Avatar 3 is a visually stunning movie, but does that mean we should glaze over the writing? --- Domino H.C., 8th grade
In December, the third and highly awaited Avatar 3, also known as Avatar Fire and Ash, was released. However, there's a lot of controversy around the message, creator, and much more. But before getting into all that, how was the actual movie, Avatar 3?
The Avatar movies are renowned for being one of, if not the, most visually stunning movies ever to be created. The technology is nothing less than groundbreaking and mindblowing. To see it for the first time, especially in 2009 when the first Avatar movie came out, is definitely an experience. For the second movie: Avatar the Way of Water, James Cameron, along with his crew, pioneered a way to film highly realistic scenes underwater. With the amount of dots drawn on the actors for facial mapping and CGI, this was considered impossible, but they pulled it off.
“Much of the cast had to film underwater sequences in a 900,000-gallon tank built for the films. Water bubbles and scuba gear interfered with the motion-capture process, so the actors spent months learning to hold their breath for minutes on end. (Kate Winslet reportedly set the record on set: She held her breath for over seven minutes.) The post-production on the visual effects-heavy film also took a long period of time,” says Time Magazine.
Even better is the world-building. It's extremely well thought out and abundant (although a little scandalous and ironic, which I’ll get into). There is so much culture behind just three movies and a game, from the fully working language to the specific regional instruments, clothing based on environments, Na’vi culture, etc, you’d think it was almost a real civilization (if it weren’t for the fact that the Na’vi are 9 ft tall blue aliens). Overall, the movie series is one I would definitely recommend to kids, adolescents, teens, etc… not adults, as I find the writing to be quite easy to understand and not very complex.
A short synopsis of the Avatar movies would be that it starts with a futuristic, Blade Runner-esque version of Earth. The military of Earth seeks out the planet Pandora, and learns how to put humans into bodies that replicate the indigenous people of Pandora the Na’vi, these are called Avatars. Jake who was disabled as a human gains an Avatar and eventually falls in love with basically the princess of the Omatikaya Na’vi clan: Neytiri, of course throughout all 3 movies this causes conflict with the humans, and when Neytriti and Jake start a family (WIth their two sons Lo’ak, Neteyam, and Spider who is human and adopted, also their two daughters Kiri and Tuk) in the 2nd movie they have to move to a different clan to escape the humans, the 2nd movie was also a massive success that earned James Cameron lots of money and fame. A very similar theme repeats in the 3rd movie, just without the massive success of the previous two movies
If you’ve seen Avatar 2, that's what Avatar 3 is, but with the introduction of two different clans of Na’vi and some extra scenes. Avatar 3 felt like James Cameron was either out of ideas or trying to play it safe and re-create Avatar 2’s massive fame by basically repeating the plot. (Spoilers ahead!) Avatar 3 starts with the aftermath of Neteyam (the son of Jake and Neytiri, the main couple), and then progresses to Jake sending Spider (the adopted human son of Jake and Neytiri) with the Air Na’vi, of course, then the family is captured by the Ash Na’vi, a clan known for violence and anti-religious views.
When the Sully family (main cast) gets captured, it feels like a broken record. I mention this because when you write a certain scenario over and over again, it really takes away from a lot of the suspense of not knowing if the family is going to be ok or not. However, it is really helpful that the Avatar 3 action scenes are some of the best I would say I’d seen in 2025, as they really keep you on your toes, despite ultimately knowing the outcome of each suspense scene, like when the Sully family are attacked by the Mangkwan a rogue and violent Na’vi clan, I was slightly on edge the whole scene due to it being eventful and well written to surprise the audience, even though when the Sully family end up safe its pretty unsurprising and less exciting. However, even with such great action scenes, the 3rd Avatar movie comes across as a repeat of the 2nd Avatar movie.
However the overall story writing of the Avatar series has often been called quite shallow and that it plays into many tropes on Indigenous people, these comments have been made since the 1st Avatar movie. Something important I’d like to note about the Avatar series, is that the first Avatar movie, when introducing one of the lead roles of the first Avatar movie: Neytiri, Jake's wife, or “mate.”
(I quote the word mate since I find the choice to make the Na’vi,who are supposed to represent the Indigenous people of America, not as a metaphor but the Na’vi ARE the indigenous people of America to James Cameron) a primitive people wearing very little clothing, not using metal or mining, or having advanced societal structures, to be an odd choice.
