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@marinetrucker2427

2 жыл бұрын

Hi how are you how's your day love you're videos

@adamwilson2904

2 жыл бұрын

Can you be less sexy please, I can't lose another wife

@zacharyboivin3925

2 жыл бұрын

what are you going to do after you finish the series?

@snufflebunny539

2 жыл бұрын

you should sub to the patron, NOW!

@thedoomofred5174

2 жыл бұрын

Give me that extra vertical

Zuko saw katara bloodbend and thought “damn I switched sides at the right time”

@dtczyk8976

Жыл бұрын

“Glad she didn’t have that during my betrayal.”

@alakazamlover4908

9 ай бұрын

imagine that@@dtczyk8976

@ruralandroid4984

6 ай бұрын

I always read that look as something like, "holy SHIT that's an option? And people consider fire bending brutal?!"

@melhiott7977

5 ай бұрын

HAHAAHAHAH TRUE

8:30 "where'd you guys get these ninja outfits from?" they OBVIOUSLY used katara's favorite nonbending technique: stealing shit

@davialmeida4442

9 ай бұрын

I think it's her favorite technique period, she just can't resist it

@Bruhtatochip742

5 ай бұрын

Kleptomancy

@churricardo1457

4 ай бұрын

Once upon a time Monk Gyatso went to Target with his disciple Aang. He rang up steak as onions and skipped over items. Aang said "That's self-checkout theft." Gyatso replied: "Without the self to checkout, there is only theft." Aang immediately attained enlightenment.

@TheBluePhoenix008

4 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@harnanmylvaganam6311

4 ай бұрын

Why were they buying steak?​@@churricardo1457

It wasn't mentioned in the video and no one seems to be talking about it, but Yon Rha immediately offering up his own mother as a deal after figuring out he killed Katara's mother is one of the funniest dark humor jokes in the whole series. Honestly it is one of the most memorable parts of the episode for me.

@spritemon98

Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised he didn't go over it and glossed over it

@CraftingMenace

Жыл бұрын

I always thought him doing that was not only a good dark joke, but also the perfect capstone to how pathetic of a man he is. It makes me feel like he wouldn't even care if she did, not really anyway.

@dylanc2806

6 ай бұрын

i was wondering if he mentioned it, i seen that, and about 30 seconds went by and then it it me and i was like god DAMN that is fked

@michaeltrinh4394

4 ай бұрын

Came to say this 😂

@genericname2747

4 ай бұрын

Younger me thought that was hilarious, and now I fully appreciate how good of a joke it is. Like, the joke is he's offering his mother, who he hates, because he's a coward. But it's also a good character moment. He's a coward, and he doesn't truly regret what he's done. He thinks an innocent women dying for HIS crime is acceptable.

I love when Azula is falling Zuko is like "Shes not gonna make it" in a voice that sounds like he still cares about her

@fyline

Жыл бұрын

He did care about Azula, that's why she was put into a mental hospital instead of prison after Zuko became Fire Lord

@Jaydove2387

Жыл бұрын

@@fyline where can I get the comics?

@thalmoragent9344

Жыл бұрын

@@Jaydove2387 Maybe Amazon...

@wanderdragon1075

Жыл бұрын

@@Jaydove2387Amazon or if you’re US, Barnes and Noble

@Fantaghoul

Жыл бұрын

@@Jaydove2387there’s always the option of searching a pdf online

FYI, the reason why the Southern Water Tribe degrades in time is exactly because they are out of water benders who would've been the ones keeping up on everything. In a world of benders, people don't need to actually learn the skill of snow buildings, so they tent up.

@swapertxking

2 жыл бұрын

could be that most of the men went off to war shortly afterwards to get revenge for the murder of Kya. Could be some of the teenage boys went along as well, or failed to get enough food for everyone. There is real and historical precedence for small communities that were thriving quite a bit just collapse down into a few shanty buildings until there isnt anything left, just look at all the small colonial towns vanishing almost overnight when all the men and boys went off to fight the british, leaving only the elderly, women and children behind. Look at all the ghost towns that were once boom towns during the gold rush. it could have been the last generation or two that was the southern water tribe that we saw prior to Aang's return, which is wild. thank you for listening to me ramble.

@Darklordiban7

2 жыл бұрын

There's the initial destruction of the town, as well as the snowfall that would have taken place. You could also argue that the people didn't want to live in a town that had such a horrible thing happen to it, instead choosing to relocate somewhere perceived as safer.

@chuzzle44

2 жыл бұрын

This. People tend to assume that an isolated group will maintain their level of technology and standard of living, when in fact, they usually regress. In a large population, losing a few knowledgeable people isn't a big deal. In a small population it's a death sentence.

@wanderlustwarrior

2 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it!

@antarath517

2 жыл бұрын

@@swapertxking Yeah, I took it to be a massive amount of people leaving for war and after that, disrepair naturally sets in, especially given how much less living space they need to and can maintain

The real reason Azula was always rude to Zuko wasn't because he got more love from their mother but because Zuko had better jumping power then Azula did

@robertkovarna8294

2 жыл бұрын

Is this why she mastered her pull ups?

@iantaakalla8180

2 жыл бұрын

If Azula could jump like Zuko can she would not be shackled at the end of that Agni Kai.

@kingbidoof7619

2 жыл бұрын

@@iantaakalla8180 she lost because she thought that leg strength was what she needed to win but no she just needed jumps

@juanferrer5924

2 жыл бұрын

While you were studying firebending I was learning the art of the jump

@stephenuchiha6430

2 жыл бұрын

Oddly white asian man *Can* jump

Katara's voice actress knew this was her episode, the one that had been building up for the entire series. She went for it, she really gave it 150%.

@marinavam3942

5 ай бұрын

Her?

@isplat927

4 ай бұрын

@@marinavam3942yes her.

@assordante2205

4 ай бұрын

​@marinavam3942 yes? She is a woman?

@isplat927

4 ай бұрын

@@marinavam3942yes, her.

@chimchar87

Ай бұрын

@@marinavam3942Yes. It’s a Katara centered episode.

There's a couple of shots of Zukos face being like "what the actual fuck" when he's seeing Katara at her peak bending wise, it's fun to see him realize she could of killed him at any point, but chose not to

@spencersholden

8 ай бұрын

Reminds me of when Doc Ock founded out how strong Spider-Man really is and that he was always pulling his punches.

@kevin4Xajstribling

7 ай бұрын

Not at any point though

@rick7424

6 ай бұрын

*couldhave

@breawycker

4 ай бұрын

Literally Aang was the only thing keeping him alive

@kevin4Xajstribling

4 ай бұрын

Zuko is not an easy kill.

The face Zuko makes when Katara starts bloodbending will always be priceless

@rachaelk5567

2 жыл бұрын

"Oh shit she can do that? 😳"

@metroidman3893

2 жыл бұрын

He's like "Holy shit okay this is happening 😳"

@SymphonyZach

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda wonder if it was one of those “she could’ve done that to me” looks

@youzhou3001

2 жыл бұрын

@@SymphonyZach ”I’m SOOO glad I decided to switch sides”

@pyroguyman096

2 жыл бұрын

It always looked like a "wait. What? Is she.... Can she.... Man, I'm glad shes on my side now"

Can we just appreciate that sokka was attacked, separated from his father that he tried so hard to rescue a few episodes ago, it’s again on the run and the only thing that he had in mind once they all had prepared their tents was “oh boy I’m gonna get laid tonight “ like he’s in a paper thin tent with his sister and someone with super hearing close to him and he simply doesn’t care, what a legend

@mr.sandman7339

2 жыл бұрын

You don't get to be a certified backbender without a little boldness

@dorktriogamer2865

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.sandman7339 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

@TheMrPeteChannel

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they were just gonna hug and kiss;-)

@user-ze7sj4qy6q

2 жыл бұрын

toph got a crush on him too and she gone feel the reverberations of every stroke no matter how quiet they are... poor toph 😬

@DirectorOfChaos9292

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMrPeteChannel Nope, the next day both are wearing flower necklaces. Because they just got lei'd

I think it actually makes a lot of sense that Katara is hit so much harder by the death of her mother than Sokka. And while seeing her being threatened by the Raider and seeing her dead body might add into that, I think the main reason is that she knows that her mother gave her life only to protect Katara's life as she is the waterbender the Fire Nation was looking for. The grief of losing her mother is paired with the survivor guilt which makes her act in a very different way than Sokka. Everything we know about Katara tells us she doesn't *want* to do this, but she feels like she *has to* to do it..

