This may be backtracking to old news once again but I'm just going to put it out there for visibility since I have some time.

Crappy news first:

Comic/Graphic Novel artist Derek Kirk Kim made a very eloquent blog post about his personal feelings regarding the Avatar cast: [link]

It makes me remember to a point how I honestly felt when I did see the main casting. I'm sorry, couldn't help it:

_{I kind of felt like I was punched in the face.}

But I wanted to reserve judgement and give in to some hope that perhaps it was ...for the best?(?) lol
Plus a lot of people who wanted to have the same hope for the movie had some good points and as actors the cast may have what it takes to authentically play these characters and that perhaps the whole race thing could be put aside for the sake of acting ability and such.

Yet the more I looked around, when I saw some other fellow fans making some arguments such as (more or less) "It's not an Asian world, it's just Asian-influenced." or "These actors are more marketable, it's a sad fact but an asian/minority actor would be harder to find and wouldn't be as marketable" and my personal favorites:

"reality is that the movies appeal to the masses if they are based on the masses. the masses are white"

"It wouldn't make sense to make everything unrealistically diverse"
"Hollywood is not going to change ...so lets just put up with it."
...

Then it felt like I was delivered a painful German Suplex multiple times. And I think this hurt more.

HAHA WOW. I...JUST...WOW.
OH GOD.


but anyway:
Better and more Awesome news:

just posted in her journal (go see NOW)
new news about the Avatar comics club. With new EPIC stories featuring KUZON.

Yes, that's right.

KUZON. THE KUZON.

and more about the old Masters.

And beautiful work done by the Avatar writers and staff and artists.

It most certainly is like a Vicks vapor rub upon the congested suffocation caused by all the Airbender casting lulziness.

Peace out ya'll.