what i love about this movie which most people gloss over is that the Na'vi religion is undeniably real. Ewya has genuine actual influence over Pandora. From transferring Jake from human to Na'vi and summoning the native animals to fight in the final battle showing there is actual proof.

@dylancole1910

Жыл бұрын

I know, that’s a really beautiful thing and it continues to be so in the new film.

@jaceh4942

Жыл бұрын

Tbf it might not be "real" in the sense that Ewya is a literal spirit/godess. It's possible that they're just coming up with spiritual explanations for things that could be explained by science. In the first movie the humans mention how all life on pandora shares a network of neurons like one massive brain. So the entire planet is kind of a hivemind, and I think that hivemind is what the Na'vi refer to as "Ewya".

@dhuh6760

Жыл бұрын

Because, like older religious systems, the Na'vi's religion is based on visual pattern recognition. Like, sun and moon worship, or worship of animals and trees. These things gave our ancestors shelter, clothing, parts for tools. They kept fire living, and dominated landscapes. So, we worshipped them! It made sense to. Still does to an extent.

@TheTattorack

Жыл бұрын

A very big part of the planet Pandora is how all the plant life seem to carry reactive neurons, with a memory tree grove carrying more neurons than the Human brain. So... What the Na'Vi call "Eywa" is indeed real; a consciousness that has emerged from the combined neural power of all the plants, and which could have influenced the whole world's evolution to develop a lot more neural connected.

@vortexvenom

Жыл бұрын

@@dhuh6760exactly

I always thought the ecosystem of Pandora evolved bioluminescence to help provide light while the planet was going through an eclipse with Polyphemus

@dylancole1910

Жыл бұрын

That could also be a factor though, great point.

@haldouglas4773

Жыл бұрын

the eclipse only happens for 100 minutes when it does happen

@Noodlekdoodle

Жыл бұрын

@@haldouglas4773 You do realise Polyphemus is MUCH bigger than the moon, right?

@meteroson6428

Жыл бұрын

@@Noodlekdoodle But Pandora is also very close to Polyphemus, meaning a faster orbit. I actually think Pandora might even be tidally locked, considering there doesn´t seem to be any tidal activity in Way Of Water. So the eclipse is consistently each day at the same time.

@Noodlekdoodle

Жыл бұрын

@@meteroson6428 I just searched it up, and yeah, Pandora is tidally locked with Polyphemus. This means get really long day and night times though, so bioluminescence still likely evolved due to a long night time, plus a daily eclipse that lasts multiple hours

For those who don’t know, they were purposefully made to be humanoid to be easier to relate to on a wider scale, believe other then that James Cameron would have made them to be vastly more alien knowing him

@RiceCubeTech

Жыл бұрын

If they looked less human it would be a harder sell that a human would want to fork with it lol.

@talknight2

Жыл бұрын

Well, of course, this is a man-made world in reality after all. We can't truly relate to something that's significantly different from our lived experience. But it's impressive how internally consistent they've made it. They spent far more time and effort than they had to.

@supermajesticman3898

Жыл бұрын

Them being humanoid also helps them with translating the motion capture performance.

@matto6639

Жыл бұрын

@@talknight2 you should read the book project Hail Mary, never related to an alien more and it’s probably one of the weirdest alien designs I’ve ever read about.

@kaleeshsynth9994

Жыл бұрын

Also the motion cap technology

Turns out that the Que isn't naturally braided hair over a whip. You, see in the new movie that they are born with short hair but there is a tendril that protrudes from the head. The Na'vi actually braid the hair over the tendril to protect it.

It's terrifying that even a prepubescent Na'Vi is the same height as the average NBA player. These creatures are tall asf. You don't realize it until you see them next to average humans and they just tower over.

@SonarTheBat

Жыл бұрын

Never gonna see Tuk the same way again.

@brunomichienzi2719

Жыл бұрын

@@SonarTheBat tuk is 170 cm

@mandysixx2350

Жыл бұрын

@@brunomichienzi2719tuk is already 5in taller than me😢

I love these analyses of alien species. I didn't realize there were multiple inhabitable moons. Sounds like you could develop a whole franchise of movies taking place on different moons.

