Avatar blues
Jan. 13th, 2010 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnHere'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.
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Date: 2010-01-13 11:05 pm (UTC)http://i45.tinypic.com/2lto87k.jpg
http://www.texasoutside.com/hamiltonpool.htm
Screw Pandora, this is in Texas. Texas. (To be fair, that first picture is a bit fish-eyed as a deliberate effect to enhance the canopy, but you get the idea.)
Regarding getting depression because a story is over and you're shunted back to your own world, that has only happened to me once, and that was when I finished reading Jon Sleeper's A Teen Thing (because I'm a total furry, yes.) I was a bit young and easier to depress at the time, though it really was good.
Regarding Avatar and furries, there was a bit of a slappy internet Twitterfight (chronicled on
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Date: 2010-01-14 01:06 am (UTC)I of all people can appreciate the idea of wanting to live in an imagined better world (especially in the case of Avatar, do you remember watching him running when he's first in the avatar body and so elated that he can walk again? Isn't that what we all want to do in a furry world, go into a body or form that's better than our own) but saying some of the stuff quoted in the article and calling it a serious depression seems... a bit tragic.
That community appears to be members-only and based on your description I'm very happy about it.
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Date: 2010-01-14 06:21 pm (UTC)At least where I am in the state this is not actually too far off the mark, although it's less deserty than you would think.
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Date: 2010-01-14 12:14 am (UTC)Seriously though, what makes Avatar different from, like, Star Wars? Or Twilight? This isn't anything new... this is either A) the press being asked to talk about Avatar some more, and this being the best story they could dredge, or B) people are obsessed with Avatar as with any other work of fiction, but they're actually just depressed from the headaches they got from the 3D glasses, and are confused.
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Date: 2010-01-14 01:19 am (UTC)There was a moment in Avatar which made me feel especially wonderful (see my response above) but you're right that it's as fictional as anything else... perhaps it's just all in the visuals. Either that or they're experiencing their furry awakening and don't know how to deal with it.
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Date: 2010-01-14 01:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-14 01:25 am (UTC)get rich quicky scheme
Date: 2010-01-16 04:06 am (UTC)2. Hire programmers and a team
3. Create the Avatar 3D MMORPG (like Second Life but in Avatar form)
4. ???
5. PROFIT!
Seriously, a 3D MMORPG about Avatar is about the closet we'd get. I'll admit it, I wouldn't mind living in Avatar. Then again I'm not suicidal.
- weka