Avatar: were the Na'vi aliens too?

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I base this question on our own anatomy and what we share with other mammals.

Humans and most land based creatures have 4 limbs and a tail. Granted humans have a tailbone, but the remnants of what was there. We also breathe through our mouths and noses.

Now compare the Na'vi to the fauna of Pandora. I believe most if not all the creatures we saw had 6 limbs and a tail. Not only that but they had this intake-like thing going on where their shoulder bones would be, which would assume is for breathing. The Na'vi, however, like Earth based creatures have 4 limbs, a tail, and breathe through their noses and mouths. The only thing that they share with the fauna of Pandora is the weird hair tentacle thing.

Did that Tree of Souls place look like something that would naturally occur? Assuming the tree wasnt hollowed out and fell over like a slinky that is.

Or maybe the creature designers didnt really care, i mean its a foreign planet right?
 
I've found that main-stream sci-fi/fantasy stuff often feature aliens.other species that are human in almost everything but name. O.K., yeah, the Na'vi were blue and had tails, but they're very obviously cut from the same cloth as humans, and had very similar cultures. It's a shame in films like this, because if the Na'vi were more obviously alien, the point of the movie would probably be stronger.

(And, Blankments, a large faction would argue that Avatar technically is an animated movie. I'm not taking a side either way, though.)
 
I would think they evolved with the fauna on the planet due to the bond of the hair. They must be related in that sense how they can connect to nearly any animal of the planet (moon of Jupiter I guess). In fact, they are less alien that we are on Earth. There is no organism we can connect with in that way as the Na'vi do, unless I am missing something.
 
If 100% of the on-screen visuals are created through computer animation (even using mocap technology), how is that not considered animation? :shrug: Avatar struck me as an animated movie with a few live-action scenes and actors tossed into the mix.
 
IMO, I was thinking the exact same thign when I saw this.

Every single animal on the planet(moon) had six limbs. Why wouldn`t the Navi? It makes no sense.
 
Every animal that we saw on the planet was like that. Who's to say we saw every species? Also I don't remember what they look like but did their dragons that they had to fight into submission have six limbs?

Something I think disproves that they're aliens was already brought up, they're interactive hair (?) that they can plug into everything seamlessly. If they were aliens, that part wouldn't make sense.
 
Expanding on that tentacle thing, just like how the humans of that world adapted the Na'vi DNA, whose to say that a pre-Na'vi species couldnt adapt the same way and add the tentacle pony-tail to function with the local fauna. I mean the more you think about it, how is it that the Na'vi were the only ones doing the link thing? Yet, none of the fauna bother to use them.

The dragons (Mountain Banshee) still have the shoulder-intakes, as for the limbs, I couldnt really tell. hard to notice where a limb begins and a wing ends.
 
I suppose the Na'vi and the animals have a common ancestor which possessed the tentacle hair thingies. That ancestor probably branched out from another ancestor, which insects also evolved from. The fauna is most likely a separate kingdom.

Sorry, very rough Biology.
 
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