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December 23, 2009
The Avatars of Avatar
Meta-avatars: the usual suspects:
nice the way Cameron blended the Evil Corporation with the Evil Military by making the military mercenaries in the pay of the Evil Corporation, like Blackwater or Executive Outcomes. Bonus points, that. Because once you throw the profit motive at a soldier, he becomes a fucking Killing Machine! We see this all the time. Where? Shut up.
This planet Pandora was also all spiritually interconnected via roots and vines and shit, with a Mother Nature/Gaia figure called Eyra. Like Enya, I suppose. Avatar? No idea on this one. No one has gone quite that gay before. Maybe an avatar for Signs, by the 5 Man Electrical Band, if I had to reach.
Another nice meta-avatar was blending the aborigines: they rode hossie-like creatures, shot bows and arrows, and yip-yip-yipped in a fashion so stereotypical of Injuns I thought for a moment I was watching a B-Western from 1932. I was actually embarrassed for a sound effect. There's a first. And blended with the African-American-Caribbean hair braids, it was an unassailable minority in-yo-face bitchslap to us honkeys. -- Velociworld: Avatars
Posted by Vanderleun at December 23, 2009 6:49 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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It just figures. Thanks for saving me a boatload of money. I have had it up to the eyeballs with this shitass 'bash the west' narrative. Screw Cameron, and the avatar flew in on.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at December 24, 2009 10:05 AM