Poll: Avatar - Who did you root for

[snow]

I voted for GlaDOS to show how offsetting a poll can be when there's a joke option involved.

There is a lot about the movie that is left unexplained that could have swayed the feelings of who's right/wrong in both directions, but keeping in mind that not EVERY human was a "Big Meanie." There were a few key characters who were jerks, and an entire colony of people who were just doing their jobs.

But of course, the entire colony is going to look bad because those few jerk characters happened to be in charge.

 

[jamescorck]

Seriously? I don't know. Isn't siding with the Na'vi also siding with the humans because they have a human/na'vi leader? *brain hurts, gotta go lay down*

 

[Queen Michael]

I rooted for the Na'vi because they looked pretty cool being bue and all. Yep, that's me; in a movie I usually root for the ones who look cool.

 

[Cherry Cola]

EDIT: Jesus Balls, I just had Escapist Deja Vu. Thread about liking sides Avatar, multiple edits on the OP, Hubilub with the first post and a fairly good but still flawed argument..... I think I am going to leave my computer now...

... You have a point.

Quick people! Run before another Avatar surge rises again!

 

[Danny Ocean]

As for the unobtanium we needed the minerals for our economy, and therefor our species to survive.

That's a rather large assumption, isn't it? There's plenty of stuff in our economy which is completely superfluous to our survival.

 

[Shemming]

Glados, because i always vote for joke options if i dont care for the other options.

Ot- Go humanity! Well i admit i wanted them to win anyways as they were really in the right, but surely they could of just found a diffrent planet for there unobtainium or mined else where? Just as they couldnt get to large deposit surely they could have got it else where? As for the nav'i they seemed abit selfish and arrogant to me, why not share?

Also does anyone know why the humans needed unobtainium anyway? As if they needed it to survive then i think it was fair to take it,survival of the fittest and that. But if they needed it as a luxury or such then it seems OTT to declare war on on a race.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I didn't root for anyone, because the humans were either dicks or strawmen, and the Na'vi annoyed me. I just rooted for a fight.

 

[Layz92]

I rooted for the humans, MERELY because the ending part was so mother fucking cheap.

I've discussed this before, and my opinion hasn't changed, but what the fuck was it with all the vicious animals SUDDENLY cooperating with the Na'vi and in an instant know who their enemy was that they HAD to unite to fight against?

It's so cheap, not even air can compare to its fucking cheapness.

And so little is explained, but I'd side with the humans, no matter the cause, any day of the time.

... I'm still angry that the Na'vi won. Such a fucking cheap shot by the story. They were about to get mother fucking crushed. *-.-

Hmmmm I never quite bothered thinking about it... It really is a literal Dues Ex Machina.

Isnt the whole point, everything on the planet has a connection. The planet is literally alive and when the moment called for it protected its self.

They say specifically that the planet never acts on dangers and lets them solve themselves. The end of the first time is the first time within their knowledge of it happening so I would still call it a Dues Ex Machina, they had no other way of making the problem better so they had to phone up a god/deity.

 

[Trucken]

If the poll had been between Na'vi and Americans (because, let's face it, all the humans in Avatar are american) Na'vi would've won by a landslide since people think it's OK to act like dicks towards americans.

OT: I voted for Na'vi. Humans didn't need Unobtanium, they just wanted it since it was worth a lot of money. And of course the Na'vi wouldn't let the humans tear up the planet since they knew it was a living thing where everything was connected.

I fail to see how the Na'vi could be considered the bad guys here.

 

[Dublin Solo]

I cheered for the humans. Mainly because I actually worked on the game and got soooo fed up of the damn Na'vi art and assets that I could throw myself out the window and set myself on fire.

 

[mad825]

humans=more fun
Na'vi= boring, long coverstations, ultimately sicking romance, technology subbron, has faith.

so yea, my reasons are clear. I never saw Avatar being intellectual so I was expecting mindless entertainment, did I get that? No! just another hippie-ish movie which turned out to be a romance!

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Regardless of who won, aren't the humans just going to come back with a larger force and kill all the Na'vi with orbital lasers or something?

 

[SnwMan]

As Far as i know the humans were after the unobtainium, which was essential for a truly space fairing human race. However the humans didn't really have a right to go in and take what they wanted just because they could. They should have pushed hard for a diplomatic solution.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

RULE RULE HUMANITY!

