You know what's really messed up about that forest scene? That this is what Jake deems he really needs to do to stop human colonization but he didn't lift a finger to help with the real way to undermine it earlier.

I don't know what was the point of the whalers infodumping about amrita in front of Spider for so much of The Way of Water. It doesn't seem like the Resistance knows that it is what finances RDA colonization efforts. Nothing is done with this knowledge. It's like no one asked Spider about anything he learned during his capture and Spider didn't tell anyone.

There is a talk about tulkun fighting back but just because they are being murdered. This is, of course, the most important reason but because tulkun are not interested in defending themselves Na'vi also won't. Jake cheers them on when they banish Payakan for speaking up because fighting back would make his family unsafe.

This means RDA can continue to get their blood money. This means they can finance more ISVs, more people, more weapons, more destruction. All the things Jake thinks RDA will do when they replicate how Spider breathes they are already planning to do. Bring more humans, build more cities, kill any Na'vi in the way and any Tulkun they can use to pay for it all. They were going to do it before Spider got his gift and they would still do it if he was dead. Ardmore telling her man to shoot anyway has shown that clear enough (admittedly, Jake couldn't know that part).

I know most Na'vi refuse to use human weapons but many in Jake's and other sides of Resistance do use them. They hit maglev trains to cut off human resources. If they knew that hitting those ships would do even more damage to RDA they could devise ways to do it. Getting tulkun to understand it's more than themselves at stake, that this is about saving the world could also help. But nobody seems to know. Nothing is done about it.

The story just goes back to hiding in Awa'atlu and the colonization proceeds unbothered. The villages burn for Sulys sake again. The tulkun continue to die. Jake and co get to pretend the war is not their problem for months. Again. Jake only does something when they do find them. Again. It's like last time he did this taught him nothing.

As always, it's when the armies are at the door when he does something. But of course it's too late. Quaritch came for Spider first. He will always come for Spider first. So Spider has to die. Because killing one kid is easier than fighting back where it really mattered.

Spider's ability is the biggest existential threat to the whole world. Tulkun hunting isn't. Somehow, we always err on the side of more murder.

But in these last two movies, the new motivator for the RDA is amrita, a product that is only available to the super rich. No average person on earth will ever be able to see amrita, let alone benefit from its anti-aging properties.

Many billionaires today are highly invested in anti-aging, and are willing to do whatever it takes to keep themselves alive for a few more years. A product like amrita would drive the uber-wealthy insane in competition for it. I think the film's turn to amrita as the driving force behind Pandoran colonization is very relevant, given that the benefit of the tiniest portion of earth's richest is why we're in the situation that we're in.

amrita (n.) — Sanskrit, अमृत

the nectar of immortality, churned from the cosmic ocean by gods and demons who tore the sky apart fighting over a single drop of forever.

Over the sweetness or the softness,

Truly the taste of not-dying.

And a light that forgot its end.

SPOILER ALERT, DONT WATCH IF YOU NEVER PLAY THE FINALE!!!