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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 5085123" data-attributes="member: 3887">I thought it was very clear that they were all ex-military personnel working for Space Blackwater (a division of Weyland-Utani) on Pandora. I also liked how that fact added a little island of of plausibility to the story: the Na'vi weren't facing the full might of a star-faring military; they faced experienced troops equipped with what was most likely out-of-date army surplus, who were, in fact, clearly underequipped for certain kinds of missions --the humans had to cobble together the Big Bomb out of mining explosives, presumably after blowing their wad of HE ordnance on the Tree of Life. As for the film, finally saw, kinda loved it. It was amazingly transporting, and that's something I've wanted out of SF/F since I was a kid.</blockquote>