@AlashiaTuol

Жыл бұрын

On top of all this, there's also the implication that Katara took on the responsibilities of the household - her mother's duties - after her mother's death, probably under the instruction of gran-gran. In the first episode, Katara's the one we see expected to perform the domestic responsibilities with the adult women while Sokka "plays soldier," having himself been barred from behaving as an adult male in his tribe. And Katara says in the first episode that she hadn't done this (penguin sledding) since she was a kid, and Aang has to remind her she still is one. Whether Katara was encouraged to take on the domestic responsibilities by those around her because her people needed her labor, or chose to take the duties on while still a young child to help her family, it's heavily implied her mother's death brought the end of Katara's childhood, which can't have helped the trauma. There's also the fact that, despite being older, Sokka says he can't really remember their mother; instead he remembers Katara. It wouldn't be a stretch to guess that Katara taking on the role of her mother partially shielded her brother from the full impact of her absence.

@Viod753

11 ай бұрын

On top of that I always got the feeling that Katara was much closer to her mom then Sokka was so that probably added to it as well.

@jamestolbert1856

9 ай бұрын

@@Viod753Sokka still loved her and she him

@jamestolbert1856

9 ай бұрын

But she still shouldn’t have said that

@Viod753

9 ай бұрын

@@jamestolbert1856 I agree.

9:32 Katara was actually using a compound subject, which means a single verb is applied to two different subjects. I love this technique as it makes lines more concise and powerful. Katara’s mother and the man who killed her are both gone, but in two different senses of the word. I don’t see how that can be read as a misdirect that Kya is alive.

@violacola

Жыл бұрын

The device is also called a zeugma. My 11th grade English teacher would be proud of me for remembering that.

@broomhilder

Жыл бұрын

@@violacola I don't even know you but I'm proud of you for knowing it anyway

@llamawalrushybrid

Жыл бұрын

Yeah if this wasn't rated TvY-7 there would be absolutely no confusion in the line. It's powerful and raw. Statistically it would confuse some people but that's not a criticism of the line that's just a fact of life.

@MrKingYuji

11 ай бұрын

It’s nick, they have a very sensitive view of the word kill or murder. Even with the very obvious Air Nomad Genocide, they always say they found the Air Temples, or Azula took down Aang. They had to turn Toph into a heart monitor to explain Jet dying.

@orkaydk9430

10 ай бұрын

@@MrKingYuji bro forgot about every single time they say "die" and "kill" in the show

I feel really bad for Toph during this episode. She had to "see" Sokka and Suki doing it the entire night.

@AegixDrakan

2 жыл бұрын

I can just see her eyes shooting open, looking super grumpy, then immediately putting her feet up so she doesn't have to "see" and making *plenty* of sarcastic cracks about it the next day. XD

@lyly_lei_lei

2 жыл бұрын

@@AegixDrakan Of all of the "Earth Rumble" tournaments I've been to, this has to be the 69th one. I can't come up with a better pun on the spot.

@Puckett.

2 жыл бұрын

If you think that's bad just think she also "saw" her parents as she was growing up.

@theapexsurvivor9538

2 жыл бұрын

@@AegixDrakan also, depending on whether the implications that she likes Sokka from earlier were true, she might include some jabs at him out of spite.

@maxgrozema1093

2 жыл бұрын

"How did you sleep Sokka? I didn't have a QUIET night myself."

I like how instead of a simple revenge being wrong moral, the message of this episode is that there is a difference between forgiveness and mercy.

@Flaxify

2 жыл бұрын

yes totally agree. Katara showed Mercy but she also got revenge. the dude probably got a trauma from that confrontation. like think about it. your living your pathetic retirement as a soldier... and then suddenly a ghost of the past shows up threatening your life. then after showing you that your life was completely in their hands. just giving you a death stare and leave again. Katara wanted to kill the "Monster" but only saw the pathetic life of a total stranger. for him killing her Mother was just duty work, he was tasked to do it. he really only understood what he did back then when he realized he could be next. he wasn't the Monster she wanted to kill.

@nibistewgamer1742

2 жыл бұрын

what are you talking about, it IS saying revenge=bad

@alecholtsbaum2403

2 жыл бұрын

@@nibistewgamer1742 It's not, what he is saying is the disposition of what she created in her mind was some evil monster that is something so awful she wanted to kill it. In reality, he is just a regular stranger with an extreme job. The episode explores the most extreme emotions of human loss from another person and that's what I believe makes it so beautiful and to dive even deeper into what makes human intelligence and emotions so interesting. Even when someone is so hurt they can still find enough empathy and compassion to realize he is another human being and even the people with the darkest of paths are sentient minds.

@Flaxify

2 жыл бұрын

​​ @Alec Holtsbaum thats exactly it. his pathetic life has no longer anything to do with her, the moment she realizes hes not the Monster that she saw in her head. she decides she cant kill him. this is actually not showing revenge at all this is about showing how Katara dealt with her Trauma. by seeing that man face to face, and realizing hes just a normal human.

@noctua_caelum

2 жыл бұрын

I love the way you articulate it, Katara showed mercy but she didn’t forgive and didn’t 100% come around to Aang’s way of thinking, which was refreshing. I wish that instead of portraying Zuko as being disrespectful to aang’s beliefs, the writers had instead made him argue from the perspective of going after yon-ra as an act of justice. Like, the man *did* get away with the cold blooded murder of an innocent woman (and probably lots of other people let’s be real) while on a racist genocidal mission from his fascist dictator. That’s something that needs to be accounted for, even if Aang thought Katara herself shouldn’t kill anyone.

Sokka’s line about not remembering his mom’s face combined with Katara’s “you didn’t love her like I did” makes a lot of sense. We don’t really see a lot of Sokka during that raid but Katara is one of the last people to see her mother in the day she was murdered. She probably ran that day through her mind countless times trying to think of a way to save her.

@Blitz_Spencer

7 ай бұрын

it makes sense, but damn is it a gut punch, like Sokka still looked visibly hurt by Katara’s words

@wingadept8793

5 ай бұрын

Katara owes Sokka an apology for saying that.

@DepravedCoTApologist

3 ай бұрын

​@@wingadept8793The last shot of Katara is her walking up to Sokka, so we can infer that's where she apologizes to him

11:10 I think the blood bending makes sense and tracks for her character, she's driven entirely by pain and rage in this episode so it makes sense that she would blood bend the man who she thinks killed her mother. Also zuko's face at 10:55 when he figures out what bloodbending is because he sees katara doing it is really funny, like he's thinking "man I'm glad I switched sides"

The balance that “I coulda redirected that” brings is quite nice.

@matijasostojic4288

Жыл бұрын

That was so funny. OA really knows how to make good jokes.

The best insult ive heard in my life has to be "your garden looks like a town clint eastwood would ride into" like god dam you just killed Yon Rha before katara could get to him

@mr.sandman7339

2 жыл бұрын

Yon Rha got burned almost as bad as Zuko with that one

@WearyWeaver

2 жыл бұрын

Your parents buy you megablocks instead of legos is up there.

At 1:30, I don't think Azula is crazy strong but it was the fire shooting out of her feet that launched her back.

@punisherlee

2 жыл бұрын

That would've propelled her through the rails. For the fire to propel her back up, her feet had to be facing directly downward but it was diagonal

@Ninjaguy1b

2 жыл бұрын

​@@punisherlee You have to account for the rigidity of her body though. Unless the force is projected *directly* into the railing, her feet (where all the force and momentum are occurring) will be moving slightly upwards of the railing, and because her body is stiff, they can't go directly in the direction they are trying to move, and the force will be translated around the circumference of the circle described by the railing as a centerpoint and her length as a radius. Then normal rope logic works, and her feet "orbit" the railing to bring her back down. The force of gravity is replaced by the tension force of her body, but it's still an orbit. I've simplified the logic a bit here and left out the math, but in short the fire from her feet can reasonably perform that flip with basically no input from her muscles (although they can definitely help).

@hames100

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ninjaguy1b her body wasn’t rigid though she bends at her hips right after the fireblast. also if that fire is powerful enough to propel her, you think it wouldn’t require any muscle to control that force pushing her directly into the bar?

