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Katara vs the general wasn’t that bad, she definitely would have put up a better fight if she had more access to water but as we saw in the show it was quickly taken away from her leaving her vulnerable, and with the whole burying thing I don’t think it’s as OP as people think it is, I can imagine it doesn’t work too well on fast moving opponents

Hama would been a great teacher if katara used this Ability (Bloodbending) to hold Azula (i know that would not been her Style).

I hope if they made another series with an Avater after Korra, they will explore other Bendings (who are called evil). Avatar the last Airbender is a different Story, this doesn't mean the legend of korra is not better or something both series describe different issues.

There's a reason they were the most dominant nation before the fire nation industrialised

Other earth benders don’t do this because they got to much pride; won’t accept a easy fight for example toph would want to win gloriously instead of u just getting stuck and quitting

Be because he has ontroduced dirt into the water it becomes now muddy water and she can't bend it anymore.....that was before it was established that she can bend it.....well ok maby togheter with an earthbender

If you think about it, all bending is broken. Earth bending is broken as you could immediately start breaking your opponents feet and quickly their entire body. (Not too far away from what we see here) Water bending is broken. As you could make a water ball go down your opponents wind pipe, drowning them (we saw katara bend water into people's mouth. Its the next logical step.) Fire bending could be used the same way then to kill someone by buring their lungs, or alternatively by explosively expanding the air in someone's head(, like failed lighning bending, as Zuko displayed). Air bending can just suffocate people. (See Zaheer) One move kills, using the standard bending styles, without any sub styles.

You could look at "Tales of Ba Sing Se". Or you could do a character or worldbuilding analysis.

Are you going to discuss the live action version when you're done with the animated version?

It's Pakku, not Paco.

It is sad that Hama and Gran Gran can't see each other anymore. Maybe it for the best cause Hama has gone crazy, and might used blood bending in the tribe from PTSD😢. (This is a theory only)

Gran gran was originally from the northern water tribe tho so it’s possible that Hama was abducted before gran gran actually came to the southern water tribe

And Keira used metal on the opponent like blood bending

Blood ending is not to overpowered because mako used electricity

it honestly does not matter how strong it is because it has high skill requirement, environmental requirement, and even a drawback in terms of morality. there are so many reasons blood bending could not be used that it evens out how op it is. this is like saying an ultimate ability in a video game is over powered even though the whole point is that it has high reward and therefore it needs high cost.

From what we saw in the series we’d know Hama and gran gran were friends because when Hama was taken away the first woman that we see that is very sad look a lot like Katara that is because that was gran gran (this is just a theory)

Hama's goal was always to pass on her skill/technique to Katara. She WANTED Katara to learn and demonstrate blood bending. Katara gaining control over her own body showed that she was starting to bloodbend, at least blood bend herself. I think Hama pulled back her attack on Katara once she did this, bc again she WANTED Katara to blood bend. The next step was to blood bend another, which she did on Hama. Hama knew she was old, and not long for the world. She may have even died in prison shortly after (or been put to death). She didn't care, bc he goal of passing on the skill to a younger water bender was complete. Katara wasn't "stronger" she was just younger, and probably had a lot more energy to fight old lady Hama, who also never wanted Katara to loose.

Thank you. I've been saying this for years. I have been fighting against this episode and the fact it breaks the world.

oh but sufficating a room wit earth bending is peachy

What about earth bending?

That’s not a blood bending L that’s another Korra L all the more reason for it not to be canon

Hanma is one of my favourite characters, But I think that the show introduced her in a bad way, Imagine that when team Avatar arrived to the village they saw a large crowd and when they get closer, they see Hanma and her puppet show, everyone in the crowd tell Team Avatar that her puppet show is the best (the village is well known beacuse of his great puppet master), Team avatar and especially Katara is very impressed from Hanma skills, Hanma find out that Katara is from the south water nation (she saw her nackless) and invites Team Avatar to her home and tell them about her story, but this time when she was young Katara's mother (they were best friends) taught her how to control puppets, and when she was in prison, she develop this technique and learn how to control humans. That will make Hanma fake persona to a realy important person in the village intead of an ordinary old woman.

Love the video. Respectfully, katara IS a prodigy. She's not a sevant who instinctively picks things up like aang did with 3 of the 4 elements, she does have to work. But not very hard. She has so much talent she went from struggling to wrangle a wave to competent fighter just from hanging out with aang to show her bending basics that are universal to all martial arts, and stealing one waterbending scroll. Then she leveled up to master in the month (tops) she was in the north pole. She is a stronger waterbender than aang (throughout the lore, we see evidence of avatar companions being better benders of their native element than their avatar sans avatar state) so it absolutely makes sense that a waterbender of her caliber boosted by the full moon could shrug off that shit when properly motivated.

