I Have So Many Questions About Avatar’s 12 Days of Christmas

It’s practically Christmas, however there’s one other necessary vacation season upon us: Avatar: The Way of Water launch season, and also you wager some genius in advertising determined to smash these two issues collectively in unholy matrimony. But in doing so, they’ve opened a really totally different sort of Pandora’s field than presumably no matter Jake put Neytiri’s reward in for Christmas.

The official Avatar YouTube channel has launched “12 Days of Christmas, a Pandoran Christmas Carol” to have a good time the Yuletide and the existence of an Avatar film at the field workplace once more. Alas, in contrast to virtually any choice James Cameron has made about opening his mouth in the case of The Way of Water in the previous couple of weeks, it’s a video of profound cowardice, as a result of as a substitute of getting anybody truly sing the Pandoran lyrics to “12 Days of Christmas,” it’s simply an instrumental of the traditional carol. What, you couldn’t even ask the Weeknd?

Anyway, that’s not the factor that has set my thoughts agog about “12 Days of Christmas, a Pandoran Christmas Carol.” I imply, it’s that, nevertheless it’s primarily the all the things else about it too. Who is that this for, when the lyrics embody not simply character names you’ll be able to barely bear in mind as a result of they’re largely from the primary film 13 years in the past as a substitute of The Way of Water, however even embody deep cuts for the Avatar heads on the market who bear in mind characters like Sylwanin, Neytiri’s useless sister solely talked about within the prolonged reduce of the unique movie? Why is that this taking place, aside from the truth that it’s the week earlier than Christmas and James Cameron needs Avatar to be completely in every single place?

But additionally, what does it imply that there’s a Pandoran model of a Christmas track? Did the people deliver Christmas with them once they got here to Pandora? Did Jake attempt to keep on the custom after he determined to remain on the world and lift a household with Neytiri? Did Jake and the remaining people singlehandedly unfold the concept of Christmas to the Forest Na’vi? And in that case, which model, the commercialized vacation or the Christian theology behind it? Do the Na’vi have an consciousness of who Santa Claus or Jesus Christ are? Did anybody at any level within the making of actually any element concerning the worldbuilding of the Avatar franchise, not to mention this particular second, cease to contemplate the colonial undercurrent of introduction Earth holidays to a species with its personal extensively adopted spiritualism?

I don’t know. But I do know that it’s sort of bizarre that a lot of the items on this model of the carol are native fauna and then you definitely simply get some army grade {hardware} thrown in too. Who’s gifting these?

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