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"Avatar" 2; Some cool creatures this time
Topic Started: Jul 8 2010, 11:48 PM (4,337 Views)
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Good point.

Eywa's got a brain, so maybe the fight's there instead.
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That'd be awesome... matrix within the Tree of Souls...
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But that'd be a Downer Ending, and we can't have that. This series seems much more prone to a lot of misery in the middle, then an idealized happy ending.
No, it would be the happiest ending ever.
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I'm going back to basics.

Honestly, Lamna's war idea is the only one that would make a decent film. Finally, some actual conflict within the Na'vi.
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Avatar III could be Jake trying to pick up the pieces of his shattered confederacy as America and/or the Great Arab Jamahiriya send ships against the United Commonwealth. And they will not be content with the meagre pickings of the plateau.

Oh and her is what my world looks like. Sorry, no labels yet.
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Why Can't I Hold All These Mongols?

i want to see the russians or chinese on pandora, i also want to see them easily and mercilessly crush a pandorian resistance from the start of hostilities, of course jake would then end up having to fight them
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Which Chinese or Russians? There are two of both in my Avatar world.

The collection of warlords in the south barely held together by Taipei and Hanoi, the Republic of China. Or the totalitarian sliver left of the People's Republic?
Same with Russia, do you mean democratic, pro-Commonwealth Russian Federation, or the wholly unpleasant Russian Socialist Republic?

Because of those only the ROC have a chance to get to Pandora unaided, and then only if Vietnam wants them to.
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I dont care whoes fighting who as long as it involves Na'vi being killed in great numbers maybe the genocide of the damned smurfs, Jake ditching Neyreti and then a awesome sex scene with Cheryl Cole :D , then lots of awesome badass SAS guys coming in and just being badass.

but a better plot for the original avatar would be cool is if WW3 was happening on Earth and then it spread to Pandora and so the Na'vi were forced to take sides or even a three way battle between a league of totalitarian nations such as the nasty parts of china and russian and maybe even an almost fascist america vs the commonwealth....
Oh and maybe the chinese fond a way of turning Ewya against the Na'vi ^_^
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Because of those only the ROC have a chance to get to Pandora unaided, and then only if Vietnam wants them to.


You do realise that interstellar relativistic flight isn't an easy feat, right?

Admittedly Cameron never tells us about the cost of space access, or antimatter production, or the abso-bloody-lutely humongous laser facilities needed to push the ISV at 1.5 Gs up to 0.7c though.

What is implied is that the ISVs need unobtanium to function (it's the superconductor that the magnetic nozzle utilises to direct the thrust from the engines, though it probably has a role in antimatter containment as well). It isn't like interstellar travel is impossible without it, but it does mean that your ship needs to be far larger (more mass related to the cooling system for lower temp superconductors, more mass for fuel, etc). A larger, more massive ship usually means more mass to ship into space, as well as a larger laser facility to push the thing, and also more antimatter fuel for braking and acceleration on the return trip (more fuel is not a good idea when your fuel is the most expensive material in the world).

The availability of unobtanium depends on who has most of it. If it's been horded up by countries like the US (RDA seems to be a primarily US-based company), then getting sizeable amounts of it could be very difficult... it'd probably be mostly contained in structures such as power lines and maglev tracks as well (though you may only need a small amount of it to make an ISV go, and if they've got enough in their power lines etc, they could potentially sacrifice it for an interstellar flight).

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You do realise that it'd be horribly awkward and painful due to Jake being a Na'vi, right?

Then again, it might have a potential for Fetish Fuel... :rolleyes:
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okay fine forget jake just have him and the blue transvestite smurf die in some horrible accident... But it skips the emotional bit to a two hour long scene of Cheryl Cole naked on a trampoline with baby oil :D :D :D :D
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I assume Cheryl Cole's not a whore, so why would she sign up to do that?
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okay fine forget jake just have him and the blue transvestite smurf die in some horrible accident... But it skips the emotional bit to a two hour long scene of Cheryl Cole naked on a trampoline with baby oil


Two hour long scene? Who the hell would want to watch that? I mean seriously, people would get bored.

And why the obsession with Cheryl Cole? :rolleyes:

Though blue transvestite smurf... is somewhat funny. :lol:
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Unless your gay i think most people would wanna see that....
you obviously don't know who she is :giggle:
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Cheryl Cole is the closest you will ever get to prefection and any one from england will agree with me (Singemeister,Lamna and Holbenilord would all agree :lol: )
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But 2 hours bouncing on a trampoline? No actor with half a brain and a smidgen of dignity would sign up, knowing they have to do that.
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