I am not going to go see the movie Avatar the Last Air Bender, the live action one. Why? It all started...

A friend in a class told me to check out this website: [link] . It concerns the new Avatar movie coming out. It shocked me when it showed pictures of who were to playing Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Zuko and when I read the things on the website.

Now I have not seen any trailers for the Avatar movie recently but the first one looked cool but did not show a good shot of Aang's face. I can see why now.

When I imagined realistic Aang I imagined someone with Asian features since Avatar is obviously in an Asian setting. Aang is Caucasian. You could argue some things these way or that but I feel like Aang does not look like Aang should.

Now onto Katara and Sokka. I want to shot whoever did the casting. You would have to be blind to not notice in the animation that Katara, Sokka and the rest of the Water Tribe had darker skin then the average non-Water Tribe person. I had imagined them being with some Native American features, but what are they in the movie? Light-skinned and also Caucasian. They don't even have a summer tan. Why?

Oh, and get this, the actor playing Zuko is darker than the other three(he looks Mediterranean to me). Apparently they're having this scheme where Water Tribe and Air Nomads are Caucasian, Earth Kingdom have some actors of East Asian and African descent, while the Fire Nation are of Asian descent.

Now I'm not saying that there should only be those of Asian descent or Native American descent acting there but at least try to have the actors fit the basic description of the characters. You have pictures. Have the Water Tribe be the darker skinned group, not the lighter skinned group.

This is a rant. I am not happy with what I discovered on the said website. Perhaps because I have a love of Asian culture and thought that maybe Avatar would be a good movie for it.