That bugged me, too--in fact, it kept throwing me off, because there's an old Poul Anderson story where the fact that the one-with-nature blue people who are getting encroached upon by humans are the only non-hexapods on their world is a PLOT POINT.
They have some explanation for it in a book I checked out--remember th lemur things with the fused upper arms? Apparently they're evolutionary precursors to the Na'vi, who have fused entirely. Which brings up SO MANY QUESTIONS.
I was okay with the use of reef life as the local flora and fauna, myself. At least it wasn't all just a bunch of mashup mammals.
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Re: Skipping the other issues...
Date: 2010-01-11 03:08 pm (UTC)They have some explanation for it in a book I checked out--remember th lemur things with the fused upper arms? Apparently they're evolutionary precursors to the Na'vi, who have fused entirely. Which brings up SO MANY QUESTIONS.
I was okay with the use of reef life as the local flora and fauna, myself. At least it wasn't all just a bunch of mashup mammals.