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Avatar blues
Jan. 13th, 2010 03:05 pmHere's something that I sort of predicted, but I didn't think it would take quite this form: apparently a heap of Americans are experiencing post-Avatar-viewing depression. After having experienced Pandora, many feel that having the world pulled away from them after three hours and being unable to live like the Na'vi, their own lives pale into a sort of dull, grey slough of despond.
Allow me to be the first to sympathize by unhypocritically saying: You complete bunch of furries. Seeing a graphically impressive film about someone else's imagined world shouldn't make you any less able to cope with your real life, even if our own appears comparatively duff. I can't pretend to understand most of the hideousness that goes on on this planet, but I know I'd be pretty lost with the tree-dwelling aboriginal lifestyle very quickly (my laptop battery only lasts an hour) and I'm prepared to bet that you would all quickly miss niceties like electricity and the opportunity to force processed cheeseburgers through your arteries before too long. Besides, some of this world looks pretty decent as well if you take the time to see it - leave the city and go and see Scotland or something. (NB. This will not help with the health issue) Wish for it, do all you can to improve the real world, don't collapse and let it take over your life. Or if you really can't cope with being unable to enter a fantasy as an upright cat-thing, here's the place for you. Make sure to look at the music section while you're there.
More happily, Albion's been experiencing something of a comeback on the Internet since the film's release due to their uncanny similarities - more and more results for them together have been coming up. I used to be the only result for 'Iskai' on the above site, and now the results have quadrupled. You can't argue with figures like that.
Allow me to be the first to sympathize by unhypocritically saying: You complete bunch of furries. Seeing a graphically impressive film about someone else's imagined world shouldn't make you any less able to cope with your real life, even if our own appears comparatively duff. I can't pretend to understand most of the hideousness that goes on on this planet, but I know I'd be pretty lost with the tree-dwelling aboriginal lifestyle very quickly (my laptop battery only lasts an hour) and I'm prepared to bet that you would all quickly miss niceties like electricity and the opportunity to force processed cheeseburgers through your arteries before too long. Besides, some of this world looks pretty decent as well if you take the time to see it - leave the city and go and see Scotland or something. (NB. This will not help with the health issue) Wish for it, do all you can to improve the real world, don't collapse and let it take over your life. Or if you really can't cope with being unable to enter a fantasy as an upright cat-thing, here's the place for you. Make sure to look at the music section while you're there.
More happily, Albion's been experiencing something of a comeback on the Internet since the film's release due to their uncanny similarities - more and more results for them together have been coming up. I used to be the only result for 'Iskai' on the above site, and now the results have quadrupled. You can't argue with figures like that.
