| FaRmLaNd said: People fight wars over resourves all the time. If the unobtanium is that valuable humans will be back. Especially if their planet is dying as it was said at the end. I was talking about the attitude of the aliens not the actual fight. A race that was essentially tribal would have been far more caustious when dealing with such a technological threat. The bomb ship was taken out by grenades yes it was the deus ex machine that gave the na'vi the victory. And that was triggered by their God in the machine (oh not machine trees). |
James Cameron actualy made a field guide for Avatar, you're free to give it a read: the unobtainium seems to be primarily useful for making war. Since a private corporation already failed (possibly went bankrupt) searching for this stuff, it's probably goig to be written off. There's nothing in the movie that suggests humanity will be back, and everything that suggests they won't. That's all there is. And there's definitely nothing suggsting that the unobtainium will somehow help humanity survive o the war-torn world of Earth.
Why would they be more cautious if they had o idea what they were fighting? After hometree burned they were basically ready to give up because they had no way to fight, until the Na'vi version of Jesus showed up. I think that they were pretty realistic about the whole thing, given their ability to understand what they were fighting. I don't think any aboriginal peoples in the history of the planet have been "more cautious" sut because the enemy was more technologically advanced, at least not until an enormous show of force. You will recall that the Battle of Isandlwana was essentially a direct parallel to Avatar: an enormous indigenous force with far inferior weaponry overcomes a smaller but much more technologically advanced colonial army. There was nothing "cautious" about it, though it was pretty awesome.
"Deus ex machina" is literally correct here, but that's not actually what the term means. If they've spent the whole movie establish Eywa as this god who communicates with the creatures of the planet through the trees, then an act by hr is not deus ex machina according to our understanding of storytelling, especially in that she's not the one who resolved the conflict: Jake was.
