A popular fantheory is that the Water Tribe raids were actually the Fire Nation looking for the Water Bending Avatar, believing that they wiped out the Air Bending Avatar

@wingedbluj1674

9 ай бұрын

Likely to expedite the Avatar Cycle so they can get a Fire Nation Avatar, one they can indoctrinate into their war.

@Bostonterrierslol

9 ай бұрын

@@wingedbluj1674most likely yeah. What’s a better weapon than having the Avatar born under your control? OC if they did that then the Avatar would just be a firebender who could only go into the Avatar state. There would be no Air Nomads to teach and the Earth & Water nations wouldn’t teach the Avatar willingly

@jura9484

9 ай бұрын

another theory i saw was that they were looking for Hama! *(spoilers)* when they killed Katara's and Sokka's mom they were looking for the last waterbender, but how would they have known about Katara? it didn't seem like SWT had any contact with outside world (maybe they did though, who knows) and if an outsider did see Katara you'd think they'd pass on that they saw a little kid waterbending. but the killer apparently didn't know that, as they killed an adult. granted, if they knew when the escape happened they should've known that they're looking for an old lady, but it still seems possible enough for me. when Hama escaped who knows what they made of the guard's report, but even if they didn't believe him they still must've thought that Hama's someone powerful and dangerous to escape from those conditions, and it's reasonable enough assumption that she might've returned home.

@sifibruh7055

9 ай бұрын

I think the order of attacks heavily imply this. They did not know what happened to the Avatar so they had to both search for the avatar and attack where he could spawn if dead.

@ranggakd

9 ай бұрын

Thisss

Aang on his own: wise. Sokka on his own: battle strategist and all around smart guy. Aang and Sokka together: currently sharing one brain cell

@knightcups_

9 ай бұрын

Brothers coded for life 🥲

@simonsonian8977

5 ай бұрын

They share on brain cell, and Momo has it 90% of the time

“Congratulations Katara, you’re a bloodbender”. Such a powerful yet scary technique to have at your disposal.

@RainbowDrop

9 ай бұрын

Not to mention traumatising with katara omg 💀

@SpacialRend7

9 ай бұрын

It can be a heavy burden to bare too because if one is angered to a certain point, the user can easily be tempted to resort to using that technique. Not to mention the probability of corruption.

@RockinAfr0

9 ай бұрын

Also one of the most misunderstood lines imo. So many people react to it like it's a huge powerboost for Katara, but put in the context here, it's not a celebration or victory: it's a moral loss. A technique that Katara would've liked to have died with Hama.

@stardmg

9 ай бұрын

It's messed up, sure she got arrested and will be in prison for the remainder of her life, but Hama still got what she wanted. She passed down her techniques. She won.

@akdrzllol1698

9 ай бұрын

@@RockinAfr0 wow didn’t think anyone would see it as a victory, Katara literally started crying at the end of the line.

A very popular theory and one I DO believe and think makes sense with this group of people was that Hama was terrified when Katara blocked because of how she did it. Normally water benders use a style of motion filled with flow in a way a tad similar to Air Benders, but Katara stepping forward forcefully and bluntly stopping the attack is much more similar to the hard rigid earth bending style. The theory explains that this was totally on purpose and that's why Hama gets terrified, she has never seen a water bender use earth style forms but Katara was able to learn to use this from spending time with Toph, who was introduced in the same season where Iroh explains to Zuko that learning from other bending styles is a huge way to become stronger. And I love it because the only reason these kids can know this is because of their travels and their interactions between each other.

@simly5189

9 ай бұрын

This is one of my favorite aspects of the show... Not even only in the context of the show and the characters, which is so good for so many reasons from a writing standpoint, but also just as a reflection of how this show was crafted. The fact that bending as a magic system is so developed and consistent that viewers can identify when they're applying bending techniques from other elements/cultures to their own element... man it's just so cool.

@hopejaworski9097

9 ай бұрын

It also makes it sad that Hama’s spent 60 years away from her tribe, but she’s only learned such a vicious and heartless application of water bending. She didn’t explore other cultures in the way the kids have.

@YabukiShingo4

9 ай бұрын

@@hopejaworski9097 that also makes a ton of sense tho'... she was exposed to brutality from other cultures, she may as well be very xenophobic

@ansleywimer9873

7 ай бұрын

Horrifying thing: Hama wasn't always that way. She isn't a psychopath. She isn't evil. That prison was so bad it broke her.

