Water Earth Fire Air Welcome back everyone It's Charlie Netflix just announced Avatar
the last Airbender will do their full adaptation of the original series
with season two and Season three back to back. I know there's tons of questions about Toff now
and are they going to bring back the original voice cast from the animated series
as the Ember Island players? So we'll cover all that stuff. If you're brand new to the channel,
be sure to subscribe to get all the videos. a couple of people actually
dug into the viewership numbers. As of right now, the live action
Avatar series is doing just a little bit better than the Netflix
one piece Season one was doing around the same period. We'll see if it has the staying power
or if one piece winds up being the big winner here. But Netflix spent so much money
adapting Avatar season one. I always assumed that they would do the entire series. It was just a question of how quickly
they would be able to get it all out. I didn't do full episodes for every single episode of season one
just because of the way Netflix binge drops everything. It makes it a nightmare to do episode videos
for everything like it would do for traditional series In general. When the series launched,
it was kind of hard to tell whether people cared about it or not
because it was almost crickets on YouTube. Those first couple of days. Like almost nobody was talking about it. rewind back to 2018 when Mike and Brian made their
first announcement, they were coming back to Avatar. I did a couple of videos about their announcements. Those videos, just all of them collectively
have a couple million views on them each. just to give you an idea
for how hardcore people were for them coming back, like how excited everybody around
the world was at that time. then all the drama about them quitting the Netflix
series happened like Mike and Brian leaving. We found out why they left. most of the changes that were made
to the original series in there were many. Like, it was vastly different from the original series
and Netflix probably not giving them the budget that they said they would,
which contributed to a lot of those changes. like, can we have everybody meet it or mash you? Even though like a lot of this stuff that we're doing
here never happened in the original series. Can we have Sokka and Katara do Cave of Two Lovers,
even though that's from book to then? Paramount basically gave Mike and Bryan a blank check to make their own studio
and make all the animated Avatar The Last Airbender movies,
totally new animated Avatar shows that they wanted. so you don't have to be a genius
to do the math on that decision. They chose to go over on their own,
do whatever they wanted, no limits. Brian, just posted a preview video
talking about the upcoming Avatar The Last Airbender animated movie they're working on with the adult
teaming in their late twenties, early thirties. This is the first new project that they're going to be
releasing Now we're making a movie. Our first movie And so that always as an artist,
that that was like really alluring to me. can't really wrap my head around the final mix and the final color correction on the feature. we're talking about doing multiple projects
at the same time, including feature films. that adult team
Aang movie was supposed to come out late 2025, but that was before
the strikes in Hollywood happened last year. They might have delayed that to 2026, but it's going
to be the first thing that they released regardless. Right after that is supposed to be the next animated
Avatar series with the next Avatar after Korra. I think this is what's really going to get people
hyped up is the animated movie coming out in the new animated series. it'll follow an Earth bender. It's supposed to be set 100 years
after the legend of Korra, which puts it in real world present day, like an avatar with mobile phones,
like modern technology. Basically, during Korra,
the world had progressed about 1920s level technology
they're doing a Kyoshi movie, a fire Lord Zuko movie. Dante Basco is probably going to come back as the voice of Zuko for all that stuff
to their other series that they're working on. All of them will be animated in different styles
to the same way that the animation from Korra was totally different
from the animation on last Airbender. we think the real hype for Avatar just in general
will come back once those things start coming out. And based on this Netflix Avatar The Last Airbender
Season two, Season three announcement, the new animated stuff from Mike
and Brian will start releasing around the same time. The season two of the Netflix
live action series releases. so just in general Avatar fans will be eating
like whether you really enjoyed the live action series or you're
just waiting for the animated stuff to come back. There will be a lot a lot of Avatar stuff coming. they'll start filming the live action season
two for 2026 release. I do not think they're going to be able
to get it out for December 2025, so expect season two to release around the same time
that Season one released in 2026, like February 2026, season
three probably going to be about a year after that. And you're probably figured out why they renewed the show for season two and season
three at the same time, not just for season two. Daniel Dae
Kim tried to make a big dad joke about it too. Dropping the mic. it's mostly because they want to finish adapting
the entire original series to the events of Book three before all the child actors look like
they're in their thirties with 5:00 Shadows. we don't want Aang rolling up in season
three with his beard from the Legend of Korra flashbacks like a 40 year old
looking ng the original animated series took place over the course of about a single year,
like a little bit less than a year. NG was biologically 12 years old
when he came out of the ice in Episode one. Then he was about to turn 13 during the finale. Like his actual birthday was about four months
after the end of book three. So literally less than a year goes by. during the live action series, the showrunner said
they changed the plot with Susan's comment significantly because of this time issue
that they ran into because they knew it would take them a few years
to get the whole series out. So they could use the arrival of Susan's comment
as a ticking clock, the same way the original series did, mentioning it all the time. that's why in the live action episodes,
you barely hear them talking about the comment, like just in episode one that Prolog for Fire Lord Susan's
attack on the Airbenders then in the post-credits scene with Fire Lord Ozai in the great Sage