@borninthe90s40

Жыл бұрын

Lpll

@timothyjarrett1960

Жыл бұрын

@@subraxas inhibitable🤣😂

@LukeLane1984

Жыл бұрын

There are 4 more movies on the way, so maybe we'll get to see humans setting up bases on some of the other moons.

@ChristianSoldier71

Жыл бұрын

WARNING!!! HELL IS REAL!!!! Is your heart right with CHRIST? We can not hide our sins from GOD. Jesus loves you and He died for your sins. REPENT and believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Mark1:15

@LukeLane1984

Жыл бұрын

@@ChristianSoldier71 Mentally unwell? Because healthy people don't talk like that.

About the Na'vi neural queue being braided, it is actually not natural! In fact, it seems that their neural queue is simply covered with skin at birth, as can be seen quickly on a newborn Na'vi of the Metkayina clan, in one of the Avatar 2 trailers. It is likely the parents who use the hair once it has grown, to cover/protect the neural queue of the children. I also wanted to point out that you can see tiny body hair on some of the characters (especially Lo'ak) on the new individual Avatar 2 posters, but it's still hard to notice. Aside from that, thanks for this very instructive video !

@doktordinky

Жыл бұрын

maybe with Lo'ak its only like that since he also has human dna since he's jakes son? The na'vi dont even have eyebrows so i do think its genuinely just cause he's jakes kid. Cool detail tho!

@LizouilleSAU6

Жыл бұрын

@@doktordinky that's an interesting point, I hadn't thought of that !

@isaiasovelar4434

Жыл бұрын

@Emerickkie Ohlala potential spoilers, but it has been confirmed Kiri is actually Dr. Grace Augustine's daughter and not a reincarnation as it has been previously speculated

@ChristianSoldier71

Жыл бұрын

WARNING!!! HELL IS REAL!!!! Is your heart right with CHRIST? We can not hide our sins from GOD. Jesus loves you and He died for your sins. REPENT and believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Mark1:15

@Oriares

Жыл бұрын

@@ChristianSoldier71 shut the fuck up bruh religion is literal cancer

The only major incongruence in Avatar is that the Na'vi are tetrapods instead of hexapods and this is explained by one article I once read regarding the concept art and the development of the 1st movie, it said that originally the Na'vi had 4 arms and 2 legs and openings in the chest instead of nostrils too I believe, but the idea was changed early, making their morphology more human because they wanted the audience to identify with the Na'vi and to make Jake's attraction to Neytiri understandable.

@leonardocontin937

Жыл бұрын

Tbh having less limbs is more common in nature than having more limbs. All vertebrate animals have 4 limbs on Earth, but snakes lost them, yet you will NEVER see a vertebrate with more than 4 limbs

@HYDROCARBON_XD

Жыл бұрын

@@leonardocontin937not with eyes tho,most vertebrates have actually 3 eyes (the little parietal eye in reptiles and amphibians) and a lot of arthropods have more than 4 eyes

@erindunn6689

Жыл бұрын

I dunno. I still think the filmmakers could have pulled off a more alien morphology and still have the Na’vi look attractive.

@Aethuviel

Жыл бұрын

No one seems to notice that the Ikran, too, have only four limbs. We know of four fliers from the first film - Ikran/Banshee, Toruk/Leonopteryx, Fkio/Tetrapteron, and Riti/Stingbat. Of these, only the Ikran has four limbs, the other have six. And to add confusion, while the Toruk and Tetrapteron have wings-wings-legs, the Stingbat has wings-legs-wings, and the Tetrapteron has its queue sticking out of its chest. (???) Still, the Ikran is the only fully four-limbed species we've seen, other than the Na'vi.

My understanding/guess is that most of the creatures on Pandora evolved/derived from fungi instead of from fish (like on earth). It would explain why nearly all lifeforms have the ability to neural link up to each other despite differences in species, and can link up to the tree/root mental system like mycelium networks even after death.

@Biolo-G_KJ

Жыл бұрын

@@kx7500 no he actually got a point. Coming from someone with an Msc in Evolutionary Ecology.

