Avatar: First and Ash Teases a Huge Change for Jake Sully (& It Makes Sense)
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In the final scenes of “Avatar: The Way of Water”, there was a sense of sadness and suspense, as if hanging on a precipice emotionally speaking. The eldest son of Jake and Neytiri, named Neteyam (played by Jamie Flatters), met his untimely end during the climactic conflict. Director James Cameron revealed to Empire that the grief over Neteyam’s death forms the emotional base for this new story. “In this movie,” he explained, “every character is responding from a place of trauma. Jake is grappling with the loss of his son, while Lo’ak is dealing with the death of his brother and his own guilt surrounding those events.








