Watching Avatar: The Way Of Water One Lunchbreak At A Time, Part 4

“Flank out!” shut up, God the way these chuds act and talk just reminds me so much of the guys in high school who were obsessed with the military and Stargate and fuckin Tom Clancy video games, who clearly saw all of this violence not as a means to an end but as an end unto itself; I’d be more worried about being unfair if the movie didn’t clearly frame them as bad guys, but as with all art it’s not what’s there, it’s what you bring to it, and what I’m bringing to it is 25 years of repellant jingoism after 9/11 happened in 7th grade ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ SPIDER! SPIDER IN TUMBLING DOWN THE HILLSIDE YOUR NICKNAME HAS BECOME CRUELLY IRONIC! ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ So now Quariitch’s clone-son is stealing his human son, who is definitely older than him (both because Na’vi mature faster and the clones’ growth are accelerated), even though Quariitch has a lifetime of the original’s memories in his melon; man this shit is twisty and I am here for it ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ “He’s completely feral” yeah you know, how feral children…