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in reply to @jinglebellrockstar's post:

The head-scratching misfires of recent live-action adaptations paint a picture, I think, of the vast gulf between the creators who understand the subtleties of writing stories and the suits who judge whether something is likely to be successful entirely on superficial signifiers they think are currently popular. Fundamentally, you can't take a thing that Is Good and tell another team "you've got to make another thing Just Like That," because the subtle reasons for creative choices get lost and you instead get scenes that have the trappings of the Good Thing merely to have them.

HBomberGuy's lengthy critique of the first three seasons of RWBY does a really good job of showing how perilous it is to apply this photocopier sensibility to AtLA and LoK, which make a lot of subtle choices to tell a slow, gradual story that is also satisfying on an episode-by-episode basis. Sadly, those with decision-making authority at Netflix seem to be just as impatient and superficial as the folks at Rooster Teeth were in those early seasons. In no small part, it's the people who are trying to cook like that, too hard and too ineptly, who guarantee that we're not getting served another meal of that caliber.