Cookie Thread Act 3: The Cookie Strikes Back

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#26524

I have a sword, and Im irish

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#26525

thjs is a book I def remember and don’t at all remmeber hating the mars scene where the guy got a lot of power but they handled the power badly

#26526

I’m not going to say the new live-action Avatar is like “objectively” “good” but the guy who plays Iroh is rocking the part (as of the end of episode 2)

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#26527

it helps that he’s playing Iroh and Iroh is great

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#26528

I just want to say that I have a replica Masamune sword from Chrono Trigger

#26529

I cant watch it/

I saw a trailer, and the dude casted as Sokka looked like he was 15 years older than the kid who plays aang

#26530

I can’t imagine bending looks good

#26531

it doesn’t

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#26532

well some of the waterbending looks decent and there hasn’t been enough earthbending to say for sure either way, but the firebending and the airbending both look pretty bad

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#26533

This is why certain things just need to not be live action.

I said the same thing for One piece

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#26534

Okay how does fire bending look bad it’s Fire

#26535

apparently Sokka’s actor was 19 when they started filming and Aang’s actor was 12

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#26536

It’s probably the easiest one to do!

#26537

it looks like CGI fire (probably because it is) in a way that just feels. fake? idk how to explain it

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#26538

Yeah this doesn’t really help when Sokka is supposed to be a kid in the series as well. Him trying to defend the village, and be a strong warrior at a young age is part of his character

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#26539

Like I get that live actions need to make certain changes, and that sticking to every story detail can make it worse but meh

#26540

I think Sokka-the-character is 15, it’s just the actor that’s older – this is pretty common in movies (regardless of whether you think it’s bad)

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#26541

Yeah, I just felt like Sokka not being an adult is a large part of his character. Him trying to be a leader and warrior before he is ready. Him looking like a college student is w.e

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#26542

this is a really cold take but I think they should have just not said anything about cutting the Sokka sexism plot, like if they hadn’t said anything I don’t think ~anyone would have been like ‘this adaption, which is already not a 1:1 adaption of every event in the original series, should have had more sexism!’ but when they were like ‘we cut the sexism because it was Problematic to have a sexist character’ everyone was like ‘wow this is really dumb’ (because their reasoning was really dumb)

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#26543

fwiw there’s a great bit in episode 1 where Sokka is lecturing people on abandoning their watch posts, and then it pans to the people he’s lecturing and they’re like. elementary schoolers

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