@lilrobodoge6749

Жыл бұрын

That's an interesting theory.

@justsomekidthatsinfinitely7090

Жыл бұрын

I came to the same conclusion, but I’m not a professional

@sureshindika6909

Жыл бұрын

it's not real man, its an imaginary world, don't forget

@kx7500

Жыл бұрын

@@Biolo-G_KJ yeah I think you’re right actually

I don't think they are from that moon. I think they are an example of Bioforming. Basically you change your own DNA to match a planet instead of Teraforming the planet to match you.

@LexYeen

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm... A lost colony of bioformers, perhaps?

@jacara1981

Жыл бұрын

@@LexYeen well the idea is you don't drop colonization materials with them. Basically once bioformed, the new species starts out primitive, learns to live on their new home world and then develop their own unique culture.

@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679

Жыл бұрын

i love that. gener tinkering better than terraforming. What a novel idea! We tinker, then you mine. Good until the revolution.

@SnarkNSass

Жыл бұрын

I like this concept... 🤓😎

@NeverDoneEver

Жыл бұрын

I had wondered about that. I know that, from a storytelling standpoint, it made sense to make the Na'vi basically humanoid, but from a biological perspective it seems a bit too convenient that they diverged from the other animals on Pandora to converge with humans- at least from the standpoint of general body shape. This seems especially difficult to believe after learning that they have a non-DNA genetic molecule. That's a BIG difference and in some ways makes the idea that they're an example of convergent evolution with humans that much more difficult to believe. One has to wonder if they were genetically engineered to more closely resemble humans with the expectation that they would meet humans at some point. Or they're descended from humans that had their internal biology drastically changed to adapt to Pandora. I feel like that is more probable than the possibility that humans are re-engineered Na'vi because we seem to more closely resemble other species on our world than the Na'vi do on theirs.

We see some Na'vi children, many Na'vi adults, a few Na'vi "elders" who appear middle-aged and whose own children have grown into adults. We even see a funereal ceremony with a youngish-adult-looking Na'vi "returned to Eywa" after apparently dying from natural causes (not from the war vs humans). None of the Na'vi are truly aged. None are slow, weak, crippled, sick. It appears that either they age gracefully with a long lifespan ... or that they live short lives which always end in violence.

@Aethuviel

Жыл бұрын

Tsu'tey's parents in the comics look horrid. Very aged. Neytiri's parents are also kind of old (looking like humans in their 60s). I'm slightly confused by this, because while we've seen Neytiri age from 18 to 34, and her oldest kid is now 15, her and Jake still look as young as ever, while Neytiri's and Tsu'tey's parents, like I said, look very old by comparison. I guess they were much older when they had their kids.

@frwassersuppe

Жыл бұрын

​@@Aethuviel navi can live to 180 years, so jake and neytiri are still way youngers then the elders

@Aethuviel

Жыл бұрын

@@frwassersuppe Nah, they have a lifespan 25% longer than humans. So maybe 125 years is like a 100 year old human. Definitely not 180.

I Wonder if they’ll Film in icy landscapes too it would be so interesting how the navis there adapt to those

@k7l3rworkman97

Жыл бұрын

I bet they’d be Fluffy 😁

@admiraloscar3320

Жыл бұрын

The poles are likely blasted with radiaton, so it would be unlikely to have Na'vi living there

I respect James Cameron for how much detail he put into this amazing world of Avatar. I hope to reach aleast half his amount of detail in the culture and evolution of the Na'vi for my own alien species.

@sofypi7493

Жыл бұрын

" I respect James Cameron for how much detail he put into this amazing world of Avatar" yea to the point that he forgot to write a decent script for the second film

@killer_queen4062

Жыл бұрын

@@sofypi7493 go be bitter somewhere else bro the movie was good

Really like your species breakdowns they are always fun to watch and sometimes add a angle I’ve never considered before. Keep up the good work.

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

The fact that they are humanoid is what I would call parallel evolution. Eyes may have evolved as many as 40 times during metazoan development. Some basic eye molecules, such as retinal and the opsins, are highly conserved and present throughout most multicellular animals on earth. I'm not sure how it would be on another planet but Earth sets a precedent.

