the Avatar franchise

I was going to write a comment on YouTube after I'd seen a review for "Avatar: Fire and Ash," but in reading through the comments, I saw that someone had beaten me to it: it was the idea that James Cameron's unintended commentary was that immigrants who refuse to assimilate and have clearly bad intentions for your beautiful realm are evil. So, far from being a Kumbaya-liberal sermon about protecting the beauty of the natural environment and the natural badness of human technology and human rapaciousness in general, could it be that the entire Avatar franchise is watchable and interpretable from the point of view of anti-immigrant conservatism? I wouldn't know; I saw the first movie as, at least partly, a continuation of Cameron's antiwar Vietnam commentary from "Aliens," and I haven't watched either of the two sequels. From what I've heard, though, the three movies all follow very similar story beats, kind of the way most Star Wars movies have to include certain tropes: there has to be a ground battle; there has to be a space battle; there has to be a lightsaber fight. Cameron's movies also have tropes: ground battle, sea battle, air battle, and telepathic bonding via those tendril-thingies. Oh, and manifestations of the local "goddess" Eywa, the life-force and integrated consciousness of the moon Pandora.

So—watch the Avatar films if you hate the idea of unassimilating immigrants. Heh.