This is because according to theAvatar Wiki the Na’vi have been evolving, and have an orally documented history of 12 Million Years. That's 2x as long as humans have been evolving on Earth. I find the fact that the Na’vi are depicted as a primitive species to be an unrealistic choice. Can you imagine how much technology we, the “dumb” and “less-evolved-and-intelligent-than-Na’vi” species would have in 6 million years? I find the choice a bit silly. And the fact that the Na’vi still remember oral history from 12 million years ago (the first songs), whilst humans can’t even properly retell a story from 100 years ago, even if written down, just adds more to how unrealistic this is. This gets weirder considering Cameron views on Indigenous people
As he has received a lot of criticism from mainly the one group of people he was trying to liberate and represent with the Avatar movies. This is the Indigenous people of America. Famously, Cameron has some harsh takes on actual indigenous people. In 2010 a Guardian article on James Cameron's stance on the Belo Monte dam, a dam that the indigenous people of Brazil very much opposed, James Cameron also made a triggering statement about the Lakota-Sioux, that made many wonder if we should take his “retelling” of the colonization of North America seriously:
“I couldn't help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future… and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation… because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society – which is what is happening now – they would have fought a lot harder."
Also, a specific part of the script, which you can read here: the introduction of Neytiri, is described in an odd manner:
“…as Jake passes under a tree limb. Invisible to him, draped on the limb like a leopard, is a striking NA'VI GIRL. She watches, only her eyes moving. She is lithe as a cat, with a long neck, muscular shoulders, and nubile breasts. And she is devastatingly beautiful -- for a girl with a tail. In human age, she would be 18. Her name is NEYTIRI(nay-Tee-ree).”
For me, this really put into perspective the priorities that Cameron had in Avatar. Spoiler alert, they're not very pretty. Cameron has also mentioned that, specifically, the female Na’vi were intentionally designed to be more attractive to serve the audience. You can still see this aspect in the current films with the entire main female cast being hypersexualized, from Varang the leader of the Mangkwan clan being shown multiple times being freaky with Quaritch the military leader, or Kiri a 15 YEAR OLD doing an oddly sexual “exotic” dance. This I will get more into later.
More on that, Cameron has received a lot of criticism from mainly the one group of people he was trying to liberate and represent with the Avatar movies. This is the Indigenous people of America. Famously, Cameron has some harsh takes on actual indigenous people. In 2010 a Guardian article on James Cameron's stance on the Belo Monte dam, a dam that the indigenous people of Brazil very much opposed, James Cameron made a triggering statement about the Lakota-Sioux, that made many wonder if we should take his “retelling” of the colonization of North America seriously:
“I couldn't help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future… and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation… because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society – which is what is happening now – they would have fought a lot harder."
Although this comment was made 16 years ago now, Cameron has not expressed a willingness to take this statement back, despite its ignorant and crude nature. The comment strips the Lakota-Sioux of their agency, which is a theme I find noticeable in the Avatar series… The indigenous people of Pandora, which is the planet the Avatar movies take place on—- do not have agency in their environment, and need the humans to defend themselves. Besides that, Native Americans at the time and even today found this comment to be extremely harmful, and this even sparked a boycott of Cameron’s first Avatar. Saying the Lakota-Sioux are hopeless and that they basically should have fought harder totally ignores multiple factors that go into this topic. Native people of America are still fighting for their rights today as they have been for decades, saying that they are hopeless and completely ignores hundreds of years of progress.
This article also plays into a certain narrative that is also present in the Avatar movies, the white savior trope. People in Brazil famously said in this same article, that Cameron knows nothing about electricity or Brazil, this is similar to how indigenous people are questioning why Cameron of all people should be trusted with the retelling of the colonization of Native Americans, due to his previous statements of the subject.
Not all Brazilians have taken kindly to Cameron's engagement with the indigenous cause. "This type of intervention strengthens the belief… that the aim of the ecological movement is simply to maintain the status quo of the world economy," one columnist wrote in the Monitor Mercantil newspaper last week, adding that "Cameron's colonialist message" was an attempt to "exterminate the future of Brazil." Brazil's outgoing energy minister, Edison Lobão, told the Record news channel that Cameron understood "nothing about electric energy." "We don't try to get involved in cinema, because we know nothing about it," he said. "I wouldn't try to make Avatar, would I? It would be horrific."
