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mainly because now I have a reason to be worried beyond general racebending fail, thank to an interview with M. Night Shamalamadingdong, courtesy of

ohnotheydidnt in which Mr. Shamallama says:

"[Dev Patel] is like a man-child and this is perfect."

oh wait, that's not it. That's just...fascinating. The line we're looking at is:

"SHYAMALAN: Well, there is a lot in the mythology. What I did was remove anything that was too slap-sticky and cheesy -- the stuff that was there for the very little kids, but wouldn’t work in a live action feature like the fart jokes. I grounded the thing a little more. I grounded Katara’s brother for example [played by Nicola Peltz] and it brought a great new overall tone to the whole movie."

okay I will be the first to admit that I'm not much for bodily humor jokes (though really Avatar didn't have too many, it was more just the occasional juvenile obvious joke that was like, obvious joke is obvious and not funny, although even then most of the obvious jokes were still hilarious), but

WHAT THE HELL DON'T YOU TOUCH MY MAN SOKKA.

maybe, maybe it just means they grounded him down from...um...the cactus juice. Wait, he didn't drink that in book one. Um, maybe he's grounded from flying on Appa? Wait, then he wouldn't be in the movie.

Quick, fellow Avatar fans, come up with things from which Sokka might be grounded so as to make this okay.

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Here's a quote from the interview that may give us a little more insight into what he means about Sokka. He says he wants "to approach [the story] through the characters and keep it grounded." So, maybe it is like you said. Sokka will just get all crazy obsessed with his duties and taking care of his sister and the overwhelming pressure of being THE ONLY MAN left in his village.

Seriously, though, I'm loling at the comparison to Zuko. Man, I hope they don't take all of Sokka's dry humour away. Rewatching season 1, I've noticed Sokka does have a lot of serious moments, where he actually tries to do his part in comforting Aang and wanting to protect Katara, but at the end of the day, he's the Meat and Sarcasm Guy. He's just a goofy guy, who didn't ask for all this flying and magic!

(Oh my dear, dear Sokka. Never change. *singing*I looove you just the waaaay you aaare)

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