@levi.koeppel

2 жыл бұрын

@@punisherlee counterpoint: to keep your body that rigid would still require tremendous core strength lmao

@yuh6509

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ninjaguy1b you’re just talking nonsense

Azula saying "I'M ABOUT TO CELEBRATE BECOMING AN ONLY CHILD!" is the best line ever

@battlesheep2552

Жыл бұрын

Definitely the best aversion of the k-word in a children's show

@danielserrano929

4 ай бұрын

I think this resonates with many people with siblings because even when we love them, sometimes we really want to kill them (in a good way lol)

I think the water tribe being a shell of its former self in only a few years is probably down to the last water bender being taken and on top of that all the able warriors leaving to fight against the fire nation, literally only leaving the elderly, young and physically weak behind. Like that's about 5 years give or take without anyone being able to keep up infrastructure in a village built primarily out of snow and ice I think it's totally believable that it would shrink so much in that time.

@KairuHakubi

2 жыл бұрын

yeah those warriors would have had to take whatever they could with them, and with the new lower population it makes sense to dismantle unused dwellings.

@bernardonegri5416

2 жыл бұрын

Also, they had the perfect schedule of births so that there are only either children or elderly people by the time the men leave. Or this could be evidence that some female warriors also left.

@KairuHakubi

2 жыл бұрын

@@bernardonegri5416 i think the fire nation had something to do with that. that kid in the flashback, Sokka's age? I mean there's lots of ways to die especially in a primitive society like that.. but could've been a soldier.

@Puckett.

2 жыл бұрын

The last waterbender would've been taken many decades before though. Hama was taken and considered the last water bender but that was at least a few decades before Kya was killed. I think the main reason it fell apart is cause all the men of the tribe left to war and now that the tribe only had women and children they had to minimize their tribe workload.

@adamallen8787

2 жыл бұрын

Well you gotta remember that that isn’t the only village in the south, their are other settlements but they don’t have much contact with each other and it isn’t unlikely that some of the villagers had relatives in other tribes so they left or something

I interpreted Katara saying "gone" instead of "dead" in that one scene you pointed out basically as her just softening it a little. Remembering it in that kind of detail is really difficult and painful for her already. Especially since she had to see the aftermath... Speaking of which, I think this episode also does a really good job at further explaining why Katara deals with their mother's death so differently than Sokka. It was obviously traumatic for both of them... but for her it had two extra, very intense layers of trauma: one, her mother actually died _for_ her, she took Katara's place, which must have left Katara with some serious survivor guilt; and two, she had to have seen the body...

@NicholePV

2 жыл бұрын

And three, she’d been there before her mom was killed, if she’d been older and knew how to fight she could have stopped him, so she probably feels irrational guilt that she should have done something, even if running for help really was all she could actually do

@efoxkitsune9493

2 жыл бұрын

@@NicholePV True. The last aspect of course is what we learned in The Runaway (I think that was the episode) - Sokka basically had a mother figure growing up, even after Kya died. Katara didn't though. It was up to her. So there's no wonder she didn't really get a chance to properly process and deal with it all..

@sullymusic4186

2 жыл бұрын

When my best friend died last year, I got to the hospital and the first thing said to me was his brother saying “he’s gone, dude”. So it’s not completely out of place and ever since then that line has had a lot of realism to me

@efoxkitsune9493

2 жыл бұрын

@@sullymusic4186 I'm really sorry for your loss.

@spear5880

2 жыл бұрын

But she didn’t know the second part until this episode

Katara: *bloodbends* Zuko: "I changed teams at the right moment..."

OA gives a lot of love to Aang's forgiveness line, but Katara's response ("It's not just hard... it's impossible.") never fails to give me chills.

@drfifteenmd7561

2 жыл бұрын

Channeling her inner emo

@StarsandBarsRecords

3 ай бұрын

@@drfifteenmd7561 crawwwling in my-

10:26 Zuko here uses movements in likeness to that of earth bending, with grounded stances. He also doesn’t dodge or redirects, he blocks the attacks directly. This is to show that he is learning from other elements as iroh told him to as well as show that his fire bending is no longer fueled by his anger.

@PhantoRoyce

2 жыл бұрын

It’s also how he beat Azula. If you watch the fights over he actually stays in one place the whole time and is able to catch Azula off balance because she’s moving so much

I just assumed the reason Zuko doesn't bring his swords when he goes on these low profile runs instead taking other people's is because of the Xhao incident, his swords were recognized and thus an assassination attempt was put in play, him using them would draw unwanted attention from witnesses but if he were to take someone else's then there wouldn't be as much of a trail (ignoring the whole face scar)

@Xpwnxage

2 жыл бұрын

Lol it does bring up a funny thought in my head. Like Zuko still looks recognizable because of the scar. So after the finale and the soliders see who becomes Firelord, you think those soliders are thinking "why the hell was Firelord Zuko beating us up with a water bender that one time"?

@zacharys8141

Жыл бұрын

I always assumed Xhao never told anyone because he hires pirates instead of actual soldiers to take him out. He frames it like an accident so he wouldn’t have to tell anyone else. and I doubt ozai would have ever taken him back knowing he freed the avatar for any reason.

@TheWinjin

Жыл бұрын

Come to think of it... Do we ever learn how good are the Fire Nation healers? Looks like they have A TON of firebenders so probably a lot of people would have burn scars. Soldiers be fighting. Plus they'd have scars where they'd get road rash from Earth Benders and possibly ice bites from scuffles with Water benders. So I'm saying, scars alone are probably not that unique honestly.

Is no one going to mention the tiny fire nation student dancing on a mountain when Yon Rha firebends and says "no one sneaks up on me without getting burned"? That shit had me cracking up lmao

@jordanrobinson9064

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen that as well, and I thought I was trippin’! Like seriously, what is that?!

@Josh-bn4ki

Жыл бұрын

He also put it in the episode about the sun tribe people. It's right as aang and zuko get there in the background. If I ever rewatch this series, I'll have to see if it's in every oa episode

The cycle of war is illustrated in this episode and it makes it one of my favorite episodes. Loss becomes anger, anger becomes vengeance, and vengeance becomes loss…

that “katara” line from sokka is absolutely killer and one of these best line reads in the show.

@bevvvy1374

2 жыл бұрын

He really sounds hurt and so surprised that she would even say that

Another nice touch is when katara is about to kill Yon Rha there is an incredible moment where she bends the water in the shape of a dome around all of them symbolizing the igloo shape they were both in all those years ago. it just elevated the scene even more as katara is the one in control now and it was her way of bringing him back to that moment. always thought that was pretty cool.

@quirda77

2 жыл бұрын

Is that what that was? I thought it was just showcasing her range of control at that point in the series in a sorta penultamate display of her power before the final fight. Bending seems to be limited to how far away from the person and I thought it was just kinda a way to showcase how far she has come from the Katara at the beginning who could barely hold a bubble with a fish and needed to physically see the water to bend it.

@parisselattimore

2 жыл бұрын

@@quirda77 yeah no fully agree that’s how I interpreted aswell. I just ment it like katara is the one in control showcasting her bending abilities from when she was younger to now. And showing this man like how far she came. I think that aswell but if you look back on the episode the dome has ripples around it. That look similar to an igloo. That’s what I thought it was

@overanalyzingavatar

2 жыл бұрын

that is a nice thought actually, I like that

@parisselattimore

2 жыл бұрын

@@overanalyzingavatar I love your videos man thank you for replying. You’re a legend

@CassySida

2 жыл бұрын

13:32-13:49 i don't see a dome/igloo anywhere whaa is it the bubble droplets? they don't really have a flat bottom

I never thought Azula’s madness was forced or surprising. She was always cruel and cunning and calculated before, but even on Ember Island we get to see the cracks in her general psyche and how messed up her upbringing under Ozai and (from her view) without her mother’s love made her. This episode shows us that after Tai Lee and Mei betray her, she has nothing left, no one. Just the power and anger and cruelty instilled in her by her father. Nothing is going her way anymore (she’s nearly killed by her brother when he was never a match for her prior to learning true firebending) so of course these are the seeds for her going actually insane when all that she ever wanted is coming to a head but she is completely and utterly alone.

@rchltrrs

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was a surprise but it did feel rushed. If they could have found a way to start laying the ground work a little earlier it would have been cool. I know that losing her cronies was the straw that broke the camel's back but it would have been cool if they had included a few moments of weakness earlier. Some signs that she was starting to Crack under the pressure

@Zero00wolfkiller

2 жыл бұрын

@@rchltrrs Losing May and Ty Lee wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back though it was the start. Azula fooled herself into thinking she could handle all the pressure that being Ozai's favourite brought and when she had two "friends" it only strengthened her delusion of being strong enough and smart enough to be in full control. However when those two people who she thought she had firmly on her side betrayed her she started to see the flaws in her delusion and she couldn't handle it. Tl;dr May and Ty Lee weren't the last straw they were the first crack.

