Netflix's Last Airbender Changes Lower The Stakes For 1 Major Live-Action Fight

One of the changes Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender made to an important Katara fight scene late in the season lowers the emotional stakes.

Netflix's Last Airbender Changes Lower The Stakes For 1 Major Live-Action Fight

Avatar: The Last Airbender made a major tweak to one of the season's climactic battles that lowered the personal stakes inherent to the duel — and speaks to an overarching flaw with the live-action Netflix adaptation of the original animated series. Avatar: The Last Airbender made lots of changes to the original story when transforming twenty episodes of the animated show into an eight-episode live-action drama. Some of these tweaks benefited the story by adding unexpected depth to characters like Ozai and Azula.

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