feels like this movie really resisted exploring some of its own philosophy
what made the first film at least kind of interesting, and where it got its name, is the whole "avatar" concept. your soul piloting the blue robot bodies. now that jake sully is fully na'vi, this whole concept basically gets dropped. avatar 2 features the bad guy from the last one - who is actually dead - by having his cloud-saved soul uploaded into the blue body, x-men style. the movie never really explores this idea. I feel like the subtle theme here might be that "our children become avatars for our souls" but this is not explored deeply enough.
while you slept, the world changed