On the bright side: Haley Joel Osmond isn't playing Aang.

[innerbrat]

I'm rather relieved, actually, that everyone's talking about the cast for the upcoming movie of Avatar: the Last Airbender, and talking about my greatest concern above all: The cast is all white.

For those not familiar with the  source material, Avatar is a superior quality children's cartoon based around four separate nations with very distinct

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[timjr]

Dude, not to get off subject, but almost the entirety of the casting on 'Colour of Magic' was extreme fail, too.

[innerbrat]

Jeremy Irons was not extreme fail.

[timjr]

I agree. Jeremy Irons and David Bradley were perfect... but I still get grumbly about how lame Sean Astin was in general, and how way too old David Jason was.

It's like... Hogfather hit all the right buttons.

Colour of Magic felt like... bad community theater. With the requisite folks that were totally above and beyond the rest of the cast.

[innerbrat]

That's it exactly!

(Although Christopher Lee will always be my Death)

[kierthos]

HE DOES HAVE THE VOICE FOR IT.

[davegodfrey]

I bet next one they do will have exactly the same cast as the others just shuffled round a bit. Jeremy Irons as Granny Weatherwax, Sean Astin as Magrat, David Jason as Baron Samedi, and so on...

[timjr]

The next one is 'Going Postal'.

If David Jason is Moist, I will weep.