Is Iroh Indian?
Yeah, the whole Fire Nation is Indian.
Oh man! You are so right.
I think it was a friend of mine who said that, and as soon as she said it, I couldn't not think it. He'd be perfect.
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
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Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2010 9:25:21 am PDT #9418 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
amych - Jun 30, 2010 9:42:24 am PDT #9419 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
the whole Fire Nation is Indian.
And Persian and Maori. They're the only and exclusively not-white Nation.
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2010 9:48:22 am PDT #9420 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Despite being the lightest-colored characters in the cartoon.
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2010 10:01:48 am PDT #9421 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Liveblogging Eclipse. I haven't worked out how this isn't irritating for the other people in the theatre.
JZ - Jun 30, 2010 10:11:44 am PDT #9422 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
oh dear- Ebert gave it half a star.
Wow, that was brutal. And I'm mildly surprised that apparently he's seen the show and knows it reasonably well--he doesn't mention the racebending, but he does hammer on the gorgeous look of the animation and the influence of Miyazaki and just how thoroughly the film's visuals have failed to draw anything worthwhile from all that juicy lovely precedent.
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2010 10:14:50 am PDT #9423 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He does mention the racebending, JZ. There's a whole paragraph on it:
His first inexplicable mistake was to change the races of the leading characters
Frankenbuddha - Jun 30, 2010 10:15:23 am PDT #9424 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've read a couple of reviews saying Dev Patel is the best thing in the movie, but not enough to make it worth seeing. And that the after-the-fact 3-D was worse than Clash of the Titans.
ETA - Not Ebert on Dev Patel, though.
ehab - Jun 30, 2010 10:15:46 am PDT #9425 of 30000
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
Does anyone know the backstory of how the movie rights were sold? I'm surprised that the creators of such a visually stunning tv series would have sat idly by for so much fail.
Tom Scola - Jun 30, 2010 10:17:23 am PDT #9426 of 30000
hwæt
The movie's production company is Nickelodeon.
JZ - Jun 30, 2010 10:18:22 am PDT #9427 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, der. How did I miss that? I must have gotten stuck on the rant about the clunky faux-medieval dialogue (how is that even possible, given the source material?), or possibly the rant about the ugly muddy visuals.