@QuestionableLifeChoices

6 ай бұрын

holy shit i never thought of that!

The puppet master is the most terrifying episode of this show by far. Bloodbending is a horrifying technique and the vibes of the episode are yikes

@jaylenharris343

9 ай бұрын

Agreed, crazy to see bending being uses for dark techniques like this.

@jarredbillings2332

9 ай бұрын

Fitting for a Halloween episode😈😈

@christianabdulmassih7602

9 ай бұрын

And now Katara is officially the strongest member of Team Avatar, she came a long way from season 1 where she was by far the weakest.

@Mrryn

8 ай бұрын

​@@christianabdulmassih7602Eh I wouldn't say "by far" the weakest. She was at least relative to Sokka (no pun intended) and quickly outscaled him to the point where she pretty easily beat Jet, a fighter who was (at least at the time) far more skilled in fighting than Sokka. And you can say "well big whoop, she's stronger than the non-bender on the team," but considering the season 1 Gaang was just her, Sokka, and a master airbender who is also the freakin' Avatar, that's just the way the power scale rolls.

@billbill6094

4 ай бұрын

"The vibes of the episode are yikes" such a nonspecific expletive.

One interesting detail that often gets overlooked in the Puppetmaster episode is how huge and well developed the Southern Water Tribe was before the Fire Nation took all of their waterbenders, then it turned into that tiny little village you saw on the first episode. I suppose maintaining a city made of ice without any waterbenders isn't easy...

@nathanielreik6617

9 ай бұрын

I mean just look at the Northern Tribe in comparison.

@zandylovesrisk

7 ай бұрын

Also when you steal away half the population, decreases the future population several decades down the road by lack of adults mating.

@Jupiter-T

7 ай бұрын

I've seen this show multiple times and this is the first time I noticed that. I looked down here to see if anyone else pointed it out. And that makes a ton of sense. With no waterbenders and less people overall, it would have been impossible to keep up the huge walls and pillars that they had previously. I mean at the north pole, they open their wall gates with waterbending. I imagine that was the case in the south too.

13:13 can we acknowledge how much of a flex it is that Toph alone is the reason people has to invent a new kind of way to imprison people? People just heard “hey there’s someone out there that can metal bend we gotta upgrade our prisons just in case that ONE person comes around” crazy

@josephdavis9234

9 ай бұрын

And you know it had to be specifically for her, since a wooden cage would be terrible for imprisoning firebenders.

@Relicsplace

9 ай бұрын

I think that prison was for non benders i dont think ppl heard anything about metalbending only couple of ppl saw her use it after all and 2 of them are probably died in that cage from hunger

@artistfloor9

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@Relicsplace Combustion man has been secretly tracking them somehow (maybe with his bird) so I think the assumption is that he saw her metal bending at some point and made it to the town first and had them construct a wooden prison.

@Just_a-guy

2 ай бұрын

@@artistfloor9 My guess was that it was "luck" and the iron/metal cell were for firebenders (and for sure they have more firebenders prisoners) and wooden are for all others. So they can build cheaper cells and it was just lucky that they threw the only metalbender inside not metal cage

Regarding what you guys talked about next level air bending techniques, there is a wild theorie that i heard about book 1 episode 3 or 4 or whatever, when aang sees Gyatso's skeleton. Gyatso is found in a big room with multiple other firebender skeletons. the theory i read somewhere is that as the temple got overun by firebenders, gyatso entered a meditadive state and essentially removed all the air inside this room, or perhaps even a larger area, suffocating everybody around him including himself. sort of a last ditch effort to protect the temple.

@kiarya7939

9 ай бұрын

You beat me to it lol I came here to post the same thing. You can’t make fire with no air.

@Frednimo08

9 ай бұрын

True (spoiler) airbending techniques will be further explored in Korra, the successor of aang.

@Ghilannugs

9 ай бұрын

SPOILERS FOR THE BOOKS This is in fact done by Avatar Yangchen in the novels, though she stops before killing them.

@nessmain6411

9 ай бұрын

@@stanieldaniel5912 I'm aware, but I didn't think there is a need to spoil that. So delete your comments lol

@stanieldaniel5912

9 ай бұрын

@@nessmain6411 I thought I was very safely vague but okay I guess

27:40 It's actually been theorized that that's how monk gyatso fought and died with all those fire soldiers back in the southern air temple.. he sealed the room and sucked all the air from it, dooming himself in the process....

