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[pikabot]

And now we're right back, doing the exact same fucking thing they did in the seventies with Kung Fu. Fuck. At least there they tried to rationalize Carradine's whiteness away having Caine be half-American. No such rationalization is possible in the Avatar universe! You'd think we'd have learned something over the past thirty-forty years but APPARENTLY NOT.

Fuck, I never had high hopes for this movie but now just askgjslkgsgjsn JESSE MCCARTNEY ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

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[paperclipchains.livejournal.com]

I still think it's possible that this is a joke. It just has to be. There's no way anybody could have thought this would be a good idea.

Jesse McCartney. Can he even act?

[pikabot]

Can he act? Well apparently he did a few roles before deciding that being Generic Prettyboy Singer #983448 was the right career path for him.

As for whether he can act well...I doubt it. I really do.

[paperclipchains.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Am I being pretentious if I say that Zuko is a role with some depth that requires an actor that's actually, I don't know, good?

[pikabot]

No, that's not pretentious at all.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

It's like we're going backwards.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I was watching the original Gunga Din last night and thinking, 'A white New Yorker playing an Indian...god you'd never get away with that kind of thing today.'

...and then I read your post.

*sigh*

[pikabot]

W-well, at least they aren't really getting away with it? I mean I'm pretty sure the original Gunga Din passed without incident but almost everybody seems to be appalled by this, to the point of organizing angry letter campaigns.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I dunno', I'd like to think that if enough people get pissed enough something good will come of it, but...

[gabenut.livejournal.com]

It's just sad really. I hate to make the comparison, but even Dragonball Evolution whatever it is now let some of the cast be Asian.

[rebbe]

I'm more than a little bit tempted to call troll a;lsklasdlksjdf