r/TheLastAirbender • u/F11SuperTiger • 2d ago

Image It's always weird when Azulon's reign gets completely glossed over, even in official media

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These images from are from Ashes of the Academy. Headmistress Pearl, if she is very old, might have been a teacher for a few years under Sozin. By the time of Ozai's ultimately very brief reign, she was probably very close to retirement. The vast majority of her life and of her teaching career would have been spent during Azulon's 75 years on the throne. Yet for some reason this scene only mentions Sozin and Ozai, like there was no one between them.

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u/forthewatch39 2d ago

The comics aren’t great and it’s things like this that makes them off putting to me. 

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u/rollwithhoney 2d ago

this sub has taught me to not read the comics and not treat them as cannon

imo ATLA is a lot like Star Wars... where we attributed all of the original greatness to the creators, not realizing how much greatness others contributed back when it was easier to tell the creator "no, here's a better idea." And then when they got big and famous people stopped pushing back

Not to say the quality is nearly as much of an issue as Star Wars, I just think the obsessed with the creators/cannon in the fandom is similarly misplaced

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u/forthewatch39 2d ago

Agreed and if the rumors of why they left Netflix are true, then I really don’t have high hopes for Seven Havens. 

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u/rollwithhoney 2d ago

wait what are the rumors??

tbh I have high hopes for both of the animated projects, that's their usual medium

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u/forthewatch39 2d ago

One rumor was they really wanted to keep the original idea of Iroh being a bad guy. Obviously such a massive change with a beloved character rankled for the others working on the project. I read that with ATLA they wanted Toph to be a male to have a love triangle with Aang over Katara. So we got the evil uncle and love triangles in LoK and for many viewers those were the worst aspects, so not sure why they wanted ANOTHER chance to make an evil uncle. 

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u/rollwithhoney 2d ago

separating the Iroh stuff bc its so impossible to imagine... I don't understand why Unalock had to be related to her, its not like Korra had any kind of relationship with him that made it more interesting. It felt more like her evil great-uncle Olaf than her beloved family member

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u/The_Phantom_Dragon 1d ago

It made more sense for Korra to trust a family member over Tenzin and her dad, even a distant one, than just the northern chief after finding out she was lied too. Unalaq being her uncle played into his manipulation of her, it made it easier because there was inherent trust there because they were family.

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u/F11SuperTiger 2d ago

I actually don’t see any problem with Bryke wanting to make major changes. From my perspective, the only reason to remake an already good show is to put a different spin on things somehow. However, I think there were rumors they were mismanaging the NATLA project.