u/KazViolin

To be honest, while I love Jack, he is not necessarily the series, as it's Pirates and not Jack Sparrow of the Caribbean.

It's kinda like how StarWars has this huge universe and timeline but they only deal with Luke and Anakin storylines, there's so much more.

Madam Cheng comes to mind, who historically had the largest pirate coalition in history or perhaps Francis Drake of Drake's passage, could easily work in the supernatural aspect of PotC has in each movie.

Honestly I felt like the first trilogy was great and 4 and especially 5 just were mediocre, partly because it just felt like same crap different toilet at that point.

It wasn't just Jack, it was Will and Elizabeth and Barbossa and Beckett and so on.

There's no reason they can't do other pirates as well instead of relying on nostalgia of Jack and crew, like they did with StarWars and ending up flipping because it lacks all originality.

Not to mention how I think Johnny Depp is done with hollywood, Kiera Knightley I think is tired of the movies as well, they have to think of something new or let the IP die.

Inb4 "they didn't know they'd get 4 books!"
I think that's a bit dumb considering how popular AtLA was at the time and the hype for a new show, it was guaranteed to get several season and they should have planned for such.

I felt like ALoK had ups and downs but I feel like an overarching villain of an anti bender would have been great, you could even have the other stories of Unalok, Zaheer and Kuvira be the antagonists of the first 3 books and it would even reinforce the anti bender sentiments because all 3 are people that essentially used their bending to really mess up the lives of anti benders (regardless if they meant to or not) and so the anti bender sentiment only being a problem in book one felt like wasted potential.

Anyways, I think my favorite things from ALoK has to be the chi blockers, not surprising considering Ty Lee was a favorite due to her being a non bender that could go toe to toe with benders (I'm sorry Mai but you really didn't do much compared to Ty Lee lol).

I remember the Ty Lee vs Suki fight in the volcano prison episode escape was one of my favorite fights because it really stood out from all the bending fights being as it was just martial arts.
And in ALoK we got to see some amazing animation (woah budget) and the Chi Blockers looked fantastic, all the acrobatics, all the kung fu, I genuinely enjoyed seeing it more than any other fights in the series, granted if we got 4 books of it, the it'd get old buuuuut I have a fix for that.

So 3/4 books, and the idea is t build up to Amon and the equalizers, ALoK would take place in a time of relative peace (so we get to see the proper Avatar route as opposed to just a flashback of Roku) learn the elements, preferably one book per element (except water where she is a prodigy like Aang was with water of course) along the way she solves problems and builds her team. As the story progresses anti bender sentiments will become more noticeable and problematic, culminating in the finale of book 3 with the overthrow of Ba Sing Se by non benders (as it's super populated but most are not benders and can overwhelm even the Dai Lee, it can be a critique on police states that ruled Ba Sing Se before and how they ruled mainly through fear and intimidation and that together the people can overthrow such despotic rule, albeit replacing it with another despotic ruler lol)

Amon was such a cool guy, and when he resisted the bloodbending of Tarrlok, I thought it was just out of pure will alone and felt let down that he was instead (and very coincidentally) a bloodbender himself. I thought the bender vs anti bender conflict would make so much sense after a 100 year war by benders and it did for the first book of ALoK but then they all disappear and we never see another chi blocker.

I think Korra's team having a chi blocker would have been cool, and no Asami doesn't fulfill that role imo, she was capable sure but there should have been a legit ninja flipping around and taking out enemy benders, maybe just have Korra save their life and they change their opinion on benders or is proven wrong some other way, you get it.