Numerous individuals on Twitter are expressing their emotions, primarily anger, because Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender has accurate casting.
Avatar: The Last Airbender. (L to R) Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka in season 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Cr. Robert Falconer/Netflix © 2023
Following the release of the first trailer for the show, which appears to promise an accurate adaptation of the Nickelodeon animated series, numerous individuals took to social media to express how upset they were because Sokka and Katara played by actors Ian Ousley and Kiawentioo Tarbell look like the characters from the animated show.
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Just as a comparison, here’s how Sokka and Kitara are depicted in the animated show.
Sokka and Kitara as depicted in Avatar: The Last Airbender
Here’s what actor Kiawentioo Tarbell looks like as Kitara:
Avatar: The Last Airbender. Kiawentiio as Katara in episode 101 of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Cr. Robert Falconer/Netflix © 2023
And here’s Ousely as Sokka:
Avatar: The Last Airbender. Ian Ousley as Sokka in episode 101 of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Cr. Robert Falconer/Netflix © 2023
Despite the actors looking like the characters, numerous individuals affected with the woke mind virus took to social media to decry them.
One user on X wrote, “They whitewashed the fuck out of Katara and Sokka am I shocked?! Nope.”
One person was upset that a black actor was not cast in the role writing, “YEP, but what they weren’t gonna do is cast a Black Native for any of these roles. They stay erasing us and including white people in the same breath. For why?”
Another accused the show of “whitewashing” the character writing, “Sokka is going to suffer the most from being a real person because one, he’s been whitewashed again, and two, he’s just going to be annoying. You can make a cartoon character annoying and charming very easily. A person is often just annoying. Especially if they’re Ben Shapiro.”
Still another posted, “Whitewashed Sokka I can ignore but mother Katara does hurt fr.”
“What the hell they whitewashed Katara and sokka wtf,” wrote another.
Reacting to the trailer, one person questioned, “they whitewashed sokka?”
Clearly, these individuals are so caught up in identity politics, they don’t even believe their own eyes anymore that clearly show that Ian Ousley and Kiawentioo Tarbell look extraordinarily like their animated counterparts.
What do you make of these individuals getting mad about accurate casting from Netflix?
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Meanwhile, those same individuals, infected with the Woke mind virus, have no place with M. Night Shyamalan’s movie, based on this property(most likely, caused by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall).
This shows there is no pleasing them. The staff took utmost care to avoid m. Nights mistake and still they’re willing to call them white. I don’t think even hiring Inuits would’ve appeased them
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