@faureamour

9 ай бұрын

I came here to see if anyone had made this comment.

@merten9298

9 ай бұрын

@@faureamoursame LOL

@iesika7387

8 ай бұрын

Vaccuum manipulation and cavitation feels to me like the Airbending equivalent of the "next level" bending tricks explored for the other nations (metal, blood, lightning). Theoretically an airbender could do something like give you the bends, or an air embolism, or crush you under air pressure, or suck your eyes out of your head, or, slightly less gruesomely and more in line with a martial arts action cartoon, mantis-shrimp style cavitation bubble punches. If a crustateans can make a bubble that creates 8,500 f degrees of heat on collapse and hits as hard as a .22 bullet imagine what an airbender could do with a vaccuum-bubble packed punch.

@JayceCH.

4 ай бұрын

@@iesika7387So far, their ultimate technique is superhuman flight.

@Nonalhomophobie

2 ай бұрын

@@JayceCH. Can you avoid the spoilers ??

Just a note about Combustion Guy taking deep breaths before releasing his attacks, remember what Uncle Iroh said in episode 1 "Power in firebending comes from the breath, not the muscles. The breath becomes energy in the body. The energy extends past your limbs and becomes fire!".

Just a fun fact, the fire nation ship that Katara and Aang went in in the first episode is the same ship that Hama and her people manage to defeat before Hama was captured.

@lorimartin6819

9 ай бұрын

Wow, I never made that connection!

@Y0sh1no5am

9 ай бұрын

If you look on Avatar Abridged u see on the wall near the spear Aang sat when he learned he was the only airbender alive. It says in blood "Hama was here" @@lorimartin6819

@BonfireAKAGhostsaltchannel

9 ай бұрын

​@@lorimartin6819Are you being sarcastic?

@lorimartin6819

9 ай бұрын

@@BonfireAKAGhostsaltchannel No, I’m not. I honestly never thought the ship in the first episode was the same in the The Puppet Master.

@Y0sh1no5am

9 ай бұрын

Thx for 100 likes ya guys are wonderful. ♥ :D

Bloodbending is taking someone's bodily freedom away from them. Consider what that equates to in real life. That's how emotionally scarring it can be.

@mangareader7474

9 ай бұрын

Terrorizing

Ngl, “The Puppetmaster” is the freakiest episode of the series. If Hama wasn’t enough to make your skin crawl, then the concept of bloodbending is. Like jeez!

@tariqthomas9090

9 ай бұрын

Honestly as creepy as Hama and bloodbending are, for me the creepiest part of the episode is the Water Tribe ghost story at the beginning.

@Blue-100

3 ай бұрын

Ikr, like the more you think about the concept of blood bending the more you think about how someone could be killed or tortured using blood bending. There is so many gruesome ways you can kill someone with blood bending if you have the guts to do it.

I love how The Puppetmaster episode plays with a Halloween episode trope of "Huh! Gotcha! There wasn't anything scary going on, the characters were just paranoid!" to get our suspicions off of Hama for a moment

@Gipwx

3 ай бұрын

If you stopped suspecting Hama, you're goofy.

@almas4663

3 ай бұрын

@@Gipwx That was the whole intention of the episode - to play on expectations and tropes of an average Halloween special, and keep us questioning our suspisions

I love Toph's dynamic with the group. She's like the little sister that's super confident and better than everyone else at a lot of things, but still needs their help and guidance with others, which she appreciates.

Seeing the Puppet Master for the first time gave me the chills. And that line, “Congratulations Katara, you’re a bloodbender.” hit me so hard. Katara uses waterbending to heal and to protect and help innocent people. Water means life. The bloodbending is the opposite of all of that. It’s a perversion of waterbending. Katara crying at the end, to me, means that Hama made Katara feel like her precious gift was tainted.

Puppet master was one of the darkest episodes in this series and for good reason. Blood bending, the ability to control ones body through the water in their body. Definitely a forbidden technique.

