Jack Saint, sarcastically: Jake Sully isn't just a good native, but the best native. He gets the big special bird!
Dry Boys: Sully is such a blank-slate character, so underprivileged, that he's the best candidate among the colonizers to become a native.
White wheelchair man bad. Not woke enough to become navi :angery:
I loled at them dismissing the white savior narrative. They clearly identify with the pasty white protagonist.
he literally discarded everything including is own body to start violent revolution what other kinda allies do people want?
their spiritual leader says "it is hard to fill a cup that is already full" and since Jake's cup is indeed empty, he can learn to actually become one of them. he's not like other girls.
would you prefer him siding with the colonizers instead? isn't a traitor as a leader one of the biggest propaganda victories possible, to inspire others to switch sides as well?
I don’t have a problem with them identifying. Just don’t dismiss the fact that it’s a white savior narrative.
it does get a little complicated with the whole interspecies cloning, but yes, the originally white guy is a savior. but by the point he saves them he has basically rejected everything white about himself, and by the end he literally kills the white guy. queer af
They even said that they do and are supposed to, which is why he's so boring.
Never underestimate the desire of users here to complain about podcast takes.
I hate their movie reviews except for Comey Rule because it was less them wryly digging at pop culture wars and more about the politics of it. But this whole bit is bad. Matt also said in his streams Avatar is dogshit. I doubt Felix talked him into liking an 11 year old movie. So clearly it's a bit because they enjoy the contrarianism of saying bad things are good because libs argued with Will about it on letterboxed.
my favorite unambiguously bad sci-fi movies are jupiter ascending and avatar. very fun to watch on a slow sunday with pals.