On that note, why the fuck did it take so long to retaliate with heavy firepower? If the human forces there hadn't spent so long dicking around and polishing their guns, they'd have Pandora and a nice pile of Na'vi for mulch. Sure we may have been shown in an incredibly selfish and destructive light, but what the fuck, we are selfish and destructive! I didn't see a single Na'vi that had any likable qualities.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Mass Effect taught us that uplifting a primitive species inevitably leads either to the destruction of everything else in the galaxy, or a very complicated moral dilemma where genocide is probably the best choice.

 

[sephiroth1991]

"Wooo Human Earth"

I root for the humans cos i am human, it's like wars between countries you woot for your country.

 

[imnot]

GlaDOS
OT: humans, they had a fucking helicopter plane thing!

 

[Josdeb]

I rooted for the humans, MERELY because the ending part was so mother fucking cheap.

I've discussed this before, and my opinion hasn't changed, but what the fuck was it with all the vicious animals SUDDENLY cooperating with the Na'vi and in an instant know who their enemy was that they HAD to unite to fight against?

It's so cheap, not even air can compare to its fucking cheapness.

And so little is explained, but I'd side with the humans, no matter the cause, any day of the time.

... I'm still angry that the Na'vi won. Such a fucking cheap shot by the story. They were about to get mother fucking crushed. *-.-

Hmmmm I never quite bothered thinking about it... It really is a literal Dues Ex Machina.

Isnt the whole point, everything on the planet has a connection. The planet is literally alive and when the moment called for it protected its self.

They say specifically that the planet never acts on dangers and lets them solve themselves. The end of the first time is the first time within their knowledge of it happening so I would still call it a Dues Ex Machina, they had no other way of making the problem better so they had to phone up a god/deity.

I think that's because that was the first time the planet had ever been endangered by aliens?

And in response to the topic, I went for the Na'vi (Yeah, I know, whatever )
Only because the humans literally went onto their planet, said 'Hey, piss off, we own everything now' and started shooting them.

 

[WanderingFool]

On an emotional level I stayed neutral, but I believe the Na'vi are right and the humans are wrong.

It was never explained that humanity needed unobtanium to survive, only that it's really expensive stuff they can get rich on. On an entire planet there should be more than just one place where they can find unobtanium, but apparently they didn't want to make the effort of relocating to another side of the planet.

And of course, that is considering that there are no other places in the entire universe where you can get unobtanium, which frankly sounds far-fetched. If it's so damn rare, then I don't see how humanity would survive for long on that stuff.

Jake Sully isn't a jerk. Why should he side with the humans in this conflict when they are the bigger assholes? And why should they just let the humans get their will through? They'd probably start harassing and killing other Na'vi as they went looking for more unobtanium.

And who the hell can support the idea of the humans uplifting the Na'vi from their primitive society? Remember the words Manifest Destiny?

I was going to say something along these lines, but Hubilub beat me to it. Hell, its almost exactly what I was going to say, though I'm going to add a bit more. I cant help but think of the early years of our (USA) country, and how we handled the Native Americans. We took their land, forced them onto small territories, crowding them with other creeds of Native Americans, and if we wanted the land for something (Gold, anyone?) We boot them off to another territory and so on. The same shits been done to other countries, Great Britain is one of the more predominant perpetrators, having taken a large number of colonies all over the world back in the last century. So this story was basically a retelling of events that happened on earth hundreds of times, only difference, the natives won... until a sequal comes out and the epic story get screwed up for the sake of a "few dollars more".

*Edit*

I for one can't want the humans to win being that they all look like rednecks. Really have you seen what of those guys look like. Course I hate the Na'vi more so GlaDos option for me.

Yeah, thats right. I honestly feel that they made the humans a bunch of gun-troting rednecks and complete D-bags (specially that CEO dude, the soldier dude was funny as shit). It seemed painful to actually hope the humans would win, cause than you would be cheering for a bunch of jerks. I would have made the humans more like-able, thus making it much hard for the audience to side with just one side, but as it stands, it like if you dont side with the Na'vi, your a bad person. There would be a number of people who did side with the humans, but I do feel the movie gult triped you into liking the Na'vi.

 

[LaBarnes]

I reluctantly supported the Na'vi.

Frankly, I hated the Na'vi, I hate all the stupid primitive tribal nonsense and their unwillingness to develop past living in trees, but what I do support is property rights. Regardless of how backwards their culture may have been, they still owned the tree and outlying areas, and the humans used force to take it from them.
In a smaller scale, this is known as robbery, something of which I am not fond.