Nerds love the fantasy that they might get to go into space some day because in their eyes it would vindicate the notion that they have a more sophisticated worldview than the normie squares who would of course go on living stagnant tiny lives on the decaying hulk of Old Earth
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It's the Pandora narrative from Avatar, this puerile, almost objectivist delusion that you, and you alone, are going to be the one who truly transcends humanity and sees things beyond our flimsy ken, abandoning all the unadventurous losers on Earth to die in petty resource wars
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I fucking hated that ending so much for almost this exact reason?
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @Nymphomachy
I had this very earnest sincere rant about how Avatar has the same theme as Ferngully only Ferngully is the one that has the more adult, responsible message in the end Ferngully DOES NOT let the human guy bang the hot fairy chick in happy fairy bliss for eternity
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Ferngully wins by default of somehow taking place in the actual real world? like you're asking A LOT to be like "hurray! Earth is doomed! what a great day for Jake and no one else!" also love that Sigourney Weaver just wasn't good enough or some shit
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wait, what about Weaver?
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they try to put her brain in a big blue body too but she wasn't naturey enough I guess?
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Eywa normally "doesn't take sides" and doesn't ever intervene to produce miracles, just kind of watches everyone's life-and-death struggles and records a collective memory of it She doesn't fully "wake up" until the climax of the movie
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*Then* suddenly she starts playing favorites and saving Jake Sully's life because he's so awesome and turned out to be her chosen one etc.
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There was a great line in a sporking I saw a very long time ago that went, "We did tell it the plan _yesterday_, what was it waiting for?"
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