@rchltrrs

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zero00wolfkiller I see your point but that's part of the problem. If that's where Azula starts losing it, that gives like no time for to go from total control to none at all. I think it would have helped if they had shown her getting more flustered and frustrated earlier on it would have worked better. But it also was a cartoon with 20 minute episodes lol

@Zero00wolfkiller

2 жыл бұрын

@@rchltrrs I think it just shows really how much pressure Azula was under. In the beach episode we saw that she was aware of the pressure but since she had friends she was still in near perfect control. Her friends were literally the only things holding her together once the were gone she fell fast.

@dango470

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zero00wolfkiller i think it was zuko leaving that was the first crack. Shes always been a bitch to him but he's still her brother and they grew up together. She saved him, i think deliberately during the night Ursa was banished. And from what we see when she's looking out for him when he visits Iroh, and from the beach episode, I think she was relieved in some sense to have someone like her brother on her side. Not just because he's family, but because his whole honour thing is super easy for her to manipulate. I like to think that if Zuko straight up went "lets overthrow our father" Azula would be glad to be in it, perhaps even as a gray cardinal

You know why Katara and Zuko have such a good friendship they relate they've felt the same things and had similar arcs plus I love how they remain friends

@meridaskywalker7816

Жыл бұрын

I agree. It really annoys me that many fans ship them

@dragonmaster3207

10 ай бұрын

@@meridaskywalker7816yea the zuko and katara ship people are coping incredibly hard it’s unbelievable

When Katara said “the man was gone and so was she”, the word “gone” is given a double meaning. The man was gone as in he left, and Kya was gone as in deceased.

@stephaniewilliams6756

2 жыл бұрын

Um. Duoy.

@stephaniewilliams6756

2 жыл бұрын

@@llamawalrushybrid only conclusion i see is interaction crumbs yea

@Veryslightlymad

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. To put it another way, this is WHY her phrasing was the way that it was, and why she separated the two concepts. It isn't ambiguous at all. If they were both simply "not there", she would have said, "they were both gone". But it's not "both were gone" it is "one was gone. And one was gone."

@MrKingYuji

2 жыл бұрын

This show has a weird way of tackling death. They always say “the Fire Nation attacked the airbenders” or “found the air temples” or that “Azula took down the Avatar”. The only time they were truly explicit was when Ozai said it was time for Aang to die

@KampzOnXbox

2 жыл бұрын

@@llamawalrushybrid just overanalyzing, lol.

When I first saw this episode, I was expecting the man who killed Katara's mother to be like Zhao, or Ozai. Instead, he's just a sad old man living with his cranky mother. Reminds me of Zero in MGS4.

@SymphonyZach

2 жыл бұрын

It’s more realistic in that way. A lot of people we’d consider abusive or wicked were that way because they were weak. I forgot what movie it was. But there’s a scene of a guy confronting his sisters abuser. And the dude just starts bawling his eyes out like a scared rat.

@catcat4697

2 жыл бұрын

Not to be confused with zero from Code Geass

@lucasm.3864

2 жыл бұрын

That’s called “the banality of evil”. There are pictures of the people who ran concentration and extermination camps on summer vacation and they look like just a bunch of friends having a great time as opposed to the absolute monsters they are.

@Sinewmire

2 жыл бұрын

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do." - Pratchett

@SymphonyZach

2 жыл бұрын

@@catcat4697 that entire show was a fever dream of what can happen if anyone just gets total power

When I first saw this episode, I thought Zuko was overdoing his anger act in order to impress Katara and win her forgiveness and acceptance, like any teen would. Coming back to this episode a few years later, I realized that Zuko was actually more likely to be thinking about his own mother, and how, just like Katara’s, his mother had sacrificed herself to save him. His conversation with Ozai from the day of the eclipse is no doubt fresh on his mind. He is justifiably relating to Katara after hearing her story while riding Appa. On a side note, I think Katara choosing to not kill Yon Rha at the end is because she sees something the viewer may realize before her. Present day Yon Rha is presented as a pathetic old man with nothing to live for in his retirement, pushed around by his own mother and allegedly no wife or children of his own. He’s obviously lonely, and it may invoke some pity and even sympathy from the viewer, even after hearing Katara’s story. As such, it can be genuinely uncomfortable watching Zuko and Katara attack him while the latter is carrying groceries, especially after he’s been rendered defenseless by the rain. That choice of imagery is VERY deliberate. I think Katara suddenly sees that she’s essentially about to kill a defenseless old man, one who regrets his actions while in the Fire Nation Navy, as implied by how he kept weeping even after our duo leaves the scene. Katara realizes that no matter how horrendous the crimes may have been, even against her and her family, it just doesn’t gel with her to be that person who would commit that kind of revenge kill. She says so herself: she always saw a monster in her head for many years, but the reality is that said monster is just a pathetic lonely old man. If Katara killed the monster she had envisioned in a heated battle where she’s the underdog, perhaps she’d be satisfied, but there’s no way she’d be satisfied killing a genuinely defenseless cowering old man begging for mercy.

@oliviamurphy9482

Жыл бұрын

yes!!! Additionally, I think he is the most likely (along with maybe Toph?) to agree that violence can and should be used sometimes to mete out justice. He has been privy to his only family wreaking violence across the globe, killing and harming millions of people. He respects that sometimes only violence can tip the scales back. Hell, he was willing to become the Gaang's prisoner in order for him to accomplish his own destiny and save the world. He could understand that that could be what he would deserve after what he had done. Add that to his own never-ending grief, and likely guilt over the loss of Ursa, and he probably felt a certain catharsis in helping Katara too. And not just because it would help her forgive him.

I always get chills when Katara says "ME!" in the climax. Really like the build-up in this episode.

There is one aspect of avatar I would like to see mentioned about the Last Agni Kai. It’s about where Zuko and Azula are standing in relation to the palace. Azula stands with her back to the throne, because that’s all she cares about. She’s firing at Zuko, in the direction of the Fire Nation civilian homes. Zuko stands on the opposite side of the arena. He stands backing the Fire Nation people, and is firing at Azula and the Fire Nation throne, which to me is indicative of him opposing everything he has been raised to believe and willing to do anything to fight for the people and nation he was born to care for

@adiksaff

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! Scene composition win!!

@maddie9602

2 жыл бұрын

And here I thought I had picked to pieces all the symbolism in that fight. Seriously, that fight is one of my favorite moments in the show

@ayszhang

2 жыл бұрын

@@maddie9602 So visually and acoustically stunning

@alecholtsbaum2403

2 жыл бұрын

@@adiksaff I read that in @overanalyzing voices lol

@Newt2799

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome observation

I think katara having the emotional maturity to realize that murdering him wasn’t gonna do anyone any good while never really letting her anger go is what sells me on this episode, it’s a mature outlook that doesn’t feel very kid or cartoonish, it honestly feels more mature than her outright killing him because of the nuance of the situation which is what I mean by maturity, it expects the audience to really think about the moral implications which is mature in a non edgy way, unlike smth like deadpool where it’s adult but immature

@yaaaas9778

2 жыл бұрын

but that's the question right? She said she couldn't do it, not that she didn't want to. I don't think she was realizing murdering him wasn't gonna do any good. This wasn't about him in a way, but about her feelings alone. And as he said in the video, it remains unsolved in the end. The viewer can decide for themselves what would've been the right choice. After all, Katara doesn't say anything near the lines of "Aang you were right" or "violence wasn't the answer", it zuko who says that, but katara remains unsure whether she did the right thing or not after all. and I think that's what makes it so strong. Evereyone has their own believes and so does the viewer. The show doesn't try to sell you their views in the matter, but rather tells you the options and its up to you to decide. at least thats my opinion on that

@AJJ129

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought the point was whatever katara did kill him or not was what she needed to do and what was right for her to do. She could have killed him and that too would have been an equally valid thing to do. Zuko would not have judged her and we would not because we understand where she is coming from. It wouldn’t have solved anything and she’d still have to resolve her own emotional problems but the killing wouldn’t have been wrong. Whatever choice she made would have been justified.

@donpietro2137

2 жыл бұрын

I also thought about Deadpool in this one. It's the exact opposite: katara spares him like you would expect from a hero ending. Deadpool straight up shoots the guy through the head DURING the emotional speech from his comrade.

@Zwijger

2 жыл бұрын

But the whole point is that she didn't know if she spared him, or that she was just not enough of a "killer" to finish him. That's the ambiguity he's talking about, and for me that makes it cool, we don't know if her heart was too big in general to take a life, or that she specifically forgave him enough to not end his life.

