“Quaritch is the only good avatar antagonist”
When people say this I get so peeved, like, we haven’t had any other antagonists??? Yes we have Parker, Lyle, Ardmore but these characters are such minor roles in the story in my opinion. I guess Parker did control the mission (I don’t really think so though, because we see Quaritch kinda making moves for him near the end of the first movie) but we don’t really see him. Same with Lyle, yes he killed Neteyam but we have no real characterisation of him in the movies. Ardmore has like two scenes I can remember off of the top of my head.
We also had Varaang. She had an insane potential to me; her hatred for Eywa and the ones who praised her. I think James Cameron kinda pushed her off to the side too but I’ll probably write more on her some other time. My point is we didn’t get her full depth and screen time she deserved as she and her clan were advertised as the main antagonists of fire and ash (the title literally relates to them directly??).
James Cameron seems to bring Quaritch back every movie. I understand, sorta, why he could bring him back in the second movie. It made sense in a way. But in every movie he has been the most predominant villain.
He is the one hunting the sullies, he is the one returning, he is the one making mistakes of these elaborate plans to get back at Jake.
We haven’t had the chance to see another villian emerge. And when we do? She gets shifted to the side, a side piece and a romantic love interest to the man who has constantly despised the natives of the planet. I don’t like it honestly…
I feel like they also empathise with him WAY too much?? Why are we empathising with the person who has been actively colonising the Na’vi? The one who is responsible for the home tree falling, the death of the Ometikaya’s ole’teykan, and killing so much of their people? And the man who wanted to destroy their sacred tree? The man who actively sought to destroy Pandora for the humans, to wipe out the Na’vi from their own planet? Aw poor baby coloniser is sad he isn’t the real quaritch .. WHO CARESSSS!!!!
I have more to say but I don’t know how to word it properly right now so I might write about this again sometime
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