Daily Show/Colbert Report fanfic to follow eventually?

[soc_puppet]

Here we are, Wednesday, March 18th, and once again I have gone an entire week without posting. GO ME.

Someone remind me tomorrow to talk about giant squid and intelligent design. 'Cuz I stayed up late last night to watch a special about colossal squid which had some incidental giant squid info that was somewhat hilarious when I thought about it. (Also, Humboldt squid are awesome.)

MORE IMPORTANTLY! For those of you not following the news as closely as I am (which, admittedly, I am not following as closely as I could be, either), there have been more casting choices announced for the Avatar live action fail fest adaptation. I have... mixed feelings. I mean, on the one hand, the color/race-as-nation line has been more blatantly drawn now, which is more depressing the longer I think about it. On the other hand, at least the rumors that Shyamalan had been planning to cast himself as Iroh have now been thoroughly shot down. Gotta take the small comforts where you can, I guess.

In light of the recent casting announcement, of course, I have decided that it is finally time I put pencil to paper and attempt to write a short Daily Show fan segment (and get that Colbert Report fic out of my head while I'm at it ^^a). Because clearly, this is bigger than a Back in Black short now.

Comments

[soc_puppet]

I think it would be overly optimistic to assume that they're going to change the casting because of us, especially since they've already started filming, but it would be nice to get the issue more attention at least.

Point acknowledged; allow me to re-word it as "appears significantly less on-screen". Although I would also argue that a good half the reason for the show, if not more, can be traced back to Fire Lord Sozin, who actually started the whole Fire Nation For World Domination campaign.

Even if it is a good movie, I don't think I'll be able to get past my issues to see it as one :/ (Though if they actually don't brown- or yellowface Curtis, I might give it a shot.)

As to your last point, I would like to shamefully admit that it was this casting decision which opened my eyes to the US' continued institutionalized racism in the first place; while I can't swear I'll be putting this much energy into every movie that comes out, it's definitely something I'll be complaining about whenever I see it in the future.

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I'd probably go see it in a theater, but when it comes out on dvd, we can rent/borrow it and watch it and make fun of it?

[soc_puppet]

I'd really rather avoid spending money on it, if possible, so I guess borrowing would work? I believe I already mentioned piracy ;)