...hey, you just put into words my big problem with Avatar.
I love the setting. I love the potential of all of the groundwork the team laid down. But that's all it is--potential. It came across as just plain incomplete in the movie, no richness to it at all. Things happened that made no sense, things weren't explained at all. I mean, I can understand trying to show an outsider's perspective, and they wouldn't know everything, but that doesn't mean that everything's not there, they just don't notice it. If that makes sense. I really hope Cameron lives up to actually showing Na'vi culture and whatnot in the next movie(s) because dammit, I shouldn't be having to trawl the entire internet and spin-off games and books to find the information that should be in the movie to begin with.