discussing the comet coming back When? Soon. We shall see the return of citizens combat. and notice during those scenes,
they don't specifically list a date on when the comet is coming back,
only a vague reference that it is coming soon. At some point,
all because they had no idea when the show was going to be renewed
or when they'd be able to make season three. So the showrunner implied that they would be writing
some time jumps between season one, season two in season two and Season three to explain
why the child actors, especially Gordon Cormier, who plays Hank, looks so much bigger, like, wow,
what do you been eating egg? Like, you just grew so much. overall season one was head and shoulders better than
the Night Shyamalan, Avatar The Last Airbender movie. I feel like this was the only assignment that it had. Like there was no way that it was going to be
as good as the original animated series. That's perfect. Essentially,
you cannot beat something that is already perfect. but beating that original live action avatar movie was a pretty low bar to clear,
so it wasn't that hard for them to do that. They had a lot of swings and misses. I do have complaints about some of the bigger
aspects of the Netflix series, but there were a couple of things
they did really well on the whole. Like the bending itself
is probably the biggest win that they had. The bending all looks great. one of the other big improvements
that they need to make is fixed. The chemistry between Aang and Katara
they're supposed to end the series is one of the great love affairs in the Avatar universe and season one Katara and season
one Aang have zero chemistry together, the closest thing to any kind of relationship
development during season one in the Avatar
universe, here was between Suki and Sokka. then also probably be one of the bigger changes
for season two. Expect them to bring the Suki Actress back
and make her a bigger part in the plot than she was in the original book to Now Suki does become part
of the plot later on in the original animated series. She does come back eventually, but just expect her
to be more prominent in the live action version. but really, we're talking about Toph here. Like Toph is the biggest new character they're
introducing because she's a core member of Team NG, like one of the greatest earth benders
in the history of the Avatar universe. So, just like season one, expect them to condense a lot
of the plot points, skip a lot of the side quests. so either they'll make a beeline for bossing say
or they'll meet Torv or and we'll have a vision of her
at some point during episode one, but we will see her at some point during episode one
and they will make their way to boss and say pretty quickly so I think they'll probably do
a pretty close adaptation of the way they met Toff in the original book two series at a bending
competition with her beating the crap out of Boulder. I would love
I would love if he were played by the Rock. The fandom has been asking for the rock
to play Boulder for so long, but there is no way Netflix is going to pay the money
it would take to get the rock to do that. will probably get that first Toph versus Aang
fight scene she'll join them in over the course of the season. She'll teach ing how to earth, bend
and she'll invent metal bending toff. Is canonically supposed to be the first metal bender
in the history of the Avatar universe? and for those of you asking, like one of the big complaints of season one
is that NG never actually learns to water. Ben Like what's happening here? Wasn't he supposed to learn how to water? Ben Isn't that the whole point of this? they'll probably do is they'll have Katara teach him
how to water Ben at the beginning of season two, like first couple of episodes,
he'll learn how to water bend. as for Zuko Iroh in Azula,
their book to plot is actually pretty easy to adapt, like it's way less expensive
than what's happening with team NG for the most part. Fire Lord Ozai sets Azula to the task of capturing
Zuko and Iro, branding them as traitors,
trying to bring them back to the Fire nation and they take off to hide and bossing, say
pretending to be normal citizens of the Earth Kingdom. Opening Arrow's tea shop,
which is a lifelong dream of his like. He has so much fun during that part of the plot. just chilling out and making good tea every day. Like that's all he cares about. and Zuko begins the next phase of his redemption arc. Or really he begins his redemption. He was mostly an antagonist to Aang during season one,
and he almost falters during book two as well to early in the original version. Like Zuko betrays Uncle Ira in a pretty big way. But essentially during book two,
he starts to turn the corner on his redemption. it's not really till book three that he actually joins Team Avatar
and becomes a fundamentally good character. they'll probably end season two
the same way they ended the original book two with Azula lightning bending and almost killing him,
basically putting him into a coma. This is a pretty easy way to explain the time jump
before season three because Gordon Cormier, like the actor,
will actually just be physically so much bigger. you look so much older
because you've been in a coma for a long time. hoping that they do adapt a version of the beach
in some way. And one of the episodes a bit weird for them to do
Cabbage Man Cave two lovers and then not do the beach and really hoping here like fingers crossed that they bring back the original voice
cast to be the Ember Island players. They do reunions all the time of conventions. Like you can actually go get signatures with them,
hear them talk about doing the original series all the time, like literally several times a year. Dante Basco is even doing a rewatch podcast for the original Avatar series with Janet Varney,
who was the voice for Korra. what I'm really hoping to is that he comes back as the voice of Zuko in these movies
that Mike and Brian are doing. we probably won't see any footage from those till either the very end of this year
or like early next year at some point. So I'm not expecting any big trailers
for the animated Avatar stuff for a while. But everyone posts all your thoughts on Avatar
The Last Airbender, Netflix Season two. If you had any complaints about season one stuff
you hope they fix or you hope that they adapt from the original book to
We might get some actual footage from that by the end of this year
if they're going to be filming later this year there's a bunch of big stuff coming up My Invincible season
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