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** Given that the Avatars are all transmitting sound and video, all they had to do was download the logs for the past night, rewind, and "yep, Sully rode ''that'' direhorse. Load up, boys, I want to punch someone." Alternately, he figured that the fact he was smashing the 'dozer's camera meant he'd gone native, and downloaded the logs later.
*** Ah, what. Do you mean the camera on the bulldozer? Avatars don't carry cameras with them.
**** Avatars are remote-control drones, remember? All they have to do is tap the same remote-camera link that lets ''Jake'' see what he's doing.
** Or maybe both Tsu'tsey and Quaritch just ''guessed'', because they're both suspicious bastards.
== Why did Neytiri never find out about Jake being paralyzed? ==
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*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: it could've/would've been explained in a scene that was cut to keep the movie PG-13. We know that the Na'vi link their neural interfaces during mating and exchange memories. Neytiri would've received Jake's memories from Venezuela and the consequences. The scene that involved the neural linking was cut.
*** Now ''that'' would have made for an interesting twist of [[Character Development]].
** Perhaps she
*** By the end of the movie, Jake's human body had really wasted away from the impressive shirt-filling physique he had at the beginning. The fact that he was paralyzed the whole time was just about as irrelevant as it gets by that point, in the artistic message (whatever you may think of it): his human side was basically gone in his mind, and he had been fully committed to the Na'vi cause for a while (even if he didn't just do the things we tropers would've felt the most obvious course of action to advance it). Of course, this does go into [[Unfortunate Implications]] land if you think about it too hard (what!? so he considers his human mind as crippled as his human body which is why he basically doesn't take care of it at all and doesn't even handle whether to undergo the spinal surgery as a decision, but as an inevitable gonna-happen or not-gonna-happen thing? yikes!), so it's probably best not to.
**** Its hinted that this is basically because he's been neglecting his sleep, neglecting eating, etc.
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== Why didn't Trudy get reprimanded for ditching the assault on Hometree? ==
Furthermore, why was she allowed to wheel food to Jake & Co. when everyone knew she was friends with them?
* Also, where did she get the time to find some paint and decorate her helicopter?
** When all the Na'vi clans were gathering at the tree of souls, of course. Trudy meets the Na'vi, which is also where she gets her Na'vi jewellery from.
** The first thing they do after escaping is airlift the entire portable uplink station into the mountains. The station has a supply locker. It is probable that a paint can was in there. And there's an entire night before the battle that Jake spends praying. Trudy apparently spent it painting her helicopter. (Which actually makes sense, when you think about
*** It also tells the Scorpion pilots, "Shoot your missles HERE".
**** Since they have IFF systems (you know... like aircraft on Earth do?), her code would have been revoked, so their tactical systems would have put up a big HOSTILE warning as soon as it was detected, paint or no paint.
*** The Na'vi do have body-paint. Also the paint she used was blue, a very common pigment in the flora and fuana of Pandora - there's no reason that she can't be using native paint provided by the Na'vi.
== When does Jake actually sleep? ==
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== Way to look delicious, Jake. Gawd. ==
* Maybe it's my first world sensibility but it just bugs me that Neytiri is 'forced' to kill an angry lizard dog and proceeds to chew out Jake, who was merely trying to survive a single night in the most beautiful hell I've ever seen. Her reaction had me thinking that killing anything on Pandora was a grievous/unnecessary offense. Fine, whatever. Maybe they are that peaceful. Cue the future, where Jake shows how far he's come by killing the exact SAME type of animal but makes it quick and says a [[The Power of Trust]] inducing death prayer. This lizard dog is food? So why not be practical in that first instance? Give the attacking dog the death prayer and bring it back as food instead of chewing out the guy who had the nerve to get attacked by a roving band of monstrous pack animals.
* Sully actually tries to point out to her that he was kind of the victim when she rescues him but it's immediately dismissed as Sully being a 'beh-bee' who doesn't understand how the world works. Okay.
** Possibly Neytiri is biased and unreasonable? Perhaps she has a pre-existing dislike of the Avatars ("dreamwalkers") that is only gradually worn away by extended contact with Jake? In that case, she may be playing up her own cultural issues as an excuse for being angry at the random blundering interloper.
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*** She kills at least two, and prays for both of them. But yes, that was unnecessary killing that could have been avoided if Jake had been informed in the ways of Pandora.
**** Watched the film again, she kills three: two with arrows, and one with her knife. But on screen, she only prays for two of them.
***** The one she killed with her knife was one of the ones she'd already shot. She [[Mercy Kill
****** No, she stabbed one which jumped at her as well. Watch it again.
* The reason why she is upset about the death of the animals is because it was unnecessary. The animals attacked Jake because he provoked them with the torch, ie, because of his own stupidity. Had he thought out his little torch gig better, there wouldn't have been any casualties.
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* Because Cameron wasn't focussing on the fact that Jake was white. The movie is anti-imperialism, pro-environment, pantheistic, etc., not "oh, Jake is a white guy and he's awesome".
** Funny how, despite all that... the story is still just a [[Mighty Whitey]] story, ain't it?
** In that case, it's also ''just'' an [[Armies Are Evil]] story and ''just'' a [[Humans Are
** Frankly, given how much controversy there is about him being white, being a [[Po C]] would be even more problematic.
*** That and the problem isn't with him being white, it's with the fact that the actual ''plot'' is a [[Mighty Whitey]] plot. It's the basic formula of "Audience-sympathetic guy joins foreign tribe, foreigners gradually learn to trust him, protagonist becomes the most awesome member of that tribe for badly thought out reasons". It was annoying enough when [[The Last Samurai]] did it, and at least that wasn't claiming to be unlike anything you'd ever seen before.
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** You thought wrong. Identical twins are people too, you know; some get along with their siblings, some don't. Having an identical twin doesn't mean you have a super special mind link with them. Jake, under those circumstances, reacted just like anyone else in shock at losing both a sibling and his legs would have.
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