THE LAST AIRBENDER – Jackson Rathbone as Sokka Pictures

I was an Avatar fan from the very beginning and one of the things I loved about the animated series was the wardrobe each nation had. In this picture of Sokka is wearing brown clothes, but throughout the series he wears blue to represent the water nation. I really hope he, and Katara, wear more blue in the movies.

i was worried at first about then casting for sokka but it looks ok to me now hope the movies good (accually i pray the movies good!)

come on people. he looks nothing like sokka .
1. he’s Caucasian (not being racist but sokka’s Inuit)
2.sokka is comic relief
3.he does look on brown not blue
is it that bad that people of color are just not that good to star in a big budget Hollywood movie but since there’s theres nothing i can do about it i really hope its good cuz its mine and my brothers favorite show

Jackson is gonna do great cant wait for the movie

What are you talking about. You obviously are not a big fan of sokka if you think jackson rathbone fits his part. M Night totally screwed up the cast for the water nation so far (not to mention the others). They’re not caucasian. And if M. Night had to cast caucasians then at least have them look similar to the character (blue eyes, black hair). Megan Fox would make a better katara then the girl they cast (not really but you get my point). All I gotta say is I hope their acting can make up for the lack of accuracy in looks…even the clothing. The big thing with me wasn’t even that they didn’t have blue clothing but the fact that they had brown fur instead of white. What animal in the poles has brown fur? And its not like they couldn’t get access to dyes. I mean they did have the ability to travel. I am so skeptical that this movie is going to be good (besides the special effects). Its such a disappointment too cuz it is such a good series. Anyone who thinks Rathbone is gonna be good I’ll bet is a fan of the twilight series

Okay, so I was a little disappointed when, in casting, they cast the only person of color as Zuko, who, next to Aang, was probably the whitest guy (skin tone) in the TV series. But I’m getting over that.
Then I was skeptical about Rathbone because I’ve only seen him in Disney 411, where he had short snippets, and then as the quiet, in the background Jasper Hale in Twilight. So I honestly wasn’t sure Rathbone could pull off the famous Sokka humor that was fairly critical in lightening up dark times during the TV series. But then I watched a few of Rathbone’s behind the scenes features from Twilight and some of his interviews and I’m more convinced that, when required, he can act like a goof-ball, or he can be serious.
I think the transition from a cartoon to real-life is going to be hard. I first saw the brown parkas and I thought “This is going to be a complete bomb”. But if you think about it, how likely is it that EVERYONE wears the same colors depending on the nation? Just because I live in America doesn’t mean I got around wearing red, white, and blue everyday. And it makes sense that maybe the parkas wouldn’t be dyed, especially since the Southern Water Tribe was fairly cut off.
So I guess, I’m looking forward to this movie. I got into the original series because I’m a martial artist and I loved how the makers incorporated a different martial art in the bending styles. And this movie looks like it will have no lack of bending OR martial arts. So I’m excited. Yes, there will be things lost in the transition. You won’t have those wierd anime-like expressions that inspired humor. It will be darker, because it’s M. Night, and it’s real life. There probably won’t be as many jokes, but hopefully there will be a few.
I think the transition from cartoon (almost anime) to real-life is something we all have to keep in mind when we look at this movie and compare it to the series.
-KT
P.S. And casting is over, so can we all stop lamenting the lack of mixed races? I doubt anyone’s going to decide to re-cast and reshoot the entire movie because we here, on a blog, are annoyed with it.