Watching Avatar: The Way Of Water One Lunchbreak At A Time, Part 6

“Na’vi kids younger than me do this [taming moidaboids] with their bare hands.”“Jake Sully did it the hard way?”“What do you think?” Okay now this is interesting, the symbolic significance that Jake has taken on in Quariitch’s mind, both as the last link to his former self and as the standard to which he must hold himself, ritualistically recreating Jake’s journey into Na’vihood but for the opposite reasons, trying to make of himself a dark messiah. ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ It’s good to know that throw-things-in-the-water-and-dive-in-after-them is a universal pastime ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ These LITERAL WATER-WINGS give you breath in the water you say, tell me more ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Okay Kiri is starting to freak me out a little, she really seems like she’s from a different kind of movie and is doing a different thing, and that’s pretty impressive filmmaking and characterization ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ It’s really funny how much of Jake is in Lo’ak; that whole “hey look at my fist real close, no, closer”, that’s pure stupid Ugly…