PADS is not a medically recognised condition, but the feelings people experience are very real
Sian, I just read a headline about something called “post-Avatar depression”. It sounds like exactly what happens to me whenever I watch a deeply derided big budget and fairly nonsensical film – but I get the feeling this is … something else.
It all began after the first Avatar was released in 2009: people started posting on a fan site, Avatar Forums, that they were feeling down and unsatisfied with their lives after seeing James Cameron’s film, about humanity’s attempt to colonise a pristine planet called Pandora, home to the Na’vi, a blue humanoid race. Humanity seemed out of step with the natural world, they felt, especially when compared to the spiritual, environment-loving Na’vi.
