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The Big Netflix Avatar: The Last Airbender Producer Interview: 'This Is a Remix, Not a Cover' - IGN (www.ign.com)

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I think one of the big questions is, despite all the remixing, is the point A and the point B still the same as the original?

AK: Pretty much. Yeah, I mean, I think the state of the world and the stakes of the world are still the same. So we decided to make Aang's narrative drive a little clearer. In the first season of the animated series, he's kind of going from place to place looking for adventures. He even says, "First, we've got to go and ride the elephant koi." It's a little looser as befits a cartoon. We needed to make sure that he had that drive from the start. And so, that's a change that we made. We essentially give him this vision of what's going to happen and he says, "I have to get to the Northern Water Tribe to stop this from happening." That gives him much more narrative compulsion going forward, as opposed to, "Let's make a detour and go ride the elephant koi," that type of thing. So that's something, again, that's part of the process of going from a Nickelodeon cartoon to a Netflix serialized drama.

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[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I hate this attitude towards adapting media so much.
Please stop thinking that you know better and that you can improve the original material (or that it needs any improving at all).
If you were truly able to do Avatar better than the original, you would've, you know, came up with an Avatar level phenomenon, you know what I mean? At some point, a product has maintained popularity for long enough that all its decisions should be trusted. I would argue that when people are still talking about it almost 20 years later, it has reached that point.

People adapting media need to come at it from the understanding that they are lower in the hierarchy than the original material and the original creators, and default to adhering to them as much as possible unless a change is inevitable for the media that it is being adapted to. No matter how little you understand why something is there, no matter how much you disagree with any element, no matter how much you thing "whoah I would've done this so much different if I had made it", remember: you didn't come up with it, so don't touch shit.

[–] Pietson@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't agree at all. I don't see the point in adaptations if you aren't going to change a thing. Doing something different doesn't mean it's meant to be better or worse. Just different.

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't see the point in adaptations if you aren't going to change a thing

See I've never been the biggest fan of this argument because it sidesteps around the fact that anime is almost entirely based around 1 to 1 adaptations of another medium and is humongously successful.

The point of adapting to another medium can just be exactly that, that it is another medium with a different set of tools to tell the story.

[–] Pietson@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Hmm I don't read manga or watch anime so I can't really comment much. But I suppose when adapting a manga to anime the goal is probably to reach a wider audience with a proven story, buurt in this case it's cashing in on nostalgia with people that are already familiar.

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