Debuting on Disney+ a few weeks before the reissue of Avatar: The Way of Water gets re-released in theaters, and a month and a half before the third film, Avatar: Fire and Ash, debuts, Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films lands on the streamer this weekend. The two part special feature, both well below an hour in runtime, takes viewers behind the scenes of the second film in the series. Exploring the new technologies that director James Cameron and his team had to develop to bring Cameron’s vision to life, Fire and Water also includes a mass of interviews from the cast and crew and footage from behind the scenes.

For Avatar: The Way of Water to work, the crew needed to figure out how to make the underwater and around water sequences look as realistic as possible. Soon into the process, Cameron and crew found that it would be impossible to completely replicate movement underwater in post production, so they tilted in the opposite direction. Almost everything would be filmed in and below the water. To that end, the cast had to learn free diving breathing techniques that would allow them to stay underwater for minutes at a time without needing a breath. All the cameramen were professional free divers, and the tanks of water had specialty floors and hinges allowing them to shoot. They modeled a retractable floor for the large water tank so that the undersea environment could be restaged in minutes, not hours.

As fascinating as the behind the scenes footage is and the detailed explanations that come along with it, this really is nothing more than a DVD/Blu Ray special feature. Anyone who has bought a physical release of the second film has seen most of this footage before. And as much as Fire and Water makes you appreciate all the efforts even more, especially from the cast involved, it’s really just a vehicle to get the audience to want to reinvest in watching Avatar: The Way of Water all over again. If anything, Cameron is a master pitchman who could sell watching his films to people with no access to a TV.

Anyone heading into this hoping to get a look at the third film before it hits theaters next month will also likely be disappointed. They’ll have to wait until the final five minutes of the second part of Fire and Water to see less than two minutes of the newest film, showing one small scene mid credits. It’s an old school sideshow sales pitch at its finest. Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films is a relic itself in the days of streaming. Part old school pitch video that would play in the Blockbuster Video while you walked the aisles, part physical media add on, this is the type of media that’s not produced as often as it was in its 90s/early 2000s heyday. And while I can appreciate the nostalgic vibes, there’s really not much new here to the presentation other than the subject matter.