#flick rambles

quaritch, when talking to spider, says "i'm not your father" and "i'm not that man" meaning that quite literally human quaritch's (referring to him at H!quaritch) memories were placed inside his head. this would also see true to all the other recoms.

now again, we note that quaritch seem sensitive to not only spider's emotions but to that of the tulkun when we see it gunned down.

this being said, i highly believe that the recoms' memories were messed with before they awoke. hear me out.

it wouldn't be unexpected for the RDA to do this. they already modified the recoms' ears (as also seen in another post that i probably don't have saved somewhere) so what would stop them from altering their memories to make their superweapons kill the biggest thing stopping their total domination of pandora?

also, when H!quaritch says "that's not going to happen" and recom quaritch sort of shrugs and plays it off, it's clear that, initially, doesn't care about H!quaritch. what i mean is that if the memories were purely H!quaritch then he'd have some sort of other reaction to his death than shrugging it off. yes, he's might've been thinking "i'm stronger now" and like it doesn't matter but it seems sort of out of character for H!quaritch, at least for me.

therefore, i think the fact that quaritch was grown from H!quaritch's dna would've influenced his personality, his biggest traits that is, but not entirely his ability to hold a grudge against jake. he does however, feel fear when he sees neytiri attacking and at the arrows.

this doesn't make sense!

quaritch was being grown before H!quaritch died which means they implanted some sort of fake fear into quartich. this means that the RDA would have also modified his memories to be bitter or vengeful towards jake but... he isn't vengeful towards him, not at first.

he slowly becomes that way but i feel like he's being conditioned to and he doesn't necessarily feel hate towards jake. but when we do first see quaritch talking about jake, he seems more curious than actually angry.

my conclusion?

recom quaritch is a lighter, younger version of H!quaritch, who's been bittered with age. i feel that he learned to hate jake and the na'vi but he, if given his own space to think, wouldn't have felt that way. yes, jake did technically go rouge, but if quaritch were given the time to fall in love with pandora like he was, then he would've gone rouge too.

as for the other recoms, they too are younger versions of their human selves. not completely, but a younger version and they were just following orders when it came to quaritch who was following his orders.

just saying, it doesn't make sense how quaritch is afraid of neytiri when when he was being grown, he didn't have any recollection of her. my best guess is they put the video from H!quaritch's mech suit into recom quaritch's head so naturally, he would fear an obviously skilled warrior.

Don't throw a party

Please

Really

Be considerate of the people who live there year-round. Especially right now

It's not hard.

Seriously

Wear a mask

Socially distance

Did I mention not throwing parties

If someone asks you to quiet down with your housemates, do it

Park your car politely

Don't take a handicap spot without a tag

Remember that this is a real town with people other than college students

Be kind to your neighbors

Most of us can really tell when you throw a party and when you're just being loud. There's a difference.

Do this all the time please, but especially right now.

People who live there year round know when you park politely and make an effort. It is appreciated.

and so of course with my recent hyper fixation on quaritch (ONLY recom quaritch tho cuz like yuck old men) this had to circle back to him

human quaritch is an asshole, we know this, and technically so is recom quaritch (who will be referred to as quaritch). but in several scenes throughout the movie i think we see him soften a little

i'm too lazy to pull all of my research out of my bin of liked items but i'll ramble on anyway

when spider is forced to tag along to the burning of the reef village, he's obviously very panicked and begging quaritch to leave them alone. prior, quaritch had full intent to kill the tsahik (i think that's who it was anyway) but upon hearing spider beg he decided to go for a less (eh) harmful option

though this may be only because quaritch cares about spider and therefore how he's feeling, i still feel that due to a larger emotions center he was able to actually consider instead of brushing spider aside

also, when we see a tulkun get lobotomized it's clear that quaritch is uncomfortable. in some of the movie cuts we also see quaritch's ears move when the tulkun and her baby were being attacked. now, if ears are an indicator of anything, we know that quaritch didn't like that

most of the ideas i had for this elude me at the worst moment, but it's also just a headcanon of mine that the recoms are an extension of their human versions but not all the same

OH and in the trailer, spoiler alert, we see quaritch travelling with the sullys at one point. is this a mistake? perhaps. does it mean he had his redemtion arc? hopefully! but most of these ideas are delulu and me being hopeful for a better, nicer quaritch

Please leave your name on a slip of paper and put it in the bowl by the reception and I'll circle back to you.