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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]].

*** 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.

** Even on a corporate security detachment, you'd be consigned to quarters for a lengthy period of time. Colonel Quarich doesn't strike me as someone who would let anybody who went against direct orders off. She wouldn't be fired, or court-marshalled, but she'd have all her permissions revoked and pretty much be in the same situation as the other 3. Further points of interest are: -How come there's only one guard for that prison? I'm not a high-level security adviser or anything, but the idea of there being a prison where something as simple as someone coming and pulling a gun on the security agent isn't considered seems ridiculous. Even for a makeshift prison. -There's -no- defence systems in the complex capable of shooting down a helicopter? What happens if some of those birds/dragons/??? decide to attack? That she managed to fly out of the base was a head banger for me. By the time the Colonel has finished firing his rounds, whatever aircraft were ready for launch, or whatever guards were on security patrol would have been able to target her aircraft with all kinds of missiles, heavy weaponry or even machine guns.

*** Max was there. He clearly disabled all the security systems. Also, RDA aircraft and similar systems have IFF systems much like real life, which prevents friendly fire. Of course that will work both ways if someone steals one.

**** They have IFF. Trudy's Samson would still have been recognised as friendly. Even if there WAS capacity to override it in realtime, she was already long gone by then.

**** Remember that bullets exist after they miss. Until the heli was away from the base, the only thing behind it would be the base itself. So any missed shots would have just been hitting the base and that's bad. Once the heli- was far enough away, sure, but at that point, shooting them down doesn't accomplish much since they're basically gone. Plus, it means you just wreaked one of your precious few vehicles that you need; more than likely, they'd want to take it back with minimal damage to avoid costly replacement and not having killed people which is probably a bad thing for corporation.

* 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.

*** 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.

 

== Way to look delicious, Jake. Gawd. ==

* 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.

*** 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.

****** 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.

* 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?

** 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.

** 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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