This isn't to say that the movie absolutely has to stick with these influences, but it's also not right to say that these distinctions weren't made in the first place.

Sorry to throw a wrench in your point, but Night is one of the producers, as well as the director and screenwriter. He's in charge of pretty much every aspect of the development process since he's the one who came up with the idea for Avatar to be a movie and presented it to Nick. Not to mention Mike and Bryan are pretty much his go to guys since both said they were heavily involved in the movie.

If any one of those 3 ever comes out to publicly admit or even hint at the possibility that they were hoodwinked by some Paramount corporate goon, then I'll submit to your claims of the movie being racist and even apologise (something I rarely do). Until then I find such claims to be unfounded.

And just so I'm abundantly clear: I'm not loving the current cast either. I'm just saying throwing out words like racism to support your hatred is a little extreme. Nothing personal.

That's the end of my involvement in this debate that will more than likely never end, unless of course one side euthanizes the other. My advice is bring chainsaws since flames don't seem to work on the interweb. They only seem to make things grow out of proportion.

What show were you watching? Hamma in "the Puppet Master" has more pale skin than Aang does. The guy who Yue was engaged to was white. So was Bato, and Katara and Sokka's father. Actually, it's just a few members of the Northern Water Tribe who are darker skined, + Katara and Sokka. (But they're a quarter Northern Water Tribe anyway.)

One of. All right, but the point still stands he has other people to answer to, it's Marshall and Kennedy's production company, and there's the whole Paramount studio hierarchy on top of that. And minority people can be as racist as anyone else, which is really the point I should have led with in the first place.

What color exactly are they supposed to be, hmm? I'm full blood Asian and lighter than most white people. There are plenty of Aleutians and Inuits who have pale skin too. The water tribe people weren't white. Look at their clothes, their culture, their architecture - it's a lot of amalgamations, sure, but all of them distinctly not Western or European. I don't understand how you can look at people who live in igloos and immediately think, oh, they're white by default.

Maybe the people responsible for casting decided that all the underlying themes of diversity and tolerance that formed the backbone of the show weren't worth keeping. I wonder what they'll throw away next?

Seriously, they know how to cast minorities when they want to. There is no excuse for not having a single minority actor for four all minority-characters.

And there is no official "Asia" in the Avatar world, but Bryke have CONSTANTLY, DELIBERATELY STRESSED the blatant Asian-influence that there is in the Avatar world, and you would have to be a fool not to see that the skin colours of the characters are based off of Asian races and civilizations. Not EVERY little thing in the Avatar world is Asian, but come on, look at the cast of the Movie, compare it to the physical features of the cast in the TV series, and tell me that it's fair... Yes I know it is animation, but you can't seriously say that the characters don't look more Asian than anything else... Did you read my link? Just asking, I would like to know what you think of what that woman is saying... Personally I think she makes all the sense there is to make.