re: Avatar casting news

[odditycollector]

This is so much fail I am not even up to the level of coherent argument. Which is why I linked to vagabond_sal's, instead of the article direct. Or here's vejiicakes' take.

I will add for the audience that if this doesn't snowball into a bad press *nightmare* for the film, there is no justice in the world.

 
(PS. Someone needs to write a snarky little AU bit for racismisover.blogspot.com. I am not up to it at the moment, but it cannot be only my soul that feels the lack in the universe!)

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[a-nation-of-one.livejournal.com]

I've never seen an episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Regardless, this pisses me off. I'd bet good money that it never even occurred to the film-makers that "Aang" wasn't supposed to be a ghost-white pretty boy. He's the title character, after all! "'Aang,' eh? I'm pretty sure that's pronounced 'Doug.'"

Gosh, that lead actor guy is such a twerp. I wish to punch him. This is completely unrelated to him being cast as a character who is supposed to be Asian. That part certainly doesn't help, however.

-m

[a-nation-of-one.livejournal.com]

I now realize that I completely misread the article, and twerpy kid is actually playing the title character's friend, who is also clearly not white. The two pictures are in the exact same pose, and I assumed they were different interpretations of the same character. This renders large portions of my previous post null.

But still. C'mon, guys.

-m