I like how when Hama opened the box everyone was spooked except Toph who looked so unimpressed because she can already see its a comb lmao

Hama’s VA is also the voice of Arnold’s grandma on Hey Arnold. Of course she’s a crazy old woman who gets active too

@Meamery

9 ай бұрын

That is just so contradictory but similar I love it 😂

@virgo6942

9 ай бұрын

Also daisy duck

@jarredbillings2332

9 ай бұрын

Tress Macneille is the voice actress's name

@Imasuky

9 ай бұрын

Now that you say it...I can totally hear it

@DianaDxD

9 ай бұрын

Also the voice of Dot from Animaniacs

17:52 I feel like that is a very underrated moment for Katara, she is amazing at drama and scary story telling. Also Mae Whitman’s voice caring was stellar. When I saw this episode the first time it send chills down my spine. “Like little Nini is still trying to get warm”….😟

@christianabdulmassih7602

9 ай бұрын

And now Katara is officially the strongest member of Team Avatar, she came a long way from season 1 where she was by far the weakest.

@HazbinCovenWitch

9 ай бұрын

Never creeped me out. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@IronGhost8280

5 ай бұрын

Creeped the shit out of me as a kid. Still does.

Book 3, Episode 7: This episode is another example of Aang and Sokka as "two friends who share one brain cell". Book 3, Episode 8: So we talked about pulling knowledge from different sources, the reason why Hama was so shocked at Katara blocking her water strike is that that was actually an earthbending move, to stand your ground. Hama was expecting a classic waterbending move which redirected the water but instead, Katara did the opposite which threw Hama off.

10:34 Aang and Sokka are actually both extremely intelligent individuals but you put them to grand they are useless their bromance kills all smart brain cells since Aang is fun loving and Sokka is a jokester but either of them with Zuko are very effective because he’s such a stick in the mud

OHHH ITS HERE the puppetmaster is insane and it's an absolutely terrifying bending

27:25 Airbenders are able to control the temperature of the air around them, which it why Aang never wore any warm clothing in the south pole and doesn't use sleeping bags. Even though temperature control is strictly a personal use thing - I still consider it a sub-element of air.

"we'll never see another full moon" That would be true if yue actually was good at the moon duties. There's a full moon nearly every ep

@gentleman_oni

9 ай бұрын

Hey, give her a break! She's starting her new job, just went through a break-up.... oh yeah, she also died!

@cjg8763

8 ай бұрын

Something I honestly never noticed until I watched Overanalyzing Avatar.

@yoyo777

6 ай бұрын

an overanalizing avatar fan nice.

Keep in mind, Katara grew up most of her life without her mother. That despair definitely influenced to her to be the mother she hardly ever had. 😢

Remember Bloodbending can be used ONLY during the Full Moon

@MrPsych77

9 ай бұрын

Yeah thank you it's not nearly as reliable as people think

@themilitarydork

9 ай бұрын

I mean, at least until LOK 🤫

@MrPsych77

9 ай бұрын

@@themilitarydork that was a special case. Same reason why not all fire benders have combustion man's power

@G128_cz

9 ай бұрын

@@themilitarydork SPOILERS: Only Yakones bloodline was able to Bloodbend all the time, via genetic mutation, I'm not saying that It couldn't happen again but Bloodbending is still possible only during the Full Moon

@cjg8763

8 ай бұрын

@@themilitarydork Yo why would you say this?

My personal head canon has always been that the specialized bending for air bending would’ve been sound bending, since sound travels on air waves - perhaps being able to throw your voice and talk to someone who is faraway in battle. Idk, but could be a creative niche. Either way, we won’t know cause airbenders got wiped out before they could create any specialized bending which sucks.

8:39 One of the posters Sokka walked past was for Hawk training so yeah Sokka literally just bought an untrained messenger hawk.

Water benders can freeze water. Imagine if a blood blender freezes the water inside of you.

@SeinIshamiado

5 ай бұрын

That would hurt

@jonathonsirlord8251

4 ай бұрын

​@@SeinIshamiado& it was proven in The dragon prince s5😫😫😫😫😫

While Puppet Master was a dark episode, seeing that old women teaching Katara about different of pulling water was cool. Dark but educational.

Aside from lighting, the Fire Nation also has another subset: the combustion-bending that we see on Sparky Sparky Boom Man. The scene where his third eye was hit with debris gives you an idea why he's got metal prosthetic limbs. The Puppetmaster also shows us one of the darker results of the war: Hama. She became an agent for vengeance because the Fire Nation turned her into a POW, and she might have been a more sympathetic character if she wasn't using bloodbending to kidnap (relatively friendly?) Fire Nation civilians.

