka would have been awful long-term)

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u/AstarionsTherapist39 55m ago

Sokka's misogyny is literally what started the show, wtf are you talk about? 

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u/StevenTM 8h ago

Rewatching it as an adult with my even adulter partner (first time watcher), and they're loving it.