oh, for simpler times

[jaina]

I just need to put this out there, guys: No, I haven't seen The Last Airbender trailer. No, I'm not going to. No, I will not be seeing the movie. At all.

For me, it boils down to this: the filmmakers deliberately set out to whitewash the main cast. After the resulting outcry, they backed down a little-- just enough to recast the villains as people of color. And I'm not interested in supporting that. At all.

I don't particularly want to debate this, and if you're excited about the movie, I'm certainly not out to ruin your fun. I just wanted to explain why, while I love the show, I'm not interested in talking about the movie in any form.

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[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Basically, every new piece of info that came out about this movie, and every new decision the filmmakers made, seemed to make things worse instead of better.

And yes, exactly, about Asian actors. It would have been such a wonderful statement and opportunity to cast a bunch of young Asian actors in a big fantasy film like this. It just enrages me that they didn't. They didn't even *try,* or even ask for "all ethnicities" in the casting notices. There's a song on the commentary track for Dr. Horrible, called Nobody's Asian in the Movies (http://drhorrible.com/commentary.html#nobody), and it's funny, but it's really sad.

Teresa Huang (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1446971/), right? I know some MIT people who knew her from doing theater there. (And she played the nurse in my most-watched episode of Studio 60!) Have we had this conversation before?

Let's not talk about this week's HIMYM. Embarrassing for all concerned. Yuck.

[anirt.livejournal.com]

Teresa Huang, right? ... Have we had this conversation before?

Yes! And it's not only possible we had this conversation before, but it might be possible you've met her. I'm pretty sure (although fuzzy) that she came to LuvFest 99 at the Arlington Tower where LF99 crossed over with WantonCon I, and I know you were briefly there for WC I.