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headfallsoff
@headfallsoff.com

multiple big videos pushed on my homepage about how bad netflix avatar season 2 is. most cursed franchise of all time. its really really really hard to tell a story for babies about a little kid going on adventures and eventually defeating The Emperor. its the hardest thing you can do

Xander
@xanderhworks.bsky.social

They’re two flavours of bad but also products of time. Dragonball Evolution is basically a Michael Bay action movie. It’s soaked in that 2000s grime and it desperately does not want to be its source material. Netflix Avatar is painfully nostalgic and wants to its source material…but ‘more adult’.

Xander
@xanderhworks.bsky.social

One is abrasively and unpleasantly ‘this isn’t your grandma’s (insert property x)!’ The other is blatantly crowd pleasing, more committed to the aesthetic…but written like it knows the audience is only half paying attention. In that sense, they’re painfully 2000s and 2020s respectively.