I mentioned before the fights were only going to get better, and that there was a personal favorite fight of mine later down the series. Katara Vs. Hamma is my favorite fight! If you watch when katara broke that massive water attack, it was an earthbending technique. That's why Hamma had that surprised pikachu face. This episode shows how war can literally create monsters, and that even when you're against using a weapon, there are times you can't avoid it. Hamma, when she saw katara wouldn't learn bloodbending willingly, literally manipulated her into using bloodbending just like a puppetmaster. In the end her legacy continues in a messed up way. The puppetmaster is hands down my favorite episode!

That’s what’s so great about this show. It started off with them only having to defend themselves against fire, but as the books progress, they have to fight pretty much every element except for air.

5:22 I love how they went from scamming street vendors to actual insurance fraud

I always loved how when it comes to Toph's blindness, usually only Toph makes jokes about it, and because Toph is so capable of taking care of herself, people always forget that she is blind😭

very few notice it but Katara and Toph learn techniques from each other while teaching Aang. that is how they both become the most powerful benders. like here where Katara breaks the water attack using "stand your ground" like Toph's first lesson with Aang. and in the "Drill" eps. after Toph escapes by metal bending for the first time. we see Toph use Earth bending to create a earth wave to let her run faster. Basically what Iro told Zuko how he learned from the water benders and apply it to redirecting lighting. and they learn some Air bending techniques from Aang, and apply it to their element bending styles.

First, but man I love these episodes. Puppetmaster was one of the scariest but the best when I was a kid!

The Puppetmaster is the show's Halloween episode as far as I'm concerned so it's appropriate it's dropping around Halloween. I've been watching a lot of horror movies this month, a lot of them great ones, but even those, on first time viewings mind you, don't match the chills that run up and down my spine just rewatching this episode. Hama smugly, *wickedly* laughing that Katara is a bloodbender as she sobs in the clearing of the nightglow of the very thing that makes her new power possible isn't an image that leaves you easily.

1:17 Sokka can be so smart at times, and then there are times like that. But that's what makes him such an enjoyable character.

There's a fun theory that Hama is actually the reason they started killing waterbenders, they kept them as prisoners in case they were the avatar, but when they discovered blood bending they were too dangerous to keep alive. The fear was so great that they executed the remaining water bending prisoners and went off to exterminate them in the following raids, even going so far as to raid the southern water tribe just for the last waterbender.

Two of the best episodes of the entire show, and for real The Puppetmaster is one of the most ICONIC Halloween episodes

Looking back at Katara learning blood bending, I definitely understand why the people made it illegal in TLoK, cause that is absolutely terrifying if used by the wrong hands, I mean hell two of the antagonists were terrifying blood benders. But god it gives me chills to this day, really perfect timing with Halloween next week

Imagine Toph in Las Vegas. XD

Solar eclipses are always new moons, so Katara would unfortunately not have the power-up during the eclipse. It'd work if the waterbending power-up was based on when the moon was highest, so a full moon would boost you most near midnight, a new moon near midday, a first quarter moon near sunset, a third quarter near sunrise, etc. However, the effect seems to be about illumination more than position, based on Iroh advising Zhao to pause the siege on the Northern Water Tribe for a nearly-full gibbous moon that had just risen. Katara will be entirely relying on her own strength during the solar eclipse, no cosmic assist. Now, LUNAR eclipses are always full moons, which has got to make naturally occurring lunar eclipses a real trip for waterbenders. You'd be at your best until the eclipse was in full effect, so you could theoretically bloodbend right up until it was a proper blood moon, and then all of a sudden you've got nothing.

@zeekslider

9 ай бұрын

To add to this: we already saw a Bloodmoon in the series. Specifically in the finale of Book 1, albeit that one was not naturally occurring.

27:39 Very familiar when you continue on watching The legend of korra

My personal theory for Air's sub bending is Sound. after all sound is vibration through air. They could use it to make sonic booms, to make their voices quieter or louder, to change the pitch of noises, distractions, etc.

@justsomebody-1665

9 ай бұрын

Thats... actually a really interesting idea!

“Why would they give her blood bending just to not use it” ///“To save somebody”? I laughed

32:20 An eclipse is technically a new moon, it's the opposite in terms of the lunar cycle. Generally, full moons only occur at night - with the exception of places with extremely long days.

