{"id":137211,"date":"2018-09-18T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T21:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/do-we-actually-need-a-live-action-avatar-the-last-airbender.html"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T21:26:20","slug":"do-we-actually-need-a-live-action-avatar-the-last-airbender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/do-we-actually-need-a-live-action-avatar-the-last-airbender.html","title":{"rendered":"Do we actually NEED a live-action &quot;Avatar: The Last Airbender&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so far as I can tell. I mean, the animated version seems to still be quite rewatchable. (Indeed, it&#39;s on my binge list for my wife and me.)<\/p>\n<p>Granted, that the show is being helmed by original creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko is triffic news, and making something that drives the  M. Night Shyamalan version completely out of mind[1] is not a <i>bad<\/i> thing. But, really, I&#39;d rather see something <i>new<\/i> in the Avatar universe than a remake of something already wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Not that it will me stop me from watching, mind you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>[1] Or perhaps turning it into the same odd non-canon curiosity that the Peter Cushing <i>Doctor Who<\/i> movies are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/09\/netflix-is-making-a-live-action-avatar-the-last-airbender.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/eN_qc0ChO0fePuPAPAEqLdNPvkwcSpeoaTnUnWjGkfmlTZ_b6fTOtxqjvJHLzkA9URZ0GfDIQcuNrsX_y2lka7oFf3PwCQxpSgk88sM2_0k9_NECzTWunwvldmdvpmzO4ye-1fFq2GhHiom9nA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/09\/netflix-is-making-a-live-action-avatar-the-last-airbender.html'>Netflix Is Making a Live-Action Avatar: the Last Airbender<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JjWCRVuWpse'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so far as I can tell. I mean, the animated version seems to still be quite rewatchable. (Indeed, it&#39;s on my binge list for my wife and me.) Granted, that the show is being helmed by original creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko is triffic news, and making something that drives the M. Night &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/do-we-actually-need-a-live-action-avatar-the-last-airbender.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do we actually NEED a live-action &quot;Avatar: The Last Airbender&quot;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132085,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/yeah-avatar-worlds-most-well-known-movie-amirite.html","url_meta":{"origin":137211,"position":0},"title":"Yeah, Avatar, world&#039;s most well-known movie, amirite?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Nov-16 8:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank you. 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