While viewers might not recall Avatar explicitly addressing Pandora’s floating rock formations, the Hallelujah Mountains are explained via a bit of behind-the-scenes science. The world of the Avatar movies is so immersive that some viewers have complained about feeling depressed after watching director James Cameron’s epic blockbusters. “Post-Avatar depression syndrome” was the name given to the experience of feeling desperate to visit the imagined world of Pandora after watching Avatar or Avatar: The Way of Water thanks to the beauty of the franchise’s landscapes and the photo-realistic verisimilitude of their state-of-the-art CGI.
