I'll say it again, some stuff simply doesn't translate well into life action.
DBZ, TLA... it just will look goofy when it's actually taken fully serious.
We loved these shows because they are a bit silly, yet have cool messages. But, the minute you start doing kamehamehas in real life.... It's just absurd.
Showrunners are never given any assurance that they'll be given another season, so they're pressured to tell as much of the story in the one season they're greenlit for. I have no doubt that tue original ATLA story will be 75% told in this single season.
It definitely looks a lot better than the live action movie that Nickelodeon (or whoever worked on it) certainly never made and definitely wasn't a commercial flop that signaled that live action movies based on animated series are always gonna be cash grab garbage if they're not made by passionate fans with a humongous budget
Kid and I have the same ones. Once I was working retail and I guy came up asking if my buddy and I had seen someone. I asked if he had looked in my eyebrows? My buddy nearly died from laughing and the dude started laughing after the shock wore off. We later found his kid.
They parted ways at some point in pre-production. There are various accounts about why, one popular theory is that is was due to the original creators being offered huge deals at Nickelodeon.