This statement says a lot about Cameron's real objective, and how people are responding to this film. . Another interesting thing to note about Cameron’s actual objective for Avatar is the soundtrack, and how it was made. John Landau, Dr. Wanda Bryant, and James Horner, were all hired during the extremely long 14 years of production time—to make an “exotic” and “alien” sounding soundtrack.
“…Horner asked me to find unusual musical sounds that “no one has heard before,” by which he really meant sounds not readily recognizable by the average American movie-goer as belonging to a specific culture, time period, or geographical location (Horner 2007a). Our new sounds would represent the music culture of Cameron’s Na’vi race,”says Dr. Wanda Bryant, the main ethnomusicologist for the first Avatar movie in Ethnomusicology Review.
This includes all kinds of interesting cultural songs, "including examples of Swedish cattle herding calls, folk dance songs from the Naga people of Northeast India, Vietnamese and Chinese traditional work songs, greeting songs from Burundi, Celtic and Norwegian medieval laments, Central African vocal polyphony, Persian tahrir, microtonal works by Scelsi, the Finnish women’s group Vârttinä, personal songs from the Central Arctic Inuit, and brush dances from northern California.”
But when the request was a “never heard before” and “ethnic” soundtrack was presented to James Cameron, it was repeatedly turned down in ways that contradicted what Cameron asked for or that he said were just “...’too f*****g weird!’ Half a dozen examples were approved as possibilities. Our next step was to begin creating alien music that was informed by the timbres, structures, textures, and styles of those samples.” the Ethnomusicology Review also states
So despite asking for a sound not recognizable to the average American movie-goer, the soundtrack of Avatar eventually became something recognizable to the average American movie-goer, with brass (a very typical western instrument), strings and whatnot, just with a small layer of the Na’vi language over it. The soundtrack has been described as what Westerners think ethnic music of other cultures sound like, somewhat like oriental music in films is described.
But does this make Cameron and the crew evil? Yes and no. The film industry is a complicated one, and something many don’t consider is that it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars (billions in this case) to produce just one movie. Unless the movie is some experimental art house film, the director and the entire film crew needs to make the money back. So of course Cameron is going to refuse an accurate and beautiful cultural soundtrack, because it doesn’t resonate with a broad amount of people, especially in the western world. It would be great, but the main theme that you can get from Cameron’s creative direction or the Avatar movies, is profit over authenticity.
This applies to how the female characters are portrayed as beautiful and exotic gorgeous aliens with tails and naturally beautiful bodies, that every single Na’vi must have for some reason, with no body diversity. Besides the fact this is a very woke take, it's also extremely unrealistic to how a humanoid species’s body would work. “James Cameron wanted elegant, slender, blue-skinned cat creatures that retained humanoid forms with human-facial characteristics.” says Stan Winston School of Character Arts.
“...the more alien we make them in the design phase, we just keep asking ourselves — basically, the crude version is: “Well, would you wanna do it?” And our all-male crew of artists would basically say, “Nope, take the gills out.” It was pretty simple, but then taken in a very specific degree.” said Cameron at Comic Con’s King of the World, according to Gizmodo
Cameron responded by saying that, “It wouldn’t work as a love story to see them not be attractive.” In Cameron’s defense, (unfortunately) for the film industry and a general audience this is actually very true, if it wasn’t there would be no demand for conventionally attractive actors in romance stories.
And does this mean you can’t enjoy the Avatar movies? Absolutely not. Despite this article, I find the movies to be beautiful, and have compelling world building. Some themes in characters that are touched up on in the films in certain characters I found easy to relate to despite how different Na’vi and human life is. In fact I’ve seen Avatar have a positive effect on social media sites such as Tiktok and Tumblr, with more people realizing we have our own Pandora, and standing up against global warming and animal cruelty.
More people have started expressing anti-whale hunting statements after the very clear message of Avatar 2 and somewhat 3 of how hunting whales severely damages the environment and is cruel.