@stephaniewilliams6756

2 жыл бұрын

Dude her killing him wouldve bern justice youre an incel and im dating your mom clean your room im your dad now

I like the fact that Yon Rha is just this sad old man, because it shows that people who are put in positions of power can and do abuse that power to do horrible things, and it shows that even a war criminal like him who has done bad things is still a human being. Really nice to see him get highroaded by Katara instead of her killing him or bloodbending him.

This is such a great episode for so many reasons. The looks of fear and awe Zuko gives her when she's bloodbending and when she's stopping the rain, the serious conversations about morality, and also the reveal that Katara actually found her mother's burned corpse which is another reason why she is so scarred and still haunted by this moment. Definitely one of my favorite episodes.

I've always assumed the charred corpse and being there right before her mom died is why this has weighed on Katara more than sokka. That's a lot for a 7/8 year old to see. Katara looked into the face and even was spoken to by the man who did it. Not to mention the guilt since she left her mom with him.

@EinhornAnspitzer

2 жыл бұрын

I think it is also because Katara literally took on her mom's role after Kya was killed. Sokka admits to that, too, in "The Runaway". Her childhood was stolen.

I feel like rather than this episode trying to force bloodbending to be relevant, it was the other way around. They wanted to write a compelling reason for why the fire nation was looking for water benders in the south, so they had to create a story about a southern water bender who was so crazily powerful that the fire nation would want to wipe them out. And the fact that katara surviving as the (presumed) last southern water bender, learning from the actual bloodbender they were so scared of, and then coming back to seek revenge by using the very same technique just brings every back full circle.

@zie233

Жыл бұрын

This is definitely underrated

@lonemotheomatshaba9640

Жыл бұрын

That is pretty cool

12:20 Long fan is shown to be a bender before killing jet, when he flipped the tile to capture appa

When Katara lashes out at Zuko, I can't help but appreciate that maniacal, "gradually going insane", yet sarcastic look on her face when she's about to say "I know! You can bring my mother back!", and I like that detail of the highlight of her eye disappearing to make it seem like the life is being brought out of her, in replacement of anger. I don't even know if it's intentional, but I just adore it.

I also think this episode was a good foreshadowing for the actual dilemma at the end of the show with Aang and the Ozai. Ozai is not a weak old man but Aang still feels that killing him is wrong. He gives him a chance to surrender and when he tries to kill Aang again, he takes his bending away.

THANK YOU! I've felt like the only one pointing out how big the psychological impact of Katara hearing that her own brother - the only connection she has to her family on the majority of this journey - doesn't remember their mom's face must've been. The "Then you didn't love her the way I did" line doesn't come out of nowhere. It's completely in character for Katara, and she is rooting it in her interpretation of actual things Sokka has said about their mom. Obviously Katara is in the wrong. Obviously Sokka loved his mom and shouldn't feel shame about any of this. Obviously Katara's statement felt out of left field to the rest of the gaang. But it is ABSOLUTELY grounded in Katara's demonstrated methods of processing information in light of her worldview, and it adds a level of depth to her character that I adore.

@clarence5211

2 жыл бұрын

i love that line, it’s so horrible but also very realistic for the time and character. it showcases how even someone as compassionate as katara can act out in such a nasty way bc of grief to this day i’m still surprised a kid’s show decided to go there

damn, that conversation hits harder now. One of my closest friends lost his mother to suicide a year ago, she'd taken me in and treated me like family during a really hard time in my life. Recently he said something along the lines of "You didn't love her like I did." and as much as it stung I couldn't get mad about it, I understood him, just like I understand Katara. And seeing the look on Sokka's face, I know exactly how he feels. Hurt, but can't bring himself to be mad at her instead just taking it silently. Fuck man!

I love how this episode sets up the idea that Aang is going to struggle with the idea of killing Ozai. In the invasion we weren’t sure what Aang was going to do but we didn’t have to see it because he didn’t end up fighting him. But now we have Aang preaching about not murdering only a few episodes before he actually fights the fire lord. It would feel weird if Aang didn’t have any issue with it after having that whole episode about violence not being the answer. I love how this show set that up

@cotton3399

Жыл бұрын

The entire show Aang has been stated to be a pacifist. It's not really a surprise.

As one of the few Katara fans out there, I'm so glad this episode exist. This might be the greatest emotional climax in the whole show, and shows how much Katara matured during the journey. 10/10 favourite episode

@shadenox8164

2 жыл бұрын

In what universe is there only a "few" Katara fans?

@autisticdancer

2 жыл бұрын

I am a Katara fan.

@miepmiep4010

2 жыл бұрын

I've always related to her so much and this episode is a big reason for it. She's been my favorite since I was a child. Her emotional range seems so incredibly genuine.

@dexenationgracey1979

2 жыл бұрын

@@shadenox8164 I think he just means that out of the Gaang she's typically the least liked character.

@psicopato2460

2 жыл бұрын

I love Katara and Sokka because they have such a realistic sibling relationship, I see myself in Sokka a lot of the time, and see my sister in Katara aswell.

I really like that they wait for the cofrontation until after the one person who wouldn't stop Katara from killing Yon Rha was on the team. Zuko not only understands where she's coming from (Aang and Sokka do too) but also has no moral qualms about going and killing a guy in revenge. Sure Sokka is very nonchalant about killing Ozai, but that is for the good of the world and as an act of war. Killing Yon Rha is entirely personal and doesn't change anything in the grand scheme of things, which he understands. Meanwhile Zuko was raised in an environment where murder as a means to an end or for petty reasons is normalized and he realizes that Katara needs this confrontation and needs the chance to decide what to do when she sees him again. It's great storytelling.

@Talisguy

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, Toph also has no qualms about killing people. The two guys she locked in the metal box definitely died. But it still had to be Zuko, for one simple reason: he's indulging Katara's worst impulses because he's desperate for her to stop giving him shit and accept his presence in the group. Toph doesn't have the motivation to go along with this. She wouldn't stop Katara but she also wouldn't enable her. Zuko is totally willing to enable her. And I'm not singling out Zuko here. Aang, Katara and Zuko all come out of this episode not looking great. Katara breaking out the bloodbending on the man she thinks is Yon Rha when the fight was already completely one-sided, and only letting him go when she realizes she got the wrong guy, means that she was totally willing to torture Yon Rha. Zuko not only enables Katara's desire to torture and murder an old man, but has the fucking nerve to tell Aang he's being naive for advising Katara to forgive someone who wronged her (Zuko, you are talking to a guy who forgave you for *getting him killed,* shut up.) And while Aang is being much less dickish than the murder twins, his advice to Katara has a tinge of selfishness to it after the end reveals that Aang is struggling to reconcile his pacifism with his need to stop Ozai. He has a vested interest in Katara choosing the paragon option here to validate his worldview. Sokka's the only one in the episode who I think is just concerned about Katata with no ulterior motives, which makes the fact that we never see her apologise to him even sadder. (I love this episode, for the record. I think it was pretty ballsy to show most of the leads in such a flawed light, and I think of that as a positive)

@Windjammer19

2 жыл бұрын

@@Talisguy All Toph did was close the box on them. It's not like the road was deserted. Someone probably came along the next and got them some help. Could they have died? Sure.

@ghartman56

2 жыл бұрын

@@Talisguy I entirely agree that the only way I can imagine the main story of this episode being improved is if Katara apologized to Sokka. Even in the next episode if they couldn't fit it in this one. Also, even as someone who is so focused on doing no harm that I usually bring spiders outside instead of killing them even though I'm terrified of them, I would 100% hunt someone down and do bad things to them if they killed my mom and I had to walk in on the charred remains of her dead body as a small child (assuming the person hadn't fully surrendered yet, which was the case here). The notion of the battle seeming one-sided has much less certainty in a world with bending, especially since Katara recently saw the most powerful person on the planet (an avatar in avatar mode) be shot down and almost killed in the blink of an eye from across the room. Also, the fact that he's old is much less relevant in a world where old people can still bend like crazy. Either way, I love how much discussion this episode and this show brings. It's such a gem of a series.

@Jotari

2 жыл бұрын

Actually the Fire Nation seems to have a rather anti-execution culture. They're brutal in war but when it comes to law they'd much rather banish or imprison someone in a hellish prison than to execute. I don't think there's a single incident of execution in the series despite the Fire Nation capturing some pretty high level prisoners. The closest would be Ozai trying to zap Zuko on the day of black sun.

