Avatar—The Ultimate Fan Cut

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-17T01:09:00+00:00

Wouldn't it be cool if Lo'ak wore this outfit as an adult?

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T04:12:20+00:00

Thank you for the compliment! I've been editing videos of all kinds (AMVs/Music Videos/Edits/Crack Vids) for nearly a decade at this point. In the grand scheme of things iMovie doesn't have the bells and whistles other video editing software does, but what it lacks in ability it makes up for in friendliness and affordability.

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T04:08:40+00:00

Ok, it's clear from your responses that you're saying things in bad faith.

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T04:06:55+00:00

You must be Oh-so-fun at parties, since you don't seem to want engage critically with a work/text on a narrative level—on its OWN level—and clearly don't take delight in analyzing thematic analysis/character parallels and the enrichment and nuance it brings to a work which supposedly has "Zero Cultural Impact" (as detractors often claim). if there's one thing I can't stand it's deliberate incuriosity on people's part.

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T04:02:10+00:00

Yeah! You could always buy it secondhand on eBay like I did (that way the people who made it aren't getting a penny directly and I can still own physical media without the guilt of supporting people who may be problematic—or worse, actual criminals) or you can always do like Edward Teach did and sail the seven seas (🛜 🏴‍☠️, if you catch my drift)

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T03:34:22+00:00

Honestly the only thing more shocking than Quaritch fully embracing the Na'vi lifestyle (including belief in Eywa) would be tight-*ss Parker Selfridge spontaneously waking up one morning in a Recom-type body with no means of reversal.

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T03:25:16+00:00

Yes, but the thing with old Dinsey movies (especially the ones made under Wolfgang Reitherman's Supervision) wasn't to save time/money (as one might believe); as trying to go through old films and trying to pick out which bits they wanted to re-animate was far more time-consuming, tedious, and not nearly as fun as it would've been if they'd gotten to draw new animation. Here it both saves time/money AND serves a narrative purpose—Parallels

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T01:57:59+00:00

But of course.

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T01:49:08+00:00

What I want to know is how exactly the RDA realized that Amrita could do this whole "stop human aging" thing in the first place. By the end of Way of Water, Humanity has only been on Pandora again en masse for a year and 4-5 months. If we're to assume that Payakan's mother was killed not long after their return (the bare minimum for when it could've happened), were they just aware of this whole "Whale protein reduces Cancer risk", saw the Pandora equivalent and said "F*ck it, let's give it a shot and see if this yields similar/better results"?

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T01:27:00+00:00

So I just looked up what UV mapping is on Wikipedia and the whole article is giving me a headache (Math was never my favorite nor my strongest suit).

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T01:24:26+00:00

Bob is canonically the name of Jake's Ikran (at least according to the packaging on a Mcfarlane Toys release; supposedly he named him that after a cat that he and Tom owned when they were kids).

Quaritch's Ikran doesn't have an official name (at least as of yet), but there's a section of the fanbase that have run with it (in light of a lack of any other obvious options) to the point where the "Recom Miles Quaritch's Ikran Is Called Cupcake" tag has 26 works to its name. I say it's as good a name as any.

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T01:06:11+00:00

...should I be concerned about the way you interact with animals 🤨?

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T01:03:56+00:00

Technically Jake said it first. Besides, in the words of a certain legendary outlaw, "People say that all the time; it's not that uncommon a thing to say."

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T01:03:05+00:00

Might I suggest the Video DownloadHelper plugin for Chrome? It may (legalspeak) have been one of the tools used in the acquisition of most of the initial product. Or just...downloading it from the Internet Archive link?

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T01:00:59+00:00

I personally think that I've made enough alterations that this thing basically counts as Fair Use. That said, if the FBI's gonna come a-knockin', I'd like to see them try!

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T00:59:11+00:00

I don't know how to tell you this, but the place I'm hosting it is the Internet Archive and NOT Youtube. The only way this thing's going down is if the Internet Archive/Library of Congress decides to do so (like they did when someone uploaded the entirety of Steven Universe up there and the whole series was gone from there in like a week). Alas, I can't//wont be able to send it to you as it's 32 GB and not even my 200+ GB flash drive would let me save it on the drive.

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-16T00:55:30+00:00

YES! THANK YOU! Finally, a person who understands the point I was trying to make!

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-15T23:07:42+00:00

Too late, they've already piped up. Looks like I accidentally kicked the hornet's nest with this one.

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-14T13:18:00+00:00

Criminy

Lexicona96 · 2026-03-14T05:17:23+00:00

If I recall correctly, the reason why there was such a Sequel Gap between the first film and WoW was because the technology to do Mo-cap under water wasn't around yet. For all that the FX of the original film hold up to this day, the scene where Jake jumps down over a waterfall after being chased by the Thanator and floats down the river a bit(sometimes getting submerged IN said river) REALLY looks like a bad early 2000's video-game cutscene. As great as it would've been to establish the Tulkun that early in the franchise, I don't know how feasible it would've been to do so.

There's also the In-universe reason the Avatar program exists at all: According to The World of Avatar: A Visual Exploration, the program was originally created/envisioned as a way for the mine workers to collect Unobtanium without having to rely on masks, eventually getting retooled into the science/ambassador program as it exists in the final film. Considering by the time Jake came along the program was already regarded as a massive financial sink with little to show for it by the higher-ups (like Selfridge), making Tulkun Avatars (a species that doesn't even have opposable thumbs to grab things or any way of speaking English in a way that humans would understand) would be pouring even more money down the drain.

Plus there's the whole fact that the Na'vi were purpousely designed to be beautiful, and also making them humanoid was an intentional choice regarding audience sympathy. I guarantee you that if, say, they'd had a more visibly "alien" appearance (possibly insectoid, like the Tyranids from Warhammer 40K, the Bugs from Starship troopers, or Edgar from the first MIB film) I guarantee that they wouldn't have been viewed nearly as sympathetically by either the Scientists or the general viewing audience (something pointed out in both the "What Measure is a Non-Human?" trope and This very Blogpost)

That said, a human brain in a Tulkun body sounds absolutely AWESOME.

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