At the end of the day, it's a James Cameron movie. Anyone expecting it not to be profit over authenticity, are quite naive, and this includes myself almost. James Cameron has made 3 of the 5 highest grossing films in history, he knows what he's doing.
The main message is that I find James Cameron fancies himself as a “Jake” a white boy accepted by indigenous people and “saving” the culture, but really he's more a Quaritch, the military man who colonized the indigenous people and negatively impacted them, just like James Cameron has in the real world and with his own fictional race and culture.
And hey if you didn’t like the first couple of movies, maybe just don’t watch it or interact with the media?
The Avatar movies are renowned for being one of, if not the, most visually stunning movies ever to be created. The technology is nothing less than groundbreaking and mindblowing. To see it for the first time, especially in 2009 when the first Avatar movie came out, is definitely an experience. For the second movie: Avatar the Way of Water, James Cameron, along with his crew, pioneered a way to film highly realistic scenes underwater. With the amount of dots drawn on the actors for facial mapping and CGI, this was considered impossible, but they pulled it off.
“Much of the cast had to film underwater sequences in a 900,000-gallon tank built for the films. Water bubbles and scuba gear interfered with the motion-capture process, so the actors spent months learning to hold their breath for minutes on end. (Kate Winslet reportedly set the record on set: She held her breath for over seven minutes.) The post-production on the visual effects-heavy film also took a long period of time,” says Time Magazine.
Even better is the world-building. It's extremely well thought out and abundant (although a little scandalous and ironic, which I’ll get into). There is so much culture behind just three movies and a game, from the fully working language to the specific regional instruments, clothing based on environments, Na’vi culture, etc, you’d think it was almost a real civilization (if it weren’t for the fact that the Na’vi are 9 ft tall blue aliens). Overall, the movie series is one I would definitely recommend to kids, adolescents, teens, etc… not adults, as I find the writing to be quite easy to understand and not very complex.
A short synopsis of the Avatar movies would be that it starts with a futuristic, Blade Runner-esque version of Earth. The military of Earth seeks out the planet Pandora, and learns how to put humans into bodies that replicate the indigenous people of Pandora the Na’vi, these are called Avatars. Jake who was disabled as a human gains an Avatar and eventually falls in love with basically the princess of the Omatikaya Na’vi clan: Neytiri, of course throughout all 3 movies this causes conflict with the humans, and when Neytriti and Jake start a family (WIth their two sons Lo’ak, Neteyam, and Spider who is human and adopted, also their two daughters Kiri and Tuk) in the 2nd movie they have to move to a different clan to escape the humans, the 2nd movie was also a massive success that earned James Cameron lots of money and fame. A very similar theme repeats in the 3rd movie, just without the massive success of the previous two movies
If you’ve seen Avatar 2, that's what Avatar 3 is, but with the introduction of two different clans of Na’vi and some extra scenes. Avatar 3 felt like James Cameron was either out of ideas or trying to play it safe and re-create Avatar 2’s massive fame by basically repeating the plot. (Spoilers ahead!) Avatar 3 starts with the aftermath of Neteyam (the son of Jake and Neytiri, the main couple), and then progresses to Jake sending Spider (the adopted human son of Jake and Neytiri) with the Air Na’vi, of course, then the family is captured by the Ash Na’vi, a clan known for violence and anti-religious views.
When the Sully family (main cast) gets captured, it feels like a broken record. I mention this because when you write a certain scenario over and over again, it really takes away from a lot of the suspense of not knowing if the family is going to be ok or not. However, it is really helpful that the Avatar 3 action scenes are some of the best I would say I’d seen in 2025, as they really keep you on your toes, despite ultimately knowing the outcome of each suspense scene, like when the Sully family are attacked by the Mangkwan a rogue and violent Na’vi clan, I was slightly on edge the whole scene due to it being eventful and well written to surprise the audience, even though when the Sully family end up safe its pretty unsurprising and less exciting. However, even with such great action scenes, the 3rd Avatar movie comes across as a repeat of the 2nd Avatar movie.
However the overall story writing of the Avatar series has often been called quite shallow and that it plays into many tropes on Indigenous people, these comments have been made since the 1st Avatar movie. Something important I’d like to note about the Avatar series, is that the first Avatar movie, when introducing one of the lead roles of the first Avatar movie: Neytiri, Jake's wife, or “mate.”
