James Cameron's AVATAR series - Page 21

There are moments I feel might be too controversial for most American audiences here. The Na'vi are very religious, 'intelligent' people even though they're 'savages' and yet the human scientists realize their world's biodiversity is so incredible, I think Cameron was brave in having Sigourney Weaver say "Enwa is real! I'm with her!" It comes across as forced, even if its merely some kind of reference to her absorption into the fold of the Pandoran neural network. I think the idea of the planet as a single living organism kind of didn't come off as strong by the end as it needed to.

And the 'victory' at the end seemed incredibly hollow to me. I mean its 2154, I think any truly greedy Humans//Humanity in general would just come back, extremely pissed off, and carpet bomb/orbitally bombard the entire population for killing human scientists and marines/corporate workers.

Another thing that seemed strange to me was the necessity of the physical bond between the Na'vi and all the beasts they tamed/befriended. Humans can control a horse with just words and some subtle directions, why not the Na'vi? And my final problem with the whole scheme here was that their control apparatus appeared to come through their braided hair. Why not their tails or their arms or something? It just seems a strange evolutionary trick.

Finally, the plot and some of the biological elements actually remind me a lot of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki...

The scene with the hammerhead rhino things destroying the human army reminded me of ultralisks overrunning a group of marines and goliaths. It was very satisfying for a terran hater like me.