dana-lamps Reviews

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024– )

Impossible to completely adapt an animated classic

[10/10 · 26 February 2024]

My wife and I feel in love with the original Avatar the Last Airbender when it had already been out, we did not have cable. We ended up streaming it in the early days off Netflix and streaming from the Nickelodeon website and fervently watched the Legend of Korra.

When the movie of Last Airbender was announced I was excited, but then was disappointed on so many levels.

That said, the Netflix adaptation was so much closer to the original that my wife and I both geeked out through must of the show. The main characters were extremely well cast and the action was phenomenal. The world and the characters were fleshed out well. The musical choices were really good too, especially when it came to Iroh and Zuko.

I'm glad they added more characters into book one earlier. In a TV series you never know if it's going to be canceled or not and you can only do so much but we're so much groundwork has already been laid they can go back and connect things in a way that they couldn't before.

I would recommend this series to anyone who's looking for something with action that's family-friendly for the most part and that are fans of the original series.

Avengers Assemble (2012–2019)

Really poor quality

[2/10 · 10 July 2013]

EMH was such an excellent series that could have gone on for a long time. They were setting up things like Guardians of the Galaxy, which I had never really heard of before and I am sure a lot of others had not heard of either. This is just continuing the movie. The movie does not really not need a follow up because of the MCU and MAOS that are continuing the stories in the movies and bringing it to TV. It seems that this is just a ploy to commercialize the franchise more and sell toys. I do not plan on following this series the same way I did with EMH. Disney XD is overall doing a poor job with their Marvel properties. Spider-man is alright but is also very much for kids. I agree with another review that I read that the voice acting and designs are terrible. This is more like the Super Friends than anything else.