I've heard a plausible fan theory that the Fire Nation stopped taking waterbending prisoners and just executed them because they could no longer safely imprison them. Hama's bending got Sakka and Katara's mom killed.

The sub element/ability to air is explored more in The Legend of Korra!

“oh shit it’s nini!! maybe she came here to get warm.” LMFAOOOOOOO

I mean to be fair, spending decades in a solitary cell, never leaving and being mocked and pushed to the brink of death for that whole time would leave you seriously traumatised and screwed in the head. People are capable of _anything_ if driven to enough desperation.

The voice actress that played mom from Futurama is in fact the same who did Hama, good call! Tress MacNeille a real OG.

I know. When I first seen it I nearly shat myself thinking of the ways someone could implement it to help and/or destroy others! Anyone else hear ploupetine egging Anekin to use the dark side only for it to completely bite him in the ass XD

Fun Fact: In Hama's backstory the Fire Nation boat she froze over is the same boat from the first season that Aang and Katara went into. Also the theory as to why the Fire Nation raided the Southern Water Tribe was because they were trying to find the Avatar. Sozin had a feeling that the Avatar escaped the Air Nomad genocide so he kept looking for a air bender but he sent soilders to the southern water tribe just in case he did die and reincarnated.

"I cheated a cheater" is one of my favorite catchphrases😭

each bending type has two notable extras. Earth has metal and sand, water has healing and blood, fire had lightning and combustion, as for air, we only know of one and that is voidbending, which is essentially sucking the air out of things and creating airless voids. A theory is that in the first few episodes when we see gyatso's corpse at the air temple and he is surrounded by fire nation soldiers is that he died by sucking all the air out of the room and killing everyone inside. We know it exists, but Aang notably doesn't know it. Every air bender has to master 16 "moves" to get their tattoos and be a master, voidbending was one, but aang refused to use it because of the horror of it. He invented the air scooter to get around it and get his tattoos.

I don't know if someone remembers this but back when you guys started the show (not sure what episode, probably the swamp) one of you said "can you imagine if you could bend blood?" Just to later say that some fans where telling you to not overanalized the show i was laughing so hard like "who's gonna tell them?" It's great that you finally saw this episode, is really dark, every time i see bloodbending i get sooooo uncomfortable

6:57 Sokka: This is bad. Hawkey: Oh shit

Katara, from the 1st episode has always loved waterbending. To have this woman, who Katara believed to be connected to her culture, pervert it, would be heartbreaking.

At first, it may seem strange for the fire nation to attack the water tribe so hard, especially the smaller south one. But when you look at the situation back then, it starts to makes sense. The avatar who just died was a firebender so the next one had to be an air bender. Hence why Aang lost all his people. But then, only 3 choices remained : either the cycle was broken, either the avatar escaped (hence why they're still looking for him 100 years ago, and how Zuko came in contact with Aang), either the next cycle had begun, and the next avatar would be a water bender. And, taking that logic even farther, that could also explain why they're so forceful toward the earth kingdom, because unless a new avatar is born in the fire nation, and they have sign for that kind of stuff, then the cycle may still go on because no one was able to confirm if Aang was dead or not. I love the idea of a greater motive behind that 100 years war than just world domination, and it makes the fire nation more tragic, fighting for a goal who might have been dead for a long time already, so not even a threat anymore. Basically, extend Zuko's story to its whole nation. And since the show will dive more into Sozin's part of the story, the fire lord who destroyed the air benders, you can also explain Ozai's curent mentality and even feel a little bit sorry for him, if you buy in the whole "we act as we were raised and we twist it as we grow" kinda stuff. But yeah, water bending is now a terrifying technique and you already caught on how dangerous air bending can kind. Would be wild to ever see it, won't you think ? Especially in a kid's show, right ? Long live the Queen.

Ok it’s so interesting you brought up what airbenders can potentially do as like a sub-bending, bc there’s a theory I saw that when Monk Giatso died, he decided to go on his own terms and simply let all the air out of the room, taking out all the fire nation soldiers along with himself (notice there were no burns on Giatso’s clothes and there were several fire nation skeletons around him)

About Combustion Man taking a breath every time he does his technique you gotta remember in Book 1 when Iroh is teaching Zuko his bending forms. Iroh says "Remember fire bending comes from the BREATH. Not the muscles." Breathing is essential in fire bending forms as sort of connector, they take a breath when starting a technique and exhale at the end. Not all Fire bending techniques require breath but most do, if they can't complete the inhale and exhale they can't perform the technique.

