My Serious Media Analysis thoughts on Avatar: Fire and Ash are elsewhere, but it's genuinely so funny how desperate that movie is to convince us Blue Quaritch is hot in a Traditionally American Masculine Way. James Cameron didn't have to give male Na'vi the limb and waist proportions of an oddly-drawn yaoi protagonist, but that was what he decided to do, and so now we've got the visual effects department screaming "No no you don't understand! Quaritch is a manly catboy with a slim and unbreedable waist! You can tell because of how shirtless and oily he is!"










