Closet Avatar fans...

[Fkeu'itan]

I'm beginning to think my best friend is one...

He went to see it twice in the cinema with me and a bunch of my other friends, they were (about) my eleventh and twelfth viewings when I saw them but they were his first and second. Both times we came away from the cinema he seemed to be completely in awe of it and when i asked him what he thought, he was pretty much lost for words on both counts. However when I told him i'd seen it twelve times before, he wondered how I could see it so many times and not get bored of it.

So the time passes and I thought he'd pretty much forgotten about Avatar. Moved on. Like a lot of my friends. But yesterday I went over his house to play some PS3 and talk... pretty much what we do all the time. Suddenly, without warning he just says "I've been watching Avatar." Naturally, I was a little surprised and also a little bit excited. While I know he loved the film, I didn't think he loved it enough to watch it at home. I thought he might have had his fill with those two cinema viewings.

He tells me he originally put it on to do some studying (or revision as we call it ) as a background movie, but he ended up watching it and he was completely captivated. He then went on to tell me that he'd watched it another 3 times in as many days...

I was totally and completely dumbfounded. While this may not seem like a lot to you guys, to me it was a real shock. It was a complete and utter defiance of what I had assumed. Aside from everyone here, I know of absolutely no one else personally who got pulled into Avatar as much as I did so this was something big. I was, in fact, so shocked that the conversation about it ended pretty much right there. I myself was lost for words. The only other thing he said was "Now I understand how you don't get bored of it."

I also realised that 'addiction' was my first step to actually Seeing the messages behind Avatar and trying to embrace them which makes me even more curious about this situation.

So I don't know, i'm a little confused. Something is telling me he's quite the Avatarian, but I don't know if he really Sees it or whether he's just hooked on Pandora and Neytiri. I'd like to bring it up and discuss it with him, but I kind of fear that If i've read the signals he's sending wrong and I express my true Avatarian, that he'll think i'm taking it way too far. Then again. I might discover he feels exactly the same way.

So I need some help here, how do I go about finding out if he's a fellow Avatarian?

P.S. Another one of my friends pre-ordered the collector's edition blu-ray pack for release day delivery. Everybody else claims he only did it because he wants to build up a blu-ray collection, but I think he's in the same situation as the guy above - he's possibly scared of exposing his fandom as I am.