unobtainium

(In sffnet, people are talking about unobtanium in AVATAR .... 0

I, for one, enjoyed the fact that nobody said anything connecting unobtanium, the floating islands, and the floating crystal. That's what they're on the planet for; they don't remark on it any more than a prospector would say "This here yellow stuff . . . "

The floating island motif is a direct rip from a well-known fantasy painting. Can't find it googling or scanning my library, though.

I liked the cartoonish villains, guys you ...