@GonnaDieNever

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jotari And even that is arguably more an act of combat. I think the only way that you get executed as a fire bender is by losing an Agni Kai against somebody who wants you dead. They're very honor obsessed.

11:54 he adds a little dancing man in the background I’m dead😂😂

I always interpreted Katara's "the man was gone... and so was she" line referring to her mother's passing away.

In regards to the moon, I always figured that, since the spirits play a much more significant role in the world, that's literally just Yue not turning away and watching over the group. That's why the moon is almost always full.

@matijasostojic4288

Жыл бұрын

So that mean that she was checking sokka out in The Master while he worked the forge.

@TrapezoidOxide

3 ай бұрын

That, or (in my headcanon) Yue wanted to give Katara and other waterbenders a boost in their power more frequently than once a month. To help them fight the fire nation better *edited typos

After the series finale we can finally get to the real story, Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Video Game, released October 10th, 2006 for the Game Boy Advance, Microsoft Windows, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii, and Xbox.

@ChordsBoy

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah idk what's with him going through all this fluff like yeah, the tv show is good but like c'mon, get to the main stuff already

@catcat4697

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, there's more?

@catcat4697

2 жыл бұрын

I have that game somewhere, i have vivid memories if not getting past the octopus bit in that earth village. I need to complete my childhood

@RochRich.

2 жыл бұрын

I need to find that game and play it again

@CelestiaLily

2 жыл бұрын

I think what fascinated me about that video game (besides bending moves being tied to how many f***ing CABBAGES you find) is that Zuko officially joins the group in the Drill episode. Like that was such a bizarre way to speed up the timeline but it worked pretty well

This is one of my absolute favourite episodes. The way Katara is depicted just make you feel her anger, grief and struggle. I love how she goes from cold and calculated, tunnel-visioned vengeance while looking for the person who killed her mother to a grief-struck, hurt anger when she finally meets him and relieves that moment once again, now more real than ever. Spectacular animation and voice-acting. I really felt for her and loved the nuanced ending, with not the forgiveness of the murderer, but the forgiveness of someone who is genuinely repenting for his wrongdoings. That's why I really like Katara's character and how it's written. Thank you for this episode.

There's something about this episode that makes it, hands down, my favorite episode in the entire series. It shows the insane level of growth and power katara wields as a waterbender now (the wave against the ship, blood bending, being able stop all of the rain in an area around her, etc), as well as showing a ton of emotional growth on her end too. I'm not sure if a katara from earlier in the series would've let the man who murdered her mother live. However, despite that growth, she's still not perfect and is still growing in her own respect. Blood bending was such an utterly awful thing to her, and despite never wanting to use it again, under the pretense of being able to get revenge on the man who wronged her, she broke through her own personal moral beliefs to do something she otherwise finds revolting. And to top that off, she still doesn't have all of the answers in the end, and her feelings are still complicated and wholly real.

i just had this realisation that not only did hama indirectly cause katara's mother death, but they probably executed the other waterbender prisoners too because of her

@Oboendband

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always thought Hama was selfish to leave the whole prison full while she ran

@nousername191

2 жыл бұрын

@@Oboendband The only conclusion I could come to was that she was the only one left in that prison. She tells Katara that she was the only one left.

@xesphor1436

2 жыл бұрын

@@nousername191 that makes me see the whole story way differently now...

@yuvalne

2 жыл бұрын

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@nekonomicon2983

Жыл бұрын

@@Oboendband I don't understand why people think Hama abandoned the other prisoners. I thought it was pretty obvious she was the last one alive at the point of her escape.

The reason for the Southern Water Tribe getting so run down probably has to do with the lack of water benders (save for Katara) to bend the ice and snow to make buildings + the aging population (about everyone we see is either a child or elderly) unable to make settlements by hand.

@jirehemanuel

2 жыл бұрын

Thats a good explanation, natural weather will definitely bring those ice structures down

@4m_Audio

2 жыл бұрын

You know, I never even considered that water nation construction was done via bending... makes total sense that an elderly population without bending wouldn't have much to show for their snow village...

The was Katara says "me!" might be the best line delivery in the entire show

the "you want me to do it?" at 14:05 killed me

Zuko's face when he sees bloodbending and always makes me think back on the scene where Zuko is shown his quarters at the easten air temple. Katara did say she would do unspeakable things to him if he were betray them again or something along those lines

@nathanielhellerstein5871

2 жыл бұрын

She issued a direct death threat.

@edhance9753

2 жыл бұрын

I know im 6 month late and its pretty trivial to correct but… *western air temple. The eastern air temple was where aang trained with guru pathik.

Not really touched on in this episode, but I personally think the Azula thing makes a fair amount of sense. She's a perfectionist who has generally had everything go her way her whole life. She managed to intimidate people into being her friends through power or status. She felt like she was the most important person to them, but she was betrayed. That's pretty big, because that constitutes every single one of Azula's relationships outside of the one with her father, who she is subservient to. That means anyone can betray her. I think she seems unhinged at Zuko because he is basically the cause of the betrayal. May turned for Zuko and Ty Lee turned for May.

@KairuHakubi

2 жыл бұрын

hell I'm never the same after friends betray and leave me, and I'm USED to everything going wrong.

@lilscooter93

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don’t usually disagree with the esteemed Avatar Overanalyst, but I suspect we will have different opinions about azula’s seemingly quick mental decline. To me it makes perfect sense that a 14 year old prodigy-perfectionist in the high pressure situation she is in would crack like that. I am curious to hear/read other people’s thoughts though!

@DarkClassicGamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilscooter93 yeah I let out an audible “oooh” as soon as he said azula’s mental collapse was expedited. I was waiting for him to praise it too. So I’m not looking forward to his take on that due to azula’s mental collapse being one of my favorite aspects of the show😅

@bevvvy1374

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilscooter93 I mean sure it could happen in a small amount of time but it basically amounts to 2, maybe 3 episodes. Having a complete mental breakdown in such a short amount of time(even taking her circumstances into account) just seems super rushed considering she had 2 full seasons to work with.

@theapexsurvivor9538

2 жыл бұрын

@@bevvvy1374 I mean, it looks short, but she's been breaking since before her introduction, it's just that it was all internal and hard to see. It's only in these last few episodes that she starts losing to the paranoia she's been fighting the entire series. You don't become that level of perfectionist without a shit-tonne of anxiety at the thought of being even slightly imperfect. She's been trying to make a show of how exemplary she is, to show that she's the best, that she never needed someone weak like her mother, that she's worthy of her father's love, that she deserves to keep her face unburned, that she's strong enough to fight the monsters and fear. The loss of Zuko, Mai, and Ty Lee caused her to have a small breakdown, which left her in a rapid downward spiral. It's actually something that happens in real life, hell, swap the murderous insanity for suicidality and I've experienced the same thing at a similar age.

13:26 “I could’ve redirected that” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I always thought of the Southern Water Tribe was actually being built and maintained by the other waterbenders similar to how the northern water tribe can move the water gates and exterior walls so with Katara being the only waterbender as a child the rest of the tribe begins to fall into decay.

I really feel for Katara in this episode espicially the ending. She has the emotinal maturity to understand taking this man's life wouldn't be the right thing to do but still doesn't forgive him for the pain he's caused her. It really taught me that forgiveness isn't handed out like a prize which is what I hold to this day. Forgiveness is earned, not given.

Yeah this is a real top tier episode. I get your point about the blood bending scene seeming almost forced, even when I was a kid I was kinda taken aback like "oh yeah, I guess I remember that she can do that now". Also Zuko reacted surprisingly calm to seeing this new, previously almost unfathomable power for the first time. He actually had the same reaction Azula had to learning about the invasion from the Earth King, his eyes were the only part of him that showed it. Strange though that he never brings it up, it would be interesting to see Zuko's take on blood bending, since he has such a different viewpoint than the others, he would probably encourage her to use it more. I also thought about what if he grew up hearing ghost stories about Hama's escape, and know he sees that power on display in front of him.

@ayszhang

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose you get desensitized and also have to learn to act a certain way as royalty. Also good point about ghost stories. That's probably true!

@justalpha9138

2 жыл бұрын

I kind of disagree. I was and still am horrified every time I see that scene because it shows just how much revenge can consume someone, and to me it doesn't really feel forced.