@pwnmeisterage

Жыл бұрын

Convergent evolution occurs everywhere in nature. Whales and sharks have similar forms, birds and bats have similar forms, canines and felines have similar forms. They've have divergent origins but have all converged onto similar forms because those forms are well-adapted for their environments.

@minethotho5422

Жыл бұрын

@@pwnmeisterage the best exemple is crabs, it has been proven to be the best shape possible for survival underwater, so a lot of species adopted it. Only a fraction of what we think of as crabs are actually crabs. You should go read about that it's really interesting.

@norbertnagy5514

Жыл бұрын

@@minethotho5422 im interested and i will probably search for this myself but you probably can drop a few names to articles/videos etc.

@minethotho5422

Жыл бұрын

@@norbertnagy5514 would you happen to speak french by any chance? Because the video I've watched that explained it the best is in french.

@norbertnagy5514

Жыл бұрын

@@minethotho5422 no, as of now i only speak my mother language and english

In the ER about to be admitted to the hospital, thanks for keeping me from getting bored.

Avatar has such a great world building, i wouldn’t mind watching Avatar as if it’s a documentary.

Why does this only have like 400 likes? You do such a good job doing species breakdowns for Star Trek. I'm not sure why unless people are just burnt out on avatar. I don't know. I love it! Great job!

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I really hope the sequel is good. I really want it to be good.

@dreadfoozie

Жыл бұрын

It is

@Anna-pj8te

Жыл бұрын

It’s good, but not amazing 7/10

Love Avatar a lot. Love finding videos explaining the biology of Pandora's many unique creatures. People say the characters could have been better but I think Neytiri is a very well written character and I think the design of the Na'vi is really cool.

its crazy to think but we know at first movie that Tom (Jake's twin) is the real owner/supposed driver of Jake's Avatar (coz his DNA was the one that was used to make it). So it might mean possibly that Tom Sully is actually the biological father of Loak, Neteyam and Tuk. Jake has the consciousness/soul but it's actually Tom's body or Avatar.

@xQuandaleDinglex

Жыл бұрын

😐 oh snap...

@alkhemiaaugustine3764

Жыл бұрын

They're identical, they share the same DNA, it's his DNA too, it's his kids

@Ice.muffin

Жыл бұрын

@@alkhemiaaugustine3764 Like yeah, how is this not easily understood and common knowledge?

@bhendri31

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's weird. An uncle but also a father. Nieces and nephews but also daughters and sons.

@Aethuviel

Жыл бұрын

There have been cases of identical twins donating a testicle or ovary to their twin. The resulting children is still the other twin's biological children, because they are genetically identical. This is still less than that, because this isn't *Tom's* body, it's a hybrid body made with some of his genes.

Maybe humans weren't the first to find Pandora and the Na'vi and the results of bio-hybridization? This appears to be happening with human genetic code being inserted through avatars.

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Could be! I know there's a widely entertained theory among fan circles that something like this could have happened.

@dylancole1910

Жыл бұрын

That’s a really cool thought.

@JJjjJJjjJJ28

Жыл бұрын

There could be an ancient superior race in the Avatar universe similar to the Alien Engineers in Prometheus, and in the final movie the humans and Navi have to team up to defeat them, that would be awesome.

@JeremyBolanos

Жыл бұрын

@@JJjjJJjjJJ28 Why they got to be evil though? LOL

@leonardocontin937

Жыл бұрын

@@JeremyBolanos Sci-fi tropes at their worst

We all want a Na'vi as a friend.

The alternative to DNA thing was cool, but how could they hybridize Navi genetics with human DNA to make the avatars if they are so different?

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Honestly would love to know James Cameron's answer to this. One reason this video focuses more on the lore rather than the quality of the story writing... ;)

@minutemansam1214

Жыл бұрын

@@OrangeRiver Maybe they translate our genetic sequence into something equivalent using their genetic code?

