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11-21-2010, 12:05 AM
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Cities do have their own beauty (though the pollution is certainly not a good thing). There's a brief shot in one of the trailers where you see the city from Jake's POV (looking up from the street), and it evoked a sort of visual parallel with the nighttime Pandoran forest. Everything lights up. Everything's alive and moving and glowing.
I'm trying to imagine how a Na'vi would feel if they were dropped into the middle of a nighttime human city with minimal preparation, and I imagine there would be a lot of similarities to Jake's reaction the first time he experienced the nighttime forest. Helplessness and fear, but also curiosity and awe. Earth may very well seem as wild and dangerous and exotic to the Na'vi as Pandora is to the average human. I have these half-envisioned scenes in my head where Jake gives Neytiri a tour of his home city via shared lucid dreaming, with both of them in human form (many, many years in the future, when they've finally worked through their baggage). Neytiri: What is this? Jake: We call it a "motorcycle." He turns the ignition. Neytiri jumps at the noise. It sounds like a predator ready to attack. Neytiri: (shouting over the noise) You... you ride this?? Jake: Sure. C'mon. He climbs on and pats the space behind him. Neytiri eyes the noisy, metallic creature with unease, but climbs on after a brief moment of hesitation. Neytiri: How do you tell him where to go? There is no tsaheylu. Jake: Well, there's this thing here called a "throttle." (points, then looks back at her) Er... you might want to hang on.
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All Avatar writings ------------------- Selected writings: You came back How do you make up after you've done the unforgivable? Jake and Neytiri have a conversation in the wake of Hometree's destruction, during their first real moment alone following his return as Toruk Makto. The Last Train Home Fourteen years after the war, a lone spaceship appears in the sky. The former members of the Avatar program watch its approach – expecting the worst, fearing for their adopted home. Then the ship lands. And suddenly, nothing makes sense anymore. Five seconds too late This is a different kind of Jake/Neytiri romance, the story that would've unfolded had she been delayed for just five seconds while trying to reach him following the fight with Quaritch. 
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