(I quote the word mate since I find the choice to make the Na’vi,who are supposed to represent the Indigenous people of America, not as a metaphor but the Na’vi ARE the indigenous people of America to James Cameron) a primitive people wearing very little clothing, not using metal or mining, or having advanced societal structures, to be an odd choice.
This is because according to the
As he has received a lot of criticism from mainly the one group of people he was trying to liberate and represent with the Avatar movies. This is the Indigenous people of America. Famously, Cameron has some harsh takes on actual indigenous people. In 2010 a Guardian article on James Cameron's stance on the Belo Monte dam, a dam that the indigenous people of Brazil very much opposed, James Cameron also made a triggering statement about the Lakota-Sioux, that made many wonder if we should take his “retelling” of the colonization of North America seriously:
“I couldn't help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future… and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation… because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society – which is what is happening now – they would have fought a lot harder."
Also, a specific part of the script, which you can read here: the introduction of Neytiri, is described in an odd manner:
“…as Jake passes under a tree limb. Invisible to him, draped on the limb like a leopard, is a striking NA'VI GIRL. She watches, only her eyes moving. She is lithe as a cat, with a long neck, muscular shoulders, and nubile breasts. And she is devastatingly beautiful -- for a girl with a tail. In human age, she would be 18. Her name is NEYTIRI(nay-Tee-ree).”
For me, this really put into perspective the priorities that Cameron had in Avatar. Spoiler alert, they're not very pretty. Cameron has also mentioned that, specifically, the female Na’vi were intentionally designed to be more attractive to serve the audience. You can still see this aspect in the current films with the entire main female cast being hypersexualized, from Varang the leader of the Mangkwan clan being shown multiple times being freaky with Quaritch the military leader, or Kiri a 15 YEAR OLD doing an oddly sexual “exotic” dance. This I will get more into later.
More on that, Cameron has received a lot of criticism from mainly the one group of people he was trying to liberate and represent with the Avatar movies. This is the Indigenous people of America. Famously, Cameron has some harsh takes on actual indigenous people. In 2010 a Guardian article on James Cameron's stance on the Belo Monte dam, a dam that the indigenous people of Brazil very much opposed, James Cameron made a triggering statement about the Lakota-Sioux, that made many wonder if we should take his “retelling” of the colonization of North America seriously:
“I couldn't help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future… and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation… because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society – which is what is happening now – they would have fought a lot harder."
Although this comment was made 16 years ago now, Cameron has not expressed a willingness to take this statement back, despite its ignorant and crude nature. The comment strips the Lakota-Sioux of their agency, which is a theme I find noticeable in the Avatar series… The indigenous people of Pandora, which is the planet the Avatar movies take place on—- do not have agency in their environment, and need the humans to defend themselves. Besides that, Native Americans at the time and even today found this comment to be extremely harmful, and this even sparked a boycott of Cameron’s first Avatar. Saying the Lakota-Sioux are hopeless and that they basically should have fought harder totally ignores multiple factors that go into this topic. Native people of America are still fighting for their rights today as they have been for decades, saying that they are hopeless and completely ignores hundreds of years of progress.
This article also plays into a certain narrative that is also present in the Avatar movies, the white savior trope. People in Brazil famously said in this same article, that Cameron knows nothing about electricity or Brazil, this is similar to how indigenous people are questioning why Cameron of all people should be trusted with the retelling of the colonization of Native Americans, due to his previous statements of the subject.
Not all Brazilians have taken kindly to Cameron's engagement with the indigenous cause. "This type of intervention strengthens the belief… that the aim of the ecological movement is simply to maintain the status quo of the world economy," one columnist wrote in the Monitor Mercantil newspaper last week, adding that "Cameron's colonialist message" was an attempt to "exterminate the future of Brazil." Brazil's outgoing energy minister, Edison Lobão, told the Record news channel that Cameron understood "nothing about electric energy." "We don't try to get involved in cinema, because we know nothing about it," he said. "I wouldn't try to make Avatar, would I? It would be horrific."
This statement says a lot about Cameron's real objective, and how people are responding to this film. . Another interesting thing to note about Cameron’s actual objective for Avatar is the soundtrack, and how it was made. John Landau, Dr. Wanda Bryant, and James Horner, were all hired during the extremely long 14 years of production time—to make an “exotic” and “alien” sounding soundtrack.
