Avatar Movie is making me DDDDDD:

[rhythmia]

I'm not cutting this because this is very important to me.

A couple years ago, my friend M introduced me to this amazing animated show called Avatar: The Last Airbender. I was visiting him, he showed me the first episode, and I ended up watching something like four or five episodes in a row before we went for dinner

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[kegom]

Wow, this is really, really sad. D:

I've never watched Avatar (I once saw a few minutes of it when I was zapping through the programs, and between me not knowing anything about it and the dubbing being rather horrible, as usual for German children TV shows, I didn't bother watching it), but I just looked at the pictures and - those actors look NOTHING like the characters they're supposed to portray! Not even when I try to imagine them in make-up.
And really, that's just pretty sad.

Also, as a completely white European, I obviously can't understand this in all its depth, but there're things like this that I notice in Hollywood movies and which just annoy me without end.
Like, for example, the fact that in most Hollywood-teen-movies I've seen, the black boy always ends up with a black girlfriend.
I mean - why? In most of these shows the black and white kids (and Asian kids, and whoever turns up in that movie too) are shown as friends. But yet, as soon as it comes to romance, they get separated by skin-color again.

And this feels much the same to me. I can't say anything about the cultures that are supposed to be behind this, or the references; but hey, these characters look kind of Asian to me, why not let them be played by Asian actors? What's the big deal about that?
But apparently, there seems to be some kind of agreement in Hollywood that there are things that are not supposed to be done, stuff that can't be shown since it might hurt ratings, or something, and both having inter-racial teenie-relationships and having Asian main characters seem to belong to that kind of stuff. :(