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The Avatar Movie thing nobody wants to talk about…
By Mike | January 6, 2010
There is a gaping plot hole nerdboys like myself notice.
The majority of the creatures on the planet Pandora have at least 4 eyes, and 6 limbs.
The Pandorans, which we are to believe are native to the planet, because they share the magic ponytails like much of the other wildlife on the planet. Have only 2 eyes, and 4 limbs.
Science would suggest this seems extremely unlikely, or at least, Darwin would – unless the 2 eyes gave an advantage over 4, which if that was the case, would suggest that the other apex predators (and there are many on Pandora) would have begun to shed the 3rd and 4th eye as well.
I think they just wanted to make the aliens seem more humanoid.
Deny, deflect, dispute, deride?
MO’B
Topics: Movies, scifi, models, cool, gadgets | 2 Comments »
January 7th, 2010 at 6:39 am
It’s all about “suspension of disbelief” :)
I’m inclined to agree with you – if the audience is supposed to be sympathetic to the aliens, they’ll look humanoid. If not, they’ll look a lot weirder.
January 18th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Having now seen the movie – you notice that the interaction between the predators and the prey are different – the lack of 1 set of eyes and limbs is made up for in many other ways (ways that evolved) …. the whole thumb thing for one, the elongated limbs (notice a lot of the predators are bunched muscly types, the fluidity of movement and lastly the brain development. the cognitive abilities of the Na’vi obviously places them at the top of the food chain even if they are not the most vicious or deadly animals on the planet. So the ability to think, reason and have a spiritual belief system compensates for the extra set of eyes and limbs.
Much like Humans can swim in the ocean but ocean dwelling animals have adaptions (think the extra eyelid not the flippers) or land based animals have tails for balance, the ability to shed skin, regrow limbs, etc. would it be nice to have some of those abilities – yes – is it necessary for our survival – no! Heck the neanderthal man was in direct competition to the homo sapien sapien and lost even though it was more vicious…. cognitive ability pays dividends!