Fangirl Squee

I am of two minds about posting this. On one hand, the casting decisions have cast a dreadful pallor over the entire production. (Pun intended.) On the other hand, other than the part where the dude takes off his hood and it’s so not Aang, I feel like I recognize this. I recognize the sets, I recognize the shots, it all seems so right. Like a cartoon come alive.

Looking at this is like the first time I saw the teaser trailer for LOTR and it was a shot of Eowyn stepping out of Edoras and looking over the mountains and I turned to Sailor Boy and went, “Wow, this film looks like such a LOTR ripoff,” and then it actually was LOTR and my heart soared.

Dare I give M. Night another chance, even after the mess he made of the casting? (Jasper as Sokka? Gah.) Even after the unbearable dreck that was The Lady in the Water? (Please, please, M. do not cast yourself as Firelord Ozai. Please.)

(Or, even worse, Roku. For the love of everything holy.)

Dare I hope that this could actually still be good?

(Thanks to my brother-in-law for sending this to me. He’s become quite the Avatar fanboy ever since SB and I turned him on to it.)