{"id":166005,"date":"2022-12-23T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/spider-is-avatar-way-of-waters-most-controversial-character\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T08:13:07","slug":"spider-is-avatar-way-of-waters-most-controversial-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/spider-is-avatar-way-of-waters-most-controversial-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider is Avatar: Way of Water’s most controversial character"},"content":{"rendered":"
With more than three hours of movie, Avatar: The Way of Water<\/em> is bursting at the seams with life on Pandora. that makes sense for a movie with three planned sequels hopefully (but not certainly) on the way; there’s a lot of sci-fi world to build out, and a whole new generation of Na’vi kids to get us to that future! <\/p>\n The most controversial of these new characters is Spider (Jack Champion), a human boy who was too young to cryo-sleep his way back to Earth, and thus grew up among Na’vi on Pandora. Through him, a lot of Avatar 2<\/em>‘s themes of identity, respect for nature, and belonging get filtered. And so there’s a lot riding on his character and\u2026 maybe, maybe<\/em> he’s not good? <\/p>\n Look, we’re not sure; there’s a lot of debate here at Polygon HQ. As such, we’ve done a full investigation, and we’re here to present our evidence: Spider, yea or nay? <\/p>\n Zosha: <\/strong>Look, I get it; no one is here to simply dunk on a child who’s really going through it, watching his closest friends lose everything as they work to defend their planet against alien invaders. But also: Spider kind of sucks! He sucks! He is supposed to be the main human we connect with, who sees Pandora the way the Na’vi (and we) see it. And as a perspective character he is distractingly irritating. I get that he’s just out there doing his best like the rest of us, but The Way of Water<\/em> doesn’t make the best case for following him for three more sequels. <\/p>\n Patches: <\/strong>Spider is a lonely boy who found new life under the wing of man-turned-Na’vi Jake Sully. And he really tries to hold his own. The kid hunts, he swings through trees, he hiss when hissing is appropriate, and he detests violent Sky People. When earthlings arrive back on Pandora, his entire world comes crashing down. Who is Spider? The Way of Water<\/em> only begins to answer that question.<\/p>\n Zosha, the case against Spider: <\/strong>He is annoying! The worst type of archetype for stories like this. Clearly last in the Avatar 2<\/em> kid rankings just because he is grating and doesn’t get a ton to do beyond being an assist. <\/p>\n Patches, in defense of Spider: <\/strong>We need to give Spider time. Would I be the annoying kid who butts into every conversation and gets overly clingy with my neighbors if my father died while nuking an entire race of aliens and left me to grow up with bitter human leftovers? Probably! He is definitely the cast-in-season-7-younger-brother-to-boost-ratings little brother of the Sully family, but I’m pulling for Jack Champion to be more Leonardo DiCaprio on Growing Pains<\/em> than Cousin Oliver on Brady Bunch<\/em>. In my opinion, Spider calling human Marines \u201cbuttholes\u201d should actually win him points.<\/p>\nOpening statements<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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