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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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*** The one with two rear guns?
*** She arrived into the battle to bail Jake out. Its' possible she had her priorities as "save Jake's ass" before "destroy the Valkyrie" (A Valkyrie with a significant number of machine-gun nests on its surface, which is an even worse idea to engage), rather than the other way around. In fact, her whole posturing in front of Quaritch and the Dragon was directly to take attention off Jake and onto herself. And Quaritch had to use a [[Macross Missile Massacre]] (as well as the Dragon could launch one) to finally take her down, so it's not like she wasn't a formidable opponent.
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** The gun nests were on top of the Valkyrie, so if she positioned herself ''underneath'' it, she'd be safe and sound and could blast away at the ramp, either locking it in place or (preferrably) ripping apart the inside, including the explosives. When she joined the battle, the RDA forces were busy engaging the Na'vi, and the soldiers stationed on top of the shuttle had already sustained losses. By the time Jake was getting his ass handed to him by Quaritch, the Valkyrie had opened its ramp, so she could have ripped apart the Valkyrie from inside unhindered. By the time the soldiers inside realized it was Rogue 1, they'd already be getting ripped to shreds. Hell, Jake could have just instructed Trudy not to paint her Samson and had her slip in with the rest of the RDA forces while they were moving through the Hallelujah Mountains, possibly just before the Na'vi attacked. By the time anyone realized they had an extra Samson, Trudy could have easily crippled the Valkyrie just by staying behind it, shooting up the sentries (leaving it exposed), then hitting the engines, or the inside when they opened the rampe. As for saving Jake's hide: She could have still done a LOT more than do a SINGLE strafing run (that accomplished shit-all) and then stand around waiting to die. Trudy was utterly useless in the final battle, and she suffered a VERY unnecessary and avoidable death, and it's all Jake's fault for being tactically retarded.
** So now you're conveniently ignoring every statement made in this subject previously? Trudy arrived to save Jake's ass at that precise moment - we don't know what time she actually flew into the fray or what sort of damage she already did prior to intervening in the Dragon's attack. Assuming she did ''nothing''/''something'' off-camera is pure speculation and you can't use that for your argument.
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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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*** IIRC, James Cameron was trying to make a point about Grace not caring about her own body, and taking better care of her avatar self than her human self.
*** The most annoying part is that ''they rely on air purifiers and filtration systems'' to get their own oxygen in Hell's Gate (and, presumably, in the mobile uplink pods.) By smoking, she's just wasting the precious oxygen they need to survive. Heck, does the mobile unit even have filters, or does it rely on good ol' fashioned oxygen tanks? Because that would be even worse.
**** Filters and
*** How is smoking a waste of oxygen? The purifiers are only removing excess carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. Beyond that, Pandoran air is practically the same as Earth air. And purifiers can be used for decades given you wash the thing (by scrubbing and water, no less) every two weeks or so.
**** It's a waste of oxygen inasmuch as it puts an unnecessary strain on the filters. True, it's possibly a negligible effect at the Hell's Gate base, but not so much at the mobile units, which don't appear to have any maintenance crew other than Grace's own staff.
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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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