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Wellness Wednesday for December 24, 2025

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Was quite an experience slowly cottoning on to the fact that Cameron literally just remade Avatar 1 & 2. I would understand if we were coming full circle and ending this but we have two more to go!

I don't know if he realized he didn't have enough material or he's trying to stuff theaters but the audacity is incredible.

I would be more angry if I paid IMAX prices but they only had 3d showings (eye issues make it pointless). TBF: I was also high and Spyder's triumphant welcome to the cookout sent me out on a high note.

Another place where Cameron met my low expectations was not framing the hard-ass female general as a girlboss who can do no wrong. She makes several clearly correct decisions, and also demonstrates fallibility when Quaritch ungrounds himself and bails out her ass. Shame she dies in a magnetic fire tornado.

I mean, she was pretty wrong - and I don't remember her being that antagonistic or stupid in the first sequel. Quaritch didn't go native. He made an alliance with a local tribe ( and used them more effectively than she used RDA resources btw) leveraging a personal relationship with the local chieftain (usually you'd marry his daughter or something but w/e) . That meant absorbing a few of their visible traditions to keep them onside.

What did she think colonialism meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

Please don't let Quaritch succumb. Do you know how many Humanity Fuck Yeah memes would go down the drain if he became a traitor?

General Hairbun was depicted as competent in the last movie, but it would have been so easy to flanderize that into a version that can do no wrong. I will be grateful for small mercies.

Cameron has been pretty open that Fire and Ash and Way of Water were originally one movie that had to be split into two parts for run time and budget reasons. Which is partly why we got this one so soon after the last.

That said I feel like there could have been better editing, and I don’t think we needed nearly as much water stuff in this one as we got. I was expecting a lot more of the air traders and the fire tribe and was pretty disappointed how much of the movie was just retreading the last one.

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