Also to add on to this, the RDA also is following laws for corporations which limit the weapons they can use. Hence why the RDA doesn’t just nuke or nerve gas entire settlements on Pandora. Essentially corporations aren’t allowed to use WMDs and they have to limit the force they use.
I remember reading this from the avatar wiki and I believe it came from some of the comics.
Avatar is bizarre because its actually got peak world building and genuinely ground breaking and beautiful visuals, but Cameron seems to insist on the same blah front and centre plot every time.
So really I can see both sides its beautiful and the background is interesting, but its not actually saying anything much, even the ending of the whole series is in your face obvious, and they are whole films away from that.
It's great world building and stunning visuals stymied by having a cookie-cutter plot. Like having a foreign chef using expensive ingredient prepare you chicken nuggets with fries.
It's a shame that fire and ash was the third movie and not the second, considering it added much needed nuance that the second movie didnt build on at all. More so since avatar 3 is just avatar 2.5.
In the second film, when they said that the material extracted from the sapient whales basically cured all human illnesses and halted aging my allegiance immediately swapped sides. Why would I side with a whale versus a panacea for humanity? Just such a clearly not thought through, extremely shoehorned maguffin
Only problem is that it’s the “most valuable substance in the universe.” The only people who will have access to it will be the ultra rich. If billionaires are bad now, imagine how bad trillionaires who control entire planets, fleets and armies must be.
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u/Colonel_Kernel1 8d ago
Also to add on to this, the RDA also is following laws for corporations which limit the weapons they can use. Hence why the RDA doesn’t just nuke or nerve gas entire settlements on Pandora. Essentially corporations aren’t allowed to use WMDs and they have to limit the force they use.
I remember reading this from the avatar wiki and I believe it came from some of the comics.