It's more science than magic. For example metalbending isn't bending the metal, it's bending the impurities inside the metal

Stay consistent dont be like me 🔥

It's not magic

Dark bending should be possible Since fire and Lightning are Plasma And If you take away the photo of Plasma it becomes dark

Yeah it sucks

I don't think it's that overpowered. Full moons only happens once a month, which is a pretty big drawback compared to other bending special abilities (lightnning, levitation, metalbending etc...). Chances are, you wouldn't get the opportunity to use it when you actually need to. Plus, once a waterbender is revealed to be a blood bender, their ennemies would make them a priority target while making sure to avoid facing them during a full moon.

Back in season 2, Iroh during his instruction to Zuko brings up learning from sources outside your own nation, heck it's how he developed Lightning Redirection. It's the same lesson that Aang has to apply with being the Avatar. Something that few people catch during Katara and Hama's fight is that Katara is also applying that lesson when instead of doing the usual flowing around attacks she stops Hama's water not unlike how an Earthbender would defend themselves. Who's to say that the the stubborn mentality of an Earthbender couldn't help her to resist and ultimately negate Hama's attempts to control her along with her natural talent?

Amon, Katara and Korra all resisted bloodbending withouth the Avatar State. Don't know why but I enjoy that some can resist.

It makes sense that Katara was able to resist Hama. Katara is called out as being a prodigy of a waterbender, on top of being an extremely dedicated student. Not only was the moon out at the time, but Katara was affected by the bloodbuilding until she broke Hama's control. The how of it - Katara just bent her own blood. As for why Aang wasn't able to break Hama's hold - keep in mind that while he is also a bigger prodigy than Katara (and had Katara as a teacher throughout the series), he wasn't as dedicated a waterbending student. Airbending is his specialty, and (as a kid at least) he did not have the deep understanding of waterbending that Katara had, nor did Hama give him the advice on how "water can be found anywhere" or such. He didn't even know bloodbending was a thing until Hama was puppeting himself & Sokka (plus he was locked out of the Avatar state at this point in the series). The only issue with bloodbending is how it can be done so freely. Hama makes note that she needs the full moon (when a waterbender's power is at their strongest) to really use bloodbending. That should be the case for any bender who isn't an Avatar or otherwise a prodigy or experienced master (and even a prodigy-master like Katara should still be exhausted from using the technique without a full moon). As for the villagers: these kids just saved them from a much more dangerous force after hell knows how many of them were imprisoned for hell knows how long (and it is specifically Hama's victims that came out to help the kids & arrest Hama), and they have no idea that Aang is the Avatar. A bunch of tortured, tired, weakened villagers are not going to threaten, insult or challenge a group that just saved them by beating a threat that was too strong for said villagers, even if one or more of those saviors was part of an "enemy nation" (something most civilians likely do not have strong feelings on - the fire nation is not being constantly attacked & destroyed by the Earth Kingdom nor Water Tribes after all). Maybe later on someone said something off screen, but by then the gang was long gone.

Short answer. Propaganda.

Overall I consider this to be a good episode but the ending of Katara instantly learning etc felt rushed.

I thought he was supposed to be a spectator to learn how everything works, and when he spoke put agaisnt it, it was basically saying I a kid am breaking the rules because I think I'm smarter than you And ozai would take that as disrespect because his kid spoke out against someone he handpicked to be in the war room, belittling his own intelligence (Obviously zuko didn't think he was smarter than anyone there, but ozai and the other fire nation generals have such a huge ego they would 100% see ot that way)

I hate Korra MORE for what happened to the Northern Air Temple.

Great video! The animated show is wayyy better than the live action series on Netflix. The animated show is my favorite show and I can talk about it a lot why I love it?

They took away his abs though 😢

except the rest of the show isnt better than the og by a huge margin, saying Bumi in the netflic adaptation is better is like saying you only watch the newer star wars for kylo ren 😂

I love Zuko’s flash back storylines. There is something so game of thrones about his family

You're one of the few people who seems to like the Netflix change to Bumi's character.

I think the Katara & Sokka scenes are there so that we know no one is coming to rescue Aang, but also to add some light-hearted moments; Avatar was never meant to be just dark and serious because it's made for kids after all.

Omashu just barely passable? OMG what a way of starting. As a child it was the best and i wish i could have been there

My cabbages!

The freedom fighters should be here

It was ok

No better than the fire Nation

Maybe that should've been the first episode I don't know

And the avatar state

The people should clear out while the guru patik helps aang master the chuchrahs