Comments on: What writers can learn from Avatar http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2009/12/what-writers-can-learn-from-avatar/ A distant chipmunk on the horizon Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:05:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Guest1 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2009/12/what-writers-can-learn-from-avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-4161 Guest1 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:50:57 +0000 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2009/12/what-writers-can-learn-from-avatar/#comment-4161 Read Midworld. It's not a timeless theme - Avatar is a timeless ripoff. You just need to change the color of the people. Read Midworld. It’s not a timeless theme — Avatar is a timeless ripoff. You just need to change the color of the people.

]]> By: jeffkirvin http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2009/12/what-writers-can-learn-from-avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-4159 jeffkirvin Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:09:04 +0000 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2009/12/what-writers-can-learn-from-avatar/#comment-4159 Kinda proving my point there. Kinda proving my point there.

]]> By: Guest http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2009/12/what-writers-can-learn-from-avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-4158 Guest Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:04:53 +0000 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2009/12/what-writers-can-learn-from-avatar/#comment-4158 Nonsense- This story is a rip off of Alan Dean Foster's Midworld and Poul Anderson's 1957 short story "Call Me Joe", where a paralyzed man uses his mind to remotely control an alien body. Nonsense– This story is a rip off of Alan Dean Foster’s Midworld and
Poul Anderson’s 1957 short story “Call Me Joe”, where a paralyzed man uses his mind to remotely control an alien body.

]]> By: S Hutchison http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2009/12/what-writers-can-learn-from-avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-4126 S Hutchison Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:48:11 +0000 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2009/12/what-writers-can-learn-from-avatar/#comment-4126 Mistaking the simple for the inferior was the hubris of the Company Man and the One-Track Military Jarhead. Suppose Cameron was making a subtle meta-point? (Probably not but I find it amusing that there is that connection.) Mistaking the simple for the inferior was the hubris of the Company Man and the One-Track Military Jarhead. Suppose Cameron was making a subtle meta-point? (Probably not but I find it amusing that there is that connection.)

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