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Originally Posted by Mad Pino Rage

Well, they are incredibly wise and and in touch with higher spiritual knowledge because they can connect with all things of nature including Pandora and their ancestors either to listen to or speak with.

That is not deus ex machina. Jake's prayer was answered by Eywa. This is the biggest piece of evidence that more than suggests that everything is connected in way that transcends science. It was a "big fuck you and get out of my solar system" of nature as a unified front trumping the overbearing firepower of science.

It's a deus ex. Literally. It is God coming to the rescue. Jake can't save them, their own wisdom can't save them, having allies like Trudy couldn't save them. God had to come to the rescue.

The Na'vi are imitation wise. A cheap, unoriginal version of wise. Nothing they have or do is based on wisdom. Cameron makes a point of trying to tell us it's wisdom, but he forgets about the part where he created all the rules of that universe. He created the rules, and the Na'vi happen to know them (for, what we are shown, are completely biological reasons moreover). Wise characters have to be wise without the specific rules of that universe for them to be actually compelling and their wisdom to mean anything.

Yoda is wise even without the Force. Gandalf is wise even without his wizarding powers and knowledge of Middle-Earth history. Take away all the shit that Cameron made up and what you're left with is a bunch of haughty smurfs.

Originally Posted by Mad Pino Rage

Iif you really want to knock imagination knock on some guy who wrote about humanoids living extended lifespans in the forest that lived simultaneously amongst really short and stocky humanoids that lived in mountains that loved rocks that lived during a time of giant eagles. And furry-feeted hobbits.

You're not seriously suggesting there is a deficit of imagination in any of the work by the single most influential fantasy writer in history, are you? Yep, you're trolling. Okay.