I don't know about tasteless; consider how many films have been made about the Titanic, the location of which is also a gravesite for many people. Can't comment on the casting as I've never heard of any of them.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
