Avatar 2: Way of Water SPOILER Thread

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Post your thoughts without worrying about spoilers or spoiler tags for Avatar 2.


SPOILERS:

I liked Avatar 1, and thought Avatar 2 was a decent follow up that focused more on the family of Jake Sully than Jake and Neytiri, as they're being pursued by the evil Na'vi Avatar clones. Great action scenes and interesting conflict when Jake brought the war to the Water Na'vi. Nice going, Jake....... The 3D was strong and exceptional throughout most of the film, more consistent than the first film.

One thing the very ending of Avatar 2 did answer, is what happened to Jake's human body in Avatar 1 as he was being converted into a Na'vi Avatar body. In Avatar 2, at the end, it shows the one deceased character being absorbed in the cilia tentacles of Pandora. Which can easily be connected to what likely happened to Jake's human body. That was nicely done and I was glad they covered it in some capacity.

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This film focuses mostly on the smaller family story, ignoring other concerns generated from the first film. The first film was self-contained, but this film is not, and will rely on part 3 for a complete story. Sort of how Matrix 1 was complete, tying up most loose story threads, and then part 2 relied on part 3 to complete the saga.


Since Avatar 2 focused mainly on the experience of the Sully Kids deal with learning how to swim and get along with the Water Na'vi, Whales and dealing with the trouble-maker after their father:

Avatar 3 will hopefully begin to address the following questions left wide open by Avatar 2:

Unobtainium in some capacity and why it was ignored in Avatar 2? I mention they don't show what's done with the whale brain fluid beyond "it's anti-aging and makes us rich", but in Avatar 1, they don't show what is done with Unobtainium much either. Giovanni Ribisi's leader role did help solidify the idea of it though, being so important they were willing to destroy the tree of life for it. Just plow through it. That was nicely done in Avatar 1 for villain motivation.

Avatar 2 could be an early moment in the overall film saga, but if Earth is dying, why not send a bigger force to take over Pandora right away to begin the Earth conversion process of Pandora? Turning the toxic, deadly Pandora air into a breathable mix of nitrogen, oxygen and argon for humans, at the cost of most living things on Pandora (which would be the mostly evil humans' style)? Or at least have some scientists acknowledge some of that to prepare us for part 3 if it's more involved. Foreshadowing to connect the separate stories better. I hope we see the dying, polluted Earth in part 3, unless Cameron is saving that for the end film.

Are we going to see examples of old human characters to care about needing the anti-aging syrum from the whales? If not, how much weight does that motivation actually hold beyond "we can make a lot of money". Money to do what with? Round these villains out more please. Unless money and revenge is mostly all they really care about as suggested by Avatar 2.

Jake was busy raising his family, but not busy enough planning ahead for them by preparing for the potential return of the humans, at the cost of his family being captured and tortured a couple times, one son dying, and the Water Na'vi, who should have created a separate area so Jake could deal with the humans on his own. Jake brought the war to them.