@Ice.muffin

Жыл бұрын

@@minutemansam1214 Very plausible, that must be it. After all, genomes are nothing but a language, if they found the translation then that's how Avatars were born!

this was such a fun video to watch, thank you for paying such close attention to detail and doing the research required to make this video. happy to be a new subscriber!

this video is so underappreciated. Great job with it!

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

It’s worth noting that eywa is canonically a real God in this world. Therefore some of these evolutions were likely manifest with a similar backstory as Adam and Eve of our world.

@kx7500

Жыл бұрын

Actually no as even then gradual evolution is more efficient

It would be cool to see how life in Pandora could interact with life on earth,some Earth’s Organisms definetely can breathe Pandora’s athmosphere

My video on this topic was nowhere near as well made and in depth as this! Amazingly done!!!

so refreshing to have someone actually talk about their biology and not just "duhhh na'vi aren't native they used to be aliens"

I'm usually here for the Star Trek content, but I enjoyed listening to this one! I'm interested to actually see the long-discussed sequels coming out at long last lol. Thank you for another very nifty video! God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

There's probably a KZread channel in some other dimension where there's a movie called 'Abatar' and it's on a planet populated by Na'vi and the movie is about a Na'vi trying to take minerals from Earth and interacting with US through avatars, and then there's a KZread video about Human biology talking about US like this

The fact James Cameron has gone on record saying "make them f**kable" there you go.

I would love a video comparing human and Navi physiological differences and how they may be a disadvantage or advantage in the world of pandora. An example to explore might be the difference in gravity from that of earth.

Yeah I was quite impressed with the world building and verisimimiltitude in term of ecology

@rmeddy

Жыл бұрын

Just came back from the sequel. doubly so

Very cool. I can't wait to see the sequel!

I love this channel. I really do. Keep up the good work!

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I love watching videos like this ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thanks for investing your time in it .

I loved the incredibly diverse biological and ecological systems of the world

I saw Avatar: The Way of Water earlier today, and there's a Na'vi clan called the Metkayina who have several differences from the Omaticaya such as having blue eyes instead of yellow, their skin being more aquamarine, thicker arms and legs with fin-like protrusions on their hands and forearms, and their tails are flat at the end like a paddle which helps with swimming. It was also established that Earth air is semi-breathable to the Na'vi and can survive it for a few hours.

Fascinating. I love the attention to detail in the biology/eco systems! They gave such wonderful attention to fleshing out an "Alien" biosphere, I can't wait to see the next one 👍🖖😁🤘❤️

great video! thank you for making such detailed vids on sci-fy races, would you ever make ones on any races from the stargate series?

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

I haven't seen any Stargate and it would be a huge time commitment. But it's on my radar!

@azinboyyswaqq

Жыл бұрын

@@OrangeRiver understandable! thank you for the reply :)

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

No prob!

@tmosterloh

Жыл бұрын

I love Stargate!

@tmosterloh

Жыл бұрын

@@OrangeRiver Stargate content would be super dope!

There is a avatar video game set to release sometime next year that I can’t wait for

I see you, OrangeRiver.

@SnarkNSass

Жыл бұрын

Be Ye Friend or Foe?🤨

What I wonder is 1)how one would look if grown in Earth gravity; 2)why movie forgets about that factor 3 seconds after mentioning it. Just like about how humans apparently have widespread bionics(possibility of Jake's spine being repaired mentioned as mundane, albeit costly thing) and genetical engineering(avatars are extremely costly, but simpler things like enhanced muscle or prolonged age would be mundane compared to making an artificial being). We'll see neither of course:(

I know the internet hated this movie because of the commentary and portrayal this film had (and let's not forget the worldbuilding people nitpick from Unobtainium to six-limbed fauna which some sound like Jurassic Park's dinosaurs to neral-connected hair and sentient neral-connected trees that don't exist here on Earth), but they're missing the point as Avatar is an alien invasion movie where humans are the aliens invading a planet for its resources rather than a generic environmental film.

Interesting points, especially around the 6-limbs/4-limbs evolutionary development. I guess there must be some advantages to tetrapods though, because they won out against the hexapods here on Earth!