@benjaminshields9421

2 жыл бұрын

I feel the exact opposite. It felt that the bloodbending episode set up for this one. Weve been waiting for another use of bloodbending, and now in an episode focused on Katara, its strongly suggested that, "Hey, you're might see some bloodbending." Even better is that you see Zuko fear Katara after this. Even though he holds his composure as she bloodbends, it obviously shook him up, and he wasnt as violent or aggressive as he wouldve been, even considering this is Zuko after the dragons. It also closes the bloodbending arc perfectly, as she immediately regrets bloodbending again. It's not something she plans to use again, and you can see it when she doesnt bloodbend the guy she knows killed her mother.

"Hello, zuko here" gets me every time... especially in the middle of dramatic note in the music

13:07 This can also explain why the soldiers who captured Hama were in regular uniform as opposed to the special unit that came for Katara's mother. They had to up the level of severity of the units capturing waterbenders after the Hama incident and so the Southern Raiders were assembled.

I think the firebending helped Azula with that one shot, because it launched her back, and probably helped her stop as well

@catcat4697

2 жыл бұрын

The real inhuman strength was a bit later where she caught her full weight using a hair pin that she punched trough a rock and held straight while cutting trough that rock to slow her fall, with a single hand...

@andrewli6606

2 жыл бұрын

@@catcat4697 rock in the show has always been portrayed as way weaker than in real life. Anyone that gets hit with serious earthbending would just get their organs imploded.

@gentlyvillainous

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewli6606 you mean like jet? He got hit by a small rock too

I really like the Azula and Zuko contrast after their fight, Zuko has found strength in others and is reliably caught by them. Azula believing only in her own strength and choosing to cut people out has to save herself...she succeeds but does so narrowly.

So azula’s breakdown is a bit sudden. However, I do have to give the writers credit for their detail of it. Azula usually makes bending strikes using two fingers, being far more precise and focused than usual fire bending. But here she’s using fists to help show off she’s not her calm collected self. That being said, I do wish they had taken more time to show her breakdown. Maybe giving more hints throughout the show other than when we first see her lightning bending and she has one strand of hair out of place (since her hair is pretty famously used as a parallel for her mental state).

Katara receives too much backlash for what she said to Sokka . Doesn’t make right what she said, but people forget she is a teenager with a lot of trauma, not to mention who is forced to be act mature in a war. Katara has done more good things during the entire show, hating her for that scene is stupid. She remains one of the best written characters in the Atla universe .

@myatee4134

2 жыл бұрын

She also lightened Sokka’s trauma a bit by immediately filling in as a mother figure which kind of took her childhood away. Sokka even admits when he tries to think of his mom Katara’s face pops up

@danielshore1457

Жыл бұрын

I don't think that's a thing you can say when sokka has the same trauma

@lostinadifferentworld2752

Жыл бұрын

​@@danielshore1457 I assume Sokka didn't actually see his mother's corpse. Katara did.

@machinaowl910

Жыл бұрын

@@danielshore1457 It's not the same at all. Sokka did not see the burnt up crispy body of his mom bro.

@danielshore1457

Жыл бұрын

@@machinaowl910 right somma views himself as a warrior of the tribe he went off to fight the with his dad and his mother died. Do you not think he's holding on to the view that if he was a better warrior he would have been able to save his mother. He has just as much trauma he just displays it on a different way

I think bloodbending had to come up again. I think everyone was anticipating it and would've been disappointed if "congratulations, now you're a bloodbender" went nowhere. But when was Katara going to use it? They probably thought Katara was only going to have two more confrontations, but it would've felt kind of cheap and extremely coincidental for her to be able to use it against Azula in the climax. That meant she had to use it here; it's the perfect mood for it, she's having probably her darkest thoughts in this episode. However, using it against Yon Rha might've been kind of awkward. They could set it up easily enough and she could control him to force him to look at her and recognize her, but then what? They would've had to have her bloodbend him and then have her control him in such a way that threatens to kill him, like puppeteering him towards a cliff or forcing him to pick up a knife or something like that. I'm not sure they could've written that in a way that didn't make Katara look like a psychopath. Walking someone off a cliff isn't impulsive, that takes effort and planning. I don't think they wanted to portray her as Dexter. This is something that happens in video games, when you're in a weird, panicked position and you take control of a monster that's threatening you - but then you both just stand there because you actually want it to, like, just die or something, but you can't attack it because it's your pet now. It's not very cathartic to just send it away, right? So they wrote in this new fake-out guy to get bent instead, and I think it works fine. When you have a power dependent on something out of your control like moon phases, it makes sense that you wouldn't have it at the right moment. Thanks to that, though, the episode does feel pretty packed. Exactly how much time went by? I feel like they traveled all over the world in a single episode.

@mauer1

2 жыл бұрын

well if not now shes never going to use it. Just because of the mental disaster she goes through

@Newt2799

2 жыл бұрын

Dude you’re really good at explaining things. Like I think a lot of us process what went on that episode but you really put it into words well and the even the writers’ thoughts.

@benjaminshields9421

2 жыл бұрын

I think the most impactful part of this is that her original feelings about blood bending were reaffirmed. She regretted using bloodbending on a person she wasnt looking for. She knows she fucked up, and that she couldve fucked up worse while bloodbending.

My theory on why the tribe has devolved so much (and explains the other sokka's age guy not being in the beginning) is that after the attack they scattered due to infighting or for tactical reasons. I feel like there are multiple smaller tribes.

@erikm8373

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, given the size of the Northern water tribe in comparison, I don't really believe that what we see is the entire southern water tribe. I also don't think that there would be an entire, well known military group called the "southern raiders" if all they were doing was just raiding one single tribe (of

@bobbyferg9173

2 жыл бұрын

I think this is supported by the Legend of Korra as in that series the Southern Water Tribe is much bigger than what we saw in the show. Even with the warriors returning and help from the North, the Southern water tribe going from moderatly sized to so tiny to large seems to imply to me that the only people living in the Southern water tribe didn't all belong to one tiny village

@rodrigobueno8652

2 жыл бұрын

Or nether infighitng or tactical reason, the tribe could just descentralized by families going away one bay one, like some going to earth kigndom. But i agree that probably is multiple small tribes

@jeltje50

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbyferg9173 that's more explained by the fact that the northern tribe supplied the southern tribe after the war. I don't know the lore exactly though. There was some immigration and prosperity after the war.

@skilynnclari

2 жыл бұрын

iirc, there's a sort of obscure piece of lore from one of the old nickelodeon sites that says when they discovered katara was a waterbender, hakoda traveled to every water tribe settlement in the south pole to try and find her a teacher. and the comics introduce two little girls from a different village whose mother told them to never tell anyone they were waterbenders, or else bad men could come get them (maybe she heard what happened to kya). there's also another pair of sisters in the comics who are sokka and katara's age from the southern tribe, one of whom makes a little jab at katara, saying "not all of us got to buddy up with the avatar and leave home". so it seems it's been established outside of the show that the southern water tribe doesn't all live together.

I love the idea that aang goes “You sound like Jett” and Zuko just goes (what the hell they knew Jett??? How, what, where is he?)

I am extremely surprised he never mentions that Zuko's firebending changes after the dragons to the point that it looks almost entirely like Irohs now, rounder flames etc.

@genderender

2 ай бұрын

also how many more earth bending poses he does in defense

I don't know why, but it seems so powerful when Katara stops the rain like that.

@equinoxxed_7502

2 жыл бұрын

It's easily in my top 5 bending feats in the show and also it's such a good beat She was leading the man to ask about the water bender and she wanted to show him right before he died that she is no longer helpless and how powerful she is.. i think it's a strong beat that often gets overlooked

@crownlexicon5225

2 жыл бұрын

Probably because bending multiple things at once is difficult. Low level water bending is the water whip. Mid to high is the octopus. High level is hundreds if not thousands of rain drops. Hell, Toph had trouble with sand at first.

@Kirito_2016

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, it's beast

@Joanarr

2 жыл бұрын

And oh my goodness I get chills every time I see the part with the icicles just hanging tensely in the air. Ice bending is so cool, and that coupled with the emotional tensity of the moment gives me goosebumps every time

@CaptainQ2607

2 жыл бұрын

@@crownlexicon5225 yea I can imagine it takes a much greater/finer control.

My sisters and I have always dubbed the "Zuko jump" as one of his own unique techniques. He might not be able to produce lightning on his own, but damn, he covers serious distance in his jumps.

@mr.sandman7339

2 жыл бұрын

Zuko secretly learned some airbending just from following Aang so much

Seeing Zuko and Azula fight this episode just highlighted for me that as of now Zuko is almost definitely on Azula’s level. Their blasts were practically identical sizes. I think even if he didn’t realize it, Azula being unstable didn’t make the last Agni Kai winnable, it made it almost certain.

