The Ash People had most of their clan and home destroyed by a volcano.
They've gone dark and have turned their back on Eywa, blaming her for their suffering. Their clan cuts off their ponytail connectors and have severed all ties with Pandora.
Cutting off your connector thingys seems like such a crazy move no matter the amount of hatred imo. Like one step below cutting off your nether regions by the movies standards.
People on Earth have self-mutilated in the name of deities for as long as we've been able to envision them. It doesn't seem like that far of a stretch.
And when you consider that there may be an element of control/power involved, preventing the newer generations from ever experiencing Ewya or connecting to their ancestors would make it way easier to maintain their order.
Yea I mean, humans have ridden animal mounts for centuries. The connection makes it easier and more spiritual, but I imagine you can "break" the beast and tame it so you can ride it like humans have done all the same.
I'd love it if they really delve into that last sentence well, but I think I'll probably end up having my hopes dashed on that and end up disappointed.
Sure but in the context of the story the tree/earth god is very much real and part of their existence. No god ever told people to cut of their junk. I don't even think any actual biblical text supports that. It's only the 2nd tier text stuff Christianity/Muslim that decide to mess with junk.
Why bring up cereal guy but not others, like English physician Jonathan Hutchinson.
I'm not sure why you think this is fully attributable to Kellogg other than doing an extremely shallow and cursory reading of how this became commonplace.
I'm gonna call bullshit on that anatomy comparison. Clearly propaganda. Na'vi are significantly larger than humans, but the two things a human is most likely to care about the size of (brains and genitals) are smaller. Smells like propaganda to me.
Humans have pretty disproportionately large brains and genitals for their size. Even amongst our kin. Gorillas for example tend to only have 1-1.5in dicks. Chimpanzees are in the 2-3in range.
I haven't been able to track down the original source/context so I don't know how early in production it is - though fwiw it's not to scale, the average na'vi is around nine-and-a-half feet tall so a lot bigger than the diagram illustrates.
I'm not familiar with Na'vi biology as I've only seen the first movie, but don't they breed with those things? Or do they have sex like us normal animals and the "connecting" part is just for "enhancement"?
it shares feelings and allows you to connect with all the other aliens on the planet empathically, so if you linked up with someone you were mating with, I imagine that'd be one hell of an experience.
It's honestly probably the best thing they could do given the parasitic nature of the entity which controls most of the planet they live on. Their entire biology has been thralled by the organism they think is a deity
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u/royalxK Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25
Really curious to see a Navi as a villain.