The Nav'i Language and Gamer Culture

[Nifft]

The University of Planet finishes researching Threshold of Transcendence and builds Voice of Planet, but the Stepdaughters of Gaia pre-empt them and finish the Ascent to Transcendence secret project first, winning the ga-er, movie.

Yep, that's pretty much exactly what sprung to mind when I watched this.

They even kept the mostly-inhospitable atmosphere from Planet.

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The Navi also remind me a bit of the "dream apes" from Greg Egan's excellent Diaspora. It'd be amusing if they were the self-reengineered remnants of a transcendent race.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Mark]

Na'vi is attractive to fans because it's usable in the real world, but it loses its value without a coherent connection to the fictional world of the film.

The second half of this sentence troubles me less so than the first half.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

The second half of this sentence troubles me less so than the first half.

The exact same sentence could be applied to Quenya and LotR.

Heck, both LotR and Avatar are also similar in that they are both re-packaging older source material for a new audience. LotR has better source material, granted, but the parallel is there.