I'm the same now, I have to wonder if a reboot with older actors could have potentially done well if it was entirely 3D. You don't have the awkwardness then of them not being able to do any of the shit they did when they were younger and they can act everything out properly without the need for awkwardly placed stunt doubles too. Then again, I'm using my brain and not thinking like an increasingly desperate elite class trying to retain control over the population.
The only age-reliant plot points are the Water Tribe's, really.
Aang's story can just be they test and confirm the Avatar at 16 or somewhere instead of as a child. They're ascetics so you don't need to shoehorn in any childhood romances or experience, he can still be "innocent" to those things given his harsh monk upbringing.
Zuko and Azula can just be... older. If anything, Zuko should have been older in the first place, given his relations with Mai.
The water tribe, though, they'd need to explain why Katara isn't pregnant and continuing their very thinned bender bloodline, and why Sokka, son the the lead hunter, is so free to go off and do as he wishes. Do those two plot elements, and yeah, Avatar can be basically moved 1:1 up 10 years of age for everyone.
I'm the same now, I have to wonder if a reboot with older actors could have potentially done well if it was entirely 3D. You don't have the awkwardness then of them not being able to do any of the shit they did when they were younger and they can act everything out properly without the need for awkwardly placed stunt doubles too. Then again, I'm using my brain and not thinking like an increasingly desperate elite class trying to retain control over the population.
The only age-reliant plot points are the Water Tribe's, really.
Aang's story can just be they test and confirm the Avatar at 16 or somewhere instead of as a child. They're ascetics so you don't need to shoehorn in any childhood romances or experience, he can still be "innocent" to those things given his harsh monk upbringing.
Zuko and Azula can just be... older. If anything, Zuko should have been older in the first place, given his relations with Mai.
The water tribe, though, they'd need to explain why Katara isn't pregnant and continuing their very thinned bender bloodline, and why Sokka, son the the lead hunter, is so free to go off and do as he wishes. Do those two plot elements, and yeah, Avatar can be basically moved 1:1 up 10 years of age for everyone.