The last episode is one of my favorite ones. A lot of people by now saw Fire as the only really deadly bending. For example when Jon Jon was starting to teach Aang and he burns Katara. Jon Jon said that Water brings life, but Fire only destroys, forcing those who wield it to walk a razors edge. This episode showed definitive proof that Any bending can be deadly. To imagine Water, which gives life, can be so evil is disturbing. It equalizes the different bendings more.

"It's important to draw wisdom from many different places, if you take it from only one place it becomes rigid and stale. Understanding others, the other elements, and the other nations will help you become whole." -Iroh fun fact, at 30:33 Katara used an earth bending technique to directly take Hama's attack face on instead of the typical Water bending technique of redirecting the enemy attack against them, which is why Hama was shocked when her attack was blocked. Also the double fist attack that Katara used after was an earth bending stance and not water bending.

13:12 let's talk about how they have wooden jails in fire nation territory

Water benders: uses water from almost anything with moisture and blood bending Earth benders: uses nature earth and metal Fire benders: fire and lightning Air benders: air and possibly vacuum the air and cut off oxygen to people

Hama is such a fascinating villain, you can totally understand what pushed her this far, but it's so creepy how she doesn't even want to get away with imprisoning people if it means she can spread her Blood bending to Katara. Everthing to let it live on as one of the most fucked up abilities in Avatar.

@pabloc8808

9 ай бұрын

I understand Hama's hatred towards the Fire Nation, but just like Jet, she took it out on innocent people, people who were in no way responsible for her suffering. Her feelings are justified but her actions are definitely not

@shinyagumon7015

9 ай бұрын

100%@@pabloc8808

@lisboah

9 ай бұрын

​@@pabloc8808Agree 100%. She could have returned home or aided the war, but instead she chose to attack people who had nothing to do with what happened to her. What makes it worse is that there were probably other waterbenders still imprisoned but she never bothered releasing them. Or even worse, she killed them after they refused joining her.

18:21 Katara may not be the most fun but she sure knows how to scare the shit outta you

Katara masters both water bending techniques from the northern water tribe: combat and healing. Hama is from the southern water tribe (just like Katara) so she masters all known kinds of water bending. She is a freaking beast.

@aevum6667

5 ай бұрын

Not foggy swamp style.

15:59 He hit himself in confusion. It's super effective. Also bloodbending is totally up with the the unforgiveable curses from HP.

the bird knows where it needs to go. when Sokka told it to fly to the South Pole, it just simply refused.

Before 'The Puppetmaster' aired, fans speculated about more advanced forms of bending, and bloodbending was a popular theory for waterbenders. It was almost always followed up by, "But the show would never go there; it's too dark." WELL...about that...

2:15 lol, to be honest, if I were him, I would have questioned how she even knew I was talking to her.

The Puppetmaster is such a good episode! This episode expanded our horizons on what Bending can possibly accomplish! Imagine all the Potential styles just waiting for discovery in each Bending style!

Idk if someone mentioned that already here, but somebody once said the reason why the fire nation killed Kya after she said she was the last waterbender instead of taking her to prison was because „she“ was the next found waterbender after Hama and after being aware of waterbenders being able to bloodbend they wiped her out

The puppetmaster will always be one of my favorite episodes. It's so spooky, it's like they switched to a horror genre for an episode. And the bloodbending... I love when they get into exploring the limits of bending and the possibilities of it

The blind jokes in “The Runaway” are top tier. But “The Puppet Master” scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

(27:40) "create a vacuum, and suck all the air out" rewatch episode 2 (season 1) 1 room, 1 air bender in the middle, and a whole lot of dead fire benders around. I wonder what could have killed them all, at once? (and mind you, no air = no fire ...)

You guys are the first reaction I've seen to this show to realize that was their their grandmother with the necklace and not their mother. As the healer at the north pole said "you're the spitting image of kana" their grandmother, who looks a lot like katara in that scene.

