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Dear authour of an Avatar fix fic
May. 28th, 2010 01:33 amSelfridge mistaking your authour mouthpiece lead character for a protesting Na'viphile hippie over the 'dozer's camera would work better if canon hadn't established that every human on the planet was bought there by RDA. She shoots out the camera to keep herself from being run over, and Selfridge is then told about the recent Samson crash, but still assumes she was "consorting" with her Na'vi friend.
I'd have to make a list to tell you how wrong that whole scene is. In fact, the entire fic seems to be a regurgitation of every single bit of unconsidered criticism leveled against the film. Take, for example, Jade pointing out that the queues used to bond with animals are the same ones used for Na'vi mating, causing her new friend to blush. If I can make my dog and my girlfriend dinner in the same kitchen, that doesn't mean I want to ask the dog out. in fact, the movie made pretty much the same joke, and better. Also, there's this.
( cut for capslock profanity )
Subtle. Also, there's the bit on the TVTropes page-because I'm certainly not reading any farther-about how the Unobtanium can be used to improve life on Earth. Except for the part where that's not exactly true. It's mostly used in electronics and to lower the cost of interstellar transport. They would've used it to make the trains run on time. In fact, the Pandorapedia specifically points out the primary use would be to send the ship back to mine more Unobtanium. The real find is the neural network, which whassisname and Quaritch ignored, and has far more environmental potential than the Uo. It's also irrelevant to argue what they might have done in light of what they did do. That's like talking about me as a New York Times bestselling authour despite me really being an angsty art major.
Actually, I think that puts me halfway there already.
-Argh what
Jonn
I'd have to make a list to tell you how wrong that whole scene is. In fact, the entire fic seems to be a regurgitation of every single bit of unconsidered criticism leveled against the film. Take, for example, Jade pointing out that the queues used to bond with animals are the same ones used for Na'vi mating, causing her new friend to blush. If I can make my dog and my girlfriend dinner in the same kitchen, that doesn't mean I want to ask the dog out. in fact, the movie made pretty much the same joke, and better. Also, there's this.
( cut for capslock profanity )
Subtle. Also, there's the bit on the TVTropes page-because I'm certainly not reading any farther-about how the Unobtanium can be used to improve life on Earth. Except for the part where that's not exactly true. It's mostly used in electronics and to lower the cost of interstellar transport. They would've used it to make the trains run on time. In fact, the Pandorapedia specifically points out the primary use would be to send the ship back to mine more Unobtanium. The real find is the neural network, which whassisname and Quaritch ignored, and has far more environmental potential than the Uo. It's also irrelevant to argue what they might have done in light of what they did do. That's like talking about me as a New York Times bestselling authour despite me really being an angsty art major.
Actually, I think that puts me halfway there already.
-Argh what
Jonn
