Why Avatar is BETTER than Titan AE

In this post, I will talk about why my favorite movie of all time James Cameron's Avatar is astronomically better than the toxic Titan AE that I loathe with a purple passion.

1. Avatar is vastly more realistic than Titan AE.  James Cameron has a strong emphasis on scientific accuracy and realism including on when he made Avatar.  You should check out this Realistic Designs webpage on Atomic Rockets to get started and I strongly recommend the book James Cameron's Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide.  Titan AE is handwavium saturation and I am not joking!  Blast I cannot suspend my disbelief for tons of handwavium wishful thinking!  Even Star Wars which is fantasy like Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings is not this unrealistic or soaked in handwavium as Titan AE is!  Titan AE on the other hand despite being pure handwavium IS science fiction like Back To The Future and Star Trek.
2. Avatar does not have a spaceship total our planet for no good reason.  The premise of Titan AE had a spaceship demolish Earth for no good reason whatsoever that did not make any shred of sense whatsoever storywise.  In Avatar, the Earth was dying due to human carelessness and greedy human prospectors came to Pandora trying to steal unobtainium.  Avatar was also a great cautionary tale like some other good works of sci-fi such as The Day After Tomorrow and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home are about pernicious trends that we are participating in.
3. Anything that Titan AE can do, Avatar can do better.  I do have to grudgingly admit that the messages of Titan AE themselves such as hope, second chances, finding a home, belonging, etc are good.  However, Avatar also has those same types of messages and can even get them across far better than Titan AE can.  Avatar has other great messages that Titan AE lacks such as caring for the environment, anti-militarism, and anti-capitalism which I adamantly push for.
4. Carl Sagan would have loved Avatar and would have hated Titan AE.  Carl Sagan was born on Friday, November 9, 1934 and died on Friday, December 20, 1996.  Titan AE was released on Friday, June 16, 2000 while Avatar was released on Friday, December 18, 2009.  If Carl Sagan were alive today and had seen both Titan AE and Avatar, he probably would have been as disgusted with Titan AE as I am and would have championed Avatar like I do.
5. Jake Sully is a far better protagonist than Cale Tucker.  Cale was a quite rude and obnoxious character throughout the course of Titan AE.  Jake Sully was more caring about the people in his life than Cale was.  Cale is just like the RDA businessman Parker Selfridge.  Cale and Parker are exactly the same character since they are both arrogant and rude.  At least Parker was an antagonist while sadly Cale was a protagonist.
6. Most Titan AE fans use logical fallacies when Titan AE is criticized.  From my encounters with Titan AE fans on the Internet, although there have been a few mature Titan AE fans who gave mature defenses to my criticisms of the film, sadly most Titan AE fans resort to childish logical fallacies.  The most popular logical fallacy among Titan AE fans is the straw man and after that is the ad hominem.  Avatar is a rational movie and therefore would not have tons of fallacies in its defense.
7. Titan AE deserved to bomb out in the box office.  I am mighty glad that Titan AE was a FLOP that will never ever stop flopping around!  Avatar in spite of inflated ticket pricing over the years, was a runaway success and I am also pleased that Avatar is a HIT!

Titan AE is such an abhorrent abomination that I would much rather watch Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace or ride the scenario of Star Tours II: The Adventures Continue that goes from pod racing on Tatooine to the seas of Naboo than to watch Titan AE any day.  I call any fruit that kills you with only one bite into it a Titan AE fruit.  The Star Trek TOS episode "The Way To Eden" featured an Eden planet on which all of the plants would burn you if you touch them, including the acid Halo flowers that burned Pavel Checkov's hand and Titan AE fruit that killed both Adam and Dr Severn.

Why I Protect Colo Claw Fish

The underlying reason I take Colo Claw Fish under my wing in interstellar voyages of the mind is to 1) promote peace and 2) inspire us to get out of this present culture of "why bother" and to be bold and to seize greatness.  This Velvet Rocket | Project Daedalus sums up my motivations for having such positive feelings towards Colo Claw Fish beautifully.  I say that we have tolerated this present pernicious culture of impotence, ignorance, fear, obsessive militarism for long enough and we must be bold, work together internationally, and start to develop an interstellar probe such as Project Icarus and Project Orion II.  Let Colo Claw Fish and I quote:

"I say that we have tolerated this present, pernicious culture of impotence, fear and ignorance long enough.  How long must we stand by and watch brave proposals collect dust?  It is time for us to be bold and to seize greatness.  It is time for a massive interstellar space probe.

