its going to be really interesting to see if the creators can make this cast as interesting and emotionally compelling as the first series' with half the time to do it in
even though im already shrieking over a female PoC being the main character !!
I wish i knew how to explain it better, but it feels kinda like "My company is progressive, we hired that black girl just last month". Like i said, I wish I understood why it made me uncomfortable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJBNwHoXQns
Because there is still a bias towards, well, me. You know, white guys.
It won't stop until we conciously choose minorities and women. My guess is that mensch is a minority, woman, or both and glad to see someone a bit more relatable in entertainment.
I'm a white guy too, I dunno, it just feels weird when it goes from "Korra is a water bender, they come from a society modeled after Eskimo societies" to "This is Korra, she's a minority main character"
its going to be really interesting to see if the creators can make this cast as interesting and emotionally compelling as the first series' with half the time to do it in
even though im already shrieking over a female PoC being the main character !!
Aang wasn't white, fyi.
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Nick has a press site with a bunch of clips. Most of the clips were leaked before, but if you want to check it out and you haven't before give it a look. There is a tiny episode 1 spoiler in the characters section so watch out.
Apparently there's a leaked version of the first episode floating about, well there was one before but now a lot of people have it. I would like if no posted it, just because I don't want this thread shut down and also I don't want to get to badly spoilered. If you want it bad enough you probably know where to find it,
Aasif Mandvi, Zuko, and Iroh were the only good parts of the movie. I enjoyed Azula for about 2 seconds until she smiled.
I hate the movie with a passion but even I have to admit the guy who played Iroh did as good a job as possible in that situation. The costume design along with some of the cinematography was nice as well.
My theory is that the reason she bends the other styles is that she was just to young to know better. She learns waterbending at a very young age and doesn't know she's not supposed to be able to bend other things. So when a Fire bender and Earth bender pass through their village at some point and she observes them she mimics them and succeeds. She could learn Airbending at this point but as there only exist in Aangs family she never gets a chance to observe them.
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And make her a dude.
Oh god...now I am depressed.
I don't understand this.
There's a dearth of WOMEN, much less minority women, in lead roles. Especially in shows for children.
It won't stop until we conciously choose minorities and women. My guess is that mensch is a minority, woman, or both and glad to see someone a bit more relatable in entertainment.
it looks more like they chose a character that works with the world they made, that works for the story they're going to write
Which is terrific.
When people write a character to be "different", it tends to be bad.
When they write characters who happen to not be the standard as part of being characters, that's good in a lot of ways.
(ME3 did a nice job there with Traynor and Cortez, just off the top of my head.)
Why I fear the ocean.
speaking of traynor, what's the proper nomenclature for someone who is British and Indian?
is it just British? that's what I've been going with.
Technically, she's from Horizon.
But wiki says "British Indian" is an accepted term.
Why I fear the ocean.
Aang wasn't white, fyi.
are actually white
yeah, I wouldn't tell anybody about that if I were you
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I hate the movie with a passion but even I have to admit the guy who played Iroh did as good a job as possible in that situation. The costume design along with some of the cinematography was nice as well.
I want this on youtube so fucking bad so I can share it with people on the road.
edit: I just realized that she wasn't airbending in the clip, yet was bending the element opposite her own.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
My theory is that the reason she bends the other styles is that she was just to young to know better. She learns waterbending at a very young age and doesn't know she's not supposed to be able to bend other things. So when a Fire bender and Earth bender pass through their village at some point and she observes them she mimics them and succeeds. She could learn Airbending at this point but as there only exist in Aangs family she never gets a chance to observe them.
She's obviously strong willed and a bit hard headed and other things that are philosophically opposed to the airbending nomads.
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New episode spoiler
"Well, it's an incredible tale...." (interrupted by kid)
That was wonderful.
Seems like something they would have pretty stringent restrictions on.
It's mostly Nick's fault, on the website where reviewers could download the first episode they had the username be the same thing as the password.
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I think I'll wait.