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Dear Mr. Rowles:

I believe your question to be redundant.

Sincerely,

Admin

Joining Vermillion in abject denial.

i was really afraid you were going to say he was going to ruin mighty mouse. avatar crap i don't care about so much, but leave my tiny superhero alone!

What about the sky bison?

twig, I've got a nice box of sand to bury your head in if you and V want to join me.

At least until he decides to add his own touches and thrown in that "twist" ending!

Also, what's the over/under on some looser in Hollyweird coming up with a Mighty Mouse live action flick ala "Underdog"?

At the end, Katara and Sokka discover that Aang is really a psychopathic murderer and con artist, who actually killed the last Airbender in order to gain his powers.

No, no, no. Aang is really Yugi Moto. And he can see dead aliens.

People will care, Dustin. People will most definitely care. All of us older adult geeks will care. And one day we will rise up and...well...probably not do much of anything as it would require leaving the couch. And even though we swear we will never see the movie, we'll invariably end up watching it at the dollar drive-in theatre as a double feature with something we kinda would like to see like we did with Dragonball Evolution and Wolverine. We're not very good at standing up for our convictions apparently.

I really got into this after Pajiba's review of it. And I gotta say it ranks as one the best cartoon sagas I've ever seen. I also have to say that it is OFFENSIVE to cast some white boy as the Avatar who clearly is meant to represent an Asian nation (shaving his head and putting Shaolin robes on him ain't gonna cut it, chief). Also, Shaymalamamawhateverthefuckdouche will probably fuck it up by twisting the end so HE ends up being the fucking Avatar, or an alien, or everybody is dead.

I've been watching Avatar lately, and it IS a great show. Surprisingly great, really. It's funny and well written, but it's also the most awesome superhero/magic show I've ever seen. Even more impressive in that it's a cartoon. The battles are just balls-out awesome, and the animation is seriously top-notch.

I think the photos look...ok. The kid looks seriously cute. Very um...white. But I'm glad Dev Patel is getting some work.

It'll probably suck.

The original cast did not include Patel as Zuko, but a white guy. Zuko was re-cast because of complaints about the whitening of the obviously Asian characters, but the heroes, Ang, Kitara, Sokka, are all still played by white actors. Making one of the few people of color in the movie a person led to the good side of the force by the white kids? Not cool.

*weeps*

I love Dev Patel, but... yeah, I don't really have high hopes for this movie. The fact that you have to squint to see Zuko's scar is depressing. It's supposed to be ugly, and red, and HUGE (it's one of his defining features in the show, and mentioned by other characters more than once). He's not supposed to have two eyebrows, dangit! This looks like something that a good concealer might cover up. ;)

I think that the twist will be that Dev Patel's character is in fact the director an Avatar film and is using the money he earned in Slumdog to film a movie based on Latika's favorite TV show.
Or aliens will devour the Avatar kid.

Did anyone else think the picture of Aang looked like they CGed a baby's head onto an 11 year old's body?

Obscure? It was nominated for at least one Emmy and had good ratings its entire run. A hipster not noticing something doesn't automatically make it obscure.

Apparently Jesse McCartney dropped Zukko's role because of conflicts with his music tour.

That's right - even that tool thought he was too good for this movie. Even with all the racism backlash he was still Shyamalan's first preference as Zukko. Shyamalan only recast via McCartney's actions, not based on his own decisions. When he HAD to recast, then he thought he'd shut all the critics up and go with Dev Patel.

Good riddance, but still.