If we are content to live in the past, we have no future.  And today is the past." - The Velvet Rocket

I could not have said it better myself, I totally agree with The Velvet Rocket about what I have just quoted.  Colo Claw Fish and I say that we have tolerated this current harmful culture of impotence, fear, obsessive militarism, and ignorance for too long.  Why must we allow brave scientific proposals collect dust?  Let's start working together internationally as one people and live in peace.  It is time to start developing an interstellar space probe such as Project Orion II.

Although Colo Claw Fish appeared only for seconds in Star Wars Episode I just to be sadistically tortured and eaten by a Sando Aqua Monster and mostly discussed in Star Wars source books and websites, I am still positive towards Colo Claw Fish for the reasons I stated above.  However, the brief appearance of Colo Claw Fish in TPM and my taking Colo Claw Fish under my wing at the same go is a coincidence.  Had Colo Claw Fish had a major role in their story (Star Wars or NOT), not gotten tortured and eaten (Sando Aqua Monster or NOT), or were portrayed in an astronomy book similar to Cosmos and The Universe And Beyond as hypothetical realistic aliens, I STILL would be taking Colo Claw Fish under my wing and be so positive towards them.  One thing to prove it was an image in a book with realistic interstellar travel in it of an animal resembling a Colo Claw Fish with distinguishing features and was not a Colo Claw Fish eating a small angler fish-type creature saying something about being eaten out of the gene pool.  So even if Colo Claw Fish were portrayed differently than in TPM, I still would be positive towards Colo Claw Fish and have my Colo Claw Fish & Project Orion II Unity.

NOTE: I don't like Star Wars and yet I am still highly positive towards Colo Claw Fish.  This is ironic but I am honest about it.

I dislike Star Wars for a variety of reasons.  First of all, I have various bad memories regarding Star Wars including when I had Project Orion II taken away for twenty weeks solid in 1999 in the name of Star Wars.  Secondly, I have deep foreboding about Star Wars.  Thirdly, the whole concept of the "Force" that the Jedi use is a metaphor for FaithPsychosis such as Christophrenia as well as being a cheat and a cop-out.  Fourthly, Star Wars can be very insensitive at times such as glorifying the act of a Sando Aqua Monster torturing, ripping in half, and eating a Colo Claw Fish.  Fifthly, Star Wars is way too unrealistic in that it is mostly built on handwavium wishful thinking.  Finally, many avid Star Wars fans are apologists and like to attack certain non-Star Wars things such as Star Trek, Star Fox, Titanic, and Avatar for example in the name of keeping Star Wars on top.

My Interstellar Brainchild: Project Orion II

"Then through the vast and gloomy dark,
There moves what seems a firey spark,
A lonely spark with silvery rays
Piercing the coal-black night." - Edward Lear

Colo Claw Fish

The Pitfalls of Misinterpretation

Let me tell you about the pitfalls of misinterpretation in which one for instance views something that is not bad as bad because they misinterpret it.  One contemporary example is some asinine drivel that is circulating on YouTube and the Internet touted by bizzarotards such as an amateur movie critic known as confusedmatthew and a commentator/reviewer/troll known as supergodzilla12 who adamantly believe that the characters of Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa in The Lion King are evil all because they grossly misinterpret the film and its characters due to obsessive nitpicking.  I ALWAYS knew that Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa in the movie The Lion King were good characters ever since 1994 the year the film was first released in theaters since it was so obvious!  Although I always knew that Timon and Pumbaa were good in The Lion King movie itself, there was once a dark period in my life in which I hated Timon and Pumbaa all because of something that I misinterpreted which is now my deepest childhood regret.  So this brings up my deepest fear about the false belief that Timon and Pumbaa are evil in The Lion King film, that it will infect me in such a way as to repeat a past obsession that I now deeply regret.  At least I never though Simba turned bad in any way, just thought that about Timon and Pumbaa.