Bloodbending doesn't happen in the show often, but when it does, it always makes an impact

30:31 And here we see Katara face Hama down as an Earth Bender instead of a water bender. Directly conflicting with her force instead of flowing with it, simply overpowering her. That's why Hama was so surprised, her unique skill and strength is foreign to her.

And boom, this set of episodes are amazing. They show case amazing creativity and widening of the world. Not to mention, this shows why I love waterbending as much as boom loves earth bending. It heals, it’s versatile, and it controls anything or anyone

That clip when sokka is talking to toph and katara is listening in is so important to me, even before my mum died I saw myself and my sister in sokka and katara, but I rewatched this episode once years after my mum died and ended up crying because I realized that's exactly how I felt about my sister

There is a fan theory for episode 3, the scene where Aang finds Gyatso's remains amongst all these fire nation soldiers. Only one air nomad and, what, an entire group of firebenders who at the time would've been empowered by Sozin's Comet, how did they all die against the singular Gyatso? Well, the fan theory states Gyatso vacuumed the area; removed all the air killing every hotmen within that space. That would be a pretty ultimate move for a group of people abhorrent to the idea of taking another's life. Though personally I don't think there really is an 'ultimate move' for Airbenders; when you think about it, Aang just airbending is already overpowered.

Interesting question of "Is an Eclipse a Full Moon?" Never thought about it before, but no. In fact it's the opposite of a Full Moon. The phases of the moon are dictated by how much of the moon is reflecting the sun. So in a way, none of it is reflecting. Honestly, I think it would've been more interesting if both waterbenders and firebenders lost their bending during an eclipse.

28:12 fun fact: it’s canon in the books that there was an airbender avatar that was able to create a vacuum in a room and literally choke out amd possibly killed a dozen men by taking the air out of their lungs 🫠

Guys, this is something I NEED you all to watch after you finish avatar the last airbender. After you finish it, you MUST watch "Legend of Korra", Legend of Korra is the next avatar after ang and its such a good series!!!!

@SortaStupid

9 ай бұрын

We’re on book 3 of Korra on Patreon

@VerbenaRP

9 ай бұрын

@@SortaStupid :D

Funnily enough, the air vacuum move is fan theory of how monk Gyatso went out. Sucking all the our out of the space inclu it his own body. If you go back to episode 3, you can see there are no burn marks or firebenders near his corpse.

The blood bending episode was pure nightmare fuel for me as a child

I'm so glad y'all are enjoying this kid's show 😊 Lol some of the stuff that you say here just make me laugh bc i know what comes next😂

These two episodes really showcase the fact that these are still kids living in an adult world where they have to either step up or perish.

the thing thats crazy is you guys actually predicted blood bending earlier, I can't remember which episode but you definitely mentioned it before and I was blown away because I knew this episode was coming much much later but you guessed it immediately

Think of the upsides. A full moon is required to perform bloodbending. So Katara wouldn't be able to use it most of the time even if she doesn't want to. And even if she could use it all the time, if we think of the applications for a minute, bloodbending can be useful if performed medically. Katara is already a healer. This is only hypothetical but Bloodbending doesn't mean you only have to control the entirety of one's body. Let's say someone suffered an internal injury, she can use bloodbending to prevent internal bleeding or stop a hemorrhage. Hama was just insane so she only used bloodbending to control but it can be used to heal.

Each element up too now has a couple sub sections.. Water-ice,steam/vapor,plant and now blood. Earth-Metal,crystal. Fire- lighting and combustion. As of now Air is alone. As stated Blood bending can only be doné during a full moon

"suck a vacuum out and take the air out of somebody's body" haha that'd be wild 💀

I feel like the main reason bloodbending was introdouced was to show that the waterbenders are also capable of great evil. We know the Fire Nation is destructive and we'd seen how bad earth benders can be through Long Feng and the Dai Lee. This episode highlighted the fact that even the waterbenders, who we'd kind of regarded as pretty peaceful like the airbenders, could be evil too.

Fun fact: the town the gAang terrorizes in "The Runaway" is called Fire Fountain City, and has a history of being a seedy gambling town/tourist trap all the way back to Kyoshi's era, and used to be known as North Chung-Ling before Ozai's fire fountain statue was built and the town was renamed in its honor.

I mean you give her that kind of power to give her a line that she could easily cross to make things a lot easier yet also a line that she is morally not willing to cross unless it's an extreme situation and tempt her with making the easy choice versus doing it the hard way...