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[ysengrin]

A few (non-spoiler) things to think about ... and a warning that comments may well *be* spoilery, so avoid this thread unless you've seen the film.

The environment of Pandora has been worked out in great detail for the film. All the 'higher' life is based off of a hexapod (six limbed) base. With a very notable exception - the Na'vi.

The avatars are supposed to be a hybrid mix of human and Na'vi. Aside from the interesting point that life on Earth and Pandora must have a lot of similarities for that to work (and that Earth biotech is really, really advanced), the film offers a lot of details that show the avatars are *not* Na'vi -- they smell different, have a different number of fingers and possibly other gross differences as well.

Pandora seems to be the only source of Unobtainium (which is supposedly a room-temp superconductor, though I'm not sure that's stated in the film). Is it possibly biological in origin?

There's also a big chunk of ecological speculation that *is* spoilery, so I'll leave it for later.

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[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

There's some hints that I took be mean the Eywa was self-aware. That doesn't mean that Pandorian life wouldn't be considered by Eywa as the stuff it was made up of, but that Eywa could work with that stuff (life) with a fine hand.

Of course, the most obvious hints were *after* Eywa had deep-scanned a human. Possibly seeing how a mind outside itself was organized inspired Eywa?