“…Horner asked me to find unusual musical sounds that “no one has heard before,” by which he really meant sounds not readily recognizable by the average American movie-goer as belonging to a specific culture, time period, or geographical location (Horner 2007a). Our new sounds would represent the music culture of Cameron’s Na’vi race,”says Dr. Wanda Bryant, the main ethnomusicologist for the first Avatar movie in Ethnomusicology Review.
This includes all kinds of interesting cultural songs, "including examples of Swedish cattle herding calls, folk dance songs from the Naga people of Northeast India, Vietnamese and Chinese traditional work songs, greeting songs from Burundi, Celtic and Norwegian medieval laments, Central African vocal polyphony, Persian tahrir, microtonal works by Scelsi, the Finnish women’s group Vârttinä, personal songs from the Central Arctic Inuit, and brush dances from northern California.”
But when the request was a “never heard before” and “ethnic” soundtrack was presented to James Cameron, it was repeatedly turned down in ways that contradicted what Cameron asked for or that he said were just “...’too f*****g weird!’ Half a dozen examples were approved as possibilities. Our next step was to begin creating alien music that was informed by the timbres, structures, textures, and styles of those samples.” the Ethnomusicology Review also states
So despite asking for a sound not recognizable to the average American movie-goer, the soundtrack of Avatar eventually became something recognizable to the average American movie-goer, with brass (a very typical western instrument), strings and whatnot, just with a small layer of the Na’vi language over it. The soundtrack has been described as what Westerners think ethnic music of other cultures sound like, somewhat like oriental music in films is described.
But does this make Cameron and the crew evil? Yes and no. The film industry is a complicated one, and something many don’t consider is that it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars (billions in this case) to produce just one movie. Unless the movie is some experimental art house film, the director and the entire film crew needs to make the money back. So of course Cameron is going to refuse an accurate and beautiful cultural soundtrack, because it doesn’t resonate with a broad amount of people, especially in the western world. It would be great, but the main theme that you can get from Cameron’s creative direction or the Avatar movies, is profit over authenticity.
This applies to how the female characters are portrayed as beautiful and exotic gorgeous aliens with tails and naturally beautiful bodies, that every single Na’vi must have for some reason, with no body diversity. Besides the fact this is a very woke take, it's also extremely unrealistic to how a humanoid species’s body would work. “James Cameron wanted elegant, slender, blue-skinned cat creatures that retained humanoid forms with human-facial characteristics.” says Stan Winston School of Character Arts.
“...the more alien we make them in the design phase, we just keep asking ourselves — basically, the crude version is: “Well, would you wanna do it?” And our all-male crew of artists would basically say, “Nope, take the gills out.” It was pretty simple, but then taken in a very specific degree.” said Cameron at Comic Con’s King of the World, according to Gizmodo
Cameron responded by saying that, “It wouldn’t work as a love story to see them not be attractive.” In Cameron’s defense, (unfortunately) for the film industry and a general audience this is actually very true, if it wasn’t there would be no demand for conventionally attractive actors in romance stories.
And does this mean you can’t enjoy the Avatar movies? Absolutely not. Despite this article, I find the movies to be beautiful, and have compelling world building. Some themes in characters that are touched up on in the films in certain characters I found easy to relate to despite how different Na’vi and human life is. In fact I’ve seen Avatar have a positive effect on social media sites such as Tiktok and Tumblr, with more people realizing we have our own Pandora, and standing up against global warming and animal cruelty.
More people have started expressing anti-whale hunting statements after the very clear message of Avatar 2 and somewhat 3 of how hunting whales severely damages the environment and is cruel.
At the end of the day, it's a James Cameron movie. Anyone expecting it not to be profit over authenticity, are quite naive, and this includes myself almost. James Cameron has made 3 of the 5 highest grossing films in history, he knows what he's doing.
The main message is that I find James Cameron fancies himself as a “Jake” a white boy accepted by indigenous people and “saving” the culture, but really he's more a Quaritch, the military man who colonized the indigenous people and negatively impacted them, just like James Cameron has in the real world and with his own fictional race and culture.
And hey if you didn’t like the first couple of movies, maybe just don’t watch it or interact with the media?