Anti-Timon & Pumbaa Fanaticism (ATPF)

(August 26, 1995-August 1, 1997)

The true story of what happened to me when I got caught in the pitfalls of misinterpretation started in the morning of Saturday, August 26, 1995 when I was watching Saturday morning cartoons on CBS with some foster brothers.  During the commercial breaks, there were advertisements for a then brand new set of Saturday morning cartoons on CBS that premiered on Saturday, September 16 that year.  The two cartoons that stood out most in my mind were The Mask Animated Series which was a spin-off show of the 1994 live action release called The Mask and The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa Show.  I visually misinterpreted two clips of the Timon & Pumbaa Show; the first one having Pumbaa jumping off a wall screaming while the second clip had Timon standing on a panda bear's butt with the panda's head apparently in the ground screaming.  From this I thought that Timon and Pumbaa were going to pound the panda into the ground head first in an effort to suffocate the panda; in another words, I thought that they were killing the pandas and that they changed from being good to being bad.  This was a big issue for me because I already knew by then that pandas are an endangered species that is almost extinct.  Juleene Suzanne Brady Hebbler rightfully told me that Timon and Pumbaa were actually saving the pandas, but sadly I did not listen and instead started to hate Timon and Pumbaa and the Anti-Timon & Pumbaa Fanaticism (ATPF) began.  This panda misinterpretation that started ATPF was not nearly as bad as the asinine belief that I fear from the likes of confusedmatthew because of the circumstances that were required to make it possible.  People like confusedmatthew misinterpret Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa's characters while watching the entire film which blows me away.  The panda misinterpretation occured only because 1) I was watching a commercial (esp. for various cartoons) instead of an actual film or TV show and 2) I am more visual than auditory.  Had I watched the actual Timon & Pumbaa show and that actual episode featuring pandas; Don't Break The China, I would have known in advance that Timon and Pumbaa were saving the pandas and would not have gotten ATPF.

ATPF was in its prime during the 1995-96 school year when I attended Encanto Elementary School for the sixth grade.  When I was at Encanto during recess and PE when I was in the field, I saw what I at first thought were speedy caterpillars but later found out were small lizards that were difficult to catch.  From this, lizards became my favorite animals and I turned them against Timon and Pumbaa in my mind.  I also threatened to erase the Timon & Pumbaa Show by recording an astronomy program over it on occasion.  I also drew in ATPF, one of the most notable examples was when I was taking DARE class on how to say no to drugs.  I depicted meerkats like Timon as drug dealers offering drugs to lizards and the lizards saying no to the drugs.

Throughout the ATPF period, I did have an internal conflict since there were pockets of anti-ATPF resistance in me from a part of me that liked Timon and Pumbaa.  One proof of this was my dislike of hyenas that I still had at the time despite ATPF, which is ironic for reasons that I know so well.  One of the most depressing aspects of this chapter of my personal history is that ATPF happened to be at its strongest when one of my favorite childhood movies Toy Story first opened in theaters.

I tried to make a foster brother who was then half my age at the time feel bad for buying a Timon & Pumbaa's Wild Adventures tape called True Guts.  On occasion I did envision spacecraft such as the USS Voyager from a then brand new TV series called Star Trek Voyager being used against Timon and Pumbaa.  There was an unhealthy friendship between me and some teenage African-American girls who got off on and fed ATPF.  Juleene and Bob Hebbler told me many times in late 1995 and throughout 1996 that my hatred of Timon and Pumbaa was all because of something that I misinterpreted but I did not listen.  When my class was broken up into different groups for group projects on terrariums on various habitats on Earth, I wanted to be in a group either working on the rain forest or the ocean.  I ended up in a group working on the Savannah and got upset because I feared being associated with Timon and Puumbaa.

