Couldn't quite make it through all of Avatar. That corny 50's pig violence thing so stale and revolting. And, special gripe, why can't noble natives use contractions? I do not understand this thing.
@rudytheelder And why can't Space Force fix the wheelchair-bound protagonist up with a working clone of his body, or if too expensive, at least an exoskeleton?
@rwhe @rudytheelder In fairness this is addressed in the film: it's an overt demonstration of the callousness of the civilization of which he's a part. They could fix him up but they don't have to, so they don't. Plenty more where he came from. The evil general guy actually promises early on to use his clout to get him fixed up in return for his cooperation.
@pieist @rudytheelder I haven't seen the movie since it came out, but was it really true there were plenty more where he came from? I thought he and his dead twin brother had a virtually unique talent for sideloading their minds into other bodies and were therefore quite valuable to the military.
@rwhe @rudytheelder Oh, I see. You're asking why they didn't do so once they needed him again, as opposed to as a discarded veteran. It seems to me that he was easier to control this way, particularly if they could hold out the promise as they did. After all he didn't need working legs to lay in a VR capsule.
@rwhe @rudytheelder Many people, particularly younger, fit men, don't want an electric wheelchair. I've known a few. They'd absolutely hate the idea and would never use one.
@pieist @rudytheelder Do we have reason to think he was one of them? Or that the military wouldn't order him to use an all-terrain electric wheelchair on a primitive world, no matter his preferences? I don't recall this being part of the story. Also see consumer-grade exoskeletons, above. 😀
@pieist @rudytheelder OK, maybe. But there had to be stuff like consumer-grade exoskeletons dude could use. I seem to recall he didn't even have an *electric* wheelchair, and this is how many hundreds of years in the future?