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I do think ultimately it's all about tradeoffs :0

@minutemansam1214

Жыл бұрын

I don't know, hexapods are the dominant form of biomass on Earth, both in terms of the number of individuals as well as their collective mass.

@MatthewCaunsfield

Жыл бұрын

@@minutemansam1214 Good point, but only for creatures up to a certain physical size.

@Gunkle_Jeb

Жыл бұрын

You sure? Arthropods (bugs) is/are the largest animal kingdom and I hear they do really well on Grindr since their six feet

Love your channel bro. I appreciate the respect you give to your assumed audience ❤

Awesome video! Could You make a video about new avatar spiecies from new movie? The aquatic ones ^^ and what other avatars could look like from maybe a desert or snow areas?

It's my favorite movie. Like a very old child I watch it over and over.

Pandora. Very similar, yet very different. Truly an amazing world that I'd like to explore if it existed.

I wonder if there are other aliens in the Avatar universe

1:53 As a Star Wars enjoyer I’m really happy you threw that reference in there

Am I the only one that wants to see one of these videos that is on the great spirit robot from Bionicle. Or just anything from the Bionicle universe?

The new one was sooo amazing. If i could turn into anything it would be an avatar. Movie is beautiful, the black hairstyles, the clothing, the beautiful scenery.😍going to the movies to see it again

5:21 I think the Na'vi do have DNA. In the first movie at 00:08:26, there's some exposition saying "they're grown from human DNA mixed with the DNA of the natives."

@Carlos-gp9uv

Жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you're talking about, but I think the way they are saying DNA in the movie isn't particulary dioxribonucleic acid exactly, but like an example to some type of genetic code they use instead, good catch though !

@bhendri31

Жыл бұрын

@@Carlos-gp9uv "the way they say DNA in the movie isn't deoxyribonucleic acid exactly"??? Bro....DNA literally stands for deoxyribonucleic acid.

dude that is so good I wanna be a pandora

it always ticked me off that the navi weren't more visibly alien especially on a world where everything else has noticeably more eyes and limbs, but at the same time i assume it's likely at least in part because cgi'ing an entire other set of eyes and arms on all those mocap actors would probably be too expensive and would push the line of visual beleivability just a little too far.

@meraki931

Жыл бұрын

I agree, especially since it came out in 2009 😅

@quantumphysics7008

Жыл бұрын

@@discobolos4227 i know that part too, i just didn't feel like getting into it because talking about human anthropocentrism and absolute fucking refusal to even try to relate to or have the slightest empathy or shits to give for anything that isn't EXACTLY like them always sends me into a violent misanthropic rage spiral of complete and utter hatred for humanity and it's willful blindness to it's own disgustingly feverish supremacism, which in this context people would probably mistake for some kind of weird environmentalist rant when it's not and actually has nothing to do with that

@elvingearmasterirma7241

Жыл бұрын

@@quantumphysics7008 well it is why i have more respect for monster/alien lovers/fckers They at least... Can empathise with sentient non humanoid ideas

@HowlingWolf518

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much. There's plenty of thirst for the Yautja, Sangheili, Poleepkwa and Turians, so Hollywood's xenocreativity seems more dependent on the budget.

@hoominbeeing

Жыл бұрын

@@quantumphysics7008 Are you vegan? If not, I can't see how you can criticise human supremacism without hypocrisy

06:00 That was very interesting to hear! Do any of you have some links were I can read further into that?

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

I first heard about it from Melodysheep's "Life Beyond" (specifically Part II), which you can find on KZread. But upon looking a bit further into this, I did come across a few articles like this one: www.extremetech.com/extreme/301888-researchers-find-more-than-1-million-alternatives-to-dna

This sort of video is awesome but where do you get the information to put in it? Are there novels or more than the one Avatar movie to go on?

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Avatar wiki, mostly lol. The information in those is based primarily on the film and also the trailers for the new movie, plus there are various reference books that go into more detail.

It also seems like they are the only species on the moon that have hair or fur.

