I swear I do NOT understand all this hate and sometimes actual vitriol people have for Spider. I do not.
Is it because he saved Quaritch at the end of Atwow? Is it because he’s a human acting like a modern day teenager on Pandora? Both?
How do you hate on a 16 year old that:
~ grew up with only vague familial figures (the scientists, mainly during his childhood and Max and Norm intermittently when they weren’t working) (the McCoskers who really weren’t though and were parental figures in name only basically as they also didn’t actually care about his wellbeing and growth) (Jake and Neytiri who, from Jake’s own mouth, considered him a stray cat and didn’t do an actually kind nor caring thing for him in all his 16 years od life the way a parent would for their son or even their childrens’ best friend)
~ was LEFT BEHIND by the only people he considered family after being kidnapped by the colonialist army your race sent to destroy the inhabitants of the planet he considers his own
~ got TORTURED on a physical and neurological level yet didn’t give ANY information on the Sullys location -and the fact Jake after that scene says “the RDA has Spider, he knows where we are, our organizations etc etc” without even thinking about SPIDER being in danger and what they could be doing to HIM
~ spends months with the alien clone of his ax crazy father establishing the one barely familial father-son connection he’s ever had and when he finally is saved has to see one of his best friends die and feels like it his his fault even though it isn’t but probably feels like Jake and Neytiri unspokenly blame it on him too
~ is threatened by an emotionally unstable Neytiri that threatens to kill him and wounds him yet doesn’t plead for his own life but for Quaritch to let Kiri go
~ is kidnapped protecting the girl he loves and who loves him and medically tortured AGAIN
~ is almost sacrificed for something that was offered to him as a gift by Kiri amd Eywa HERSELF and although he (more than understandably) struggles to prevent Jake doing that the only thing that he actually asks said man is “I know I have to go to Eywa” (which means he either had sui*idal, thoughts during his lonely life/his captivities or was made to feel like he should be d*ad) “but do you still love me?” And guess what? After Jake says what he says Spider IS AT PIECE WITH BEING TAKEN LIFE FROM LIKE A SACRIFICIAL LAMB.
Like his whole life hadn’t been a sacrifice, like he wasn’t his innocence and compassion filled child/teenager lacking family, security and love (aside for Kiri, Lo’ak, Tuk and Neteyam) for the whole duration of his life up to Afaa.
How do you think you’d feel and be after going through all of that (again, at SIXTEEN years old)?
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