I also got all upset when I found that there were Timon & Pumbaa comic pages in the Comic Zone of a Disney's Adventures book on James And The Giant Peach and misinterpreted how Timon and Pumbaa were acting towards the other animals which obviously stemmed from the aforementioned panda misinterpretation that started it all.  Juleene rightfully explained it, but I did not listen.  When I bought my own copy, I sought to have the Timon & Pumbaa pages torn out and on my sixth anniversary of moving in with the Hebblers on May 25, 1996, through an episode, someone did as I wanted with those pages that I hated.  I was also up in arms when Burger King was selling Timon & Pumbaa toys in their Kid's meals.  I had some awful episodes during ATPF, some of the ATPF-theme fits were physical.  By 1996, Komoto Dragons became my favorite animals.

With my Star Wars phase that began by the second quarter of 1996, the edge was taken off of ATPF as to why the ATPF-related incidents I would create would not be as bad as in late 1995 or early 1996 and be shorter lived.  However, I had a few nitpicks regarding the Star Wars Trilogy that I suppressed my feelings towards.  In November 1996, the movie Star Trek: First Contact first opened in theaters and was not allowed to see it on opening day for some fit that I had.  After some pep talk with a friend, I did get to see Star Trek: First Contact in a theater in College Grove that has long since been torn down on December 26, 1996.  When I saw First Contact in theaters, the Star Wars phase was over and I declared the then brand new Enterprise-E as my favorite starship and First Contact as my favorite movie that I like much better than any Star Wars movie.  As a result, ATPF began to lose momentum at a progressively accelerated rate.

In mid January 1997 when I was in the drive-thru of what was at the time a Taco Bell; I heard on short notice that the Star Wars Trilogy was being brought back to the big screen, and I blew up in a fit that I call the "Theater Episode" and started to hate Star Wars for the first time.  The Theater Episode sealed the fate of any pre-existing obsessions that I had of being against certain things including ATPF.  As a result, I only performed a few ATPF-related acts with only one of them resulting in an episode.  Due to comprehension issues that I had throughout the 1990s, the only thing that could possibly beat ATPF at the time was in imperfect solution that I hatched in the evening of Friday, August 1, 1997 which was inspired by a classic known as The Wizard of Oz.  I came up with the scenario that the only reason that Timon and Pumbaa would kill the pandas is because some wicked witch cast a bad spell on them to make them do it.  Then I envisioned two lizards taking a two week round trip, with one week for one-way, to melt the witch with water and break the spell.  This solution worked beautifully and I finally defeated ATPF over 706 days after it started.  I was excited and celebrating throughout the month of August 1997 my victory over ATPF.  I finally realized that Timon and Pumbaa were saving the pandas as early as late 1999 or as late as early 2001.  It was my Project Orion II concept that was born out of the end of a comprehension issue that I had about Project Orion that was key to me realizing that Timon and Pumbaa were saving the pandas without watching the aforementioned Don't Break The China.

My deepest fear about this dogmatic belief saying that Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa are evil in The Lion King is that it will reinfect me with the exact same type of misinterpretation-based hatred of Timon and Pumbaa that I now bitterly regret, even if those who tout the nonsense don't intend at all to do so.  On being against Timon and Pumbaa for me in particular: Been there; done that, it sucked!  If the first one sucked, why would I want the sequel?  And that is exactly why I ban that belief stating that Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa are evil in The Lion King from any Project Orion II-related activity because I am certainly not going to let it happen again.  SuperGodzilla12 and ConfusedMatthew are both shallow and very prejudice against the characters of Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa and that makes me furious since it is highly unfair.

Project Orion II's Black List of NoNo's

This post contains a list of things that will be banned on Project Orion II and if you do anything that is on this blacklist, you will be 1) blocked from my YouTube account 2) not allowed to comment on my blogs, and 3) banned from any future Project Orion II websites.  Here is the black list of NoNo's that are strictly taboo when discussing Project Orion II.

