Coruscant or Pandora?

[Ashen Key]

Originally Posted by Pa'li Makto

That's sounds a lot better.

But yeah, why not include Naboo?

Man, see, I'd love to live on Naboo. You have that lovely mix of urban and nature, PLUS the main city looks like it should belong on Dinotopia - it's just beautiful.

[Human No More]

Honestly, because this wasn't about which is better.

[Pa'li Makto]

YES!! Just what I was thinking like with the lush plains and rivers. They have the best mix of human settlement and nature in Star Wars..Kinda like Rivendell in LOTR.

[Ashen Key]

Originally Posted by Pa'li Makto

YES!! Just what I was thinking like with the lush plains and rivers. They have the best mix of human settlement and nature in Star Wars..Kinda like Rivendell in LOTR.

Lush plains, wonderful rivers, and utterly GORGEOUS, open-plan buildings. And yep, so very much like Rivendell, too. Coruscant is pretty...but only on the upper levels. And bah, no trees. I get itchy even going to Sydney, because there aren't the number of trees like there are in Canberra. But Pandora's too frontier-esque for me, too. So, clearly, Naboo.

(Although I will maintain to my dying day that whoever designed the capital of Naboo was a Dinotopia fan <.< )

[Pa'li Makto]

All the above is true. I;m not sure about Dinotopia though because I haven't seen or heard of it. But yeah I have never seen one tree in Coruscant. All I like about that place is the Jedi Temple and the golden glow on the rooftops from the setting sun.

[Ashen Key]

Originally Posted by Pa'li Makto

All the above is true. I;m not sure about Dinotopia though because I haven't seen or heard of it. But yeah I have never seen one tree in Coruscant. All I like about that place is the Jedi Temple and the golden glow on the rooftops from the setting sun.

:O! Dinotopia - I grew up with the books, and they are just beautiful. Also, you know, DINOSAURS! And dinosaurs living in harmony with humans, and both maintaining the balance on the island. Should actually be right up Avatar fandom's alley.

I presume that Coruscant had some gardens somewhere, but, yeah. Not the same thing as looking out your window and seeing trees, or being able to walk through grass.

[Isard]

Originally Posted by Ashen Key

:O! Dinotopia - I grew up with the books, and they are just beautiful. Also, you know, DINOSAURS! And dinosaurs living in harmony with humans, and both maintaining the balance on the island. Should actually be right up Avatar fandom's alley.

/nostalgia

[Human No More]

That sounds really unappealing...

Give me Pandora any day ... it wasn't that long ago that everyone would agree

[Pa'li Makto]

I will check it out.

The sunset can make almost anything look better..Besides the rooftops that I saw were golden so they looked almost magical. HNM what about if the sunset was filtering through the gaps of the Hometree canopy while you gaze up from your hammock?

[redpaintednavi]

Yes, Coruscant can have its own barren beauty, the beauty of the ultimate artefact where nothing is natural but everything is artificaial. But the real attraction with it is perhaps the possibility to meet all sorts of alien beings from the whole SW universe, and also the possibility to take a space ship from here to any place in the galaxy.




As for beautiful SW planets there is ofcourse Naboo as several of you already mentioned, with its lush vegetation, its seas and its many creatures. Still it have beautiful cities and buildings.



Also Alderaan seems to have been a beautiful planet with forests, plains, mountains and beautifully built cities.



But as you say, Pandora has a special dimension with its carefully detailed plants, animals and sceneries. At the same time the story has a message of preserving another way to live, to save the nature and preserve biodiversity, that one can not find in the SW movies. That gives a special feel for Avatar and Pandora, since it also reminds us to save the precious things here on our own world. Also the deep connection between the Na vi and between them and Eywa and the rest of the planet is something that adds to Pandoras attraction, and that we do not find in the SW universe.




By the way just look at this one:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...Pandora_HD.jpg

[Isard]

Originally Posted by redpaintednavi

But as you say, Pandora has a special dimension with its carefully detailed plants, animals and sceneries. At the same time the story has a message of preserving another way to live, to save the nature and preserve biodiversity, that one can not find in the SW movies. That gives a special feel for Avatar and Pandora, since it also reminds us to save the precious things here on our own world. Also the deep connection between the Na vi and between them and Eywa and the rest of the planet is something that adds to Pandoras attraction, and that we do not find in the SW universe.

I'd disagree. Star Wars shows many dark acts of humanity, including genocide, political corruption, religious fanaticism, ethics of cloning anybody?

[redpaintednavi]

Originally Posted by Isard

I'd disagree. Star Wars shows many dark acts of humanity, including genocide, political corruption, religious fanaticism, ethics of cloning anybody?

Well, I was more talking in the field of environmentalism and preservation of nature and living close to nature. The ecological message is not so very strong in the SW movies.

[Human No More]

Redpaintednavi - if you think so too, why did you even make this thread?...

[redpaintednavi]

Originally Posted by Human No More

Redpaintednavi - if you think so too, why did you even make this thread?...

Well, I was just curious about what people thought about that. But also because I myself have lived both in very rural environments and in urban surroundings. And the advantages and disadvantages with those environments and ways of life is somewhat like I described when concerning Coruscant and Pandora. In Coruscant you have the advantage of being able to meet a lot of alien beings, learn new things all the time, be at the center of the action. You also have the possibility to take a ship to every place in the SW galaxy. Also you have cultural life, media, you have the Jedi temples, you have the political powers and so on. If you are an enterprising sort of person you can do a lot with your life here. At the same time there is this barren artificiality, devoid of natural life and beautiful sceneries. There is the alienation and the risk to become an outcast or end up on the bottom of society.

And Pandora have all the beauties of small scale society out in a splendid wilderness. Here you have the tight community where you never risk to be an outcast or to get alienated. Here you have a lot of living things and an ecological harmony. But perhaps, if you came from another place you could sometimes miss the oportunities to travel out to other worlds, to see a lot of new faces, to interact with people from a lot of places and cultures, to enjoy the fruits of high tech.

So both ways of life can have both advantages and disadvantages.

[Eltu]

Because it can provide an interesting topic for conversation?

If you actually looked at the posts in here, you'd see that everyone is enjoying the discussion and the only one having problems with it is you.

Now, didn't you say yourself that "if a thread doesn't interest you, simply don't read it"? If you have a problem with people enjoying Star Wars as well as Avatar, some perhaps more, then simply just don't visit the thread.

Do you see the point I am trying to bring here?