Awesome. So why did they delete the scene? I have some ideas. Because only a select few such as ourselves would get it. Also, if you note the image quality at the beginning, this was highly unrefined. While the visual quality stays the same, the power of the scene increases as it elapses. Maybe James Cameron hit a wall in attempting to bring this scene to life in a way that had the capacity to meet his own standards. Maybe he didn’t want to finish because he couldn’t. Maybe the studio wanted him to scrap it. I personally don’t care. If you look at the history of his idea, from inception to creation, you might find it a wild ride. Cameron had that whole thing in his head since he finished Titanic. He wanted to finish it and release it in 99, but decided the tech wasn’t good enough to do his idea justice quite yet. Normally I hate the degree to which tech and cgi has replaced real acting and theater, but with this film I believe James Cameron pulled off the most impressive integration of the two I could ever imagine. I know some of you were smoking DMT and a part of the Nexus since 2009, when Avatar was released, or even before then, but Avater was super special to me. Back then I was in some kind of weird ritalin/insomnia/peuberty induced psychosis with no real friends or attachments, and to me it was awesome. Even though there have been lots of super CGI movies since avater set a precedent, I can’t think of one which rivals how impressive it was at the time. Watching it 3D in a theater with my family was an amazing experience. What’s more awesome to me is that Cameron still took years to develop the second one which is projected for release in late 2021. 11 years later. There are 3 more Avatar movies to come after the sequel. Earlier this summer I happened to throw it on as a mescaline experience was starting and THAT was special. That honestly felt right up there with tripping around a campfire with those you love, or around a campfire with people you just met, but now love. One would think you can’t get in touch with nature while tripping balls inside. I say tripping balls is tripping balls baby. I’m going to watch every next installment of Avatar for the first time while on mescaline, and from the comfort of my own home of course! A public theater would be irresponsible, and more importantly, I like to get animated watching movies while tripping. To me it kind of feels like it bleeds into reality, and a part of you bleeds into the movie. I’m like in the movie, and the movie is taking place in and around my living room, if that makes sense. Doses of LSD that produce synesthesia are particularly otherworldly when combined with a movie, but watching movies on acid is more dangerous imo than it is with mesc, especially if you haven’t seen it before. If you’ve ever watched or heard of the movie Glass (the sequel to Split) by M Night Shyamalan, you might imagine how uncomfortable I was watching that on 4 tabs. Even worse, when it was over, I decided I didn’t really get the ending so my acid brain decided to replay the darn thing right away. Had to watch it twice. Not fun. But other movie watching experiences on LSD were very special and spiritual. Anyways, Avatar is cool.