I can buy it. If anyone I was pissed at ever landed near me on a giant dragon I would still quickly attempt to get on their good side.
After what happened last time.
He didn’t cause the death and destruction, it would have happened without him. He was sent in the first place to try and get them to move away from Hometree, minimizing the death and destruction. Edit to add, ok, not the destruction, but definitely the deaths.
The big bird was yet another, and by far the most spectacular, sign that he’d been “chosen/approved” by Ewya, for them to listen to him.
Not worded so eloquently but references were made to Dances with Wolves and Aliens. Sorry it was physically hard to watch. I’d like to see it again on an Imax screen but I would have to travel an hour and put up with the 2 1/2 hours of missing plot. I don’t know if I have the energy.
What I don’t get is the depressionsome people are experiencing.
The Hell?
“The bright side is that for Hill and others like him – who became dissatisfied with their own lives and with our imperfect world after enjoying the fictional creation of James Cameron – becoming a part of a community of like-minded people on an online forum has helped them emerge from the darkness.”
Some people are too stupid for words. Also, have too easy a life, apparently. Sheesh.
However, I note that they actually saw a different film than the one that’s playing in theaters:
“peace-loving race of 7-foot tall, blue-skinned natives called the Na’vi”
Yeah, “peace-loving”: warrior culture with giant bows that has had to have a Toruk Makto to unify the tribes no less than five times in their history. Oy.
All I have to say is FUCK FUCK FUCK the heroes journey. That shit is so lame.
You know, in the vast majority of cases depression isn’t funny. 
I prefer “Dances with Viperwolves,” (which is what those black pack animals are called).
Anyone who thinks that Avatar was a Noble Savage story missed the point.
The humans were repelled by Eywa’s auto-immune reaction. Not by the Na’vi or the Magical Anglo’s not-so-clever plan.
Exactly. Jake and the Na’vi lost against the marine mercs. It was Eywa who stomped all over the Earthlings.
This would be one of the rare exceptions.
I prefer South Park’s ‘Dances with Smurfs’.
My point exactly. 
And lost badly at that.
Just shows that you don’t get a grunt to handle tactics. “so you guys are all about running/hiding in trees etc. I know, you should get on the groound and just run at the mechs/machines guns” :smack:
I think the depression here is funny like a guy crying is funny - when that guy is Chris Crocker. (Link to “Leave Britney Alone” video.)
Well, the answer is right there in your question, plain as day - they’re both DNA. If we can insert our insulin genes into E.coli, this doesn’t seem so weird.
What’s weird is that they use DNA, unless you buy some manifest destiny theory for universal genetics.
Why is that weird? The universe is made up of the same elements no matter what star system you go to, it’s entirely believable that organic life if it existed elsewhere would be based on the same chemical processes. Not saying it would have to be, just that it could. 
I have no problem with the general idea, amino acids seem to be pretty universal, after all. But DNA is a specific structure and set of bases, I’m not 100% comfortable with saying it is universal.
DNA actually has some unique enough properties that I would not be at all surprised to find that it was also used as genetic material by completely alien life forms - or at least, that they used related compounds such as RNA. (Many scientists theorize that the earliest life forms on Earth used RNA.) Now there could be some variation in the sets of base pairs used, but the compound would still be DNA.
What would be virtually impossible would be for the same DNA code to develop independently on different worlds. The code specifies which triplets of bases specify which amino acids in the synthesis of proteins, and is basically arbitrary. It would be even more unlikely to find an alien race to use the same genetic code as to discover that they used the same alphabet as us.
Well, judging by the subtitles, the Na’vi alphabet is the Papyrus font. So…
What, exactly, is people’s problem with the use of the Papyrus font for the subtitles? It seemed like a perfectly acceptable font choice to me.
I am not one of those people, but I’m under the impression that people react that way to Comic Sans or Papyrus in general, possibly due to over-use.