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OMG YOU GUYS. Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese & whose short story was included in Secret Identities: the Asian American Superhero Anthology, is writing the new A:TLA comics!!! As mentioned at Dark Horse, this is meant to be the sequel to the animated series & the link to Korra.

I repeat: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Current Mood: excited
Crossposts: http://jadedissola.livejournal.com/704497.html

[23:55] <@JadeNSC> http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/07/avatar_the_legend_of_the_biggest_damn_dog_and_to_a.php The sound you just heard was a fangirlish squee.
[23:57] <N_X[Semi-AFK]> Yeah, sorry about that. I couldn't resist squeeing there. I'll try to hold it in next time.
[23:57] <@JadeNSC> lol

Hat-tip to

nagaina for the link.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Garbage - Nobody Loves You
Crossposts: http://jadedissola.livejournal.com/693280.html

The more I hear about Avatar: The Legend of Korra, the happier I get. I don't think I've ever been this excited about an impending animated series, or any television series, period. Here's a snippet from an interview in the Wall Street Journal with co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko:

WSJ: The new “Avatar” is a woman. What inspired you to change the sex of the protagonist of the series?

Michael DiMartino: It’s not so much about changing because we had Avatar Kyoshi before Aang. We’d established that the Avatar can be male or female and we just thought let’s explore one of those more in depth, because Kyoshi was a popular character with a lot of fans and it seemed like a great opportunity to not retread what we’d done with Aang, who was a great hero, we all loved him, but we really wanted to try something different. And we have so many great female fans out there, who really responded to Katara in the first series, we thought we have the fan base who are really going to enjoy seeing the Avatar be a female.

Konietzko: Mike and I, we love those characters too, and we’ve encountered countless fans who are male who really like those characters too. We just don’t subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can’t have an action series led by a female character. It’s kinda nonsense to us.

The little girl inside of me who always longed for more female leads on television and the big screen is crying little tears of happiness upon reading this. Of course, the cynical side of me points out that without the huge success of Avatar the Last Airbender, Korra wouldn't exist. Still, it's nice to know DiMartino and Konietzko acknowledge the way Avatar resonated with both male and female fans.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Rammstein - Ein Lied

It's official! Avatar: The Legend of Korra will premiere in 2011!

The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the events of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ and follows the adventures of the Avatar after Aang – a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra.

Korra’s quest eventually leads her to Republic City–the epicenter of the world of “Avatar.” A metropolis powered by steampunk-type technology, the city is inhabited by people from all nations. Korra finds that Republic City suffers from rampant crime and is also dealing with an anti-bender revolt. Korra is tutored by Aang’s son, Tenzin, is the ways of airbending. [Link]

A badass female lead? A waterbender from the Southern tribe? Steampunk?

Bestill my heart!

With the original creators behind this work, I have a lot of hope that they'll continue their awesome work. Hurry up and get here, 2011!

ETA: More from the the official press release:

The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender and follows the adventures of the Avatar after Aang – a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra. With three of the four elements under her belt (Earth, Water, and Fire), Korra seeks to master the final element, Air. Her quest leads her to the epicenter of the modern "Avatar" world, Republic City – a metropolis that is fueled by steampunk technology. It is a virtual melting pot where benders and non-benders from all nations live and thrive. However, Korra discovers that Republic City is plagued by crime as well as a growing anti-bending revolution that threatens to rip it apart. Under the tutelage of Aang's son, Tenzin, Korra begins her airbending training while dealing with the dangers at large.

Current Mood: excited

[19:26:16] <JadeNSC> Sooo...I just watched a clip from The Last Failbender.
[19:26:48] <JadeNSC> I had flashbacks to watching late-night syndicated television shows in the late 90's, only those shows had better acting and were awesome.
[19:27:48] <@Reisma> Would the clip have been better with David Hasselhoff in it?
[19:27:53] <@Reisma> That's the only thing that matters
[19:28:01] <JadeNSC> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwccNqklC_k David Hasselhoff might have saved this picture.
[19:28:14] <JadeNSC> You can't even watch it and be entertained by the badness. It's just plain old shit.

So, um, Paramount, how many millions of dollars did you give Shyamalan? Sam Raimi did better in the 90s with a much, much smaller budget, and he did it on the small screen. Hell, Evil Dead was Oscar material compared to The Last Failbender.

This reminds me, I can buy season one of Xena: Warrior Princess on DVD for twenty bucks at Walmart. Guess what I'm doing this weekend?

ETA:

[19:42:05] <@NinjaWeazel> and yeah I am not actually sure I want to pay money to see Avatar anymore.
[19:47:30] * @JadeNSC laughs.
[19:48:56] <@NinjaWeazel> I mean seriously god how horrible does a movie have to be before not even I will pay money to see it? Apparently... that horrible.
[19:49:49] <@JadeNSC> rofl
[19:50:06] <@JadeNSC> And you paid to see Bloodrayne, yes?
[19:50:20] <@NinjaWeazel> yup
[19:50:28] <@JadeNSC> I just said on Twitter: "Uwe Boll could have done better, and I've seen the Dungeon Siege movie."
[19:50:41] <@NinjaWeazel> hey now that movie was cool.
[19:50:56] * @JadeNSC laughs. "Suddenly, NINJAS!"
[19:51:05] <@NinjaWeazel> <3
[19:51:15] <@JadeNSC> And that was my point. That wasn't a great movie, but it was at least *entertaining*.

