Akwey supports Jake's choice, though before the group can continue debating, it is noticed that Jake's children are gone, with the exception of Neteyam. Meanwhile, Kiri and Spider head to the RDA's lab where they watch Jake's video logs from when he was a human.

This felt closer to a filmic prequel, setting up the RDA’s most recent conflict with Jake and the Na’vi. Downgraded to a 3 though because much of this takes place in space and it's hard to follow the action in the 2nd half of this.Kiri later comes across Mo'at who tells her that change is a part of life and is what someone makes of it. I was pretty lukewarm on the first volume of "The High Ground," mostly seeing it as a retread of story that we already saw in the opening moments of “The Way of Water.

Some of the characters have strange/goofy expressions or do not resemble like their film counterparts very much. They fire guns to the windows of a space ship (like guns are more powerful that all the pressure of the take off) and go through them and he people there don’t die? For example, Lo'ak has a haircut resembling Neteyam's and he is drawn as if he were a muscular young adult instead of a lanky 14-year-old boy. It's surprisingly pretty good considering how the original movie is all flash with little substance. Volumes 2 and 3 were delayed a bit, with Dark Horse set to publish them on December 14, allowing some readers to finish the series before The Way of Water, with other retailers pushing them back to January 10, 2023.Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Spider's mother Paz Socorro had died during the assault on Hometree. Some of the space action sequences were a little disorienting (I guess zero G will do that to you), but the characters are much closer to their film counterparts in this volume, including the children and the humans, which made the action a little easier to follow.

The Na'vi begin training in zero gravity, although Jake refuses to let one of his boys fight in the upcoming battle. McCosker appears on a radio message to Ardmore saying the explosives on Pandora are disarmed and the Sully children have been captured. In their conversation, as he tries to defend Spider, Jake also educates Neytiri on what the word "sin" means. As they rest on the ground, Jake looks up and sees a massive light in the sky, making Jake realize the RDA is back.

feels distinctly vital to the broader “Avatar” story, serving to fill in blanks between the events of the first and second films in a way that doesn’t feel shoehorned, but rather, genuinely important and interconnected, as if it was ALWAYS a part of James Cameron’s broader story for the franchise (which, to be fair, it kind of was: the entire “The High Ground” trilogy is an adaptation of an un-filmed script that Cameron wrote – hence why so much of this feels like a direct prequel to TWOW. Now, about the story… I know Kiri has a connection to Spider, but she is pushing the “orphans” theme too much. After years of peace, Jake has settled down with Neytiri and raised a family, consisting of Neteyam, Lo'ak and Tuktirey, as well as their adoptive children Miles Socorro and Kiri. Though they sympathize with each other's viewpoints, Neytiri mentions Jake has been breaking the Three Laws of Eywa by teaching their hunters to use guns made of metal. The blue of the Na'vi contrasted with the red of the spaceships on high-alert, all against a star-studded black backdrop.