The Avatar's queues remind me of a book I read (I forget the title, it was years ago) where the main character and his girlfriend could plug into one another's minds with a cable and each person instantly gained all the senses the other did and so they... yeah.

most of the video was very interesting, but i really have to give props on your view on civilization and the agricultural revolution. everything has trade-offs. sometimes you get a little bit more good than you do bad, and sometimes the other way around. overall i wouldnt say it has had a large net positive on the human race, but it has had a net positive, i agree.

@kx7500

Жыл бұрын

Agriculture isn’t the problem coercion is

wow very well done video! you earned my sub

Pandorans DO also have six limbs, but they just never show the camera their tiny, very private, "inner" arms. The loincloth hides them completely.

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Lol

Should’ve just replaced all footage of the Na’vi with random clips of Mickey Mouse without explaining why

@Nitero_

Жыл бұрын

but a blue mickey mouse, to be extra sneaky

@singletona082

Жыл бұрын

Orof the Smurfs.

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

@Dean Prater Might be onto something :0

I wonder if that moon would be decimated by radiation from the gas giant - sort of like Jupiter

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

It very well could be subject to higher radiation than Earth--I think that's a good point to make. I imagine that colonization of Jupiter's moons (like in The Expanse) would require us to make significant advancements in radiation shielding, not only for scientific bases but even for EV suits. Does make one wonder if the humans on Pandora would realistically need more than just gas masks lol...but perhaps Polyphemus being Saturn-sized makes a difference. I don't know much about Titan's radiation environment.

@proterotype

Жыл бұрын

It’s good to get your view on it

@pwnmeisterage

Жыл бұрын

It seems extremely improbable that a complex living ecosystem could evolve on a moon.

@minutemansam1214

Жыл бұрын

@@pwnmeisterage Why not? There is nothing in physics stopping it.

Your video is so interesting❤

An extra explanation for the Na’vi become tetrapods through limb fusion is to lower the weight of the upperbody for better balance while standing bipedal & less stress on the spinal column

awesome vid ty

Since there is officially two species of na'vi: jungle and sea. Would there be more diversity (if it exists) na'vi that inhabits cold/frozen climates with some sort of winter coat. Or maybe desert na'vi that maybe be shorter to conserve energy.

@Tom_ig

Жыл бұрын

Desert na'vi and na'vi that inhabit cold places would be a nice idea

@Ice.muffin

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't that be considered more like subspecies instead of an entirely different species...?

Brilliant presentation

I really liked this video...but I immediately thought of Cool Whip when you said Neural Whip

Great video.

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

It's baaack!

@vomeronasal

Жыл бұрын

@@discobolos4227 The video, after being copyright struck.

Could you do the pearl beach people from valerian and the city of a thousand planets plz 🙏🏿

I loved it!

I wonder if James Cameron watched this

where do you get all this detailed information from? is it from a book or interviews?

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Much of it comes from the Avatar wiki, though my script editor added lots of context from various encyclopedias etc.

Man I wish Pandora was real

As far as agricultural progression is concerned with Human's vs the Na'vi, the Na'vi follow the three laws of Eywa that expressly forbid them from: 1) Setting stone upon stone (no building from non-renewable sources), 2) Not use a turning wheel (wheels, in general), and 3) Not use the metals of the ground (self explanitory) I know it's just a movie and James Cameron get's to make up all the rules, but imagine if we stumbled across a society like this legitimately and they followed rules similar to this. Imagine the implications, that a greater power, who had seen what developing human-like agriculture would lead to, became the deity of an unadvanced species, and told them to never advance further than necessary to preserve their world and their peace. Honestly love it.

Lol I take issue with the egalitarian theory. Elders and those who were sick were not considered equal in a society that relied on having healthy people to hunt-gather and move.

They always reminded me of blue elves

Convergent evolution, to me, seems inevitable. It's been pointed out how so much the Earth's material came this solar system, the rest of this galaxy, and beyond..that the basic chemistry is bound to be "common", and making it hard not to believe something out there, is going to look.."familiar". Even if only a little bit, though possibly more, even a lot. Until they come here, or go out and find them, we'll never know for sure.