BLACKLIST:

1. Genocide, advocating genocide, and genocidal fantasies that promote genocide against what one dislikes such as an anti-Avatar YouTube video by a user known as Radith87 called "How Avatar Should Have Ended" which glorifies using the Death Star from Star Wars destroying Pandora from Avatar.
2. Militarism
3. Militaristic Entertainment (a.k.a. Militainment):  Militainment comes in many forms such as militaristic video games including Halo and Call of Duty, war toys including GI Joe and America's Army, militaristic news programs, militaristic TV programs, militaristic films, trailers to real wars, pro-war music, and military-sponsored public events such as the MCAS Miramar Air Show in San Diego County.
4. Bigotry (esp. religious bigotry) on the basis of color, gender, sexual orientation, of life-style.
5. Slandering Star Trek by accusing Star Trek of promoting things such as racism or communism for fear that would lead to the exact same types of insults against Project Orion II.  If you don't believe me, go check out three following links to asinine Star Wars Vs Star Trek Essays and see for yourself: philosophy, communism, racism.
6. The abhorrent belief that states that the characters of Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa in The Lion King are evil which is based on gross misunderstandings and obsessive nitpicking for fear that it will infect me and cause me to repeat my deepest childhood regret.  If you don't believe me, go to confusedmatthew's and/or supergodzilla12's disgusting YouTube reviews of The Lion King and see for yourself.
7. Titan AE because it has a spaceship destroy Earth for no good reason whatsoever for the sake of a highly illogical story that is utter handwavium saturation.  Even Star Wars whcih is NOT even science fiction (even according to George Lucas) and is inslead fantasy like Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings is not this soaked in handwavium.
8. Godzilla because it encourages bullying and force arguments (argumentum ad baculum).
9. Hate speech
10. Certain pessimistic claims that state that interstellar travel is impossible, there are nay sayers who oppose any prospect of future interstellar travel and love to say that we will never go to the stars.

Now you know the types of things that are forbidden on Project Orion II and you should not do any of the things listed above or I will ban you from any Project Orion II-related discussions.

My Forebodings

I am finally succeeding in moving away from my troubles with Sando Aqua Monsters though my interest in the Jupiter "Floaters" and "Hunters" from Cosmos that I had starting in late March and most of April 1999 and taking Colo Claw Fish with me.  Sorry Tussy that I got a bit too rough on you, I take back what I said about you not being my friend.  That is the good news.

The bad news is that a Godzilla goon who dogmatically thinks that the characters of Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa are evil uploaded a mostly fallacious review of The Lion King.  The guy is OBSESSED with Godzilla and even uses that evil terrorist leviathan as his avatar in his TLK review which is a force argument generating uncertainty on whether or not I will do a full commentary on it or a good rebuttal.  Blast, I HATE Godzilla because he is capricious, malevolent, sadistic, warlike, sadomasochistic, terrorist.  I would much rather be friends with Tusserk than with the lying sack of diarrhea known as supergodzilla12 any day.  If I decide to do a commentary on that diarrhea head's lengthy nitpick review, I will use anti-Godzilla avatars such as the Cloverfield leviathan, the Sandworms of Dune, the Aerial Whale called "the Guide", or Jupiter Floaters.

Godzilla is one of those things that embody foreboding in me along with Mega Man, dragons, and the X-Wings, and this has nothing to do with supergodzilla12 since it stems from the 1990s.  I will be furious if you envision Godzilla eating Colo Claw Fish and hate you for it.

Back on the previous topic, this foreboding is not easy to explain and I am just starting to put the pieces together.  But when I get mentally home; meaning back to when it was full strong with Project Orion II versus X-Wings in February and March 1999 and I was before then as far back as mid 1998, I will be able to far batter understand this foreboding.  Then I must achieve what my goals have been before I can solve this foreboding of mine.  I have strict non-aggression rules and will not refuse to be friends with those who happen to like the X-Wings since I will be mentally home.  I did have a vendetta against a Starwoid nnaed Brian Walcaliak that stemmed form suppressed feelings that I had from my original hatred of Star Wars (January 1997- April 26, 1998) and what I call the "Orion Crisis" started on Fat Tuesday, February 16, 1999.

At this rate, I shall be mentally home by Wednesday, March 21, 2012, the thirteenth anniversary of when I was drivien away from my mental home state of mind by having my Orion II taken away.  In my Orion II Starship of the mind, I am taking Colo Claw Fish with me under my wing as I head mentally home.  In return, Colo Claw Fish will psychologically benefit me in various ways such as my already launched Colo Claw Fish & Project Orion II Unity and perhaps helping me to end my forebodings.

