Avatar The Way Of Water is a film that gave us a
complete emotional tale on togetherness and what we'd do the protect the ones close to
us, but it's an entry in James Cameron's growing universe that promises further stories and
arcs within the expanded world of Pandora.
The question now is, what can we expect from Avatar 3, Avatar The Seed Bearer or whatever
it ends up being called in just about 2 years time.
In this video, I'm going to be discussing what could happen in Avatar 3, following all
the plot details and character progression that we learned
of in The Way Of Water.
This video will contain spoilers from Avatar 2, so if you don't want anything spoiled,
then I would recommend watching this video at another time.
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But without further a do, lets dive into what we might see in Avatar 3.
So for all the storytelling developments of James Cameron's sequel, Avatar The Way Of
Water is only the second film in a planned 5 film universe.
The sequels are due to arrive every 2 years with the 3rd film, scheduled to release
in December of 2024.
Cameron has spoken about the sequels a bit in the last week, saying that Avatar 4 would
partially take place on Earth and that Neytiri would go there and
have a perspective somewhat comparable to Jake Sully in the first film, where she'd
see that there is some good in humanity.
But before we do reach that, we'd have to get through Avatar
3 and what the filmmaker has planned following the emotional ending of Avatar The Way Of
Water.
The movie ended with the Sullys giving their dead son, Neteyam a funeral under the water
at the Metkayina base, sending him to the bottom of the sea.
He became a part of the energy of Eywa and Pandora, and then we follow this with
Jake and Neytiri spending time with him in the afterlife, having connected with the underwater
tree of souls.
We do learn within this ending that the surviving Sullys are ready to move
away from the Metkayina with Jake saying to Tonowari that to protect his family it's better
to fight the humans then run away from them.
But Tonowari does say to Jake that he and his
family are metkayina now, so it's remains unclear of what Jake, Neytiri and his children
will do next.
Will they go back to the forest, stay with the metkayina or explore more of
Pandora and it's different tribes?
I can see there being a focus on all of this, and I think the urgency of alligning with
more Na'vi tribes will stem from the fact that the human forces
at Bridgehead will want retailiation from Jake's somewhat victory once again.
We do see the walled city of Bridgehead for a brief moment in the film and General Frances
Ardmore tells Quaritch that Earth is on the brink of collapse
and they need to make Pandora their new home.
So I'm guessing that after Quaritch's failure, the humans want to hit back with more of
their combined forces.
After all, Quaritch and his squad were a smaller group tasked with killing Jake Sully, to remove
that threat against their operation.
And with that not working out, that makes me guess that in Avatar 3 we'd
see Jake and his family assembling more of the navi from different regions of the planet
to end the war at Bridgehead once and for all.
Of course, the story over the next film may continue
to focus on Jake and Neytiri too, but based on the direction of the Way Of Water it seems
like the story is starting to divert more towards the children, and making them the
key protagonists of this story.
Kiri, Lo’ak and Tuk could be the future film's focus, and one of them could even become
a new leader of the people.
I know Cameron said that both Jake and Quaritch would be present in all 5 films but with things
like the Eywa being introduced, where you can literally talk to the dead once
connecting to a spirit tree, then for all we know, Cameron might have meant that a dead
Jake or Quaritch would appear there.
I can definitely see the kids taking over the leadership
from their father at some point and with Jake maybe sacrifising himself to save his family
in the future, then this may be moving us towards that.
Like I was alluding too, I can see this all building up to a big battle at
the walled city, Bridgehead, with Jake and the rest of the navi fighting the problem
head on, rather then running, just like he made clear at
the end of The Way Of Water.
Moving on, it's now time to discuss what could be going on with Kiri, after all the mystery
surrounding her origin alongside not knowing the father, and her newly found powers with
a deep connection to Eywa.
Now of course, one of the potential leaked titles for Avatar 3 is Avatar The Seed Bearer,
but based on the producers recent comments, that won't be the official
title of the film.
Still, if that is one of the working titles, it does sound like an obvious reference to
Kiri’s mysterious father, which is currently unknown.
In the final act of The Way Of Water, we saw Kiri use her spiritual
powers, both in guiding her family out of danger using glowing fish to manipulating
plants in the ocean that would defeat the underwater
sky people.
