See the article Mikke linked to, in her reply... uhm, either above or below.
Yep, seen that article before. T_T Which is why being vocal with racebending.com is so important to me. WE ARE TELLING PARAMOUNT RIGHT OUT THAT THEY'RE WRONG AND THAT THEY'RE LOSING OUR MONEY FOR THAT REASON.
They're not listening/going to listen though. T_T
until I came across commentary from one of the big media outlets (I want to say Rolling Stone, but that's not right, but that level... maybe Greenwich Times? ugh, whatever) -- that Nickelodeon was "completely taken aback" and caught totally off-guard by what seemed to Nickelodeon to be an absolutely unprecedented amount of fan rage over the casting calls and decisions for the movie. They genuinely weren't expecting it, because it never occurred to them that what they were doing was wrong -- and it's that kind of fundamental privilege that makes it okay to remove the Chinese characters.
Paramount itself told racebending.com's partners that they had never seen a larger controversy than the one swirling around Aang.
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Date: 2 Apr 2010 05:05 am (UTC)Yep, seen that article before. T_T Which is why being vocal with racebending.com is so important to me. WE ARE TELLING PARAMOUNT RIGHT OUT THAT THEY'RE WRONG AND THAT THEY'RE LOSING OUR MONEY FOR THAT REASON.
They're not listening/going to listen though. T_T
until I came across commentary from one of the big media outlets (I want to say Rolling Stone, but that's not right, but that level... maybe Greenwich Times? ugh, whatever) -- that Nickelodeon was "completely taken aback" and caught totally off-guard by what seemed to Nickelodeon to be an absolutely unprecedented amount of fan rage over the casting calls and decisions for the movie. They genuinely weren't expecting it, because it never occurred to them that what they were doing was wrong -- and it's that kind of fundamental privilege that makes it okay to remove the Chinese characters.
Paramount itself told racebending.com's partners that they had never seen a larger controversy than the one swirling around Aang.