On the December 19, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film news writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to discuss the Avatar: The Way of Water box office and have a spoiler discussion about the James Cameron sequel.

Opening Banter: Peter has major construction at his condo, so noise will be unavoidable.

In The News: 

• Avatar: The Way Of Water Made Big Waves At The Box Office, But Will It Be Enough?
• Avatar: The Way Of Water Kicks Off Its Box Office Run With $17 Million In Thursday Previews

Mid-Roll Sponsor break: “we’re going to take a quick break, and we’ll be right back”

In The Spoiler Room: Avatar: the Way of Water Spoiler Discussion

• How did you watch it (HFR, IMAX, 24FPS….etc)?
• Brief thoughts on the movie
• How does it compare to the first film?
• Convoluted returns
• Quaritch has a son
• Who is his mother?
• Spider mentions he was too young to go into cryo back to earth after the events of the original avatar. So this means he would have also been too young to go into cryo from earth to pandora. So that must mean he was conceived and born on Pandora. Could his mother appear in sequels?
• Avatar: The High Ground has an answer for this: Paz Socorro.  His mother was a scorpion pilot serving under Quaritch who was killed during the assault on the Tree of Souls. He’s also apparently the first human birth on Pandora.
• Tulkun
• Amrita
• Lo’ak
• Kiri (Sigourney Weaver)
• Who is her father? Does she even have one?
• What causes Kiri's seizure?
• Norm claims that the seizure was caused by epilepsy, and that the tree triggered hallucinations through electrical impulses in Kiri's brain.
• What is Kiri’s connection to Eywa?
• The epic third act action sequence
• Na’vi Quaritch survives
• Why does Spider save his father?
• Neytiri almost killed him
• He cares
• Whats next for him?
• Will Spider tell the Sully family what he did?
• Is Quaritch redeemable? 
• The sequel titles
• Avatar: The Seed Bearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Rider, and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa
• “Those titles are among titles that are in consideration. And no final decisions have been made yet.”
• What do they tell us?
• Will we see the Omaticaya forest Na’vi again?
• Whats going on on Earth
• In the first film Jake says there is no green left on Earth
• In this movie General Ardmore says that the Earth is dying and they are now planning to colonize and relocate to Pandora
• The books tell us that the planet was ravaged by environmental devastation and warfare, and that classism is rampant (the ultra rich can afford to life forever)

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