Have you heard about this movie, Pathfinder? Here’s the synopsis (shorter version):

An action-adventure set in the time when Vikings tried to conquer North America, PATHFINDER tells the heroic story of a young Norse boy left behind after his clan shipwrecks on the Eastern shores. Despite his lineage, the boy is raised by the very Indians his kinsmen set out to destroy. Now, as the Vikings return to stage another barbaric raid on his village, the 25 year-old Norse warrior (Karl Urban) wages a personal war to stop the Vikings’ trail of death and destruction. Forging his own path, his destiny is revealed and his identity re-claimed.

I felt the urge to blog (meaning, bitch) about this when I read it, but quickly conceded that me bitching about another movie about the white man saving us helpless colored folk wouldn’t exactly make Guy’s Top 5 Most Interesting, Thought-Provoking Blog Posts of the Week or anything. Insead, I did my bitching at the water cooler. Which was informative, because I found out that the movie was actually based on a graphic novel being published by Dark Horse. Which was useful in that it gave me the opportunity to post some preview pages from that book:

And so, dear readers, I have covered any possible obligation I might feel to make this post impart some semblance of useful information about Pathfinder to go along with me rolling my eyes at the latest addition to the White Man Saves Natives And Steals Their Women catalog. Well, not having actually seen Pathfinder, I can’t say for certain whether Ghost wins his beloved Starfire — but somehow I’m thinking he does. Just a hunch.

Speaking of Starfire, she’s played by Moon Bloodgood, who, despite a name which might suggest otherwise, is not Indian, but in fact (if we may trust Wikipedia as fact) is of Dutch, Irish, and Korean descent. Readers may recall that Moon recently played Taye Diggs’ not-black girlfriend on the short-lived Daybreak, which naturally didn’t please sisters too much.

Instead of the half-Korean, quarter-Dutch, quarter-Irish Moon Bloogdood (at least that’s how I figure Ms. Bloodgood’s parentage to break down), I was going to suggest that the producers of Pathfinder might have gone for Sandrine Holt — but then Wikipedia informed me that Ms. Holt is actually half-Chinese and half-French, and not in fact a Native American hottie despite playing one in two (perhaps three!) movies; naturally this discovery this lead, as it must when one is surfing the net at 2am, to all manner of interesting Sandrine Holt tidbits — so many in fact that I feel compelled to do a post just on her.