Colo Claw Fish

I Take That Back: I STILL Dislike Star Wars & Rogue Squadron SUCKS!

After thinking that for a while that I no longer dislike Star Wars, but it just dawned on me today that I still do.  I seriously dislike the design of the X-Wings and you can check out my latest blog that I just posted today.

The worst Star Wars-related attack against me on record was in the year 1999.  Started with the birth of my Project Orion II interstellar brainchild, I used Orion II to defend myself against Rogue Squadron and the X-Wings that I fear.  So in an effort to force me to like Star Wars and the X-Wings, those around me took away Project Orion II and tried to kill my brainchild, especially for twenty weeks solid from Sunday, March 21 until Sunday, August 8 that year.  This coupled with some indecision on my part out of fear caused a serious aftermath featuring unwanted obsessions and an unwillingness to study in me that otherwise should not be there.  It took me many years to undo all of that psychological damage.  Since 2002, I have had intense psychological therapy and since the end of 2004 did intense self-examination, and from all of that I have arrived at the conclusion that I really don't like the design of the X-Wings for example.

As I go back to being psychologically home for the first time since 1999, I am taking the erotic Star Wars eels known as Colo Claw Fish with me in an Orion II Starship of the mind.  I now have a psychological union between Colo Claw Fish and the Orion II Starship called the Colo Claw Fish & Project Orion II Unity.  This is especially important since the previous Orion Unity; a psychological union between the X-Wings and the original Project Orion called the X-Wing & Project Orion Unity was ill-fated from its start on Monday, August 17, 1998.  That previous Orion Unity was doomed to collapse into what I call the Orion Crisis and did so on Fat Tuesday, February 16, 1999.  However, I have other reasons for the Colo Claw Fish & Project Orion II Unity besides the failure of the X-Wing & Project Orion Unity.

Colo Claw Fish

Project Orion II Got Sando Aqua Monster Day

Hello, this is Project Orion II's Chief Designer and Fat Tuesday, February 21, 2012 is also the day that Project Orion II triumphed over the Sando Aqua Monster (including Tussy's Jedi Sando Aqua Monster on SWAG).

I am also designing an interstellar spacecraft concept that supplements Project Orion II dubbed Project Daedalus II which is a cross between the Project Daedalus second stage and the middle and stern of a Project Icarus design.  Daedalus II was born on the day that Project Orion II beat the Sando Aqua Monster.

Project Daedalus 2nd stage

The bow of Project Daedalus II will look like the Project Daedalus second stage above with the reaction chamber removed since it will be attach to a body that looks like the spine and stern of the Project Icarus design below

Project Icarus Mk 1

However, the engine on Daedalus II will have six supports instead of three holding the engine rings onto the pusher plate.  There will be six fuel tanks above the push shied instead of eight plus the spine will be somewhat shorter and have propellant and secondary propulsion such as magsail in it as well.  There could be heat radiators to purge the excess heat.  Colo Claw Fish Carriers may need to have large heat radiators to purge the waste heat.

Another option for a first Colo Claw Fish Carrier could be totally based on the Project Icarus Mk 2 design shown in the two images below.  Project Daedalus II might turn out to look like the Icarus Mk 2 design with some small changes on it.  The advantage of the Icarus Mk 2 design for a fusion pulse Colo Claw Fish Carrier is that it is easier to shield the sexy eels from cosmic rays with that design.  As I was writing this blog entry, I changed form the cross between Icarus Mk 1 and Project Daedalus 2nd Stage to using just the Icarus Mk 2 design as the staple basis for Daedalus II.  In fact, I will use the Project Icarus Mk 2 design for my Project Daedalus II, but will add some small changes such as a large hatch for erotic Colo Claw Fish and an astronomy deck that I know and love.

Project Icarus Mk 2 Foreward

Another bonus of the Icarus Mk 2 design is that those curved cosmic ray deflector magnetic poles can also serve as 100% effective Sando Aqua Monster repellent.  In another words, the entire ship would be Sando repellent. 

Project Icarus Mk 2 Aft

Project Orion II the Light Colo Claw Fish Protector