#ludicrous

and yet john was prowling around the village amongst a bunch of coppers like this:

And i get what Cameron was trying to do; to draw a theme of how many parents lose their religious faith after experiencing the death of a child, and this is Jake’s human side showing,,, but that doesn’t read as well in this specific story, given that Jake’s God is not an intangible concept but the very LITERAL reason he still breathes. Eywa is scientifically proven to be real to some capacity , which is something you can’t say about any other human-made deity.

The first movie masterfully builds to the catalyst of Jake “seeing” the world for the first time, as it was, as it is, and as it could be, all at once. From the minute he connects his kuru to the tree, he understands that Eywa is not just a concept, but the very manifestations of Pandora, as a living organism, sustaining other living organisms within it: A Mother. She is real, and She is alive, and capable of intervening to change the trajectory of her world.

To have Neytiri’s faith challenged— that I would find infinitely more fascinating. It’s her eyes that are being open to other aspects of her world now for the first time; she’s witnessing first hand the cruelty of other creatures that Eywa has willfully allowed to step foot on Pandora and bring reckoning. Her firstborn child is dead. I would understand her being like “Great Mother, what the fuck if the plan here? What does my suffering amount to?”