13:00 and taking this further, considering that it's implied that Hama simply walked out of there by herself, the fire nation would have probably executed the remaining waterbender in fear of that happening again, so not only did Hama get Katara's mother killed, she got ALL southern waterbenders killed

10:24 well it’s not THAT weird, Zuko only used his swords when he either trying to conceal his fire bending or when he’s unable to fire bend

@YunoStreik

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yodah97 iirc Iroh had Zuko train with Piandao

@bevvvy1374

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yodah97 I mean does it have to be common? Why is it weird that it's just something he knows how to do? Maybe he took an interest in it when he was younger or something, it's really not important at all

@theapexsurvivor9538

2 жыл бұрын

@@bevvvy1374 yeah, just like Iroh with paisho and tea, neither of which were common to his family. Hobbies tend to be something you pick up because they're personally interesting to you. Zuko probably saw them being used after he got his face burnt and learnt to use them because he thought it'd be useful to his quest to regain his honour.

@petite2276

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought Zuko learned how to use swords was because he is a prince and it's normal for real world princes to learn how to sword fight. Also, I have a theory that because Zuko basically sucked at fire bending as a kid, he was taught how to use swords so that he could at least defend himself or it was something he felt he was actually good at as a kid and just went ham on learning how to be more efficient at it

@Underhel

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yodah97 iroh literally sent him a dagger when he was trying to conquer ba sing se. It probably got him into swords

Katara in this episode is far and away the most terrifying creature in this series. Including Ozai and Azula. Her anger is just so cold, so distant. You're not a person in her eyes, you're a monster--a thing, and she doesn't play around with her goals. She will achieve them in the most effecient way possible, not playing with her food like Azula does or reveling in her own glory like Ozai. She's a Terminator. Genuinely, if she had killed that man, I would have mistrusted her for the rest of the four episodes in the series. All I'm saying is somewhere, there is an alternate version of Katara who is the primary antagonist of Team Avatar, and no one survives.

@AJJ129

2 жыл бұрын

Why would she be antagonist though? She killed for revenge against an objectively bad man. It’s not like she suddenly starts fighting her own people.

@johnhancock1748

2 жыл бұрын

"and no one survives" Literaly lmfao, because wow that's so true

@utkarshgaur1942

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Cassie from Animorphs. Being the most empathetic also means that when you have to be ruthless you know exactly where to hit.

@zakarymoninger7845

2 жыл бұрын

There's a fan comic out there where the Water Nation won the war, and Aang is found by Zuko and Azula. I haven't finished it but it tries to explore that idea. However, I think that without Aang's help and the stresses of helping him, Katara wouldn't be nearly as strong as she is in the show.

@abrahamedelstein4806

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh, it would have been really fucking cool if Katara had just blood bent Azula into submission in the finale, I mean there is always a full moon anyway. I've sort of come to the realisation that the Fire and Water nation "Royal households" are sort of mirrors of each other, where you have this Single father raising two teen age children both little sister and big brother, Yin and Yang and all that, where Zuko and Azula start of as bad people with good streaks, Sokka and Katara are good people with a dark streak to them, notably Sokka wanting to leave Zuko to freeze to death, I don't think it's too far out of Katara's characterisation to see blood bending as just another tool in the toolbox.

I think what really makes this Episode whole is when katara finally forgives zuko. I was kinda surprised you didnt mention this.

The Scene with Sokka and Zuko is legendary. That tent scene still makes me laugh, so badly. To me, that was and still is comedy gold.

I love how this episode shows that Zuko is now able to hold his own against his sister. This is the first time in the series where we've seen him perform this well against her.

14:09 see this, THIS is EXACTLY the same sentence that I thought when I first saw this. I kinda wanted Zuko to finish the job.

I would point out that despite not actually killing Yon Ra, Katara still does get her revenge on him. It's like that line from Se7en, "You're only alive because I didn't kill you. I spared you. Remember that every time you look in the mirror at that face of yours for the rest of your life, or should I say, the rest of the life I allowed you to have." I think it's actually a clever workaround regarding how the series can't actually kill characters on-screen, instead having Katara find herself justice by standing over him in the same position he had done to her once, holding his life in her hands and having complete dominance of the situation.

This, This is one of the main reasons I like to rewatch this series, this episode right here. And, what can I really say that hasn't already been said about it.

It does seem a little weird that there's an entire fleet called the "southern raiders," who are well known enough for Zuko to know of them, when all we see of the southern water tribe is a small village of probably less than 100 hundred people. Personally, I speculate that, in contrast to the northern water tribe living in one unified city, the southern water tribes are a whole bunch of these small tribes, all split across the south pole. They used to live in one large group like the North, but the fire nation destroyed the city early in the war, and the Southern Raiders were formed to put continuous pressure on the remaining groups and stop them from joining together and regaining their strength. As to why they would target the south? Simple: Sozin assumed that the Avatar had died with the air nomads, and decided he would need to destroy the water tribes next It's also possible the southern raiders aren't even a big group, Zuko just knows about them because he was at the south pole looking for the avatar, and would obviously contact the other fire nation ships in the area to see if they knew anything

@friendlyelites

2 жыл бұрын

Well I mean Zuko was patrolling the South pole at the start of the series so I'd imagine he would probably know of the raiding party that had been routinely hitting that area for the last century.

@andyaquitaine4225

2 жыл бұрын

I think that Zuko being familiar with the South Pole theory is the most likely

@Shnarfbird

2 жыл бұрын

They could also be raiding other places in the southern hemisphere

@andyaquitaine4225

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shnarfbird like the Southern Part of the Earth Kingdom. I could see that

@oliviamurphy9482

Жыл бұрын

yes, I actually think I read it mentioned somewhere, probably the comics, that the Southern and Nothern tribes are both fundamentally made up of villages. I do think there could have been multiple little villages in the south at one point, but now it seems there's not. When they visited the Northern tribe it did occur to me that the palace is in a city, but surely the non royals don't all live in the same area right? It makes sense to me that they have the resources and population for multiple municipalities, so to speak..

"This man's garden looks like a town Clint Eastwood would ride into" is a raw line

You mention that we only knew Long Feng was a bender after turning Jet into hamburger meat, but he did take Appa underground in Appa's last days and that seemed pretty earth bendy to me idk.

"I dunno, I'm not a bomb doctor" got me laughing really hard for some reason 😂

This is without a doubt my favorite episode. Despite how many times I've seen it, a lot of the scenes being tears to my eyes, even just watching along with this video. It's just so raw and deeply emotional, and doesn't take the easy route of straight up forgiveness.

Im guessing the southern water tribe degraded so much in just a few years is because all the men left over a year before the story started, with no water benders and no men to help run the tribe it would probably quickly degrade like that. On another note what do you mean we never knew for sure if long feng was a bender until he killed jet? He used earthbending to capture Appa.

@lonemotheomatshaba9640

2 жыл бұрын

It was a quick moment at the end of an episode

@Numbabu

2 жыл бұрын

Overanalyzing overanalyzing avatar

@Cyver

2 жыл бұрын

@@Numbabu 🗿

@Enchie

2 жыл бұрын

@@Numbabu One must be willing to face the same pain they give unto others.

@andyaquitaine4225

2 жыл бұрын

Did he? I don’t remember the whole scene, but I always thought it was the Dai Li. Did Long Feng make the motion to turn the floor?

Zuko's wow at Katara's blood bending is chilling

This might just be me but whenever I heard "The man was gone... and so was she" I took it as two different meanings of "gone", "The man" having actually left the igloo" and her mother being gone from this world. Might just be me 😅

It’s possible that this world just has a shorter moon cycle than we do. That being said, I never would have noticed the moon without you pointing it out. And the actual explanation is probably just that the animators just used whatever phase they thought looked the best for the shots. Also, I have some pretty mixed feelings about Azula’s mental decline myself, so I’m looking forward to what you have to say about it.

@theapexsurvivor9538

2 жыл бұрын

My bet is just that the moon has become a bit more biased, given that it's now a waterbending princess.

I really like how critical he is of Toph. Like that's so rare to see.

@oliviamurphy9482

Жыл бұрын

was Toph even in this episode? lol

The question Zuko asks Aang about facing the firelord is kind of glossed over, but this is the first time that is brought up. When they attacked during the eclipse they probably expected to capture him, they haven't discussed yet the thought of killing him. The whole episode feels like a set up for the conflict that drives whole episodes near the end. I just find it interesting.