Welcome back to Pandora. There’s a lot going on these days on the lush forest moon of bioluminescent ferns and giant blue space cats. We’ve had the forest tribes, the sea tribes, even the bit where Sigourney Weaver gets reincarnated as her own teenage daughter. And now in Avatar: Fire and Ash, the first full-length trailer for which launched this week, we get a full-blown theological crisis, and a planet that might be running out of breathable air.
Oona Chaplin’s Varang is the leader of the Ash clan, who look like Cirque du Soleil performers who’ve been left too close to the barbecue. She’s extremely angry and cynical because her entire extended family got flambéed by a volcanic eruption. But even more so because Eywa, the godlike neural network that can unleash planetary catastrophe at will, did absolutely nothing to help.