Current Mood: horrified

More bad reviews for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. When Roger Ebert gives your movie half of a star while giving Twilight: Eclipse two stars, you know it's going to be ugly.

Pretty much the consensus is that Mr. Shyamalan is a legend only in his own mind. He was practically handed a complete story on a silver platter and still managed to turn it into complete and utter crap. Whatever happened to the man who directed The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable? Personally I wondered what the hell Nickelodeon was thinking when it allowed Shyamalan to wirte the screenplay and direct it. Please don't tell me the contracts were signed after The Happening, I don't think my heart could take it.

Moving away from The Last Failbender, I found two very interesting links today while sifting through comments on the reviews.

First up is an exciting Twitter post:

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER coming back as new TV series on Nickelodeon? 4 days ago Viacom filed papers to trademark AVATAR: LEGEND OF KORRA

My heart, I must admit, gave an excited flutter. And I tried to ignore this until I found out about a job posting for a storyboard revisionist to work on an "Untitled Avatar project" for Nickelodeon.

I had heard rumors that the original creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante were looking to do a fourth season of ATLA, and it looks like those rumors might indeed be true. Perhaps they're flipping the metaphorical bird at M. Night Shyamalan, or maybe they just realized they had another story to tell. Let's hope they keep up their excellent work and are able to distance themselves far, far away from The Last Failbender.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Jump Little Children - Cathedrals

Upon learning that firebenders now need a source to use their firebending (except maybe Iroh) in The Last Airbender, I express my nerdrage appropriately:

[16:39:56] <@JadeNSC> GODDAMNIT SHYAMALAN!
[16:40:02] <@JadeNSC> YOU RUINED FIREBENDING YOU ASSHOLE
[16:43:09] <@JadeNSC> DID YOU NOT HEAR IROH IN THE VERY FIRST FUCKING SEASON? "FIRE IS BREATH"
[16:43:18] * @JadeNSC screams.
[16:43:28] <@JadeNSC> Firebenders don't need a fucking source.
[16:43:42] <@JadeNSC> Their LIFE, their EMOTIONS, the very AIR they BREATHE is a SOURCE. >.<
[16:45:16] * @JadeNSC nerdrages all up in here.
[16:46:10] <Imurev> so maybe Shyamalan is just (puts on sunglasses) full of hot air.
[16:46:12] <N_X[Work]> ...Shyamalan did what now?
[16:46:32] <@JadeNSC> In The Last Airbender, suddenly firebenders need a source of fire to use their firebending (except for Iroh).
[16:46:43] <N_X[Work]> ...
[16:47:13] <@JadeNSC> Nevermind that it's established in the very first season that anger fuels firebending (which isn't the only source as you learn in season 3 when they visit the Sun Warriors).
[16:50:02] <@JadeNSC> I mean, how do you fuck up one of the basic plot elements? And what are you going to do in the third movie to explain Zuko losing his firebending?
[16:52:00] <N_X[Work]> <Appa> "I had Zuko's flint, but I ated it. :( "
[16:52:26] <@JadeNSC> lol
[16:52:43] <@JadeNSC> Okay, I'm quoting that.

And here's some other nerd explaining why Shyamalan's got it wrong when it comes to firebending.

Current Mood: annoyed

I already posted that they're making a live-action Avatar movie, but what I didn't get into is the fact that, so far, the actors picked to play the main characters are all lily white and not a single Asian. This has understandably caused more than a few fans to go "WTF?" at Hollywood, but I think what Jackson Rathbone said of playing Sokka takes the proverbial cake:

Due in theaters in summer 2010, “Airbender” has already begun to face a bit of controversy over the casting of white actors like Rathbone, Ringer and McCartney to play Asian characters - a concern the actor was quick to dismiss. “I think it’s one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan,” he said of the transformation he’ll go through to look more like Sokka. “It’s one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit.” [Emphasis Mine]

Because all that I need to be Asian is a tan. Riiiiiiiight. (I really shouldn't be surprised that Jackson Rathbone starred in Twilight, should I?)

If you want information on a letter-writing protest started by fans, read this guest article by Angry Asian Man on Racialicious (where I got the quote from).

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: HIM - Love in Cold Blood

They're doing a live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's going to be directed by, get this, M. Night Shyamalan.

I already see someone from the Twilight movie is lined up to play Sokka. Oh, and Jesse McCartney? Oh yeah, some real quality here! I'm unsure whether this will be unintentionally hilarious or so bad it's good.

I do have to admit that it probably stands a better chance of being worth the price of admission than the live-action Dragonball-Z movie (yes, I'm a hater).

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

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On second thought, I don't think even The Hoff could make this more palatable.
From now on I'm calling it "The Last Failbender."
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Entries tagged with avatar the last airbender

EEEEEEEeeeeeeeee!

We're all excited about Legend of Korra!

I Love These Guys

Attention Avatar the Last Airbender fans!

On second thought, I don't think even The Hoff could make this more palatable.

From now on I'm calling it "The Last Failbender."

Wherein I Share My Nerdrage

If you're a fan of Avatar, don't read the following.

Wonder what the 'tweest' will be?