There's a duo consist of two young adults (M and F), that's been at Commercial Bay almost everyday praying on people to preach the bible outside my store (There are seats). It often starts with wow I love your outfit or what do you cook for dinner (yes I can hear them). idk scary
The neural queue never made sense to me. Why would animal life on Pandora evolve an open, cross-species connection that enables one organism to invade the central nervous system of another? What possible advantage does this confer? The downsides - infection pathway, loss of autonomy to predatory or parasitic organisms - are obvious.
Now that we know that it's because Eywa is a planetary-scale fungal parasite it makes a lot more sense.
It also points towards an obvious endgame for the series. Jake Sully and his merry band of alien bioterrorists hijack a starship and return to Earth, carrying Eywa spores. They smuggle these into the solar system and past the planetary defenses, landing on the planet to plant the seeds that will infect Earth with a new Mother. The spores take root, humans and other life forms begin to mutate as the infection takes hold, and a new Gaian Golden Age of ecological harmony takes hold as humanity is enslaved by the alien parasite, which asks only that the species give up its autonomy and renounce high technology, to be trapped for the rest of time in a state of hallucinatory primitivism.
It's possible that this is the Eywa parasite's entire purpose: a biotechnological Inhibitor that infects biospheres in order to prevent technological civilization from spreading beyond its home planet, designed as a weapon by some ancient race of engineers who didn't feel like sharing the Galaxy with competitors.
Of all the concepts of deities I've seen in fiction, Eywa has basically become my favorite.
It feels like the most realistic take on a God I've seen in fiction, because the more you think about it, it's basically a planet-wide mycorrhizal fungi that's essentially connected to