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Trudy and Hometree

posted a year ago by [deleted]
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When the humans attack Hometree, Trudy is the only pilot to refuse to fire on it, but her bald gunner goon saw this refusal and questioned her about it, with Trudy stating "I didn't sign up for this shit".

So surely the RDA would've had their suspicions about Trudy being a treehugger and Na'vi sympathiser like Sully and Augustine, right? So why didn't they throw HER in the brig with them as well, if only for disobeying orders?

Is it possible they allowed some people to run free who objected to their plans? So they were just keeping an eye on them but slipped up with Trudy unexpectedly releasing Sully and the others?

[–] CookieDragon83 (112) a year ago

That's crossed my mind too. Being the person that Quaritch was, he wouldn't have deliberately overlooked it. And no way would he allow people to run free if they were against him.

One could argue that Cameron needed someone to break them out of that holding room.....but he already did - Max. Trudy could have been held too and maybe Max could distract the guard away from the area long enough to release them. But let's say that's how it actually played out. It still presents another issue - Max used his keycard on the door, and yet there were no repercussions for him either.

The only time we see Quaritch's anger/disdain/hate towards Trudy (we don't see any towards Max) is when she joins forces with the Navi in the end battle....where she ultimately loses her life.