The original film didn't really dive into the supernatural all that much, and all we
knew was that Eywa had the potential of being something greater in this universe, thanks
to the many descriptions from Kiri's mum, Dr Grace Augestine, in explaining how everything
is connected.
So, the revelations surrounding Kiri and all the mystery that Avatar 2 posed
surrounding her origin, makes the Navi's connection to Eywa even more important as we move into
Avatar 3.
Spider and Lo’ak did joke about Norm being the father early on in the film,
and Norm was there to help Kiri offscreen when she had her seizure.
But right now, I think it's unlikely that Cameron would take such a weird direction
when it comes to Kiri's origin.
As explained in the film, Kiri is the daughter of the Avatar of Grace Augustine, who is now
suspended in a tank where she has been kept alive, but can't be woken up.
I think it's likely that she is either Eywa’s daughter or Eywa
herself physically reborn into the world of Pandora.
We must remember that Grace connected with Eywa while the Navi were trying to save her
in the original film and this might have lead
to her Avatar being able to create new life, explaining why Kiri can sense Eywa's heartbeat,
have a close connection with nature and use powers linked to that connection.
So basically, Kiri or Eywa is a kind of jesus for Pandora with no father, having powerful
abilities and connections that would only expand with the
later sequels.
Maybe down the line she might be able to bring the dead back through allowing them to be
reborn into a new body, similar to how she, as Eywa, was able to be reborn as
Kiri.
Who knows, we might see something along the lines of Neteyam or a soon to be dead Jake
Sully brought back in a new body using her spiritual powers.
It'll be interesting and I think if anything, my biggest anticipation
lies within what we will find out about Eywa in the future films.
And I think Cameron is definitely hiding these reveals and gradually leading
us towards them.
The last thing I wanted to talk about in relation to where things could go in Avatar 3 is what
lies next for Quaritch and his somewhat son Spider.
Obviously in the Way of Water, Spider’s character was revealed to be the son of the
original Miles Quaritch, and the kid had to stay in Pandora because babies cannot make
the trip back to Earth.
We learnt that he grew up with the Na’vi and was close to Jake Sully’s
other children, but that he was afraid of Neytiri, who makes it clear that she doesn't
feel as much affection towards him, because he was
Quaritch's son.
She held a knife at his throat to save Kiri, but because he spent time with this recommed
father throughout the events of the film, it ultimately lead to him preventing
him from drowning.
On one side this could be a sign that Spider might become an ally to his father and help
him, because maybe he might realise that Neytiri will never see him as a son,
especially after the events of this film and the death of Neteyam.
Although for that to happen he would have to go through a major character change and
it would put him on opposite sides to Kiri, who right now we believe has a romantic
connection to him.
Again, this might be possible with more character developments, but I think the more likely
option, is seeing a redemption arc for his father.
The recommed Quaritch is currently dealing with the memories of his human self and after
failing a second time to stop Jake and being saved by his son, I
think this could lead to him being redeemed.
Having Quaritch as the straight up villain bent on revenge for 3 more films is something
that I don't think would be all that interesting in
the long run of this franchise.
And with Cameron having a record of taking the villain from the original and flipping
their motives in sequels, I'd put money on Quaritch going through
something similar now that he's got a son who could pull him around.
Just imagine an Avatar 3 where Quaritch reckons with his sins, fights alongside Jake and the
navi against the humans at bridgehead, and eventually sacrifices himself
to save his son.
Of course, we'd need to see a lot of character development that moves him from the villain
we know to that kind of individual, but his new Navi form and reconnection
with Spider allows for that kind of change in the long run.
But that was my video discussing some of the things that could happen in Avatar 3.
We'll have to see what the filmmaker does, but I think all of these introduced elements
will be devoloped in unique ways that we don't expect.
Cameron will have to do that from a character and plot perspective in the sequels if he
wants to keep the interest by Avatar 4 and 5, so I
can definitely see there being some big things that happen in the next film.
And as I said before, with the director talking about this eventually heading to earth in
the later films, it suggests that big story developments are
on the way.
But let me know down below in the comments section what you are personally excited for
surrounding what could happen in Avatar 3 and whether you think that this universe can
sustain the story and character growth over 3 more films.
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