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

It'll depend a lot on the environment, of course. Though I too expect things like eyes, forward locomotion, etc. to be common. It is worth noting that convergent evolution on Earth is still based on the same common ancestor(s), so Earth-type body plans seem to be hard-coded into our DNA in a way that alien body plans might not be. But like you said, we won't know until we know!

It would make more sence to have Na'vi breath thrugh chest holes. Around collarbone, many species have 6 limbs, Na'vi have 4 wich doesnt really make sence from evolutionary standpoint but can be comprehensible. But the breathing holes, have almoast or every animal breath thrugh chest holes but Na'vi... felt weird to me, would be great if Na'vi human clones breathed normaly thrugh mouth, and Na'vi homespecies thrugh chest "holes". Its like 4 and 5 fingers small detail but makes sence, on earth we have 5 on pandora animals have 4 fingers, 6 limbs, chest holes, 2 pairs of eyes...

great video!!

Blue space elves 👍 They literally embody the trope.

If I recall my apocrypha, only human-hybrids have eyelashes, one of the other tell-tales (along with 5-digit hands).

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

...Neytiri literally has eyelashes in the thumbnail lol

@JuryRigged

Жыл бұрын

@@OrangeRiver Other poster is correct, I meant eyebrows. From the wiki: Avatars possess eyebrows, while the Na'vi are hairless apart from their scalp and a small tuft of hair on the tips of their tails.

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Ahh ok

Real cool video

5:39 I beleive nights would be like dusk not because of the binary stars (as the stars probably orbit eachother from far enough away that they arent that bright in the sky from eachother, and also Pandora is within a triple star system, but one star is very small and orbits extra far away so it is very dim) but because of the gas giant. The same thing happens on Jupiter and Saturns moons, though maybe not during eclipses, the nights on moons revolving around these massive planets that reflect a lot of light would light up the entire world like a night light.

@gamertardguardian1299

Жыл бұрын

And in that frame at 5:40 I beleive that bright star is the "other" star, or it could be another planet or distant moon, but either way that is likely what a relative star would look like, if not maybe a little brighter.

That "The only intelligent extraterrestrial lifeform" line didn't age well

Being that close to a gas giant would roast any life from radiation

Very interesting, thanks.

Thanks Orange river...

At the end of the video you said that pre-agricultural people were less violent. My understanding is that tribal cultures were very violent as everyone outside of the in-group was seen as other than human and thus lacking the same moral worth as those within the group. It may not seem like it, because of our global sensationalizing media, but we are living in the most peaceful era of human existence.

@bhendri31

Жыл бұрын

Oh, absolutely. The "noble savage" is a myth and hunter gatherers can be just as brutal to each other as more advanced societies can.

Mind-blowing video, learnt a few new things about the Na'vi too, just excellent stuff man!! Also, you're a very good-looking young man, hope you know that 😋😋😊😊

I got the flu and Ive never watched this movie. Imma go watch it. And before you ask. I was never allowed to watch it. I don't know why. I just never was allowed.

It's easy to explain. The na'vi are the result of mixing a cat with an elf, making them a bit larger than usual and also giving them a bad attempt at developing psionic abilities. You mix those three in a blender, add some sugar, spice and flowers and you get a tall blue space elf kitties.

@Kubamorlo

Жыл бұрын

They are basically more human like protoss

@hansmatos2504

Жыл бұрын

@@Kubamorlo except the space elf cats have mouths. That makes them infinitely better already

@ametrineambrosia4929

Жыл бұрын

@@hansmatos2504 why wouldn't they have mouths!! Of course they do!!

@hansmatos2504

Жыл бұрын

@@ametrineambrosia4929 because mouthless aliens are not that much attractive to humans xD

While I’m not the biggest fan of the film, this breakdown really gave me an appreciation for all details Cameron and Co. put into designing an alien species and world. Great video.

@OrangeRiver

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Alexander! Yeah I feel the same way about the film, but I too was impressed in my research about the effort put into the aliens' design.

my theory is they are actually an artificially created lifeform designed by some kind of precursor and this is why they don't match the other lifeforms.

@yuriyfazylov5506

Жыл бұрын

I think they were not native to pandora either.