The Way Of Water Fans Thought The Recoms Could Have Used More Love
By Ava Barnes
Over at the r/Avatar subreddit, Jungle_Fighter claimed that they were dissatisfied with how little the Recoms were used in the movie. "I get that the movie had to introduce a lot of new characters and barely made it work with it's huge run time," they wrote. "But other than setting up Quaritch, the RECOM units was the most bland and unimportant group of soldiers of any action movie ever."
This seems to have been the gripe other fans had with the Recoms too. Though many found the whole concept to be a smart one, ultimately, they were underused and weren't given much room for character development. User JurassicGinger wrote that the recombinants were the concept that made them most look forward to the movie, but everything they did could have been accomplished by humans in the exo-suits from the first film. To this, the original poster replied that the Recoms only seemed to get killed by the good guys after their introduction — and in fairly uncreative ways.
Underutilized villains might not be as big of an issue as the plot holes in "Avatar: The Way of Water," but with this particular shortcoming, there is at least some room for James Cameron and company to course correct.
