Pictures of MovieZuko and Aang Up

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Link,
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/21/first-look-m-night-shyamalans-the-last-airbender/#more-28963

*Cue fanboy puzzlement* Where is MovieZuko's scar? What is that on MovieAang's face? Is that meant to be the arrow? He looks like a reference to Colin Farrell's version of Bullseye.

For Legality, How Mai and Zuko got back together after the second season finale.

Context: Spoilers for season two/three

After Zuko helped his sister Azula overthrow the city of Bai Sing Se, betraying his uncle in the process, Zuko has decided that he doesn't want to go back home to the Fire Nation, and would rather stay where he is.

Azula needs Zuko to come along though, as she had told their father that Zuko had killed the Avatar, and if he doesn't come along she can't keep a hold over him via blackmail. So her solution is to try and matchmake Zuko with her friend Mia, with whom Zuko had a mutual crush when they were younger.

Here's what happened.



















And thus Mia and Zuko get together, much to the rage of Zutarans everywhere.

Comments

[moneyless_jew.insanejournal.com]

I certainly agree that it is a fusion of cultures, predominantly Asian, and that Asian concepts of mythology and quasi-spinoffs therein dominate the narrative.

Maybe it's just the way I personally took it, though, but I got a sense as a new viewer of the cultural lineage to be not just Asian but everything under the sun - so no one child, Asian, Latin, African, Native American, black, white, what have you, can look at Aang or Sokka or Katara, with their varied features, colors, and naming, and definitively say, "that's me, but that's NOT me." Everyone can potentially see themselves in there, I think. I saw Avatar as removed from any extremely specific or conventional definition of race - it's a fictional world with history different from others, where culture is something entirely new.

As I said, I do think they cast too white overall, given the rich cultural background of the show, but I was not surprised or appalled when a white child was cast as Aang, anymore than I was offended when people would offer up white actors to play roles in, say, a live-action Cowboy Bebop (another show where I felt cultures fused together in a new world).

Anyway, that's where I leave this.