Oh, look. More failure.

[cherry]

A lot of you may remember the the Avatar casting debacle, in which the entire cast of a show inspired by, designed around, and in homage to various Asian and Inuit cultures, was whitewashed. Initial announcement includes: some random white kid from Texas they found at a martial arts contest as Aang, and Jesse McCartney as Zuko.

This was followed by Hai guyz, calm down, we found this, like, Sokka-looking fellow to play Zuko.

Now they've announced Fire Nation casting. On the one had: at least they're not all white. On the other, it appears that it's the 'bad guys,' the antagonists, the (arguably) whitest-looking nation, that gets to avoid the whitewashing.

Are there words for this, to sum up the massive fail? Because I am sure as hell having hard time finding any.

For those who haven't seen the series, there's a gorgeous pictoral overview at aang_aint_white illustrating show's visual dynamic.

Comments

[wildmachinery.livejournal.com]

i would say, ridiculous? but much much more so. UGH.
also, weirdest director ever or is it just me?

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

I just... gnarewaljkdfas.

Apparently, M. Night was introduced to the show by his kids, who loved it. Perhaps something to do with the fact there was a cartoon where some of the heroes looked like them?

I'm not super bitchy, I swear.