Much as I loved the movie, can't disagree with this - I think Eytukan came across as somewhat less bright than he could have. Mo'at didn't, she seemed pretty sharp, but it still would have been nice to get some more character development for Eytukan.
They still hinted at what's expressed in the original-script conversation above, in that they accepted Jake because of his warrior-ness . . I wasn't necessarily looking at it as subversive, though, I was thinking of it more as a cultural gap in terms of respective social status. Among the Omatikaya, hunters/warriors are obviously highly respected. They don't have any equivalent to 'scientist' - if anything, 'someone who seeks to learn' would probably strike them as childlike. I think they'd feel more respected by being sent a warrior emissary than by being sent a bunch of scientists.
I also don't think the 'shoot arrows at the gunships' stategy was quite as lousy/naive as it looked, at first glance, because Eytukan had already ordered Tsu'tey to attack from above on ikran - the arrows were lousy ground-to-air missiles, but they were seriously good distraction. If Tsu'tey had been a little faster, or if Jake had gotten a chance to explain how they were going to attack Hometree and they'd been prepared in advance . . that would have gone differently. Not saying the Omatikaya would necessarily have managed to preserve Hometree - because maybe they needed several precise hits to take it down, but they'd really only need one or two fairl random hits to make it so that it'd come down in a few years from rot from the injury, and they'd have to move anyway - but they could have put up a decent fight, and having to move in a few years beats the hell out of the 9/11 re-enactment they got. And speaking of, how is that NO ONE has commented on the BIG HONKIN' TOWER falling down in flames, in discussing the politics of this movie?
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They still hinted at what's expressed in the original-script conversation above, in that they accepted Jake because of his warrior-ness . . I wasn't necessarily looking at it as subversive, though, I was thinking of it more as a cultural gap in terms of respective social status. Among the Omatikaya, hunters/warriors are obviously highly respected. They don't have any equivalent to 'scientist' - if anything, 'someone who seeks to learn' would probably strike them as childlike. I think they'd feel more respected by being sent a warrior emissary than by being sent a bunch of scientists.
I also don't think the 'shoot arrows at the gunships' stategy was quite as lousy/naive as it looked, at first glance, because Eytukan had already ordered Tsu'tey to attack from above on ikran - the arrows were lousy ground-to-air missiles, but they were seriously good distraction. If Tsu'tey had been a little faster, or if Jake had gotten a chance to explain how they were going to attack Hometree and they'd been prepared in advance . . that would have gone differently. Not saying the Omatikaya would necessarily have managed to preserve Hometree - because maybe they needed several precise hits to take it down, but they'd really only need one or two fairl random hits to make it so that it'd come down in a few years from rot from the injury, and they'd have to move anyway - but they could have put up a decent fight, and having to move in a few years beats the hell out of the 9/11 re-enactment they got. And speaking of, how is that NO ONE has commented on the BIG HONKIN' TOWER falling down in flames, in discussing the politics of this movie?